The EASY Way to Win at Fantasy Football Without NFL Week 1 Stress

Speaker 2 (00:30.188)
Alright, alright, what's going on guys? And welcome to another episode of Strike Zones End Zone with the one and only Mr. Trey Ballard.

it is. You know what time it is, man. Look, since we didn't did the last show, you know we had a lot.

Yeah, lots been going on. what's obviously the main the meat of the show is going to be obviously week one football football, but

one NFL with two weeks into college football. Well, I technically three, if you count the teams that played week zero, but we, you two weeks in technically we got MLB in full swing. We got a UFC slight slate on Friday or Saturday night. Sorry, y'all. We have a UFC slate. I mean, because I was just telling Wes, I mean, we are, we are a month out from, from October. So, you know, we got so much. I mean, I was going to leave it. I was going to leave it outside of that, but no.

He's just excited.

Speaker 2 (01:22.254)
It's okay, man. Oh just like April for me like you get the fall weather I get to start a spring weather. Come on April 20 Yeah, so

Mean those birthday March 3rd, so you it's the same thing. Our you know, our anniversary is April 3rd. So

So, meme vixen wedding anniversary is April 1st. No, no lie.

One of my old roommate, one of my best friends George, his birthday is April 1st.

Yeah, and that's why my wedding ring says April Fools. I will. I want to meet your crew.

Speaker 1 (01:45.804)
You meet him, you un-

When y'all meet him, understand, like you'll definitely be able to say, yeah, his birthday is definitely on April. Like, you're somebody that perfectly matches George Flores. So, yeah. George, man, you know, that's my dog, so.

Yeah, there we go.

Alright, so, unfortunately, the Yankees lost to the Rangers.

I was there. We didn't get to do a show before that for me to let the listeners know that I was going to be in attendance at the beautiful Globe Life Park. I got to say, man, being a native Texan, I know my team choices are what they are. How this thing goes is what it is. But one thing I would definitely give the Rangers are is the fact that their new ballpark is absolutely amazing. that's on top of that roof can be closed, air conditioning, all that good stuff. So.

Speaker 2 (02:28.17)
and it's her condition.

Speaker 1 (02:35.178)
Shout out to y'all man. Beautiful stadium to have right here in Texas, man. And, you know, it did suck to see a walk off. I did call it at the game amongst the group that we were with. But I mean, you know, I just I was just like there was just something in the air at that point in time that I was just like, I don't think I don't think we're going to win this game. And I said we were probably in the top of the eighth. I.

It's because you went to the bathroom, right?

Every time I went to the bathroom, seemed like there was something bad happening for the Yankees.

You know if you were in New York some guy would have like you sit the fuck down

Nah, for real, bro, I would have had to pee myself in the stands, which I understand. I totally get I don't play it by my Yankees either. But dog, I got to go to the bathroom. Like I just can't. And I will say, especially in that situation, Wes, I'm in a whole nother state. I mean, look, if I'm in Arlington and that happens, cool, because I'm coming right back to Dallas 30 minutes away and not even really cool. But, you know, but if I'm in New York, bro, the last thing I want to do is do something like.

Speaker 1 (03:45.29)
Look I would look he would say it to a point where everyone in the general area would hear it and I would say okay So y'all listen if I do this and I voluntarily sit here and just pee myself and don't go to the bathroom if we wait When we win this game, I look every single one of y'all should be buying me a beer. I'm Saying everybody in this motherfucker should be like hey, he definitely gave up his bladder for us to win this game, you know

Pong Security

Speaker 2 (04:04.106)
That's like worth like a thousand dollars right there.

Speaker 2 (04:12.824)
Yeah, he's team player right

So everybody at that point should reward me But I totally understood it when I was coming back from the bathroom after the walk-off grand slam happened This Yankees fan was like hey You shouldn't have went to the bathroom and I was like look bro. I get it. I understand but I had to go. Yeah

I mean, yeah, it's okay though. That's just sports superstition

It's a one out of 162. So, you know, we're still where we want to be.

Yeah, so what are your projections for?

Speaker 1 (04:41.518)
Well, going into going into tonight, let's see. First game, first pitch is going to be Colorado or Detroit. That is going to be an ass off, meaning that both teams suck, obviously. So 540 here in the next eight minutes is where we're going to see first pitches for three games. You know, going into tonight's games, Yankees are up a game and a half on the Orioles and the ALDs. You know, it seems like because pre-show when I was sitting here reading off

the standings to you some different stuff going on with that. said, I don't think that either one of us really want to win this division. I from what we know. mean, it seems like we kind of alternate when one team wins, the other one loses and then, you know, and we'll both like it just it's just one of those things. You can't really tell who really wants to win the division. But based off of streaks right now, I.

Right. From. Oils can't because we were neck neck.

Speaker 1 (05:40.482)
Like I said, division leader wise, Yankees have won one, Guardians have won one, Astros have lost one, Phillies have won one, Brewers have lost one, Dodgers have lost one. In their last 10, the Yankees are five and five, Guardians are six and four, Astros are six and four, Phillies are seven and three, Brewers are five and five, and the Dodgers are six and four. So it seems like everyone is playing kind of the same baseball right now.

get heading in October, you're just trying to be healthy and try to find a rhythm. it seems like, cause if you remember last year, the Rangers went into a lull in the summer. And then eventually obviously you got hot coming in or coming out of September in October and rode it all the way to a World Series victory. So I feel like at this point, man, you just kind of want to try to get on any sort of role that you can.

Yeah. Hey man.

There'd be winning three in a row for him. I mean, you just want to try to stack his

It's not over yet.

Speaker 1 (06:43.166)
It is definitely not over. At all. Yeah. I mean, what was where game one forty five. So we're we're we're right there, bro. We're game one forty five.

Yeah, we're in September, we're not.

Speaker 2 (06:51.64)
So many

Speaker 2 (06:56.471)
Who would you project? The Yankees went to World Series. Who would they play? Who's the NL favorite?

mean, you can't go wrong. mean, the Dodgers, obviously, but...

I will have to admit, so at the Horan Derby, I wanted the New York Yankees version of it, but they were all sold out or they didn't sell them. I don't know. I did buy the Dodgers because the only reason, one, Brooklyn Dodgers, but also grew up loving Sandline. And who did they need the jet Rodriguez play for? I mean, that's the only reason.

And look, enjoyed my roommate, George is, well, we him get this off, but he's a Dodgers fan, quote unquote. I mean, we'll just leave it at that. I mean, the Phillies still, they went into a lull the same time period the Yankees did after the All-Star break. so, but the fact that they're still now, I mean, I'm looking now, they're both, they're tied with the Dodgers for best record in the NL. I mean, bro, I just...

I mean, the mean the Brews are three and a half. But at this point, it seems like to me, you might not even want that best record. You know what I'm saying? Like, right. just think you kind of want to just hang around the rim as long as possible. You know, get the.

Speaker 2 (08:11.95)
It kind of like dude to your point when the Giants won the last Super Bowl when they beat the Patriots Yeah, they were eight and eight so I get you're just saying Well, like fly out of the radar

I mean, you just kind of want to hang around the rim. I'm just looking at American League and our league standings right now. So Yankees are number one in the AL. The Guardians are one game back. The Orioles are a game and a half back. The Royals are four and a half back. Astros five and a half back. Twins seven back. Now, those top six teams right there. I mean, when it comes to the AL Central,

the Yankees have their number. But when it comes to everyone in the AL East, it seems that they have our number. So I just, feel like, you know, it's not really a big deal if we don't win the division. I just think that we probably just want to be one of those teams also that if we do fall out of that top spot to just hang around the rim, because it's Yankees, Guardians, Orioles, and then there's a three game gap between the Orioles and the Royals. I think

the Yankees, you just kind of if you you switch spots with the Guardians of the Orioles, cool, but you don't want to become the Royals or the Astros. You don't want to drop below that top three. Right. I feel like if we hang around long enough, hover around that top three at that point, anything can happen in the playoffs, man. Dude, it's like anything can happen in the playoffs. So because it's

It's it's do or die. There's no like it. Yeah, you get your serious Is the playoffs is it five games and well world series of seven

Speaker 1 (09:41.55)
reason then you know what I mean so

Speaker 1 (09:47.295)
So you got the wild card series, which is going to be best of three. Well, no, wild card series is one. Then you've got the round after that, which is three. Then you got five and seven.

Okay. That's yeah. just want to make sure. So yeah. So you get, yeah, it's a, it's do or die. Yeah. Time to get out of her. up. So what, what else we got baseball? Basketball's not started just yet.

Basketball's not started just yet. We got about three weeks till preseason starts Training camps actually what is the September 10 training camp should start going here in the next week week and a half. I would think okay

Even me as my favorite sport to watch is basketball. For those of you that don't know, my favorite sport overall is basketball. like, Trey, but with football, like, have such, my thing with football is you only get one a week. So game days for football are way, like, love game days in football. But with basketball, there's so many more games. it's like not the

It's got the good balance. It's not as many as baseball. Yeah. It's a nice little, yeah, right there in the middle.

Speaker 1 (10:49.804)
With with basketball, I love basketball as a sport more than football. Right. Personally, I am on that debate that you could take more basketball players and put them in the NBA more in the NBA players and put them in NFL, the NFL to NBA simply because along with the athleticism factor, you got to remember height matters in basketball. It's bigger, faster.

plays very, it's very important in football. Don't get me wrong. Like if you go look up and down these are like, these are super freaks out there on the field. Don't get me wrong. I have been hit by plenty of them, but, you have to remember look up and down basketball rosters and size and height, height matters. You have to be a, you have to be a special, special player.

basketball might as well be a running back.

dog. But dude, explosiveness, being able to get your shot up on these. Victor Wimbynjama is seven foot four and he's about to, he's an animal. Like he is a different breed.

Speaker 1 (11:52.622)
There's plenty of people out there in everyday life that you look at that are working in some corporate office and you're like you're six, eight, six, nine. Why are you not in NBA? Because he's clumsy as shit. He's all thumbs. He's clumsy as shit. He cannot go out there and be coordinated enough to do that. So my thing with I get it. The physicality is different, obviously, in football than basketball. There's never been a debate. However, height matters in these things. Like the average height in the NBA now.

Crept up from six seven and is now pushing six eight the average That's with four hundred and fifteen players. So average height is creeping up towards six eight

You

The shortest player in the NBA right now is barely even 5'11". And he's barely under six foot. I mean, you have to be a special, special talent to do that. You know what I mean? People are like, well, the NBA players can't deal with the physicality. I'm like, that's not what people...

Yeah, that's

Speaker 2 (12:44.13)
Yeah, that's...

Speaker 2 (12:49.294)
You're gonna have one hell of a jump shot.

Speaker 2 (12:58.018)
People like tell me about like, whoa, LeBron James going up, you know, you're going or just like try going up against him.

2527. What are we talking about? And again, I get it. these guys have every every single one of these guys. Right. Every single one of these guys in each of their respective sports has been doing this from from birth from the ground. But you also got to remember, lot of these guys also played multiple sports. LeBron was an all state high school receiver. Now, it was in Ohio who no knocked Ohio has great high school football, but it is no Georgia. It is no Texas. No, it's no Florida. But again, I'm just like people took like

I think that there was-

Speaker 1 (13:34.49)
You could just tell Wes, like so many people on each side were just taking their stances and just being hung up on it. Like if you watch NFL more, you think that NBA players can't do it. And vice versa. I was just like, as a person that watches and loves both, personally, I'm just going to tell y'all, the problem is a lot of these NFL players definitely have the athleticism. That's not even a debate. Jumping ability, they have it, but they're not tall enough.

I'm simply, you're just, you're not tall enough to go do it. Like Tyreek Hill has up there with the most explosive enough of any NBA player on the planet. he's not, he's 5'10". It's very hard to go. I mean, unless you're Chris Paul. mean, bro, Kyrie Irving is, I he's 6'2".

Yeah, just

Yeah

Speaker 1 (14:26.112)
you think about that. mean, look, think about what's that like how people talk about Steph Curry. he's this little guy out there with the big eyes. He's still six, three. Yeah. If he stands next to any other normal average human being.

Please

I'm 5'9 and I feel average.

I'm six foot and a half and he's towering over people forget like these are huge

Yeah

Speaker 2 (14:45.64)
Yeah. Once you get above the six foot, like an inch matters. Yeah. didn't weird like, you you think somebody's like five, seven and five, nine. It's pretty much the same height. But once you start hitting that six foot mark, it's exponential.

small like I'm

Speaker 1 (14:56.704)
West. So one of a receiver that is considered one of the all time specimens in it by NFL standards, Julio Jones is six foot three. Stephen Curry is what are you like? What are we talking about? Yeah. I understand what you're saying. Like this is what it's going to take to go be in the NBA. Yeah. Like these aren't little guys. Tall and not as bulky. But there's like, I mean, bro, just big dude.

I'm just like

Speaker 2 (15:20.654)
You know, they went to, you know, strength and conditioning as just how you're. That's all.

Exactly. Program. Some muscles. mean, I mean, on a lesser extent, I remember in high school, I mean, the football players and basketball players, like whenever you would cross over, you would just look and notice how different the lifts were and what you were working out. But there's a reason why people were doing both. Yeah. It's because you can do that, but you just have to understand what the requirements are for each one. Yeah.

This is the everybody

Speaker 2 (15:50.542)
You're going to thumb down a lot.

People thought it was so offensive that like these NFL players are going out here and getting ran at and running each other. But it's like, that's that's fine. But like, remember, a lot of these these NBA players also played football in high school, And it was a physicality to got them. It was a fact that they became six, eight, six, nine. Exactly. Before they that growth spurt, it's like, yeah, you're probably going to be a football player. And they probably would have Yeah, I think it's like, yeah, you probably go dunk a basket.

Spurts, man, those matters.

Speaker 2 (16:15.374)
Junior High and JD. Yeah, yeah, right.

It just doesn't make much sense because low man wins in football all the time

Yeah, genetics actually plays something in this way.

So it wasn't that people took that so wrong and I was like and me and my friends even got to argument about it You can obviously like I said, you can tell who watches one more than the other I'm like you weren't listening what these people are saying right basketball players saying it aren't saying that the football players Wouldn't be skilled enough. They wouldn't be able to learn it. They wouldn't be able to do these and do these applications It's because they're not they're not tall. You're not gonna be tall enough to do that Yeah, you can't just go out there and be this five nine five ten person and go out there and be a star in the NBA these days Yeah, it's just too hard

I'll just like think about it like I was I don't know why but you know Just by height. I'm just go by like shoe size Okay, so I wear I wear a ten nine and a half ten, right? And if I was to go put my foot in Lebron shape do it's different. It's just like that's the difference. It just size fucking matters there.

Speaker 1 (17:09.954)
mean, bro.

Speaker 1 (17:17.058)
So people, I'm like, we're like, if it's a room of if we're if it's five of us in this room that we're in right now shooting this episode, you write in LeBron James walks that door, which he is going to have to duck quite a bit. Yeah. As well as being in this room. Right. There's five of us in here before he walks in. At least three of us have to leave the room because he's going to take up too much space.

Yeah, so this ceiling is just over seven feet tall.

He's like he bro. Yeah, he's going to take up too much space with. That's what I try. These dudes are huge. And again, football players are massive as well. More so wide than they are tall there. Now there are plenty of tall NFL players. Let's not get me wrong. Like this class can we six eight. Jordan, my lot of left tackle for the. If you you exactly if you look at the bill curve, it's a different type of big. Yeah. Like these dudes in the NFL are bigger weight wise. Right. When it comes to height, bro.

Look at the bell curve of it.

Speaker 1 (18:08.298)
It's just like you is a whole different. Yeah, because

about like a running back, you want low to the ground.

Yeah, again, I said low man wins in football. Man wins. Yes, you're working outside You got your tackles which tackles are typically taller and then you got pass rushers trying to get low and then they got to get it's just whole thing But again low man wins in football, but in basketball you want to move as close to the rim as you can Yeah

yeah, hello?

Speaker 1 (18:36.32)
as close to the rim as can be. And so it's like

If you're going to climb Mount Everest, do you want to be at Base Camp or you want to be at Base Camp 3?

And it was so funny whenever that since because it comes up at least if not once a year every couple years, someone will say something that's just making that comparison and someone to get asked whether it's an NFL NBA and I'm like, well, you know, how do you feel about that and blah, blah, blah. And I guess it's just a different type of athlete. And it's not to say that the NFL is like no, no one thinks getting in the 30 car crashes a week is easy.

It's not easy

But what they're saying is if you were to just take the base athlete for basketball versus football, it's going to be easier to transition this basketball athlete to football than this football to basketball. Oh, here's that. It's just going to be easier. That's it. People keep tripping about it. I'm like Anthony Edwards is 64205210 and if he might even be too up upwards, 220 maybe right. He can go play receiver. Julio Jones was 6320. That matches up.

Speaker 2 (19:23.158)
run on platforms.

Speaker 1 (19:39.168)
I guess I'm saying but you cannot sit here. Who are you gonna take from the NFL to go guard LeBron? LeBron on the basketball court is not gonna happen if you want to put Kalei's Campbell's old ass out there. He's 38 sure he's gonna get Like that's what I try to get it's happened at bars plenty of times people bring it up They're like, so how do you feel about the NBA player NFL debate on?

Who will?

Speaker 2 (20:03.374)
You can have the show just pulled up, this one segment.

I'm just like, bro, who the fuck is gonna go guard LeBron in the NFL right now? Nobody. No. And if you want to go to a smaller, OK, who's going to who are you going to put on Kyrie or Steph? We'll go to the smaller guards. We'll go to smaller players. Who is going to go guard them? at 38 or how old is Chris Paul? Fucking 37 now. It's barely six foot at this. Who's going to go guard him from the NFL? Like, just tell me he's barely six foot. He's 37. Who's going to go guard him? It's just a different type of game.

But I can take Anthony Edwards and make him into an all pro receiver. I promise. He has the same as Julio Jones. And he played football growing up. It's not like we're just taking guys that didn't play both sports. And he played baseball. He played all three sports growing up. I'm just saying, most pro athletes did, growing up, played multiple sports. But it's like,

me one year.

Speaker 2 (20:51.544)
Triple threat.

Speaker 2 (20:59.022)
Well that's what you do.

Speaker 1 (21:03.726)
you're not taking anyone from the NFL to go car. These guys in the NBA, I'm just, it's not gonna happen. Who? Okay. And then if you want to just bump it back up, who's going to go guard Joel Embiid at seven foot one, 280, 290? Are you going to put one of these offensive tackles on them? Good luck.

Yeah, one of your D-line guys is come.

He's gonna shoot over a chair That's what Shaq always said Shaq was seven foot two and he literally saved this person six eight again What the tallest NFL player at this point is either six eight or six nine. He's shooting over a chair. Yes, and that's not affecting him Yeah, like people don't freak like like I said, you don't realize how tall these people are until you stand next

Yeah, it's like say the skyscraper. You're like, how does that you get up close? You're like, fuck. Yeah.

Like the three tallest basketball players, I personally know that either played in college or at pro on some level were six, nine, six, ten and six, eight. And again, when you stand next to them, it's it's a whole different game. But when you're watching them out there with people that that are essentially the same size, it's like, you know, they're not that. No, they are that tall. Right. But everyone else out there is. It makes it seem like they're not. But when you stand next to them, you're like, these dudes.

Speaker 2 (22:11.094)
That's hard too.

Speaker 2 (22:16.568)
Fuck. Yeah. I don't want to do this anymore.

And then when you look at the fact that they didn't even make the NBA you're like, so those guys are

Yeah, those guys suck, apparently.

It's like bro like understand like it's a whole different ballgame. Yeah, and I'm sorry to go on that tangent

But that leaves a perfect, just drink your beer. Take a deep breath. Let's just take a little break. We're gonna take a little break. That was awesome. my yeah, fuck recaps. That was just too good. Okay, that was Tracer. We're gonna take a little break. We'll come back.

Speaker 2 (23:12.974)
Alright, welcome back, welcome back. Okay, so Trey took a little pee break. He drank his Natty Daddy. Yeah, that's his beer of choice right now.

He was like, I know he was like, I know drink you want and I said, mean, sure.

That is a very back-of-the-house beer.

Speaker 2 (23:29.945)
You should be like, you don't have anything better.

Well, I know I should have been but I was just like well, you know in fraternity life, you know, do that It took me back I honestly had a nostalgia fat Yeah, I was just like yeah fucking up There you go. But no man, like you know, we had a big week one in NFL Obviously, we just had that discussion about the transition of athletes but real talk

It's all about quantity. It's not about quality.

Okay, there you go. you go. Yeah, hell yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:57.09)
Yeah, now it's time for a week one recap.

Real talk with the NFL, man. You sat here and we saw the fact that last night the 49ers did beat the Jets. It was at 32 to 19. Monday Night Football. You know.

Cowboys when it got a dub, you know, I mean, you know, know the road Was talking crazy saying that we weren't gonna go out there and do nothing and that the Browns is gonna beat us Obviously, you know if you go check my if you go check my Twitter I was very skeptical of the Cowboys as well. They lost me after the game after the playoff game from I mean wrote from about midway through January till shit probably about

I'm gonna give you my Twitter account.

Speaker 1 (24:42.19)
A week ago, maybe a little bit later, maybe 15 minutes for the game. I don't know. I've been telling people different points in time, but they lost me for a while. And it wasn't that they lost me as a fan. I just wanted to boycott them for a little bit and make them earn my viewership and my fandom. But shit, they did that. Yeah, because I mean, look, man, Dan Quinn, shout out Dan Quinn, bro. Except the fact you on the commanders now. But the fact that.

Yeah, they did.

Speaker 1 (25:08.11)
You know, my old defense coordinator still got a head coaching job out of it, whether it be from a dysfunctional franchise or not. He still got another head coach job. The fact that he's not just calling shit on NFL countdown and being an analyst and whatnot. Like, hey, my my old DC got a head coach job. Now, Zimmer, Mike Zimmer was out of the NFL for a little bit. About three years, almost three years. Right. But but the old head dude know what he's talking about. OK, I will say that he does know what he's talking about.

I think that the disciplinarian aspect of how he goes about coaching at first it probably rubbed some people the wrong way after the 2021 season but man look I'm just telling you defense was flying around we went out there we made plays Thursday night the opener I did actually go watch that game and nodding donkey in uptown man shut out nodding donkey Chiefs did pull that one out 27-20 you know Lamar

He didn't play as well as he should have and he'll tell you that I just think that Patrick Mahomes might be his boogeyman I just want to tell I mean everybody's boogeyman though at this point though like if you look at it like you can't really pinpoint one quarterback that just has his number other than maybe Joe burrow and even then like Joe burrow only got to the one Super Bowl so far and he's still trying to bounce back Joe if you ever listen to this or listen to this this season you are my fantasy quarterback I need you to pick the shit up

But but yeah, no, I mean I fight Patrick my homes He might be this generation is Brady's him a lot of people have already stamped in that personally I mean I want to see the rest of it but you know, he's he's the boogie man out there So if you're gonna if you're going up against 15 in in the Chiefs uniform, man, you better bring it So yeah, and then Friday night over in Brazil man, but that field was awful Was terrible was terrible man. I just just praying for

Dude, it was...

Speaker 1 (27:03.96)
Jordan love to make a full recovery any other guys that suffer.

They're good. I'm glad. Yeah, I'm glad I got picked up to for that. Yeah, no, no, he was. Yeah, no, I'm did he stepped up in the second quarter?

Yeah, I told you bro. Good. touring.

Mean the patterns still find a way to score 29 on the Eagles who got they got two new coordinators also Jaylen hurts man to TDs through two picks Did find a way to win the game, which obviously is what matters with man. Like I just I'm still I'm jury still out man. I just Yeah, I don't know about Kelly Moore with Jaylen hurts I just don't think they that that's a that fits like they scored 34 points, but they came also with two turnovers so or at least two interceptions, so I just

We'll see. It's wait and see. Like I said, Cowboys won 33-17. Steelers 18-10 over the Falcons, man. They defense stepped up six field goals from the Steelers. No offensive touchdowns with Justin Fields leading the offense. I mean, hey, a win's a win. Take the W. Take them how you can get them in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (28:10.158)
You were able to walk away. That's all that matters.

Right now for real bro bills had to Come from behind a little bit to win 34 28 at home against the Cardinals We got the Bears they had to also come from behind 24 17 against the Titans and the head coach for the Titans said bro I don't know if you saw this He said if we had just punted it on first and ten every time we would have won the game And that was because will levis at whom I have been very vocal in Not supporting in the fact that I don't think he's that good

did have one TD to two interceptions, including the game losing pick six. And I just want to say about Will Levis, man, the reason honestly stems back to college for me. I mean, he lost his, he couldn't beat out Sean Clifford at Penn State. And I know a lot of people are like, he's in NFL now and Sean Clifford's a backup in NFL, blah, blah, blah. Well, again, we saw what Will Levis truly is. And again, I stand by my point of.

He couldn't beat out Sean Clifford in college who is now a backup in the pros and who again who still made it to the pros. So let's just get that there. Still made it to the pros and is a backup. Yes. But what I mean what are we looking at from Will Levis. mean I'm just saying that sort of stuff matters. Yeah. Again star rankings don't always matter from high school to college. Once you get because once you get to each level it all starts over. Yes. However

Will Levis was one of those guys. He's got a big arm. He can do this, he can do that. And again, he still couldn't beat out Sean Clifford. I'm sure because partially decision-making, maybe could have been issues with the playbook. There's a litany of things that could have been. But from what I've seen, most of anything myself, not being in the building or any of the buildings he's been in, not taking care of not being smart on the football field, not taking care of the football. So you saw what happens there.

Speaker 1 (30:04.684)
his own head coach who is a rookie head coach and could possibly be fired after this year. Who knows what Brian Callahan's careers.

fair to do them for

I mean, yeah, I mean but who knows what Brian Callahan's career is gonna look like as a coach but as of now he doesn't believe in his quarterback either so one TD two picks Patriots big upset win over the Bengals 16 to 10 obviously Jamar chase only Hey, Ramadre Stevenson did 25 carries 120

Stevenson did me good.

It's crazy that my running back stood very good this week. Over to my wide receivers, Rashad White and Steven Savino.

Speaker 1 (30:40.93)
My running backs did better than my receivers too.

It was weird because I thought I

Wolf, Jamar Chase you're fucking killing me.

Well, he yeah, yeah, but also no joke Noah no T Higgins. He didn't have his his number, right? Takes him a little bit of attention. They probably I mean they doubled and tripled them. They yeah, you're not gonna beat us. got six, you know six catch sixty yards, but I mean look, that's what you should do though. They said you're not you're not gonna beat us. You anybody else out here on this field can beat us, but you're not gonna. You're not going over here.

But I'm just

Speaker 2 (31:00.66)
Yeah, I mean, he still gave me nine.

Speaker 2 (31:11.455)
yeah, we're just going to spend all of our energy.

Texans 2927 and a thriller over the Colts the division foe We have the Dolphins that did beat the Jaguars 20 to 17 We have the Saints who curb stomp this shit out of the Panthers dog 47 and 10. Yeah

had Deontay, what's his name? Yeah. He's not bad, but I was like, he gave me nothing.

Deontay Johnson.

Mean, you know Bryce Young's taking a lot of heat obviously being number one overall pick over CJ Stroud last year, but I mean Art two years ago, but I mean, dude You got to understand or no that was just nice you got to understand that There's not a whole lot on that roster now Panthers do have a couple longhorns on there You know, got JT Sanders and Johnathan Brooks, but John the Brooks coming off a CEO rookie JT Sanders rookie

Speaker 1 (32:08.622)
Xavier LeGette that they drafted out South Carolina. Rookie. mean, they got young guys there that are still obviously trying to find their way. I mean, you got to cut them a little bit slack. Now, has Bryce helped himself out much, you know, with decision making and things like that? I mean, no. You know, you watch the game, definitely not. But to me, it seems like when that happens to especially a young quarterback, I mean, he's just trying to make something happen.

And and especially when you have an offensive line that's given up a lot of pressure, you want to get the ball out, which obviously also leads to turnovers. And then you couple that with again, you're trying to make something happen. It's like, well, just throw the ball away. And obviously, as you get older, you get more reps, you get more seasoning as a player. That does become something that you begin to do. But as of now, I again, he's in a second. I mean, he's still trying to make something happen. I mean, these dudes, they make money. They are pro athletes. They're

all this and that, but they're still human. still hear and see the things that people say and hear the things people say. And again, I mean, they're just trying to make something happen. They're trying to go out there and do something. But again, I'm still one of those people. think that if Bryce Young can potentially get a fresh start somewhere else after, think if he spends another year in the Panthers, he might be out the league after next year. Right. Personally, just because it's going to continue to be thrown on his shoulders. But

If he can actually get a fresh start somewhere and be allowed to grow and become the type of player that he can be surrounded with weapons and things like that, he can still be a very good NFL player. You're not one of the top quarterbacks coming out of your high school class and the number one overall pick for no reason. There's always a fucking reason. afterwards people are like, he's a buddy.

Tell me that 19 year old kid

Speaker 1 (33:57.59)
And they're like, he was a bus like, it's like, yeah, hindsight's always 20, 20, but the groundwork, the traits, like everything was there. But it's just one of those things as, you know, one of my favorite podcasts is a Texas podcast with Jerry Hamilton will always say it. He always starts it with high school. It's up to them to go maximize it as it is with anybody and anything else in the world. you can't just sit here and write someone off.

Good shot,

based off some things they can't control. you're, again, if you're showing up late to meetings, you're late to practice, you're not practicing hard, there's certain things you can control that will definitely lead people to believe, he's not gonna be successful. But if you're doing all the right things and there's just things outside of your control that you can't help, that's whole different discussion.

Yeah, so all right. Those are I mean all fair points No, no, I I I cannot argue with any one of those and i'm only giving shit because they he got stopped and i'm talking Playing on the fantasy point of view. I'm just looking at target And that's all I care about. I don't really Yeah, how many times he had opportunity and that's all I care That's what i'm looking at the most

I mean,

Speaker 1 (34:57.783)
No, yeah. Like, right. How many times did he get the ball?

Speaker 1 (35:05.13)
I mean, no. No, I mean, I'm just saying, bro, like, this is that is a lot that goes into it, especially with football, where you got so many more moving parts. You're relying on so many other people. Yeah. The fucking playbook. I mean, because basketball, bro, you can just go out there and just start cooking by yourself if you want to. Yeah. You got four of the people out there on your teammates. But it's like, shit, you stand over there. I'm going to just get busy. Yeah. Now you can't really do that in football. Sometimes you know that sometimes you can't. But in basketball, he's like at any point if you want, you can go get the ball and just just

Yeah, fuck this,

Speaker 1 (35:45.813)
You just go throw some shit up.

No, no, It's got a lot of trust.

If your tight end is your weakest link out there odds are he's probably not getting a ball. Yeah. And then a lot of people always say like with Kobe, know, RMP Kobe got, you know, got t-shirt on. got his got his got his logo tattooed. You know, always got represent Kobe. He, know, he was always telling people was like, well, Kobe doesn't pass the ball. is a ball. He's like, y'all don't see these motherfuckers practice every day. I saw these dudes practice every day. You would understand why I'm not passing them the ball.

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:14.126)
Yeah, do you guys-

Speaker 2 (36:19.32)
We don't know what's going on through their head, like, we don't- we're not the ones playing.

He was out until 4 a.m. last night. We played today at noon. He's not getting the ball today. Yeah, because he clearly was not locked in. I'm just I'm just saying people don't understand. They like, well, why is this person such a such a ball hog and doing this and that? It's like, well, you don't you ain't on the road that he has for his team or anyone else's role on the team. And B, again, he was out to a foe. He was out with us last night. Right. We saw him.

Yeah

Speaker 2 (36:32.59)
Right.

Speaker 1 (36:52.47)
He clearly didn't want to, he was not focused.

I'll let you know I'm saying just like that thing, the redeem team, like when they're all partying out Vegas, where he's like, yeah, when they were going up to the room, Kobe was over.

All right. I'll be already two workouts in. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (37:04.59)
Yeah to workouts in he I mean That's why you're not getting the ball today. Yeah, so when you're Right, yeah, you just go out there and act a fool like that. Yeah, cuz Very you tell your wife your mom your kids all them people. Why didn't you why didn't you get the ball? But well because I was out to a four a.m. Yeah, uh-huh Yeah, that's why you're not getting a ball. That's

reason why he was the best.

Speaker 2 (37:12.801)
Unless you're Lawrence Taylor

Speaker 2 (37:18.328)
Baby

Speaker 2 (37:29.736)
if I had a son and they were like, hey Miami, draft me. like, no, you're not going to go there. want you to succeed. Nobody goes, Hey man, I went to Miami really, my career really took off.

Now if you go to if you go to Minnesota Yeah, I didn't get traded to Miami after you got some years under your belt cool cool, but right off the bat Yeah, yeah, no they gonna get you just don't go you weren't Florida yeah

because

Speaker 2 (37:56.718)
Florida. Man. Yeah, that's kind of like when I was watching like intervention. I don't really watch anymore. But when they're like, oh, they're sending them to a treatment center out in Miami. I'm like, what the fuck's wrong with. I was like, are you nuts? Yeah, that's like the worst idea. It's like, I'm addicted to Mexican food, so I'm just going to to Texas. Yeah, there were so many that went to so many went to.

California too

Speaker 1 (38:09.648)
Treatment center in my

Wait,

Speaker 1 (38:20.652)
Yeah, like... In my ass?

Speaker 2 (38:25.898)
Southern California or something like that. I'm like, my God, you guys.

Enabling him. Yeah, do you know what's out in Miami? Everything they be what bro they be what like should be washing up on the beach all the time People I saw a tweet where did the people that go on like in Miami Austin all the you know They go down the street talking to people not asking people questions shit. This dude interviewed these two girls and they was like, yeah, we found a Think they said they found a kilo on the beach and they washed up of coke, right?

yeah, how many cocaine sharks have-

Speaker 1 (38:59.168)
Right and they would periodically go back like they stashed it and they would go back take some and they sold it They ended up making 2.5 million off of it. There you go

Holy shit. Yeah. And they've straight up told somebody on YouTube.

I mean the money was already gone at that point. mean it was all I mean it was all true. the cops pulled me over you high like I mean yeah, but I mean I'm an artist. It's in me. I'm already smoking. That's been smoked.

It's not illegal to be high

Yeah. As long as you're not driving. Yeah. I think it was somebody told me he's like it. This judge told me he goes, it's not illegal to be high. Can't be caught with it.

Speaker 1 (39:39.553)
Yeah, yeah, like that we like I did Like yeah, like does it smell like weed in here for sure cuz there was some but it's gone. Oh, yeah been smoked already Yeah, that's been smoked. Where were you? I'm talking about you. I like you wanted something. Where was you at? But so anyway, sorry, so saints and I was my fault so saints do beat the shit out the panthers 47 to 10

That's why everybody's like, yo, eat it, eat it.

Speaker 2 (39:48.056)
Yeah. I turned that bitch to right. Five minutes ago. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:05.26)
Shout out to my homie Quinn Mahaney who is from Charlotte and is a Panthers fan unfortunately Vikings

Shout out to my boy Bryson for yeah die hard

Man bro 28 to 6 Vikings over the Giants and in the 22 to 10 of the race

So I have you, my brother, and that group text called my fantasy gurus and Drew, we're diehard Giants

I didn't want to bring that one up. I was just trying to read it as part of the rundown. You saw I didn't text you. didn't say nothing. Look, I didn't say nothing. Let you rock, Seahawks beat the Broncos 26 to 20. Buccaneers beat the Commanders 37 to 20. And in Sunday Night Football, Lions do beat the Rams in overtime 26 to 20.

Speaker 2 (40:28.078)
So he's like, this is just tough to watch.

Speaker 2 (40:35.576)
No, I think I was watching fantasy more

I'm proud of Daniel Jones.

Speaker 1 (40:55.182)
You know good first week at the NFL man very eventful Tyree kill getting pulled over before the game and detained and yanked out of his car and all that shit, bro. That was crazy

Yeah, I mean, what was it? It's like a hill. Yeah.

Hey, just, mean, again, you just can't even, I mean, when I was, I didn't see it, because the body cam footage just came out today and the cops was definitely wilding. But I did say before that came out, did say, look, man, I prefaced it when I was telling, I I was telling Zo and someone, I was like, look, he probably mouthed off and said something crazy, which again, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not condoning. I'm just saying like, you know,

I ain't even wanna, like, I ain't gonna just say comply, dude, like, you may have to do all the extra shit, but the cops was definitely the ones out of line. I'm not even gonna sit here and the cops was out of line. Don't no one listen to this and say, oh, Trey's like, no, on now. Cops was out of line. However, for Ty and Tyree's case, I get how he was acting, but it's just like,

Dude, he's on his way to the game. How do you not know? Night dude steps out of his car. You're like.

Speaker 1 (42:04.814)
And that's another thing, bro. The other thing, bro, is like, how the fuck do you not know this is Tyree Kill? But they pulled up one of the cops LinkedIn's and guess what his header was? What? Bill's Mafia. Bill's Mafia. He. Well, to give you a red handed. I mean, you know, but yeah, man, that was the NFL, man. It was a great week. One slate. Shout out to my fantasy team. Flexco City Playmakers getting a win.

You have pulled him over, not no-

Speaker 1 (42:34.99)
You know, we just trying to stack keep stacking days. Keep stacking wins man, you know, keep doing we do

So what are the teams to look at before we wrap up? are the games to watch?

So week two we got Thursday night Bills and the Dolphins off rip you got one right? I mean that you can't ask for much more than that right? Yeah, like last week with the Braves and the Chiefs to open us up Bills Dolphins Thursday night game this week, bro I mean come on man, like you can't ask much more division game two teams that again are gonna be competing for the division crown Sunday Cowboys got the Saints coming in town the Saints coming again half that win against the Panthers

They posted me 30 weeks. Yeah, no, that's why I bench.

You're going to beat the shit out of them. just want you. They're not going to we're going to beat the fuck out of them. Yeah. Coming back to this afterwards, that could bite me because we could fuck around because noon games we do tend to flop, but it's early in the season. So normally, normally noon games we flop. about. And really, well, I'm saying like normally for us, the noon games that we flop on are way later in the season. OK, like normally is after like week 10, the noon games that we flop on. OK, but this week we're going to beat the fuck out of the Saints.

Speaker 2 (43:30.268)
about game four you

Speaker 1 (43:42.574)
Another team to watch for an honesty is the Buccaneers Baker Mayfield playing MVP level ball after one week. They do have the Lions next week at noon at Ford Field in Detroit. Two 0 and 1 teams that are going to be going to war are the Colts and the Packers. Both of them coming off of losses that they could have easily have won. Obviously, the Packers did lose Jordan Love for a couple of weeks, so they're going to win. Yeah, man. They're going to try to get back on track.

both teams are the Jets and the Titans and ass off. both. The Jets and the Titans man that's going to be kind of an ass off. See what Aaron Rodgers and Will Levers have

It's a fun game to watch.

Speaker 2 (44:22.606)
guys are playing the it was playing Washington that's

Man, another ass off to, sorry, Wes, but...

Speaker 1 (44:32.192)
I've been Daniel Jones don't have a single passing touchdown right now

Yeah, there is. We need Joey Cutlet's back out. Cutlet's!

Joey fucking bro. Yeah, I was trying to explain the zone about the chicken cutlass, but she wasn't understanding. No

Just even look at his fucking agent. I mean straight daggers Yeah, and I can say that I can belittle my own people

That's yeah And they are Italian as fuck What the fuck cutlets and yeah 49ers and the Vikings you got the Seahawks and the Patriots so you got quite a few Whether it be and one or you know both teams and one or both teams one and matchups Let's see Sunday night is gonna be the Bears at the Texans

Speaker 2 (44:55.4)
Like, goomba!

Speaker 1 (45:16.962)
So that's going to actually be the Williams versus CJ Stroud. You saw my reaction when you read that. He just heard. That's going to be that's going to be a hell of a Sunday night game for sure. hell yeah. And so we got that looking out college football wise. Just want to say shout out to the Mean Green. Obviously, I know I'm also a Texas fan because my cousin Tyrone. But shout out to the Mean Green. We are to know we are about to walk in the Lubbock on Saturday at 11 a.m. and we're going to take that trap over.

He turned around and looked right at

Speaker 1 (45:46.99)
If you're questioning what I'm talking about, go listen to Take Over Your Trap by Bankroll Fresh. RIP Bankroll. But just to let y'all know. And on top of that, one more thing. UFC, Saturday night. Sugar Sean. Trying to defend that title against Me Rap. Don't know how to say his last name. I need to probably... It's okay. I need to probably get that. We'll get it. I need to probably get that down. We'll get that down. But my dog Me Rap, you know, he's trying to go out there.

No, no, no, it's okay.

Speaker 1 (46:15.306)
and make a little statement. know what mean? is, Sean said he was coming off 10 in a row. Me-Rab is coming off 10 in a row victories. hopefully he's number one contender for that title that Sean currently holds. So actually I'm looking now. wait, no, he is one, two. no, no that's 10. Yeah. So 10 in a row. He has won 10 fights in a row going up against Sean O'Malley hoping to.

dethrone him. That fight probably will start around 1030 local time, maybe a little bit after. So if you're still up Saturday night, which most people my age probably will be. you know, we'll Eventually, eventually we'll get there. So it's all right. But man, shout out to everybody is listening and tuning in. Shout out to Wes, the greatest producer on the.

Nah, I'm an old fuck.

Speaker 2 (47:07.565)
Someone

Speaker 2 (47:11.096)
Naaaah, see the flattery get you everywhere.

Anybody can have man. Love you, bro. Thank you. Shout out man.

for having me. I know, just saying. you, you, you, you, you, you,

You know I gotta have you on this. You know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 (47:32.11)
Also real quick, just randomly, just kind of off topic real quick before we get out of here. I'm looking at Streamy's, shout out Streamy's, illegal streams, whatever. But they also, have the presidential debate on here, I just wanna share. I just noticed it, I'm over here looking, because I'm about to stream the Yankee game, and I'm just looking, I'm like.

I have to deal with that work. can't

Speaker 2 (47:54.594)
Where I work at dude all All the major pundits flew in today, and it's I feel like it's gonna be a circle jerk and tomorrow's just gonna suck It's a jerk dude. I can't do it Yeah, it's a circle jerk so on that note It's a pleasure so Again go to strike so the ends of podcast the second floor studios. Let's let's do bone out of you

Hey man,

Speaker 1 (48:18.542)
and