 For 57 hours until kickoff for the 2022 NFL season, huge guests on her show to break it all down for the first time ever. It is up in Adams people, let's go. Next 2022, it has been 115 days since I've been on morning television talking sports. I have to tell you, it feels so good to be back. It feels amazing to be in this building with Fanduil partnering on something new on the future. And I'm going to be here every morning talking sports headlines with the most passionate fans in the world. That's you guys, thank you for joining. You guys to be part of the show. At up in Adams show on Twitter. We got a lot to get to because we are sitting here two days away from kickoff. We've got Rams and bills to talk about Baker facing the Browns, that drama. Trey Lantz, question mark. Brady's playing at 45, Aaron Rodgers and all of that. Where shall we begin? I know exactly where I want to with this very special guest joining us to help break it all down. Now I'm going to miss the headset. I'm not going to lie. And the visors, maybe those that appear on Fox on NFL Sunday. 16 years, of course, head coach, leader of the Saints. You made history in New Orleans and you're doing it today as my very first guest Super Bowl champion and new addition to Fox NFL. Sean Payton, good morning. Good morning, Kay. Thank you, man. I'm honored first off to be appearing on your first show. So congratulations to you. And I know we'll tune in. I'll have a lot of time now to watch it. So looking forward to talking football. Well, you won't have that much time because you're a TV star now. I don't know where you are. What's behind you? It looks beautiful, but you have this new adventure you're starting. So congratulations to you. Fox NFL kickoff, 11 a.m. Are you ready, nervous? I'm excited. The first opportunity was a week and a half ago for a preseason game in Baltimore or in Phoenix with Baltimore. And we did a pregame and a halftime piece and there's such a good group of guys and girls that work there. I feel like I've always been in the NFC and so we've always been covered by Fox and so many of those people I've interviewed with and spent time with production meetings and it really was a good fit. I love it. And I saw you, you love Isaiah likely on that Ravensteam. I watched your debut. He went off. Well, maybe we'll talk about Lamar here in a minute because there's so many exciting storylines and question marks. You're going to be in LA for Fox. Kickoff is in LA as the Buffalo Bills will invade Los Angeles to take on the Super Bowl defending champions. Coach, you are an offensive mastermind. I'm so grateful that you're on the show and you also faced the Bills last year on Thanksgiving. There's a lot of going up against you in that game, but you saw Alan up close and personal. So what makes him so special? Well, his physicality. He's one of those guys, you know, you're kind of reminded of a young Ben Rothesberger relative to trying to sack him. He's difficult. You know, there's a run element to his game that is very impressive. And I think his arm talent is remarkable. He can make the throws down the field, but if a play breaks down and he decides to run it or scramble, you know, that's an eight yard game, not a two or three yard game. So when you see him up close and personally realize how big he is and he certainly improved every year. So he's one of the rising stars. He's already risen. He's special. So he's already risen. Does that mean that the best quarterback in the NFL is taking the field on Thursday night? No, I didn't say that. I think one of the better quarterbacks in the NFL will be playing Thursday night, two of them probably. And then I think that AFC West has got some pretty good quarterbacks in it when you look at a division. But Allen is, and look, we'll talk about this roster lineup I have later, my fantasy roster. This is my first time ever playing and I was lucky enough to draft him as my quarterback. So I'm pulling for him. Sean Payton, you can take the football or the guy out of football, but you can't take the football out of the guy. You're now GMing and running a fantasy football team. Absolutely, absolutely. I put it on auto-draft for the last half hour of the draft and ended up with a couple of players. Rookie mistake. I'll help you coach. I'll help you. It was past 11. You mentioned, it's past 11. You mentioned the other quarterback. Let's talk about Matthew Stafford. I fully admit, never a huge believer in Detroit. I had, then I felt like an idiot because he went to Super Bowl and was awesome. The talent was always there. The arm was always there. What is it right now? Was he always this good and I just wasn't seeing it or is it the system, the playmakers around him? Well, I think the one thing at that position, and it happens more often than we'd like at times, good players maybe end up in the wrong environment, might be the wrong team, it might be the wrong system and then find their way to another place and all of a sudden you see success, you see them kind of have a breakout moment. And I think that's the case with Matthew. I think, look, we had a chance to watch and play against him quite a bit at Detroit. So for whatever reason, you don't talk about quarterbacks in that upper echelon unless they're usually in the postseason and he just wasn't exposed to many postseason games. And then all of a sudden, he gets with Sean, he gets with a really good defense and some weapons on offense. And I'm not saying Detroit didn't have any of those things at one point or another. I mean, certainly they've had talented players, but the fit was right and the timing was right and you have a Super Bowl winner. I think it's like you and Drew Brees got together and it's magic. Sometimes at all just sort of clicks at the same time. We'll see if they can do it. He's of course dealing with a bit of an injury and we'll see how that plays out on Thursday. You know, you won a Super Bowl, made the playoffs the next year, Beast Quake happens and we can't quite get over the hump. It doesn't happen, right? Patriots 0-3-0-4 was the last time. I'm in high school. Like what is it gonna take for the Rams to get back and why is it in your opinion so hard to repeat as a Super Bowl champ? I think a couple of reasons. Number one, it's exhausting. You know, when you play in the Super Bowl, win that game and you look back at pre-season, regular season, you count up all the games, 23 or 24 games, however many total you played. It's a long season. It's a full month longer than your opponents. And then number two, I think we have transitioned with so many players, almost close to 28, 29% per roster every year. So those question marks come up and then I think the other challenge is just handling success. After you've won that game, creating that sense of urgency to do it again can sometimes be challenging. It's certainly challenging for a coach and it's challenging for the players themselves. So getting back to that game would be obviously a big accomplishment and it really makes you appreciate what Buffalo did going four years in a row. To me, that's, man, it's unbelievable. Unbelievable. They never got a single win in those four trips. Maybe this is the year. I mean, the Rams want to go back and win, but it's not going to be easy. Might be a little easier to kick off this season. No Trudavius White for the Buffalo Bills. I can't imagine Cooper Cup is not going to have his way on the field. Any predictions? How do you see it going on Thursday night? Look, I think generally speaking, early in the season, defenses are a little ahead of the offense. So I'll see a little lower scoring game and I'll take the home team. The defending champion, I don't know what the record is on these Thursday night openers, but I think it's pretty favorable for the team that gets to host the game and they're going to raise the banner in that stadium and the crowd will be excited. So that's always a tough environment to play in when you're on the road. Hey, Buffalo's going to travel well. McFay has an excellent record when it comes to winning the openers to the season. I want to talk to you about Bucks Cowboys because you're brilliant. And also you have some sort of top secret kryptonite like file to stop Tom Brady to consistently crush the hopes and dreams of the one and only go. You are four in one in the last five games against Tom. How do you do it? Well, I think this, I think we played very good defense in those wins. And if you look at statistically at all four of those games, the pressure percentage was up. I know early in the game, we're able to get to him. If he gets time and you let the receivers give them access into your defense, it's going to be difficult. So somehow you got to disrupt the timing of the passing game and it's easier said than done. But I would say in each case, we played very well defensively. And then offensively, there were different scenarios like the Sunday night game, everything went well. That was two years ago. And we scored a lot of points on the road. The more recent win was last year I had COVID. I watched it on TV with you. And that was a real low scoring game. But ultimately I think we handled the turnovers. And I think most importantly, you got to somehow affect that spot behind the center where he wants to climb up in the pocket. You have to occupy that spot about three yards right behind the center. I don't think you were going to give me that much info on how to do that. Now does Dennis Allen, who ran the defense of course, now the head coach, does he have that file? Does he have the secrets? And he had a stint with Oakland. It was relatively quiet. What do we need to know about Dennis Allen and how he can handle this this year? I think, listen, I think DA is extremely bright. He's been a head coach. I think that it's a great situation that he's coming into. I think he said that already. There's a lot of continuity there. Mickey Loomis has been the GM there for shoot the whole time I was. And they've got a veteran team. They've got a team that I think wins the South this year, not Tampa. And I think defensively you'll see one of the better defenses in our league this year. Peter King just has them. Yesterday he said he has them. I think it's the one seed out of the NFC. I don't know if you saw that. Oh, does he really? Yeah, he claimed them as the one seed. What are your thoughts on that? You think they win the division and I love to hear it. Yeah, I think they win the division. Here's the thing. Tampa, it's going to be those two teams. And I haven't paid a lot of attention to what's going on in Tampa Bay's training camp. But I do think that any time those two teams play New Orleans knows they can win that game. And I think that that's pretty powerful when you have that confidence. So I'm sure it'll be a close race and we'll follow it closely. I didn't know that Peter picked them to be the one seed though. That's pretty impressive. It's risky if everything breaks right, but you're not there. I love Dennis Allen. I'm championing him. You're not there. James Loom's large. Alvin Camaro, that's a dark cloud. Michael Thomas, I of course, have faith he'll return to form, but James is such a wild card in this, right? And that's the way he's always played. We've seen him put up a 5,000 yard season. We've also seen him be a little reckless out there when it comes to turning the ball over. But I did see last year before that injury, you really got him to start turning a corner before any of that happened. How do you balance that out to sort of make sure that you're not compromising the talents while you're trying to get him to be more responsible with the football? I think it's a great question. You know, it's picking and choosing the opportunities where you want to be aggressive. Sometimes you can help him with that with play calls. Sometimes it's the one thing that I found with him, which was really encouraging is he began to understand what won each week. And that might change a little bit. But he was playing very well before his injury. And I think from all indications, he's healthy now, he's worked his tail off, and he's gonna take advantage of that opportunity. I think Camara is gonna be fine this season. I don't think we're gonna see anything on that front until the off season probably heading into next year. Of course, there's some turnover. You have a new head coach, but Pete Carmichael has been the offensive coordinator. He was for me for 16 years, and he's called place. He's called place in the 11th season, and he called all of 12 season when I was gone. So although there's turnover, that change will be minimal compared to the other staffs that completely flipped. So the Saints have your support. They are taking the South, not the Buccaneers who face the Cowboys. Now the Cowboys, lots of talent, offensive line drama, of course, with injuries. What's holding them back? Yeah, well, look, they had a great season last year, and it's just, it's always disappointing when you put together what they did statistically. Both sides of the ball, they improved so much defensively under Dan Quinn, and then you don't win that first playoff game. So that kind of overshadows all the things that went on that were really positive. So look, I think it'll be interesting. I like Dallas in this game. I think Dallas' defense is improved again. I think Dan does a great job. Those guys play with great speed to the football. They'll turn it over. I like them winning this game. Tampa's got a tough stretch here in the first three weeks. I think they go at Dallas, at New Orleans, and then at home versus Green Bay. So that's gonna be a big challenge for them. I'm sure if they could get two of those three, they'd be pretty happy. You know the schedules for the teams. Sean Payton, you were ready to go. Fox lucky to you. Hey, I'm totally prepared. What did you think you were getting this morning, huh? Well, I don't know. What have you been up to? I feel like you seem very calm and at peace with not being on the football field, but I can't imagine that in two nights you're watching this game in LA that itch doesn't start doing its thing, right? Yeah. No, I'm up here in Gaza Ranch, Idaho. So golf course behind me, it's a little chilly. And I'll be making the trip back and forth on the weekends and watching just like everyone else Thursday night. It's kind of hard to believe it's already here. It really is. It seems like that time has gone by real fast. Yeah. How much is a membership at Gaza Ranch, Google? I'm not even gonna look because I don't know what that is, but I can't imagine. I got it three years ago. It was very affordable. And I don't know that it is anymore. Okay, we'll talk about that. Do you get any surprises or like things that you're looking at from your offensive mind that we need to be paying attention to underrated guys or storylines or just some guys who you are really excited to see for the season storylines? I'm excited to see Baltimore. I did the pre-season game and I think that's gonna be a team that I'd pick to be playing in Arizona at the end of the year. I like the way that team looked. I'm a big fan of John Harbaugh's. We've worked together before. That's who I think comes out of the AFC in plays. I'm still trying to figure out the NFC, but that was an impressive roster. And I think there are a lot healthier. Their training camp's gone a lot better. Last year they were banged up, I know quite a bit. That would be one team. I think the Chargers are another team that have to show progress. Like we need to see forward steps from them. The quarterback's too talented. They're skilled people. I know they've made some off-season acquisitions and are trying to beef up their pass rush. But that's a team that I think has got some pressure on them and I think in a tough division. And I still don't get it. I still can't get past or overlook Andy's team in Kansas City. I think they're still the team to beat in that division. I think they're the best on both sides of the team though. Justin Herbert, you want to see improvement. He threw 38 touchdowns of 5,000 yards last year and he's still developing. He's just getting started. Yeah, I want to see a little bit more from the win column and I want to see a team that gets into the post-season. In other words, statistically speaking, he was magnificent but we just had that talk about quarterbacks in the post-season and all the other things that come with it and it's time for that to happen with him. Yeah, I'm with you on the Ravens. I've been going very far but the Lamar thing, should I be worried about that? I mean, is he going to flackle it and get paid after a great season? Yeah, I don't know. Gosh, it's unusual without the agent and everything. So I think, look, those things generally play out. I know those guys in Baltimore will do a great job communicating with he and the people in his circle. John will be real smart and handle that certainly in a delicate fashion but handle it the right way. Coach, Gaza Ranch looks like it's painted. Like Pete, like Bob Ross painted it. This is an insane place that you're at. I'm gonna need photos. We're gonna take a short break. I'm gonna pull up your fantasy team if you can send it to me and I'm going to relentlessly make fun of it. Is that okay? Yeah, you're gonna make fun of my team. Yeah, I am. You know real football, I know fantasy football. We'll be back up in Adams after this. All right. First ever show, outstanding coach, Peyton says, hey, hey, I convinced the Saints winning the division. Ravens aren't beating the Bills though. We'll see, all right. We've got Fox NFL analyst, Sean Peyton joining us. Fox NFL analyst and Gaza Ranch bougie member and fantasy football owner for the very first time. As you can see one NFL kickoff every Sunday at 11 a.m. Eastern on Fox but let's bring up this fantasy team. Josh Allen, what pick did you take him first? No, we didn't take quarterback first here. A little help from my son. First overall was the runner, Jonathan Taylor. Josh Allen, I think I selected, I wanna say third. So he's listed first on that depth chart that we're looking at. Was this a six team league, sir? This is like a nine team league. No, Sean, Sean. Listen to my, I'm just getting in the water cave. I'm not gonna just jump into the deep end. I'm just learning how to play. You have the best quarterback and the best running back in fantasy football. So you scored there. So I have a good draft. You did a great draft. You auto drafted after the 10th round. I don't even know what to say about it. No, I auto drafted the kicker and as I'm sitting here looking at it. Yeah. A little concerned that, look, is he gonna get the opportunities? I mean, I don't know. The kicker was auto drafted. So I can't take credit for that pitch. What are you saying about kickers that you auto drafted one? It was just past my bedtime. And I just, I went to the little auto draft section and it just went to sleep. Now, if we go to the division that you were a part of for 16 years, 15 seasons, you have, you do, you were pretty objective and grabbing Kyle Pitts, who I happen to think. And we'll talk fantasy football here in a little bit. I think he's gonna be the best tight end in fantasy football this year. What did you see? You sound up close and personal. I just see a guy, they're gonna have to target. You know, there's X amount of weapons with each team. And I would say Atlantis, as they're trying to build, they're gonna have to get him the ball. And I think they'll find, I think they'll find a ton of ways to do that. He's someone who's long and I think naturally has good hands. And I think he'll have a, I agree with you. You're gonna see a little jump in his statistics this upcoming season. I don't think there are a lot of weapons on that offense. You know, and so ultimately someone's gotta get the ball. And you take the Saints defense, tell me about that. Yeah, they take the ball away. I like that. And I also like their return game, their special teams. I think Darren Rizzi is one of the better special team coordinators in the NFL. You got the threat of one of the best punt and kick returners in the NFL, Deontay. So I like that. That was easy for me. Cause at some point, and I think that was, we got into the defenses and special teams probably around that fourth or fifth round. But I felt good about that pick. And now you have the waiver wire. You understand how it works? Not quite yet. I'm gonna, I'll be up to speed on it. I like this, this receiver from Dallas, obviously. What don't you like about this roster? I don't, I'm, I was joking. I hadn't really seen it. I saw you got Josh Allen and Jonathan Taylor and I just figured it was a, like a 16 league. Or you were in a league with people who were trying to make another Netflix. Maybe it's like Kevin James and he's letting you do what you want because he wants to play you again in round two of a Netflix film. I don't know. This is a make Sean Payton feel good league. I don't know. I can't believe, I mean, Mike Williams is an absolute stud. He's gonna be a thousand yard receiver. Justin Herbert's gonna throw all of the time. Miles Sanders as a flex. I don't know what you make of the Eagles. I like them quite a bit, but never trust their run game. And I've never been able to trust him unfortunately. I love him. I don't know. I guess your kicker needs work. Yeah. I looked the runner for Philly Sanders. That was one, you know, he didn't put up, they run the ball as well as anyone in the league, but they do it in so many different ways. It's a little bit like, you know, it could be the points can get spread around. Here's, go ahead. No, we were a hard team though, that when teams have a lot of different weapons and good design, I don't know that that lends itself to consistent fantasy predictions. And I think we were on our office. I was about to say, I was about to say, the reason that I'm worried about you, and I hope this isn't some big money league or like you have to get a tattoo of, I don't even know, an Atlanta Falcons logo or something if you lose. I've hit you up in the years past, full disclosure. Like, sir, do you think it's more of like an Alvin Camara game or a Michael Thomas game? And you are always kind and always, but you're always wrong. You've never been right. You've literally never led me in the right direction, not once. And you know it too. I'm awful at trying to predict those things. And the only constant in 16 years was that Breeze was gonna play well or play well for fantasy. There were so many different players that the ball could go to. And he was one of those equal opportunity distributors that I know that can become difficult then in predicting scores and touchdowns. But my son's first exposure to fantasy, he was 10 years old. He played with some older kids from the beach. They had their draft. I said to Connor, this was in 2009. I said, hey, in the late rounds, grab this Mike Bell. He was a free agent running back, we signed, but I knew he was gonna be, you know, in our short yardage goal line package. And so Connor goes ahead and he's all excited. He's playing with these older kids. He drafts Mike Bell late. And that weekend was still preseason. Mike Bell had 170 yards rushing, I think in a preseason game. So I'm not sure if they threw Connor out of the league for insider trading. That's the only time I've been right, I think. You're never right. And you're always feeding Colston. I'm like, can we not give Colston the ball for like one minute? You're always doing the thing that I didn't think he would do. But that's what you'll realize if you're a good coach and you're an offensive mastermind and you're, you know, like Bellacheck's backfield, you can never play any of these guys or count on them because he mixes it up just like you did and just like you will at some point when you come back to the NFL because that's a safe bet I would make on the Fandle app or Fandle.com or whatever that we will be seeing you back in the league at some point. But for now you are on Fox 11 a.m. Eastern and we can't wait to see you and cheer you on. I can't wait to be back on your show and appreciate, I appreciate being the first one. I mean, I'm honored. I wouldn't have anybody else coach. You're the best. And go enjoy some what like golf and like massages this morning. I mean, what even happens in Gaza rent? I don't even know a nature. No, it's gonna breakfast club this morning. So that'll be just a round table of a bunch of us just chatting and then golf in the afternoon and then out on the lake on the boat. Who's on who's at that table? It's a pretty important table. A lot of hockey players, former hockey players. The great Gretzky is usually holding court there Let's see, Pat Burrell, former baseball player. Do you wanna trade lines with me? Yeah. Well, I'm terrible at fantasy. I would fan do a wanna hire me. Because you're Sean Payton and you're at breakfast club with Wayne. You know some important people Wayne Gretzky, whatever. You're insane. You're got a movie made about you coach. You're the best. You took a lot of time from you today and I really appreciate it. Thank you. Hey, thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me on. Coach had it right. We got to talk some fantasy. We got more. I've been gone forever. I was in Africa. I was on like a Kayawaskha finding myself. Who knows? But I've got to set the table. Season starts in two days. We'll be back. 57 hours, baby, until the Buffalo Bill sort of invade LA and take on the Rams. I'm here. It's called Up in Adams. It's a new show here on FanDuel. We've got a lot of new people to introduce you to. I'm not here by myself. You're here, of course. We just had the great Sean Payton joining us on the program. But I want to introduce everyone to a super producer making it all happen behind the scenes in the control room, dealing with me and my neurotic behavior. This is Conrad Company. You had a year over at Fox and now you're here. Conrad, welcome. Yeah, Kay. So happy to be here. Funny enough, between the two of us, people believe that I'm the one with the fake name. Yeah, Conrad Company is not real. It's the name of a production company or otherwise. I will, how great was Sean Payton? I mean, Sean Payton was amazing. I just want to sit at this breakfast club. That's all I could think about. Golf and a breakfast club with Wayne Gretzky? Yeah. His life is insane. Okay, but here's my thing. We have fantasy football to talk about. I've been gone, as you know, for a long time. It took a little break, but I'm back. And before the season kicks off, I just sort of have to get my guys out there. You know, so everybody knows I'm going to call my shot and I'm going to, you know, champion these people throughout the season. So bring your venom, as you always do, on Twitter, everybody. And Conrad, you bring that smile and some questions. Yeah, absolutely. Actually, Twitter was at blaze while you were gone. Everybody, everybody was wondering where in the world K-Adams was. And you know what? They desperately needed your fantasy football advice. So let's give the people what they want, K. Let's get rolling with a little fantasy fill in the blanks. Stretch, go for it. You ready to go for it? Yeah, go for it. All right, up first. There's a rookie receiver that absolutely crushes it every year, K. Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, but blank will be the next in that line. Oh, man. Well, there were a lot of rookie wide receivers taken. That's what you mean. So let's look at, let's just set the table here of these rookies taken. Let's just go first round. Let's take a look at those. You've got your pick of gentlemen. If we can pop those up control room. That's okay. We're going to go Chris Olave. Chris Olave is the guy that I think is going to do it. And here is why. Yes, this is the list. He's going to benefit from defenses keying in on Michael Thomas. I do believe in Michael Thomas. Healthy back to form. You heard coach John Payton say they're winning the damn division people. Think about it. Jefferson and Chase, who you mentioned, really good receivers playing alongside them, right? Two-time pro bowler Adam Thielen with Jefferson and then T. Higgins in Cincinnati and absolute stud. Defenses had to account for those guys just like they're going to have to do for Michael Thomas. Olave also, Mr. Conrad Company, the perfect compliment. He is, what did you say, a blaze? He is a blaze in four, three, nine speed, my friend. And I love that about him. We know James, Mr. Wildcard likes to take shots downfield and he can do that. And remember, I will also remember, James, if you can get the best out of him and he did turn a corner and you should listen to our Sean Payton interviewer who posted on Twitter. He had number one wide receivers in Chris Godwin and Mike Evans when he was in Tampa and made it happen and he was throwing. So if you can get those yards up and be the James, we know he can be with a healthy Michael Thomas. Olave, because of situation of those guys, is gonna have the best fantasy year. I mean, people forget too, the Saints added Jarvis Landry, so you have Michael Thomas, Jarvis Landry on the edges and then you have Olave going deep? What is his background? Can we change your background every day? For sure, we can. I didn't approve it, I like it, but I just, I feel like we can make a little... No, we can, we'll give it a little more personality. Let's put you on like an F1 track, let's put you like at the Hort at Del Mar, like let's play with this tomorrow, okay? All right, I got you, okay? I got you, okay? Why are you taking notes over there? Let's move on to the next film, The Blank, though, you ready? Yeah. All right, a lot of players around the league are under the radar, but Blank is officially on the K-DAR. Who approved K-DAR? Who, listen, the show was called Up in Adams, one pun per show is enough and that's the one, that's why I literally made that pun. So Richard Isacow back there could not follow me from NFL Network and decide to pun it up over here, but I will say, listen, a lot of love for Cortland Sutton, I get it, but I'm gonna go Jerry Judy. I'm gonna go Jerry Judy is the guy here, and let's take a look at some of the route running that he has. This is what he's always had and he's done so well. This man is a technician, we've seen this three years now. Getting back to Alabama, you know, we haven't seen the fantasy production yet, but you wanna know why? Because we have not had a quarterback who's able to get him the ball. He gets a lot of crap for being drafted before Justin Jefferson, ahead of C.D. Lamb, who Sean Payton loves, back in 2020. I think this is the year he reminds people, look where he's going, like Marquis Brown, Marquis Brown got said so many targets when he was in Baltimore, even though I don't think he thinks so, but I don't know if he'll, Alan Robinson, a lot of mouths to feed with the Rams, I love him, but Jerry Judy needs to be taken more seriously, and I think he's gonna crush it. Oh. Yeah, okay, you know what? I think one thing about seeing Russell Wilson now in Denver II as well, is that Jerry Judy is going to be a more athletic, bigger version of Tyler Lockett. Oh, is that your Seattle shining through? If you didn't know, Conrad was from Seattle, and he's probably gonna talk about Seattle, which I love because I feel like the national media never gives them enough love, and I love Tyler Lockett, and I'm mad Bobby Wagner left. Hey, listen, I think Russell's in a great spot in Denver. I have them being a really good team this year, now he has even, I think he has equivalent weapons in Denver as what he had in Seattle. So, let's move on to another one. Let's go into the fill in the blank. All right, a lot of players have something to prove in 2022, but blank has the most to prove. Well, let's look at quarterback ranking. So, I'm always trying to find a value in who people don't like and what everyone's thinking about. So, fantasy pros, by the way, is where I go, it's where I've gone my entire fantasy football career. So, we are pulling these from there. If you look at this, okay, one through eight, those are some good quarterback, all right, all right, LMR, Jackson, Shuri's gonna do it all. Kyla Murray, you know, talent-wise can do it. Jalen Hurt should be better. Who are we missing here? Can I see nine through something? Okay, not Russell. Aaron Rodgers is 13! He's not a QB1, are we joking? Listen, I get it, he's slinking off the field in the snow, upset after he loses in the playoffs again, but this was your MVP. This is absolute insanity here. I guess it's showing that fantasy experts think that the loss of Devante Adams was absolutely going to sand back his fantasy value. His worst fantasy finish, let me just tell you, in a healthy season, Conrad, do you know what it was? What was it? Ninth, he's never been outside the top 10 when he's healthy. I don't know why that would change. You know how many, let me do the quick math there and pull out my TI-89. That's 11 healthy seasons when he's absolutely crushed it. I don't see why that would change now. Are we saying Devante Adams made Aaron Rodgers? Are we saying that? Are we saying that? Are you saying that? No, I'm not. Are we saying that LaFleur isn't creative and doesn't have a great offense? I don't understand. I just, it's weapons, Kay. It's weapons and it's reps. I mean, you can see Aaron. When was the last time you saw Aaron Rodgers in the pre-season get this upset with a bunch of rookies? I think it was, like when Devante Adams was a puppy. Are you looking at pre-season headline? What happened last year with the Packers in the pre-season and how we talked about that day in, day out at Nauseam and then he won the MVP? We're not talking ship, which he needs to get of course, but I'm talking fantasy value. We're talking practice? He was what, number two last year? Top five, no, he was top five last year. Yeah, all right, hit me with your last one quick. All right, last one, here we go. Blank will make or break your 22 fantasy football season. Okay, I've done a bunch of mock drafts. I don't know if the Rotor Worlds as experts and I was an idiot in it. The number two spot is the most absurd spot to draft in. You get to number two, Jonathan Taylor of course, number one overall. And then you're like, do you like take Derek Henry? Like is he gonna hold up? Do I take Christian McCaffrey? Christian McCaffrey is your make or break player because the upside is higher than anyone, higher than Jonathan Taylor, higher than Derek Henry, than whoever and if he can stay healthy. I know he's working so hard. He knows this is a huge year for him. He knows everything matters. But if you take him and he stays healthy, you have a great shot to win your league, especially in a PPR. He's one of just three players to ever put up a thousand and a thousand. He's had two, not just one, two 100 catch seasons. Dangerous fantasy threat, the most dangerous I think that's ever been, right, really? And his 2019 season, the second highest PPR season Conrad of all time. So C-squared as I'm gonna call you, Conrad company, C-squared. I just decided. I'll call you loafers too. Yeah, loafers too, but you know what? I'm just so happy that I had such a genius in the fantasy football world. Actually like, give me a little kudos because yesterday I took Christian McCaffrey number two overall. So look at that, that's already a little cemetery. You also told me Aaron Rodgers wasn't a good fantasy quarterback. Take Aaron Rodgers everywhere in daily fantasy, trade for him, low, do what you need to do. SeaWorld, great job. We're gonna be back after this. We don't know what's next. Who knows? You just have to tune in. And then Kay, don't forget before we go, you're back and everybody was waiting so long for you to be back. So check out all these beautiful tweets. Everybody's so excited about Kay Adams being back. Conrad! Love it? Conrad, you're amazing. Check it, Fandua Casino's launched their exclusive Fandua branded live dealer casino. It is available to play in Michigan and Pennsylvania. You can play all your favorite table games, a little blackjack, a little roulette. There's a real live dealer who deals real cards against real competition. I'm gonna see how that works. You guessed it, real money too. So their deposits and withdrawals are really fast and secure, so fast and secure. It's like being at a real life casino. Welcome to our show, Fandua TV launched September 1st and this is the first episode of Up In Adams. This is very much a sport show. It is very much the storylines that I like to talk about, the breaking news we need to talk about guests and fun and getting to know the NFL from a different angle. But it's also a really perfect opportunity to dip into where the game is going. The game, of course, I'm talking about is a world of sports betting and that's where Fandua leads the way. That's why I'm here. So maybe you're curious like I am. Maybe you want to learn. Maybe you wanna have some fun over on the Fandua Lab this weekend. Here is what I can tell you. I'm gonna do the best to bring you the best information I can. Learning along with you. So I promise you I will try to get that information. I mean, we had Sean Payton on the show. How can we do better than that? He was amazing. But here now to talk about some sports betting, the future's bets for betting the future with NFL vet and current gambling analyst, Fox Sports. Jeff Schwartz, good to see you. Glad to be here. Congrats on the show. Thank you so much. All right, we're gonna get right into it. This is your world. Talk to me about who you think might overachieve or underachieve based on projected win totals. Hit me. Let's go over Kansas City here, 10 and a half. This one's kind of surprising to me. I mean, the Chiefs had a down year last year and won 12 games. And I cannot imagine that losing one wide receiver or placing him with three guys, plus a younger, faster defense leads to less than 10 and a half wins. I get to have a tough division, but the Chargers are the Chargers, right? The Broncos might start slow with Russell Wilson and the Raiders are gonna win eight games. I just don't understand kind of the downness quote unquote on the Chiefs this season. Couple unders for you guys. Sorry, producer Conrad, but your Seahawks are struggling. They're gonna have a bad year under five and a half wins for me there. Look, if Genosmith doesn't play well, the backup is Drew Locke. I mean, like they're in a bad spot right now. Do you watch him in the preseason? I get, you don't want to take away all the time, you know, preseason, you know, things that happen to gamble on, but they look bad. They're bad at the roster is not very good. Who are the playmakers on defense? Again, quarterback so important. I think the offensive line will be better, but I just don't see them winning a lot in this division. I think they want to be bad as well, drop the young quarterback. And number three, I'll stay in the NFC West with the San Francisco 49ers here under nine and a half. They have a quarterback problem, right? They're starting Tre Lantz, who started two games in the NFL, but also Jimmy Grauplo there just waiting in the wings for Tre Lantz to play poorly and then go back to Jimmy Grauplo, plus very tough division and they play the FC West this year. I just don't like the makeup of what's happening in quarterback right now. I would hope that they trust Tre Lantz, feels like they do not. So those are my three favorite heading into 2022. The Niners have been under nine wins in six of the last eight seasons. All right, let's talk about another stat that I love. In each of the last 10 seasons, there's at least four teams that missed the playoffs the previous year and then they make it the next year. It happens a lot. Are there underdogs? I love underdogs, hook me up. All right, so the first one's not so much of underdog. I'm going to Indianapolis Colts. I mean, they didn't make the playoffs last year. I get that, they are technically underdog. But I mean, with Matt Ryan is a much, you know, an upgrade over Carson Wentz here. He still has a lot left him. Go watch him play last year. Duke of Sling the ball. They built a really good roster around him. A division where Tennessee is going to be much worse, in my opinion. Jacksonville should be better. I think Trevor Lawrence with Doug Peterson gets things done. But again, still talent-wise, not really there. And Houston will be feisty, but not good enough to win a division. So to me, it's the Colts easy here. I put my end to win the South and you should do the same. And the other one is the Carolina Panthers. If you look at what Baker Mayfield can do if he's healthy again. Baker Mayfield's not an elite quarterback, but he's good enough with the roster they have and the chip on his shoulder to get them to the seventh seat, guys. Look at the NFC outside of the top division, right? The Bucks and the Packers and who we got in the East, the Cowboys or Eagles, you know, the Rams. Who's the seventh seed? Is it Minnesota? Maybe? Is it Arizona? I don't know. I think it could be the Panthers. So I put my Panthers. I think it's plus three fifties to make the playoffs. I think it's good money there. Sean Payton said it would be the Saints, the Bucks and then everybody else in that division. But you guys let us know, you let Jeff know, let myself, Sean Payton. You can tell him off on Twitter. It's all great at Up and Adams show. So, you know, Indy, they're on quarterback number five in five years. I'll just leave that there. Let's talk about who's, or yeah, this is fun at the future. Go for it. Who's representing the NFC and the NFC in the Super Bowl? I'm going with Buffalo for now in the NFC. I think it's really Buffalo or Kansas City. This has to be Buffalo's time, right? I mean, they've been gearing up for this opportunity now for a couple of years. And when the Chiefs maybe starting slow with the new offense, this has to be Buffalo's time. They padded the last couple of years, you know, to the roster. I really love the Vaughn Miller edition. The Vaughn Miller edition is not really for now. It's for December, January, February, Josh Allen's playing good football. I do expect a little bit more consistency from him this season. Last year, the offense, the variants was way up and down. So to me as Buffalo for now, I could change my mind at Kansas City, but I'm keeping the bills. I'm looking at betting favorites, man. Like, I think they're favorites for a reason. I like Buffalo to win the NFC conference. All right. And so who wins the Super Bowl? All right. I have Tampa Bay Buffalo in the Super Bowl. I'm going to go with Buffalo for now. Again, I just think that they've been gearing up for this opportunity now for a couple of years. And, you know, the Bucks offense line issues do concern me. But the dynamic play of Josh Allen has me kind of mesmerized with this team. Again, I really liked it. The way they built their team out inside out, they have the quarterback, and they get it done this year and they break the Super Bowl drought. I know I want that for them. Just as an NFL fan, like, let's look, but I don't, there's so much hype. There's so much hype. And then I'm trying to see, like, where do they, you know, that secondary, the depth in the secondary, they've got a couple of rookies having to contain Cooper Cup, even just to start the season. So I'm just really hoping Tredavius White gets on the field early. I think if he was in that game against the Chiefs, who knows if the Buffalo Bills aren't going on to face the Bengals and they could have been in the Super Bowl. Like, Tredavius White is huge. Secondary is huge. So I hope it works out for them, of course. Hey, Jeff, you're awesome. Thanks for doing that. Thanks for having me. All right, we'll see you soon. We'll be back after this because we have to get into my predictions. LFG, okay, Tom, calm down, Tom. Tom, relax. We'll be back. Who's going to win the MVP? Is it this guy? I say no! FanDuelTV is here. Take a free shot at BigPrize as courtesy of GMC and FanDuel. Just answer questions about this week's action on the gridiron. The more you get right, the higher you'll move up the mountain. And the more prizes you could win. Time out. I just moved to LA. I need a car. I'm doing this. I don't have a car. I don't want a car. But maybe they want a GMC. Get your picks in for the GMC Sierra Mountain Climber. I like the mountains, Brian. I like hiking. I like this. All right, they have to happen before a kickoff for your chance to reach the summit and win a share of $10,000 in prizes. Visit fanduel.com to enter. Stage manager Brian, I need to do that after the show. I need a car. Literally what kind of car should I buy? If anybody wants to tell me and give me ideas, I haven't owned a car since a 96 Nissan Ultima and I need to buy one. Anyway, okay. I missed prediction season. Sorry. I was in Africa having the time of my life. I was at Wimbledon. I just lived my best. So, now I'm back. We got a little scene setter, right? I got two nights until kickoff. So let's fill you guys in. I'm gonna hit you with bold predictions. We're gonna have a whole list of 10 throughout the week leading up to kickoff. Up first, yes. Josh Allen is. We all love Josh Allen. We all love Patrick Wilhams. But what if Justin Harbert wins MVP. I'm so here for this. I said it before. 5,000 yards, 38 touchdowns last season. He's still developing. He's not even at his peak. We know what he has. All of his playmakers are coming back. Al and Williams, Josh Palmer, Austin Eckler who I talked to yesterday and cannot wait to get the season going. They upgraded their O-line. They drafted Zion. I smell the third year leap coming. The stage is set. They are loaded on both sides of the ball. He's gonna lead the Chargers to the playoffs in a loaded division. And with those ridiculous numbers, MVP is in the works. All right. We're gonna stay in the AFC West. I'm warmed up. I'm ready to go. Let's go Jericar. Best season of his career. Viking, yeah. We're gonna get the Vikings in a minute. Listen, he led the Raiders to the playoffs this year. He's got McDaniels. He's got Devonte Adams. He's got chemistry with him already. He's gonna leave the 2016 season in the dust, you guys. That was his best year. I think he has maybe, I mean, I'm gonna say Ryan, he's gonna lead the league in passing this year. All the yards will be his. He's got a tight end named Darren Waller, of course, and Renfro. All right. And now we move on to my last bold prediction. Vikings make the playoffs. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Packers fans. You might make a two, but they are doing it eight in eight last year with Kirk Cousins starting. All eight losses, one score gains, okay? They've got a revamped defense. More importantly, I think they needed some new blood in there. I do. I'm excited about O'Connell being the coach. They're bringing an offensive minded guy, a McVeigh tree guy into the mix. Kirk Cousins is going to be good. Justin Jefferson is gonna be a stud. For me at number two on fantasy, it's really between Justin Jefferson and Christian McCaffrey and who I want to take. So Vikings, who I sort of never give enough love to. I'm gonna go ahead and say that they're going to do a good job. So I believe in the talent and all of that. Those are my predictions. I'll hit you guys with more. 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