Ranking Offenses by Confidence, Richard Sherman, and More!

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Network YouTube live stream. We take you right inside Studio thirty four. We got the chat room going big time. We will get to them a little bit later on. We got a big show on a Wednesday, I got my guys, Chris Bavona, the manimal taken down down there in the fantasy pit of miserable, keeping it so hot that we sweat steme. I told you already about Danny as well manning the YouTube chat. You know it's the freestyle. Y'all. Could ask me anything a little bit later on, but

we've got a great show for you. Remember last week I talked about um the concussion protocol in the NFL playoffs and how I thought it was a joke on how I thought it was just about playcating the public so that it looks like they have the eyes of caring about players safety. Well, I have some very interesting audio from one of the pre eminent defensive players in the NFL, and he one percent agrees with what Speeds was saying last week. Remember also yesterday I did my

confidence ranks of the top defenses. I ranked the defenses that are still remaining on championships Sunday one through four. Today, we're gonna do the same thing, but we're gonna do it with the offenses. Okay, Yes, everyone knows Tom Brady is a Hall of Fame quarterback. And then there is a gap until the other three but I might surprise you with the team that I have in the number two spot in terms of the offenses that I am most confident in going into championships. Sunday. We are also

going to put the fun in functional sports radio. I've got a lot of interesting stories to touch on. I want to see what the hashtag stats over beat cipher has to say about them. But one that's really interesting. I'm over here in New York right we got snowstorms and stuff like that. It is crazy to me about how a snowstorm paralyzes major cities in the South. We're gonna get to that and I'm gonna show you how

that happened today in one southern city. I also gotta pull question up, uh, Danny, we gotta get this going on the YouTube chat as well. The question is where do you want to see HBO's Hard Knocks next year? What team do you think is right for the drama and the you know the storylines of Hard Knocks. Is it the forty Niners with Jimmy g Q. Is it these Jaguars that are ascending and bragging about it? What about the Minnesota Vikings, the Oakland Raiders, someone else? Let

me know in the chat. Let me know on Twitter at spit and Speeds if you want, We're gonna come on back and we're gonna get into it. Concussions, confidence, ranks, news and notes. We've got injury reports for championships Sunday as well. Come on right back. It is the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network Lego. The sharpest fantasy sports minds are now available seven straight from your

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genius fees, the spitting statistician. Right here in the Fantasy Sports Radio Network you are listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle. You can hear it every Monday through Friday seven at eight pm Eastern time time. As we put the fun in Functional sports radio. I gotta start off though, as I usually do with news and notes from around the NFL. It is a Wednesday, and if you remember from the regular season, Wednesday is the first day that injury reports

come out, that practice reports come out. Now, I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm about to read some injury reports. All of these people they are going to play, okay. They are going to play on Sunday. The only insight here is if they may be hampered or limited in any fashion. Adam I got a ceiling. He's got a back injury. He did not practice today. Tom Brady apparently injured his hand yesterday in practice, jammed his throwing hand. Tom Brady is going to play okay, but it is interesting.

It's never good when a quarterback jams his hand in the week of practice and only gets in a limited session the next day. The other big name I want to note, Leonard for Nett, got in a limited practice. Remember he left and then returned to the divisional playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers with that ankle injury. I'm telling you they are all going to play this Sunday, all right. In a story that I was talking about earlier in the week, already, the Steelers and Todd Haley

are partying ways as the offensive coordinator. The quarterbacks coach Randy Fickner is the favorite to assume the offensive coordinator role. Listen, this is pretty much Speeds calling his shot. And yet again we said this. We said that there was friction between him and Big Ben Roethlisberger. We said that Big Ben wanted this other guy, Randy Fickner to the quarterback coach, to come in and almost be a buffer. Well, he will now be the offensive coordinator. And you know what,

I think it's funny. I told you guys earlier in the week. Here's what Ben said on his radio show. He said that we're on the cusp, so the least amount of change is best. Maybe that wasn't about keeping Haley. Maybe instead that was actually about keeping his guy, the quarterback coach, Fickner, in their force stability. I think that is very interesting and once a end, I'm telling you, this is the sort of stuff that happens when you lose. Haley is gone. We heard that Limited Partners wanted Tomlin

out and he's getting a ton of criticism. I'm telling you, if the New England Patriots do not bring it home with McDaniels, leaving, with Patricia leaving after Jimmy Garoppolo has left, we are going to start hearing the kind of behind the scenes under the rugs stuff at some point. Boy, I will buy that book when it comes out. More news today, Um, it looks like a reunion for the Tampa Bay Bucks and the muscle hamster is probably not

in the cards. They are saying that bug Doug Martin will not return to the Tampa Bay Bucks and he'll be in the free agent market. I gotta wonder, though, do you really want Doug Martin? He's coming up, I think on his age thirty season, he's been suspended before, he's had an injury history. Like, if you had a choice, if you are a franchise in need of a running back, Let's say you're the Giants, Let's say you're the Lions.

You know, would you prefer Doug Martin or DeMarco Murray, who we heard the same thing about a couple of days ago as related to the Tennessee Titans. Or what about Carlos Hyde. I think Carlos Hide is a step above these guys because he's younger. But which of these guys would you want? Who? Who do you think is gonna get snapped up first in the off season. I think there's not really that huge of a market for

either one of them. And I bring this up again Doug Martin, because this is just another example of why you fade what you see on Hard Knocks. Everybody was like, oh, Doug Martin, such a great leader, blah blah blah. No he wasn't. He was suspended for four games, never looked the same. They got the same production from guys like Pop Quiz, Jock Uiz Rogers, Peyton Barber, and they had Sims as the PPR back. He wasn't really that big of a deal. But if you watched Hard Knocks, then

you think so. And that reminds me of our pole question that we have up that I want to hear about from people in the YouTube chat with the hashtag stats over beats, I for what team do you want to see on Hard Knocks next year? Maybe you don't want a team you see your team on Hard Knocks because it is like a curse. Why. I think the Raiders would be interesting. I think the Jags would be interesting. I think the Niners would be interesting. I think the

Vikings would be interesting. Someone on the on the good old Twitter machine already told me what about the Lions, that they would be interesting. Someone's interested in the Seahawks or the Chargers. Let me know. Let me know in the chat room as well. Jarvis Landry is looking for a deal in the range of what Davante Adams got. Davanta Adams got four years for fifty eight million. Will that happen for a slot receiver though, that is the

question right now. The highest paid slot receivers or like Keenan Allen, guys like Doug Baldwin, they're making eleven million dollars a year, not the fourteen or fifteen the big time X outside wide receivers get like Davante Adams signed. And also the Cowboys look like they may in that fact franchise tag DeMarcus Lawrence. Okay, first of all, the D line franchise tag is seventeen millions, So you're do

and I and this is a guy. Listen. He had fourteen and a half sacks another I think four forced fumbles. This guy really came into his own and provided that pass rush that the Cowboys had been searching for since the DeMarcus ware moved on from them all right. One of the things I wanted to talk about here on the Fantasy Freestyle tonight. I mentioned it before, how last week I told you I think the NFL has a

concussion protocol problem. We saw Travis Kelsey get banged out in the wild card round, and we also saw Cam Newton get his clock cleaned, but then only have an eye injury because and if you heard me last week, I said, this is gonna be a problem. One of the studs are gonna get banged out. Well, they got lucky in Division weekend. It didn't happen, and they removed Drew Brees from the equation. They removed Big Ben from

the equation. These are some of the good old boy face of the league stars that if they had to deal with this, it would be a problem. At this point, It's really like, what if Tom Brady or Rob Gronkowski gets back, doubt right, that would be the only people that would kind of make headlines. But what I find interesting is, uh, I told you one of the preeminent players on defense in the NFL agrees with me. On the Players Tribune recently, Richard Sherman was asked this exact

question about the concussion protocol. Listen to his answer and then compare it up against what I said last week. If you remember me and Richard Sherman. Sherman needs to be part of the hashtag stats over beat cipher. Listen to what Richard Sherman said on the Players Tribune as it relates to this concussion protocol. Concussion protocol and what you consider donating your brain to CT research UM. I

think it's an absolute job. It's for public opinion for them to to show the public that they care about the players, they care about players safety, and to show of good faith and goodwill. They said, we're gonna have an independent trauma expert and independent neurologists approved. And in the same things are happening that we're happening for the Tom Savage um play or he was looked at by the independent neurologists and they have proved him to go back into the game, and now the team is being

ridy cute. How about the league it's ridic cute for letting him go back in the game because they approved it. The independent neurologist which is hired by Leave approved for him to go back in the game. No, no, not donate my brain science. My brain is gonna stay in my head. Irman. Sherman said the exact same things that I was saying. One he agrees with me, thinking that it's like all about public opinion and just peace of

mind for the public. That's exactly what I said. I drew the analogy to people taking their shoes off in the damn airplane line. He agreed. He cites the Tom Savage play absolutely. If there was an independent neurologist, he wouldn't have seen Tom Savage shaking on the turf and be like, nah, I think your day is done. No, Sherman makes a great point. The independent neurologists are paid by the NFL, so they're gonna do whatever. Daddy Warbucks says,

I told you. I think they got lucky. They got through this divisional round with no head injuries to any of their key guys. Drew Brees stood upright, Big Ben, Leavian Bell, Antonio Brown, Alvin Kamara all stayed upright. And I think that was very important, you know. I mean, if we had seen something like that, I still think there is a chance that they have to face this. Um what happens if you know, Nick Foles gets banged down the Eagles, who everybody thought and who I thought

was gonna be one of the best teams. Then down to the third string quarterback or something like that. But check this out. I think this is also interesting. Check out what Richard Sherman also said to the question of would he let his kids play football. Yes, yes, my kids are gonna play football. Hey, we probably might play more football. It's one of his kids right there. The attack of the little people. Um, it's the ultimate team sport.

It teaches discipline, it teaches teamwork, accountability, dependability. I think it'll help you know overcoming fear, being courageous. I know how to tackle, I know how to play the game. I'm going to teach my kids to play the game the right way and it'll be fine. Point all right. So there you have it, rich Sherman. That was on the player's Tribute. I thought it was very interesting. People consider Richard Sherman a lot of the Seahawks to be, like,

you know, very progressive and enlightened and intellectual guys. Turns out he's saying the same exact thing. I think the concussion Protocol is a joke. The NFL only has to deal with it for three more games, and these I risk situations. But I'm telling you for me the candidates, what happens if Tom Brady gets rocked and is shaking on the turf? What about Rob Gronkowski? Right? What about Nick Foles? If the Eagles have to go to their third string quarterback? You know what if what if Blake

Bortles at this point gets knocked out? What would that do to his story? Leonard four Nett? What would that do to the Jaguars? Okay? I think this is very interesting, and I think the NFL is walking a very slippery slope with the independent neurologist because they are on the NFL take like everybody else. And the concussion protocol is a sham. Just look at what happened with Cam Newton in the wild card around all right, when we come back here on the fantasy freestyle, I ranked my confidence

in the defenses that are left. I do the same for the offenses that are left. Yeah, the Patriots a one. Come find out how I ranked the left the rest. Come on back. It's a fantasy freestyle with stable genius speeds and spitting statistician. Hey there, everybody, it's me Joe Peza Pia Baseball is back, and that means the Fantasy Baseball Black Book is back as well. It's me it's Paul Spore writing starting Pitching Profiles, It's Jake Seey, It's Sammy Reid writing DFS. It's a whole lot of greatness

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on the Fantasy Freestyle. I had someone hit me up because you know, we've got Blake Bortles enclosed in glass over here. If you're watching here on the YouTube stream, I want to be careful. One of these things is with packaging, meaning glass, because we don't want any concussions to befall any of the quarterbacks that are left on

Championship Sunday. But I do want to make it clear for anybody who's watching anybody who's listening and anybody who cares about the way that we are honoring our fallen mascot, Ted Finn Jr. No, Blake Bortles encased in glass is not the new mascot of the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We just wanted to uh, you know, profile here Bordal service real quick. And Jake Seeley was asking about Bordal service. I don't know, Hey, Jake, if you're listening, I gotta

tell you the Bordal service wasn't for his team. It was that he offers Bordal service to the opponent. Okay, that's what that was for. But listen, we got a lot of topics that we're talking about here on the Fantasy Freestyle. We were talking about what team you want to see in on Hard Knocks. We gotta poll question up on Twitter already over two hundred votes. A lot of people have some interesting ideas. But you know, I'm

learning about these clauses as well. Like people out there on the responses are saying, listen that um that, uh Oakland would be great, but they are disqualified because they have a new head coach, so that you can't be on Hard Knocks if you have a new uh first year head coach. Um also Clayton Trey Hand who always responds to the polls. Big up to Clayton, shout out their hashtag stats over beat. Cipher says that, Um, the Jags would be great, but they don't have to do

it because they were a playoff team. So I didn't know that there were all these I just thought pretty much like if you had done it already, you don't have to do it. I guess you have the right of first refusal in certain situations first year head coach, apparently if you are a playoff team, like a couple of years ago. Though they did the Los Angeles Rams when they moved from St. Louis to Los Angeles, you don't think they had enough of a burden to deal with.

They had Jeff Fisher as their coach, for God's sakes. I mean that is a burden to deal with. We were also talking about the concussions and how I think the concussion Protocol is a joke, especially in the NFL playoffs, and Richard Sherman agrees with me, So hit me up if you want at eight four eight, four, three seven nine. You could also chime in on Twitter at Spitting Speeds. You can chime in on the YouTube live stream in

the chat room. My boy Danny will be talking about what's going on in the chat room with the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. A little bit later on in the show, what I wanted to do, I told you yesterday I ranked the confidence that I had in the defenses that was still live in the NFL playoffs here on Championship Sunday. I'm gonna do the same today with the offenses. Okay, yes, Number one is the Patriots and

Tom Brady. Right. I was saying it before we talked about do you still need a franchise quarterback in order to win in today's NFL? That pole wound up being about sixty forty. Listen, I think you do, and I think Tom Brady is the only one left. Okay, So that is in essence part in the pun. But the trump card for the New England Patriots, they have, you know, a Hall of Fame quarterback, the top five quarterbacks some

people believe, the best quarterback of all time. Going up against teams that have inexperience quarterbacks, you know, do not have that tried in true experience at the quarterback position. Now, they could have been Matt Ryan, could have been Drew Brees, could have been Big Ben, but it wasn't. Here's the other thing of why the Pats in the number one offense. Rob Gronkowski is the biggest threat remaining in in the NFL playoffs. Rob Gronkowski is the best offensive weapon remaining

in the NFL playoffs. If the Pittsburgh Steelers were still here, I would have said Levian Bell or Antonio Brown, But at this point, Rob Gronkowski is. I think it's really interesting, though, what are the Jazz gonna do with Gronk? I wouldn't be surprised if they just straight up put Jalen Ramsey on him. Forget about the covering the outside guys like the Hogans or the cooks. Tom Brady's bread is buttered with seam routes to Rob Gronkowski and the backside of

the backfield. I would put Jalen Ramsey straight up on Rob Gronkowski. You want to be a big boy, You want to talk crap to all these elite wide receivers. You want to plant your flag and prove that you are the man, that you are one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL, go and stick number eighty seven in the a f C Championship game and shut him out. You know, That's what I think they should do. And the other thing is, listen, I think Rex Burkhead might be back for this a f C Championship game, and

that makes them very diverse, very dynamic. I've told you all season long, the Patriots heard at running back between Dion Lewis, James White, Rex Burkhead, even Mike Gilliesly at the beginning of the season. You never know, and that is good for the real team, bad for the fantasy team. When I give my DFS plays and my fantasy plays later on in the week, you will see why. Um my number two team, though it may surprise you, it's

the Philadelphia Eagles, okay, and here's why. Okay, I look, I look at the Eagles and the Vikings as very similar, I really do. And when it comes to offense, okay, I actually think case Keenum is the second best quarterback left playing right. I think Keenum has a slight edge on folds when it comes to quarterback right quarterback play. So I'll give you that, right, but look at their skill players I think it's kind of a wash. I

think it's kind of a wash. You know, at running back, your Vikings, they got Latin Murray and they got a speed guy, Jerem McKinnon. I think that I don't know that that compares favorably to jay A g i E and Legarret Blunt and Corey Clement. Kind of a wash. When I look at the white Outs, you know, digs and feeling great, but Jeffrey and Aghalore had great, good seasons. Also, maybe a slight lean to Minnesota. But then when you

consider the tight end position. Now, I know Kyle Rudolph the red Zone Reindeer shout out to my main Corey parts in the Fantasy Executive for that one. I know Rudolf the red Zone Reindeer is solid. But zach Ertz is a Pro Bowl right, was the top three tight end all season. So to me, quarterback, you lean to Minnesota running back, I think it's a wash. I would slightly into Philly, receivers, slightly into Minnesota, tight ends slightly into Philly, or lean to Philly. But here's the thing.

The Philadelphia Eagles have one of the best offensive lines in all of football, and I think That is the key, and that's what makes the Philadelphia Eagles, in my opinion, the second best offense. That is their pro bowler. You've got Jason Kelsey at center, Pro bowler Lane Johnson at tackle. They even had another Pro bowler, Jason Peters at left tackle, who went down in the middle of the season. They bring in another guy who's done serviceably. I can't. I'm

gonna butcher his name. It's a kind of a Samoan kind of name. I'm gonna butcher it. But they have a much better offensive line. The Minnesota Vikings went from a blunt, guts, trash offensive line last year bottom five in the league, guys like t J. Clemens, to a average slightly above average often to line. That jump was big for the Minnesota Vikings. But I think offensive line play is what makes for me the Philadelphia Eagles the

second best offense on Championships Sunday. And here's the other thing. They're gonna be at home, right and you I've said it before. I think the home field matters, especially for a team like Minnesota coming off turf into the cold, onto the grass, you know, like for example, well Stefon Diggs, you know, He's my boy, right. Anybody who listens to the Fantasy Freestyle knows that I ride with Stephen. Can you digs it? But as he has explosive on grass as he is on turf, would he have even made

that play on grass last week? Or would he have been slowed down enough that the other dB that was there they got knocked out by Williams would have been able to make a tackle. Or would the grass have slid a little bit and it would have stepped out of bounds. You never know. The the explosive players like a Diggs on this team, like a Jerick McKinnon. I wonder like even Kyle Rudolph is lumbering. He's a lumbering kind of tight end, in my opinion, in the mold

of a Jason Witten. He's not one of these uh, He's not one of these agile basketball player types you know, like Zach Ertz for example. But I will say this, and Keenum on the road has been much worse than Case Keenum at home. Case Keen has been playing well, but he's played much better at home than he has on the road. They go on the road, the Eagles

all at home. I give the edge to the Eagles offense over the Minnesota Vikings offense, although, as you know when I did it yesterday with defenses, the Minnesota Vikings were might number one overall defense, So we'll see about that. Okay, here's the other thing I want to say about the Vikings. Though I love this team long term, they got this quarterback issue they got to figure out next year, right, But remember Dalvin Cook. Remember what this offense could be.

Imagine if that if they had these same wide outs, feeling and digs, a serviceable, good tight end, good quarterback play, and you had a game breaker in the backfield like Dalvin Cook. I think this team is primed to be good for a long time. The defense is good, they grew up together. They'll get Dalvin Cook back. They gotta just draft offensive line and depth. They gotta worry about their QB situation, and I gotta tell you to bring

it back. You gotta hope that they're not the team on hard knocks because if they are, they get the hard knocks curse and that would be an issue. And then fourth for me is the Jacksonville Jaguars in terms of their offense. But here's why. One of the biggest things is I am concerned about the health of Leonard four Nette. This is a guy that has been banged

up all season long. Ankle injuries, foot injuries. You know, he's one of those KIA players my neck, my back, He's one of those kind of guys, right, and can he be trusted. He's exited games midway through at times. So that is a concern for me. I don't care what people say. Blake Bortles is still a concern for me. You hear that. You hear that, Blake, you are still a concern for me. I'm looking you dead in your face. I'm looking you dead in your face. Blake, you are

a concern for me. You still might have some bordal service to the opponents. But as you can see if you're watching on the YouTube live stream, I knocked down Blake Bordles, maybe it is in fact that easy. Um. But here's the thing. You know. What's funny is that they are my number four offense here out of the four,

but they put up forty five points last week. Their offense put up thirty eight points because they got they got the defensive touchdown as well, right, and they did that on the road against a top five defense, right, so so uh, it's funny that my lowest ranked offense is a team that put up thirty eight points offensively last week. But there you have it. Got the Pats, I got the Eagles mostly on the strength of their offensive line, and then the Vikings and then the Jags.

What we're gonna do on tomorrow's episode of The Fantasy Freestyle is we are going to do the same thing the confidence ranks, but we're going to do it with the coaching staffs. Okay, I think that's interesting. I ranked the defenses, I ranked the fences. I'm gonna give you my confidence in the coaching staffs on tomorrow's episode of The Fantasy Freestyle. When we come back here today, we are going to engage with the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. I bring in my boy Danny Auto from the Fantasy

Pit of Misery. We see what the people are saying. Because it's the Freestyle, we could talk about anything. And I got a couple of interesting stories that are in the news right now that are going under reported in my opinion, and we're gonna talk about him because we're gonna put the fun in functional sports radio. I told you down South major cities shut down with like two inches of snow. I'm gonna give you example of that.

When we come back, I'm gonna tell you, uh, who's making Danna ka Patrick say go Daddy dot com and uh we're gonna talk about, you know, another feather in the cap of Philadelphia Eagles fans. All that and more with the status over beat cipher when we come back, Fantasy Freestyle and the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Let's go. Have you ever wanted to have a fantasy expert in the palm of your hand refeeder yet in the pocket of your capis? We'll check it out now you can.

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Dame Martinez beats. It's been Statistician, the Stable Genius here and you're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. It's the Fantasy Freestyle dropping stats over beats with the stats over beats Cipher. I want to tell you guys about something I've been telling you all showed how the South like shuts down with snow. Remember they had like snowstorms in Florida a couple of weeks ago. Well, check this out. There is two inches of snow in Charlotte today. I

gotta ask my boy Jake Ceely about this. He's down there, but um, there are two inches of snow in Charlotte, and so uh in the a h L. The Charlotte Checkers, this is like the minor league affiliate of the Carolina Hurricanes. They are home tonight in Charlotte playing against the Bridgeports Sound Tigers. Okay, it was two cold though, there was two inches of snow. So check this out. They moved the game from seven pm. They moved it up to five pm because they were worried about the snow. And

check this out. They're gonna close off the arena two fans. They are not going to let fans in. They are not They're telling people to stay home. They are going to play this game game in the building before and in an empty building with zero fans there. Check this out. The CEO of the Checkers, Tera Black, says, and I quote, so, first of all, the snow events are infrequent here in the South, sort of sporadic and very very unpredictable. They can't handle the snow, and by snow, I mean two

inches of snow in Charlotte. So they're going to bar the gates and play the game in front of zero fans. I think that is crazy when I read it originally, but check this out. It's not the first time they've done this. They did it on January two thousand and sixteen, almost two years to the day. They did it when they were playing against the Chicago Wolves. And in that game it was icy conditions, but the teams were already

there practicing, the refs were already there. So they played the game, did not let fans go to the game, and aid before an empty building and zero crowd. They wound up losing that game. Uh, the Charlotte Checkers did. They lost that game for three. We'll see what happens against the Bridgeports Sound Tigers. But there goes like home

ice advantage, Huh. I think that is pretty crazy. They're saying that they couldn't they wouldn't be able to get UM the road team the Tigers to come back to Charlotte in the schedule so they couldn't postpone it and stuff. I thought that was very crazy. Hey, Bovona down there in the fantasy pit of misery. I know you're a hockey guy, right so, and I know maybe played hockey, love hockey. What would it be like to play in

front of zero fans? I feel like it would be more like, you know, if you were playing, not not necessarily for an UM uh like a triple A team, but you'd be more like a middle school Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like, doesn't you know you get up for the games and the fans and the crowd give you some of that energy. Don't you think like the adrenaline would be running a little low in front of zero fans? You would? I mean, I guess it depends

on the type of person you are. Like I know, when ever I played a sport where it was basketball across football for me, I know how to block everything out, Like it didn't matter what kind of fans there are. You just you just kind of go out there and play no matter what. Right if you say so, I think it would take something away from the intensity, uh with no crowd there. But I did think that was interesting.

So let me know. If you're part of the stats overbeat Cipher, if you're watching on the YouTube live stream, listen. I already knocked Blake Bortles down. I hope he's not concussed. We might have to take his helmet away and you might have to miss some time. But here's what I want to do. I want to go down into the Fantasy pit of misery. I got my boy, Danny Boy or Danny Otto over here. Hey, Danny, First of all, I didn't know, uh that this was like your your

name for your band, Danny Otto. Huh it is, um do you want me to tell you how? Sure? Because you know we got the Manimal, we got Chris Venture, the analysts over here, we got the Fantasy best Friends Forever, we got the Fantasy executive you all in kid, the spitting statistician, and now you know we used to have Ventra, you know you on the Fantasy Freestyle running the YouTube chat. It sounds like it's gonna be venture on Fridays a

couple of days a week. But you know, Danny, You're gonna really be part of the status over beat cipher. So I feel like we need a nickname for you, but I didn't know you already had one. I had one, but this kind of got created because I'm I'm in

a band called Automatic two. Yeah, and uh, everyone would take down my numbers so they could give them tickets and I would never they would never ask me for my last name, and I so I just asked out of curiosity, like are you just putting Danny in your phone some random dude or are you giving me a fake last name? And they said, oh no, we just go Danny automatic and it shortens it today. So you were like automatically the hook up to get tickets? Is that it? Yeah? I got you. I got you, so

I can call you like Danny StubHub. Yeah that alright. We'll see because you know it's a sports network, right, so I want to get a little sports action in there. But that's all right. Hey, what are the people saying? Are they talking at all about hard knocks next year? They're talking at all about the concussion protocol. They all over the place as always is the freestyle. I'm ready to talk anything. We are all over the place, but I do have to tell you we we did talk

about some of the hard knocks possibilities. Okay, what do we got so strong style Ninja Yeah, strong style Yo. First of all, shout out to strong Style. Strong style is like tried and true always in the chat big things, I appreciated stats overbeat cipher for strong Style. We gotta make sure we read out with strong styleist saying all the time in strong style, my men, if you are in fact a testosterone based life form, um, you can always holler at me bro at a four or four

A four, three, six, eight, seven nine. But what a strong style saying, uh, strong style wants Oakland. Yeah, I think that would be really interesting. You got Jon Gruden, you got the potential character that is Marshawn Lynch, you have the storyline of them, you know, moving to Vegas. I think that's definitely interesting. But someone on the chat, someone on on the Twitter said that, uh, if you have a new head coach, you are disqualified or you

don't have to do it. If you have a first year head coach with the team, So that would be the case are there any other options that what do you think would be a good uh a good season of cover? You know, I like the Jags or the Niners. Yeah, so so those those are the kind of the other popular options I've I've gotten. Actually a couple of people agree to no Lance and Jim and even strong Style. At some points we're agreeing that Jags would be interesting. Yeah,

I think so. They seem to be a little bit braggadocious. Some young guys here check this out. Danny um I mentioned who's gonna be making Danaka say go daddy, you know that there is a new uh power sports couple. Do you know who? Danna Ka Patrick has confirmed that she is dating I do, and and I'm I'm I'm more sad at myself that I know this piece of gospil.

Why are you sad about yourself? I don't. I don't really pride myself and know that knowing this kind of alright, fair enough, But you work at a network that talks about it. It is Aaron Rodgers. It is Aaron Rodgers. And I gotta tell you, for a long time I thought Olivia Maun was just a beard for him. Um So maybe Danna Ka Patrick is as well. Aaron Rodgers is strange from his family. It's kind of weird. His

brother was like on The Bachelor, It's very weird. Aaron Rodgers doesn't seem to It's not like a lot of his reports. A lot of his teammates don't even really like him, and they say that, you know, like he's just socially kind of awkward. You could even see it in some of the State Farm commercials with Clay Matthews. So I wonder what Danica sees in him. You think it's the uh, what do you think it is? You think it's the rocket arm or the uh or the

twenty million dollars a year. I'm aa lean to the second. But it's not like Danica is hurting for money. She's not. But it could be a power play, like I mean, he's definitely more popular than she is. Unique power play, just like jay Z and Beyonce kind of thing. Huh yeah, and she I mean, listen, Aaron Rodgers was, you know, as we know, dating Olivia Munn beforehand. So I mean, dannat I got no beef of Dannica, but I still would call that a something of a downgrade because Olivia

Munn was the truth. Absolutely, And here's the here's the um. The last thing I want to I want to ask you about today. Check this out. We know that the philadel Um, the Philadelphia Eagles are known from having like boisterous fans, you know, like these are. This is a fan base that boots Santa Claus famously. This is a fan base that cheered when Michael Irving laid uh partially paralyzed on the turf at Veterans Stadium. So we know that the Eagles, you know, their fans have this kind

of reputation. Well, last week in the playoff game against Atlanta, this is a twenty two year old Eagles fan. Guy's name is Taylor Hendrix. Okay, this is twenty two year old. He uh, he was ejected from the game from you know, who would have thunk it? Being too intoxicated? Who would have thunk it? Um? So he's ejected from the stadium. And then when he's outside the stadium check this out, he decides that he ain't done fighting the powers that be, so he winds up punching a police horse. He winds

up going after one of the police horces. You know, the cops stay are mounted on the horses, and he goes up to one of the horses and starts punching him around the head and the hind legs even hit the cops, the cop that was riding him on the legs a few times. This guy was then arrested. He's gonna have a five thousand dollar fine. He has to appear before a judge on January. I don't know if you're an Eagles fan, if you're a different Eagles fan, right,

do you feel pride in this? Do you think he's representing the kind of um, you know, the pigeonhole type cast nature of the Eagles fans. Are you proud about that? Or do you want to try and go away from that reputation as an Eagles fan and kind of be like na, na, Na, that's not us. Well, I am not an Eagles fan, so I don't know how I could put myself in that mindset. But all of the stuff you listed off before that, I think some of

those things aren't as bad as this. So you wait a second, way to say, wait a second, what about when they were cheering that the man was laying paralyzed. That's what I'm saying that I said I said, punching a police horse. I don't know if that's as bad. Are you saying that not as bad for them cheering

somebody who's partially paralyzed? So you think you think on the scale of like you went too far as a fan base, you think that um cheering the potential paralysis of an opponent is worse a little bit than being so rowdy that you're punching horn. Why would you punch a horse? I would be I said this because you mentioned this earlier, But I would be terrified to punch a regular horse with a police officer. Absolutely, I would be fresh. I wouldn't punch a duck, you know. I wouldn't.

I wouldn't put you know exactly. But I'm saying like it could be an animal much smaller than a horse, and I wouldn't mess with it, you know, like you don't know how animals are going to respond unless you want to wind up on American's Funnios home videos. But there you have at Taylor Hendricks punching a horse five thousand. I'll find he's appearing in court on January. Fly Eagles Fly. I wonder if I told the kids that when they make the picks later on this week if they'd be

more or less likely to pick the Philadelphia Eagles. When we come back here the Fantasy Freestyle, we are going to check in on the poll, see you the people like on the Hard Knocks, and I have good news about the upcoming Winter Olympics, so stay tuned for that. Come on right back. It's the Fantasy Freestyle with your boyd Speed, spitting statistician on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio and Net. Welcome Fantasy Freestyle. The Steelers Todd Haley

are partying ways. This is pretty much Speeds calling his shot and yet again Haley is gone. We heard that Limited Partners wanted Tomlin out and he's getting a ton of criticism. I'm telling you, if the New England Patriots do not bring it home with McDaniel's leaving, with Patricia leaving, after Jimmy Garoppolo has left, we are going to start hearing the kind of behind the scenes under the rugs stuff at some point week days from seven to eight pm. E.

Stern on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. I'm gonna knock you out. Not a horse though, not a horse. Not a horse. No animals are harmed in the making of this episode of the Fantasy Freestyle Dane Martinez speeds and spitting statistician. We were talking with Danny Otto, Danny StubHub down there in the Fantasy Pit of misery. Danny, if we still have you, I want to ask you what is airing on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network tonight at nine pm? Well, it's not airing live yet. Oh what

is being recorded? What's being radio? Nine pm? Then it's a new programming. It's it's funny you asked that, because funny one of one of the people that's gonna be on it is actually down here standing next to me. Yeah, So what do we got? What do we got going on? We have brand new programming from myself and h Ashley from ask Ashley Slee asked, Ashley answers what was that? No? Nothing nothing actually has answered yeah asal Actuley has questions or yeah, something like it's me Ashley and one of

our friends from l A who skypes in. Oh that that's what's up. That's what's up? And what is it? Is it? What? What are you guys talking about? What's the what's the content is the e Sports? It's all geeky nerdy pop culture, everything and anything in there. And what is the show called called popping Off? It's called popping Off. Interesting. You know, Speed's always likes to talk about players that PLoP pop off as well, So you gotta check that out when it is released on the

Fantasy Sports Radio network. We got Ashley A. Bray you. We got my guy Danny stub Hub as well, popping off new content on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You gotta check it out. It's probably gonna be pop pop pop um. We also, like I said, we had to pull question up on Twitter today. I asked you guys, what NFL team do you want to see on HBO Hard Knocks in two thousand and eighteen. I put up the Troy some teams I thought were interesting, the Niners,

the Jags, the Vikings. A lot of people are saying the Raiders. I agree that would be very interesting, but it seems like there's all this criteria new head coach playoff teams. They kind of have the right of first refusal.

But I think it's very interesting. Is uh Dom Tutarella over here says that he would like to see the Cleveland Browns on Hard Knocks, and I don't know how I feel about that, because, like I said, one of the things that Hard Knocks does is hype up the team, but all this false pretense about how good they might be. And I like that people start drinking the kool aid because then I can fade them for the season. But if it's the Cleveland Browns, no one's gonna buy all

the puff pieces and no one's gonna buy that. Hugh Jackson turns to Shaun Kaiser around and this is really the year, you know. So it's not gonna help me because I'm trying to fade them after they are artificially inflated. Even Hard Knocks cannot artificially inflate the Cleveland Browns in my opinion. But check it out. You gotta listen to uh popping off with Ashley A. Bray. You and my guy Danny Oakler's he is also known as Danny Otto

Danny Auto mad At getting the tickets for his band. Well, you also gotta listen to my man Chris Bavona down there in the fantasy pit of misery. He's got his show the producers. It's Chris Bavona, It's our guy. Pete Considori Pete Considori. I know it's a big hockey fan as well. Maybe he can shed some light on why the Charlotte Checkers are, in my opinion, the most shook team in all of professional sports. Not playing tonight or playing because before, no fans, because it's gonna be cold.

I'm gonna be two inches of snow. But I digress. Tomorrow, on the Fantasy Freestyle, I'm gonna talk a little bit more about what I still call the Luke warm Stobe in Major League Baseball. I'm gonna talk about some guys that I still think are on the move and impacts they can have. I'm gonna do confidence ranks as well. We did the defenses, we did the offenses on tomorrow Roads show, we do confidence ranks of the coaching staves of the four teams that are still left in play.

And I got a couple of other stories I want to talk to you guys about, as we put the Fun and Functional Sports Radio, most notably, Yo, if you thought that the only thing Derek Jeter was doing, it's trading all of the big Marlins away. No, no, no, He's doing more to agitate Marlins fans. I'll tell you exactly what it is on tomorrow's episode of The Fantasy Freestyle, So come on back for that. You know what it is, It's your boy. Right here in the Fantasy Freestyle are

the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. For my guys in the Pit of Misery, I'll see you tomorrow. Which boys speeds? I'm out ba