0:00It's the Harris Fantasy Football Podcast with your host, Christopher Harristopher Harris.
0:04Hey everybody, welcome in. My name is Chris. This show is your sister, your daughter, your sister, your daughter.
0:10Hello there, you yacht possums. Thank you so much for listening today.
0:14It's been a very fun week. I've said this is probably my favorite week of the year because we're finally not guessing
0:21and we're not being subjected to the wild swings that people do when they do what I do for a living.
0:27Talking about here's why I like to draft a guy because I'm positive that team is good.
0:33Here's why I like to draft a guy not because team is bad.
0:37We get to actually watch them, which also has the side benefit of being super fun.
0:42I really like watching football despite everything that comes along with it, including the Amazon broadcast continuing to shove a billionaire's picture
0:49in my face for three hours because the stadium is new and the public contributed $850 million to it.
0:55But nevertheless, that billionaire, what a hero, don't you know?
0:58Buy pound foolish. But despite all that stuff, watching football is really fun.
1:02One of my favorite things personally and there's a lot less guessing and a lot more just saying what happened.
1:09And after two games, we can now very obviously say Josh Allen not messing around.
1:14Will it eventually get him hurt? It hasn't yet.
1:16It's a good question. But that dude is behaving like every moment is a must win.
1:21Every game, certainly every play. He is running like crazy.
1:25He's throwing it well. He's obviously the MVP so far and crushing for fantasy too.
1:29And it made the win over the Lions last night look kind of perfunctory, kind of easy.
1:35Detroit would get within 10 points a couple of times in the second half, but they just could not stop Allen and the Bills.
1:42And I have a feeling that's going to turn out to be a lot less about the defense and way more about
1:49how tough it is to play against the Bills offense.
1:53The question now isn't, should I start my Bills?
1:56It's, oh, huh, maybe I should add Keon Coleman.
1:58That's right. The little black backpack, Keon Coleman, had kind of a big Thursday night, 6 for 63.
2:04You'd sure rather that stuff was going to Khalil Shakir when so far in their respective careers, he's been the better player.
2:11But even though it seems like Coleman has been in the league forever, this is actually only the start of his third season.
2:18And way back when many of you were just a glimmer in Terry Pagoula's eye, we used to talk about the third year bump for wideouts.
2:27I remember sitting around a table for years and people would go, the reason I like him is because it's his third year.
2:34So who knows? Maybe that's a thing. The little badass DJ Moore got hurt in this game.
2:39He sure hadn't done very much in the first half before his injury.
2:44They just kind of remembered when it was 21 to 7.
2:47Oh, right, right, right. We traded a lot to get that DJ Moore guy.
2:52Let's give him a jet sweep, which felt eerily familiar to how the Bears would forget all about him.
2:58And then immediately like, oh, OK, let's throw him a screen or something.
3:02And then at the end of that same drive, they did give Moore an end zone target.
3:07He dropped it. I mean, he got hurt in the play, but let's not lose sight of the fact that it hit him in the chest.
3:15He dropped it. It wouldn't have counted because Buffalo was called for holding on the play.
3:20But yes, more importantly, Moore got crunched. It looked like it might have been a collarbone there for a little bit.
3:27But we're told this morning that it's a sprained AC joint in his shoulder.
3:32He didn't return to this game. The truth is Keon Coleman had made catches before Moore got hurt.
3:37He made catches after Moore got hurt. He's OK.
3:40And Josh Palmer had scored a long touchdown, albeit on a completely blown coverage.
3:45So we're not going to add Josh Palmer. And now, unfortunately for DJ Moore, after an awesome week one, he gets 10 days to rest.
3:53So that's good. But we're up in the air for week three.
3:56And we also have to worry about whether this shoulder injury lingers even after he's back in the lineup.
4:02But we are clearly hoping to find pieces in the Bills offense with Josh Allen on this kind of rampage.
4:09The first Bills drive, he was scrambling right away.
4:12I don't know that we have a full appreciation of the extent to which Allen is taking no prisoners right away.
4:1814 carries last night. He's done that once before in his career in the season opener last year against the Ravens where
4:25he was also hyped to the Gills. He's never really gotten hurt, at least not to the point where he's missed tons
4:32of time, which is a testament to how huge he is.
4:36But, you know, man, he does take some shots.
4:39I don't think that's actionable. Owning Josh Allen is exactly where you want to be.
4:44Just hope he stays healthy, take care of himself.
4:46You want to talk about a cheat code. Four rushing touchdowns these first two weeks.
4:51Five passing touchdowns. The first drive was a goal line carry for him.
4:55The second drive was the uncovered touchdown to Josh Palmer.
4:58Third drive, Allen does throw an interception, but it was clearly defensive holding correctly called.
5:03And it was overturned. Returned. They're inside the five and they call James Cook's number once, but he's stuffed.
5:09And then so, of course, you get the naked boot from the two.
5:13It was a jerk face touchdown. Made me MVP.
5:16Oh, it's going to make him MVP. All right.
5:19It's a Dawson Knox receiving touchdown and it's 21-0.
5:22End of the second quarter, two awesome long James Cook runs with huge lanes.
5:26He's at 101 rushing yards by the end of the first half.
5:30And that's when DJ Moore got hurt. Then Dalton Kincaid pays it off with a touchdown.
5:35I'm sure at the end of the first half, Cook's fantasy owners were thrilled to see Frank Gore out there in the two-minute drill.
5:43Junior, of course. Late third quarter inside the 10, they tried James Cook again and he was stuffed.
5:49So Allen runs for another naked boot. Touchdown. At the very end, Cook did get to pay it off.
5:55It was a great run by him around the right side with a crazy jump cut.
6:00But he's pushed out of bounds at the one.
6:03But finally, from the one-yard line, you are actually allowed to just hand it off.
6:08And James Cook pays off with the one-yard touchdown.
6:10It's the best offense in the league right now.
6:13And Kincaid, we talked about on Thursday's show. I hated his ADP for being too high.
6:18Now I hate it because it was too low.
6:21Way too low. Another 7 for 95. He could have had another touchdown.
6:25Got a target in the end zone. He's a locked-in top 5 option every week.
6:30Maybe a top 1 option every week. Allen and Cook are monsters.
6:34And then we find ourselves with the little badass hurt of maybe being in the same situation as the past two years.
6:41Can we find an actual wide receiver to use in one of these undoubtable offenses?
6:46Keon Coleman, as a waiver ad, maybe. I'm kind of on a maybe there.
6:50He's certainly got some psychic damage that he's inflicted upon us to overcome.
6:54But I've gone back this morning and watched the coach's tape of Coleman last night.
6:59The first three targets came before DJ Moore was hurt.
7:02There were three catches on those three targets. There were definitely formations where Moore and Keon Coleman were the only two wideouts on the field.
7:10And Shakir wasn't out there. And then three of the targets and catches came after Moore was hurt.
7:16But again, there's two on which Coleman is the only wideout on the field with a bunch of tight ends.
7:22So, yeah. I mean, he kind of was used as the number two even before Moore got hurt.
7:28And then kind of got used as the one at times after Moore got hurt.
7:33Some legit good releases on his catches. A couple where it's, you know, they're playing, they back off, they're playing back.
7:39But a couple where he had tight coverage and he won.
7:43I would call the routine, the repertoire that he made catches on kind of like latter day post knee injury, Cortland Sutton.
7:50Possession stuff in traffic. But, I mean, I've seen Cortland Sutton finishes a top whatever 12 fantasy receiver for two straight years in the right environment.
7:58Even if you're not making big plays down the field, that can work.
8:02So, it's frustrating with Shakir. And maybe there will be weeks where Josh Allen's fickle finger of fate lands on Shakir more consistently.
8:10But Keon Coleman did begin the rehabilitation process last night.
8:13You know, we'll see how the weekend goes and whether there are other receivers we feel like adding.
8:19But all I can say is we do absolutely want functional pieces of this Buffalo offense.
8:24Today's kickoff. Okay, coming up on today's show, let's talk the other side of the Thursday night equation.
8:29Talk about what we thought of the Lions in that game.
8:33I will also do a rundown of the injury news we need to know about in advance of week two.
8:39And then my guest will be Jeff Erickson from Rotowire.
8:42And Jeff and I will each count down five players.
8:46We've already changed our opinions on I Think You'll Have Fun Listening.
8:49And I thank you again so much for being here today.
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9:57Game film rewind. Yeah, that game film was not that kind to the Lions.
10:01They scored 31 points. What are you talking about, Harris?
10:05You're always looking for a reason to slam the Lions.
10:08Am I? Person? I just made up in my head.
10:11I, of course, can see Jameer Gibbs and Amon Ross St.
10:14Brown see the quality of the actual players they are and also know how this team uses them and say the offensive environment doesn't matter.
10:22Quote unquote offensive environment. You know, like, I don't care.
10:26Those guys are good. And they get used in huge volume roles.
10:29And on any team in any environment, we would be using them.
10:33They're in lineups. St. Brown was a little quiet early.
10:36I was a little nervous. I got him in a couple spots.
10:40That was really nothing to do with him. Before the game was a rout, the Lions offense was stuck.
10:46They go three and out, losing seven-nothing on their first drive.
10:50Then second drive, Gibbs got it going with a couple of runs.
10:54But Jared Goff has a play-action sack fumble. The Lions recover.
10:57Third down, Goff drops the snap, picks it up, gets sacked.
11:01Third drive was all Gibbs. St. Brown was stuck on one target and one catch.
11:05Gibbs goes down the seam, out of the slot, catches a touchdown pass to make his night.
11:11It's 27-10 at the half. The first drive of the third quarter, they're already in desperation mode.
11:16They go on fourth down. Sam Laporta converts. They get in the red zone.
11:21The Lions' formation is three tight ends. And St.
11:23Brown, gee, who do you think they're throwing it to?
11:27St. Brown gets it down to the one. And then they always go to him in those situations.
11:32They do it again. And that's when you're good.
11:35Everybody in the building knows St. Brown's getting the ball.
11:38They still can't stop it. And the Lions couldn't stop the Bills at all on defense.
11:44And so they were borderline hanging on between 10 and 17 points on the scoreboard throughout the second half.
11:50To me, the crisis here appeared to be with the offensive line.
11:53The broadcast last night did a good job pointing out that one of their binkies, one of the guys they like to
12:00praise no matter what, Pene Sewell, formerly an all-world right tackle, kind of got pushed around at times at left tackle, which
12:07had Jared Goff especially early in the game under pressure.
12:11And that was really how the big hole got dug.
12:14You had a sense anytime they needed it, the Bills could crank up the pressure in the second half too.
12:20And certainly, Goff was game. He did his best.
12:23He's always got a little Bortles in him for fantasy if the Lions are losing.
12:28But you could see last night, he's not the guy who's amazing when stuff around him isn't perfect.
12:33If he's not getting blocking, he's not going to make very many out-of-structure plays.
12:38He got pushed around. He certainly, to his credit, came back for more and gave us a bunch of fourth quarter stats
12:45that really didn't matter for the NFL version of the game, but saved us for fantasy with the Bills out there offensively
12:52naming their number and playing with their food a little bit.
12:55And if Detroit's line doesn't start looking better, I don't know that we can immediately say that the Lions number among the truly unimpeachable offensive environments.
13:04Now, by the same token, you're not having debates about St.
13:07Brown or Gibbs, obviously. The guys that you're having debates in your head about here are Goff himself.
13:13And he did 327 pass yards and four touchdowns, but it was perilously close to a second half of complete Basura time.
13:20And then you're also debating Jamison Williams, a flag player who has not popped at all.
13:25Through two weeks, he has six catches and 78 yards.
13:28He's out there playing plenty. But, you know, even though I flagged him, even though I said draft him, the worst case
13:35that I kept saying, and a couple of times I actually said, like the thing I'm worried about when I do those
13:42lists, what if Jamison Williams' uptick in the second half of 2025 was more about Sam Laporta being gone than it was
13:49about some change in the way the Williams, the Lions view Williams?
13:53And yeah, that worry seems valid in a very short sample size.
13:57St. Brown is what he is. He's going to occupy the top spot in that offense forever.
14:02Williams is running a ton of routes. I think it's incorrect to say he's only running wind sprints deep.
14:08I saw a blurb this morning saying, well, it's only because Goff doesn't have the time.
14:13He can't go down the field. I went back and watched Williams' routes from last night again.
14:19They absolutely have him running outs and ins, you know, digs and hitches and in the flat.
14:24I think less than a quarter of his routes have been deep, but the ball just is not finding him.
14:31Laporta has 15 targets. Williams has 13. This is through two weeks.
14:34Laporta has 100 yards. Williams has 78. Laporta scored from the one last night after drawing interference in the end zone.
14:41The difference, that's very similar, but the difference is, of course, Laporta plays a smelly position that has few alternatives, while you
14:48can start 100 different guys at wideout. So having Williams and Laporta essentially with the same route running patterns and usage patterns, that is not all you need.
14:57That is bad. Which means that Goff and Jamison Williams are the two guys who probably teeter in and out of usability,
15:04depending on whether the Lions do turn out to be a trustable offense.
15:08I'm still on the side that, you know, if you're going to list the top 10 offenses you want your players to
15:15be on, it's the Lions are still in that for me right now.
15:19That could change. It's not top three anymore. And obviously, Goff Bortles-ed to a big night last night.
15:25But his offensive line was possibly the reason they were down so big all night.
15:30Next week, they get the Jets. We'll have to watch the Jets against the Packers to see how potentially problematic that could turn out to be.
15:38Injury news. As always, there's really no such thing as an injury expert.
15:42And you are made dumber if you listen to one who's guessing about injuries.
15:47We will all find out what's up with these dudes together.
15:50But I make this list every Friday, so you don't have to.
15:54Here are some of the players we'll be checking in on later today and over the weekend.
15:59And then some we won't know about until they tell us.
16:03Sam Darnold is out for week two. Drew Locke will start against the Cardinals.
16:07Kyler Murray was concussed in week one. Jordan Mason wouldn't be unprecedented if he played right away.
16:13So far, that's not how I've ranked it. And I don't think he's practiced to this point.
16:18Cooper Rush still seems likely to start for the Falcons.
16:21Although the rookie, is it Jack Strand? Could just be chosen for the unknown.
16:26Because it feels like Cooper Rush, pretty known. Jordan Mason is on IR with a thumb injury.
16:31He's eligible to return week seven for the Vikings.
16:34Aaron Jones would figure to get an increased workload against the Bears.
16:38RJ Harvey has a hamstring issue and hasn't done much in practice yet.
16:42But nobody has really said they're freaked out about him potentially missing the Jags game.
16:47Kalon Black, who Dave Kluge and I talked about on Thursday.
16:50He was added to the 49ers injury report on Thursday, which is not great.
16:55Apparently suffered a groin injury. You'd have to consider him legit questionable until you hear otherwise.
17:00Alvin Kamara going to play in week two. Travion Henderson going to play in week two.
17:05It sounds like in both cases. Zay Flowers with his hamstring injury that cost him the second half of week one has not practiced.
17:13So far, I've been guessing that he doesn't play.
17:15But we'll of course find out when they tell us.
17:19Chris Olave, one of the big wide receiver names who got added to the midweek injury list.
17:24He left practice on Thursday with a hamstring. They say it's precautionary.
17:28They always say it's precautionary. We'll have to see what they say for Sunday.
17:32Devon Vele gets more attractive as a one-week stopgap if there's no Olave.
17:36And Nico Collins, the other major injury name who got added to the list midweek.
17:41A hamstring injury. He may have suffered it in practice on Wednesday.
17:45That's not amazing. There probably isn't an obvious answer to use as a definite fill-in on the Texans.
17:51Maybe my choice would be Xavier Hutchinson. Next would probably be Keishon Booty.
17:55I know I talked up Jayla Knoll as a super deep sleeper.
17:59And I'd love to see it, but he just didn't play that much when Collins was healthy in week one.
18:05Lad McConkie hasn't practiced yet this week because of a rib injury.
18:09He took that huge shot in week one. I've assumed that he won't play.
18:13He's been doing stuff off to the side. Means nothing.
18:16They'll tell us when they tell us. We will see.
18:20Alec Pierce has what they're calling a heel injury.
18:23Maybe or I don't know. Maybe it's still related to his ankle.
18:26He so far, I think they said he practiced Wednesday and didn't on Thursday.
18:31Doesn't feel mandatory to be squeezing Alec Pierce into fantasy lineups.
18:34Brian Thomas was out for some time last week in the game, week one, with a shoulder injury that had bothered him in training camp.
18:42But also the Jags were absolutely mauling the Browns.
18:45So far the assumption seems to be that Brian Thomas will play in Denver.
18:50Michael Pittman may have been a midweek injury or else they're just managing something that happened on Sunday.
18:55But he's been on the injury report with a foot injury and hasn't done much in practice yet.
19:01John Stribling is on IR with an ankle injury.
19:04Jacoby Lane is on IR with a wrist injury.
19:07Brock Bowers has not practiced in a way that Raider beat reporters consider to be real practice or at least that they saw.
19:14Doesn't mean he can't play in week two. Probably the Raiders themselves really don't know if he's going to play week two
19:21and might even take it right up until game time.
19:24That isn't awesome, but it is what it is.
19:27And Chig Okonkwo left his first game as a commander with a hamstring problem, didn't return, and hasn't practiced yet this week.
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20:38I'm Eric Jefferson. And he tries to. To Jeff Erickson.
20:41And today's guest is not Eric Jefferson. It is, in fact, Jeff Erickson.
20:45You can find him all over socials. Just look up Jeff Erickson.
20:49You can, of course, find him all over Rotowire as well.
20:53And you hear him very, very often. Are you on, Sirius, in some form or capacity basically every day right now?
20:59Monday through Thursday. I am now on from 1 to 3 Eastern time.
21:04And every once in a while I sub in here and there for one of our weekend shows.
21:09But, yeah, I'm there. I do segments on V-CIN.
21:12My V-CIN show that I host is in hiatus for the winner.
21:16Because what happens is Nick Whalen and I share that show from basically a week after the Super Bowl until end of August.
21:23And then John Hansen comes in and takes over that show for six months.
21:28So I kind of share that time slot. But then I guest on a bunch of other segments.
21:33So I talk a lot, basically. Let's talk about some players who we might have changed our opinions on.
21:39I gave you instructions to basically you're allowed to plant your tongue like halfway in your cheek as far as this goes.
21:46This is a Cousin Josh segment. And if Cousin Josh was doing this, he would launch all the way into overreaction theater.
21:53He would launch into some truly wild takes that probably he didn't really even believe.
21:58But he's just, you know, he gets nervous easily.
22:01So he gets spooked about players very easily. So, you know, he's borderline telling you to drop really good players.
22:07And then we always have to be like, Josh is kind of kidding, guys.
22:12Well, maybe don't drop him. But so, you know, I you're knowing you're the way you approach this stuff.
22:18I didn't expect you to overreact to that degree.
22:21But you're allowed to be somewhat cheeky if you if you need to be.
22:25But I can tell you in my five, we're going to count down five guys.
22:30And like in my five, I don't really think I was that cheeky.
22:34In fact, four of mine are positive and one is negative.
22:38So in a lot of cases, it's just I feel like I missed the boat almost.
22:43And that's OK. But like my assessment of them kind of has reached a different level.
22:48How did you approach this exercise? So I was semi serious, mostly serious, actually, because I'm always afraid of, you know, being told, oh, you're overreacting.
22:56No, I'm not. I'm not afraid. But there are players that it's kind of funny.
23:01Like I actually am two down, three up. So for once, I'm more negative than you.
23:06And so we've got that. Yeah. And I have a I have a backup negative guy in case we have the same guy.
23:13But I don't mind. Yeah. I don't mind if we have the same guy.
23:18If at some point I say a name that you had on your list, you can feel free to go.
23:24Oh, I got him. You can interrupt me because I'd rather hear you talk than me talk at all times.
23:31That is the case, except for during poker games.
23:33Obviously, you need to not talk during poker games.
23:36I need to tone it. Yeah, that's right. Stop telling other people to post their blinds.
23:41Chris will take care of it. The thing is, we're both wired the same way on that.
23:47Like, dude, you need to do this. You need to do that.
23:51The thing is, it's true that in our poker games, we both used to.
23:55I don't really do it anymore because I know you're going to do it.
23:59I don't know if you noticed, but lately I back off because I'm like, Jeff has got this.
24:05And you do it in a very kind way.
24:08You don't make, you know, people are kind of forgetting or they're gabbing away and not.
24:13Yeah. You do it very well. You're good at it.
24:16As opposed to, I think I just come across like, hey, jerk face, do this.
24:21All right. So we're going to, it's a pointless countdown, but the order obviously is hugely crucial, even though it's absolutely pointless.
24:28Who's your number five player you've already changed your opinion on?
24:32My number five player, I've already changed my opinion and I try to do this by position.
24:37I'm going Bo Nix. I'm moving him down. What on God's earth was that?
24:41What was that against the Chiefs? Okay. Was it Spaggs having two, two or three months in the lab to cook this up?
24:49And that's what it was just so confusing that he, that Nix looked utterly clueless.
24:54Like he had never played an NFL snap before.
24:56I, I heard like the ball was slippery. That's why he did that thing around the sideline where he fumbled on the second goal.
25:04I, I don't know, but I I'm telling you, Chris, I, he, from the first snap, Nick, Nick's was utterly confused out there and I expected better.
25:13And in year three, they went and got the piece that they were expected to make this the next step in the offense.
25:20You know, I, I, I heard people dutifully reminding us he was a top 10 fantasy quarterback each of the first two
25:27years, but you watch Bo Nix and you're like, okay, he's okay.
25:31It's because he runs and he's had lots of attempts, but I don't think he's very good.
25:36Okay. Maybe he is better than I'm giving him credit.
25:39I'll bump them up a little bit. Nope. Back down.
25:43He's back down for me now. Where'd you rank him for this week?
25:47Do you remember? Do you have it in front of you?
25:50I can tell you why you're looking it up.
25:53I, it's funny. I ranked him exactly 19 this week.
25:56Um, so that we have them very similar areas.
25:59Uh, it's funny because I'd say I didn't change on Nix because my opinion of him was exactly what you just described that.
26:06It's been a lot of compiling and a lot of like luck late game weirdness, you know, just some stuff that I didn't really believe in.
26:15So my assessment of him feels like for one week, it feels like it's been on.
26:20And of course he can go out and have a good game against the Jags.
26:25Any of these guys can. And we immediately, and we go, yeah, we're just going to, we can only talk about what
26:32we saw for week one right now. Cause we haven't seen the rest of it yet and we're, we're not committed forever, but we have to have takes.
26:40And so I like your take. And it's the reason I say it's funny is because my number five is also a
26:47quarterback who I lump with Bo Nix typically traditionally and did in the Almanac and did in my ranks.
26:54And I put Jackson Dart as a kind of an up because yes, I like, whereas you had to take the, the next put him down.
27:02I had to take, uh, what's his face? The surf movie, bad guy.
27:06And put him up. Uh, no, I think he's the evil dojo movie owner.
27:10Um, I can't remember who's who, but one of them, they've, they're very paired in my eyes, but, uh, Jackson Dart in
27:17week one, like never seen him so under control, never seen him like have such nice command and a really kind of conservative game plan.
27:25And they didn't really feel the need to push down the field.
27:29And he never really got that close to being concussed.
27:32And like that whole operation just felt like they bolted it down.
27:36And I guess if that's what it winds up being, we'll understand how that is because that's why you bring John Harbaugh in.
27:43Did I a hundred percent like, uh, did I believe John Harbaugh was capable after there were some years there at the
27:50end where the Ravens were, it didn't look bolted down at all.
27:54And I, was I a hundred percent convinced that Harbaugh was the guy to do it?
27:59No, I, I can honestly say this summer I was not, but if it turns out that the giants are just a
28:06much more relaxed professional offense, it will have made sense that John Harbaugh was capable of accomplishing that.
28:12Even if I doubted that he could do it.
28:15Yeah. Uh, a hundred percent agree. And, and Matt Nagy too.
28:18I did. It's like, Hey, Matt Nagy will fix them.
28:22It's not something anybody said. Uh, and maybe fix is not the right word, but you know what I'm saying?
28:28Uh, it, I just, I, I, I, I a hundred percent agree with you.
28:32And in fact, in my rankings, the comment was always seemed to be in control.
28:37It's just so we're on a wavelength here. Yeah.
28:40And, and it was the Cowboys and it was home and we can get the Monday night game against the Rams and
28:47get the Rams mad and suddenly hell gets unleashed and it looks totally out of control again.
28:53And I'll of course say that and tell you my opinion, but I can just tell you that last year, Jackson dart didn't look like that.
29:01I couldn't point to very many games where he looked like he looked even an easy matchups last year.
29:07So good on him. Two minute drill right before halftime.
29:10Uh, just really good. Yeah. Really good. Yeah. Good stuff.
29:13Who's your number four on this list? My number four is going to be positive.
29:18I am. I was out on Bucky Irving all season long, all draft season long.
29:23And I wish I had some now, uh, because you know, he looked more like the guy we saw in his rookie season, you know, devastating fumble.
29:31Sure. Okay. It took some, some sheen off that otherwise good game.
29:35I liked that. They used them in all aspects of the game.
29:39Uh, I like Kenny gain well skills, but you know, Bucky Irving is, I think a little bit more of a dynamic
29:46player and the bucks seem to think so as well.
29:49Uh, I don't have any Bucky Irving anywhere really.
29:52Um, and I wish I had a little bit more.
29:55Uh, I, I thought that this was a mostly positive game from him.
29:59Yeah. Very, very positive. Agreed. Um, he was a flag player.
30:03So I was on the other side of that coin.
30:06I liked him a lot. Um, but came out with the same message agreed.
30:10The fumble wasn't good. And there's a moment in that game where you feel like, Oh, gain well's in.
30:17Oh, are they, are they punishing him? Um, and it seems like what we've learned about the Buccaneers is that over these
30:24last few years, when Bucky Irving is healthy, they don't think about it.
30:28They don't overthink it. They just go, he's our main guy.
30:31Are we going to rotate someone else in? Yes, we are.
30:35It's the NFL. That's what happens. Right. But when the rubber meets the road, who's our guy going to be the one
30:42you can just kind of tell, Oh, they keep using him over and over.
30:46It doesn't matter what the results are. He's just in there.
30:50It's always Bucky Irving. And there was no Sean Tucker in that game.
30:54And it sounds like Tucker will play. So now is it a three headed monster?
30:59That was part of the Irving fretting, you know, yes, maybe, maybe you can explain away week one because Tucker wasn't in
31:06there and Irving will never get the goal line.
31:08It's possible. But I think that's right, that someone who was a little dubious of Bucky Irving probably needed to, if they're
31:15honest with themselves, like, you know, like watch week one and say, maybe I was a little too dubious.
31:21Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, he converted the red zone carry.
31:25It wasn't, it was from the 10. So it wasn't exactly like your traditional goal line carry or anything like that.
31:31So I do agree that Tucker is a threat at the actual goal line when you, when you have this concentrated pack of players.
31:39But yeah, I'm, he's, he's an answer to the running back dead zone question.
31:43And, you know, Hey, if you got one of the three, the seven wide receivers that got hurt in week one, well,
31:50at least when you drafted your second running back in the fifth round, Bucky Irving was the guy you did well.
31:57And in a lot of cases, I think he was some people, at least people listen to the show.
32:03He was their third running back, which is all the better, which is great.
32:08So number four, for me, I have a positive running back as well.
32:12Boy, oh boy, do I have a tortured history with Chuba Hubbard.
32:16Yes. And there was no world, there was no universe in which I was going to be planting flags on Chuba Hubbard
32:23again this year after last year's disaster. The worst call I made all last year.
32:27And yet it may will have turned out to have been related to Jonathan Brooks's nagging injuries.
32:33And maybe it will be a 50-50 split, but all we can do in August is guess.
32:38All we can do is read beat reports and say, huh, it seems like they like this Jonathan Brooks character.
32:44And Chuba Hubbard was hurt for a lot of August.
32:48And so I never had Hubbard below Brooks, but I had them side by side.
32:52And this just in, I am touching my fictional earpiece and mentioning that I do not have them anywhere near each other
32:59for this week after seeing Brooks's usage. We're not using Jonathan Brooks in a fantasy league of any size.
33:05In a Carolina Panthers only league this week, we're probably not using Jonathan Brooks, which isn't to say you cut him because
33:12we might get the explanation eventually that he wasn't healthy and it will be a split, but until you see it, you can't proceed based on it.
33:21And Hubbard suddenly finds himself in pure RB2 territory.
33:24Yeah, absolutely. They've always loved Chuba Hubbard. The Carolina Panthers have that, you know, going back from when they gave him the
33:31contract extension, you know, to that, to that point is weird that they spent the draft capital that they did on Jonathan Brooks after giving Hubbard that contract.
33:40That was the thing that there was always that disconnect.
33:43But yeah, there was no disconnect. Hubbard was clearly the chosen player against the Bears and looked great while doing it.
33:50He was very good. And of course, again, Bears defense time is going to tell us whether that was just a very easy matchup, but he did.
33:58I mean, you agreed. He did look good. Absolutely.
34:01So I have Hubbard 20 and I have Brooks like 40 this week.
34:05So that's your, yeah, it's definitely a significant split.
34:08Yeah. And the thing about Hubbard is, you know, he's involved in the passing game.
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35:13Trust and Will. We are back with Jeff. And when we get back into our list, we each have six more names
35:20to go on the players we've changed our opinions on.
35:23But Jeff, you're stepping into the lion's mouth. It is the Cousin Josh show.
35:27It is the spot in the week in which Josh is forced.
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35:35Um, we're looking for a week two point spread that you enjoy for this week on DraftKings.
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35:55Do you have one that you can shame Cousin Josh by getting it right?
36:00Okay. I'll do my best. Timing's perfect for you to have this segment too, because we were just talking about Bucky Irving.
36:07I'm taking the Buccaneers. I'm taking a minus eight and a half against the Cleveland Browns.
36:12I get one last chance maybe to bet against Deshaun Watson.
36:15I'm going to take it. Uh, I'm also using the Buccaneers in survivor.
36:20It's, I think the Bucs should have won that game against the Bengals.
36:24You know, you and I, you know, you, you, we were talking about this earlier.
36:28The, the fumble luck was pretty bad for the Bucs.
36:32Uh, not that they put the ball on the ground in the first place, but that all happened to gently ride in,
36:39let fall into Bengals loving arms, including that one where Baker is fumbling into the end zone.
36:44I mean, that's a huge, massive swing in that game.
36:47They moved the ball. Well, I actually thought the defense looked aside from Anzalone who looked terrible.
36:53Uh, I think there was good aspects of the defense as well.
36:56And Trotter in particular, I'm excited about. Uh, you know, I think Ruben Bain got big brothered a little bit by Marius
37:03Mims, but you get to go against the tee off against the Browns this week.
37:08I think the Bucs are going to win and I think they're going to win big.
37:13I like it. I can see it. It's a lot of points to give, but maybe there's never enough points you can give against the Browns.
37:22And obviously you were watching that game very closely as a Bengals fan and have it casting some doubts upon the performance.
37:29The, you're telling me the Bengals defense isn't back and perfect based on eight fumble recoveries or whatever.
37:34They're better. They are absolutely better, but the books still moved the ball all game.
37:39Yeah, they did. Uh, first drive. They just stalled out.
37:42There's so many times like there's the second play of the game that Baker and a book had just missed on a
37:49deep ball with Baker leads them just a little bit more.
37:53It might've been a walk-in touchdown. Um, it was, there was a lot of coulda, shoulda, woulda in that game.
37:59Uh, and, but at the same time I am, I'm, I'm enthused that there are pass rush options on the Bengals that are more than just Trey Hendrickson.
38:08Uh, they made tackles, which was nice, but still you can move the ball against the Bengals still.
38:14Um, and I think the bucks can move the ball against a lot of teams.
38:19All right. And the Browns maybe being one of those.
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39:33All right. So we are four names into our list of players who we have changed our opinions about.
39:39Who's your number three? All right. Kind of tying the whole room together here.
39:43We're talking about the Bucks. They're playing the Browns.
39:46I just hate to do this, but Quinshawn Judkins.
39:49I'm moving him down. Uh, I not only is it the team context dragging him down, but Judkins didn't look that good.
39:56I, in my opinion, I don't think he has a whole lot of burst running the ball right now.
40:02Uh, and that's to be expected coming off of a major knee injury.
40:06You know, he's not someone I feel comfortable starting.
40:09He is not, you know, he's outside my top 30 and running backs, maybe as a flex, I'm going to be in
40:16some leagues where I'm stuck with them as a starter.
40:19But if you did the whole heavy receiver thing early, which I know Chris Harris never does, but if you did, then
40:26Judkins might've been one of your options and you should have had to play Irving instead.
40:31And it's, it's going to be a tough season or at least tough early season.
40:36Cause he just doesn't look great right now. It wasn't a knee.
40:40I don't think, I think it was an ankle, but it doesn't mean he wasn't.
40:45Oh, you're right. You're right. Yeah. Um, I I'm holding course for one, at least one more week.
40:50I'm, I'm going to stick, stick in there on Quinshawn Judkins, but I had this conversation with Barron's on Wednesday on the Yacht Club.
40:58We talked a lot about it. He's on, he's in your camp.
41:02If Andy was doing this list with us right now, he would agree.
41:06He would, he has lowered Judkins and he said he was trying to deliver a message, which is he didn't so much
41:13say that he thought Judkins himself looked diminished, which I, I respect.
41:17I, I can't say I would probably need to go back and watch his carries like one by one by one to
41:24really like, I respect that you did the work.
41:27You, you watched it with that in mind. I really kind of didn't.
41:31So I, I'm trusting that that's an impression. You definitely came by.
41:35Honestly, uh, Andy would just say, my God, that offense.
41:38So like, and that's, that, that works too, by the way, that, that line of analysis would get you in the same spot.
41:45Um, it really, it's, it's really, truly terrible. I mean, it's everything about this team, uh, is so frustrating right now.
41:52Uh, the thing is I've liked their last two drafts.
41:55The fact that they actually had drafts to make draft picks to make, uh, but it take, it's just a reminder.
42:02This there's no easy button in this league. It's, it's hard, uh, for these young talented players to step in right away.
42:09Uh, they replaced their entire offensive line because they had to, but that takes a while too.
42:14Yeah. The, you know, the quarterback is, they just don't have the quarterback.
42:18It's obvious they were trying to build everything around them and the moment it's not Watson is the moment everybody gets a chance.
42:25Let's face it. That's exactly the bottom line, but I would still be starting Judkins this week, but I may be in the minority in that regard.
42:34Uh, my one negative, only one negative on this list, uh, talked about him, uh, I guess on Tuesday's show because it was a Monday night game.
42:43Um, uh, Rashi Rice, the PPR, the PPR scam.
42:46Um, I feel like maybe we've lost the scam.
42:48Uh, it wasn't with rice. It's never been about ability.
42:52I don't think, I don't think his biggest boosters have ever said, Oh my God, Rashi Rice, what a player.
42:58I mean, he's a very good player with the ball in his hands.
43:02He's Debo, but is he, is he more than Debo as a overall entity?
43:07I've never really thought so. Maybe other people have.
43:09But the whole point was, yeah, it doesn't matter when the chiefs don't have a running game, you get the bunch of
43:16two yard passes and Rashi Rice becomes the running back and he's going to be a hundred yard player every week.
43:23And it's annoying. And, uh, suddenly maybe he saved himself with the touchdown.
43:27Riley Moss could tackle. He wouldn't have even had that.
43:30So that's, that's a pretty significant downgrade where I was kind of like gritting my teeth and saying in a full PPR
43:37league, Rashi Rice, like very high level wide receiver two, you can even make the argument.
43:42He's wide receiver one. No, he's not even wide receiver two for me right now until I see a significantly different way of approaching his workload.
43:51I have been on the anti-Rashi Rice bandwagon. I have zero shares of him in my 20 plus leagues.
43:57Uh, he needed to drop to the fifth or sixth round for me to take him.
44:02I, uh, you know, and, uh, you know, I, when, when I heard the reports of him looking really stiff in training
44:09camp, that's what sealed it for me. Uh, because I was already, you know, he's already, you know, the knucklehead factor is really high, obviously.
44:17And one more knucklehead thing and he's out of the league possibly.
44:21So it was already like, I already need a haircut to get him.
44:25And then you throw in just how he looked, how he just, he's been hurt a lot in his career.
44:31I, I don't think he gains any separation at all.
44:34I, you know, I watched that one live. I didn't really watch tape of that game.
44:39So I didn't really like watch. Was this like all like Patrick Sertan over him.
44:44So therefore we can't throw to him sort of thing.
44:47Cause he only had the two targets. The touchdown, like you mentioned was against Riley Moss.
44:52Uh, I, yeah, I, I, I still think there is not a good wide receiver on the chiefs.
44:58Uh, I, I mean, you were right. Awesome. But yeah, there's not a good receiver.
45:03I don't have, I don't have rice. On any teams either.
45:06Um, he always went too high for me, but yeah, I'm surprised.
45:10I mean, this, this, if it turns out, this is a, an uncoupling because rice's contract is up at the end of the year.
45:18If we're, if it turns out to be an uncoupling, we're going to understand, oh, they were already like in the process of divorcing themselves from him.
45:27Yeah. They seem like the team to do that too.
45:30Maybe or else that's one week, you know, we'll, we're overreacting a little bit.
45:34Who's your number two? Number two. Um, my first receiver on the list.
45:38I'm going to go up arrow on Devon Valle.
45:41Uh, it wasn't just the, the, that he had seven catches and, you know, in scored.
45:46It was the, he was the, the variety of routes that we saw from him.
45:51You know, there, there's one sequence in the fourth quarter where, you know, draws the pass interference on a semi deep ball
45:58down the sideline, you know, and next time, you know, he's running a fade pattern and winning on that.
46:04Uh, I, it's going to be a while before we see Jordan Tyson and Tyson may eventually displace Bailey, but I think Bailey is actually a real thing.
46:13I think he can, you can use them as a flex in your leagues.
46:17I, is your like wide receiver for, I think, and that's not, that's, that sounds like damning with faint praise, but Hey,
46:24I, I'm in a need to use them in some leagues.
46:28I feel like I can. Yeah. I mean, you spent, we just talked about a Lave, you know, you just mentioned him
46:35like who's the, who's the number one wide receiver for Lave can't play this week.
46:40I don't know. There isn't one probably, but I guess it's Devon Bailey.
46:44He'll, he'll climb in the ranks for sure. My number two is a receiver that I'm higher on, but we're shopping in a much more extravagant neighborhood.
46:52Parker Washington. Yes. I wish, I wish I had found my way through to, I have him on one team.
46:59Um, I wish I could have seen my way through to putting them higher in my summer ranks.
47:05Just tough. It's tough to know until you start seeing them.
47:08But there's that, there's that thing we used to call with Pedro Martinez with the Red Sox.
47:13They used to call it Duende. Remember that? Like the thing of like, yeah, it, whatever the it thing is, you'd watch
47:20the way the team treats the player, the central role.
47:24It's the Amon Ross St. Brown thing. You just never get the sense that anybody else can really infringe no matter who's better or who's worse.
47:32He just essential to the operation. And that's the vibe I got out of Parker Washington in week one.
47:38And granted they're making fun of the Browns and they're trouncing the Browns and maybe it won't always be so easy, but
47:45I just think Parker Washington is the center. I wish he wasn't returning punts.
47:49Yeah. But I, I am just sold. I'm in, I think he's a borderline wide receiver.
47:54One, I I'm like scared of almost every other Jags player because of how much I love Parker Washington right now.
48:01Fair enough. And for good reason. And I'll say this, like, you know, we, I'm with, I'm like you that I started off having him right there.
48:10Like no separation between he and Brian Thomas Jr.
48:13Slightly ahead of Jacoby Myers. And I kept on moving him up, but I was always a half around behind.
48:19This is one where I was too slow and I don't have enough exposure to Parker Washington Jr.
48:25I love his game. Yeah. He's great. Is he a junior also?
48:29We don't have to call him a junior. Do we?
48:32I did. I call him a junior just there.
48:35I might've. I'm sorry. I don't call him doing that sometimes.
48:38I do that every once in a while. No, I don't think he is actually.
48:43Yeah. But I don't call it's okay. I don't call Brian Thomas Jr.
48:47Either. I don't call any of them juniors. I know who they are.
48:51Frank Gore Jr. That's fair. He was running back in the league.
48:55It does make sense to call him Frank Gore Jr.
48:58So there's no confusion. But as far as I know, Brian Thomas, his dad wasn't in the league, so I don't have to deal with it.
49:06All right. We are there. Your number one player you've changed your opinion on so far after week one.
49:12This is a player I was big on, but not big enough on Isaiah likely.
49:17You know, you mentioned Jackson Dart earlier, but this is.
49:20No, you know, we saw proof of concept right away.
49:24He's going to be a frequent red zone target.
49:26Neighbors is out there and they still found lots of ways to get likely involved in various different types of situations.
49:33He was my favorite weight on tight ends guy.
49:36I had him around like tight end 11 and I got him a lot of times, maybe as early as tight and
49:43nine, but he's more like tight end five now.
49:46You know, he and Dalton Kincaid, I think are in that same sort of bucket.
49:51And just, I love the situation that likely is in.
49:54I like the performance. I think we're going to see a lot of it this year.
49:59Yeah. He likely climbed on my list a lot over the course of the summer because I started with him like in
50:06a kind of unknown feeling about it. And as the reports got more, whatever, I don't want to call it like, you
50:13know, like you don't believe every little beat report, but it didn't sound like Theo Johnson was going to be that much of a factor.
50:21So I certainly was getting higher and higher on him.
50:24I'll be honest. He wasn't the, that's a good name for this list because he, Brenton Strange was not one I was waiting on.
50:32And Brenton Strange scored last week, but again, the gravitational pull of Parker Washington now has me scared of anybody else.
50:38If I have, if I have Brian Thomas and I thought of starting him, I'm scared of the gravitational pull of Parker Washington.
50:46If I've Brenton Strange at that terrible, terrible position, I'm scared of the gravitational pull of Parker Washington.
50:51I think there's a chance Washington's going to do double digit targets like almost every week and that's going to hurt.
50:58That's going to hurt everybody. So if I had to do over, I would have put likely ahead of Strange too.
51:05All right. Yeah. All right. My, my number one's obvious, but I have to admit he's the player I've changed my mind most on.
51:12I'm not like diving into the depths of fantasy football or whatever, but I didn't get Kenneth Walker because I wasn't ranking him 11 to 13 or whatever.
51:21Is there a player who changed their overall perception in the NFL among people who are like casual fans who watch a
51:28national TV game more than Kenneth Walker? The chiefs just like, it was obvious from the, I don't care about the stats.
51:35All you had to do was watch the game from the first moment.
51:39Andy Reed was like, Oh, you all think what I have a reputation for you think?
51:45You think I just throw, you think I never really take advantage of my running backs.
51:50Watch this. Cause it was immediate handoff, handoff, handoff screen, handoff, handoff, handoff screen.
51:54And suddenly wait, Patrick Mahomes is a, is a, is Alex Smith.
51:58He's a caretaker quarterback. We've come full circle. Alex Smith is out there banging the drum in the stadium.
52:04And now Patrick Mahomes is doing a tribute act.
52:07I don't know. I mean, Mahomes started two for 12 for 14 yards and meanwhile, can, and eventually turned it around and
52:14had a good game and ran for a touchdown.
52:17And I think you'd say overall a positive game for his first game back with a torn ACL, but it's clearly it was Kenneth Walker's offense.
52:25And I did not, I don't even think the biggest boosters who had Kenneth Walker ranked at nine overall, that's as high
52:32as I probably ever really saw him. I don't think they're, that's a great call.
52:37Whoever did that. Anybody who did that? If you did that, that's a fantastic call.
52:41But even the most optimistic assessment could never have believed that it would look like that.
52:47Right. Absolutely. And you saw like the fourth and one run.
52:50How many yards does Kareem Hunt get on that?
52:53Does he break the initial tackle? No, he does not.
52:56Isaiah Pacheco will run angrily right into Riley Moss's arms.
52:59You know, it's just, you know, it is completely different.
53:02Teams dared the chiefs to run at them last couple of years.
53:06Just dared it. It's going to be, it's going to be good for everybody in this chief's offense.
53:12If Walker can maintain anything of facsimile of this and the fact that they did it against Denver, even better for the, for chiefs fans.
53:20Yeah. Tremendous. I know I'm going to be watching to see Kenny handle this sort of workload.
53:25Seattle obviously treated him differently, maybe because they had Charbonnet.
53:29But, you know, we'll, we'll see, you know, cause we've seen a little nagging injuries in the past derail Walker's seasons before.
53:36So that's one thing I am going to watch for, but man, oh man, he looked great.
53:41A hundred percent. The reaction was a, that's awesome.
53:44B. He, oh my God, are you going to murder him?
53:47You know, he's been hurt his entire career. That's where the doubts come from.
53:52But like, I don't have it in me to be the kind of contrarian who says, aha, now you can trade him for something good.
54:00Sorry. He is the something good. Like that's how you win leagues is how, is, is a guy like that just taking
54:07over an offense and being good for an entire season.
54:10I don't, I don't turn around and go, cool.
54:13I'm going to, I'm going to cash him in for Amon Ra.
54:17Like I don't have it in me. It might be the smart thing to do.
54:21Actuarial speaking, you know, like he's been hurt so much.
54:25I'm just going to assume he gets hurt again.
54:27It might, that might be right, but I don't have it in me.
54:32It's the scarcest position. If we were doing a fantasy draft right now, how is Kenneth Walker not like the three pick?
54:39It's a good question. Maybe the four question. Um, yeah.
54:42I mean, he, he's definitely in the first round.
54:45You're going to still get the wide receiver pickers that are going to take wide receivers, but yeah.
54:50Yeah. Like I, I'm not going to move chase down too much.
54:54You notice he didn't come up on this list.
54:57Uh, it was no. Yeah. And he didn't change my list either.
55:01No. So, um, but that said, I think he's the four pick.
55:05I mean, for me, if I was redoing that, cause I'm not going to put, I'm going to look for running backs
55:12on a list before I get to wide receivers who I trust.
55:15And right now after one week, the overreaction or the reaction is it would probably go Gibbs, Robinson, Taylor, question mark, question mark.
55:23Kenneth Walker, like probably over McCaffrey. Where does Henry go on that list for you now?
55:28Uh, you know, the, he probably a little higher, but I had him in the first round.
55:33I had him high. It's just that all the worries you have about Henry still apply.
55:38It's just a hard road to hoe for at that age for an entire season.
55:43So I don't think I, I think I, if, if you're asking me right now, if I, who would I take between Walker and Henry?
55:51I'd take Walker. Yeah. Uh, can I, can I give you a couple of honorable mentions?
55:56Who would you take if you had to draft right now between?
56:00No, no, no. On honorable mention changers. Uh, I know, but who would you take between Walker and Henry?
56:06I would take Walker by one. I have them, I had them back to back.
56:11Um, so yeah, they're, they're right there. Sure. Honorable mentions go honorable mentions.
56:15Devon H. Chan, uh, because that down, I was sold a bill of goods on this Miami offensive line.
56:21If you can't do it against the Raiders, I'm a little concerned about that.
56:25Uh, and Justin Herbert just wants to the chargers offense as a whole, but I'm willing to kind of give that a
56:32little bit of a mulligan, you know, first game, new coordinator lost their center and training camp, but guess what?
56:39That center is gone. He's not coming back. The interior offense, the line scares the living heck out of me.
56:45Yeah. You think Cole strange, isn't a great, uh, acquisition for the interior line?
56:50Me neither. Uh, all right, Jeff. Well, this was super fun.
56:53Thank you for killing filling in for cousin Josh, who I believe his plane from Italy is probably landing as folks are listening to it.
57:01The show right now, he'll be back next week on his usual Friday spot, but this was wonderful to have you on.
57:08Of course you can find Jeff's work at rotowire.com.
57:11You can hear him all the time on serious, uh, radio satellite radio, as it were, is that satellites, they still use, they don't use the internet, huh?
57:20Do they use satellites or use the internet? They still, you both.
57:24There still is the serious XM app. Um, and you can get my show on demand if you don't care, if you're not in the right time slot.
57:33I love it. Well, Pete, check out very much.
57:35So, and, uh, we will try to get a poker game going one of these Fridays, not today, but maybe in the next couple.
57:43Okay. Sounds good. I've got some travel, so I'll, I'll touch base with you here.
57:48All right. Well, we'll figure it out. Thanks for doing it, my friend.
57:52Anytime. And thank you so much for listening. I will text him.
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58:55Thank you from the bottom of my heart. And that is going to do it for this week.
59:01What a fun week. I love week two. I love pre-week two because we get to talk about what teams actually look like.
59:08Are we overreacting a little bit? Sure. Some of the players we just mentioned, are they going to turn around and bite
59:15us or turn around and suddenly be good again?
59:18I'm going to guess absolutely because that's the way it works.
59:22But finally, we're talking about actual football, which is a blast for me.
59:26Remember on Sunday morning for me, Sunday noon, no, yeah, Sunday noon Eastern, 9 a.m.
59:31Pacific for the Yacht Club members, I'll be there.
59:34I'll do my darndest to answer every question that we get during a live stream.
59:38You'll get an email and also the link will be posted in the Discord.
59:43And then on Monday, we'll be back and this gentleman will join.
59:47Christopher Harris, it's me. I'll never get tired of playing that.
59:50That was like either 10 or 11 years ago.
59:53He was just doing a sound check and I was making sure his microphone worked and I had the record button on and I've saved it ever since.
60:02Patrick Doherty from Rotoworld will join. We will talk about some games that we watch in week two.
60:08Until then, thanks again so much for listening. Your hat is awesome.
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