Ladies. And you want experience during your football season, Well, buckle up, sweet cheeks. We've got all the experience in the world. This is I Want Your Flex with Dan Buyer and Mike Harman. Mike and Dan breakdown everything you need to set your line ups from position rankings, two starts and sits. The guys help you make those hard decisions. And now let's get your flexad. Here's Dan Buyer and Mike Harman. Get my gun Twitter at Swallen Tolm. You could find me on Twitter at Dan Buyer. On Fox. The show's executive producer is Ryan bur Shinger, but you can find on Twitter at Ryan bur Singer and Virt will join us a little bit later on in the podcast as we wrap up our NFL team review when it comes to fantasy football, looking at the NFC West and the a f C U S. But Mike, it's Super Bowl Week, the Pro Bowl in the rear view mirror. There's a lot simmering in the NFL when it comes to quarterbacks. We're talking a lot more than just Chiefs Eagels at this point of the year. It's that fun part of the year, right all the silly season. Tom Brady retires, I go see a d for Brady. It was master thespian performance by Brady. Uh and the core cast. I mean you see it, said, and I went and saw it Sunday night. Uh. Theater was maybe a third full. It ended up being number two at the box office for the weekend. They did a good job selling discounted tickets and trying to appeal to an older too. Arthritic thumbs up is what you give it. Yeah, I mean I do already have one arthritic thumb, but yeah, I'd say it worked right. A bunch of sneaky, funny little one liners. Yeah, there's a lot of cheese and contrivances and and whatever else. But if you don't enjoy Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, Sally Field and Rita Marino getting after it and I you're you're, the premise is not gonna get you in. All right. You're gonna get a little bit of Tom Brady, a couple of little nods and winks to uh, you know, the histories, and and making fun of the Atlanta Falcons. Uh. And Rob Cordrey as a podcaster might have might have stolen the show him. Guy Fiertti Uh and Marshawn Lynch shows up. So a little Seattle Seahawks love for you? Did I did I tell you my eighty for Brady story? Have I told that this on this podcast? How I had the scoop on e d for Brady and completely sad on it? Yes? First, do you know the story? It sounds vaguely familiar. I don't think you've told it on here though. Okay, so last year Tom Brady retires. It was on a Saturday, and you know, obviously Brady retired, and we'll talk about you know that and how it plays into everything. But last year when Brady retired, I went to the golf club to go hit some golf balls at the driving range, you know, on a Saturday. Why not why not try to get some of the kinks out. And I was there and I was able to break the news to the people at the at the club, at the range and I said, yeah, Tom Brady retired. I actually told one of the guys at the club, and then somebody overheard me. They're like, what Brady retired? And so it kind of started to spread throughout the range. In two hitting bays down there was a guy who goes, yeah, we're working on a movie. It's it's it's it's with these old ladies, like these four old ladies that love Tom Brady and it's called A D for Brady. And I thought to myself, boy, is this movie sounds like it's gonna suck, you know? But I didn't say that's say that but he told me about it. And then do you remember like a month or two later, like last spring, when this came out, like this was breaking news and I had known about it for two months, but I didn't think it was a big deal that they were actually making a movie. And he's like, yeah, we're shooting some of the scenes down at so far. So I had the scoop on A D for Brady and I just completely sad on it, and yeah, could the world. But and I'll let you you give it two thumbs up, though you give I'd say it was it's an hour and thirty eight minutes. It's not a huge investment of your time. Uh, And I thought, I thought it was a cute movie. And at the end of it, right, is it is it award worthy and all that? No? Uh, schlocky no, But you know, you get the usual friendship themes, mortality themes both for him as a player and uh, you know them dealing being over eighty right, relationships and all of that fun stuff. And Brady actually does have one scenes where it's like, all right, they taught him to act a little bit. This is pretty good. It wasn't bad. I'm like, all right, One or two lines were a bit you know, extra cheese kurds, but otherwise I thought it was pretty solid. I give it a good look. First, you're a movie guy, do you have any interest in seeing eighty for Brady? Um? Probably not in theaters, but maybe on streaming later on. It might be something I might actually check out at something. Well. I heard that that's where it will get some love. I heard some theaters had earlier showtimes to cater to the older audience. I'm not kidding, you know, you're you're right. They discounted like the move like a MC today on Monday announced that they were going to start charging different pricing based on seating, Like if like you were at a concert or something, all right, here's the prime seeds for the audio and whatever else. But for this they actually discounted in a lot of cases extended you know, like if you go to a mattenee a lot of times what is it burst or something like that off tickets that that they did the deep dive deeper into the day as well, uh, to try to get people in. What do you think about Brady's retirement? What was your initial I was kind of bummed. I mean again, I mentioned the mortality thing with with him, and look, I've had a couple with scares. We don't need to go into home, my home medical world. But it just like, as so long as he was still playing Dan, I didn't feel so old. Now it's another link to that that group. I was like, all right, all those guys are now wiped off in terms of their playing careers. And there were a lot of times this year where I'm like, all right, he's still a top ten guys with some of the throws. And as the year went on, timing, it's like, how much do you go to the line, how do you go to the lack of run game, how much of all of that? And then you know, you embrace brace yourself through the cold, hard facts with some of those throws not made against Dallas, right if he if he doesn't throw the interception in the end, zone. Is it a different game and Rigo maybe a different feel to the end of the season or was he just done right? I mean, that's that's the part I the billion dollar question. I know he talked to Colin coward Um on Monday morning and talking about when you're done and all that stuff, but like for me, it's the Catharsis of letting all that go. And I found myself kind of doing that same thing, like damn man. Yeah, the you know, the funny thing that you mentioned about the throw and the interception is it's not that specific play, Mike, But I just wondered if there were points throughout the season where Brady knew Maybe we didn't know, but Brady knew. I can't make this throw anymore. I can't like that throw is no longer in my repertoire. If I'm if I'm going to have to make that throw, I'm gonna have to do something that I haven't done before, or just you maybe know that you're slipping, you know. Maybe that's the thing. I don't know if it caught Peyton Manning off guard, but I don't think that Tom Brady wanted to go out the way that Peyton Manning ended up going out. Yeah, I you don't want to find that Steve steep cliff right, So many athletes do. And look, I'm I'm always a guy as much as a player or coach can decide when it's their time. Outside of jim beehe I'm complaining about everything and shaking his fists like a grumpy old man anymore. Um is that you know it's I'd love for everybody to be able to go out on their own terms. And I wondered for Brady and again, owing a little to my own personal life and some choices decisions history that I don't need to go in here. Eventually I'll end up on a couch talking through it all. Is that maybe a year later, some of the decisions he made to come back he regrets and and maybe there there's some of that weight that finally is like between that and a decrease in the accuracy and ability on the field, that that that compounds into a all right, it's time, it's time to let it go. I think that number forty five, that age he had brought it up. I always felt that that was the mark that he wanted to reach, That was the one that he was going to go for and so then he did it and then maybe he felt he was slipping. Maybe he didn't feel he was slipping, but it was it was just to get the forty five. It was always his goal. And when I think of forty five, we've heard Russell Wilson and before the before the season against before him joining the Broncos, when he was with the Seahawks, and they're talking about Brady's legacy and his longevity, and Russell Wilson's like, yeah, you know, like I want to play till I'm forty five. And now we look at it and I'm like, well, somebody has to want you until you're forty five, because I don't know if they want you right now, Russell Wilson. So so it puts it even more perspective about Brady and how long he ended up playing. And to play into your mid forties is just absolutely crazy because guys were talking, oh, I'd love to do that and blah blah blah. But to actually be viable and to be relevant and heck, you get an m v P vote, you know, you know, just a couple of years ago. So that's even more of a testament at the time right. I think as we move on, we'll even be more enamored with what he did later in his career, but not completely shocked. They still thought that there was maybe one year in him, especially honestly because he was now, you know, post divorce. I thought maybe he needs something to fill his life and you know, his time with and that maybe football would be it. But uh so I was a bit caught off guard by it. But I think in a few years we are going to be really amazed at what Tom Brady did. Yeah, that's where That's where Unfortunately, all the all the roads with Tom Brady, we can commiserate on some of those decisions, uh, and discussion points, Dan, but uh, you know, at some point I got I'm asking you. I've got a chance to go to an event in March through some n f T thing I bought into kind of cool, a lot of programs and interviews or whatever, and it's it's in Tampa. I will be there earlier in that week. It would require me to stay several days later. Should I go on the off chance that I get to harass Brady at this thing? Yeah? Absolutely? Why not? There you go? Yeah, decision made a live on a podcast. It is Super Bowl week and the Pro Bowl did take place in Las Vegas on Sunday. Just a quick hit on that, Mike, I, I, I don't know what the hell they were doing in Las Vegas. I don't know what the blief that was. I'm I'm looking on a TV and I understand that people can't catch on the tennis scoring easy. Uh. I understand tennis scoring. We're sports fans. I had no idea how they were scoring the Pro Bowl. It's six six and they're saying the game is twelve twelve. They're playing a first half and they're playing a second half and it's like a best of three. I didn't I didn't understand the scoring fifty yard field it was. I'm sorry, I hate it. I couldn't stand it. And then what made me even more bad is the day after I go and I look and I see I see this headline on on UH. It was on ESPN, and it says Pro Bowl hits with players flag foot. This is the exact this is the exact headline flag football a hit with players at new Pro Bowl. That that was the title. That was the title headline right under it. From Josh Jacob saying this sucks. That's exactly at this point. Bleep is stupid, this is this is what Gino Smith said. I didn't know what to expect, but I think it turned out pretty well. It got very competitive at the end, and I think that's what they wanted. Is that a rain review? Um? Christian McCaffrey said, I definitely don't need to take more hits, so I'm a proponent of it. Well, that's a ringing endorsement. Um, you know it's a hit man. It's not negative speech. It's like, I, you know what, my body's not gonna hurt as much finishing. I'll let your Tyreek hill because he got cleaned down. That you know, that would be like hit record, hit record by Guns and Roses. Uh, some of the songs were good, you know like that that would be like my review. Mike Harmon says some of the songs were good, and Dan Buyer said, well track three was cool like that. That's what That's what it would be. That that's the type of review that you got from these players. Like these comments don't mean it was a hit. These it's mean that they just didn't want to get hit. That's all that it meant, well, that was really well done because it was in Monday. Is Axl Rose? Sixty's a good job by you? You know how I knew that. You know how I knew that stat because Cavino and Rich were recording their podcast this morning and you're gonna be in Vegas later this week broadcasting at Jason Smith on Fox Sports Radio. I'm in Phoenix right now for Super Bowl Week, and they were recording their podcast in one of the rooms either above me or below me, and so I heard Cavino, I'll be like Axel Rose today. I'm at the top of this recording February six, Axl Rose, the six D one. That's how I knew because I could hear them next door recording their podcast. My goodness, I'm sorry the show, no, I just the So we we look at the the Pro Bowl from h in theory, right. I do this with Smith a lot. It's like, I like what you're saying in theory, and then I go on to a this rate, what is our hum it is? In this case, I'm looking at it from the bigger picture, like the players and how much they love or hate it whatever, get over it. It's kind of like loving you're hating a seventeenth game and eventually got signed on to it. Get over it. Uh. Same thing here is that you know it's a bigger business picture, and you know, me being the nerd that I am about it, with more people not wanting their kids, at least initially playing tackle football. I started at age eight, and I've got the knees to show for it. Uh. And and my longevity in doing any of that was shut down. But the the idea that you're not doing that, but you're playing flag football, because I'm seeing it all over where I am. I'm sure if you go out to the park with your son, you you see the the the people lined up. There's a lot of soccer, but you're seeing teams practicing flag football all over and California. Uh last week, you know, a week before we get into the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl, UH commissioned it that they're looking at it as a high school sport for girls coming forward. So uh, the growth in that side of things. Yeah, you're trying to monetize it, so you may not be ready to play, uh even as you finished college. Right, you may create another viable league for guys that all right, You're not to tackle on the side of the NFL, but you're a damn good flag football player. And for guys that are running around college campuses and whatever else, maybe there's a whole other industry that pops up. And let's face it, if you can make a television show out of it, uh, live sports programming where you can bet always wins. Yeah, you know it's it's actually a really good point by you, a really good point because I think I'm being maybe selfish and saying all of that. And I heard the c I F stuff, and I, you know, I thought it was great. My niece actually tried out for the football team and in her hometown like a year ago. She loved football y and and and I'm not I'm not saying this jokingly, like I this is like a true story. And she she lasted one practice. She understood, now, okay, this is what tackle football means. And she was done, like she's like, all right, this is not for me. And I was super proud of her for doing that, because to even have the guts to be like, you know what, I yes, absolutely, and you know what. I hated football, you know, we like we talked about it. I could not stand football practice. I hated every second of it. And and that's why I've always said, like with that sport, it is something really that you have to love and and you know, and I look at at a sport that I do love in golf. And you know, golf's taken a great boom since COVID, but prior to that, they were trying to find ways anyway to get people out on the golf course. They're having foot golf. We obviously know about disc golf. They're making holes bigger. You know, they're saying, you know, go out and just play nine holes, go out and play five, you know plays. They were trying to do any thing to get someone to play the sport, to get anybody to play the sport. So I guess when I sit there and criticize the Pro Bowl, you have a much better perspective and a much more correct perspective than than I did, because I just pissed and moaned honestly about the game, and I got to realize that it's not about me. So your your observations were very astute, and I think of have changed my look out everything. Now. Look, you're you're entitled. I mean, I'm not saying aesthetically, it was what I wanted to sit and watch Peyton. Peyton crying like a like a baby at the end like he would have been doing as a player, was great. And Eli loading was great. Hey, can't take a knee, that's a legal that's against the rules. You know, all of that kind of stuff was fun. Like I I just think back to like thinking about your your niece is the for me, I had the the double wammy. Physically, I was already getting beat up um unfortunately. But the other part was I just hated my coaches, Like I just had bad experience after bad experience. So I'm like, am I gonna subject myself to more of this? Like my my daughter had a bad experience with her first soccer coach, and I tried to encourage her because I knew she was going to move away from from this individual pretty fast. Life all my life's a circle in a lot of ways, and with some of this, but when with this, like she gave it another shot, found a coach that was more. Uh. I mean, she's eight years old. Like, you can't come out of a season hating You shouldn't hating a sport when you're eight years old, and so she gave it another another chance, and now she's, you know, defending national champion and doing all this other crazy ass stuff. And it was almost rude because the guy was such a jerk. So I'm glad she at least gave it a chance because I didn't. I stopped and said, I'm not putting up with this my It was one time where I did step in from my mental and physical health to say I'm not subjecting myself to the next rounded jerks. I I just I football is a tough sport to love. So I have so much respect for anybody that plays D three, you know, D two, because you you really have to love the sport to be able to do that, and to to play and go and play, you know, a school with no scholarship, and to be able to go through the practices and the work and the level and the hits, and and a sport where they say the injury rate is so to be able to have that sort of uh, you know, love for the game. Tip of the cap. But you know your your version on the Pro Bowl is right. I've got to realize everything is not about me and follow Now we just have to figure out how we could profit off it, buddy. That's all man. So the Pro Bowl is done, it is, it is Super Bowl weak, and after the Super Bowl Mike Bursh and I will end up doing a Super Bowl recap and also give you our draft, our first draft of the fantasy football season. That will come in our next episode, in our final episode of the I Want Your Flex Podcast. But before we we do that and look ahead the next week's episode, before we do our divisions. To wrap this episode up, what do you think about Chiefs Eagles? How do you think it plays out on Sunday? Well, my homes will be healthy, hurts should be healthy. Er can can the Chiefs d D line make some hay? Because that's where I'm having a lot of fun. Like, I love the skill position player. Let's talk about Kelsey crap. It's all about the offensive and defensive lines here. Who's able to hold up? Because you've got the two best sacked teams in the National Football League Number one Seeds, all of these things. Eagles dealing with a bunch of injuries on the old line. I mean, how many headlines do you have? You have Lane Johnson, I think I'm gonna be able to go. I think I'm good. I think I get through one. More like, how much is that as ropa dote versus this guy is as we were just talking about, injured to the point where, all right, I'm dragging myself to the finish line, because if that's the case, then you might make some hay and get after Hurts early and often. The run game for Philly obviously huge. I pick Kansas City before the year. It's awful tough to to go away from them here, but a little concerned about the secondary UH for Kansas City, but enough up front that I think that makes a difference. Gimmy casey um, let's go thirty four, Okay, all right, I'm going Philly. I just think that they're gonna be able to run and continue to run and run, whether it be Boston Scott, whether it be Kenneth Gainwell or Miles Sanders are obviously Jalen Hurts. You mentioned, you know, the secondary and Lagarius needs status at the time of the taping UH still up in the air just because of the concussion that he suffered in the UH in the a f C Championship game. I just think the Eagles are just better up front on both sides to to your point, and I don't fault you at all for sticking with your pick, because my picks lasted the total of one game in the playoffs had the Packers and Chargers. Packers didn't make it, Chargers blew their lead against the Jaguar. So I actually have the the car blanche to move off of a pick or pick a different team. I'm going Eagles. I'm gonna go. I kind of want Mike. I kind of wanted to pick a funky score of a two point conversion here or there. Um, So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go thirty three. And I think that with the two point, does someone get the octopus? That's one of the prop bets. It's plus six the octopus. But you score the touchdown and then you score the two point conversions. Oh wow, I'm like thinking NHL throwing, you know, throwing it onto the ice and what Detroit? So yeah, exactly, let me throw one more at you, scoring drive of less time than the national anthem takes from Chris Stapleton. Oh yeah, I would. I would hit that for sure, I think so right? Yes, is minus one eight nos plus yep, fifty eight seconds left in the half, someone you can go down and score something quick and then Bucker you go shoo portone with him and make a make the field goal. Ryan Burser, our executive producer, do you have a Super Bowl pick for Super Bowl fifty seven? I am picking the Eagles as well. Um, I think that they They're just an incredibly strong, well rounded team. Obviously. I think what's interesting with both teams is I think both teams kind of make a case for being the underdogs. So they're both going to come in with that mentality, which is really bizarre when they're both fantastic teams. So but I I will go with the Eagles. I will say, how about let's get weird? Can the mayor of Cincinnati says something to piss off the Chiefs? Again? The question, I gotta find the pictures. Once upon a time, I had the Eagles kind of as the adopted non Bears team. So I used to run around in a Jeworski shirt from Sears, and I had one of those Eagles bikes, Eagles bikes out of this Sears catalog that the logo and everything front and center and then the uh the frame was the color of your whatever team you want. Oh man, I can't believe you are going against your Eagles bike Mike and Super Bowl fifty seven. Really, I'm out on saws. No, I'm just kidding. I just said the old BMX Huffy that was by the way, in Saints colors. It was black and gold. Yeah. One one of my one of my highlights of childhood was driving on that. That will be a mix bike. Alright, So Harmon's got the Chiefs, Burch and I taking the Eagles and some funky scores. There is your Super Bowl fifty seven preview and predictions. Alright, as we hit the home stretch here on I want your flex. Get Mike on Twitter at Swallen. Home from Ryan Burschinger on Twitter at Ryan Burschinger and you can find me on Twitter at Dan Buyer on Fox. Let's finish our division review of fantasy football. We take each NFL team and we picked something about that team and what happened fantasy wise throughout the season. Sometimes we double up, so those we triple up. Sometimes we all have unique ideas. We haven't done the Western divisions in the a f C or NFC. Let's start with the a f C Western. Let's start with these Kansas City Chiefs. Mike Harmon, what's your biggest fantasy takeaway from the Chiefs this past season. Well, I mean it's just the overarching thing of Hey, Tyreek Hill doesn't make a team. Uh. You had eight players with at least two hundred fifty receiving yards, which meant you had a lot of guesswork beyond Travis Kelsey in terms of setting your fantasy lineup. First, Um, yeah, I mean you have both Mahomes and Kelsey finishing and number one at their position. I'll focus in on Travis Kelsey because he just absolutely dominated all tight ends, of course, finishing with hundred yards. Uh. The next closest tight end had eight, that's t J Hawkinson. Uh. With touchdowns, he had twelve. The only tight end to reach a double digit touchdowns. I think Tasso No George George Kittle had nine. Thankfully it's not Taston Hill that second. Um and uh yeah. So the the complete and utter dominance that Travis Kelsey provided at the tight end position, I'm sure won a lot of people titles. Well, I I was going to triple up and I'm going to triple up on Travis Kelsey For the point of this. I thought he was gonna stink, not not stink. I thought that there was going to be a drop off. I thought that you saw signs last year in his usage that the Chiefs were limiting a little bit because the snaps were down, and I actually thought that was going to continue. And I thought you were going to get a much bigger boost from Juju Smith Schuster, from Marquees Valve Scantling. I mean, Kadarius Tony wasn't there at the beginning of the year, so I can't say that, but I thought that that was going to be an opportunity. And guys, for me, it always goes back to Clyde Edwards Hilaire as well, because I thought he was going to pick up some slack. Now, Isaiah Pacheco and Jerk McKinnon, um, you know, did some of that, but I just completely I was I was ready to sell on Kelsey and there couldn't have been a worse decision. And you're benching Joe Mixon in one point game, all right, Yeah, Denver broncos Um, I mean Bell unlock step like I guess the only let me let me just say this just for time. The Javante Williams injury and how that running like that backfield like just all of a sudden completely dissolved because you have this fifty fifty split and then all of a sudden, Latavious Murray is your like key back at the end of the year like that he had I think all of the Russell Wilson It was hid by the Russell Wilson junk that we just talked about in the week up. But it's funny coming into the season, right when we were talking about him, like they're gonna resign Melvin Gordon? What they do? They resigned Melvin Gordon and then he couldn't hold on to the football, Like what the hell happened? Man? And so uh and then Williams gets hurt and it all goes asunder and really quickly. I drafted Albert oh in a couple of weeks. That zero you in fantasy that that was. That was a rough one, Thank you, Albert oh Man. I did play some dulcitch later on a li will say that what about the charge of a sleeper that never woke up any what about the Chargers first want to start with with the alighting bolts. Yeah, I don't think It's talked about enough that Justin Herbert was actually a pretty big disappointment and fantasy this season. Uh. He was drafted as QB three, which is crazy because he finished his QB twelve. Uh. If you ended up, you know, just sitting and taking Geno Smith off of free agency way later, who we'll talk about at some point. Uh, you ended up with a much better position. So unfortunately, and I think a part of that, of course, is the injuries that happened at wide receiver for the Chargers. Harmon Chargers stake. H Well, I look at the Chargers, you just have the number of injuries. Mike Williams uh still dominant, even though the yards per catch were down. Uh, he just can't stay on the damn field. So the story the song remains the same. Just steal from led Zeppelin. No, I am with you with that. I think Austin ekeler Um for uh, for the value if you are if you are drafting Austin ekeler Um, where you did, um, great, you know it worked out, But I am not almost looking ahead to next year if they actually have a competent running game. Kellen Moore coming in there on what the value of Austin Ekeler could be I think there could be even be brighter days ahead. Um, because they weren't great running the football, but Eckler still was able to put up points because it was a cool threat capability. Well, you get Slater back, you know, make some changes there. There's a lot of potential flux in the receiving corps Keenan Allen and Gerald Everett and others that may be on their way out. I mean, it would be remiss to not mention Josh Pulver though d Ad himself a nice year. Seventy two catches, seven sixty nine and three h guy would have been undrafted in virtually every league and put up some good numbers. Also a dream fantasy player for people this season. Finishing as RB one and being RB one in Week seventeen fantastic. Yeah. For as bad as they were, he was, he was worth it. I mean, you know, like like statistic wise, you know, we talked about their run game, but fantasy wise, I mean, Ekeler was it and things could be getting better, which is crazy. So let's go to the Raiders. Anybody want to start, I'll start with the Raiders. The fall off of Darren Waller um injury wise. Obviously Davante Adams coming in um has an effect of that. But there it was just a few short years ago that I thought Darren Waller could be te one in the entire National Football League, and then that is that has fallen off. You want to go where Josh Jacobs? You know, he was drafted his running back twenty two and finished his RB three. Phenomenal season for Josh Jacobs. He saw a chance to get that bag and he got it. Guy really done? Uh? And then Adams still finishing top three despite the inefficiency, inefficiency, ineffectiveness of Derek Carr and the demotion and the fact that Waller and renfrom missed so much time. I mean, Jacob's obviously the beneficiary of Adams being out there. Whatever new contract he signs, he should send up a gift gift basket. All right, that's the a f C West, NFC West. Let's start with the San Francisco forty Niners. Mike Harmon Europe. I'll take the mid season acquisition that crushed everybody else. Just Christian McCaffrey stayed healthy. Lad you down the way and if you had drafted wishing, wanting hoping that he would find a better team in situation he did, uh and maybe carried you to a title on the On the connection of that, you know, Debot took a hit. Um. You know, he was so good last year. He really was. But I felt that McCaffrey coming in would end up having a trickle down effect with others. And I felt that it did happen with the likes of of Deebo Samuel, So Diebo Samuel was not the same as he was Um a year ago. He's still great, He's still really good, but just not the same effect. And I think McCaffrey took away some of that and George Kittle still being a very valuable asset at tight end. As I said, nine touchdowns and unfortunately I have to correct myself, Taysom Hill did have nine touchdowns overall. So thanks damn it, burs It's all good. Yeah, the the week that I don't play him is when he lights up the Seahawks. So that was still still bitter in my heart. What about what about the Seattle Seahawks, My Seattle Seahawks, Bursch. I'll let you have the have the floor on this. Sure, well it is it is Geno Smith's coming out party right finishing his quarterback six. Just an incredible season for Gino really really awesome. Uh over four thousand yards. It's a twenty nine touchdowns, I mean, just a great season for Gino Smith, lifting up an offense that people were very low on coming into the season. I'll take Tyler Lockett finishing on the edge of the the back end of w R one the I'll take Kenneth Walker. But Ken Walker did trail off at the end of the year, and it's kind of funny because he hit a rookie wall, but he wasn't the man at the start of the season. So it is something to watch, at least in Seattle. Maybe that changes. But the emergence of Kenneth Walker, I I'm really curious to see where he goes in drafts next year, just because of what you didn't have the beginning of the season because he was hurt and Rashard Petty was there. Then he takes over and burst out of the scene. But the latter part of the year was not as effective and not as productive fantasy wise as he was during the middle part of the season. So I'm curious where Kenneth Walker goes, what about those Arizona Cardinals Here I'm in Phoenix, is it is it just Kyler Murray and everything else when it comes to the Cardinals burn it all down the fact DeAndre Hopkins got himself suspended and then was useless because well, Arizona was useless down the stretch. So he finished as uh w R forty nine on Fantasy Pros final scoring for the year. He came out like gangbusters, but then you had you know, him and Kyler beefing, and then he had the injury and so it was, yeah, it was downhill from there. I do want to mention James Connor when he came off of his injury. Uh, the second half of the season, he was a very strong fantasy asset. Had four top ten finishes at running back from Week ten on. UH, so really strong finished for Connor. They figured out, you know, once they didn't have Kyler Murray in there, just hand the ball off to Connor. He was a reliable running back and it worked out. Didn't have the touchdown to match the years, right, you know prior, but uh did work out alright. Finally, those l A Ramshi should we just punt you don't you know what, I'm that was their best asset. The cam Akers STI he is the one that blows me away, I mean from being inactive and on the outs too. Then you know being resurgence. I'll take cam Akers for the way and the fantasy playoffs suddenly had value for you. Just like the tight end position that didn't the whole year. Higbee did enough at the end to finish as tight end fifteen. I do think it's very important though, to note that when Cooper Cup was healthy, he was still a top flight fantasy asset the first half of the season. He he had five top ten finishes in his first nine weeks, and of course he played ten games. Technically his tenth game he had like negative one receiving yard and he was out for the rest of the season. You look at the games that he did play in, he had that gigantic workload. Still a great fantasy ascid. There shouldn't be any hesitation in drafting him next season. All right, there it is. We have got all thirty two teams in. Feel free to go download the other episodes if you've missed it, see what we thought. If your team, they're always available wherever you get your podcasts. I want your flex. Alright, guys, we've got one more episode of the season to go, and uh it will be our review of Super Bowl fifty seven and then our draft, the first draft of the fantasy football season. Fun, all right, enjoy the game, so for my joy, Arizona. Yes, we'll do. And you enjoy Vegas and Burst, you enjoy Sherman Oaks. If we're Ryan bur Singer and my garment, I'm Dan Buyers. We'll talk to you next time right here, and I want your flens

Ladies. And you want experience during your football season, Well, buckle up, sweet cheeks. We've got all the experience in the world. This is I Want Your Flex with Dan Buyer and Mike Harman. Mike and Dan breakdown everything you need to set your line ups from position rankings, two starts and sits. The guys help you make those hard decisions. And now let's get your flexad. Here's Dan Buyer and Mike Harman. Get my gun Twitter at Swallen Tolm. You could find me on Twitter at Dan Buyer. On Fox. The show's executive producer is Ryan bur Shinger, but you can find on Twitter at Ryan bur Singer and Virt will join us a little bit later on in the podcast as we wrap up our NFL team review when it comes to fantasy football, looking at the NFC West and the a f C U S. But Mike, it's Super Bowl Week, the Pro Bowl in the rear view mirror. There's a lot simmering in the NFL when it comes to quarterbacks. We're talking a lot more than just Chiefs Eagels at this point of the year. It's that fun part of the year, right all the silly season. Tom Brady retires, I go see a d for Brady. It was master thespian performance by Brady. Uh and the core cast. I mean you see it, said, and I went and saw it Sunday night. Uh. Theater was maybe a third full. It ended up being number two at the box office for the weekend. They did a good job selling discounted tickets and trying to appeal to an older too. Arthritic thumbs up is what you give it. Yeah, I mean I do already have one arthritic thumb, but yeah, I'd say it worked right. A bunch of sneaky, funny little one liners. Yeah, there's a lot of cheese and contrivances and and whatever else. But if you don't enjoy Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, Sally Field and Rita Marino getting after it and I you're you're, the premise is not gonna get you in. All right. You're gonna get a little bit of Tom Brady, a couple of little nods and winks to uh, you know, the histories, and and making fun of the Atlanta Falcons. Uh. And Rob Cordrey as a podcaster might have might have stolen the show him. Guy Fiertti Uh and Marshawn Lynch shows up. So a little Seattle Seahawks love for you? Did I did I tell you my eighty for Brady story? Have I told that this on this podcast? How I had the scoop on e d for Brady and completely sad on it? Yes? First, do you know the story? It sounds vaguely familiar. I don't think you've told it on here though. Okay, so last year Tom Brady retires. It was on a Saturday, and you know, obviously Brady retired, and we'll talk about you know that and how it plays into everything. But last year when Brady retired, I went to the golf club to go hit some golf balls at the driving range, you know, on a Saturday. Why not why not try to get some of the kinks out. And I was there and I was able to break the news to the people at the at the club, at the range and I said, yeah, Tom Brady retired. I actually told one of the guys at the club, and then somebody overheard me. They're like, what Brady retired? And so it kind of started to spread throughout the range. In two hitting bays down there was a guy who goes, yeah, we're working on a movie. It's it's it's it's with these old ladies, like these four old ladies that love Tom Brady and it's called A D for Brady. And I thought to myself, boy, is this movie sounds like it's gonna suck, you know? But I didn't say that's say that but he told me about it. And then do you remember like a month or two later, like last spring, when this came out, like this was breaking news and I had known about it for two months, but I didn't think it was a big deal that they were actually making a movie. And he's like, yeah, we're shooting some of the scenes down at so far. So I had the scoop on A D for Brady and I just completely sad on it, and yeah, could the world. But and I'll let you you give it two thumbs up, though you give I'd say it was it's an hour and thirty eight minutes. It's not a huge investment of your time. Uh, And I thought, I thought it was a cute movie. And at the end of it, right, is it is it award worthy and all that? No? Uh, schlocky no, But you know, you get the usual friendship themes, mortality themes both for him as a player and uh, you know them dealing being over eighty right, relationships and all of that fun stuff. And Brady actually does have one scenes where it's like, all right, they taught him to act a little bit. This is pretty good. It wasn't bad. I'm like, all right, One or two lines were a bit you know, extra cheese kurds, but otherwise I thought it was pretty solid. I give it a good look. First, you're a movie guy, do you have any interest in seeing eighty for Brady? Um? Probably not in theaters, but maybe on streaming later on. It might be something I might actually check out at something. Well. I heard that that's where it will get some love. I heard some theaters had earlier showtimes to cater to the older audience. I'm not kidding, you know, you're you're right. They discounted like the move like a MC today on Monday announced that they were going to start charging different pricing based on seating, Like if like you were at a concert or something, all right, here's the prime seeds for the audio and whatever else. But for this they actually discounted in a lot of cases extended you know, like if you go to a mattenee a lot of times what is it burst or something like that off tickets that that they did the deep dive deeper into the day as well, uh, to try to get people in. What do you think about Brady's retirement? What was your initial I was kind of bummed. I mean again, I mentioned the mortality thing with with him, and look, I've had a couple with scares. We don't need to go into home, my home medical world. But it just like, as so long as he was still playing Dan, I didn't feel so old. Now it's another link to that that group. I was like, all right, all those guys are now wiped off in terms of their playing careers. And there were a lot of times this year where I'm like, all right, he's still a top ten guys with some of the throws. And as the year went on, timing, it's like, how much do you go to the line, how do you go to the lack of run game, how much of all of that? And then you know, you embrace brace yourself through the cold, hard facts with some of those throws not made against Dallas, right if he if he doesn't throw the interception in the end, zone. Is it a different game and Rigo maybe a different feel to the end of the season or was he just done right? I mean, that's that's the part I the billion dollar question. I know he talked to Colin coward Um on Monday morning and talking about when you're done and all that stuff, but like for me, it's the Catharsis of letting all that go. And I found myself kind of doing that same thing, like damn man. Yeah, the you know, the funny thing that you mentioned about the throw and the interception is it's not that specific play, Mike, But I just wondered if there were points throughout the season where Brady knew Maybe we didn't know, but Brady knew. I can't make this throw anymore. I can't like that throw is no longer in my repertoire. If I'm if I'm going to have to make that throw, I'm gonna have to do something that I haven't done before, or just you maybe know that you're slipping, you know. Maybe that's the thing. I don't know if it caught Peyton Manning off guard, but I don't think that Tom Brady wanted to go out the way that Peyton Manning ended up going out. Yeah, I you don't want to find that Steve steep cliff right, So many athletes do. And look, I'm I'm always a guy as much as a player or coach can decide when it's their time. Outside of jim beehe I'm complaining about everything and shaking his fists like a grumpy old man anymore. Um is that you know it's I'd love for everybody to be able to go out on their own terms. And I wondered for Brady and again, owing a little to my own personal life and some choices decisions history that I don't need to go in here. Eventually I'll end up on a couch talking through it all. Is that maybe a year later, some of the decisions he made to come back he regrets and and maybe there there's some of that weight that finally is like between that and a decrease in the accuracy and ability on the field, that that that compounds into a all right, it's time, it's time to let it go. I think that number forty five, that age he had brought it up. I always felt that that was the mark that he wanted to reach, That was the one that he was going to go for and so then he did it and then maybe he felt he was slipping. Maybe he didn't feel he was slipping, but it was it was just to get the forty five. It was always his goal. And when I think of forty five, we've heard Russell Wilson and before the before the season against before him joining the Broncos, when he was with the Seahawks, and they're talking about Brady's legacy and his longevity, and Russell Wilson's like, yeah, you know, like I want to play till I'm forty five. And now we look at it and I'm like, well, somebody has to want you until you're forty five, because I don't know if they want you right now, Russell Wilson. So so it puts it even more perspective about Brady and how long he ended up playing. And to play into your mid forties is just absolutely crazy because guys were talking, oh, I'd love to do that and blah blah blah. But to actually be viable and to be relevant and heck, you get an m v P vote, you know, you know, just a couple of years ago. So that's even more of a testament at the time right. I think as we move on, we'll even be more enamored with what he did later in his career, but not completely shocked. They still thought that there was maybe one year in him, especially honestly because he was now, you know, post divorce. I thought maybe he needs something to fill his life and you know, his time with and that maybe football would be it. But uh so I was a bit caught off guard by it. But I think in a few years we are going to be really amazed at what Tom Brady did. Yeah, that's where That's where Unfortunately, all the all the roads with Tom Brady, we can commiserate on some of those decisions, uh, and discussion points, Dan, but uh, you know, at some point I got I'm asking you. I've got a chance to go to an event in March through some n f T thing I bought into kind of cool, a lot of programs and interviews or whatever, and it's it's in Tampa. I will be there earlier in that week. It would require me to stay several days later. Should I go on the off chance that I get to harass Brady at this thing? Yeah? Absolutely? Why not? There you go? Yeah, decision made a live on a podcast. It is Super Bowl week and the Pro Bowl did take place in Las Vegas on Sunday. Just a quick hit on that, Mike, I, I, I don't know what the hell they were doing in Las Vegas. I don't know what the blief that was. I'm I'm looking on a TV and I understand that people can't catch on the tennis scoring easy. Uh. I understand tennis scoring. We're sports fans. I had no idea how they were scoring the Pro Bowl. It's six six and they're saying the game is twelve twelve. They're playing a first half and they're playing a second half and it's like a best of three. I didn't I didn't understand the scoring fifty yard field it was. I'm sorry, I hate it. I couldn't stand it. And then what made me even more bad is the day after I go and I look and I see I see this headline on on UH. It was on ESPN, and it says Pro Bowl hits with players flag foot. This is the exact this is the exact headline flag football a hit with players at new Pro Bowl. That that was the title. That was the title headline right under it. From Josh Jacob saying this sucks. That's exactly at this point. Bleep is stupid, this is this is what Gino Smith said. I didn't know what to expect, but I think it turned out pretty well. It got very competitive at the end, and I think that's what they wanted. Is that a rain review? Um? Christian McCaffrey said, I definitely don't need to take more hits, so I'm a proponent of it. Well, that's a ringing endorsement. Um, you know it's a hit man. It's not negative speech. It's like, I, you know what, my body's not gonna hurt as much finishing. I'll let your Tyreek hill because he got cleaned down. That you know, that would be like hit record, hit record by Guns and Roses. Uh, some of the songs were good, you know like that that would be like my review. Mike Harmon says some of the songs were good, and Dan Buyer said, well track three was cool like that. That's what That's what it would be. That that's the type of review that you got from these players. Like these comments don't mean it was a hit. These it's mean that they just didn't want to get hit. That's all that it meant, well, that was really well done because it was in Monday. Is Axl Rose? Sixty's a good job by you? You know how I knew that. You know how I knew that stat because Cavino and Rich were recording their podcast this morning and you're gonna be in Vegas later this week broadcasting at Jason Smith on Fox Sports Radio. I'm in Phoenix right now for Super Bowl Week, and they were recording their podcast in one of the rooms either above me or below me, and so I heard Cavino, I'll be like Axel Rose today. I'm at the top of this recording February six, Axl Rose, the six D one. That's how I knew because I could hear them next door recording their podcast. My goodness, I'm sorry the show, no, I just the So we we look at the the Pro Bowl from h in theory, right. I do this with Smith a lot. It's like, I like what you're saying in theory, and then I go on to a this rate, what is our hum it is? In this case, I'm looking at it from the bigger picture, like the players and how much they love or hate it whatever, get over it. It's kind of like loving you're hating a seventeenth game and eventually got signed on to it. Get over it. Uh. Same thing here is that you know it's a bigger business picture, and you know, me being the nerd that I am about it, with more people not wanting their kids, at least initially playing tackle football. I started at age eight, and I've got the knees to show for it. Uh. And and my longevity in doing any of that was shut down. But the the idea that you're not doing that, but you're playing flag football, because I'm seeing it all over where I am. I'm sure if you go out to the park with your son, you you see the the the people lined up. There's a lot of soccer, but you're seeing teams practicing flag football all over and California. Uh last week, you know, a week before we get into the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl, UH commissioned it that they're looking at it as a high school sport for girls coming forward. So uh, the growth in that side of things. Yeah, you're trying to monetize it, so you may not be ready to play, uh even as you finished college. Right, you may create another viable league for guys that all right, You're not to tackle on the side of the NFL, but you're a damn good flag football player. And for guys that are running around college campuses and whatever else, maybe there's a whole other industry that pops up. And let's face it, if you can make a television show out of it, uh, live sports programming where you can bet always wins. Yeah, you know it's it's actually a really good point by you, a really good point because I think I'm being maybe selfish and saying all of that. And I heard the c I F stuff, and I, you know, I thought it was great. My niece actually tried out for the football team and in her hometown like a year ago. She loved football y and and and I'm not I'm not saying this jokingly, like I this is like a true story. And she she lasted one practice. She understood, now, okay, this is what tackle football means. And she was done, like she's like, all right, this is not for me. And I was super proud of her for doing that, because to even have the guts to be like, you know what, I yes, absolutely, and you know what. I hated football, you know, we like we talked about it. I could not stand football practice. I hated every second of it. And and that's why I've always said, like with that sport, it is something really that you have to love and and you know, and I look at at a sport that I do love in golf. And you know, golf's taken a great boom since COVID, but prior to that, they were trying to find ways anyway to get people out on the golf course. They're having foot golf. We obviously know about disc golf. They're making holes bigger. You know, they're saying, you know, go out and just play nine holes, go out and play five, you know plays. They were trying to do any thing to get someone to play the sport, to get anybody to play the sport. So I guess when I sit there and criticize the Pro Bowl, you have a much better perspective and a much more correct perspective than than I did, because I just pissed and moaned honestly about the game, and I got to realize that it's not about me. So your your observations were very astute, and I think of have changed my look out everything. Now. Look, you're you're entitled. I mean, I'm not saying aesthetically, it was what I wanted to sit and watch Peyton. Peyton crying like a like a baby at the end like he would have been doing as a player, was great. And Eli loading was great. Hey, can't take a knee, that's a legal that's against the rules. You know, all of that kind of stuff was fun. Like I I just think back to like thinking about your your niece is the for me, I had the the double wammy. Physically, I was already getting beat up um unfortunately. But the other part was I just hated my coaches, Like I just had bad experience after bad experience. So I'm like, am I gonna subject myself to more of this? Like my my daughter had a bad experience with her first soccer coach, and I tried to encourage her because I knew she was going to move away from from this individual pretty fast. Life all my life's a circle in a lot of ways, and with some of this, but when with this, like she gave it another shot, found a coach that was more. Uh. I mean, she's eight years old. Like, you can't come out of a season hating You shouldn't hating a sport when you're eight years old, and so she gave it another another chance, and now she's, you know, defending national champion and doing all this other crazy ass stuff. And it was almost rude because the guy was such a jerk. So I'm glad she at least gave it a chance because I didn't. I stopped and said, I'm not putting up with this my It was one time where I did step in from my mental and physical health to say I'm not subjecting myself to the next rounded jerks. I I just I football is a tough sport to love. So I have so much respect for anybody that plays D three, you know, D two, because you you really have to love the sport to be able to do that, and to to play and go and play, you know, a school with no scholarship, and to be able to go through the practices and the work and the level and the hits, and and a sport where they say the injury rate is so to be able to have that sort of uh, you know, love for the game. Tip of the cap. But you know your your version on the Pro Bowl is right. I've got to realize everything is not about me and follow Now we just have to figure out how we could profit off it, buddy. That's all man. So the Pro Bowl is done, it is, it is Super Bowl weak, and after the Super Bowl Mike Bursh and I will end up doing a Super Bowl recap and also give you our draft, our first draft of the fantasy football season. That will come in our next episode, in our final episode of the I Want Your Flex Podcast. But before we we do that and look ahead the next week's episode, before we do our divisions. To wrap this episode up, what do you think about Chiefs Eagles? How do you think it plays out on Sunday? Well, my homes will be healthy, hurts should be healthy. Er can can the Chiefs d D line make some hay? Because that's where I'm having a lot of fun. Like, I love the skill position player. Let's talk about Kelsey crap. It's all about the offensive and defensive lines here. Who's able to hold up? Because you've got the two best sacked teams in the National Football League Number one Seeds, all of these things. Eagles dealing with a bunch of injuries on the old line. I mean, how many headlines do you have? You have Lane Johnson, I think I'm gonna be able to go. I think I'm good. I think I get through one. More like, how much is that as ropa dote versus this guy is as we were just talking about, injured to the point where, all right, I'm dragging myself to the finish line, because if that's the case, then you might make some hay and get after Hurts early and often. The run game for Philly obviously huge. I pick Kansas City before the year. It's awful tough to to go away from them here, but a little concerned about the secondary UH for Kansas City, but enough up front that I think that makes a difference. Gimmy casey um, let's go thirty four, Okay, all right, I'm going Philly. I just think that they're gonna be able to run and continue to run and run, whether it be Boston Scott, whether it be Kenneth Gainwell or Miles Sanders are obviously Jalen Hurts. You mentioned, you know, the secondary and Lagarius needs status at the time of the taping UH still up in the air just because of the concussion that he suffered in the UH in the a f C Championship game. I just think the Eagles are just better up front on both sides to to your point, and I don't fault you at all for sticking with your pick, because my picks lasted the total of one game in the playoffs had the Packers and Chargers. Packers didn't make it, Chargers blew their lead against the Jaguar. So I actually have the the car blanche to move off of a pick or pick a different team. I'm going Eagles. I'm gonna go. I kind of want Mike. I kind of wanted to pick a funky score of a two point conversion here or there. Um, So I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go thirty three. And I think that with the two point, does someone get the octopus? That's one of the prop bets. It's plus six the octopus. But you score the touchdown and then you score the two point conversions. Oh wow, I'm like thinking NHL throwing, you know, throwing it onto the ice and what Detroit? So yeah, exactly, let me throw one more at you, scoring drive of less time than the national anthem takes from Chris Stapleton. Oh yeah, I would. I would hit that for sure, I think so right? Yes, is minus one eight nos plus yep, fifty eight seconds left in the half, someone you can go down and score something quick and then Bucker you go shoo portone with him and make a make the field goal. Ryan Burser, our executive producer, do you have a Super Bowl pick for Super Bowl fifty seven? I am picking the Eagles as well. Um, I think that they They're just an incredibly strong, well rounded team. Obviously. I think what's interesting with both teams is I think both teams kind of make a case for being the underdogs. So they're both going to come in with that mentality, which is really bizarre when they're both fantastic teams. So but I I will go with the Eagles. I will say, how about let's get weird? Can the mayor of Cincinnati says something to piss off the Chiefs? Again? The question, I gotta find the pictures. Once upon a time, I had the Eagles kind of as the adopted non Bears team. So I used to run around in a Jeworski shirt from Sears, and I had one of those Eagles bikes, Eagles bikes out of this Sears catalog that the logo and everything front and center and then the uh the frame was the color of your whatever team you want. Oh man, I can't believe you are going against your Eagles bike Mike and Super Bowl fifty seven. Really, I'm out on saws. No, I'm just kidding. I just said the old BMX Huffy that was by the way, in Saints colors. It was black and gold. Yeah. One one of my one of my highlights of childhood was driving on that. That will be a mix bike. Alright, So Harmon's got the Chiefs, Burch and I taking the Eagles and some funky scores. There is your Super Bowl fifty seven preview and predictions. Alright, as we hit the home stretch here on I want your flex. Get Mike on Twitter at Swallen. Home from Ryan Burschinger on Twitter at Ryan Burschinger and you can find me on Twitter at Dan Buyer on Fox. Let's finish our division review of fantasy football. We take each NFL team and we picked something about that team and what happened fantasy wise throughout the season. Sometimes we double up, so those we triple up. Sometimes we all have unique ideas. We haven't done the Western divisions in the a f C or NFC. Let's start with the a f C Western. Let's start with these Kansas City Chiefs. Mike Harmon, what's your biggest fantasy takeaway from the Chiefs this past season. Well, I mean it's just the overarching thing of Hey, Tyreek Hill doesn't make a team. Uh. You had eight players with at least two hundred fifty receiving yards, which meant you had a lot of guesswork beyond Travis Kelsey in terms of setting your fantasy lineup. First, Um, yeah, I mean you have both Mahomes and Kelsey finishing and number one at their position. I'll focus in on Travis Kelsey because he just absolutely dominated all tight ends, of course, finishing with hundred yards. Uh. The next closest tight end had eight, that's t J Hawkinson. Uh. With touchdowns, he had twelve. The only tight end to reach a double digit touchdowns. I think Tasso No George George Kittle had nine. Thankfully it's not Taston Hill that second. Um and uh yeah. So the the complete and utter dominance that Travis Kelsey provided at the tight end position, I'm sure won a lot of people titles. Well, I I was going to triple up and I'm going to triple up on Travis Kelsey For the point of this. I thought he was gonna stink, not not stink. I thought that there was going to be a drop off. I thought that you saw signs last year in his usage that the Chiefs were limiting a little bit because the snaps were down, and I actually thought that was going to continue. And I thought you were going to get a much bigger boost from Juju Smith Schuster, from Marquees Valve Scantling. I mean, Kadarius Tony wasn't there at the beginning of the year, so I can't say that, but I thought that that was going to be an opportunity. And guys, for me, it always goes back to Clyde Edwards Hilaire as well, because I thought he was going to pick up some slack. Now, Isaiah Pacheco and Jerk McKinnon, um, you know, did some of that, but I just completely I was I was ready to sell on Kelsey and there couldn't have been a worse decision. And you're benching Joe Mixon in one point game, all right, Yeah, Denver broncos Um, I mean Bell unlock step like I guess the only let me let me just say this just for time. The Javante Williams injury and how that running like that backfield like just all of a sudden completely dissolved because you have this fifty fifty split and then all of a sudden, Latavious Murray is your like key back at the end of the year like that he had I think all of the Russell Wilson It was hid by the Russell Wilson junk that we just talked about in the week up. But it's funny coming into the season, right when we were talking about him, like they're gonna resign Melvin Gordon? What they do? They resigned Melvin Gordon and then he couldn't hold on to the football, Like what the hell happened? Man? And so uh and then Williams gets hurt and it all goes asunder and really quickly. I drafted Albert oh in a couple of weeks. That zero you in fantasy that that was. That was a rough one, Thank you, Albert oh Man. I did play some dulcitch later on a li will say that what about the charge of a sleeper that never woke up any what about the Chargers first want to start with with the alighting bolts. Yeah, I don't think It's talked about enough that Justin Herbert was actually a pretty big disappointment and fantasy this season. Uh. He was drafted as QB three, which is crazy because he finished his QB twelve. Uh. If you ended up, you know, just sitting and taking Geno Smith off of free agency way later, who we'll talk about at some point. Uh, you ended up with a much better position. So unfortunately, and I think a part of that, of course, is the injuries that happened at wide receiver for the Chargers. Harmon Chargers stake. H Well, I look at the Chargers, you just have the number of injuries. Mike Williams uh still dominant, even though the yards per catch were down. Uh, he just can't stay on the damn field. So the story the song remains the same. Just steal from led Zeppelin. No, I am with you with that. I think Austin ekeler Um for uh, for the value if you are if you are drafting Austin ekeler Um, where you did, um, great, you know it worked out, But I am not almost looking ahead to next year if they actually have a competent running game. Kellen Moore coming in there on what the value of Austin Ekeler could be I think there could be even be brighter days ahead. Um, because they weren't great running the football, but Eckler still was able to put up points because it was a cool threat capability. Well, you get Slater back, you know, make some changes there. There's a lot of potential flux in the receiving corps Keenan Allen and Gerald Everett and others that may be on their way out. I mean, it would be remiss to not mention Josh Pulver though d Ad himself a nice year. Seventy two catches, seven sixty nine and three h guy would have been undrafted in virtually every league and put up some good numbers. Also a dream fantasy player for people this season. Finishing as RB one and being RB one in Week seventeen fantastic. Yeah. For as bad as they were, he was, he was worth it. I mean, you know, like like statistic wise, you know, we talked about their run game, but fantasy wise, I mean, Ekeler was it and things could be getting better, which is crazy. So let's go to the Raiders. Anybody want to start, I'll start with the Raiders. The fall off of Darren Waller um injury wise. Obviously Davante Adams coming in um has an effect of that. But there it was just a few short years ago that I thought Darren Waller could be te one in the entire National Football League, and then that is that has fallen off. You want to go where Josh Jacobs? You know, he was drafted his running back twenty two and finished his RB three. Phenomenal season for Josh Jacobs. He saw a chance to get that bag and he got it. Guy really done? Uh? And then Adams still finishing top three despite the inefficiency, inefficiency, ineffectiveness of Derek Carr and the demotion and the fact that Waller and renfrom missed so much time. I mean, Jacob's obviously the beneficiary of Adams being out there. Whatever new contract he signs, he should send up a gift gift basket. All right, that's the a f C West, NFC West. Let's start with the San Francisco forty Niners. Mike Harmon Europe. I'll take the mid season acquisition that crushed everybody else. Just Christian McCaffrey stayed healthy. Lad you down the way and if you had drafted wishing, wanting hoping that he would find a better team in situation he did, uh and maybe carried you to a title on the On the connection of that, you know, Debot took a hit. Um. You know, he was so good last year. He really was. But I felt that McCaffrey coming in would end up having a trickle down effect with others. And I felt that it did happen with the likes of of Deebo Samuel, So Diebo Samuel was not the same as he was Um a year ago. He's still great, He's still really good, but just not the same effect. And I think McCaffrey took away some of that and George Kittle still being a very valuable asset at tight end. As I said, nine touchdowns and unfortunately I have to correct myself, Taysom Hill did have nine touchdowns overall. So thanks damn it, burs It's all good. Yeah, the the week that I don't play him is when he lights up the Seahawks. So that was still still bitter in my heart. What about what about the Seattle Seahawks, My Seattle Seahawks, Bursch. I'll let you have the have the floor on this. Sure, well it is it is Geno Smith's coming out party right finishing his quarterback six. Just an incredible season for Gino really really awesome. Uh over four thousand yards. It's a twenty nine touchdowns, I mean, just a great season for Gino Smith, lifting up an offense that people were very low on coming into the season. I'll take Tyler Lockett finishing on the edge of the the back end of w R one the I'll take Kenneth Walker. But Ken Walker did trail off at the end of the year, and it's kind of funny because he hit a rookie wall, but he wasn't the man at the start of the season. So it is something to watch, at least in Seattle. Maybe that changes. But the emergence of Kenneth Walker, I I'm really curious to see where he goes in drafts next year, just because of what you didn't have the beginning of the season because he was hurt and Rashard Petty was there. Then he takes over and burst out of the scene. But the latter part of the year was not as effective and not as productive fantasy wise as he was during the middle part of the season. So I'm curious where Kenneth Walker goes, what about those Arizona Cardinals Here I'm in Phoenix, is it is it just Kyler Murray and everything else when it comes to the Cardinals burn it all down the fact DeAndre Hopkins got himself suspended and then was useless because well, Arizona was useless down the stretch. So he finished as uh w R forty nine on Fantasy Pros final scoring for the year. He came out like gangbusters, but then you had you know, him and Kyler beefing, and then he had the injury and so it was, yeah, it was downhill from there. I do want to mention James Connor when he came off of his injury. Uh, the second half of the season, he was a very strong fantasy asset. Had four top ten finishes at running back from Week ten on. UH, so really strong finished for Connor. They figured out, you know, once they didn't have Kyler Murray in there, just hand the ball off to Connor. He was a reliable running back and it worked out. Didn't have the touchdown to match the years, right, you know prior, but uh did work out alright. Finally, those l A Ramshi should we just punt you don't you know what, I'm that was their best asset. The cam Akers STI he is the one that blows me away, I mean from being inactive and on the outs too. Then you know being resurgence. I'll take cam Akers for the way and the fantasy playoffs suddenly had value for you. Just like the tight end position that didn't the whole year. Higbee did enough at the end to finish as tight end fifteen. I do think it's very important though, to note that when Cooper Cup was healthy, he was still a top flight fantasy asset the first half of the season. He he had five top ten finishes in his first nine weeks, and of course he played ten games. Technically his tenth game he had like negative one receiving yard and he was out for the rest of the season. You look at the games that he did play in, he had that gigantic workload. Still a great fantasy ascid. There shouldn't be any hesitation in drafting him next season. All right, there it is. We have got all thirty two teams in. Feel free to go download the other episodes if you've missed it, see what we thought. If your team, they're always available wherever you get your podcasts. I want your flex. Alright, guys, we've got one more episode of the season to go, and uh it will be our review of Super Bowl fifty seven and then our draft, the first draft of the fantasy football season. Fun, all right, enjoy the game, so for my joy, Arizona. Yes, we'll do. And you enjoy Vegas and Burst, you enjoy Sherman Oaks. If we're Ryan bur Singer and my garment, I'm Dan Buyers. We'll talk to you next time right here, and I want your flens