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I'll be honest. I have no idea of anything that you've said so far. I know. He said, welcome into stop number two on the people's fantasy tour. We're in New York City. New York City. We've got a great show for you guys tonight. We're full of salsa in Sabaros. That's true, the classic New York delicacies, as Michael Scott would say. My man. Yeah.

Get bodied, salsa. We've got a great quick question on the show today. I'm going to take some shots at Mike on it. We've got a brand new segment. We've got a live mailbag. New York's bringing the drop today. Mike, you're off. You don't have to worry about it. Oh, thank goodness. So, very excited. Here we go. You ready for this? I'm ready. By the way, if you're listening at home, you can still come.

To the show in San Francisco. L.A. sold out. You can't come. Sorry. Not a lot. Phoenix, you can come. BallersLive.com. Grab a ticket. Here's the quick question that I have for you, gentlemen, today. You get to compare a player to a movie. So your best player movie comp. Can you do it? All right. I can. Mike, you can kick it off. I lean back in my seat like I don't already have an answer prepared.

Yes. Consider it. Think about it. So many movies, so many players, Mike. All right. Here, I'll kick off the show with this. Antonio Brown is Home Alone 2. I really like that. Because here's the deal. The first one. Home Alone, that's a holiday classic. Nay, a movie classic. A theatrical masterpiece. Andy almost did a spit take all over me. So many Academy Awards. Yes, go on.

And with the success of Home Alone, you knew, you knew there would be a cash grab. They're going to go for it. They're going to come out with a sequel, but they asked too much of the audience. The mom, she's really going to lose her kid again. I mean, look, the parents out there, yes, one time. We've all been on a vacation without the third child. These things happen. But lose them again. Nay.

And of the entire world, the wet bandits, the sticky bandits, they're just going to happen to show up and cross the street and run into him. They're asking too much of the audience. They did their best to duplicate the first magical movie. And it's not even that Home Alone 2 is bad. It's actually... I actually like it. It's actually pretty good. It's pretty good. But when you watch it, aside from when Marv is being pelted in the face with bricks over and over...

You actually wish you were watching Home Alone One. That's why Antonio Brown is not going to be the same. Is Home Alone 2? It's going to be okay. So it's like Antonio Brown 2, the Oakland Raiders. Exactly. Thank you, Jason. Yeah, I got you. We get to see some of that on Hard Knocks. Yeah. So. Sequence. It's not even the right position, man.

He said the second one is better. Oh, the second one is better. Someone thinks the second one is better. Draft Antonio with the 101. Yes. You're going to be really happy. Yeah. So my comp here is a guy that we've talked about before. Damien Williams. Yeah. Let's go. Who owns Damian Williams? You're the ones cheering. All right. So who is Damian Williams like? Damian Williams is like the upcoming movie.

The Joker. Okay, because look, I love Joaquin Phoenix. Yeah, you see that's Joaquin Phoenix. Oh. And those are superstars. Those are super stars. Like, those could be two of the best actors to ever enter the superhero, super villain realm. It's going to be a hit. You have the Joker character, the whole universe, which is awesome. I mean, everything on paper seems like it's good, except I think the movie's going to suck. Hmm.

I don't think it's going to be good. They like the comp. They like the comp. It's 50-50 out here. So look, you've got Andy Reed and Pat Mahomes. It's unbelievable. You've got the universe of Kansas City Chiefs. The Kansas City Chiefs number one running back is going to be great. Right now it's Damien Williams. So it's like, hey, everything on paper says this is set up for success. I'm just afraid that he sucks. So that's my comp. All right.

Mike, this is where I'm coming after you. You know my thoughts on this movie. Yeah. And I know the AFI's thoughts on this movie, too. Don't care? Yeah, they're wrong. Because Jason agrees with me. That's why. That's all that matters. Alan Robinson is Blade Runner. Oh, get-bodied Alan Robinson. What do you say? What they say? Worse than Blade Runner? Impossible. Listen, Blade Runner is boring. Boring. Boring.

And overrated. Okay? Yes. And here's... Yes. I know you like it. I know some of you like it because you like Mike, so I know there's some of you. Here's the thing. People think Blade Runner and Alan Robinson are better than they are. And the movie starts up and it's really great. Kind of like Alan Robinson's...

glorious year in Jacksonville, 1,400-yard season. You think it's going to be great. You're into it. Those deep songs. Oh, they're setting the table. Oh, they're setting the table. Don't you dare besmirch that soundtrack. But halfway through, you realize this movie's just not going to be as good as everyone said it was supposed to be. Well, halfway through, you go, this movie hasn't done anything. And that's where you're going to end up with Alan Robinson. You're riding on the laurels of what he has done.

And he's overrated, and after three hours, you realize you should have done something else with your afternoon. I'm sorry, Blade Runner fans, but you're wrong. You're wrong. All I heard was you say Alan Robinson is an intellectual masterpiece. Yes. As are you, Mike. Oh, don't think you. You're saying I'm Blade Runner. I'm saying you might be boring and overrated. But either way.

Hey, listen, that's our player movie comps. Before we get into the news, I do want to give a very special shout out to Carlene and the team from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. They are hanging out with us. They were in Chicago. They're here tonight. We're partnering with them all. Yeah, you can see the pin on our chest. But this whole tour, we're partnering with them. All of the VIP tickets.

Went to St. Jude, and as you guys know, the ultimate draft kit. We're partnering with St. Jude on the ultimate draft kit, a dollar of every ultimate draft kit goes straight to them. So, once again, give it up for St. Jude. Very happy to be working with such an incredible organization doing, doing work that has to be done. Incredible work. Much more important than the stuff we're doing. So let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league, presented by Sleeper.

All right, we have a few things I want to get into. Take your temperature on these things. Let's start with Packers, Coach, Matt LaFleur. Everyone's excited. You've got to hit the train for this piece of news. You want me to hit the train? Yes, of course I want the high train. He wants the running backs, more involved in the passing game. I'm a big Aaron Jones fan. Did you care? Look, we all want it more involved in the passing game. Yeah.

I want Aaron Jones more involved in the Packers game. In the Packers game. As we all do, most efficient running back in football, 5.5 of carry. It's going to be great. I mean, who's counting? But do you really care that LaFleur came out and said something like this? Yeah, you know, I care in the sense that LaFleur being there.

focusing on the running game is important. You get so caught up with Aaron Rogers that what happens last year happened, and you have the Packers' lowest rushing total of their storied franchise history. That's not Aaron Rogers game. So LaFleur coming out and saying, hey, look, we've got to get these running backs more involved. And it's not just LaFleur. So a lot of the beat reporters from the Packers area have talked about in the open minicamp that they were able to go to, there were several tweets going out about.

They just got Aaron Jones the ball in space on a well-designed receiving play. That's something that they didn't do enough of last year. So it's optimistic. It's the coach saying he's doing it and then matched by the implementation. You know, it.

Coach speak is coach speak, right? He's going to say everyone's doing great. I'll bet he wants everybody more involved. He wants to get everybody the ball a little bit more this year. As long as he doesn't talk about Jimmy Graham, we're okay. Because then I know he's a bold-faced liar. Right. But, yeah, I mean, I think when it's matched with what you've seen in the minicamp so far, it's important news. There were some news at Lamar Miller.

Maybe the new Frank Gore of the NFL soon. Whoa, whoa, take it easy. He's got about 20 years to go. But he's surprised fantasy owners. Frank Gore's not gone yet. He's still here. Like this was, the big plays hadn't happened in Houston like they did in Miami. Once he got the big workload in Houston, they didn't happen. Then at the end of last year, all of a sudden, a couple of monster touchdowns. Now, Mike, he's shed eight pounds. And I found them. You found them?

They're yours? He gave them. It's how the universe works. You know, you talk a lot about players, what happens in the off season, what positions you like to see, gain weight, lose weight. So Lamar Miller, he's a value in our ultimate draft kit based on draft position. As of right now, the Houston Texans. Maybe a reluctant value? That's a very appropriate response. They still have done nothing in Houston to address the running back position. They are hoping Deontay Foreman can be back. But, I mean, the dude had.

negative rushing yards to end the year. Coming back from the Achilles injury as a running back, it's extremely difficult. But clearly what they said with their actions is they believe that between Lamar Miller and Foreman, they think they have enough. And losing weight as a running bag, it's only been a positive impact in my experience. It is really true. I would also say losing weight as a podcaster would be great. That would be awesome. It would be great.

And someday, someday, it will be. That jump was impressive. Thank you. This is more like a fall off. Now, you know, whatever. It's been a long time since I've got to play. Oh my goodness. Since I've got to play this drop. Yes. But Seahawks.com is reporting that Will. Why are we talking about this? One reason. So I can play the drop. Will Disney expected to have a big role. The big mutts. Healthy, Will. Get healthy. I like they're clapping along.

With Will, with Big Montana. I want to do it again. Oh, we're having a party, yeah. Will Disley. Get on the whistle. If anything happens with Will Disley. Shut up, Mike. If anything happens with Will Disley and his career, like, if he signs a sponsorship with some boot company. Oh, man. Or who makes the jackets? Sometimes things work out. North Face.

He's going to get that awesome. He's a wrangler man, Mike. You know he's a wrangler man. He's going to go climb Everest. We're climbing Everest. Like, you owe the check should be in the mail, Will. You owe us money. Stay healthy first. Yes. But can he make a difference? He didn't have enough of a sample size with Will Disley. Nobody knew his name. Correct. All last off season, we were looking for somebody else to step in Jimmy Graham's shoes. Yeah. And it was Will.