Dan Le Batard 8/29/22 🔥 Local Hour: We Care About Your Fantasy Team

What this episode is about

The discussion centers on the importance of fantasy football drafts and personal strategies, highlighting a departure from the typical dismissive attitude often found at this time of year. Participants share insights on draft tendencies, including reaching for players and utilizing historical data to inform decisions, emphasizing a commitment to caring about others' fantasy teams while navigating league dynamics.

Key takeaways

• Fantasy fans unite: historical draft data turns your league into a chess match against unpredictable wildcards.
• Beware the 'boring' players: they might just be your ticket to consistent points, not just thrilling moments.
• Cordarrelle Patterson's value is as confusing as his position; right now, he's the fun mystery left on the board.
• Underrated gems like Seattle and Pittsburgh receivers may shine brighter than their quarterbacks if history repeats.
• Drafting should feel fun, not just a money game; aim for players that spark joy and score points!

Who speaks in this episode?

• Jeremy (Guest) · 2 min speaking
• Dan Le Batard (Host) · 17 min speaking
• Stugotz (Host) · 15 min speaking
• Michael Ryan Ruiz (Guest) · 6 min speaking
• Jess (Guest) · 2 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 5:00 – 10:00: Kenny Walker, Antonio Gibson
2. 10:00 – 15:00: Dan Le Batard
3. 15:00 – 20:00: Scott Frost, Bo Pelini, DraftKings
4. 20:00 – 25:00: Scott Frost, UCF
5. 25:00 – 30:00: Scott Frost, Bo Pelini

Notable quotes from "Dan Le Batard 8/29/22 🔥 Local Hour: We Care About Your Fantasy Team"

• Mine that i feel like might be happening in a lot of fantasy drafts this year which is cordell patterson just staying on the board like three rounds past where he's projected…

  about Cordarrelle Patterson · at 3:30

• Still travis homer and dj dallas both had excellent pre-seasons but they drafted kenny walker who when he's not djing for y100 or calling dolphins games in the stadium i believe he was on kiss 99 no he's on the beach yeah.

  about Kenny Walker · at 5:52

• That is the pure that is the whole basis i drafted antonio gibson one year purely on the basis of they really like him as their number one oh i love reading an article you got to read an article like right before the draft oh and then i.

  about Antonio Gibson · at 6:59

• Should have known the rain delay always whack yes max things out of whack don levitard and finally abstaining from food for 16 to 18 hours a day could be key to treating a…

  about Dan Le Batard · at 14:19

• Why was it 13 points it was so confused by a terrible line it was a terrible it was just a vintage scott frost game but everyone's saying that made me think all right i got to…

  about Scott Frost · at 15:26

• He's just i mean he's wearing a ufc shirt by the way ucf it's monday yeah but scott frost was the hottest coaching candidate in the nation and he was the prodigal son because if he had his druthers if he didn't have.

  about UCF · at 24:26

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Scott Frost — Person · Referenced coach / subject of critique · 8 mentions · first at 15:32
  Central to a segment about Nebraska’s repeated close losses and why betting against Nebraska (or against Frost) feels predictable.
• Bo Pelini — Person · Referenced comparison point · 2 mentions · first at 16:12
  Used as a benchmark to show how far Nebraska has fallen under Frost, citing Pelini’s strong win totals and consistency.
  Lost by one score is that cfb reddit stat true that if scott frost won his next 50 games in nebraska he'd still have a worse record than bo pelini yep i mean i was looking at nebraska's like so on wikipedia and on like the college.
• Cordarrelle Patterson — Person · Referenced fantasy value discussion · 2 mentions
  Used as an example of a player sliding well past ADP because drafters are unsure about role/position usage and repeatability of last season’s production.
• Kenny Walker — Person · Referenced player (and name-joke) · 1 mention · first at 5:56
  Mentioned in a fantasy-football discussion about Seattle’s backfield; the show also riffs on confusion with a Miami radio personality of the same name.
• Antonio Gibson — Person · Referenced fantasy draft example · 1 mention · first at 7:03
  Cited as an example of drafting based on a last-minute article/beat-report narrative (“they really like him as their number one”).
• Dan Le Batard — Person · Referenced show figure / namesake · 1 mention · first at 14:25
  Appears in an ad-read style line and as part of the show’s ecosystem; not a main discussion subject in this excerpt.

Companies & orgs

• UCF — Company · Referenced organization · 1 mention · first at 24:15
  Mentioned in the context of college football and Scott Frost's coaching tenure.

Sponsors

• DraftKings — Company · Sponsor · 1 mention · first at 15:03
  Mentioned as a sponsor of the podcast and a sports betting partner of the NFL.
  This the unlimited show with these two gods we're presented by draftking sportsbook an official sports betting partner of the nfl download the draftking sportsbook app today and use code dan for special offer when you sign up.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:43 hey you out there i just want you to know that i care about your fantasy team i actually do that's such a departure normally like this time of year is is the time for hot takers to go you know what i don't care about your fantasy team nobody cares about your fantasy team i only care about mine in that case i'll tell you about mine guys i reached on someone in the third round oh tell me all about it yeah he's got a new quarterback a number one receiver i think he can really oh jerry judy no oh wow

1:22 overall overall no no no for denver like i see yeah portland sutton going ahead of them i'm not i disagree very crisp route runner i love jerry judy give us more hints he uh is the second generation of his name hmm the only for some reason the only junior that's coming to head is patrick certain it's michael pittman jr i know it's a reach third round might be a reach but it's like hey i don't know if he's gonna be there on the way back you know that feeling where it's like this is a little early for this guy i had the fifth pick of a 12 team league so i was like coming in the third round i didn't want to wait let me let me tell you something that i just discovered i have a premium subscription to one of these fantasy sites and it has like a live draft supplement and for the first time ever they unveiled historical data to help you draft meaning it went back into the past of other people's

2:20 tendencies to during a draft so i know whether or not they're going to reach on a tight end or not because they never wow before it was incredible right because there because there's this one there's always the one guy in your draft that's a complete wild card yep they'll take patrick mahomes 10 picks too early because they're gonna go all in on quarterback that year there's always the guy who you can't predict that doesn't fit and when you do all these mock drafts and [ __ ] there's no there's no predicting that one guy in your league and so you have their history i'm sure that's a massive there's this website it was like neo reading the matrix like i was it was great predictive analysis i knew where everybody was going i was i was seeing everything you guys all had your your drafts already right i had one a little warm-up like like the schedule a nice little warm-up draft one that you don't

3:04 value too much but you gotta just get one in i just well i just told you michael what did you eat it was like do you eat or drink dirt well it was live it's a lot it's my one live draft of the season so you drink i i drink a little a little bit i honestly didn't drink a lot it's like you are really asking i don't know i didn't get interrogation yeah i know i i ate though i ate more than i drink i'd say yeah smoke um you know a cigar i was gonna ask if you all had your drafts because something happened in mine that i feel like might be happening in a lot of fantasy drafts this year which is cordell patterson just staying on the board like three rounds past where he's projected but he's that guy once everyone takes him people are like hey that's number one it's a good pick yeah is the orbeez one no they got this working that's the thing about there's like why is he you get but in the sixth round you're excited and

3:51 you're like you start searching on twitter you dropped like three right yeah he dropped late in mine and i just think it's because people are confused about him yeah positionally he did well last season and everyone's like he's not going to do that again what is he really going to do this year now pre this year i i sort of call it the broncos receiver conundrum which is do you really want to have the most boring player in fantasy yeah because uh if you have the receiver that's playing with jew lock that receiver is not going to have big games but now it's different it might give you the the five catches for 77 and you get your solid 12.7 points in there but you're not going to have spectacular so you're looking at your board and going i'm partially playing this because i want to make money and i want to beat my friends at this game that we all agree on but i also would like to have some fun rooting for the people that i

4:42 have on my team and i will not be rooting or having any fun with the broncos wide receiver this year that changes russell wilson but i feel like this year it's like washington receivers or detroit receivers like maybe there's some fun to be had there there's always a david montgomery there that you want you're not you don't want to take it but it's like god well i have my list here of top 300 and he's still there it's like you ask yourself do i really want to watch the bears this year no the answer is no no i don't the most undervalued players i think are guys from seattle and pittsburgh because you knew what to expect from those offenses for so long and now the same weapons are there claypool has fallen in drastic metcalf has fallen in drafts tyler lockett's falling all these guys that you could always count on them to give you these certain numbers you take the quarterback out of the equation and

5:29 now it's to the point that i think they're undervalued because then you start asking yourself well someone's got to get numbers someone's got to get them jeremy was telling us about his draft and he uttered the sentence i got rashad penny as my rb2 and that did that made me sad yeah but it's a it's a flex it's a deeper league so i'll cut him some slack i have no idea who rb2 in seattle is let alone like for your fantasy team is is it still travis homer uh homer and dj dallas both had excellent pre-seasons but they drafted kenny walker who when he's not djing for y100 or calling dolphins games in the stadium i believe he was on kiss 99 no no he's on the beach yeah he is i mean let me tell you something kenny walker he's always on y100 yeah i agree i i'm 36 years old kenny walker is anchoring afternoon drive on y 100. i had a live draft like i said the worst thing something you would think is the

6:21 worst thing is getting heckled on a pick you walk up i we have the stickers put the sticker up and that's not the worst i'm here to tell you the worst is just silence because you walk up you generally have a thought about your pick you're like all right people are either going to think this is a stretch you have your thoughts on how the room's going to react so you're kind of listening you just want one person to be like oh good pick good pick and then it's a win and then you put darnell mooney on the board you're like nobody gives a singular [ __ ] chris olav

6:54 i know he's an ohio state guys fast but uh i read an article but uh i'm telling you that is the pure that is the whole basis i drafted antonio gibson one year purely on the basis of they really like him as their number one oh i love reading an article you got to read an article like right before the draft oh and and then i have a magazine yeah i'm always struggling i'm always drafting this week that this sunday uh and there's usually games going on and usually during the draft there's someone that gets hurt like as the draft is going on and this year kind of happened it was very unfortunate that the carjacking attempt uh with the commander's running back robinson he got shot several times it looks like he's going to be okay but he got shot several times after he got drafted and you just kind of like you see the game of telephone that goes throughout the draft and you're like oh god it's always going

7:44 to happen to somebody he's in peace by the way that was terrible but i got silence on a lava i walked up there i was like someone give me a he's fast decent pick could be big deep threat james he's like just say something just give me something something i had just silence and i was like i just had to say something i'm like oh he's going to be good good big thanks you start applauding your own you'll see as i'm like walking back sleeper you start putting your hands to your head get ready to go to sleep top five round pick next year uh-huh yeah i remember this one how much do you feel responsible for the heckling like like like you have to provide one tenth of or one twelfth heckling i throw somebody uh a solid pick if i hear silence just to give him something even if i don't think it was a solid you do hate silence yeah it's like at least hate my pick tell me it's terrible just don't give me silence so you're the same

8:39 around your friends as you are in here yeah i hate silence do you ever during the draft go how's this going uh for my team i think i just look at my team and i say it to myself how long is your draft do you have like pretty no you can't do a lot time we've gotten away from picks how do you do time picks live what like what's the punishment what's the auto pick two minutes and then it's like late around 60 seconds and then you steal steal but now as we've gotten older we don't have the energy to steal or man the clock never yeah it's more just like heckling yeah but to chris's point what's the penalty you can steal a pick you like do you forfeit a picture maybe the next guy can just go up and grab stickers the older that we get the longer we want the draft to take i think in most cases it's just people don't want to be around their families so just in your mid-20s you wanted to get it over with yeah in your

9:25 30s you're like let this last as long as you can yeah i two-day draft next year is my 20-year anniversary and we're already laying the groundwork three-day event seven rounds a day destination draft we meet up every friday the draft starts in january one round untimed round take all the time actually go to scouting trips we'll have a combine we'll have a fantasy combine but like but you out there i care so please hit me up in my mentions chris like let me know if you're feeling good i regret that tell me about that fourth round pick no no no if i can help you too if you're a super follower and you're if you're unsure about patrick i see what's going on here i i mean they've fallen off a little bit people i notice out there every time i lose one i notice i know say you're going through your settings and you're hitting unsubscribed shame on you i need people to subscribe and also i can't access any

10:21 of the revenue at all no one no one on twitter is answering my questions yeah it's just sitting there and anytime i send a message to twitter or send an email it's always like well this is an unmanned position so sorry go to the facts i'm like are you still in a little person even though it's going into twitter's coffee yeah twitter's the only one that's actually getting anything out of my super followers i have not gotten a single dime i have gone through the payroll like website and they keep it i always feel like i'm getting somewhere and then it always ends with email twitter and every email address is not an actual person there's no way to get money actually from twitter but still do it super follows at michael ryan ruiz so many great nuggets i uh i went to a um practice uh no big deal it was a closed practice

11:14 i feel really good about the team so not that closed no it was it was very close it was it was super close perhaps the most close never seen a practice are you allowed to describe anything that you saw no no no can't do it but he was there but i was there did you talk to coach i talked to coaches

11:50 here's what i one thing that i think i can say is i remember when i went to camp last year with witty or or in the earlier years and there'd be a couple to an open practice yeah yeah i didn't get the invite for close practice this year how many how many do but remember when we were walking through just last year and we're like ah who's that who's that guy that that guy sticks out he's a true freshman chase smith but you see the body type and they stick out he's a third stringer now and you yeah you keep well he still is he was last year though but like one of the bodies is like oh my god who's that and you look at your roster she 94 it's a punter but this here those guys that suck out from a body type perspective do not stick out at all like they're just a much bigger team especially on the trenches and the staff is like three times the size that it was before there's really good energy and

12:46 there's plenty of time to get into college football season and specifically the canes and other local hours but i just wanted to tell you that i was at a close practice what's your strategy when betting games that your team plays against these very small schools or the line will be like 50. well i was i was fade in fsu regardless and i was a little worried once i saw the height on that dude's pants i unfortunately found out that that was just a visual trick and he had a red undershirt under his jersey i i still want to believe that that dude's pants look like yeah i'm going to believe it yes and i don't care what you say right this is my truth it's duquesne football i don't need to have integrity about the facts here yes oh what is that supposed to mean don't be mean to the dukes no i'm being mean fsu because fsu failed the cover so that's ultimately like i want to believe that i come from

13:40 a long line of duquesne grads whittingham you do the dukes my grandpa went there are they the dukes yeah yeah they got to be a little bit more creative than the duquesne duke cause i kind of tell you i it's just they're the duquesne dukes right no they can't be what do you mean they can't be what would you name duquesne they are the dukes there you go why did you doubt me i'm literally my family's from pittsburgh i told you my grandpa went through i i i presume that was a colloquial nickname not in this is the actual nickname for the team but you guys were just stu gutsing it right duquesne the dukes well regardless fsu failed to cover the 41.

14:15 regardless i was at that closed bracket as soon as the rain delay happened you should have known the rain delay always whack yes max things out of whack don levitard and finally abstaining from food for 16 to 18 hours a day could be key to treating a variety of health conditions like stabilizing blood sugar levels and increasing resistance to stress stu guts mike are you doing something like this right now i lost a lot of weight doing intermittent fasting and low carb so now i'm getting back to it but how much in that six to eight hour window how much can you eat unlimited i could just eat unlimited i'd do that that'd be fun for six to eight hours you can't eat unlimited try me no no this the unlimited show with these two gods we're presented by draftking sportsbook an official sports betting partner of the nfl download the draftking sportsbook app today and use code dan for special offer when you sign up

15:14 that's code dan only at draftking sportsbook can we uh can we talk about the most predictable college football result maybe ever and that's nebraska losing why was it 13 points it was so confused by a terrible line it was a terrible it was just a vintage scott frost game but everyone's saying that made me think all right i got to bet nebraska because everyone's kind of nervous about this game it was so inflated that it did that it did scare people away but if it's a neutral sight game i'm i'm going to take 13 points against scott frost he hasn't proven any damage and the margin of victory for all of their game the majority of their games last season was so small like their point differential in the last i think 10 games or something is like minus two like of the games that they've lost by one score is that cfb reddit stat true that if scott frost won his next 50 games in nebraska he'd still have a

16:12 worse record than bo pelini yep i mean i was looking at nebraska's like so on wikipedia and on like the college football pages you can look at like the record by coach by year i was looking at it the other night just just browsing and i was like wow bo pellini that guy he's 67 and 27 at nebraska double digit win season he never had a season worse than nine and four this uh whenever i talk about nebraska i get really sad about the canes because i realize that nebraska miami's last national title win let's not talk about the one that didn't count the last national title win came against nebraska so for the same period miami has been as irrelevant on the national scale as nebraska has but it feels like it's been 50 years for nebraska and that's just how bad jonathan vilma hit eric crouch that one time i'm guessing that's how bad that beating was i remember i remember watching that like i was nine years old watching that rose

17:10 bowl and even still i was like holy [ __ ] one team is obviously better than like a staggering amount of difference between the two teams but that was in this century yeah that nebraska was playing for a national title and they have just gotten further and further away from that coincidentally they've had a martinez at quarterback ever since that game and it just hasn't panned out for them i can't believe scott frost can't possibly make it through this season he cannot it i mean it depends i i've heard that if they make a bowl game he will be fine and if they win seven games he will definitely be back um i don't know i it this was one of the ones that they had to win if they want to get to that six game mark he was a 13 point favorite it's northwestern you know exactly who they are you know what their ceiling is that is their ceiling is never what their ceiling is the floor in the eyes of many husker fans they

18:05 have this really passionate fan base you'd think that nil might give them is some sort of path to becoming nationally relevant again but it just feels like we're further and further away and i don't ever see nebraska being that destination program that it was before nebraska cut its teeth and became this legacy program because everybody in the high schools ran the same scheme that the college football team did nebraska football had an identity from college football on down to pop warner and as offenses expanded and we had the spread in college football offense they just got more and more archaic and now they're just a team without an identity they have this huge pass but no future but the wild thing is that like i really thought that scott frost was meant to come in and bring like some level of offensive genius it was the offensive coordinator kelly he was his offenses were amazing at ucf and yet this team

18:56 every time i look at their numbers they're like fairly pedestrian offensively and then he's after the game blaming his offensive staff for not being creative enough to quote this league they did just hire mark whipple from pitt who did a a really good job with kenny pickett's uh breakout season last year and he's supposed to be can you have a breakout season at 27. after the first round he was a heisman candidate he was one of the best he was the best because he was seven years older than everybody that was draft eligible i guarantee you that if we put in steve de berg right now against duquesne he had some sort of advantage it was dear king last year yeah king had a great year in in 2020 because he was much older than everybody else mike you did did you do this though with burrow where you said because he was older than everyone it might not work out for him in the pros uh i didn't say

19:51 not in the pros but i said it would it had to be a distinct advantage think about gerald willis when gerald willis had in uh in defensive tackle for miami had a season for the ages he's like five years older than everybody else i think that there is something to that especially in college football you've seen it with burro you've seen it with pickett you've seen it with the eric king age gives you an advantage there but you mentioned mark whipple and it once again reminded me that pitt is actually reigning acc champions which is random and also very sad from the keynes prism because we've only been to charlotte once we didn't get shut out thank you mark rick for that late game field goal that was that's the most oh my god it was so embarrassing out there i was already driving back to raleigh when we kicked that field goal but it's it just goes to what the expectations are at the university of

20:40 miami now it's it feels like the big leagues out there they feel like they finally put the resources there the energy is just totally different the size of the sap is totally different it feels like it's a professional operation right now and no matter how this season goes another thin at wide receiver and all that the floor in their eyes is charlotte anything less than that is an immense disappointment for this staff and we said that year in and year out but we were talking ourselves into the coastal what's going to be the dumb one that they're going to drop and they're they're probably still too young this is a recruiting base head coach believe it or not i'm not gonna be like super high on the canes if they win one of these big ones i'll be a madman but i'm thinking three losses you know the two that they're supposed to lose one at a conference against a m one dumb one and hopefully that's enough to get

21:30 you into charlotte and then start sacking success for this recruiting base coach and program that mario cristobal is trying to build this is not like lane kiffin coming in and wizardry and we're gonna just out tactic folks but that's always been the super frustrating part of being a keynes fan is that there is no scenario in which in a division you're playing with pitt north carolina duke virginia and georgia tech you can't beat them every year like even with bad coaching even with substandard recruiting like i know that the recruiting is gonna reach an entirely another level now that mario cristobal is in town but even with the players that were here before they should have been able to easily take care of all of the teams in their division for whatever reason they always seem to lose that away game in virginia every year and it's incredibly frustrating because we were learning on the job with head

22:16 coaches that just had never done it before that i mean thankfully they're actually pumping real resources into the program but that being said they still had more resources than everybody else in their division outside of maybe north carolina that they were still miami not caring dr frank not really knowing what was going on down there they were still top 10 in the nation in terms of resources they pumped into football and they got those results so naturally i have ptsd i want to get the hell away from this conference just because i'm terrified of the likes of virginia and that's not really why we got into it there's a lot of new coaches in the coastal though so that might i mean including miami but that might work to miami's advantage this year like virginia has a new coach virginia tech has a new coach yeah i was i'm virginia tech i'm kind of bummed if if miami stays in the acc which is a huge question mark i happen

23:08 to know that miami is treating this here is it's it's her contract here miami knows that if they handle their business if they don't get embarrassed in these national spotlight games like they had been under previous regimes they bring value they are the real prize a good miami is the crown jewel of the acc i just have zero evidence of that because they haven't been good but they're sealing the market that they can clear their talk about miami as a throw into the likes of these big ten and sec deals and that should not be the case miami is a major market south florida is a major market and it's a prestigious program and i really hope to god they get it turned around because you can say this about usc you can say this about notre dame and you can say this about every florida school really when they're good the sport is better it's just a fascinating dynamic down here it's always a fascinating story if

23:59 they're in the national conversation i really hope sincerely they are i don't feel that way about nebraska my life has been fine without nebraska i'm sure nebraska people do that right exactly yeah i'm sure like in the midwest like oh man if nebraska were good college football is so much better i wanted to come back to nebraska because we have a ucf alum you were there when scott frost won a national i'm i'm not even going to do it no it did they didn't they didn't chair all right come to kind of the microphone he's been wanting to get on since we started bringing up scott frost he's just i mean he's wearing a ufc shirt by the way ucf it's monday yeah but scott frost was the hottest coaching candidate in the nation and he was the the the prodigal son because if he had his druthers if he didn't have the attachment to nebraska there's no way in hell he's picking that job but he was returning to the school he once

24:49 quarterbacked for and it was a slam dunk nebraska finally has the cheat code someone that actually went there that respects the program that knows what it can be when it's clicking on all cylinders and it just hasn't worked but it worked so well at ucf jeremy why did it work at ucf but not in nebraska uh he had athletes in speed in a conference that didn't play any defense let's be realistic the defenses they were going against were bad but the difference was the quarterback like looking back at it josh heipel wasn't this great coach he went undefeated with mackenzie milton mckenzie milton was a really great college quarterback who had gabe davis and treycon smith to nfl wide receivers oh i'm very high on gabe davis oh my god i got him like sixth round i think my first squad receiver that i talked about i didn't take a wide receiver heavily i did not take a wide receiver until round five tony told me that this is the

25:41 year to do that because it's super dude it is a deep wide receiver yeah and so what i was doing was i was scared of the guy that had josh allen he was picking right next to me so i was like all right i see you i was i was scared of the guy that had josh allen and in my in my league if josh allen completes a pass to gabriel davis josh allen has half the points of that transaction so i want to start getting the weapons for all the big time quarterbacks that i'm fearful of so gabe davis i don't know is he that that that guy that we saw in that playoff game against kansas city i can't tell i think he is but i'm also obviously incredibly biased but but between having those two skill position players jordan akins was an nfl tight end like you had a bunch of nfl skill position players and a ton of speed in the backfield on that team with a quarterback who turned out to be a really really great college

26:33 quarterback that everybody thought scott frost made but looking forward he played well with hypo too and hypel wasn't obviously a great coach but who made that program then at ucf i mean i cannot argue george o'leary so it has to be scott frost he came in and started recruiting a bunch of kids from orlando who were all three star recruits who were really really fast and you could put them in the aac and that year given where they were defensively as a conference and where they stayed it made a lot of sense that look they won a lot of one-score games too it's the opposite of what's happened to scott frost and nebraska yeah they won a bunch of games close and then blew out some teams scoring you know 60 70 points yeah it's almost as if like all that juju has evened itself out but he's had a different program uh and now he's losing the one-score games is he just not recruiting the same kids are those kids

27:19 just like yeah i'll just continue going to ucf that's exactly what's happening you built a good thing here and just because you're scott frost doesn't mean i'm going to follow you to nebraska absolutely they got some kids to go out there but realistically all those orlando kids that were three star kids stayed now gus malzahn has turned it into some of those four star kids in orlando are starting to stay so it's really crazy that ultimately frost leaves after beating gus malzahn at auburn and now gus malzahn is a guy went uh why are you leaving there i'm going to go ahead and take over what you had do you want to say mackenzie milton again because you didn't reach your quota mckenzie money milton okay all right so let's try to fix nebraska jess how do we fix nebraska do they need to just go back to the option i do think that they need to go no i don't get paul johnson they've been oh god yeah that's not gonna do it they

28:07 they've been in most of the games that they've lost and just have not been able to finish games like they need to stop getting cheeky and cute with onside kicks don't let northwestern have 200 run running yards against you like that's really pathetic just stop with like win some games like stop giving up fourth quarter leads just fix it just just fix it they've been they were close all last season and it was at like there's a lot of people wondering is it bad luck or just like a coach who doesn't know how to manage the end of a game and if it's the latter like you can fix that you can get better at that well yeah his quotes would suggest that it's almost as if he disassociated himself from all the decisions that came into play when you lose a score by one game you can hyper-analyze it and it can come down to coaching decisions and they're just far too many of those for scott frost and if

29:01 we're spitballing by the way and we're trying to fix some prescott there are no bad ideas we cannot discount returning to the option we just can't i think that the only way it does have prestige it is a power five it is a part of this big ten conference that is going to have the greatest television deal in the history of college football it's not a bad job it's just not sexy and they got the sexy candidate it hasn't worked out they need to get one of these like coaching lifers that is not going to lose you a game tactically i'm telling you a guy that doesn't give you get an opportunity anywhere else i'm talking about the cut clips of the world and just go over there and just continue being david cutcliffe was that what mike reilly was supposed to be and it wasn't if you look back at mike riley i bet you nebraska fans are longing for them no they're not no they're not they're not you look at their they were

29:48 foreign though i can tell you that like i think nebraska fans have mixed opinions on bo pelini they went nine and four every season now it was nine and four every season but that's who they were fans don't wanna be nine and four though they wanna be like miami fans don't wanna be nine and four you wanna be a national title game i talked myself into that over the last 15 years fair enough i mean maybe they do maybe they're so fed up that now 9 and 4 sounds appetizing but i i think that the answer to all this is pretty obvious i was so brainwashed by all the blake james [ __ ] and and all the excuses that i that i was totally resigned to okay compete in the coastal let's get to charlotte get to charlotte eight times in 20 years that that's fine enough thankfully i shook myself out of that and miami is on its way to being a program that would never be okay with nine and four hopefully we also had no

30:42 evidence that they would display the ambition that they've shown in the last nine months none there was no evidence that the university of miami was going to spend crazy on coaches on assistance on recruiting on nil on facilities we had no evidence that this was possible you know what the and i covered this like over the the fall when i was reporting on the crystal ball stuff it legitimately was nobody asked blake james just didn't ask for the resources but like he always assumed the answer would be no and it took the herb street thing for it to finally land on and herb street tried that like three times on college game day he'd gone viral with kane's twitter plenty of times for whatever reason that one really resonated and it made julio frank say hey what's going on and that to me is so frustrating so frustrating because it was literally that they weren't paying attention and they didn't have the leadership to ask for

31:39 the resources that's all it was down here well i and that's in some ways why hiring an institutionalist like blake james james was was you know potentially someone who was going to have that ambition stop because i presume that that's before right like there was always this reputation that donna was never going to give them that amount of resources and that that would continue under a new president but that new president was so academic focused he just never and so once all of a sudden the university of miami is in national headlines for their president not caring it's like oh that's interesting why don't we try and do something about it but that whole confluence of events like i don't think it can be underestimated how much that pressure from kirk herb street from local media completely changed the fortunes of this program because it's not just that they haven't been that in recent times they've never been that

32:26 ever when they were winning national championships they didn't have resources that compared to other big programs i i appreciate it real quick i appreciate what you did there because you said from kirk herb street that he got from local media that got it from us they did it's the truth he lifted from barry jackson barry jackson listen to the local hour that week look at me herbie's back on the canes by the way death taxes and him picking them to win the coaster well herbie's got a lot going on this year that's an interesting week for kirk herb street uh there were two instances where i was like what's going on there it was kirk herb street and tom brady who is slowly transforming into my abuela juana and i think they're seeing the same colorist what is happening there i threw it out there and it was a conceivable like everyone kind of bought my theory that part of this time away was he went back

33:20 into the shop and got some work done but then that post game press conference i don't know it's like i got a lot of [ __ ] going on yeah brother you do i've never heard that from like the best quarterback ever he's just like listen man this this last couple years it's been a lot this incredibly committed professional who throws during vacations in cabo to make sure in march to make sure that his arm is just right for the nfl season three weeks before the season starts just goes yeah i had a lot of [ __ ] going on i love that i love that like i know that's the most humanizing thing he is he dropped his age i'm 45 years old man i have a lot of [ __ ] going i felt that in my bones there was one time that i finally got tom brady dude you have seven assistants you can't have that much going on i have enough money again his his income is the second income in his home and somehow he has like oh i got i got to take care of some

34:11 stuff like in the run to whole foods the whole thing sounded like stew gots like i've been dealing with this from stu gods for six months i recognized every part of the speech pattern from yeah buddy a mold and a lot of things down to him being gone for 11 years unannounced as a surprise he had trouble closing his mouth his mouth was swollen the hair is super dark and we know that he's been coloring it but it's full it just i was scrolling through my timeline super fast i'm like why is meg ryan in front of the table he was smiling the entire time even when his mouth was moving he's like yes i got a lot of [ __ ] going on guys but the the jawline has been super it's almost like he he like he sprayed it a little bit and it's just it's like some contouring you gotta let it breathe a little bit though everyone knows this about the brotox it takes two weeks to settle just i guarantee you come sunday night

35:06 football he's gonna look great the color though was really the most disarming part of all of it because it kind of made me think was tom brady going to be a greying quarterback and would this be actually more impressive if he were a greying quarterback he should lean into it because that was part of why brett favre's year in minnesota was so impressive because he looked 73. he looked like a haggard front man from a rock band that had its glory days 30 years ago was playing the state fair circuit like would tom brady look like len dawson if not for all this plastic surgery telling you his hair is white you could see the roots it is white jess he's got ric flair white hair under there all i'll say about the hair is the the middle part like what's with the middle he's really been watching tick tocks later yeah the middle part is in isn't it jess oh the middle part has been in yeah but the middle part is usually in if you have

35:57 longer hair he kind of has a zoolander but there's just a part in the middle it looks like a bad wig i i feel very uncomfortable me who i mean when i got out of bed this morning i almost just i lost my balance and fell right back into bed and it was just because i took a step too quickly fantasy draft dano yeah was at michael ryan ruiz if you also reach on gabe davis who's your defense the browns yeah is the only brown that that i took and uh this is like the reverse logic that i'm using i like worked myself into into a shoot because nick chubb was there and i love nick job one of my favorite players ever and joe mixon was there i'm like i gotta force myself away from this i'm gonna take a stand no nick chubb and then like three but you couldn't pass on the defense no no no but i need to do i couldn't pass on joe mixon no but i take joe mixon and i'm like i feel like satisfied i'm like yeah

36:53 i did it did a virtuous thing there and then three picks go by i'm like [ __ ] he did something in college what was it google god damn it there's just no one cleaning this sport no now this is the local hour and we have yet to cover the zapruder film studying of tua's first pass of their preseason game at the weekend in which he hit tyrek hill down the field first play of the game hal wingo tweeted this isn't you know perhaps his you know most accurate quarterback ever could have hit him in stride dolphins fans in two and on were out in full force remember that one time when patrick mahomes under threw him it happened i promise check week six two years ago that's what they did that's curious you saw every i saw every past patrick mums has ever underthrown this i can't believe like every every dolphins avatar like i cannot believe what is happening happening on social media on this team the two and on campaign to discredit

37:51 patrick mahomes of all people over the weekend like you don't have to say mahomes is bad to live tua up like we don't need to go that far it's a very bizarre tact but yeah when you have tyree kill a lot of balls appear underthrown because he was just so fast and he worked that to their advantage he had the walk it wasn't a walk-off but it was a game-winning go ahead touchdown against cleveland last year in week one where it was just chuck it up under throw he will make the adjustment that's what the speed does no one knows his body better than tyreek hill and so he knows that he can break back on a ball and it sometimes it's tactical and sometimes it's just an underthrow and those are the great receivers the ones that make you look good when you don't put the ball right in the breadbasket it's hard to know what to take from preseason because it's like which is are the eagles playing guys i don't know who's

38:40 playing i don't know what means anything but all i know is the dolphins offense there looks like there's a lot of space even when it's not tyrique other guys like it just seems like guys are open and that has to be that to me says scheme so i'm excited like the preseason i'm as excited as you can be watching something that doesn't matter because this could all be nothing and they could be terrible but in the preseason i see a lot of space on the offense so that makes me excited to tap back into a theme of our show having a lot of influence and reach have you seen what's happened with gaseki since uh since we talked about him i mean he tumbled in my draft no one knows what to do no one knows what to do with him including the the miami dolphins who apparently after listening to our local hour were like hey we should call some teams because this guy's uh obviously not a fit for this offense so you've got

39:23 all the teams just all listening hardcore every morning like yeah all right before we get to work let's all listen together yeah it's like they're breakfast so so you think nebraska is going to hire david cutcliff oh my god but run the option yeah paul johnson is going to get higher than the option there have you guys ever you guys got me thinking about this did you guys ever play like pick up tackle football back in the day yeah yeah high school like a turkey bowl and stuff broke my arm man we could have just if i would have just figured out a triple threat option like the triple option oh my god imagine how that would have played way too much coordinated i love the idea of like you're playing with your friends and you're diving at their ankles to clear the lane for the be back look out for the fullback dive it's always [ __ ] there for paul johnson

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Jeremy (Guest), Dan Le Batard (Host), Stugotz (Host), Michael Ryan Ruiz (Guest), Jess (Guest).

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The discussion centers on the importance of fantasy football drafts and personal strategies, highlighting a departure from the typical dismissive attitude often found at this time of year. Participants share insights on draft tendencies, including reaching for players and utilizing historical data to inform decisions, emphasizing a commitment to caring about others' fantasy teams while…

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