00:00All right, let's do a little real or fake.
00:02We do it every Tuesday where I throw out a question or a statement,
00:08and you let me know if it's real or fake.
00:11Let me start with you, Tyler.
00:14Rick, the Astros should be the AL West favorite right now.
00:19Seattle is the current favorite.
00:22The Astros should be the AL West favorite, real or fake?
00:26Oh, man, you know where my heart is, but I'm going to say that that is fake.
00:31Really?
00:32It is properly set right now.
00:33Yeah, there's just too many question marks right now,
00:35not only with the lineup in general in Houston,
00:38but I'm thinking about the arms, the pitching rotation,
00:41everything that's going into that.
00:42So I unfortunately believe that is real.
00:45Real or fake, Clint?
00:46I'm going fake as well.
00:48Oh, I'm sorry, fake.
00:49You got fake, yeah.
00:50I'm going fake as well.
00:51You switched it up on me, T.
00:52I'm going fake as well with T.
00:54Yeah, look, I'm here, man.
00:58I'm hoping for another great run with the Astros.
01:02But when we're talking about preseason favorites in the AL West,
01:09I don't know how anybody even would shape their mouth to think that they're
01:13in the same category with the Seattle Mariners.
01:16And I don't even know what the Mariners, who they lost.
01:19They lost Suarez, the third baseman, who was a big piece for them.
01:24That rotation?
01:27Yeah, no, I can't go with that.
01:29I got to go fake.
01:31The deal is with everybody healthy, which at least to start the season,
01:36you hope that everybody for the Astros will be healthy.
01:38I like the lineup, you know, a lot.
01:44I like the Astros lineup.
01:45I won't say a lot better, but I like the Astros lineup.
01:48I don't know if the big dumper is going to put together a season like that again.
01:53What a nickname.
01:55Yeah.
01:55Yeah.
01:56Cal Riley put together a hell of a season.
01:59And so, you know, I don't know about that.
02:02Now, their arms, their rotation.
02:05Now, Hunter Brown's the best pitcher out of the bunch for both teams,
02:07but they've got a much better, at least much more proven rotation to start right now.
02:16I think it's closer than many people look at because, again, I think the Astros,
02:22they got to figure out how they can.
02:24But when you start talking about Altuve and Jordan and Paredes and Correa
02:29and, you know, Diaz and the guys that they can run out there, Pena,
02:37the guys they can run out there from a lineup perspective, it can roll.
02:42Now, I don't know how they can get all of them in there and play positions,
02:44but it can, you know, it can roll where you don't got to depend on a Christian Walker
02:48to be great for you.
02:50I'm with you.
02:51I just have more, at least, understanding of what the Mariners are doing
02:56from a rotation standpoint.
02:59So, I will say fake.
03:00But I think it's closer than maybe we look at it.
03:06You know, some, as Silas said, they got a couple of questions.
03:09They hit, you know, a couple.
03:11We get a better understanding of some of the pitching.
03:14Then it's like, okay, here we go.
03:17And I don't necessarily think the Mariners have just, you know,
03:20all of a sudden come in and just now it's their division.
03:23Yeah.
03:24You know what I mean?
03:24I still think there's probably some mental hurdles with the Astros,
03:28with the Mariners.
03:30One less now with Framber gone, though.
03:32No, yeah.
03:33Framber gone.
03:34Yeah, but we'll see.
03:35Yeah, I got you.
03:36One less mental hurdle.
03:38You get it?
03:38I got you.
03:39Because it's crazy.
03:40I just, the CJ to Framber thing.
03:42Come on, guys.
03:42Dude, that caught me off guard for a second.
03:44I've seen it a few times on the TV.
03:47Text line.
03:47I just tried to ignore it, but that, my goodness.
03:50All right.
03:51Sam Darnold.
03:53True.
03:54Real or fake, Clint?
03:55Sam Darnold is a top 10 quarterback right now in the NFL.
03:59Real or fake?
04:01Ooh, I'm going to go fake.
04:03Woo!
04:04Oh, you didn't get caught up in a moment.
04:05No, no, not yet.
04:07I think it's worth the conversation.
04:09It's close.
04:10But no, I mean, it's, he might, he might crack the top 10 if I start listing them.
04:16But the guys that I would, ooh, I don't know, Ron.
04:20But you got to, and not just the season, but I mean, like.
04:24Would I take, would I take Sam Darnold right now?
04:27If I could pick top 10 quarterbacks, would I pick, would I pick.
04:31You think he would fit in the team?
04:32Would I take him to run a team?
04:33All things considered, good scenario.
04:36Would I, would I take him?
04:37Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Joe Burrow, Pat Mahomes, Matthew Stafford, Dak Prescott.
04:46Who am I, who am I, who am I leaving out?
04:48Would you take, would you take Herbert over him?
04:53Yes, I would take Justin Herbert over him.
04:55Would you take the guy who may win the MVP, Joe Mayo?
04:59Right now?
05:01Yeah.
05:01No.
05:01You wouldn't?
05:03Trevor.
05:05No.
05:06Baker.
05:07No.
05:08Jordan Love would be one.
05:09You would take, see, I would take Baker.
05:11I'd take Drake May over him.
05:14I had him around, I guess I'll get mine.
05:17I'll say, I'll say fake.
05:19I had him around like that 11, 12 range, right?
05:25Depending on how you, how you feel about a certain guys.
05:28Like, like I got Drake.
05:31I got Josh.
05:32I got, like, I, I had, like, I had, um, the kid from Washington.
05:37Like, I, I'd put, I would put Jay Daniels over him.
05:40I would too.
05:41I think he was just this injured.
05:43Right.
05:43And then like Jarrett golf is, it's like the weird, I take back my Drake.
05:47May.
05:47I'd take Drake.
05:48Yeah.
05:48So like, he's getting close, but you start like, but it's tough, man.
05:53He's put, Tyler, he's put 14 and three seasons back to back.
05:58And then it's, I think he gets cool points for, he left Minnesota and they just fell apart from the quarterback position.
06:07Yeah.
06:08So I, I think it's close, but I think he's got to put together another year.
06:12Like, would you, like I said, Baker, would you take him over Baker?
06:15Ooh.
06:16Everything, everything equal.
06:20Yeah.
06:21You take him over Baker?
06:22Well, that hurts my heart too.
06:23I'm a Baker fan.
06:24I think you may need a couple of minutes.
06:25Yeah.
06:25I didn't probably even think about that.
06:27Yeah.
06:27Like, but yeah, I'm taking him over.
06:29I'm taking him over Purdy.
06:30I'm taking him over guys like that.
06:32Real or fake?
06:34I probably.
06:34I think it's real.
06:35You think it's real?
06:36You got him in the top 10.
06:36Over 4,000 passing yards.
06:38Good enough for fifth most in the league this year.
06:40He's playing in the biggest game that everybody wants to be in two weeks.
06:44Most points per game, Seattle Seahawks in 2025.
06:48I'm going real.
06:49Text line said, damn, you didn't even mention Jalen Hurts.
06:52Yeah.
06:55Hurts got to be in the right system, and I would.
06:57If they could find an offensive coordinator in Philly, I'd take Hurts.
07:01That is crazy.
07:01We were talking about Jalen after he was Super Bowl MVP as a top five.
07:06That was the conversation of him being, jumping in there with the seasons he's had.
07:11But you're right, man.
07:13I looked at that list of quarterbacks.
07:15I lost right over him.
07:17I mean, it's tough.
07:19I mean, you can talk about Jared Goff.
07:21There's a lot of good quarterbacks in the league.
07:22I mean, he's won a lot of football games, man.
07:24And his numbers are nuts.
07:26Jared Goff's got to be close to leading the league in passing.
07:29Mm-hmm.
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