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Off next on that cipher on the microphone. You know that I'm one of the best yet Martinez, do you know what it is? It's your point, Da Martinez a k A Speeds a k A to Spitting Statistician a k A. The stable Genius and vocal Minority. And welcome to another edition of the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the award winning Fantasy Sports Network, the convening of the Status Overbeat Cipher. Episode I don't know, Danny, what are
we talking Episode three hundred and eighty one. I do believe with the Status of Beat Cipher, we've got a good show for you tonight. Here's what we're gonna do. Okay, we got only about an hour until the home run derby gets cooking, you know, part of All Star Weekend. I'll tell you some of my leans. Listen, just because there's no Major League Baseball doesn't mean that we can't win a little bit of extra cache today. So that's
what we're gonna do. I'm gonna tell you how I think you should bet the home run Derby will even talk about the All Star Game tomorrow. Ways to do that as well. Then the division by division previews continue. We will get into the NFC West today. I'll give you diamonds. I'll give you fo gazzies, I'll give you scheduling nuggets. I'll give you everything you need for fantasy
football to make it happen in the NFC West. And then of course we'll put the fun and functional sports content with the status over beat Cipher us see the home Girl Jilly Dilley is already there. We will recap my week away because I know some of the stats over Beat Cipher. We're getting at me on social media. Everybody from Jilly Dilley to Strong Style over there giving me some recommendations and tips. Will catch up with that.
I did say Kauai would go to the Clippers. Jilly Dilley, we'll talk about that, and I got big news for everybody as it relates to the fantasy freestyle. Uh. So you know there'll be plenty more time for you guys to get after the spitting statistician. We've got the phone lines open. It's like football scheduling. Alright, we're moving on over and we're very excited about that. I'm so excited, to be quite honest, many of you guys may know
about this. There is a big time fantasy like half expert, half family called Scottie Fish and this is the ninth season scott Fish nine. You may know about this. We talk about this all the time. Well, this league started today. Alright, the draft board open today. I have already made two picks in this draft. Will recap what happened in those picks. I'm liking where I am. But then again, obviously you're gonna like your first and second pick. And the fun part is I may be making a pick on the
show right now. Alright, it's one of these email drafts, and there's one guy ahead of me that needs to make a pick, and then I will be on the clock. If that happens in this hour, I will talk you through my third round pick in Scottie Fish nine. We also got a poll question up as usual because of All Star, you know, All Star weekend home Run Derby tonight.
My question is, uh, we're gonna give you some different events that if I was commissioner or if you're real deal stats over beat cipher, you know about some of these, and you know, I get geeked up for this, even like the dodgeball in the Pro Bowl, that sort of stuff. Um, I'm gonna tell you some events that I would add that I think would be bring some people, you know, some eyes to the set, that sort of thing. And so which of these events do you think they should
actually add? Would you rather see guys run at first, the third, who's the fastest, the best arm in the outfield? You know, I'm reminded of like it was endorsed by Fred McGriff. Was that Flipamanski or whatever? You gotta get that crow hop into the garbage can that sort of thing. Is it? Picture like in the NHL? Was he shooters
like accuracy on targets? What about pictures doing that a straight velocity or what about hitters trying to beat the shift hitting different targets, trying to beat the shift, something like that. We'll talk about those, but the poll question is up as usual at spitting speeds. You can check it out at F and T s Y Radio at F and T s Y. It's that if you want to have your voice heard. Um. As we mentioned, also going into football season, the phone lines will be more open.
I'm starting to get more questions on my Twitter timeline about Dynasty's about mock drafts that are happening. I'm gonna be doing some stuff some mock drafts going on this week. We are in drafts right now, so I understand that if you want to get at this bitten statistician, the number to call is eight four four eight four three six eight seven nine. We got the chatting room and the YouTube open as well. We got Crayton Treyhan already
asking me questions. He says he is the commissioner of a multi sport league and if you of the guys want to do a fab pool on the Home Run Derby, thoughts on betting fab in a fantasy league, I will answer that before Home Run Derby kicks off in about an hour. If you want to get it in and chop it up with the status over beat cipher, We're gonna break down the Home Run Derby. We're gonna break down the All Star Game. I will give my platform of Speeds as Commissioner. Then we're gonna get into the
NFC West. There's a lot of interesting things. And Jilly Dilley, who's already there, she's taking notes. Julie, you're gonna have to make notes. I'm taking a hot stand right now that I don't think many people will have in the NFC E West. I need you to write it down so that when it comes true later on this season, you could be like you were right Speeds. Just like in the chat room you said you said Kauai would
go to the Clippers. She's my running narrative saying, you know, that's what we do here, help you win your leagues and win that cash. Come on back, whether it's on YouTube, whether it's on I Heart, whether it's on you know, tune in radio, whether it's on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network app. The Stats over Beat Cipher was off last week. We're convening and we're gonna put the fun and functional
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and spending Statistician. It's interesting we are starting kind of if you haven't noticed already, we are starting kind of like our official trend, uh, you know, moving over to football season, some different programming, joining with Sports Radar Crew of course Sports Grade, you know, making it happen. And I noticed that there's some new listeners right already. I got in the chat room, Kevin Ross, big shout out to you, being like, this guy's having a corona. What
do you know about that? Really, dilly, everybody who always watches you're gonna see eventually, Kevin. If I don't have a corona with me, sometimes people will get after me in uh in the chat room, all right. So that's how we get it down here with the Stats over Beat Cipher. We got some people coming back. As always.
I want to answer a question real quick, uh, Clayton Treyhand, big friend of the show, Dilly Dilly to Clayton, asking about um betting fat budget from your fantasy league in a different thing like betting that while watching a home run derby. That's interesting. I'm gonna tell you right now, though, Clayton. The only way I would allow that is if everyone in the league has an opportunity to do that. I've seen that before where you do some side hustle, but
you know, not everybody in the league has access. As long as they're equal opportunity, basically everybody getting in on it, then it's all good, all right for me. Uh. That's how I would, you know, respond to that. When we got big things going over here though, Like I said, moving over to football season, and I gotta tell you for the real deal, Stats over Beat Cipher. I was on vacation last week. I told people that when I was back, we were gonna get it in and it
is official. We're gonna start going twice a week, all right. We're gonna start going twice a week starting this week. We're gonna do Mondays and we're gonna do Thursdays, all right. And if you've been with me for the last few years, with three hundred and eighty episodes in already two time nominee, you know about that. So what we're gonna do on Mondays heading into the football season, we'll always look back
what we got right, what we got wrong. We'll talk waivers of course for fantasy, we'll preview Monday Night Football for the betting world, right, and then on Thursdays, what we'll do a lot is that that DFS going into the week, we'll do a lot of calls, a lot of trade stuff. We'll do our Game of Inches as always, and we'll have a good time leading into both Monday and Night Football and Thursday Night Football where we're gonna
be starting another piece of content at night. We're gonna be starting a show called in Game Live for the real sports investors out there as well. We're gonna be following all the live betting action. I'm gonna have a hand in that too of a man sports rage, Gabe more and see getting into it going into Monday night and Thursday night football. But a night, let's get into the home run derby. Okay, and here's what I'm seeing
as the morning line. All right, Yeah, Josh Bell at plus three is the favorite, then Vladdy Jr. Pete Alonso at plus four, Matt Chapman at five and a half to one, Jack Peterson at six, Orcuna at seven, Bregman at eight, Santan at nine. There's been a little bit of movement depending on your book, since the beginning of
the day. All right. Now, first of all, if I'm gonna give you leans and takes on the home run Derby, we know we're talking about a special kind of degenerate, all right, So let's let's all take this with a grain of salt. It's like preseason NFL football DFS, al right, and let's all acknowledge that. Let's look ourselves in the mirror and understand what we're doing here when in the home run Derby. But I do have a couple of takes for you. One is that the odds on favorite
very rarely actually comes through and wins. All right. And I don't know why Josh Bell is necessarily the favorite among these names anyway, But I don't know that I'm riding him. Okay. I look at the other side of this bracket where you see people like Vlad Jr. Where you see Maddie Chapman, who, by the way, is in for yellow, and he's gonna bring his dad to pitch, which is it's a nice thing, right. We've seen that
over the course of the last few years. I think it started with Robbie could know a few years ago. We saw Bryce Harper do it just last year. Nice moment. Maybe Chapman will get that moment with his dad. We like that, Okay, for guys like Vlad Jr. For guys like Pete Alonso, who I know a lot of people are on I think my man Gabe Moranse is on him, who you heard earlier today. These younger guys, these rookies, these guys that are gonna be geeked up and a
little bit nervous. Here's what I think about them. I think that they may win their first round matchup. They may even put up a big number. Okay, you may see Alonso or Vlad Jr. In the first round put up like a thirteen or whatever. It's a relatively big number. I worry about their staying power. As you know, the format has changed over the last couple of years. It's now a timed event, which I think is cool. Add some intrigue and all that. But I think these guys
get tired out pretty quickly. I really do. It's gonna be hot whatever it is, I think these guys get tired out. It's kind of like the three point shooting contest in the NBA. All right. So because of that, I'm not leaning on the favorite. I'm not leaning on these rookies. I like experience in this. I like guys that have done it before. And of these, of of these eight entries, I see two that have done it before.
One was Alex Bregman coming back, tried it last year, got banged out in the first round, I believe, and the other is Jack Peterson. Jack Peterson has done this before. Jack Peterson has a swing perfect for this kind of event. Okay, And these guys are at lower prices. Okay. I can get Peterson at plus six hundred, I can get Bregman at plus eight hundred. Now I understand these guys are facing each other in the first round. So you might be like, hey, Speed, you're gonna lose one of your
picks right away. I'm also gonna guarantee that one of them is in the semis, right, you know, I'm gonna lean towards experience guys that are not uh, you know, getting gassed out. You see whether it's three point shooting contests. You see it in Damn American Ninja Warrior, for God's sakes, Okay, And that's what I think is the problem with some of these young bucks that haven't done it before. Throw Kuna in the mix for that as well. Okay, So
that's where I'm gonna go, and you can get matchups. Listen, give me the underdog, give me the plus number as most betting right, but those are my picks right there. Give me Alex Bregman or Jack Peterson at plus eight hundred and plus six hundred respectively, as real deal stats over beats Siphons for knows. You can thank me later on. That's what we do. Help you in their cage real quick for the All Star Game, because I'm not gonna talk to you guys until Thursday. We got the als
A slight favorite their minus one twenty. I think the analyst minus one oh five, minus one ten, So the ale is a favorite. It's the same kind of thing. You know. One of the narratives I've been talking about all season long is this idea of the strikeout rates, the home runs, the three true outcomes, right, and that I want to see that we're just taking the overs
all the time. But the reason we've been taking the overs is because of the rough underbelly, right, and the second time through the lineup these guys get that doesn't happen in the All Star Game. And then in the All Star Game, what they're gonna do is bring in Chris Sale, you know what I mean for one at bat, for an overpowering pitcher who probably has a great strikeout rate. There is no soft underbelly in the sixth and seventh inning. That's when they're bringing in the beginning of the of
the closers. Okay, that's when you're gonna get you know, like Kenley Jansen coming in. Okay. So because of that, and because of the propensity of all these people who put up these stats that are gonna be All Stars, I think I kind of like the under I think most of the runs will be scored via the home run. That happened last year as well. All right, most of the home runs in this game. I think last year was like a five four game, or like ten runs were scored and all of them were scored via the
home run. I think the vast majority of games will be scored via the home run in tomorrow's game. But I actually think the under is a decent play because everyone's on these home runs, but not with the best pitching. We are going to see if great pitching does in fact beat great hitting. But that's what I would say. Give me um oh, Clayton says, thanks to me, that's what's up. Um give me Bregman, give me Peterson, give
me under in tomorrow's game. But I was talking about the pole question real quick before we have to throw it to break. We got a new little timing schedule going on here as well with Fantasy freestuff. But one of the things that I was saying is I would like to see these other events added. So check the pole question right now. I think if we lined up you know, your Jared Dyson to Billy Hamilton's your trade turners and see who was the fastest time I going
first to third. That would be something I would watch. This Home on Derby has appeal. Why not add events to it, make it a big Saturday night or Sunday night, just like they do, you know in in the NBA. Make it a bigger affair. I would also like to see put all the best outfield arms from back in the day, the role Mom, the sees, the Jeff Frank cores, the eat rolls, put all the best arms in right field and make them holes down. Someone thrown home or throwing a third. I would love to see that. I
would watch that. Okay, what about pictures you know, having to hit targets or with curveballs, even with breaking stuff or just on the gun, you know, like a roll, this Chapman firing it, you know it, you know Steven Straulsburg or whoever it would be, who does throw the hardest ball, who does have the best control with their pitches, whether it be fastballs or whether it be you know uncle Charlie right. I think that would be interesting to see.
And the last would be, like Clayton says, beating the shift, put different targets, have them go ap, Oh, have them go flyball, have them hit it on the ground, have them go down the line. I would want to see them put on a batting practice display like we see who can actually control where they put it? That is a big topic in Major League Baseball with the shift right now, I would like to see these all stars being able to put it exactly where they want. The
pole question is up. What would you like to see as an addition to the home run derby. We'll see what you say on Twitter. We'll see what you say in the chat room. When we come back. We switch gears to fantasy football. That's what we do here on the Fantasy Freestyle with stats over beat Cipher, We're gonna get into the NFC West everything you need, diamonds and gazes, who to forget about, schedule, Nuggets, win lost, totals, playoff bets, all at him more with the fitting statistician. Come on
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Marlon Mack. Okay, So I am on the clock in scott Fish nine. Real deal Fantasy football. Guys and gals know about this league. Okay. It's about six hundred fans, about six hundred experts. Okay. I am in the Bo Jackson Division. I am on the clock right now. So here's we're gonna do. I'm gonna talk NFC West for Fantasy football, and then I'm gonna see I think listen, and then I'll tell you about my my roster, my first and second picks, and I am on the clock. I'll tell you where I go. I will make my
official Scottie Fish third round pick on air. A little bit later on in the show. The guy I wanted is still there. People's pen drafted Marlon Mack in his third round right before me. But I digress. All right, here's where we're gonna go. We're talking an f C West. We have been doing this, uh you know, division by division. This is where I give you what you need to know. Okay. This is where I gave you the Philadelphia Eagles to win, to win the Super Bowl in August. Okay, at something
like one right. This is where I give you winners. This is where I give you diamonds on fool gazes. And if you're new to the show, the foul gas is someone you need to forget about. So let's get into it. NFC West, Jilly Dilley, I told you I had some stances that we're going to take. Let's start with that right at the top. Honestly, I'm off the Los Angeles Rams this year, people, I am off the Los Angeles Rams. I believe the Super Bowl hangover is real. I believe a lot of things went well for them
and boil boy. Do I not believe or trust in this Todd Burley stuff right now? All right, here's my deal. Okay, he is my fugazi for the Los Angeles Rams, and you have to understand also, if you're new to the show, Fugaz could be relatively speaking, right, is Todd Gurley is still an incredible running back? Yes? Will I have shares of Todd Gurley this year? Probably not, because he is still going right now as running back ten. Okay, he's
going as running back ten. And I want a better floor with my RB one, honestly, Okay, he is no longer a workhorse, he is no longer a bell cow because of this ar thright is condition. He's still great. He still may get a lot of production per touch. But I want from my RB one. I want someone who is locked and loaded, is not gonna be splitting time,
is not gonna be part of any committee. And what we saw down the stretch last year, what we saw in the playoffs last ye year, what we've heard medically speaking so far in this offseason would indicate that you know, I don't know that he is the guy you want as you're locked and loaded RB one, that you're gonna have relying on week to week to come through and be your stud. If he falls to you, and he could be your r B two, sure sign me up. But I need a safer floor in that spot. I
prefer Joe Mixon in that spot. I prefer Melvin Gordon in that spot. Hell, I'll prefer Dalvin Cook in that spot, okay, over Todd Gurley. He just won't be on my team as an RB one, okay, And that's why he's my Los Angeles rams foo crazy. Forget about it. I am, however, on Darryl Henderson. Okay, I am on the Darrell Henderson train. I have been telling you this ever since I did my rookie previews before the NFL Draft. I said this
was the running back that I would be on. This guy average eight point eight eight yards to carry, followed by eight point nine two yards to carry in college, all be it in a second kind of division at Memphis. But I saw this with my own eyes in a bowl game. I saw it in a conference title game. This guy on tape, he passes the eye test. It was all about what kind of situation he would land in. And now you're telling me he's gonna be the backup to Todd Gurley in this Todd McVeigh system. I'm all in.
I like this. I think he may have standalone handcuff value. And we don't know about Todd Gurley. All right, at the very least, I can see Haddon Henderson being kind of like a PPR change of pace guy that actually works in PPR leagues. All right, So that's where I am on the Rams. What I will also say, you always have a relative food gate, a relative diamond with the Rams when you take whoever you think is their third wide receiver the right the Rams wide receivers embody
the fantasy herd. And if you're new to the show, this is a concept where you never know on any given day, will it be Robert Woods who pops off? Will it be Cooper Cup who pops off? Will it be Brandon Cooks who pops off? And because of that, which everyone is going third a DP in your draft, that's the value because all three of them are gonna finish with the kind of the same, kind of the
same stats. In my opinion, I believe they are all and this is crazy, I believe they're all wide receiver Two's right now, Brandon Cooks is going out wide receiver fifteen. What what's his wide receiver sixteen? Cup is wide receiver twenty. Give me Cooper Cup as a value? He could you tell me? He can't put up better numbers than Cooks or would on any given day, on any given month, for the entire season. That's why he is another diamond because of the fantasy herd that is the Los Angeles
Rams wide receiving corps. Okay, but honestly, that arthritis is not getting any better, and that is a big thing to me. Add that, they you know, got lucky in a few games. Remember they beat the Chiefs fifty four to fifty one last year. Okay, they got a couple of other very tight games. I think their defense regresses a little little bit. They've lost you know, no and Dominican su there anymore. They lost some of their secondary as well. Okay, I think the big regression is Todd Gurley.
I actually am on the under for the Los Angeles Rams. We'll talk about it a little bit later. On their wind total is ten and a half. Not only am I on the under on their ten and a half wind total, I am going to tell you right now, I would not be surprised if those Los Angeles Rams wind up not making the playoffs because of that Super Bowl hangover. Okay, I would not be surprised at that. They also remember that we'll be playing a first place schedule. Okay,
we'll talk about that a little bit later. On their schedule is no good. They also lose a home game because they wind up playing in London. Okay. In the NFC US my, you know, if you want to talk about hot takes, oh, I don't think the Rams qualified for the playoffs. I've been telling you, you know, in previous divisions that I was on teams like the Atlanta Falcons. I told you it was on the Green Bay Packers. Well, those are two teams that didn't make the playoffs last year.
So if I'm gonna put those in, I gotta take teams out, and I'm gonna take a stand it's gonna be the Los Angeles Rams. Okay, let's go to the next team in that division. As as far as like wind total divisions, things of that nature, and that's the Seattle Seahawks. Let me give you a diamond in the rough for the Seattle Seahawks. Someone who was still on the board and Scotty Fish who I may look at,
and that's Rashad Penny. Listen, I like Rashad Penny. Rashad Penny was the Seahawks liked him enough to be their first round pick last year. Okay, he remember got hurt early in camp. I think it was a thumb. They said he was a little out of shape. He's talked about they're in better conditioning this year year. Second year jump. I like for for a lot of players with Shot Penny included. If you want to know the truth, I they they he had a fumbling problem. I think that
gets corrected a little bit. I think he's a definite good bet to win proof. He only was on seven teen percent of the Seattle Seattle Seahawks snaps last year. On those though, he showed flashes four point nine yards to carry six point three yards to target. I think he is going to be much more heavily and al And while Chris Carson had a good year last year, do you really believe that all of a sudden he's
the guy? He will be the starter? But I think we Shot Penny is a nice little diamond in the rough there on the flip side for the Seattle Seahawks. My food crazy. The guy you need to forget about is DK metcalf. A lot of people were talking about this after the draft, this rookie. Everybody loved this rookie out of Old miss As. You know, if you're a real deal stats over beat Cipher, you know that. I believe it takes a long time for rookie receivers. They
don't usually pop off. Francisco G by the way, and the chat was talking about Cup in the ninth round in a twelve team PPR. Absolutely absolutely, I would be very I'd be happy about that. Tab snap him up right now, Francisco, and we'll be talking about who I snap up in my third round pick. You're not gonna believe this guy's I think I'm I'm looking at where I need to go, I'm looking at who's available. You're
not gonna believe the pick I'm getting in the third round. People, I'm getting a top twelve player in the third round right now with my pick. We'll talk about that in a little while, but it will it'll be it's gonna be a receiver, I'll tell you that. And it's not gonna be DK Metcalf because I don't think he's going I think he's gonna help the Seahawks more than he helps your fantasy team. One of those prototypical guys that help the real team more than the fantasy team. He
kind of locked polish coming out. Remember in and out of routes. He's just a physical specimen. He'll stretch the field. Is good that Russell Wilson throws the deep ball, right, but I think he'll be better as a deep threat. I think he'll be better to open up lanes for the running game. Remember this is a running team as well. The Seattle Seahawks run the ball more than almost any team in the NFL. And I think you know Tyler Lockett. I think they like the kid David Moore, who's also there.
I don't know if there's enough targets to go around. I know there's a lot of buzz on dk Metcalf, but for me, he is a food gazy, someone to forget about. We're gonna go to break in a hot second. We got about a minute. What we're gonna do then is diamonds and fool gazes for the San Francisco forty Niners, diamonds and fool gazes for the Arizona Cardinals. And I will tell you about my Scottie Fish pick that I'm
about to make. I am on the clock right now in the third round at three dot oh nine, there is a player staring at me in the face that I am going to do when he's the rules, it's a little different. I've already got a running back. I've already got a tight end. Okay, yes, I drafted a tight end because there's some kind of crazy bonuses for catches and first downs. We'll get into that on the
flip side of this break as well. I'm about to pick a wide receiver who, by the way, has been known as the best wide receiver in the entire NFL. He's staring at me at three point oh nine. I can't believe it. Call it a diamond for me. When we come back on the other side of the break, I'll tell you who it is. I will make my selection over the break and we'll get into it with
the Niners and the Cardinals. And then what we'll do is put the fun and functional sports content with the status over beat cipher a man Danny Otto down there. We'll recap my vacation a little red red wine, and we'll talk about you know, this equal pay stuff. It's even us in that Phis soccer players. We'll get into that as we put the fun and functional sports content and more dimes and full gazes from the NFC West
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You'll find us there. Enjoy the show and thanks for listening. Welcome back Fantasy Freestyle Episode three hundred and eighty one with the status over beat Sypher. I'm the boy to spitting statisticians Speeds the vocal minority for the Fantasy Sports Network. I told you coming into the break that I was gonna make a pick for everybody out there. First of all, I will admit that the settings are skewed a little bit. More quarterbacks go, a little bit, more tight ends go.
But late in the third round, in the ninth pick of the third round. Okay, so by the way, I draft Zach Ertz in the first round at ninth overall. Kelsey went seven overall Kittle went eight overall, so I took arth because of an extra bonus for receptions and first downs on the way back at two dot oh four, I guess that is I had James Conner as a running back staring at me was the was the last one kind of in a tier for me. Other guys like Joe Mixon had already betten Akin, who I would
have taken ahead of Connor. And then coming back at three dot oh nine, Okay, late in the third round, I just drafted Antonio Brown. I just drafted Antonio Brown at three dot nine. I looked at the other divisions here of Scottie Fish uh Scottie Fish nine, and you know, Antonio Brown went uh in the second pick of the third round in one division. I'm checking another division. He went in the fourth pick of the third round, another one in the fourth pick of the third round, one
in the eleventh pick of the second round. And I just got him in the ninth pick of the third round. So I feel good about that so far with the Scotty Fish settings, I got zach Ertz, I got James Conner, I got Antonio Brown. They're gonna come back to me. It'll probably stop for the nighttime before I pick again. I may have to go wide out again. There's some interesting options out there that I still like, like a Keenan Allen, like a Stephen can you digs it? And others.
We'll see if that gets back to me. Uh well, chitty chat about it a little bit more on Thursday's edition. But we were doing diamonds were on the NFC West. All right, I'll give you the scheduling stuff. I'll give you some of the wind totals and some of the division on our late week edition of Fantasy Freestyle. Remember we're going two times a week now Mondays and Thursdays for the football schedule. But let's keep it going here as we put the fun and functional sports content to
San Francisco forty Niners. Al Right, my diamond in the rough right now, let me tell you something. This is a guy who was wide receiver eight between in like the Fantasy Playoffs in weeks twelve through fifteen. I'm talking about Dante Pettis. Okay, I expect a little bit of a jump from him. I know Goodwin is there. I know they drafted Debo and others, but I like Dante Pettis also he's a guy who can stretch the field. His yards for catch with seventeen point three last year,
I think he will outperform his a DP. I think he has a viable wide receiver four in some deeper leagues, and he's going a lot later than that. I like Dante Pettis as a diamond in the rough. I gotta tell you also, my food gas for the forty niners is George Kittle. I don't think he's like definitively with Kelsey and Arts. I really don't. Okay, will he be a good tight end? Yes? Was he a diamond for me last year? Yes, But now the hype has gone a little bit too far from me. Okay, he's gonna regress.
Last year he called eighty eight balls. Last year he said an NFL record for tight ends with hundred and seventies seven yards. There's no way he does that again. Wide receivers were out last year, more options this year. Even in the run game. You got Tevin Coleman. Now you've got Jerk McKinnon coming back. And another thing. And I said this on Freestyle. Last year he was the apple of c J. B Hard's I c J. Bethard for those of you who don't know why. Because they
both went to Iowa, he was a familiar target. I think there is regression. Might he still be a top eight tight end? Yes? Is he top three? Not? For me? I would prefer O. J. Howard this year to George Kittle. Okay, there's other options that other tiers where I think he belongs. So he's gonna be overdrafted. I will not have shares
of him. And I mentioned the committee. Listen, if you want to take a stab, get the run right, whether it's Tevin Coleman, whether it's Jack McKinnon, whether it's Matt Brida. I think Kevin will Tevin Coleman will be the early down guy, will get most of the carries, most of the touches. I think McKinnon has value in PPR leagues as a flex play. I think he will lead the team of the running backs in UH targets and catches.
And if you're in a PPR format, Jared McKinnon, remember they paid him money, all right, they're gonna use him and Brita Listen. I think he'd be the handcuffed with either one of those guys go down, all right, But for me, Kittle is the big fool gaze, I like Dante Pettis for the San Francisco forty nine. Is the last team in this division is the Arizona Cardinals. A lot of talk about the Cardinals. Will the Cliff Kingsbury system translate from college? Will Kyler Murray and his five
eight five nine frame translate from college? I think Kyler Murray will be fine. I'm not worried about the injury risk. I'm not worried about him seeing over the old line anything like that. I'm worried about how good the old line is and if Kyla Murray will be running for his life that notwithstanding, my diamond for the hour Zona Cardinals is Christian Kirk. Again. I am trusting a second year jump. I had a full gaze of a rookie receiver. I like the second year jump for pass catchers tight ends.
Why that's I like Christian Kirk. He was a good player before he got banged up and left. I believe he broke his leg last year. All right, I believe this is the year where it's time. My fool gazzy will be Larry Fitzgerald. I think that is just name recognition. He was still doing a hundred catches a thousand yards. Not last year, though he dropped to sixty nine catches seven hundred thirty four yards. There were more options in the passing game. They're gonna spread it around. Remember they
drafted rookies, uh Andy Isabella. They drafted a rookie Um. The other rookie was Hakim Butler. Okay, I think it's Christian Kirk. And by the way, Christian Kirk and Kyler Murray were actually teammates before at Texas A and M before Kyler Murray transferred, so they have some familiarity and I think that's important to Christian Kirk. Right now, now Adp is going as wide receiver thirty five, I think you can do better than that. I think Um he
will outperform that ad Adp. I think he is a viable wide receiver three at least with some upside depending on that system. My you know, David Johnson is a viable first round running back. He's in that first tier. He belongs there. But for Fitzy, I do think it's time don't get fooled by the name recognition. There's a lot of younger guys on the upswing that you could do better than Larry Fitzgerald. All right, So there you have it, some NFC West stuff. When we come back
on Thursday, we'll go back into the NFC West. We'll talk season win totals, We'll talk some schedule nuggets. Okay, I think the schedule supports my prediction of a different champion in the NFC West. Okay, I'll tell you all the reasons I'm down on the Rams schedule. I like some other team, I like their schedule to finish off the season. We'll talk about that. Where I'm putting my shekels in the NFC West on the Thursday edition of The Fantasy Freestyle with the status over Beat Cipher. But
let's bring in my man Dannie Otto right now. If you are new to the show, we got Jert who's certainly not new. Clayton Trey hand friends is go ge yep. A lot of people talking about that upside with Francisco g talking about the upside with Cup in the ninth round. Definitely we like that. And uh, you know, Girly, if you can get him in the second, that's that's much better than in the first. Right now, But Danny, are you with me? Brother man? As always, I appreciate it,
my friend. I appreciated my friend. Here's what I want to talk to you about. First of all. First of all, I want to tell you I want to say shout out to everybody in the stats over beat cipher. Okay. I heard from Jilly Dilly overbreak, over vacation. I heard from Strong Style over vacation. People giving me, um, you know, tip tips and tricks when I was in the San Diego area, showing me love when I was in Jamaica.
So I appreciate all of that. All right, um, but do you have the first tweet the picture of when I was in the baseball game, because I want to share this. I was at a Padres Giants game and you gotta see. You know, they put up random nuggets for people on the scoreboard when they are up at bat. Check this one out for for then, oh Tatis. They put it up and I hollered at the best Friends Forever on this fun fact about him. He's good at baseball.
What do you think about that? One? Danny? Creative? Fair are foul? What if you're not good at baseball? I think that was really cool. What do you think about that? It's pretty good? I do too. I think it was pretty good. I thought it was a nice little fun fact that he is good at baseball. So we can take that one to the bank, okay. Uh And I thought that showing the uh the balls to say that he was good at a baseball as a fun fact, I thought that was good. Listen, I was in Jamaica.
It was great over the World Cup, Danny. Soccer is truly a world sport, brother man. You know, like I'm I'm down there. Jamaican's loving it. The rest of the Caribbean folks are loving it. The Europeans. There was a lot of Germans that I talked to, people from the Netherlands. Everyone was betting on soccer. So it was good for that. It's good to see the world game. But spoke about betting. I was also you know, family and friends over the
Fourth of July, Danny. And you know, a guy like me, what do you think what is like the American parts of the fourth of July, Danny? You mean like components to the Yeah, what were you doing celebrating? I mean I was at a barbecue, barbecuing. Definitely love that drink, drinking, Definitely fireworks, Definitely. I'm adding somethinging new to a Fourth of July tradition. We had the kids out back in the yard, right, and one of the kids had like one of these like motorized kind of like scooters or
like trust kind of thing. So we built like a little obstacle course for the kids to go around. They had to like you know, slow them around these like obstacles and cones and stuff. All right, and then say word, all the parents kept on coming out there and cheered them on. We started betting on the kids, Danny. We
started betting on the kids. I'm not joking, okay, I was betting on the kids like over run there's We were betting on one girl versus another one girls like three to one, and we were sitting like because they were all coming in and around the same times. Okay, And then we had to put it like a penalty if they hit one of the obstacles. You know, we were setting over unders on this course. And let me find out, like money was exchanged. What is more American, Danny,
then betting on kids in the backyard. Uh, you know on fourth of July, real money changing hands. That's what we do. Help people win that cash. What do you think I mean, I I don't disagree. I think this is where the generations are are a little bit separate. Like there was no kids at my birth kid, all right, so there was definitely some kids, some pieces and nephews, some kids, you know. Uh. And I was making it happen and you know, like m c in the whole event,
and so of course that was betting involved. You know, it was dope. Though I don't disagree with it. It It sounds like a good time. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun. And then you know, one other thing I did, big shout out out there is I played around the golf Danny on in on the San Diego there's like a big naval base. Okay, I played around the golf on the naval base. You had to be like retired military, which I had, you know, my crew with me to get onto the base. To
get onto this golf course. It was wild literally overlooking the ocean. But check this out one. You know, sometimes there's hazards right on a golf course. And it was like sand traps or lakes or whatever on one of these holes. I kid you not, Danny. There was a the naval basis, like the naval air station. Okay, so it's like all the naval jets and stuff that are
going on to these aircraft carriers and stuff. There was a runway, bro and of course that's where I sliced my damn t shot and instead of hitting like a cart path or anything, it hits this damn literally restricted naval runway and bounces on to the other side of the damn field. Okay, So what do I do, Danny? Do I go get the ball to check this? I'll
look it up, Danny. There was a C one thirty, this thing like Harry's airplanes and tanks that was like getting ready to take off, okay, And I was like, what do I do? Do I go over there and get my ball? What would you have done? Danny? There was a C one thirty getting ready to take off. What would you have done? I'm dead serious? Um, I left the ball. I left the ball there. I was like, I'm not going to trespass on like the governmental stuff and uh, you know, get banged up there. There's there's
two schools of thought for me. At least if I'm not thinking I'm running after the ball. If if I am thinking that, it was very clear I was on a naval base. Bro. There were like people in Cama in the damn bushes just at times doing exercises. They were literally like planes landing and nonsense. It was, it was legit. It was the Naval Air Station Club North Island off on Coronado where the Unicorns family is from. Check it out, man, beautiful views and stuff. But I
left the ball out of bounds. I I went in my bat and you got another one. Yeah. I probably would have been nervous just around a bunch of people like that. So that's what it is, you know, Danny, I know, we only got like a minute left, real quick, last check in on this pole right now. Forty six percent of you or percent of you hopped up a little bit, said the hitter. Beating the shifting would be great to add to All Star weekend. The home run Derby is in fact getting going in about ten minutes.
I am on Jack Peterson and Alex Bregman at six to one and eight to one, respectively. Give me the under in the All Star Game. Remember freestyle now twice a week for the stats over beat cipher. You can holler at me, you can answer the pole, you can get into the chat room, but we will continue our talk about the NFC West. We'll talk a lot about the player movement in the nb A and we'll also, I didn't get to it today, we'll talk about why
MLS and soccer. Listen, the women were talking about equal pay. I think the MLS needs to do some things as well as we get into the you know, stable genius and vocal minority. Tip of all, we keep it so fresh and so clean as Danny has us ride out from the Pit of Misery Studio thirty four to your ears and the status over beat cipher. I'm out twice a week. Guys. I'm doing it for the cipher y'all better hit me up on the phone lines because we make it a pop. Fantasy Football is here and I
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extra cache today. So that's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna tell you how I think you should bet the home run Derby. Will even talk about the All Star Game tomorrow ways to do that as well. Then the division by division previews continue. We will get into the NFC West today. I'll give you diamonds. I'll give you fo gazzies, I'll give you scheduling nuggets. I'll give you everything you need for fantasy football to make it happen
in the NFC West. And then of course we'll put the fun and functional sports content with the stats over beat cipher us. See the home Girl Jilly Dilley is already there. We will recap my week away because I know some of the steps over beat Cipher. We're getting at me on social media. Everybody from Jilly Dilley to Strong Style over there giving me some recommendations and tips. Will catch up with that. I did say Kauai would go to the Clippers. Jilly Dilley, we'll talk about that.
And I got big news for everybody as it relates to the Fantasy Freestyle. Uh so you know there'll be plenty more time for you guys to get after the spitting statistician. We've got the phone lines open. It's like football scheduling. Alright, we're moving on over and we're very excited about that. I'm so excited, to be quite honest. Many of you guys may know about this. There is a big time fantasy like half Expert, half family called Scotty Fish, and this is the ninth season scott Fish. Nine.
You may know about because we talk about this all the time. Well, this league started today, all right, the draft board open today. I have already made two picks. This is where I give you diamonds and foul gazes. And if you're new to the show, the fool Gays is someone you need to figet about. So let's get into it. Nfcus Jilly Dilley, I told you I had some stances that we're gonna take. Let's start with that
right at the top. Honestly, I'm off the Los Angeles Rams this year, people, I am off the Los Angeles Rams. I believe the Super Bowl hangover is real. I believe a lot of things went well for them, and boyle boy, do I not believe or trust in this Todd Gurley stuff right now? All right, here's my deal. Okay, he is my fugaz for the Los Angeles Rams. And you have to understand, also, if you're new to the show, could be relatively speaking, Yes, Will I have shares of
Todd Gurley this year? Probably not, because he is still going right now as running back ten. Okay, he's going as running back ten. And I want a better floor with my RB one, honestly, Okay. He is no longer a workhorse, he is no longer a bell cow because of this ar thriight ist concinion. He's still great. He still may get a lot of production per touch, but I want from my RB one. I want someone who is locked and loaded, is not gonna be splitting time,
is not gonna be part of any committee. And what we saw down the stretch last year, what we saw in the playoffs last year, what we've heard medically speaking so far in this offseason, would indicate that you know, I don't know that he's the guy you want. As you're locked and loaded RB one that you're gonna have relying on week to