SpittinSPEEDZ Divisional Round Takeaways & Ripple Effects

k to Spitting Statistician. Hey k A. The stable genius and vocal minority, And welcome to another edition of the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Sports Grid Network, episode number four hundred and thirty three, the four hundred and thirty third convening of the Stats Overbeat Cipher where we help you win your leagues and win that cash. Got a good show for you as usual episode four thirty three.

We got a lot of stuff to talk about. I mean, we got a college football championship game that's about to kick off in an hour or so. We are down to the final four in the NFL, so we'll give you our takeaways from divisional weekend, and of course, Danny, we gotta update Speeds versus the kids. It's a little bit different then last week. I will say, my members of the stats over beat Cipher know that to be true. We got a poll question that I think is very

very interesting as well. My pole question is this, if you have to start a franchise right now in the NFL, and you gotta start, you know, and grab one quarterback, think about young quarterbacks with for the next like ten years, what would you take? Because you know, my thesis right all year has been that they're the three men in the a f C. Lamar Jackson, Patty Mahomes and Deshaun Watson. Only one of them is left standing. Patty Mahomes after

a ridiculous comeback in Arrowhead yesterday. We'll get into that. A lot of people are hitting me up right now. I had those three and then other ironically Other is not in last place alright. A lot of people with some love for Josh Allen up there in Buffalo. I seem to also believe that Russell Wilson could get some love because even in the next ten years, if Russell and is nerties for you know, eight of them, right. So I think it's an interesting question because we did

see some of that on display this weekend. But I do want to also note, and we're gonna get into football. For sure. Football is gonna be what we talked about, you know, most of the time here, and that's what the status of Beat Cipher knows. But there's a huge story breaking in baseball today, all right. The it sounds like a Major League Baseball is coming down on the Houston Astros. First we heard word that Astro's manager A J. Hinge and the GM Jeff Lanout, we're suspended for a year. Okay.

We're also hearing the Astros will forfeit their first and second round draft picks for the next couple of years. I think this is legit. I think this is a deterrent. I think it hurts them. And then we hear more that the Houston Nationals have turned around and were like, you know what, forget this, and they turned around and

fired Hinch and the GM. And then we hear more that they are still ready to drop in this being Major League Baseball, still ready to drop the hammer on Joey Cora and potentially the Boston Red Sox because they are involved. Remember Corus sort of like the mastermind behind all this. And we're not done, and there's still talk about what this means for Carlos Beltrand now, um because he was there, now the manager of the meth Now.

A lot of people are saying and it seems like the report is indicating that no players will be um uh uh punished, right, And I wonder what you think about that, because they were all complicit in this, they all knew this. What if you're armand Judge, who finishes second to Jose Altuve in the two sev A L m v P. What if you're the New York Yankees. What if you're the Los Angeles Dodgers who went to the World Series, you know, back to back years and

we're facing this nonsense, all right? I think this is very interesting. People are not likening this all the way, like to the Black Sox scandal, that it's worse than steroids, worse than Pete Rose between sounds, banging lights in the mound and all this stuff. And it's not done yet, So keep an eye out on this. I do think it is a deterrent. I do think the Astros are gonna fall by the wayside a little bit on this. Um. Yeah, I know they have great talent still, but you know,

when they don't know what's coming. We'll see if that holds true. Uh, free agents aren't gonna want to sign there. They have to now hire a new manager in GM. I do think this hits and where it hurts. Would you trade it in for a title if you knew that this was gonna And I don't even think it guarantees you a title? Right, you still have to hit the ball, But if you knew this would get you a title? Is it worth the is it worth the crime? Is it worth it to you? That's what I want

to know. Hit me up in the chat room about that. Hit me up if you would take Lamar Jackson, Patty Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, or someone else like a Josh Allen, like Kyler, Murray Baker, Mayfiel, Sam Donald, Daniel Jones, or one of these guys playing tonight, perhaps Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence Right or an old guard. Maybe you want to hang onto a guy like Russell Wilson. But in any event, we have to look. Now there are four teams left, and

that's what we're gonna get into. Okay, we're gonna talk about on the other side of the break, which is coming in a few minutes. We will talk about what speed's got right, what Speeds got wrong. We will break down the takeaways, the diamonds, the fool gazes from all four games and what I call the best weekend of football. Okay, there were a number of themes, and I gotta tell you the truth. If you're real deal, Stats over Beat Cipher and some of you guys out there certainly are

Ben out there, Tommy Gunns out there already. Okay, if you um, you know, Ben is already talking about unpredictability of football. I don't know, man, I had them against the kids. I told you the Titans would be the one outright dog that I thought goodwin. So yes, but if you rewind the tape, we were kind of on that with the Stats over Beat Cipher. But it is absolutely crazy, you know, the fact that these kids can kind of pick game just as good as some of us.

It's interesting. So we will update the standings of that. I'll give you the takeaways, right, and then we'll also spin it forward to the National Championship game. And Danny, there's another thing going on this weekend that's not my bachelor party. I know the Stats over Beat Cipher already knows about that going down this weekend in Miami, I'll

be down that with Joe Marnary. But Danny, there's another event in your neck of the woods, in your industry, the place that you love so much, that we may have to talk about as well. Danny, you know what I'm talking about? Brother men? Uh no, No, what if I tell you some guy that walks with a billionaire strut is fighting a cowboy this weekend? Uh? Yeah? Now know? Yeah?

So maybe we'll talk about that as well, because I have a key question for you, Danny, and that is do rich do rich people like getting hit in the face? Because I don't know Connors rich now cowboys not cowboys old. But if you get rich like generational wealth like Connor has now, are you still training the same way you were when you were a janitor in Ireland? I don't know. I want to get your thoughts on that as well. We'll look over the injuries, will look over the games.

You know what's interesting, A lot of these teams came out not that banged up, like I can't find really a big injury. For the Tennessee Titans. For green Bay, there was that illness that went through Bologa came out of the concussion protocol he's eyed. Alan Lizard went to the Blue Tent. We'll check in on that and Casey. I know Kelsey and Hill got banged up, but they were back out there. Chris Jones is a big one. We'll track him, but otherwise these teams could be healthy.

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Ben is asking some questions some of you guys, Tommy gunns q q Q Wilson Ben, you guys are in the chat still talking about this Astros thing. I think it's really interesting. Listen. I I do think it's a deterrent okay, because here's the thing. They gotta hire a new manager now, all right, So that's one. Okay. To the draft picks. I think are real their first and their second round picks for the next two years. Remember this is how this team stocked up in the beginning.

They drafted Korea Bregman. All these gets Springer right. And the other thing for me is, you know they're pretty much mud for the next few years. Right. If you're a free agent, are you gonna sign in Houston now? Or is that kind of stench still there? I think you're not gonna sign. I think it's a determined free agent signing as well. And listen, the idea, um, is it possible the Mets fire beltrend It is possible. Is it possible the Red Sox fire Cora. I actually think

they will. I think they will in the next thirty six hours, because look, Houston turnaround and fired their guys right away. Do they want this stench on them? I don't know. I think we haven't heard the last of this. I think this thing is actually sprawling if you want to know the truth. So we'll see sign where the best pictures are. Yeah, but is that really is that really Houston anymore? I mean there's Verlander there, there's Grenky there. Verlander was in on all this cold out that not

there anymore. You're right, that's the thing, you k Q Wilson. And that's the thing that he says. The World series of Champs Ring are still on their finger. That's the thing. You're absolutely right. They still had a parade, And as a Yankees fan, I was still piste off and had the heart ripped out of me. If I was a Dodgers fan, I'd feel the same way. You could give Aaron Judge the two seventeen m v P. I don't get a parade. I don't get to as a grown man hug my best friends. I don't cry watching a

TV screen. If they just stripped the Astros, that's what it's about for me. You know, you could stripped, they stripped like Reggie Bush of the Heisman. I don't know. You know, it doesn't matter, right, those fans still got to celebrate, and that's what it's really about, all right.

So we'll keep talking about this. Um well, so keep talking about this as we go along with checking in the chat room and also on Touchable, Jay is talking about us the um the fancy who got hired by the Cleveland Browns and let's go there, the Browns doing fire. UM hire him. He used to be the Vikings offensive coordinator, was in for De Filippo when he was the offensive coordinator. This is a guy who was with this organization for fourteen years, kind of moving all the way up, so

I get it. Listen, he could be a great excess and those guy My question is this and a guy taking his first head coaching job. The problem with Cleveland to me is the idea of they needed an adult in the room, They needed a respected voice in the room. I'm not usually one for retreads, right, but I wonder if this guy getting his first ever crack at the big chair is gonna be able to deal with the drama,

the pr the personalities that are there. You needed a kind of unifying presence and a voice that everyone had to be behind. And I just don't know if Stefanski is that the Broncos have hired Pat Shermer to be their new offensive coordinator. I wonder what what the Broncos was gonna come down to is are they all in on Drew Lock or not? And we'll see that in

free agency. I plan after the Super Bowl as we get into free agency to do a big thing about like all the quarterback merry go around, where they go, where they might not go, and a big question of that is are the Denver Broncos all in on Drew Lock. We'll see what Pat Shermer thinks. Apparently he scouted him and liked them in the draft as well, because I remember they were looking a get Daniel Jones um. And you know what some interesting news of the weird. Did

you see you over the weekend? Julian Edelman jumping on the hood of a car in California? What is this? You know? Because with the fans key going to Cleveland, a lot of people are now thinking about, well, that means Josh McDaniels isn't so, so what is the is the band back together in New England? McDaniels, Brady Bill Edelman? Is this a new Patriot way? Jumping on hoods of cars getting arrested? But it is nothing compared to what

we saw out of Antonio Brown to day. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to my twitter feed at spitting Speeds, I posted a video. Let's just say, antone Yo Brown thought it fit to live stream an interaction he had with the police with his kids and his baby mama in the middle of the street. And let's just say, and I'm not joking that it also involved a bag of gummy penises. I'm I'm not joking. Go to the Twitter feed and check it out. It's ridiculous.

The man is not well. All right, Um, so that's what we're dealing with, and they'll be all that. Good job, but let's talk about for real, for real, and you know what, actually before we do that. One other thing, I thought it was really nice, uh that over this weekend, on both Saturday and Sunday, they came on studio and decided to honor and announced Bill Kawar and Jimmy Johnson's uh you know, kind of Hall of Fame entry. I thought that was a really nice moment. It happened on Saturday,

it happened on Sunday. I thought it was really cool to see these grown men break down and cry like little boys and get emotional and think when you see the payoff of all that hard work and they kind of get to that life's goal, I thought it was really cool. I thought it was absolutely cool, and I hope they do that again whenever fit, when they have the opportunity to do that, I thought it was really really cool. So we tip our cap to the Hall

of Fame. All right, takeaways from these games. Two of the themes that I have been saying all season long. One is that teams need balance right in the run game. I've talked about the commitment to the run game, trying to prevent you from getting forced out of the game script and becoming a volume thrower. It doesn't matter if you're Kirk Cousins, if you're Matt Ryan, if you Philip Rivers. I've said it all season, you don't want to become

a volume thrower. Right. And and at the beginning of the season, we talked about the running back being devalued, Zeke Elliott, Melvin Gordon right holding out and it wasn't really worth it. And the distinction I want to make here is the running back, the single running back is being devalued in the NFL. But what the postseason teaches us and what I've been saying for months, and if you get the status Beats Cipher, you know that I don't just give you a fish. I teach you how

to fish. The running back is overrated, but a running game is underrated. And that was a big theme that we've been seeing the playoffs and the other one of these dudes just making plays. I've been saying it about Russell and about Patty, and about Lamar and about this Sean. But what what what struck me this week is that it wasn't like, yeah, they made incredible plays. I'll throw Anon Rodgers in there as well, but it's a lot of like these little small ones that you don't really

talk about as much. I saw, for example, Russell Wilson should have been sacked on one random play. It was the second down play, and he should have been sacked for like six yards, but he did something ridiculous and wound up like gaining three. And that's the difference between third and sixteen and like third and five in this situation.

And if little things like that that, you know, obviously the announcers will make a point about it, but it's just so big and these dudes just continue to make plays rolling out, you know, eight yard passes to Hollister, finding Davante Adams. When they're extending plays, you know, hitting Will Fuller or Duke Johnson out of the backfield, extending and rolling out and then forcing the defense to make a decision. Am I gonna run? Where I boom right there?

To Travis Kelsey. All of these dudes can do that, all right, And that and the balance in the run game, or really what I'm seeing is running to day in this two thousand and nineteen NFL. So first of all, let's talk about Tennessee in Baltimore, and this is what it comes down to. What do you respect that's a defensive coordinator. You have to respect Derrick Henry, right, he goes off again yards. But with Tannehill, they represent the potential of the play action game, of the throwing game,

of being able to go over the top. We've seen it. It doesn't matter if he he only completed like seven balls, but it doesn't matter because if they need to, they can do that. It was so much that Bill Belichick thought that was the right hand to take away right now. With the Ravens, of course you respect Lamar, but when you're down fourteen nothing right. You can start to play a little bit differently, and even Lamar would admit that he has development in terms of throwing outside the numbers.

The Titans had a unique opportunity to force that. I said early in the season they didn't want Lamar Jackson becoming a volume thrower. This is not an indictment on Lamor. I'm not one of those guys being like, oh, the m v P season was food gaz, It's not. I'm not gonna here throw all sorts of shade at Lamar. He was amazing. Okay. What is important is that they play from a head, that they get out early. We've always known that these teams weren't able able to force

them into that. Well, look at what happened. Lamar Jackson had fifty nine attempts. That's not what the Ravens want. It is no surprise that in there he turned the ball over three times. The question is, when you get punched in the mouth, do you have something else to go to? The Titans have demonstrated that they do. They haven't had to with Derrick Henry running for over a hundred eighty yards all the time, but they demonstrate that they have to, so you have to leave a safety back.

When Lamar and the Ravens are running right and they do play action, there's guys running wide open all over the field because of the running game. You don't have to do that. When you're down by three scores. It's a different thing. We'll talk about the other three games will do speeds versus the kids, I hope with the

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Tim McGraw, well, how is he my boy? Andrew g Apparently Tim McGraw is not my boy, and apparently he's wearing a Goat Tigers jacket. Let me tell you, I got a lock for tonight. The Tigers will win. But the Tigers on the money line if you want. In the chatting room to dodge, Druth is talking about he wants his Dodgers futures bet for the World Series two thousand seventeen refunded maybe two thousand eighteen as well. You know some of these books now kind of marketing they do,

like those good Karma kind of refunds and baybacks. This is interesting. You should probably um uh hit them up, Ruth and see what's up my boy. Lance Davis in the chat room says, not Hope plus Hinge plus Cora the fool gazies of the day, and I do not disagree. You know it's not a fugaz Check this out, especially if you want to light the lamp on DraftKings and fan duel this NHL DFT season. You gotta join Daily Rodo dot com and learn from the best DFS players.

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for me and Lamar, it was like what happens? Like do you what where do you go to when your best pitch is gone? What's what's the other? What's the left hand? Do you know? And listen Ingram was compromised and users compromised. One of the best lineman, Marcel Yonda, was clearly compromised. And I'm not pooh pooing Lamar. I'm just saying this is the continued development for them, to be honest, they just got to develop more as a passer, right and and that's health. What are you gonna do?

You know? Um? In this Houston Kansas City game, Wow, was that exhausting? Huh? That was like schoolyard football. There were guys laterally, and there was all sorts of I was just crazy, right obviously, And by now we all know the twenty four nothing lead and then Kansas City comes all the way back. I gotta tell you something, and I was when I was talking about this game, I was really surprised that Houston didn't try to stem the tide a little bit by running Carlos Hide more.

I told you that in back to back weeks earlier in the season, and they gonna ask Applis. Colts went in there, ran the ball down the cold, down the chiefs throat and one. Then the Texans went in there, ran the ball down the chief's throat and one. Carlos Hide I believe had over a hundred yards on over twenty five carries and a touchdown in that game. And then we got news like an hour and a half before the game that Chris Jones was gonna be inactive.

I really thought they were gonna run the ball more, and it couldn't because it devolved into some crazy back and forth shoot out, but then even at the beginning of the second half to try to like settle things down. I was surprised that didn't happen more. And here's what I also want to say. In this game, you saw the difference between mental mistakes and physical mistakes. I used to coach kids in in in football and in baseball, and I said, I will never get mad at you

for a physical mistake. Muff punt is a physical mistake, right, But mental mistakes and coaching mistakes and scheming mistakes, like why fake punt when you're still up to just to give it when your own side of the field to give someone momentum. Why don't end around with Kenny Stills when you're moving the ball and on schedule. Those kind of things is what will get you. The physical mistakes, Hey, they happen. Block punts happened, you know, Um so I

thought that was different. If I'm Houston now, I think you gotta still continue to build up the defense. Listen, J. J. Watt doesn't play full seasons. You had the like bottom five defense. The offensive sign is fine. You have Deshaun Watson even with a piss poor offensive. You are seemingly okay, you need to build up that defense, all right, UM, next game, UM. And by the way, listen, UM, I saw a leadership out of Patty Mahomes when they were

down twenty four nothing. It's Mahomes going up and down that bench right telling people we're gonna do something special. Don't worry hanging there. Stick with me. By contrast, and again I'm not crapping on Lamar. By contrast, Lamar sitting there like banging his helmet. You know, I think part of that is experience part of it. And Lamar Jackson, it's his second year in the league. He's going to evolve. They're gonna be healthy. If he had mark Ingram, he's

gonna have that second option. He's gonna get better as a passer down the field. Outside the numbers. It's okay. The arrow is pointing up the same way as said. It's all good if I'm a Bills fan, right. So, and then we have yeah, and in that Minnesota San Fran game, Listen, they have been a great case study. Let me talk to you to three games from Minnesota. The first thing exhibit A is when they didn't have Dalvin Cook and everybody thought Mike Boone was going to

take them to a fantasy championship. And they played a Monday night football game against Green Bay and Mike Boone proved that he couldn't run the ball well. And then it became you don't have the running game right when the defense doesn't have to respect that Oh krk Cousins volume passer, he didn't look good. They lost the NFC North on Monday Night football to the Green Bay Packers. Exhibit B. Last week against New Orleans, all of a sudden,

Dalvin Cook and uh Madison, they're running well. They combined for over thirty yards. Thirty carries, they combined for over a hundred yards. Dalvin Cook gets into the end zone twice. All of a sudden, Kirk Cousins has wide open guys down the middle of the field. All of a sudden, Kirk Cousin gets the monkey off his back. All of a sudden, the Minnesota Vikings put up points and win. You don't think these things are related, like I've been saying all year long, and then I take you to

yesterday or sad to day. Dalvin Cook runs for uh nine carries for eighteen yards. They stuff it, they get behind by multiple scores. No longer have to respect the run game volume passer, Kirk Cousins, it doesn't look pretty. It's a formula that we're seeing all across the NFL. People contrast about what we saw in the San Francisco run game. Okay, this Minnesota San Francisco game, we didn't have one of those playmaking quarterbacks. There was no Aaron Rodgers,

Russ Wilson, Patty Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, DeShawn Watson. They didn't play in this game. So it's about the run game in the balance. Look at what San Francisco does, Kevin Coleman. They combined, though, between Coleman, most Art and even Brita, to run the ball forty two times. We're a hundred and eighty yards. And let me tell you what else in that game shows it for me. Jimmy G through a pick deep his own territory. But San Francisco had about a one score lead at that point. It was

second quarter. They took the ball out of Jimmy G's hands after that interception. Jimmy G had six more attempts the rest of the game. Okay, because they didn't need him to be a volume passer, because that's when mistakes happened. All right, Kirk Cousins had to be a volume passer. Didn't work. San Francis hosting the NFC Championship game. In the last game that we got to talk about, the last game of the weekend. Oh, by the way from Minnesota.

Build up your offensive line. That's what it's going down to your defense. We like that her Cousin's fine game manager, don't like him as a volume thrower. You got weapons. You gotta build up that offensive line, all right. You gotta hope Dalvin Cook isn't truly injury prone. The team went ten and six. Dalvin Cook missed some games. This team goes eleven and five, wins one or two more games. They got games at home where they're much better. That

defense is much better. These vikings are not far away. In the last game. Here's what was proven to me. Even Russell Wilson needs a run game for a balance. Besides his own rushing. Besides his own seven carries for sixty four yards, Lynch and Homer combined fifteen touches carries twenty nine yards. That's less than two a pop. You don't need to worry about it. So what can you do? Things like, you know, contain Russell Wilson with your rush, pin your ears back and go after him. They sacked

them five times. Remember how last week I told you they're not brothers like the Watts or the Bosas. But Preston and za Darius Smith were named. You're gonna hear they each got two sacks. Okay, And then on the other side, listen, Davante Adams beasted eight for one sixty. My boy Frank Standfill put up some stats on him since his return from injury. It's been ridiculous. I think he's like wide out too. And my boy Frank asked the question, like, how many white outs are you taking

ahead of Davante Adams next year in fantasy? It's a valid question. And I remind you this year, Jilly Dilley has the notes. My top three wide receivers going into this year where DeAndre Hopkins, Davante Adams, and Michael Thomas. If you go back and run the tape, I faded Julio Jones, I faded Juju Smith Schuster, I faded Odell Beckham.

And going into next year, my top three wide receivers will be probably the exact same in no particular order just yet, Michael Thomas, Davante Adams, DeAndre Hopkins, maybe Tyreek Hill in there as well. All right, but look at these offenses, all right, and Davantae Adams had a huge game. But here's the other thing. There was one play in there, Aaron Rodgers flick of the wrist on a dime to

Jimmy Graham. And I remind you, Aaron Rodgers is one of these guys as well, one of these guys that make plays, extend the plays off script, off schedule while rolling out. Okay, you either have one of these quarterbacks that just makes ridiculous plays and raises all boats, like the three guys in my poll, like a Russell Wilson like and Aaron Rodgers, I'll give you, like a Josh Allen, although he needs to learn a little bit more. Maybe there'll be others coming up. Kyler Murray comes to mind.

Or you need to have that balance because otherwise, if you're not making plays and I'm asking people to guard for five six seconds because you can extend to play, you need something else. You need the thread of the run game. You need play action, right, and that's what it comes down to when Aaron Rodgers made it throw in that game last night. Well, I was like, oh my god, that's so beautiful. And my fiance said to me, it kind of looked like Patrick Mahomes and that brought

it full circle for me. You know, we talked about Lamar and Patty and Watson and all this, but Aaron Rodgers really kind of I and I know Joe Ronario say it goes all the way back to Steve Young, and he's true, he's right, But like Aaron Rodgers and this new guard has really provided this dual threat and that was another big time takeaway from me for Seattle. Listen, it's again the defense like Houston, and you need a running game. Listen, Carson is serviceable. Fantasy people know him.

But what if they went out and spent money on like a Melvin Gordon. What if they went out and traded for lev Bell. What if they took Deatrick Henry away from the Titans. Wouldn't that be the cherry on top for that offense with Russell still and his prime I digress on the other side of the break, when we come back, we look at speeds versus the kids. We bring in Danny Otto here from the pit of misery, and Danny and I are back in it all right,

so we will see what we gotta do. The child psychology is amazing, and then we'll put the fund and functional sports content. We got a question of should I hedge or not? And uh, we got some things going on this weekend to talk about it as well. Come on back Fantasy Freestyle. You heard NFL seasons and Alpado, so you can be on the eighth person away one million dollars King's tournament, my sittinger lineup using the Daily

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episode four thirty three. At a Fantasy Freestyle, you got two boy speeds and spitting statistician holding you down with the stats overbeat cipher. Yo. The chat room is wild, all right. I gotta love you, Um, Andrew G. Slowdown though, area man, that's my homegirl, all right, but I do love Andrew G. Jeremy McMahon, Lance Davis, Stat's overbeat cipher representing, and I gotta tell you I love the train of thought outside of that other comment um in the chat room.

First of all, Andrew G, You're right, Lamar did look stunned a little bit right. Meanwhile, Patty Mahomes got up, went up and down that bench, rallying everybody, saying let's do something special. Lamar looked a little bit stunned, and we really did. I ain't but listen, first time out there, I got it. It's all good, still very bright for Lamar, okay, But there was a difference in the way you saw

Lamar respond and the way you saw Patty Mahomes respond. Also, Jeremy Man and Lands Davids talking about Bubba Sparks that you should be my man back in the day. First of all, spark one, Jeremy, you know what it is, yah do sab our. Of course, Stat's over beat cipher right there, Jeremy McMahon represent and he brings up Bubba Sparks your booda booda boo boo boot everywhere. Also my jam from Bubba, you remember that jam. It was like

some kind of swallow southern joint. Was like I've been traveling for some time with my fishing pole and my bottle is shine. That's that good stuff right there. That Oh, Bubba Sparks joined, I am at at you, Jeremy Man and Lance Spark one up. And then y'all also talking about Trick Daddy. Trick Daddy, and first of all, and this brings it all full circle, Trick loves the kids, no, no, not speeds loves the kids. And we'll get into speeds

versus the kids in a hot second. And then you're talking about though I'm worried about this because you're talking about Trick Daddy getting arrested in Miami high and doing blow right before I go to Miami for my bachelor party this weekend. Yeah, were talking about receding hairline. I thought you were talking about speeds instead of Trick Daddy, because it's like Trick Daddy, trick load of kids, Speeds loves the kids, you know. So I don't want to

get confused with Trick. I should not be behind the wheel on Saturday. Uh, but I digress. The other thing y'all are talking about is uh Speeds loves the kids. So let's get into it, Danny. And first of all, uh, yeah, thanks Lance, Yeah, thank you, Ben. I've been traveling for some time. Yeah. I guess I'm going to hide away a way because I gotta found my way. But in any event, all right, um so, Danny, we got Speeds versus the kids. We didn't do too good. Wild card weekend, Danny,

we got squaw do should we defecated the mattress. But we came back with a three in one weekend, right, So that's good. Put up the graphic right now. Because these kids, they didn't do it all right. Coral only got one win to get to four. Zoe, Michaela and Casper they got like squaw douche. All they could get up to was three. Oscar and Jasmine have two. And then here's the thing, Danny, I told you this was gonna happen. I told you parents were gonna mess up kids.

So Audrey, my lovely step my lovely god daughter, and Tito, Arianna and Andy, their parents didn't get it in. They didn't get the picks in in time. Or at all, so they fall by the wayside. All right, So Danny, what we have is Cora, will you know, is the daughter of the undisclosed location, Danny Lee. Remember she's rotting with the Titans, picking the Titans at her at her mother and her father's disbelief. But we are now tied for second, Danny, alright, so you can take that down.

So here's what I'm thinking, Danny, Cora is the only person who's one game up on us. Right. So but if you remember, Danny, I think it's a lock that Cora is gonna pick the Tennessee Titans. I really do. She picked them in wild card, as we remember, Remember her mother's reaction to when she picked them on wild

card weekend over the Patriots. Remember that, Danny. I mean, So she's been like day one with the Titans, right, and then last weekend she goes back to the Titans against the Kansas City Chiefs, And this time Danny Lee was like, are you sure? Really? You know what I mean? So Cora has been on the Titans from the beginning of the playoffs. Her parents have thought it was silly, and what do you know, now she's in first place, Danny, I mean she's sticking to her guns. I mean that

that's you know. So here's the thing. I think she's going to stay with the tendency Titans and picked them to win the n f C Championship. What do you think, I mean at this point you might as well. So I think she's gonna pick Tennessee. So I've been saying on this air for the better part of the last two months that I'm on the Kansas City Chiefs bandwagon. Right. I said, Patty Mahomes was getting more healthy. I said this Kansas City Chiefs defense was improving before anyone else

did run the tape. I've been on the Chiefs defense because I said even early in the season that it takes a while to learn Spagnolo zone defenses, the coverages, the responsibilities. I said earlier in the season that that Spags defense would get better. Add Interrell Suggs adding the huddy badger who don't give a what, And that's what you have it. Okay. By the way, Tom Pierce, thank you for the shout out. And my man absolutely always gets it done. Okay, I got love for the man.

Toni Sincot, thanks Tim Pierce for the kind words. Okay, So back to where we were going. I think she's gonna pick Tennessee, So I'm picking Kansas City, Danny. I think that's how we make the game up on Cora. What do you say? You you already know that I agree. We were talking about this before the show. I'm definitely

going with Casey, right, okay, So we're going Casey. And by the way, I'm doing some of this because if you haven't heard, and they've been giving it to me all week on this network, there will be no Fantasy Freestyle this Thursday, all right. There will also be no Fantasy Freestyle next Monday on Martin Luther King Day, all right, because, as many people know, I am getting married next month. I have my bachelor party is this weekend down in Miami.

That's why I brought up the Trig Daddy reference, because you know, I may be in a similar spot. But we'll get into that later, all right. So, um, I gotta make some picks now. We gotta talk about this speeds versus the kids. So here's the thing, though, Danny, let's say this happens the way I think and Chiefs whin the ANFC Championship. We're even up with Cora. What

do we do? Do we go opposite Cora on purpose to try to get ahead of her, or do we just mimic whatever Cora says, Like I'm gonna be I'm gonna worry about how to play this against Cora? Okay? And if do I just mimic whatever she says this way, if the Chiefs w in the a f C will be tied no matter what going into the super Bowl, or do I just say, hell, throw caution to the wind and just pick who I think regardless, even if it puts me at a disadvantage and I might not

be able to catch up with her. What do you say, Danny? I mean, there's the there's the safe play, there's the How do you feel about the Chiefs? You feel like pretty confident? I mean they are seven point favorites after the last game. I'm I'm pretty damn confident with Alright, alright, fair enough. So listen, as we saw on the graphic, Cora is leading, but I have a feeling she's picking the Titans. I'm gonna go opa with her there and

take the Chiefs, and I'm leaning San Francisco. Here's the thing, though, Danny, Here's my problem in this other game, I can't tell you much about it. Put up the other graphic, Danny. This is why it's hard for me, Okay, Danny. In the beginning, at the end of May, small play futures bet, I bet the Green Bay Packers to win the NFC, all right, and that would turn fifteen dollars into one fifty. All right, you can take that off. That was my bet on fandom. Remember I've been saying I was on

the Packers as a team early on. Most people weren't, so my fifteen dollar bet would become a hundred and fifty dollars there. So the question is do I hedge and on hedging For those of you who don't know, let me give you a little quick gambling you right, what happens is if they win, I got a hundred fifty dollars. But if they lose, I can make now bets that are with odds for this week, but like San Francisco, and then if that one wins, I still make a profit because I'm only out fifteen bucks off

green Bay loses. I can make a bet on the San Francisco side, where what I'm in essence, because remember I've outlaid fifteen bucks. There if I outlay, I can do something where I outlay I say another twenty five or combined forty dollars let's say, depending on the money. It doesn't whatever your units are. And make it so that if San Francisco wins, I win more than my total outlay, and if Green Bay wins, I win more than my total outlay. Scott Wetzel knows this. He's coming

in on In Game Live. Scott, I got a problem here. I am holding Green Yeah, well, we're talking about the Bachelor party that is happening this weekend, but we're not talking about that. Yes, I'm going to Miami this weekend. Absolutely, there will be no freestyle this Thursday. There will be no freestyle this Monday. Jared is covering me on Make It Rain and p FT. But I digress. So I am holding Green Bay Packers to win the NFC. They just put it up. I bet it in May, bet

it in May. I was like they got a defense this year. So but I digress. Right, I'm trying to teach him about hedging because San Frans like minus three hundred, so for me, I would have to invest enough to have it the return be more than the combined outlay and kind of sit that middle because, to be quite honest, I think San frans gonna win the game. I think San Franz gonna win the game. So what do I do. I'm not comfortable Scott with like minus three eighty or

whatever it is. It makes it almost it makes it almost like not even fun to hedge and like, okay, so I'll win like twenty bucks one way or the other, you know. So what I think I'm doing If San Francisco wins, I think their defense is going to once again like they did earlier in the season, dump truck Aaron Rodgers, stop the running game, force him into a volume thrower. Have it be five yards to target, even

like it wasn't that last time. Davante Adams had seven catches yesterday for like a hundred eighty yards against San Franci had seven catches for forty six yards. Okay, that's a little bit of a different way of approaching how you gonna play it. But I saw up if I parlay San fran money line, and the under in the game that par lay in itself is plus one fifty, and I'm calling I'm holding I'm holding ten to one on green Beto in the NFC. So if I lose in San Francisco loses, I've hit ten to one for

green Beto in the NFC. Oh, happy day. Another round of drinks at whatever random bar I'm at in Miami for everybody. But if they don't win and I hit this par lay at plus, it ain't that bad. Maybe it's just a round of shots for myself. Then what do you think, Scott? Do I hedge? What do I do? Talk to me? Right? Right? Oh, that's interesting, but I don't And you're like double hedging sequence the hedge interesting, right?

But I can't do that because I will be in the state of Florida, right and I don't want to hit up wind the will I don't know. I don't even know if I'll be in the right frame of mind to do that. Right. The other thing I can do, and here's where it comes full circle, is I could just let it ride. But I got burned on this once before, and let me tell you what it was, Scott. As by the way, the chat room is going crazy. Can I get a live stream from my bachelor party?

I don't know. I don't know. I may call in or something like that. Patreon subscribers, you may get some stuff. So I saw a certain man play quarterback as a freshman, and I was like, yo, that guy is the truth. And when he came back his sophomore year, his school was thirty five to one to win the national championship. That man was Deshaun Watson. That school was Clemson. They're in the National Championship game, and I'll ruin the punch line.

This is the first time when they lost to Alabama and I was holding them thirty five to one, and I was like, you know what, effort, let it ride, and I got banged out. I did it again in the World Cup. In the World Cup, the teams I was riding with were Croatia and Belgium. That worked well, and then I hedged and then I took France and I made some money off of it. Right. Do I

do it again tonight? I don't know. I only got like a little while to figure it out, because you know, I won't be in the state of New Jersey much. I'll be down south. But we'll figure it out on this game. On this game, I'm taking Clemson plus two points. I think defense beats offense. This defense is real. Dabyl Sweeney has been there before. Um Trevor Lawrence has been there before. I think Joe Burrow and l s U I love him at all, but I think it is

publicly inflated like whoa. And I think Clemson is the best team in the country, and I think they're the best defense in the country. Give me the points, give me the Tigers. But if you want to lock just about the Tigers tonight, you'll be all right. We got Scott Watson coming in, we got Jared I believe, we got Gabe and Cam Holk crew. We're crowding a champion tonight. I won't see you for a while. I hope I get back in time safety five. I know got through, Sabby.

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we're suspended for a year. Okay. We're also hearing the Astros will forfeit their first and second round draft picks for the next couple of years. I think this is legit. I think this is a deterrent. I think it hurts him.

And then we hear more that the Houston Astros have turned around and were like, you know what, forget this, and they turned around and fired Hinch and the GM, and then we hear more that they are still ready to drop in this being Major League Baseball, still ready to drop the hammer on Joey Cora and potentially the

Boston Red Sox because they are involved. Remember Corus sort of like the mastermind behind all this, And we're not done, and there's still talk about what this means for Carlos Beltrand now um because he was there now the manager of the meth Now A lot of people are saying and it seems like the report is indicating that no players will be um uh uh punished, right, And I wonder what you think about that, because they were all

complicit in this, they all knew this. What if your arm and judge, who finishes second to Jose Altuve in the two A L M v P. What if you're the New York Yankees. What if you're the Los Angeles Dodgers who went to the World Series, you know, back to back years and we're facing this nonsense, all right? I think this is very interesting. People are not likening this all the way like to the Black Sox scandal, that it's worse than steroids, worse than Pete rolls between sounds,

banging lights in the mound and all this stuff. And it's not done yet, So keep an eye out on this. I do think it is a deterrent. I do think the Astros are gonna fall by the wayside a little bit on this. Um. Yeah, I know they have great talent still, but you know, when they don't know what's coming. We'll see if that holds true. Uh, free agents aren't gonna want to sign there. They have to now hire a new manager in GM. I do think this hits

and where it hurts. Would you trade it in for a title if you knew that this was gonna be And I don't even think it guarantees you a title, right, you still have to hit the ball. But if you knew this would get you a title? Is it worth it? Is it worth the crime? Is it worth it to you? That's what I want to know. Hit me up in

the chat room about that. Hit me up if you would take Lamar Jackson, Patty Mahomes, Deshaun Watson, or someone else like a Josh Allen, like Kyler Murray Baker Mayfield, Sam Donald, Daniel Jones, or one of these guys playing tonight, perhaps Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence Right or an old guard. Maybe you want to hang on to a guy like Russell Wilson. But in any event, we have to look. Now there are four teams left, and that's what we're

gonna get into. Okay, we're gonna talk about on the other side of the break, which is coming in a few minutes. We will talk about what speeds got right, what speeds got wrong. We will break down the takeaways, the diamonds, the fool gazes from Be sure to follow all our social media at Evan t s Y sports Net and at Levn t s Y Radio and now