Chapter 1: What are the consequences of a losing fantasy football week?
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Chapter 2: What is the ultimate fantasy football punishment reveal?
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That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion. Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day? Well, that's just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth? Obviously smart, but not a rule. Never pee-pee on an electric fence.
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Chapter 3: How does Brandon Marshall describe his best quarterback?
Dolphins never would have drafted Tua. Giants never would have drafted Dart. I mean, you can't foresee it coming. Unless there's a history in college, you just can't foresee it coming. And it is absolutely frightening. And that's the hard part about How to even talk about it is that we all know that the next serious concussion Tua gets is the end of his career.
But yet we fault him when he's running for a first down and slides a yard short.
Shouldn't have slid.
Shouldn't have slid. Got to dive forward there. See, it's very difficult because we're playing both sides there. He's playing for his future, his health, his kids' futures, and yet he can't be the player we want him to be. It's just... It's super frightening, the whole subject.
Greg, on the Tua situation, did he have a documented concussion in college? I don't know.
I don't think so. No, that was not something that he came out into the league with.
It was the hip, it was the ankle, it was all those things. So when you talk about injury prediction, obviously we don't have that, it doesn't exist, but you would look at that and say, all right, his hip, his ankle, but not a concussion. In the pros, he hasn't had any issues with his hip or his ankle.
He hurt his hip last year.
The only predictive analysis you could do in terms of prone to concussions is size, and that's something that they take into account offensively. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with the Jackson Dart thing, but I know what the Giants should probably do, change his playing style. He can play from the pocket. He has a decent arm.
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Chapter 4: What was Brandon Marshall's experience playing high on painkillers?
That is something that you can work on with players. And I'll evaluate the roster, and I maybe bring back Jameis Winston. I make sure that I have a good backup quarterback because him being knocked out of games seems to be the thing. He's averaging a half a visit to a tenth a game.
I remember it stood out to me at the beginning of this college football season when they were talking about Arch Manning and the advice that he got from Archie Manning before the season started, before that game at Ohio State. Because Arch Manning likes to run around, you know?
And the advice, it stuck with me, the advice that he gives him on the phone before they hang up, every phone call when they talk about football, before they hang up, Archie tells Arch, get down or get out of bounds.
and like that that really stood out to me that that's what it is with these guys get down or get out of bounds brandon marshall is going to join us here in a little bit and i'll ask him some of these questions about concussions because i'm just i am curious i did a story a while ago with bernie kozar where we were walking through his home
And he was just sort of explaining to me the era that he played in where he's explaining what it's like to get sacked on AstroTurf by Lawrence Taylor. And he's just sort of going through his house and showing me where he keeps some of his teeth. His body has been... destroyed by football.
And I'm imagining when he talks about some of the dependencies to alcohol that he has had that have resulted in a liver transplant plant, I'm assuming that he's doing some self-medicating on pain there because you need something to make your body feel a sacked back then on AstroTurf by Lawrence Taylor. You're not protecting the quarterbacks the way you are now.
It is fairly amazing that during our lifetime, the moment that Tom Brady got hurt is the moment that all the rules changed for the quarterbacks. It's also amazing to me that even though the rules have changed for the quarterbacks, Jackson Dart is still ending up in the concussion protocol five out of the last ten games. It's not just oxymoronic that you can't keep a violent game safe. It's also...
a delusion to think that there are any rules that you could put in place for the quarterback that would actually protect the quarterback, given that every week we're looking at a call still. That's roughing the passer, where all of us are saying, that's not roughing the passer.
The lengths that they're going to to protect these quarterbacks, where you actually have Jeffrey Simmons coming in and coming in right up the middle and trying to put his arms at his side because he doesn't want to land the wrong way on a quarterback that he's been sacking the entirety of his life before the last three years. It looks so stupid, I know.
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Chapter 5: What insights does Brandon Marshall share about concussions?
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Chapter 6: How does Brandon Marshall view the quarterback relationship with receivers?
Ryan Fitzpatrick easily was the greatest one. I was just on another show and we were talking about Phillip Rivers, right? When I was playing with Ryan, when I had Chad Pennington, when we had Josh McCown go from, you know, substitute teacher to back to the Chicago Bears and then lead the Bears to the number two,
two number one Chicago Bears offense ever, I realized that the quarterback position was 80% mental, 20% physical. Now, if we're going physical... then I got to start with Jay Cutler, right? There wasn't a ball, there wasn't a pass that he couldn't throw.
I mean, he was one of the greatest athletes I've ever been around, but there was so much else going on around him, whether it's our team, you know, maybe where he was at, where he never was able to elevate to where I believe Jay Cutler could have ended up on the quarterback list. But Ryan Fitzpatrick, man, was a beautiful, beautiful guy to play with. There you go. Yes, there go my baby.
That's my baby. That's my baby.
I should have mentioned, by the way, he'll be part of the in-studio team for Netflix's NFL Christmas Day double-header broadcast. He'll be doing Lions. Let's go! Vikings live pregame show starts at 4 p.m. Before you came on with us, we were talking about concussions here, and I don't think that we have any real knowledge of what it means to have your head scrambled.
Can you explain to us any of the details? I don't know if you ever had much experience with concussions, but the parts that people don't know about... lack of sleep or how you actually get affected and scared, what can you tell us that people don't know?
Wow, the first thing that came to mind when you said I actually got goosebumps and chills right now, as soon as you said that, the first thing I thought about was my only concussion and it was in my contract year and it was when I was in my sauna at home And I was like, oh, this concussion thing is real. It's when I just like literally just put my head down, just closed my eyes.
I wanted to sit a little bit, maybe 15, 20 minutes in a sauna. And as soon as I put my head down, I almost tipped over. And then I jumped out. I didn't know if it was because of the heat, and that probably wasn't a good idea at the time. And I did not tell this to the team because it was my contract year. If I had lost games, I probably would have lost a big deal.
And so I got out the sauna, and then I, you know, got dressed. I went to go put on my shoes, and I fell over again. And that was two weeks after the concussion. I said, dang, this is two weeks ago I had this concussion. And every time I would bend over to put, you know, put my shoes over, close my eyes, I would just fall, I would almost fall over. You know, it was very scary at the time.
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Chapter 7: What are Brandon Marshall's thoughts on Tua Tagovailoa's performance?
He's stiff. You know, you're going to be able to dominate this guy, but this is your time. It's time to go. It's going to be about 20, 30 plays. You're the third receiver now, okay? You ready? I said, yeah, I'm ready. So I go out the Best Buy, buy myself a TV that I couldn't afford at times when those big TVs was thousands of dollars. And I went outside my budget.
I said, man, I'm going to go buy this. So I got to pay it off, man. I got to go ball out on Sunday. Man, I get out there on Sunday, Quentin Jammer jammed me up. Quentin Jammer. I said, this is a grown man. I couldn't get down the field. I said, man, what coach Shanahan set me up for failure. So that was my experience with Quentin Jammer. And there was so much respect for him after that.
And those years after, you know, they started to deteriorate a little bit. So maybe he was just in a different head space in 2011.
Well, I remember the game that you had against Darrell Rivas because you were as formidable as there was at the position. Give me a guy that you went up against like that where you would put even ahead of Quentin Jammer because that's at the beginning of your career. You then learn some things. But give me later in your career.
You're established and you're going up against somebody and you're like, this is a problem.
Yeah, a couple guys. Right. So when I was young, there was always like these grown men. Right. I'm like, oh, this is this is the NFL grown men. Quentin Jammer was one of those guys. Another guy was Al Harris. Al Harris, defensive back coach, I believe, for the Dallas Cowboys. Maybe now he used to play for the Green Bay Packers. He was a grown man.
OK, now when you look at my peers, of course, you have Darrell Revis out there. You have Aqib Talib. You have Richard Sherman. He has some great matchups out there. But there were some interesting guys too, right? There was guys I was like, oh, I wasn't prepared for him. And there was guys I feel like kind of made their career or started their career off of games like against games against me.
Gilbert. So bump and run Gilmore. OK, so he was one of those young guys. I was like, OK, he's interesting. I got to watch a little bit more film on him. Another young another guy was off. I'm sorry. I'm missing his name. The defensive back that coach Belichick benched in the Super Bowl. We all was like, what is that?
Yeah. Yeah.
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Chapter 8: What does Brandon Marshall express about gratitude in his career?
How long? Eight, nine months.
Yeah. You're a new guy. You're the new guy. You're the rookie. You're the rookie. Yeah. Yeah. This show has been around 20 years, buddy. Okay. Earn your stripes, buddy. I'm trying my best. I'm trying to fit in. Get out of here. You're still in your first year. Get out of here. Do you have guys over here been on the show for 10 years? Doing the same thing, getting Dan's coffee.
And now you're going to give him TV time? How dare you give him TV time in the first year? I regret bringing up your 18-catch game.
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Restrictions apply. Mike, you know I have one rule to live by, right?
Don't place parlays on multiple long shots. Don't say a game is won when it hasn't hit triple zero. Mm-hmm. Always drink your JƤgermeister ice cold. That's the rule. Everything else is merely a suggestion. Everything else? Everything else. Wearing clean underwear every day? Well, that's just a personal decision. Brushing your teeth? Obviously smart, but not a rule.
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