Beantown Podcast - 2024 Fantasy Football Preview (08222024 Beantown Podcast)

Episode Date: August 23, 2024

Quinn comes to you LIVE to breakdown this year's top prospects including Jayden Daniels, Ladd McConkey, and Cory "the freight train" Booker

Hey, what's going on? It's Quinn David Furness. Welcome to my show. Quinn David Furness presents the Beantown podcast for Thursday, August 22nd at 2024. Last day of the DNC. What's going on? What's happening? How are you? My name is Quinn and this is my show Quinn David furnace presents the bean town podcast I am the host the creator and the chief political consultant for this program Quinn David furnace presents being town podcast I had You know political consultant you laugh But someone on a phone call today tried to ask me if they should refer to me as Quinn or consultant furnace

And I just about spit out my cup of Joe I was having I literally I technically have two different job roles where my role is consultant which feels weird because I'm just like in one of my roles I'm just hey I'm a former admissions officer and then then in my other one, it's just, uh, I work in TA talent acquisition, but they are both technically consultant roles, talent acquisition consultant and senior education consultant. I couldn't believe it. This guy, very polite, very nice, no shade to him, but I couldn't believe it

when he straight up at the start of this call said Said hey, should I call you Quinn or consultant furnace? I? Don't know. It's just such a There are very few people in my life these days if any I have to think where I address them by not their first name You think about growing up as a kid? It's always you know, mr. This mr. That I probably have You think about growing up as a kid, it's always, you know, Mr. This, Mr. That. I probably have parents of friends who, to this day, I still have no idea what their first names were. That would be a fun little side quest going through a school yearbook. You're like, okay, you knew this person, right? You know their last name, obviously. What were their parents' names?

And some of them I think I could get, some of them I would probably have no idea. And that's okay. And then at a certain point, I think what was tricky when you transition, you know, so when you're like in college and then a young adult, and this didn't happen that frequently, but if you ever run into someone you know from like childhood, from growing up where you'd be like oh hi mr. Johnson hi mrs. Johnson but now you're 30 years old and you still call them you know mr. whatever mrs. whatever I think the answer is yes you do but it feels kind of awkward doesn't it not in like a negative way because it's not a bad

thing to say oh hi mr., Mr. Johnson. But I feel weird because I don't even I don't know. It's just strange to me that happened. I was at a wedding back in March in Rockford, my friend from high school. And when I saw his parents, I I'm pretty sure I called them by their you know, Mr. Mrs. last name because it just feels weird to actually doctor and Mrs. my apologies it just felt strange like I knew these people primarily from the age of like 15 to 18 and always called them so and so and so to call them by their first names just felt strange so first world problem actually probably everyone's going through it. You know, everyone's dealing with this big issue.

But moving ahead here, listener discretion advised when you're listening to this program. Number one, we'll occasionally use some language. Number two, this podcast is objectively terrible. Shout out to our good friends in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Thanks so much for listening to our program

and thank you for making us the 112th ranked comedy podcast in the great nation of Pakistan. Hello Karachi, hello Hyderabad, hello Khyber Pass, oldie but a goodie. Kind of like the Bean Town podcast now two thirds of the way through its vaunted seventh season. F- V-A-U-N-T-E-D rather. Sipping on, it's a little bit of a Boilermaker, which the beer purists out there are going to cringe when they hear, but I just wanted an extra kick without adding a ton of volume. So I've got a De Chutes fresh squeezed IPA.

You would call that their flagship, I think so. And just a little bit of Trader Joe's whiskey on the top. I was realizing I have this delicious presumed delicious Whiskey Bourbon, I can't I think it's whiskey It does bourbon have to be made in Tennessee or bourbon is just America. So I think it's bourbon from Nevada that I got from my in-laws last Christmas and It's just been sitting on the bar cart since then, not because I'm afraid to drink it,

or not aware of it. It's just such a special bottle. It's so nice. It's real tall and skinny, just like me, before I had those two Oreos before we started recording. But it's 100 proof, which I don't know if I've ever really had a full bottle of something that's 100 proof. So it's a hundred proof, which I don't know if I've ever really had a full bottle of something that's a hundred proof.

So it's a sip and saver. It's not your Boilermaker type, but yeah, we got Oreos in the house. Very unusual for us. We're not usually big on processed snacks. We don't do a lot of that sort of, oh, okay. What about like milk chocolate bars? I have those.

Is that a processed snack? It's probably less processed than an Oreo cookie but Rachel got a ninja creamy, which is like a electric ice cream maker essentially for her birthday and If you're gonna make protein ice cream, you need some fixings. So we've got mini Reese's peanut butter cups Reese's I always said Reese's growing up, but that doesn't really make any sense, right? It's Reese's Mini Reese's peanut butter cups and Oreo cookies the classic the OG none of this double stuff triple stuff. I heard they're doing an Oreo

Coke zero. I have invented vetted this. This was on my fantasy football podcast, which dovetails nicely into our main topic today that we're going to get to in a second here. I'm committed to hitting our points and getting out of here. Okay? Just long work day. Kind of want to just give you an efficient episode of the Bean Tom podcast. It's been a long time since we just went no nonsense. But of course I have to finish talking about Oreos. I heard about a collab between Coke Zero and Oreos that's hitting your shelves soon. And it's going both ways, like me in college. It's going to be Coke Zero flavored Oreos,

which I don't fully understand, but my understanding is it's just going to be a regular Oreo, but instead of the white filling, it's gonna be red, maybe with some little white streaks in it. Seems simple enough, right? Maybe they adjust the flavor a little bit, but whatever, it is what it is. What the real bat shit crazy thing is,

is Oreo flavored Coke Zero. Obviously it's got to be brown, right? Which Coke Zero already is brown, but you just think of it as red. But then, so once we, once we do the color, which isn't going to change that much, you could change it from like a caramel amber to just a dark brown, black almost, Oreo is black, it's not even brown. It's black. Then what do you do, like, what do you do to make it, do you just change the packaging or do you actually adjust the flavor to make it taste like an Oreo? Just more sugar? Coke Zero already is zero sugar, is that right? It's, it's aspartame or the one that starts with an S. I don't remember. Don't ask me to spell

aspartame. I don't know. I left that behind in my tab days. I mentioned at the top of the show, today is the last day of the DNC here in Chicago. Today actually was the furthest, the closest I've gotten to the DNC action all week. Did not go to the office at all this week. Not because I was like, oh and I usually go one day a week on Wednesdays. I didn't go because I was like, oh it'll be chaos. I'll never be able to get downtown. But boss said, hey you don't have to go downtown this week. So I said well I'll save my five bucks in train fare and get 90 minutes back in my day. Don't have to tell me twice. So the furthest south I got today on my run went down to Hamlin Park at Wellington and Hoyne. So

3,000 north that's the closest I got to the United Center. So no I haven't seen a lot of the action, haven't been around it. But just you know Monday night was the surprise. We had Kamala and Tim Walz come out and get the crowd fired up. Tuesday, we had the ceremonial roll call, which we're going to come back to in a second here with our trivia question. I got a fun trivia question for you regulated to the roll call. And we had the Obamas on Tuesday night, Michelle, followed by Barack.

We watched all that stuff. Last night, didn't catch a lot of, but I saw Pete Buttigieg, Oprah, Bill Clinton. Oh, Hillary was on Monday, I think. And then Tim Wallace was the prime time speaker on on winds last night late, which is a comment I have in a second here, but of course tonight is Kamua. I don't know who else is coming out tonight. They're probably starting soon Speaking of starting soon though my first note at 6 15 p.m. And I understand like You need people to get out of work so they can go to the United Center, but we are

starting these things so late and the DNC is going so long. I think we, I think for the mains, okay, so here's what the DNC can learn from Lollapalooza. We need to have different stages. Okay. We can have United Center for one spot. We could have McCormick, Wind Trust Arena, DePaul's Arena for another spot, Allstate for another spot, Rosemont for another spot.

We could use some of the downtown places, Chicago Theater for these smaller stages. OK. So if you're Oprah, if you're Barack, if you are Bill Clinton, if you are Ken Bone, whatever, you can be on the main stage, right? You got four nights, we got space for you, but we're gonna have this thing go from like seven to nine

and speeches can be longer than 20 minutes. And that's for the real important people. That's the other thing too, there's just so many speeches, even the short ones start to add up. If you go up there, you have a five minute speech, it's just so many speeches, even the short ones start to add up. If you go up there, you have a five minute speech, it's just kind of like, eh, what are you saying that is that interesting anymore?

I find myself sitting there watching these speeches and at first it's kind of interesting, it's like, oh, it's Pete Buttigieg is up there, Bernie's up there. But then for the most part, it's the same speech over and over again. So unless you're getting like a Bill Clinton or a Barack Obama or an Oprah, you know, these people you don't see speeches from terribly often.

When you get poor old Bernie up there, God bless the guy, he's great, big fan, but he's saying the same thing he's been saying over and over again. And that's not to take anything away from him. I'm just saying from an entertainment perspective, which is what democracy's all about, it's not as interesting to me. So we need these side stages, okay? Because like, Brock is speaking,

it's like 10.30 p.m. on a Tuesday night, and I'm just looking at my watch saying, hey, I got work tomorrow, I gotta feed the family. You know, Brock, I love you, but time's a-ticking. So smaller stages should be reserved for lieutenant governors and lesser-known senators and state senators and all these Republicans like Kinsinger and the mayor of Mesa that they're bringing out.

Good stuff, guys guys keep up the enthusiasm you're you know, we'll put you down at all state and You know, well, hey if we can have NFL red zone and we can if we can have, you know Olympic gold zone on peacock we can get different stages going at the same time and you can tune into whichever one you want. It's fine But I can't stay up again until 10.30 PM just waiting for Kamala to give her speech, although you know I will, because that's kind of the important one here. Other DNC notes, I noticed, oh, just two other things here.

I noticed Cory Booker, I tuned in yesterday early, it was 5.30 PM on a Wednesday, day three, right? Just like three out of four, your Olympic medley relay or any sort of relay, your third guy is your slowest guy, Wednesday of the DNC as everyone knows, the slowest day. It was crazy to me that Cory Booker has gotten bumped all the way to 5.30 p.m. on a Wednesday. I feel like it was just, like two election cycles ago,

he was never like the front runner, like the top guy for president on the Democratic ticket, but he was in there, he was in the trenches, he was on the debate stage, and I feel like he was pretty well known, well regarded. Maybe it's just me and the circles I follow, maybe it's because I don't live in New Jersey, I don't know, but it feels to me nationally like Cory Booker has kind of fallen off. He just doesn't get a lot of attention. I had this thought about a similar situation. What happened to Beto O'Rourke down in Texas? I know he

lost to Ted Cruz and then I think he lost again. I think he lost twice. And it seemed for a while like he was the hot, spicy, muy caliente number. And I don't even know what he's doing now. At least Pete Buttigieg lost, but he got a cabinet position. So he's still kind of keeping his seat warm. But I don't know what happened to Beto. And then my last point here, I don't know if you guys have been following this, but this whole Republicans in disguise thing, I saw that MyPillow guy shaved his mustache potentially and went in disguise and then this other guy who I don't know but I saw on Twitter his name is Matt Walsh.

He was there in disguise. Charlie Kirk wasn't even trying to disguise himself, his face is just that strange. But why are they going in disguise to the DNC? It's just because it's like you want to get caught so that you get like a tweet that blows up but you're wearing a disguise but like why are you going? You could be you know out there in Michigan and Wisconsin and Georgia and Pennsylvania rallying for Trump, but I guess they really wanted front row tickets at the United Center. I don't know. Just strange. I don't even have like a funny comment or anything. It's just why I don't understand. Can someone explain it to me? Email us, beanthownpodcast at yahoo.com. Again, it's BeanTown. BeanPodcast at Yahoo.com.

But end of the DNC today. We're 75-ish days away from the election. It's going to be here before you know it. And yeah, it's going to be a fight. Last thing, last plug I have on this, and then I'd say thank you to our sponsors, then move ahead here, because I promise you an efficient episode. I saw a clip today of JD Vance at a donut store I don't know where some battleground state trying to connect

with the workers and when I say it was rigid I am doing it a disservice you just have to go find this clip. I saw it on Twitter or X, but I imagine you can just find it anywhere. Google JD Vance donut shop. And it's literally a minute long clip of him just being like, oh, hey, so how long you been working here? And they said, oh, you know, six months, two years.

And he's just like, OK. And then he's like, yeah, give me some of these donuts. And he finds the next work, he's like, oh, how long have you been working here? You know, been here since July. JD Vance says, oh, okay. It's not even, it was like, it's like candid camera, right? So it's not like a put together political ad where,

oh, he's getting to know the American people, he's a man of the people. It's just, it was so strange. Kind of like the Republicans in disguising. I don't understand it. How can they be this bad at, I mean, it seems really simple to be able to create a heartwarming, oh, you're in God's country, you're with the real people,

these donut workers who, thanks to your minimum wage proposal, are making eight bucks an hour or whatever it is, and it's not even like, oh, here's how I'm going to fight for your rights. It's just, oh, okay. It doesn't make any sense. If JD Vance wants to come on this show and try to explain himself, that's fine, but we're not sitting on the couch, I'll tell you that much, because we only have one. The story's not true, but we're not sitting on the couch, just in case.

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When you need a fresh dues on the snappier nudes call the experts at cuts by Q Okay, so Training camps been going on for a month. This weekend is the last week of NFL preseason, which means as of today, Thursday, August 22nd, the NFL season is two weeks. That's 14 days away from kicking off. We have Ravenss a rematch of the AFC Championship game from last year Ravens in Kansas City for to start the season if you'll remember last year it was Lions in Kansas City and the Lions actually won that game and the Lions were very close to winning the NFC they blew it right at the end that would have been a rematch.

First game of the year, last game of the year. That would have been poetic. And so we've got Ravens, Lamar Jackson, Derek Henry, their shiny new toy. You know what? I have other things that I want to talk about, but let's do this. Big NFL off-season moves.

So that, you know, we're gonna joke a little bit, but let's also give you like some actual real helpful information in case, you know, I got some family members who are playing fantasy football for the first time ever this season who might be listening to this show because they might be thinking well what what is Quinn gonna say that might actually help us. So I'm gonna help you a little bit and then we're gonna joke a little bit but Yeah, oh and then the Chiefs you got my homes

Kelsey's back Rashi rice probably gonna get suspended but unclear Pacheco and then Friday the day after the first time ever we got a Opening game on Friday in Brazil if you can it, Packers and Eagles. I don't know who the home team is. No idea. Doesn't really matter, except for the team who is the home team who loses the home game. But it is what it is. That'll be an interesting game. Eagles, if you remember last year, were so hot. They were like 10 and 1. And then they finished the season 0 and 6, I think think and lost in the first round to Tampa Bay

Which is really embarrassing and the Packers were the exact opposite They started terribly and then Jordan Love got hot and they went all the way to the divisional round and barely lost the Niners Okay, so and that'll be Friday and then the rest of the games are Sunday and then one game on Monday night which I think is Jets and Niners, J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets, Aaron Rodgers, round two. Okay, so here are the big changes. I just have an ESPN article up here. Here are the big changes from 2023 to 2024.

I haven't vetted this at all. It's presumably going to be an extensive article, so I'll just give you the summary. I'm not going to get into contract details and stuff like that. We're just here to talk stats, right? So this is just we're not doing a deep dive breakdown into what this means for these teams moving forward.

It's just what's going to happen this year, right? So I'm just Following following excuse me along with this article to see how they break this down Justin Fields and Russell Wilson both play for the Steelers now and As of the recording two weeks away from the start of season no idea who's gonna start. It's not clear Kirk Cousins as you, plays for the Atlanta Falcons. There's some backup quarterbacks who moved around, doesn't really matter.

Stefan Diggs traded to the Texans. Keenan Allen traded to the Bears. Jerry Judy traded to the Browns. Saquon Barkley signed with the Eagles. Derrick Henry, already mentioned, signed with the Ravens. Josh Jacobs to the Packers. Aaron Jones to the Vikings. All four of those guys expected to be starters.

Let's see here. Some defensive guys, not a big deal, not going to get into it. If you're a Vikings fan, Danielle Hunter, free agency, signed with the Texans. OK, what else do we have here? Rodgers is back with the Jets. We'll see what happens. Dak Prescott still in Dallas, but going into a contract year.

Who has a new coach? Let's see, a bunch of teams, right? New England has a new coach. Gerard Mayo was their legendary linebacker during those title runs. So has a new coach. Gerard Mayo was there like a legendary linebacker during those title runs. So he's their coach. Bell checks out. Uh, Harbaugh gym coaching the chargers. Now they dumped guys like Keenan Allen, Austin Eckler place for Washington. Now they still have Justin Herbert, but he's injured. So unclear what the plan is in San Diego or I guess Los Angeles

Raheem Morris is the coach of the Falcons He was a defensive coordinator and eventually was an interim coach to Dan Quinn You remember was the Falcons coach when they lost in the Super Bowl He was the defensive coordinator for the Cowboys for a while now he's the coach of Washington and the new defensive coordinator coach for Dallas is none other than legendary Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer who's coming out of retirement that's gonna be spicy the Panthers Raiders Titans and Seahawks all of new head coaches Pete Carroll retired this offseason the. OK, the number one overall pick was Caleb Williams.

He plays for the Bears. They're trying another new quarterback. The number two pick was Jaden Daniels. He was the Heisman winner from LSU. He plays for the Commanders now. He was like the best Russian quarterback ever in college, up there with like Cam Newton and Tim Tebow and stuff. So he plays for

Washington the number three pick was Drake May to the Patriots it's unclear he's probably not gonna start it's probably gonna be Jacobi Percett we'll talk more about the Patriots in a little bit here it's not good the number four pick was Marvin Harrison jr. If you are a long time fantasy football player, you know his dad from the Super Bowl winning Indianapolis Colts, Marvin Harrison, now his son from Ohio State, number one receiver off the board to the Arizona Cardinals. And yes, it is difficult to know where you should draft Marvin Harrison, Jr. In your draft.

He's going as soon as early second round in most of the drafts I'm playing. Michael Pennings Jr. was the Washington quarterback. He's torn his ACL like three times. It's ugly. The Falcons took him. And I know what you're thinking, gee, didn't you just say the Falcons signed Kirk Cousins? Yes, it's weird.

It doesn't really make sense. They have both of them. So J. J. McCarthy, who you know by now is the Vikings pick from Michigan towards meniscus out for the season and bone nicks the Oregon quarterback transfer from Auburn drafted by my favorite head coach, Sean Payton, the Denver Broncos. He's got a asshole for lips and an asshole personality. So it matches bone. X's got an asshole for lips and an asshole personality so it matches. Bo Nix is the starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos which should tell you all you need to know about not drafting their players this year. There were two other top 10 wide receivers taken,

Malik Neighbors from LSU into the Giants, Daniel Jones his quarterback, Giants for his Vikings, week one. And Roma Dunze, the Bears had two top nine picks. Roma Dunze from Washington, excuse me, went to the Bears. So yes, the Bears' new offense is, oh, and Deandre Swift, the Bears signed to play running back. So they have Caleb Williams, Deandre Swift, Cole Comets, their tight end. And their three wide receivers are DJ Moore, Keenan Allen, and Romo Dunze. Let's see. So that's probably, I mean, there's a lot of other movement.

If you log in and you look at draft boards, you're going to see tons of running backs on different teams that we haven't even mentioned. Trying to think if there are any other significant ones. Joe Mixon plays for the Texans now, not the Bengals. The Bengals running backs are Zach Moss and the kid, Chase Brown from Illinois, who played last year looked good. And the Raiders drafted Brock Bowers from Georgia

as their number one pick. He's a tight end. And last year, they drafted Michael Mayer as a tight end. So they have two tight ends now. No one really knows what's going on in Las Vegas. It is what it is. And yeah, I think let's put a pin in it there. Let's pause there.

That's more or less what you need to know. There have been no season ending injuries from like fantasy superstars. Although I will say that there are some significant contract holdouts guys who have not reported yet primarily CD Lamb and Jamar Chase both projected to be first round picks nowhere to be seen the last month and the season is now two weeks away so we'll see only other thing I want to mention this it does not impact fantasy too much as far as I'm concerned But the kickoff rule is new. Oh

Brandon Iuke is the other big name who's holding out demanding a trade. No one knows what's gonna happen there. We'll see The NFL kickoff so you kick off now from the I think from the 35 which is unchanged. It might be 30. I'm not sure basically Your team when you're kicking, so the kicker's by himself, the rest of your 10 guys, they all line up on the receiving team's 35, I think it is, or maybe it's a 30. And then the other team lines up 10 yards behind that, so either the 25 or the 20. I think it's a 25. And then there's a zone from the goal line to the 20

where the kicker is supposed to land it. If he lands it in front of that, then it's a penalty I think. And if he lands it in the end zone, if there's a touchback, it goes to the 30 rather than the 20 or the 25 now. So big penalty for a touchback out of bounds to the 40 I think. But the teams, the blocking team, so you can have 10 guys when you're kicking on the

line and then receiving team you can have 9 or 10 I think. And those guys, those blockers, so everyone other than the kicker and the receiver or the two receivers, they can't move until the ball is caught. So it's not when the ball is kicked, it's when the ball is caught or touched. So once the receiver catches the ball, the blockers can do it. It just kind of truncates the play, shortens it up, but it is leading to a lot more returns. So if you are someone who drafts your, and this could have been one of our points, if you're someone who drafts your wide receivers and running backs based off of

kick return potential which is a unique strategy, email us beanthumbpodcast at yahoo.com if that's ever worked for you. This could be your big year. Off the top of my head I can't think of any notable names, wide receivers or running backs who are returning kicks for their teams where you might be like, oh yeah this will guy this guy might get like a kick return or a punt return touchdown this year that could be a nice boost one week. I'm not aware of any guys like that in the past you've had guys like Antonio Brown doing punt returns he was really good to Shawn Jackson, obviously. Even when I, I remember when I had Maurice Jones Drew from the Jacksonville Jaguars as a rookie and he would return punts

and he had one or two returns and that was just a great boost. I can't think of guys as far as I know, but I'm not plugged into all the special teams units in the NFL. I can't think of guys I know who are like, Oh yeah, this will be my starting wide receiver today and also he's going to return some punts. So that's good. And I'm sure I'm missing someone I can't think of guys. I know who you're like, oh, yeah, this will be my starting wide receiver today And also he's gonna return some punts. So that's good And I'm sure I'm missing someone kind of obvious, but I wouldn't base your strategy off of that So a couple topics I wanted to run through first up who is this year's Taysom Hill? So a little bit of background Taysom Hill was a quarterback in college probably. I don't know, BYU, that sounds right.

He looks Mormon. He's played for the Saints for almost a decade now. And he is very much a quarterback for them, but he doesn't throw passes pretty much. He just kind of comes in on some plays. He's not their starting quarterback. And when he gets the ball, he almost always runs with it. He's kind of a ball hog. But on platforms like Yahoo, he is cross-listed,

which is very unusual, as both a quarterback and a tight end. So if you're gaming the system, you've got a guy who might pick up 40 rushing yards and a touchdown in a game. If you plug him in as your tight end, well, that's way better than your average tight end, even though he's not a tight end at all. So who is this year's Taysom Hill who's going to really be a quarterback, but who also Yahoo will tag as a tight end?

A couple ideas I got. I should have come up with the ideas before we started the show. That's the importance of research. That's why we need to kick off the Beantown Podcast internship program. Anthony Richardson, right? He's a big brawling dude. He was what the number four overall pick last year, Viking Strait, to trade up and get him. We're unsuccessful.

He's like 6'5", 240. And the problem is he's got a cannon for an arm that Taysom Hill doesn't have. So the big wigs, the corporate fatsoes at Yahoo will never go for making him a tight end, but it could be spicy. You know what I liked? There was a quarterback wide receiver for the Broncos. Brett Ripen is that? No, it was someone else.

But during the COVID season, both of the Broncos and quarterbacks in one week got COVID and this poor guy had to come in and play quarterback. And it was an unforgettable stat line. I forgot what it is. Uh, but let me go ahead and open this up for you. If stupid iPhone will recognize my facial ID Broncos quarterback COVID game. This stat line is unbelievable. Okay.

From SB nation.com. This isn't just the Kendall Hilton, Kendall Hinton rather, this poor guy's name. So he's a wide receiver who played quarterback in college and he had to play quarterback for the Broncos. He was one of nine for 13 yards and two interceptions. So you were really trying to find that diamond in the rough guy. Like I know that that's negative points in any traditional fantasy league, but you don't, you know, you don't know if it's gonna be negative two or if it's gonna be 50 when you play you just you never know about these

things so my number one tip try to find that guy who is really a quarterback but they're gonna label him as a tight end maybe Aaron Rodgers pitches for that I don't know we'll see we'll see if he's healthy Next up who is it or is this finally the year for Kyle Pitts and I gotta say I'm getting a little spooked So Kyle Pitts was like the number eight overall pick for the Falcons four years ago. I think this is his fourth season maybe his fifth fourth or fifth and It was it's almost the highest if not the highest a tight end has ever gone in the NFL draft this guy is just a monster he's like 6'6 250 he's huge he's fast he's really a wide receiver but he plays in a tight

end position and to sum it up basically he's supposed to be extremely good now in the last couple years, he has not been extremely good. And beyond that, it's not just like, oh, yeah, he's been average. He's been really bad. So the question is, is he actually bad at football? Or does his dimwit coach, Arthur Smith, who's now the Steelers offensive coordinator,

just have no idea how to use him? And every year that Kyle Pitts has been in the league, the thought process has been this guy is too good to be bad. And then someone drafts him in the fourth round and then he's terrible. But like Tobias Funke would say, it's never worked in the past, but maybe it will work for us, I'm paraphrasing. That's where Kyle Pitts is this year. He's like tight end four, five, something like that. What I'm seeing in my rankings is Laporta,

Kelsey, McBride, Andrews, and then, like I think those are the clear four, but after that it's like Kittle, Pitts, Kincade. People are saying, okay, you got a new offensive regime. You got Kurt Cuddens in there, a legit quarterback. So this has got to be the year for Kyle Pitts, right? And all the indications and stats would say, yeah, that makes sense. Like this is, this, this is true. But I don't know. I just can't imagine walking away from my draft and having Kyle Pitts as my starting tight end and being like this is gonna be awesome man. I will feel so much worse if he's terrible and he's on my team than I would if he wasn't on my team

and he was great if that makes sense. So maybe this is the year for Kyle Pitts I don't know it won't be my year for Kyle Pitts. I'm a wait and see kind of guy and maybe that gives away some of my draft strategy to all the managers out there listening this to try to gain an edge because I won all my leagues last year. But I'll give you that one. Okay. I'm probably not drafting Kyle Pitts unless it's the 15th round Next up the worst team to go all in on so there's a strategy There's a sliding scale strategies here in terms of like going all in on a team who might have multiple fantasy relevant prospects the the crazy end of the spectrum is If you're just like a die-hard fan of the Minnesota Vikings, let's say. So I would walk out of the draft with my quarterback Sam

Darnold, my two wide receivers Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson, my running backs Chandler and Jones, tight end Johnny Munt with TJ Hockinson on the bench, my kicker Will Riker and my defense Minnesota Vikings. And the thing is the way that those guys are set up with their average draft positions, you can do that no problem. Like you can get all those guys, with the exception of maybe Jefferson, if you were like 10th pick of the first round. So that's the, but, and then there's situations where it's still crazy and not a good idea,

but it makes a lot more sense. Like if you wanted to have all Niners players or Alliance players you can get away with that. You're still not gonna win, but you're gonna be competitive So I said who's the worst team to go all in on and just off the top of my head If you had a team that was all in on the New England Patriots You might score under 20 points a game Envision you're starting lineup as Jacoby Brissette Pop Douglas KJ Osborne Ramandre Stevenson

Antonio Gibson, I think Hunter Henry, I think Whoever their kicker is is it still Nick Fulk That guy's like 50 years old. And the Patriots defense, I would estimate you would not win a game and you'd have a higher chance of winning on your bye week with your roster empty. Other nominations, the Pittsburgh Steelers. With Arthur Smith in there, I'm not confident that George Pickens or Najee Harris are gonna be productive. The Carolina Panthers, great choice.

You could get Bryce Young, Chuba Hubbard, Adam Thielen, Deontay Johnson. Have fun. The commanders, at least you get Jaden Daniels and Scary Terry. Trying to think, are there any other teams that would just be an absolute train wreck to have as your going all in team? Let's see. I think those are the worst ones by far. I think the Broncos would be pretty rough,

Raiders would be pretty rough, and I wouldn't want any part of the Tennessee Titans either. That would be a nice little combo of Will Levis, and injured DeAndre Hopkins, Calvin Ridley, Tajay Spears, and Tony Pollard, and Chiz Okwankwo. A bunch of RB3s and wide receiver 4s. So, good luck. Next up, we got, I guess just one more point here. I wrote down a potential fifth point, but I never actually wrote it. So, a lot of talk about the Packers wide receivers and

what to do. So, we were just kind of thinking about going all in on a team. What if you just, your entire wide receiver core is all five Packers wide receivers. Cause at various points last year they were all productive and efficient from a fantasy perspective, but only for a few weeks at a time. And then the next guy showed up. But if you want to walk away from your fantasy draft with, I was going to say, Oh, let's start with the top guy. No idea who the top guys. They have like five wide receiver threes on their team. Christian Watson,

Romeo Dobbs, Dontavian Wicks, Jaden Reed. And then I, hey, I'll just throw the tight ends in here. They have Luke Musgrave and Tucker Craft. All six of those guys were guys that like you could have had on your fantasy team here and there last year and they could have been productive for you. So maybe instead of you know all these headaches about oh who should I draft a wide receiver who should I give her tight end who's my backup tight end just get all the Packers players and maybe it will

work it probably won't but if you're listening out there and you're thinking, gee, how do I take down Quinn? You got to be bold. And so I say either go all in on Packers, pass catchers, or an entire New England Patriots team. That's the secret sauce that the league doesn't have coming. If I'm sitting there in round 15, to draft Pop Douglas and you swoop him out from under me. Well, my whole draft could just be shattered I'm a very mentally fragile guy Okay, I promise you efficiency. So here we go the last Thing of the day bean town podcast trivia question and I do have to look this up. I read the article last night.

What I'm getting at is when they did the ceremonial roll call for delegates at the DNC yesterday, each um each state had a song played. So I didn't prepare this. I'm just on the uh NPR article. What I'm going to do, so there's 50 plus songs, because there are states and territories. I'm just going to give you a couple songs, maybe five, something like that. Not all of them. We don't have time for that.

But you tell me the state based off the song. I thought about doing, I tell you the state, you give me the song. That just seems really tough. So here we go. I got to find where I want to start. There's there's some that are way too obvious like sweet home Alabama. Okay, we're not doing that. Here's a good one. I should not be going in alphabetical order, but I'm just going to do it. Okay. And you can figure out how far I jumped, but

we're probably not starting in the Ws. Feel it still by Portugal the man. What state was that played for? And spoiler alert, we're gonna go pretty fast through this. So if you're thinking, oh gosh, I know that's on the tip of my tongue, let me pause. Just do it, because I'm gonna go. Feel it still Portugal the man, that's from Alaska. They were formed up in Alaska

They're based out of Portland now, but formed up in Alaska You know, let's just do some some Irresponsible scrolling up and down and we'll just land on a state and that mixes up the whole alphabet thing. So you don't know where I am Okay Some of these are tough. Cause it's like you want to give a little bit of context clue, but not too much. Okay, here's one.

Don't stop till you get enough by Michael Jackson. What state was that from? Or is that four? If you know where Michael Jackson was born, that will help you. It's near Chicago, but it's not Chicago. And this city he was born in is just shocking to witness. And I don't say that with any sort of exaggeration.

It is literally shocking when you go through that town. It's unbelievable. It's like Katrina happened yesterday. That is Gary, Indiana. Next up here, Sirius by the Alan Parsons Project. I'll sing it for you, maybe it will help. Boom, boom, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon, doon.

If you're a big fan of Michael Jordan in the 1990s, you would know that that is the intro song for the Chicago Bulls And that is the state of Illinois. I Want to make sure that when I give you one I can explain why it was so that's not just random But there's only so much I can do. I mean some of these were tough For example shake it off by Taylor Swift if you get this one that's not just random, but there's only so much I can do. I mean, some of these were tough. For example, Shake It Off by Taylor Swift. If you get this one without looking it up, I will be thoroughly impressed. Email us, beanthombodcasts at yahoo.com

for your complimentary congratulations live on air. Shake It Off by Taylor Swift was for Rhode Island. Apparently, Taylor Swift owns the most expensive house in the state of Rhode Island. So, you learned something new today, or at least I did. Here's a good, just kind of middle of the road you can get this one if you know your stuff. Nine to Five by Dolly Parton. It would be helpful to know where Dolly World is. Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. And so 9 to 5 is Tennessee. And let's do one more for you

here. Let's try to find a fun one. Here's one that doesn't really make sense, but it's just it is what it is I got a feeling by the black-eyed peas It is from the least populous state in the Union and Probably like the second or third least densely populated state in the Union Not fact-checked it is Wyoming of course, the cowboy state. Obviously, they would have black eyed peas as their song. So there you go. A couple of trivia questions for you today. Night four of the DNC is happening now. It's 7 PM. Kamala's speech will be starting in about eight hours here,

so I'm looking forward to that. No sleep tonight. That's what I got for you, everyone. Thank you for listening to my show. If you're playing fantasy football, good luck. Feel free to send your rosters to beanthompodcasts at yahoo.com for a complimentary rating. I'll tell you how you did, what I love, what I hate, and everything in between. Don't be afraid to go tight end at number one overall,

especially if you're in my league. Shake things up a little bit. If you can't beat me with your traditional strategy, try something new. Draft all Titans players. See what happens. You might just like Nashville. Okay, everyone. Thanks so much for tuning in.

My name is Quinn David Furness. This is my show. I hope that everyone stay safe. I hope you stay sane and I'll check in on you next time for Labor Day weekend. Bye! so so so so Thank you.