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the best. Yet Martinez, you know what it is. It should wait Dane Martinez a k A Speed j K to spitting Statistician and you are listening live to the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Big shout out. As always, you'll feel listening live on I Heart Radio, if you're listening live on tune In Radio, if you're listening live on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network app because we are the only network that is twenty four seven and free to get everything

you need to win your leagues and win that cash. Also, if you're watching live on the YouTube Fantasy Channel, come on inside to Studio thirty four and be part of the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. We're gonna be engaging with the chat room a little bit later on. As part of the cipher. We have a big show on a Monday, and if you are a fan of the Fantasy Freestyle, All I gotta say is can you digs it? Steph On Diggs with a sixty one yard touchdown catch on the last play of the game as time expired.

You know that digs is one of our favorites here on the Fantasy Freestyle, so much so that I gotta give props to the mad people. Hit me up on Twitter right away being like, can you digs it? L O L. My homegirl Maria Marino, first Team all Lit hit me up talking about can you dig it? Everybody knows that it is definitely one of speeds is guys had him in my DFS lineup this week as well, would certainly push me up above the cut line so that I could win a little bit of cash here

on a holiday weekend. On our last show here on Line Up Block Live, Me and Tony Sencata also went through the quarter million dollar winner who definitely had Stefon Diggs had the nuts of Big Ben Roethlisberger who put up four hundred and sixty nine yards, But it did not matter because the Jacksonville Jaguars went in to Pittsburgh and won that game forty two. We are going to be talking about all of it. My takeaways from the

division round. We will certainly get into the news and notes around the NFL moving forward because we have a lot of head coaching news that we have to get into. And if you were listening to Thursday or Friday Show last week, you know we brought back something we did last year, which was speeds Verse the kids, and i gotta tell you, the kids had a good week. So we are lucky because down there in the fantasy pit

of misery is one of my fantasy BFFs. It is Mike Florio, And we're gonna have to talk to Mike Florio about his kids vis a vis some of our kids picks because the kids, a lot of them went three and one. Mike Florio, Nah, not so much. We'll get into that a little bit later on. I'll also give a look at some of the moves going around Major League Baseball right now. We've been talking about how the hot stove was cold as ice. It is starting to heat up, and I'll tell you about a big

trade that happened in the National League today. We also got that pole question, which was the most impressive division winner in your opinion? Hit me up on Twitter at spitting speeds. Obviously, the choices are the four teams left standing, the Eagles, the Pats, the Jaguars and the Minnesota Vikings. After a play that will go down in NFL playoff history, we will talk about all of it coming right back here on the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sport Radio Network.

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Sports Radio Network. Big shout outs Mom guy Mike Florio down there on the Fantasy Pit of Misery continuing the Big Rappers theme. Ha Florio, We had a lot of big l on line of Block Live and go to the notorious b I g here on a Monday. As we're getting it going with the Fantasy Freestyle. Remember we're gonna holler at the hashtags stats over beat Cipher a

little bit later on. So whether you are in the chat room on the YouTube stream or if you want to holler at me a little bit later on in the show, the number to call is eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. Let's get it started with some news and notes here from around the NFL. The first thing I want to say is check this out. Mike Mularkey and the Tennessee Titans have decided to uh split.

They've mutually decided to go their separate ways. Remember there was a lot of talk that Malarkey was gonna get fired at the end of the regular season. The Titans. Then one week sevent team they pulled the upset in Kansas City and wild card round, a lot of people thought he saved his job. In fact that it is not the case. They are moving on, which creates now a seventh opening in the NFL. I think this is

in question because listen, malarkey, they overperformed this year. Okay, they go to the playoffs, they win a playoff game. If you talk to any Tennessee Titans fan at the beginning of the season and said, hey, if I tell you you're gonna win one playoff game this season, and you know Marcus Mariota would not have a career threatening injury, would you take that, I think most Titans fans would

say yes and continuing to build. But listen, we're getting now reports that they may interview Mike Vrabel as an option there in Tennessee. There are also reports that Josh McDaniels, the page its offensive coordinator, would quote unquote but prefer the Titans and to any of the other jobs he has been linked to. But there is a lot of reports right now that McDaniels will in fact be the next head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. It sounds like he is going all in on believing Andrew Luck will

be ready to go. You gotta figure, if you're Josh McDaniels has an offensive mind, having Andrew Luck would be great. So yes, there are reports that Josh McDaniels is expected to be the new head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. Also reports that Matt Patricia will be the next head coach of the Detroit Lions. Okay, we are also getting reports now that it is going to be Pat Shermer as the front runner going to the New York Football Giants.

And remember, I think this is important because there have been reports that wherever Pat Shermer goes, he is going to try to take Case Keenum with him. I think that has implications for one Eli Manning potentially now being

in the quarterback merry go round in this offseason. You gotta think, if you're Shermer and you go to the Giants and you take your boy Case Keenum with you, I think Case Keenum comes on a short term contract on a one or two kind of year, prove it kind of deal, because I still think that the Giants are going to take a quarterback number two overall, it will probably be Rosen, But then you take Keenum maybe

as the bridge guy to get him there. I think that is a viable fit, meaning that Eli Manning may wind up being in the quarterback carousel. Places like Denver, places like Jacksonville might be interested in that. Remember also last week when I did my head coaching ranks for the openings, well, think about the ones that are now filled. I said Oakland was one. They got the big name.

I said, I liked Detroit, and I liked Indianapolis. In the middle right, they got the hot coordinators from New England. I said that lower than that were the New York Giants, then the Chicago Bears and the Arizona Cardinals, and that they were gonna have to try and get retreads or coordinators, that they were going to be a year early on. And that's what's happening Sherman now potentially with the Giants.

Remember how the Bears went ahead and got Nagy, a coordinator from Kansas City, was probably a year early with it. And now there are reports that out there in Arizona that um, they are looking at the Patriots linebackers coach. We'll talk about this a little bit later on. The Patriots could have their coaching ranks completely eviscerated in this offseason, But that would be another example of trying to get an up and coming guy as a stretch role for

the Arizona Cardinals because they are not attracting talent. We will see who kind of is in the run aside aside from Mike Vrabel for this Tennessee Titans opening, and we'll see if Malarkey surfaces somewhere else. That is not the only change in Tennessee after they are now gone from the NFL playoffs. There is words that DeMarco Murray is likely to be cut um he would take to take that cap hit off. The Tennessee Titans looks like they believe in Derrick Henry, Marcus Mariota and maybe a

different style of offense. Remember earlier in the season when Richard Matthews was saying that they liked maybe going no huddle a little bit more, they liked their four minute offense a little bit more. There were a lot of talk about how Malarkey's offense this exotic smash mouth, which is probably the last time we're gonna get to say exotic smash mouth. If they kind of evolve into the twenty one century, it could be interesting things for guys like Marcus Mariota next year, and keep an eye on

Corey David's next year. We had a Corey Davis citing two touchdowns in that game against the Patriots. But de Marco Murray, what is he worth out there as a potential free agent? I gotta tell you, I would look elsewhere if I'm a team in the running back market, a team like Detroit, a team like the Giants. Okay, I would rather have Carlos Hide than DeMarco Murray. Marco Murray has turned thirty this year. De Marco Murray, in my opinion, is one of those Kia running backs. My neck,

my back, always something wrong with DeMarco Murray. I don't think I'd open up the Brinks truck for a guy like him. In running back news, also, we're getting reports again that the Steelers will in fact franchise tag Levy on Bell, giving him another season under the franchise tag, getting something like fourteen fifteen million dollars for that as

the franchise tag. But I gotta tell you, I think that this is then going into the kind of Kirk Cousins territory where they may squeeze all the juice out of the orange they can, and maybe the Pittsburgh Steelers decide that they want to take one more run at it because it looks like Big Ben will be coming back. But I'll have the same narrative on the Pittsburgh Steelers one year big Ben's last ride for retirement, when you still have Antonio Brown and you still have levy On Bell.

If they sour the waters with Levy On Belle, though, I think he will be gone as soon as he is allowed to when they stop franchise tagging him. I think that is very interesting. You have Martavis Bryant saying he wants to come back with the Pittsburgh Steelers. I think the Steelers will take one more run at it. And if you ask me, if you listen to the show, you know I believe the Steelers a game, if they

play it, is better than anyone else's a game. But the problem is they are not able to call upon that when they needed, whether it is the regular season against the Patriots or in a tight playoff game this week against the Jaguars. The last note I will have for you here is a R fifteen Allen Robinson saying that he will be healthy he will take his physicals and look to be cleared before free agency starts in March.

I think a R fifteen is a very interesting fit if any te team is looking for a free agent wide receiver. His skill is incredible. This is a guy that makes Blake Bortles look decent. This is a guy that made Christian Hackenberg in college look decent coming off in a c L surgery. Listen, this is a guy that was also a top five, top seven kind of wide receiver going into drafts last year or two years ago. What if he wound up in San Francisco with Jimmy g Q. What if he wound up in Oakland replacing

a guy like Michael Crabtree. What if you wound up as the one wide receiver, the outside wide receiver in a place like Baltimore with Macklin then moving to the wide out two. I think there will be a market for a R. Fifteen. All Right, what we gotta do here is we gotta talk Florio about these kids. I gotta tell you something. These kids had a big time week. We heard from michaela the Unicorn and training. She went three and one, She had the Eagles, she had the Patriots.

She had the Jaguars, which is going to be a theme around these kids. Her only loss. Checked this out, Florio. She then had had the Saints. She was one play away from going undefeated in divisional weekend. She went three and one. The Saints were are only lost. Got to give it up from Michaela going three and one. Okay, Florio probably knows on't want to us. No, Florio, I understand it's this is tough for you because your picks

were the Falcons, the Pats, the Steelers, in the Saints. You, my friend went one in three, and we were talking about what happens if these kids build up a lead on you, And now on Monday, you're relatively speechless as Michaela go three in one. Goose went three and one. Her only mistake was she had the Titans. Tito went three and one. His only mistake was the Falcons. Even Zoe are fourteen month old or almost two year old kid, she went too and two having an Eagles and having

the Jaguars. She went too into Florio, you uhn one in three? What happened? Yeah? I had a bad week and I tweeted you yesterday. I said that the kids are having a big game because they had the Cats, and the Cats came through for them. And and after the show, I told you, I said, the kids are gonna beat us, that the Cats win, and that's exactly what all of the kids were on the Jaguars. They felt the Cats, and as you know, the Cats came through with a forty five forty to win UM against

Pittsburgh Steels. What we're gonna do is we're gonna further recap our picks and then I'm gonna give you my biggest takeaways from divisional weekend when we come back right here on the Fantasy Freestyle and the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Come on back and listen to what I took away from divisional weekend. Uh Speeds is fitting statistician gives his spotlight on divisional weekend and what you

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It's a Fantasy Sports Radio Network app. Stop being a weirdo and streaming it online. Get it on your phone, take it with you ever where you go. I gotta talk about my life that I see. This goes out to you, and this goes out to you, and you and you. You know what it is. It is the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You got speedy spitting statistician for this hour on the Fantasy Freestyle. Florio giving me those biggie tracks because we're

coming back here. Bob in your head, because the neck knows what's up. It is the hashtag stats over beat Cipher. And I gotta tell you something. I got mad love for the stats overbeat Cipher. Mad people hit me up on Twitter. Right as Stefon Diggs play happened. Everybody remembering that, you know, we have been on digs all season long. Stephen, can you digs? It certainly came through for his team on the last play of the game. Uh. I was

talking with this about with Florio about this. Not only does Digs make the catch, but then he has the presence of mind to not just go out of bounds, which has gotta be what you were told in that huddle. If you make the catch, go out of bounds, try and save yourself for a potential game winning field goal. But he saw that because Williams, you know, kind of flew by and was out there. There was no one in back of him and he could go all the way.

Big shout out to the hashtag stats over beat cipher Lantern. Hit me up, Jilly Dilley, hit me up. Maria Marino, First Team All Lit with the shoulder shimmy. She hit me up a lot of people knowing that, Uh, I was probably happy seeing Stephon. Can you digs it do big, big things for the Minnesota Vikings. Also check this out, Jilly Dilley. UM props to you because on Friday, I literally said that the Titans Patriots game was going to be potentially a thirty five fourteen final. Your boys, speedies

nailed it cold. And I gotta say this, as we said that the kids went three and one, Florio went only one in three. I went two and two. But I will say this if you listen to my picks on Friday against the spread, I actually went four and oh. I told you that the Eagles, because I love the home Dogs, they would win it out right, and they did. I told you that the Patriots, that I would lay the points with the Patriots, that they would win by a lot above the thirteen and a half point spread,

and they did. I said that I thought the Steelers would win the game but not cover, so against the spread, I picked the Jacksonville Jaguars, which was correct. And I also said that I had the New Orleans Saints. And I gotta tell you something. There was sports books that were a blaze on Sunday because you gotta think that listen people had people got the line Minnesota minus five and it up being a five point win. You know it was final, but check this out. They were saying.

I don't know if you saw this. At the end of the game, they were like, we have to kick the extra point that would have made it a six point victory. You know, this line closed at five and a half. So their decision after the games to go on and kneel down instead of just kicked the extra point, that is what changed it for a lot of people.

Hashtag game of inches. The other thing I want to say here what we're talking about the hashtag stats overbeat cipher because we saw a new uh dilly dilly commercials the bud Light ones, right, He's turning everything into bud Light. Is gonna turn the King himself into bud Light. Doesn't do that? Okay, I like that one. I still like to pit a misery one the best. But we gotta get something big time. There's only gonna be you know,

next week and then the super Bowl. I guarrant diam t you that this will be the first commercial after the kickoff of the super Bowl will be like the culmination dilly dilly commercial. So I am looking forward to that. But check this out, all right, So Mikaela goes three and one, Goose goes three and one, Tito goes three and one, Zoe goes two and two, all ahead of Mike Florio, the expert journalist, Mike Florio, who goes one

and three. Your boys speeds went two and two. But if you add that to my three and one from wild Card weekend, I am now five and three on the playoffs. Ventra our Boy, the analyst. He went three and one. His only loss was the Falcons. He had Falcons, Pats, Jaguars, and Vikings. Put that with his two into two and two record for wild Card weekend, he is also five and three along with me, we may have some new kids in the cipher for an f C and NFC

championship game in Florio. We gotta get your pixie if you could rebound make it to five hundred. Let me tell you what I thought about this. First of all, Philadelphia Eagles. I told you about the home dogs. Okay, that is a trend we have been playing, and I told you that this defense was gonna be serious. That's what I liked about the Philadelphia Eagles. Anyway. Obviously there's once and is m v P caliber, you know, twelve or thirteen games. But here's what I thought was very important.

Davante Freeman ten carries for seven yards. Remember how I said, Oh, the Atlanta Falcons didn't go away from what got them there, and they had all these thirty two attempts against the Rams, they were not able to do that against the Philadelphia Eagles. I thought that was huge. And I really think listen, this home dog thing. It matters. Okay. You take a dome team, you put them in a thirty five degree stadium, and that crowd was hyped, big fourth down plays, change

over of possessions, They were getting it going. You saw the same thing in Minnesota with the skull. This matters, Okay? Does it matter enough for me to once again pick the Eagles as home dogs against the Vikings this week? Tune in later on in the week to find out. And also, I gotta say this, people are critiquing the play call for this last play for the Falcons. No, no, no, no, no,

the play call was fine. You know who wasn't Julio Jones who defecated the mattress not once, but twice ice on that play, slipping and falling out of his break. By the way, that's something that happens when a Dome team plays outside on grass. This is what happens. And then enough for nothing, Mattie Ice put the ball right where Julio Jones needed it and it went right through Julio Jones hands. Now, I know he landed out of bounds, but you gotta figure if he makes that catch, maybe

he can get both feet in. That's the Santonio almost play in the Super Bowl. Julio, you gotta come up with that, in my opinion. Our next game was in New England, you know, thirty five seventeen. Shout out to Jilly Dilley who saw that I nailed the score of this game cold. And let me tell you something. People are gonna laugh at me, but there was a huge play. Like mid second quarter, it is fourteen seven, and it's

kind of back and forth game. I even had one of my boys out there in California text me like, Yo, Tennessee is gonna win this game. They were hanging with them. It was a huge play the eagle. The Pats were punting it unlike their own ten or fifteen yard line, and it was a fourteen seven game. Tennessee was gonna get the ball back with good field position, and Tennessee had a crazy penalty giving New England the first down.

They then go ahead and drive go up seven, and at that point it was lights out for the Tennessee Titans. And apparently from the Larkey's coaching career in Tennessee as well, I gotta tell you something, this running back heard that I talked about in New England was definitely in play. A lot of people were on myself, included was on Dion Lewis and Deon Lewis had a nice game. Fifteen carries for sixty nine yards, caught nine balls for another

seventy nine yards. All right, my man had over a hundred and forty combined scrimmage yards, so you on it. But he got vultured not once, not twice, but three times. James White two touchdowns, Brandon Bolden a touchdown. Now, with Rex Burkehead maybe being healthy for the a f C Championship game, I would stay away from these Patriots. Running

back to the herd is real. Okay. And here's the other thing, uh Conklin went out in that game, and right about the same time this kind of pendulum swinging play I was telling you about that penalty, Mariota got sacked eight times. We've been talking about offensive line play all season long. When you're all pro left tackle or tackle goes down, it is not going to be helpful.

As I mentioned, Also, we had a Corey Davis siting a little bit late first stats over beat cipher Fans MC Cory Davis five catches, sixty three yards and two touchdowns, including the first one which was evidence of his incredible skill. Maybe with a new head coach, maybe with a new scheme, but they're not playing exotic smash mouth. Corey Davis could be in line for a big sophomore season. And then we gotta talk about this Jaguars WINT two. I gotta

tell you something. They punched the Steelers in the mouth. They had three rushing touchdowns in the first like nineteen minutes of play. This to be quite honest, and I don't I hate saying it this way. This is where the Steelers missed a guy like Ryan shays Ere they're linebacker who can go sidelines, sideline. This is where you missed the guy like that. Okay, But honestly, some of the page, some of the Steelers calls here made no

sense to me. On fourth down, why are they running the ball out wide pitching it to Levy on Bell. I don't like that. Run the ball downhill and between the tackles with your patient, incredible running back, Levan Bell. Give Levy on Bell the ball more. In the second half. I like when they threw deep, you know, the bomb tomorrow Davis Bryan on fourth down. A lot of production they had on fourth down, big Ben putting up video

game numbers. I like that, but why are they not getting Levan Bell the ball more in the second half? And here's the other thing, what what are they doing in the game situations? Why are they kicking an onside kick instead of kicking deep when they get within a touchdown when they have two time outs and the two minute warning, they held them and we're able to drive down for the touchdown. And if you kick that ball deep,

they could have tied that game. Why are they not calling time out in uh in like the last minute either? Poor clock management, poor game management? In my opinion, when it related to the Pittsburgh Steelers, I will say this, Leonard Fournett is a perfect fit for that team, running and defense. It travels. It worked for the Baltimore Ravens. It's worked for the Tampa Bay Bucks in Super Bowl runs before. Might it worked for the Jacksonville Jaguars. I

don't know. I mean, this defense, it's really otherworldly. Will they be able to do what they did against New England? I'm not so sure. But here's the thing. They scored forty five points. Granted they got a defensive touchdown, but their offense scored thirty eight points against the Pittsburgh defense that was top five in the NFL. Pittsburgh defense with the most sacks in the NFL. Is Blake Bortles putting

it all in our I I'm not so sure. I think it was really more Leonard Fournett, to be quite honest. And here's the thing. Leonard Fournette is always banged up. He missed most of the second quarter, came back. But can you rely on Leonard four Nette? That's what it really comes down to. For me, That's what gives me cause for pause. That And of course they're going up

to New England. I don't know if they can have a you know, I think style makes fight and it makes it better, right because I think New England knows how to handle Pittsburgh and Jacksonville is a different kind of challenge. They will get pressure on Tom Brady. What if they hit him? What if they send them to the cold, dark, quiet room. He won't go. We'll just go to the tent and have an eye injury. But whatever, we shall see. But we'll chop it up about that

all week long here on the Fantasy Freestyle. When we come back, here's we're gonna do. I'm gonna talk a little bit more about this Vikings Saints game. I'm gonna tell you about my other biggest overall takeaway of divisional weekend. And then, guys, I gotta tell you also, the Major League Baseball hot stove has been cold as ice, but it is heating up in the last week. We're gonna talk about that a little while as well. Maybe get

a call from the hashtag stats over beat cipher. I wants to talk major League Baseball, but maybe it doesn't matter because maybe there's a new sport that people care more about then baseball. We'll talk about that a little bit more as well, your boy Dame Martinez right here on the Fantasy Freestyle and the award winning Fantasy Sports radio network on a holiday Monday. Come all right back,

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to learn up on something early biggie. They call that one party and b s. You need to check that one out right here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network Fantasy Freestyle, your boy speeds spitting statistiction. I gotta tell you something about this Missnesota New Orleans game, because here's the thing. I had people hit me up. My Super

Bowl pick went down the drain this weekend. I was on the Pittsburgh Steelers and I was on the New Orleans Saints, and my thesis was that I trust Drew Brees in the NFC over any of these other quarterbacks of the top seeds, over Nick Foles, over Case Keenom, over Jared Goff who already had his exit. And I gotta tell you something, Kingdom didn't look amazing in that game, and in the second half, Drew Brees certainly did did.

Drew Brees was throwing dimes, did you need that fourth down throw to Willie's need to keep their season alive? Throws to Michael Thomas left and right. Drew Brees was outperforming Case Keenom, and my narrative, my angle was holding true until Stefon Diggs changed all of that. But I gotta tell you something. I love this Minnesota team. I love this Minnesota defense. They did get banged up, I think, and said Dajo went out with a head injury in

this one, but listen, Minnesota's very well rounded. You gotta love their defense, even on the road against Nick Foles and the Philadelphia Eagles. Right now, the Philadelphia Eagles are home dogs for three and a half points against the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. I like Minnesota a lot. Our guy Tony Sencada said that, you know, the Minnesota Vikings might be hosting the Super Bowl. They are only one game away against the back up quarterback for that to happen.

I love their defense. I think it travels. I think feeling and digs. Don't forget about Kyle Rudolph as an option, and they're two headed monster there. You know you got lab Mary, you got Jack McKinnon. Imagine if this teams still had Dalvin Cook. And I also mentioned listen that five and a half point spread. If you had the Saints, you still won because they did not cover because they decided to kneel down after that play. Hashtag game of inches.

But Florio, let me ask you this real quick. My biggest takeaway of the league, and I alluded to it before when we talk about what was like the experienced quarterbacks against like these inexperienced quarterbacks. Listen, we had Tom Brady, Matt Ryan, Ben Roethlisberger, and Drew Brees and only one of them wound up advancing. My thesis has always been, if you show me a top ten quarterback, you know quarterback that can win, I will take those guys against

the field right now in the NFL playoffs. But that is not what happened. It was right when I said that that Maddie Ice and Matt Ryan would beat Golf in the wild card weekend, I thought this was my ticket for Drew Brees getting to the super Bowl. I still think the thesis kind of worked until one of the craziest plays in NFL history. But check how that sits sets up for Tom Brady. He had to face

Tennessee and Marcus Mariota in the division round. And remember last week when he last year year when he got brock Off Swidler in the division round instead of facing maybe a hot Derek Carr in the Oakland Raiders after that broken leg. But then he's gonna get Blake Bortles in the a f C Championship Game instead of saying

Hall of Famer Big Ben Roethlisberger. And then in the Super Bowl, if it goes that way, he's gonna face either Nick Fools or case Keenum and get to avoid say Drew Brees, gets to avoid say Cam Newton gets to avoid say Maddie Ice. This sets up for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. Once again, everything falls the Patriots way, whether it be Kelvin Benjamin you know

overturned calls. Either it be all the quarterbacks that could do work against the Patriots falling down one by one, and they get a pathfull of junior varsity squads all the way to Super Bowl fifty two. It's absolutely ridiculous for you. Go ahead, Oh, I was gonna saying. You could say they get junior varsity quarterbacks maybe to go up against, but not squads like these are defenses that have already held other tough shuterbacks in check. So maybe Brady is the next one. So let me ask you this,

And here's where it comes down. This is kind of the question. And tell Danny, I want to maybe if we get some conversation about this in the chat as well, do you still need a franchise quarterback in order to win the Super Bowl? Look? Look, the Jacksonville Jaguars are doing it with running in defense, the Minnesota Vikings and Mike Zimmer has implemented his scheme, got his guys to

play that defense. The Philadelphia Eagles, they won that game on the strength of their defense and their defensive philosophy about having eight strong defensive lineman that they could rotate in and be fresh, like, maybe defense wins championships. I used to think you needed the you know, the difference maker at quarterback. I still believe in the NFL in two thousand, seventeen or eighteen, you need the quarterback who can get at the line and go kill kill, kill,

and make the play and read the mail. I still think that's what you need. But um, these defenses beat these elite or established quarterbacks this week. I mean, if I gave you Florio for two eighteen, if I gave you your pick of say like five quarterbacks you know Brady and and Aaron Rodgers and Big Band and like you know stud quarterbacks, or I gave you the top five NFL defenses, where would you go. I'm still gonna take the quarterback. I still think it is a quarterback

driven league. But I think if we're realizing that it is harder and harder to find these quarterbacks and the top picks aren't really working out as we have envisioned. So you either need a top quarterback or you need an elite defense with weapons around an average quarterback. I think the other way is like look at look at Matt Ryan and the Falcons last year. Okay, you will make a great point that it's hard to find these quarterbacks. But you get the quarterbacks not in their first three years.

You get the quarterbacks going into kind of like you know ages, uh, you know, thirty one right when they still have all their athletic gifts, but they know the NFL and play seechemes and defenses and personnel well enough that they can kind of move the pieces of the chessboard around. So you've got guys like maybe the Matt

Ryan as well. You know, I'm very interested to see that kind of crop of quarterbacks, the Matt Ryan's, the Matthew Staffords them, the Kirk Cousins, the people you know still Aaron Rodgers as well, people in that age group to kind of see. So I do think it is interesting. But we will be talking about my confidence in the offenses, the defenses, and the coaching staffs for Championship weekend throughout

the week. I do want to say this though, as we keep on talking here on the Fantasy Freestyle, one of the things we're gonna start doing is also, you know, we're gonna get baseball into the conversation. We o here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, a lot of people will be playing fantasy baseball. Last year, right after the Super Bowl. I started giving you my team by team previews, and if you listen to those, you heard my pick was in the Houston Astros to win the A L.

How about that? My pick was Corey Kluber to win this I Young, how about that? My pick was jose L. Tuvey to win the A L m v P. How about that? Right? So you can get a lot of information data help you win a little bit of cash. But listen, a lot of people have said, floor, you know that the hot stove has been really cold this year,

and there's a number of reasons why. Potentially the two thousand eighteen free agent class potentially there's one nine cap, you know, Potentially Scott boris holding all the cards, you know. But there have been some trades and and and in the last week. Listen, Garrett Cole going to Houston. Um, we have Andrew McCutchen today. If you haven't heard, Andrew McCutchen has been traded to the San Francisco Giants. The Giants are trying to be in on Stanton as well.

Stand to the Yanks, the fire stale in with the Marlins and Derek Jeter continued, Marcelo Zuna to the st Louis Cardinals. We're starting to see some arbitration things like Machado and Donaldson. I think we're gonna see some other Domino's fall. Okay, so we're gonna talk about why it's been cold in the hot stove of this year. We're gonna talk about what can still happen and how that impacts, you know, some people like let's say Johns Jonaldson does

move to the Cardinals. Let's say Brad Hand does wind up with the Houston Astros to give them a lefty out of the pen. Let's say you know these Royals, you know, Lorenzo Caine, Hosmer mustok is still up there for grab some relievers out there as well. So we're gonna talk about that before. But the thing is, honestly, Florial, I can't make rankings yet. I don't know about you know,

where people are gonna land. You gotta see the full composition of an offense to know, you know, if McCutcheon is gonna be hitting three in this offense, who's with them? You know? So it's hard to do rankings. But I will do rankings, and I will start doing team by team previews. But listen, we had Andrew McCutcheon, five time All Star traded to the San Francisco Giants. Today, I think they're might be movement on some other guys. Michael

Fulmer comes to mind, har Wish comes to mind. So we'll keep you you abreast of everything here on the Fantasy Freestyle. But I did want to mention this, Floria, did you know? Check this out the Gallop Pole. They do this poll, you know, well respected polling company. Ever since seven they have asked Americans what is your favorite sport to watch? Florio, what do you think was the number one sport? Football? Absolutely correct? However, football has gone

down six percentage points in the last ten years. Thirty seven percent of people say that football is their favorite sports to watch, down though from at a tight about ten years ago. Here's the interesting one, though, Florio, who do you think was number two? Basketball? Absolutely correct? For the first time, for the first time ever, baseball has dropped out of the top two in this country. Nine percent say baseball, So I give you these baseball updates.

You know, nine percent say baseball. Eleven percent say that basketball is their fay rich sport to watch. So we got thirty seven percent Football still king NBA and basketball eleven percent, and baseball now down to third in this country. I still love baseball. I love it as a background thing. I love the boys of spring, the leisurely pace. But these millennials, you know, you're swiping right, you're swiping left,

you're looking for likes right away. The NBA more conduce of it is now the number two sport in the United States of America. You know what I also thought was interesting from this pole, Florio is you know, got football one, basketball to a baseball three at nine percent. Soccer is now number four. Check this out at seven percent, almost overtaking baseball as the third biggest sport in this country.

They say it is the biggest share of this pole of any sport that was not football, basketball, or baseball since when NASCAR got up to seven percent. Soccer is truly on the move here in the United States of America. When we come back here though, on the Fantasy Freestyle, we're gonna check in on a different poll. I had the poll on Twitter which team was the most impressive during divisional weekend. And we also go to my boy Danny, who's been monitoring the chat down on the Fantasy Pit

of misery. Want to hear what people are saying if they, you know, if they were surprised that the kids out picked Speeds and outpicked Mike Florio this weekend, all that and more when we come back on the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Florio going with a little bit of jay Z instead of the big theme that we've had. But that's how my head could bounce my head, my neck knows. What's up?

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your NBA DFS content. Better yet, you can save percent using the promo code f n T S Y. So go to Daily rotor dot com slash Premium and learn more about our awesome products. Welcome back to the Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. If you don't arrive with the stats, over beat cipher and spitting speeds, you're dead wrong. Because I am the stable genius of the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. We had a pole question up earlier today. It was who was the most impressive

winner from divisional round? Are they your super Bowl favorite? If you think about it, obviously the options are the Eagles, the Pats, the Jags, and the Vikings. Those are the final four in the NFL. I was a little surprised by the response. Forty three percent of you say the Jacksonville Jaguars with the most impressed. If team listen, that defense everybody's been talking about, did give give up forty two points to the Pittsburgh Steelers. We'll see what they

can do against New England. Percent say the Pats were most impressive, percent say the Vikings, seven percent say the Eagles. The Vikings listen, they were impressive at home, but they leave the friendly confines. Everyone thought that the Vikings were gonna be home field throughout the entire playoffs because they thought that the Eagles will get knocked off. But the Vikings go on the road where they are still road favorites against the Philadelphia Eagles. We will be talking about

that all week long. But I want to do now is go to the hashtag stats over beat Cipher bringing our boy Danny, who was down there in the fantasy pit of misery. How's your weekend, Danny? How's it going? Man? What do people saying? What's good? Which weekend was great? It was pretty good. It was pretty good. You know. I'm still getting back, you know, from Asia, getting my time back and getting myself organized. You know, kind of really feel like now is the start of me back

at the grind, you know. But a lot of football, a lot of good stuff that's good. So yeah, we are kind of all over the place. Just like its freestyle, I'm down for whatever. So strong style Ninja's been waiting in the style that is My boy was one of one of my favorites. UM Saints and Vikings game was definitely the game of the week. I can't really argue with that. No, absolutely, we were saying that was going

to be the game of the week. I said that that was the one I was most looking forward to, and it you know, it was a sixty minute game, to be sure, even when they were down seventeen nothing. I thought that the Saints still had a chance. And listen, I hold true to my thesis. I'd rather have Breeze in any of these quarterbacks. It's just, you know, fate got in the way. Yeah. So we got a couple of Super Bowl predictions. We got Vikings and Jags in

the Super Bowl. See, I guess right now. And you know, I'm gonna review my picks a little bit later on in the week because you know, I gotta I gotta make it up against the kids, obviously, So I gotta see who the kids pick and see if I can go up. You know, outside, I think most people you know, Vikings Jags was that pick? Huh. I think the most popular pick is going to be Patriots Vikings. You know, that's what I think will be the popular The Patriots

are actually nine point favorites at home. The Vikings are favorites even on the road. I think those are the favorites. I think the favorite will be Patriots Vikings with and and remember if the Vikings are at home, this is like, you know, tickets will go through the roof the price of these tickets, you know, So that's really interesting. Yeah, the The other one we got was Pats and Eagles. Yeah, listen, I was big on the Eagles early. I mean I think the Patriots, you know, can the Eagles do what

they will be at home? That would be the home teams getting it there. And could Nick Foles wind up going you know, will Nick Foles, Case Keenum or Blake Bortles wind up being in the Super Bowl. This is something we gotta keep an eye on. Danny. I hear that our boy Chris Ventra might be back for the

Fantasy Pit of Misery tomorrow. Is that correct? I believe he will be back in tomorrow because you know, I haven't seen Chris Ventra in the Years team, and so I want to definitely chop it up with him about his picks, see how he's doing Visa VI the kids who out picked him in this weekend. And also, you know there is still some cold Beasley Levy on Bell Chris venture lyricism for us to talk about. You think maybe he's avoiding Fantasy Freestyle. I think it's definitely a possibility.

And well, hopefully hopefully he comes back and and Danny will be happy to have you back a little bit later on in the week. We love how you engage with the hashtag stats overbeat Cipher on the YouTube stream. Thanks to everybody watching on YouTube, if listening on I Heart Radio, if you're listening on tune In Radio, if you're listening on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network app, you know what we do here. We put the fun and functional sports radio and give you what you need to

win your leagues and win that cash. Your boy Speeds went four and oh against the spread for divisional weekend. I'll be getting you ready for Championship weekend. All this week we'll take a look at Major League Baseball and as well, you boys Speeds spitting statistician right here, I'll see you tomorrow. Fantasy Freestyle Fantasy Sports Radio Network