The Herd with Colin Cowherd - FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Hot Takes | BOLD Expert Predictions For The 2025 NFL Season (Ep. 1636)

Episode Date: August 2, 2025

Join Chris Welsh, Andrew Erickson, and Scott Bogman as they reveal 10 scorching hot takes for the 2025 fantasy football season! The boys have progressively spicier wings and hot sauce to eat as the takes get hotter and hotter throughout the pod! You won’t want to miss this hilarious and informative episode! Timestamps: (May be off due to ads) Intro - 0:00:00 Cam Skattebo Leads Giants in Touches - 0:06:17 Drake London Finishes WR1 Overall - 0:10:24 DraftKings BestBall - 0:14:45 Drake Maye Is A Top 5 QB - 0:17:24 Trey McBride Leads TEs in TDs - 0:21:57 Fantrax - 0:25:26 Ricky Pearsall Leads SF in Receiving Yards - 0:28:37 Tucker Kraft Finishes As A Top 4 TE - 0:34:21 FantasyPros on Twitch - 0:38:00 Jordan Mason +7500 To Lead NFL in TDs - 0:40:46 Matthew Golden Is A Low-End WR2 - 0:46:04 Anthony Richardson Finishes As QB6 - 0:52:07 Elijah Moore Finishes As A WR1 - 0:55:39 Outro - 1:01:51 Helpful Links: 👑 DraftKings Best Ball – Join in on the chance to win your share of $15M in prizes through DraftKings Best Ball Contest! No weekly roster management, set and forget lineups, season-long excitement and a chance at a cut of $15M in prizes! Entry Fee is only $20 and you get a bonus ticket when you sign up at:  Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. In New York, call 8778-HOPENY or text HOPENY at 467369. In Connecticut, help is available for problem gambling. Call 888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org. Eighteen plus in most eligible states, but age varies by jurisdiction. Eligibility restrictions apply. Void where prohibited. One per customer. Enter the Best Ball $15M headliner contest by 9/4/25 to get one bonus entry. Twenty dollar entry fee required. Reward expires in thirty days. See terms at draftkings.com/nfl-best-ball. Sponsored by DK. Draft Assistant - Get live support during your fantasy football draft with the Draft Assistant. Connect the Draft Assistant to your draft and get real-time suggestions based on expert rankings, team needs, and positional scarcity. Get the most value out of every pick in your fantasy football draft with the Draft Assistant. Learn more at fantasypros.com/assistant or download our Fantasy Football Draft Wizard app on Google Play or App Store. Fantrax - Fantrax's FREE NFL Fantasy Football league manager is the most customizable, easy-to-use, and feature-rich platform in the industry. Sign up for FREE and be entered to win a signed Ja'Marr Chase jersey! Simply go to fantrax.com/fantasypros and sign up today.  Dynasty Rookie Draft Simulator – Our Dynasty Rookie Draft Simulator lets you complete a mock in minutes with no waiting between picks! Customize your league settings to match your league’s exact format. Premium subscribers can test trade scenarios by mocking with their traded draft picks. Prepare for rookie drafts AND dynasty startup drafts in one place! Use the Dynasty Rookie Draft Simulator to dominate your rookie draft today at fantasypros.com/simulator! Discord – Join our FantasyPros Discord Community! Chat with other fans and get access to exclusive AMAs that wind up on our podcast feed. Come get your questions answered and BE ON THE SHOW at fantasypros.com/chat Leave a Review – If you enjoy our show and find our insight to be valuable, we’d love to hear from you! Your reviews fuel our passion and help us tailor content specifically for YOU. Head to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts and leave an honest review. Let’s make this show the ultimate destination for fantasy football enthusiasts like us. Thank you for watching and for showing your support – https://fantasypros.com/review/ BettingPros Podcast – For advice on the best picks and props across both the NFL and college football each and every week, check out the BettingPros Podcast at bettingpros.com/podcast, our BettingPros YouTube channel at youtube.com/bettingpros, or wherever you listen to podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you get your podcast. Just listen. We don't care where you hear it. Welcome into Fantasy Pros, the Fantasy Football podcast, Hot Takes. I'm Chris Welsh, and you guys are in for a treat, because we always bring you hot takes, whether in written podcast or video form, so much so we did a version of this. There was one thing missing in Hot Takes 1.0. It was the actual hot sauce and the wings. We have rectified this. that today because we are getting down with the sickness. We have hot takes 2.0, the hottest of takes with the hottest of sauces. Yes, myself, Andrew Erickson and Scott Bogman are about to endeavor into the chaos of not just

giving a physical hot take, but eating the hot take as we go. That's what we have in store for you today. 10 hot takes, five sauces, and a couple that might push some boundaries. So get ready for some hopefully great fantasy football advice and some potentially struggling, hurting fantasy football analysts. Thank you guys so much for hanging out. Andrea Erickson, what will be hotter? Your takes or the sauces you're about to consume?

The sauces. The sauces 100% for sure are going to be hotter than the hottest takes that I can give. my brain can only, I can only expand in Galaxy brain so much compared to the go. You're about to expand your mind. This is going to be more eye-opening than Aaron Rogers field trip. So here, here's a slight little caveat to this episode as well. None of us know the takes. I, the host, do not know the takes.

Both of these fine gentlemen do not know each other's takes. So there is a true chaos that is going to be in here. Now, Bogman, I heard through a great vine that you, that your hottest of hot take is a doozy. So what do you think is going to be more punishing your take that the listeners are going to be consuming or the wing with a potentially scorpion-based 2 million Scoville sauce? Listen, I don't think there's anything someone can say to me to hurt me as bad as these sauces can. So I think, and listen to me, this has come up and when I worked at a grocery store. I used to pay, you know, the baggers, five bucks eat a habanero.

So I deserve this. It's about time. This is cosmic karma for me. And by the way, I got signed up for this show. And they're like, you can do this right. I was like, I think I should be able to do that. We're looking for volunteers for this show. And then everybody else, everyone who's supposed to do this show with me canceled, like three or four people.

And then Erickson stepped up like a man to do it. So thank you, Erickson, for being here. People should. We know who the brave people of fantasy prints are. People should know. people have bailed on this show. That's how scared people are. So strap in, I got no promises for you.

We've got great fantasy football information with hot, bold takes for the season. These are hot takes, guys. But we're also going to be trying to give you these hot takes while we are pushing down the hot sauces. I think you guys know the drill. That is what we have in store for you. As we are about to set up here,

do want to remind you guys, first, we fantasy. because you can do that with the draft kit, Fantasypros.com slash kit. Get in on all of the chaos that we've got for you in the best ways from the boldest of takes or it could be players to avoid. Draft strategy, ranks and more. Andrew Erickson, Derek Brown, Pat Fitzmorest,

everybody, I've got articles on there. We got you set with the draft kit. So go and check it out today. Get your draft prep ready with us for free over on Fantasy Pros. There's some premium articles in there as well on the premium side. But go and check it out today, Fantasyprose. dot com slash kit because yes first we do fantasy gentlemen we are about to uh we're about to jump into this bad boy but i want to see your weaponry as already shown we've got you know some of the

sauces we have a ghost pepper sauce at the almost tippy top we've got a very very hot trinidad scorpion sauce those are the top two ones i will announce them as we go but let's see what wings you guys are working with yeah you got some other ancillary things we got some bread we've got some milk to help us out. But yeah, Bogman, let's start with you. You have got a plate of wings and fries together. That's right. A nice combo from Wingstop. Thank you very much. Not sponsor. Okay. No free sponsor. No free sponsorships, but yeah. From a wing place, excuse me, bleep that out. Thank you, uh, production. This is full of milk. This is all milk right here. Horribly disgusting. Okay. Water. I got ranch. Water's a trap. Water is a trap, but I need, I need to say high. He knows is a trout.

Drink it anyway. Okay. Some really disgusting choices. Andrew Erickson, can we please see what you will be working with today? Yeah, so I found this on the street, so I decided to pick it up. Yep. Yep. That check.

Saddest-looking wings I've seen in a while, but they were frozen. Now they're not. Got some cottage cheese here is my dairy source here. Got to get the protein in. Got some bread, little bread and some OJ. Citrus. That's good. Okay.

Yep. Okay. If the, if the OJ don't fit. All right. Well, I have also got some bread. I've got milk as shown. And what I will be working today with are animal nugs. Just like you should do on this.

We're going to rock some animal nuggies here. We've got a bear. We got a rhino. And we've even got a dolphin. So I'm representing the nug crew here. And we are going to be saucing. Tell me, you kids, without. Tell me you have kids without telling me you have kids.

If I knew I could have brought nugs, I would have brought those instead. Well, I'm the host. I can do what I want. And I'm going to suffer through this. And by the way, I'm going to be doing more than you guys. So today we are rocking the animal nugs. So we've got a great representation of what the sauces will be doing. I know you guys are like, let's get into it.

So we're not going to make you wait any longer. Andrew Erickson, Scott Bogman, myself, it is time for the hottest of takes. Let's start the hot takes off with Mr. Scott Bogman. We have got an Amarillo sauce, which is a 30 to 50,000 Scoville. So Bogman, let's dip our wings or nugs. Bring it on camera, please. Just a dad, right? Like just a little drip.

Yeah, just a little drippy drip. So you guys can see. I rock that there. It's a pretty good one. I'm ready. Way too much. Way, perfect. All right.

So let's jump into it, Boggs. I got it on my computer already. It's all good. Having the nug eaten? Very good. That's kind of sweet. Very good to hear people eating while you're doing a podcast or video. Not bad at all, actually.

So Boggs, this take, this take like this sauce is mild, but will it be sweet? I kind of thought this was a little bit of a sweet sauce. There was no burn, no hurt there. So does your hot take represent this sauce? our first mild hot take. I would say yes. My first hot take is that Cam Scataboo leads the New York Giants and touches this season. Kind of, you know, as instructed, this is kind of a mild take.

And that's kind of where we're at with this one. Last season, Tyrone Tracy and Devin Singletary combined for 364 combined touches with the New York Giants. A little hot on the back end, by the way. I got a little bit of it. Just a touch. Not anything bad at all. Yeah, yeah, your skin's not turning red at all. Keep going.

But Cam Scataboo, 338 touches at Arizona State last season. So almost as many touches as both these guys combined. I think he's already the better lead back. He's definitely the better in between the tackles back for the Giants. And he's making some buzz in camp right now. So I do think Cam Scadaboo leads the New York Giants in touches in 2024 as a rookie. Erickson, Cam Scadaboo is getting a lot of run right now, specifically in camp where he was running with ones. And they kind of paired back on it, making great.

catches, making great plays. It really seems like he's one of those guys that is just not going to really be held back. I don't think there's anything scary you saw in the sauces when we get to yours, but is there anything scary and any bold takes on Cam Scataboo this year? I don't think so. I mean, I have him ranked clearly ahead of Tyrone Tracy, and even if it's a committee to kind of start the season, I think that it's Scataboo's job to lose in the end. I just think that he profiles as that three-down workhorse that we've seen Brian Daiball kind of lean on at times. And the fact that Tyra's Iron Tracy got replaced last year at times for Devin Singletary because of the fumbling issue, that's a big concern.

And Scataboo, if he had just been drafted a couple picks earlier, if he had came to the table with round three draft capital, I think that he would just be looked at in a completely different lens. And he should have because this class was so deep. Exactly. And it was really, he was three picks away from the end of the round three versus, oh, now he's a day three pick and he gets bucketed into that conversation. but I think that the skill set is there.

And honestly, Boggs, I don't think this is spicy enough for a mild take. Yeah. I don't think, I don't think it's spicy enough. This was a mild take. It's pretty mild. It's pretty mild. I tell you what, that sauce milder than my take.

I could drink this stuff. It's not bad at all. Well, Erickson, what perfect timing then? Let's see what type of connection we're going to have here. Let's bring it up. I'm joining you. That's the scary thing about this episode as well. I'm going on both on each one of these.

I don't know if I'm going to last till the end. We'll see. You guys can make some bets in the comments. Will Welsh last all the way to the fifth take. But bring your wing up. I quite enjoyed this. I am going to give some... It's not bad. Do it on screen, Erickson. Oh, sorry.

What are you doing? Well, it's just messy, dude. Because that's... I tried to do it on screen. Okay. Here we go. That's a good idea. Let's go.

I didn't get any of that kickback. Why do you eat wings like that? That's how a Yankee eats wings. You had some lips going with those wings. You had some lips, brother. All right. Can your take be hotter than this sauce or Scott Bogman? Yes, it can be hotter than this sauce.

Very mild so far. Yeah, I'm ready. Am I ready to drop my tip, my, my, uh, let's hear it. So I'm coming out the gate's much hotter than this sauce. So I'm going with Drake London and it's just as the wide receiver one overall. That is my mild take. So I'm setting the stage. That's your mild take for the show?

Let's go. For a lot of hot takes, just starting out the gates with, I think it's a banger. But, so he's still a consensus, top 10 wide receiver. So I don't think that him finishing as a top five receiver is too outlandish to project. But just looking at what I expect from him based on the red zone targets that he's seen historically. So red zone targets are kind of the shortcut to that wide receiver one overall finish in fantasy. I was talking about that last year when I was projecting, hey, Jamar Chase could be the wide receiver one overall. So the last six wide receiver one overall finishers have all led the NFL and red zone targets that same season that they were the wide receiver one overall.

Last year, Drake London tied for third in the NFL in red zone targets. He was top 10 in total end zone targets. He leads all wide receivers in target rate in the red zone. So I think that he has a chance to flirt with double-de-old. a touchdown just based on the red zone usage. He's the clear-cut alpha in this passing game for the Atlanta Falcons attached to a promising second-year quarterback named Michael Penix, who's got the full install as the starter this off-season.

And don't forget, Michael Pennings, to me, is a wide receiver booster. He elevates the wide receiver plays around him. Just look at last year, all those receivers that got drafted from Washington, how did they do their rookie year in their first season without Michael Penix? It wasn't that impressive. from Adunzei from Polk. Yes, McMillan ran hot with touchdowns, but from an efficiency standpoint,

none of these guys stood out as rookies. So I'm looking at, okay, well, what was the common denominator between these guys? It was Michael Penix, maybe, playing him as their quarterback in college. So I like the quarterback upgrade going from Pennix or going from Kirk Cousins to Michael Pennix. And then the last thing is slot usage, right?

It's kind of sometimes a cheat code for fantasy football purposes. You look at Drake London, and he was using the slot more than he had last year than he had been the two previous years combined. And we're looking at how effective he was. He was PFF's third highest graded wide receiver from the slot behind only Nico Collins and Pooka Nuku, other guys who are kind of in that wide receiver one overall candidacy.

So Zach Robinson, the OC for the Falcons, comes over from the Rams. We've obviously seen the Rams put up a lot of high-end wide receiver one seasons, whether it's Cooper Cup, Pooka Nukuua over the last. couple seasons. So I think it's London's turned to really ball out in Atlanta entering year four. He's a really young guy, not even turned 24 years old yet. So yeah, Drake London for me, wide receiver won. Second dab is milling around a little bit. Just letting you know, you get two in there. Like, that's a very good stuff. It's milling around in there. This take is not milling around. This is a hot take. Erickson has absolutely set the stage bogs. What does it take for Drake London

to be bigger than Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase. in your mind because this feels like a million Scoville type of taken here. What do you think it takes for him to be the number one overall over specifically those two guys? Yeah, I mean, it's going to have to be a great performance for Michael Pennix because last season

he had 100 catches. He had 1,200 yards. He had 9 touchdowns. So that was a great year. But to beat Jamar, to beat Jefferson, to beat Chase, you got to be up near 1,500 yards and more than 10 touchdowns. So it shouldn't take a lot. He's on the cusp right there and you'd think with a better with better play a quarterback it's definitely

doable so yes this is this is a hot take but it is definitely doable for drake london which keeps it down here in this category all right uh first uh all in i love the eating between the takes too some hungry boys here we got here she's just like just eating it's good it's good it's good man that first one was good no problem at all i've a feeling i'm going to be crying at the end but that one was pretty good remember this moment and then we'll talk in about 35 minutes to 40 minutes. We got number two coming up here, at least two for both of these guys. But first, get in the game. Best Ball is live at Draft Kings. 15 million dollars is on the line with real stakes and real excitement. Best Ball is the biggest fantasy contest on Draft Kings. We're talking

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network on TikTok. We are moving up the hot take meter with a Serrano chili sauce. We are going to be rocking. This one actually, funny enough, this one looks like it's even a milder one. It's lower Scoville, but it moves up the hot meter a tiny bit. So let's check out our, I guess this would be the spicy take. So we're going spicy take here, spicy chili Serrano. And Erickson, we are going to start with actually Erickson up first here.

So dab that bad boy up. I'm going to dab this up even more than usual. So you can see I got half the nug. There's Erickson's lips again. There we go. All right. Our one's got a little bit on the tongue. A little bit more.

There's a little bit punch on the tongue here. Erickson. Well, yeah, I'm feeling that. It's hanging around the tongue. How are your lips doing? Definitely hotter than the first one. Yeah, it's less Scoville. That's weird.

This is less Scoville. This one burns a little bit more. So, all right. Ericson, you don't get much of a break between your takes here. I'm going to get a little drink here, but let's hear. Take number two, you drop Drake London. How much spicier is this take like the sauce? So we're sticking with the Drake theme here with my hot takes. Going to the quarterback position, Drake May is going to finish as a top five fantasy quarterback in 2025. So I'm making this bet

based on, or this bull take based on the rushing upside that Drake May can offer last year as a rookie. average over 30 rushing yards per game. And you look at the seven quarterbacks that hit that mark, five of them finished as top six scorers in terms of fantasy points per dropback. So the fact that he has that rushing puts him into a certain threshold of, okay, this guy can finish as a top five fantasy quarterback if he can get a little boost in the passing game. And that's what we're expecting from all the improvements that the Patriots have made during

the offseason, adding juice to the draft with guys like, Trayv M. Henderson with a player like a Kyle Williams at the wide receiver position getting Stefan Diggs. Again, he's a guy coming off at 20 ACL 31 years old, but he's still arguably better than anyone they had last year on the roster. So even as bad as it was last year, Drake May still threw a touchdown in every single game that he played fully in in those 10 full starts. And he was averaging 18.1 fantasy points per game in those 10 starts where he played the entire game. That was QB 15 on the year. So that's where you're drafting him. I just think that he has immense upside. And if the passing does come together, the offensive line is just

average. I think Drake May with this rushing can be a top five fantasy quarterback. Josh McDaniels stepping in as the new OC. He's had success. Again, it's mostly been Tom Brady, but Mac Jones did have a pretty good rookie year with Josh McDaniels before things got off the rails. And Cam Newton, again, it's going to be a bar trivia. It's going to be like, who had the most rushing touchdowns for a Patriots quarterback in Patriots history? Oh, yeah, it was Cam. Newton, right? The guy that you don't ever remember being on the Patriots, but he was, and he had some success under Josh McDaniel. So Drake May for me, top five fans, he had his quarterback. I think he's going to come out of the gates hot, like this hot day because first two

weeks of the season, Raiders, Dolphins. Good matchups for Drake May. Erickson, how are you holding up on the sauce, by the way? I mean, I can give us a little break it. I could. I had a realization, because I've never done this before, but I had a realization while you were talking going, oh, no, I'm going to have a hard time focusing. The focus level, when we move through this episode, this is not a high Scoville. If this is getting me, the focus is going to really be a little bit difficult. So it's biting the tongue a little bit. So Boggs, what do you think about Drake May?

Drake May is interesting. There's a Bow-Nicks quality to it when you think about the rushing upside. You've added a couple playmakers in to New England, but I think a lot is built off of Drake May taking that next big step. And some might even argue that Bo Nix and Drake May's ADP should potentially be flipped in some regard. So what do you think? Do you think this is a spicy enough take? Do you think this sauce or Drake May on Ierkson's take is going to be spicier? I think I think Drake May finishing. Where do you say top five is I think I think that is definitely because he has to push somebody out. He has to push one of those big three out at the top or

or Burrow or Hertz. So that would be huge. I think putting him at six would be more reasonable. But Drake May has a runway to start 17 games, right? He's going to start all the games. He's going to run a lot. I think your Bo Nix comparison is perfect, Welsh. I think that is exactly what he could be. So he doesn't have to finish top five for you to get value on him

because he's going as QB 16 right now in terms of ECR. I have 15. So I'm ahead. I was on this bandwagon. I like that, Erickson. But you don't have to take him there. So yeah, get him late. And this is why you wait on quarterback.

So there's a lot of good ones down there. Well, Boggs, I'm going to tell you to fire up. I'm going to fire at my nug. If anyone was worrying, by the way, or wondering, we are on dolphin right now. Apparently, I saved all bears for the end. We ate the rhino in the first one. We are going dolphin. So bring this up here.

So we can see. I'm a green sauce all over it. All right. I'm going to dab this up here because I'm going to go for two. And you guys are going without me. Where we go? Spicy number two. Amarillo.

Sauce, lower Scoville, hold your tongue a tiny bit more. Maybe like the thought of drafting Drake May is your QB1, that might worry you a tiny bit. I don't know if the sauce worries you bogs, but where are you going? Hot take number two, your spicy take. You got a lot to live up to moving off of what is probably the mildest of takes. What do you got for your spicy take? Trey McBride leads tight ends in touchdowns this season in 2025. How about that one?

Okay, Mr. Positive regression. Let's hear it. He was number three in end zone targets among tight ends. He was number five in snaps at tight end. He was number one in first reads among tight ends. He gets looks. And that was, you know, his second season with Kyler Murray.

Now they're going with their third. Marvin Harrison should be better. Maybe opening up some stuff underneath as well. I just think that when you look at a guy of this caliber, when he's getting so many targets every single year. And this is what he is going to be. He's going to be in upper echelon, 147 targets, dude. 153 for Bowers.

After that, Kelsey had 133 and Joku, or excuse me, Janu had 11. Nobody else is getting 100 targets. So you pick one of these guys to lead in touchdowns. It's not, I don't think it's even that hot a take. That's why I put it in number two. Guy had 11115 catches, 1146 yards, only two scores. I just, I don't think that this is a, well,

this guy has a problem in contested catches or anything, he doesn't. He's a good tight end. It was a weird happening that happened last year. So, um, train McBride, scoring the most touchdowns among tight ends would be the second least surprising thing out of all these, uh, takes that I have after Cam Scataboo. So I warmed it up a little bit after Cam Scataboo leading. Like that sauce. You say that one had a little bit of a bite, right, Boggs?

Perfect. I love this sauce. I would agree. I think this is actually, this is a phenomenal sauce. if you want a little bit, if you want to feel something while you're doing it. You want a little bit of a kick. By the way, watch your hands. Erickson's like wiping his face. When we get to Ghost Pepper, I don't want you doing that.

So be careful. Seriously, don't touch your eyeballs, bro. Erickson, what do you think about? I know you're a big Trade McBride guy. There's a discussion really on where like the top three guys are. I think a big argument, it's kind of clearly in our face with the amount of volume that a guy that Trade McBride is going to get. You've got to see some positive regression from the touchdowns.

But do you think it could be at the level where he leads all tight ends? Because I would say this. And it's pretty easy to say. If he leads all tied-ins and touchdowns, he's the number one tied-in in fantasy. I'm not really sure there's an argument there, don't you think? I love this take from Boggs about Trey McBride with the touchdowns because it's like a joke, right? When you look at he never scores touchdowns. And it's been not just last year, but the year before that, you go back to college.

He doesn't exactly pop off in the touchdown column. So you're thinking, man, this guy's just allergic to the end zone. And then you look back and see a player like a James Cook, right? where he doesn't score touchdowns, and then you look up one year and he scores 19 touchdowns because that's how touchdown regression works, right? It works in mysterious ways,

and sometimes it hits all at once in one season where Trey McBride scores 16 touchdowns and then goes back to four for the rest of his career, like Terry McLaurin last year, right? Look at his every year, it's four, six, five, and then he scores 19 touchdowns. So I think that going with Trey McBride here is a hot take.

It feels weird, though, because he's the ECR tight end. too. And to think that a top three consensus tight end saying that they catch, they leave the NFL and touchdowns is a hot take is weird, but it still works because of training. You know what? It's kind of like this sauce. I think this is very good representation of this sauce. Like, it's kind of weird. The low Scoville would also make us think it should not be too crazy, but it is a little bit higher. It's a little bit of a hotter take. It's a very good one. Fan tracks, free NFL fantasy football league manager is the most customizable, easy to use. and feature rich platform in the industry.

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Is it a scotch bonnet sauce? It is, you're muted bogs. It is described as kind of like used for jerk chicken. I would say there's also not really any information. So it's a Caribbean type of sauce. So we're going to go into this a little bit unknown. And Bogman, we are going to jump right back to you. So that's part of the trick of this game.

So what I would do is ask you to, I will load up my teddy bear. You load up your dude. You know what I'm also to say? I say we should go higher. Let's go more than you would normally put. So really dab that sucker on. Okay. Let's literally push the limits. Are you ready to push the limits?

Let's go. Here we go. Explain some flavors. That crunch. That's a good crunch from you guys. Yeah, there's some crunch. Let's hear some flavors boggs. Pretty sweet at the front.

It is, oh, it's biting in the back. That one got, that one got, you know what? They had me at the beginning. They got me on the back end. That one is a tackle on the five yard line. That one hit me a little bit, Boggs. No? No, let me do one more.

Yeah, we'll do one more. Bye. This is how it starts. This is the third one, Erickson. Don't even worry about it. Let's also see, though. Honestly, I feel like the, I feel like the green one was worse.

Okay, well, you got fun with that. Let's see if your take is anything like this. Are we going to be feeling Bogman's take? Bogman, you've got the third down of the sauces. How does your taste and your tape? How does your take? There it goes. Yeah, now it's, I'm starting to start

now I'm feeling it. Yep. How does your take measure up to this sauce? This one's for you, Welshie. Okay. Ricky Pearsall leads the 49ers in receiving yards. Okay, love it. FB projections have him at 790.50 catches 790 yards.

The big obstacle here is clearing Kittle. 706 catches for 1,037 yards right around that range there. Oh, well, Mount is watering a little. little bit here. Look, if he averages 13.6 yards per reception like the FB projections have, he would need 77 total catches or a little over one more per game than he has on our projections. And our projections have him at about four and a half catches per game. When he was a starter, he averaged six catches per game. Last season, this is not, I don't know that this is that hard. That's why this is my third take.

a lot like Tray McBride. Like the Tray McBride one seems like hot take. This one's starting to bother me a little bit here. I'm struggling a little bit focusing and might be getting a little bit red right now. Yeah, yeah. Starting to feel a little sweaty. I'm sweating a little bit. But this one like, so Iyuk coming off a major injury, right?

George Kittle missed a couple games last season. So it would be crazy at his age to project it? I'm going to have a little milk. Just like that point of it. Take it. Just one sip there. Let's see you guys know. Okay.

All right. Keep going. I'm turning red. But Juan Jennings 926 yards. That's what he's projected for. I mean, look, I am coming off an injury. Kittles old. And Jennings isn't a guy that's going to eclipse, you know, way past a thousand yards.

I think Ricky Pearsall has more upside than anybody on this team, including Christian McCaffrey. And I don't know if he'll get there, right? I don't know if he's going to get this volume. I don't know if he's going to get to six sketchy. per game. I think four and a half. I think our projections are very reasonable for Ricky Pearceau, whoever I'm talking about right now. And I just, I think this one, I think this one is third. It can feel strong. It can feel weak. But it's pretty good at the end. So kind of like this sauce is, you know, I actually not even attempt to like try to correlate

everything to the sauce. This sauce, it's going to build. So you're getting a little pre-warning here, Erickson. It's going to build. And that's, it's, it's, Don't do that dab crap that... No, no, I'm going to do it with you. We're going to do that again. But kind of like in how Ricky Purasol could amount to this take, it might be a little bit of a build because you do have Joanne Jennings. IUC presents kind of a question mark in it.

McCaffrey's healthy. There's a lot of things that could slow the process, but do you think we can build to a space where Ricky Pirasol is the number one receiving option in San Francisco? Do you think this is a hot take? I think that it's a little bit more than mild. I don't know how hot it is just based on the fact that is he the healthiest guy in the room right now? Joanne Jennings is dealing with his calf injury. Ricky Pierce or excuse me, Brandiouk is coming off.

He tore an ACL from last year. We're not sure when he's going to return. So it seems like with the 49ers, it's a matter of, well, who's out there? Like that's going to be the guy that ends up leading this team in receiving yards. And yes, dethroning Kittle would definitely be the toughest thing for any of these receivers to do just because Kittle is. so efficient in the 49ers offense. But, I mean, he's gotten banged up at times. He's also 31 years old.

And how does his body necessarily react to more volume? Because he's been a guy that really has gotten there because of big plays, yardage, monster touchdown performances, not necessarily a guy that, oh, he's vacuuming up 10 plus targets every single week. That's not really been his game and how he's been using Shanahan's offense. But Ricky Pearson, I think, betting on a guy entering his second season, look, last year, it's really hard to have, like, these grandiose takeaways because he got shot in the off season.

And then he missed so much time. So, yes, there were downs. Like, there was a couple games where he was basically not being targeted at all by Brock Purdy. But then at the end of the season, you saw him kind of pop off a little bit with more opportunities. I think that the simple bet is it's a talented former first round pick who's going to have opportunities in this offense that produces a lot of fantasy success.

So I'm definitely in on Pierceall, especially with this Juan Jennings calf injury. You know, now it's happening again. Right? This was bothering him in OTAs. Now it's bothering him in training camp. That's a red flag that we should be paying attention to. Well, Andrew Erickson, I would like you to please lift your street wings and your sauce. And I want you to really dab. I'm going to go in for a second one.

I feel very confident where we are heading here. I already did two of this one. I'm good on two of this one. I actually do believe that Erickson has it might be the toughest going from this to what we're going next. So I want you to give a really strong dab. I'm going to dab it again. on the rest of my teddy bear, if it'll come out. It doesn't want to come out for me.

So you dive into it. Apparently this one doesn't want me to go. Is it a sign from the heavens? Yes. I think it is. Oh, here we go. Oh, God. Okay.

Well, I shouldn't have done that. So, well, I know. This is a problem. Erickson, explain how you're feeling right now with the sauce. Is it hitting you? Not yet, but it did the same exact same thing to you guys. So I'm waiting with... Yeah, don't go in for seconds.

So let it... Well, you know what? Let it marinate. Can I start my take? In the meantime? Yeah, no, as I say, let's see if it hits while you're going. This, we are in our third range here.

This is the bold take. We went from mild to spicy to bold. Let's see if it hits you while you're going. And what is spicier, what you just ate or what you're about to drop? And I think I know the answer. Tucker Kraft's going to finish as a top four fantasy tight end in 2025. And I'm looking at one of these.

trends I found. So, 2003, the tight end leaders in yards after the catch per reception. Jonu Smith, George Kittle, ranked first and second, respectively. Both guys, the following season, finished as top four tight ends at the position in 2024. Now, George Kittle, I don't think that was really too big of a surprise, but he wasn't being ranked or drafted as a top four tight end before last year. Johnny Smith, he was way off the radar. He was a sleeper darling that hit in a major way. And I think he's kind of being drafted somewhere to where Tucker Kraft is being ranked and drafted outside the top 12, usually, outside the top 100 overall picks. And if I miss out on the Tray McBrides, Brock Bowers, the George Kittles, Tucker Kraft is someone that I'm really

interested in because this Packers passing game, it has a lot of receivers that we like, but is there a true alpha among this sea of beta fish? It seems like it's Green Bay with their receivers. You know, Flores talks about how he vomits at the idea of having a wide receiver one on his team. So maybe he's more likely to embrace the idea of, oh, maybe our tight end can be the leader of our passing game. He's already referenced craft in light of players like George Kittle, like Travis Kelsey, players that have been the number one targets on their teams, been really efficient with big plays. And even if he doesn't lead the team in targets, I think that he's a strong bet to lead a team in red zone targets. Because that's what he was last year when Jordan Love was healthy.

He's a big body receiver. He can make plays after the catch. Like I said, he's just a really good football player. And I want to bet on those guys taking the leap. The Green Bay Packers know they have to get in the ball. If Jordan Love is throwing more like he did in 2023, when he threw for over 4,200 yards, 32 passing touchdowns, I think Tucker Craft's going to have a monster season.

How are you holding up? Pretty good. Pretty good. This is nothing, aren't? I mean, you got some hot takes here, but you seem to be holding the best here. Boggs, it's a pretty big, bold take. top four. I mean, if you believe this, Tucker Kraft has to be on every single one of your teams. I mean, he would be from every format to best ball to Titan premium to some of the big high stakes

ones, whatever it is. Like, this is a bold take. But in that type of offense where they rotate all the receivers, they added more passing options. Like, do you really think that Tucker Kraft can even be a top five tight end? Absolutely. And Erickson came on the ITL a couple weeks ago. And we were pumping up Tucker Kraft made me re-evaluate him and take a look. And I have a quote from Andrew Erickson. Kraft broke out in 2024, leading all tight ends in yards after a catch per reception. When I had popping 15 missed tackles force the Packers' tight-in, ran away with the starting job over Luke Musgrave and never looked back, finishing his tight-in eight overall and 10th in points per game. He ran around on 73% of dropback. So that's from Erickson. I knew our boy Tucker

Kraft is going to be in here somewhere. But I think you look at this, you have the top three, right? You have Bowers, McBride, and Kittle. We know those are the three. I think number four is pretty open. It could be Leporta. It could be Hawkinson. It could be Kelsey.

Andrews, especially if likely he's going to miss an extended period of time, which looks more and more likely right now. I think Tucker Kraft is in that group. So I think this is a good take. Erickson's having the best time of his life. No one's having a better time than Erickson. Just between takes, just be eating and going. and we're interrupting his lunch with hot tanks.

I know. All right. Well, I think things are going to pick up just a tiny bit. We're about to jump into overdrive. But first, make sure, my friends, that you're checking us out over on Twitch, where we are tackling all of your fantasy questions all week, every week on Twitch at twitch. At twitch.tv.tv.com. And Strachan talking best balls Monday at 4 p.m. Eastern. Seth Wolcock and Deepbrough are answering questions on Tuesday and Wednesdays at 2 p.m. Eastern. We've also got Q&As on Thursdays on Thursday.

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We just had three sauces that didn't have a whole lot to them. We are going to now move into, I guess, in totality, the top four biggest hot takes, but we are also moving into number four category, hot. Except it is rated the hottest of the sauces we have, but less Scoville. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the ghost pepper sauce that we have, which has one million, one million with a 13 of 15 hot rating,

which is hotter than the next one, but I said the Scoville's coming up. So, Erickson, I do believe you might have it the most difficult, as do I, that you have to go, I think, take a jump to jump. So here's what I'm going to ask. Wing and hand, teddy bear in hand, give it a strong dab.

I think you should strong, if we want to not strong dab the last one, put it up to the camera. That's fine. But let's strong dab the ghost pepper. Oh, is that too much? That seems like a lot that I just put on there. Are you ready, Erickson?

Yeah. You got to be up at the camera. Now get up and eat it at the camera. What are you doing? Well, you make fun of him every time he eats it in the camera. What's he supposed to do? No. No, he was lipping it.

All right. It's how a guy eats. Come on. It's going to be bad. Oh, shoot. All right. All right. I got to host this show. So Ericson, give me your hot take. This is the fourth. This is your second biggest hot take. This sauce. This one is hurting me bad. Is this one going to hurt you bad?

Erickson, do you not have a soul here? You're like not reacting at all. I'm trying. I'm trying to remain level-headed as I try to do. But I am like Skollville. Speaking of Skull, my fork pick here, my bowl prediction. Jordan Mason, new running back for the Minnesota Skull Vikings. I think he's going to lead the NFL in rushing touchdowns this year. Last year, my call for this was Rochon Johnson. I'm in serious pain right now. I'm in so much pain.

Keep going. Jordan Mason was brought in for the Minnesota Vikings to be the goal line back. Aaron Jones was not efficient at the goal line last year. He was dead last. Box, you got to take over. Okay. He was, yeah, I'm not sure why we'd pick Jordan Mason here, but look, Aaron Jones had his best season. It was his most used season last year with the Vikings, with a past first team, because they didn't have another running back.

They traded for Jordan Mason. He's obviously going to have a pretty big role in this offense, and we know the type of points that the Minnesota Vikings put up here. So listen, like Erickson just said, if we get, look at his face. If Erickson, you know, he was just talking about touchdown regression, right? And we saw that from many guys last year. And that would be what's happening. It would be Jordan Mason in a specific role, the team getting down to the one a lot and Jordan Mason punching it in, almost all a tush push, just the same, obviously not the

push, but the same level of like, it's getting down to the one. We know what's happening here. Did I get you there? Yes. Yeah. I mean, that was your take. Erickson,

go ahead. Bogs. Anything to add onto your tape? I appreciate you tagging in for me. I got you, brother. I really got you because you're about to do it for me. Yeah,

nothing to have to do it for you. I am crying. If anyone's listening, and I just want to point out, I instantly went to my eyes with my hands. Dude, don't do that. Both to not do that.

I'm well aware. I did it. I am crying. Erickson, can you pick this up. You know, stop for a second. Explain what's going on in your mouth right now.

Explain in your mouth first. What is that? So imagine like needles, right? You know, just like piercing the top, the bottom, sides of your mouth. That's kind of how it feels like. Luckily, having some of these spice inhibitors or suppressors is actually helping a lot. Having bread, some of orange juice, some of this cottage cheese is actually helpful. So I think I can finish up the rest of the take from the rest of the notes that I had.

But Bogman, again, you are the best. I really appreciate it. And I, and just so you know, brother, I'm going to. You asked for a life preserver, brother. I threw it. I was like, tag me in, bro. Tag me in. So.

So. That was like wrestling. You're struggling. You're struggling. And then you tag me in and start beating everybody up. That's exactly what it was. So the Vikings, specifically the last two seasons, have been really bad in terms of scoring rushing touchdowns.

So last year, they were 30th and carries per touchdown. And I point this out because this is something that regresses from year to year. Last year, who ranked, which team ranked last in. this category. That was a Green Bay Packers. What did Josh Jacobs do last season? He was fourth in the NFL in rushing touchdowns. He scored 15 rushing touchdowns.

So, again, it could still be Aaron Jones. I will admit that. Both running backs were bad at the goal line last year. Now, that's why the Vikings went out, revamp the interior offensive line, adding guys in free agency, adding players up in the draft. Because I think that they want to put less pressure on JJ McCarthy to have to make all the plays in the red zone. Give it to your talented running backs.

Let them score some of these touchdowns. inside the red zone. And one of the trends I found that was kind of cool. Since 2021, we've seen a running back on a new team, hit touchdown totals of 15, 13, 13, 16, 15, and 13. So I think Jordan Mason, at worst, I think he's still going to be able to get in that double-digit touchdown territory and be a great, great late round pick.

McFaany's football in A. If he hits this, it's plus 7,500. Follow me on betting bros. George Mason, Lee, the NFL. What was your, what was the take again? George Mason, Jordan Mason, Lee, the NFL. fell in touchdowns, rushing touchdowns. Okay, that's what it was.

I knew Jordan Mace was involved. Everything went dark. Everything went black. I want to raise. I want to raise after this. Wells was just shoveling bread into his mouth. I'm doing okay now. I'm not.

I'm still hurting. Well, you've been doing more. I can't. You don't want to do another one, Welsh? I can't do this one again with you. I can maybe do the tiniest of dabs. I want you to kill it though. No.

No, let's see it on screen. Nobody flies alone. Let's go. All right, hold on. I'll do a tiny little dab. Like tiny little baby dab. So, okay,

so hold on this wing. All right. I got a little baby dab here. We're ready. We're going together. Three, two, one.

I actually wish I didn't do that. All right. Bogman, it's a great radio here. We've all got, I cannot believe Erickson went back in here. This is brutal. I was crying.

It hurts. And the needle analogy is one of the best things I've ever heard for this. This is a brutal, brutal, brutal hot sauce for let's see if it's a brutal take jordan mason leading the league in touchdowns is a wildly big take what are you going through and is your take going to be hotter than this sauce god bobby you got to start the take at least and then i can i can tag you in yeah okay all right matthew golden oh my god yeah this is fire um this hurts finishes as a low end wide receiver two

in fantasy it may not sound way bold But no one has ranked him higher than 36. So he's a low-end wide-receiver 3 to everybody. There's a drink. Bogman's going in for a drink. That's your big milk cup, right? Right now, his ECR is wide receiver 51, 129 overall. His ADP is 46.

Good God. It doesn't get any better. It hurts. It's going through the nose. Bogman's going to French fries. In 24, say, Flowers. 172.5 points is wide receiver 24. Jacoby Myers 183.1 and 23.

Cooper Cup 163.9 and 22. Making a three-year average, 173.2 points. That's a wide receiver, low-end wide receiver 24 here. Not great to cover your mouth on a podcast, but yep. Oh, I see your eyes are starting to go. Ah. Anyway, three-year average of points here is 173.2 points. 24.3 point difference from projections. That's only 1.4.3 points per game.

That's a 5-yard, one 5-yard catch in half. One 10-yard catch in half-point PPR, if I could do my math right now. Every single week. That's all you got to add for Matthew Golden on your projections to become wider receiver 24 and a low-end, wide receiver number two. So it doesn't feel bold like this goddamn sauce here,

but it does, it does work out. It can happen. This feels like a workout. Bogman, go to your milk. Erickson, you are a trooper. You went back in for more. I will tell you, the small dab did not hit. It just kind of reactivated a tiny bit.

It did not hit me remotely close. So it was the bigger dab that got us here. Yeah, you already. You already. Your senses with the first one. Yeah, the senses are done. So it'll be really interesting on the last one. But what do you think about Matthew Golden pushing wide receiver one territory?

That is, that I think is a very very very. I don't know if it's as hot as this sauce. I think it is a hot take. I know personally I like, I like Jaden Reed a little bit more than Matthew Golden this year, but I just think that there's a lot of opportunity. And even with the Tucker Kraft hot take, with this Packers offense.

If it just gets back to more what we saw in 2023, where Jordan Love is throwing for 30 plus passing touchdowns, someone is going to pop from this Green Bay Packers receiver room or at the tight end position. So, Jaden Reed last year, again, if you think that Golden does step up like Boggs, says it's going to be the number one receiver on this roster. Well, Jaden Reed was a top 10 wide receiver before week 14 last year.

He was producing in this offense. So if Matthew Golden is, I use this on the betting pros podcast, if he is the prince that was promised as a first round pick for the Green Bay Packers, then yeah, I think that he could definitely be a back-end fantasy wide receiver two, if not a fantasy wide receiver one. I mean, he was a first-round pick. He's a super talented guy, and he just shows up in big moments. That was the biggest thing with him at Texas,

where Isaiah Bond, when that guy got all the hype, he was nowhere to be found. Matthew Gold did the exact opposite. So. Thank you. Do you think at all that our takes have followed the wings or the sauce? Because we went three levels which were okay. And I feel like we jumped into the boldest of bold takes with the sauce.

How is the hold up here before we get to the final one? The river sticks. This is what we did here. My God. Well, Boggs, unfortunately, you're going to have it tough. because you're going to go right into the next one. But how are you holding up currently? Not great.

My lips are burning. Tongue is burning. Mouth is burning. All right. Erickson has moved to off screen here. Erickson, how are you holding up here? He's eating more? I think he's eating bread.

No, I'm not. I'm eating the spice suppressors. So the bread. Okay. I'm freaking orange juice. This is good. This stuff is helping a lot. I wish I had done that.

All right. Gentlemen, we are going into the final two takes the nuclear heat as it's called the Trinidad Scorpion this is the again we're going to find out here in just a second this is two million Scoville

but the heat rating is under the other but this is seen as the hottest one so we are going to double the Scoville if that truly means we're doubling the heat I don't know how I'm going to do it I don't know if your takes are going to be able to match up.

So take a deep breath. The hottest of hot takes with the hottest of hot sauces, my final teddy bear in tow. Bogman, raise your wing, raise your Tadad Scorpion, and give her a nice dab, a good one. Why does this look black? Oh, it is like black.

Oh, God. All right. That is a lot, I think. I think you guys can all see. I don't have that much. I know the smell. Erickson just smelt it. All right, Bogman, quick, before you do it, I put more on mine.

Before we do it, will this be hotter than the take you're about to give? Yes, 100%. Let's go. To the mouth. Get your milk away. Here we go. I'm okay so far. It's disgusting.

Oh, oh, oh. It's awful. It's hot and awful. It just tastes bad. It just tastes bad. Why did we do this? Oh, should I just do more of the ghost pepper that next?

Yeah. Oh, no, you got to try this one. If you want to mix it, you can be a champ. All right, Boggs, that one is good. It's also bad hot. It's your take to be any better than the sauce. Dude is hitting me all late. This sucks.

Yeah. All right, well, let's hear your final hot take of the hot takes episode. Okay. Anthony Richardson finishes QB6. We don't even know if he's going to start right now. he may not start any games for the cults this game. And I'm going to say he finishes as QB number six.

We wanted a crazy one, right? From weeks 11 to 16, he was QB 16, and he had some good finishes in there. Nah! Week 1, he was QB 4. Week 11, QB 4, week 13, QB 9, 2023, he only had four starts. He finished as QB4, week 1. Ah! he finishes QB2 in week four

he has some finishes that are very high obviously the rushing total I'm saying this take like I'm mad at it yeah it's the nose starts to run with this one and what were we talking about Anthony Richardson Anthony Richardson yep right so Jonathan Taylor being next to him

so many rushing yards so many rushing touchdowns this system is built for running quarterback. Got me out. That's what Anthony Richardson is. Riley Leonard, Daniel Jones. This is built all the same. The race, not a marathon.

So I think Anthony Richardson, if he starts, he's got great targets. He's got Josh Downs. They draft to Tyler Warren. He has Michael Pittman. He has Alec Pierce took a big step up. And Adonai Mitchell. There's guys to replace these guys.

If they go down, DGiddons is behind Taylor now. You're like two sentences. This offense is tailor made to make a big time quarterback for fantasy. It is a perfect offense to build around a good quarterback. Why? Did I get it on my lips? So Anthony Richardson, QB6. If he starts all 17 games, he's a QB1, no matter what.

All I'm asking is a little bit more than that. So, could not. Can the sauces be hotter than the takes? Can the takes live up to actual heat? We are experimenting. So I'm going to give you the option, Erickson. You got to do this sauce. If you want to up the Annie and be a man of the people,

you can put some ghost pepper on it. This one doesn't. Well, because he wants to be a rock star. But you got to show the screen if you're doing. Got to be a rock star. Just do that. Okay, so be a rock star. So because I have done everything,

I don't want this to be the end. I do not enjoy this sauce. It is hot and it is lingering. but I'm going to join you because I'm also a man of the people. I'm going to dab a little bit of both of these on here. Let's get a little bit of that. Oh, God. All right.

We are putting both together. This is Ghost Pepper and the Trinidad Scorpion. I am going to guess is the hottest take of the show from Andrew Erickson. So Erickson, oh my God, you really dip that thing. Let's go. A lot of top of your head. Oh, boy. This is a bad idea.

Why did you do that twice, Welsh? Oh, God. Because I did every single one twice. I couldn't end the last one. You see? Oh, it's on Erickson. What is the take that's going to live up to this? So,

a Buffalo Bill's wide receiver is going to finish as a wide receiver won this season. But it's not going to be Khalil Shakir. It's not going to be Keon Coleman. It's not going to be Joshua Palmer. it's going to be Elijah Moore. Elijah Moore is going to finish 2025 as a fantasy wide receiver one.

That is my hottest, spiciest take. Yes, I came to the table with a hot take that is worthy of being in the Trinidad Scorpion tier. It is. Of hot takes. And I think your take is hotter than the sauce.

And I hate this sauce as stupid guts. So this is my mindset behind the Elijah Moore play. So we've seen some fifth-year-wide receivers or six-year receivers over the last three seasons finished us top 12 guys for the very first time. Those guys have been Christian Kirk, DJ Moore, Jerry Judy. Guys that all finished as wide receiver ones entering their fifth or sixth seasons, the common theme with all those players, they were all playing for new teams, and they had multiple seasons

with at least 100 targets on their resume. Elijah Moore has playing on a new team. attached with the best quarterback of his career in Josh Allen. He has back-to-back 100-yard target seasons entering this season. He's 25 years old. I already mentioned, playing with the best quarterback of his career by far. No more Joe Flackos, Deshawn Watson, Zach Wilson's when he was with the Jets and Browns. I think Elijah Moore is a talented guy. And I don't think he's always been put in the best situations.

Now, is he the favorite to be the best Bills receiver? No, of course not. I would definitely draft guys like Palmer, Keon Coleman, Shikir, over Elijah Moore. But again, if we're trying to get hot here with the hottest take, I want to be bold here by going all the way down the depth chart to Elijah Moore as this year's fifth year breakout. And as I was doing research for this show, I was looking on player profiler.com, looking at Elijah Moore, his profile and his closest comparable receiver, it's Tyler Lockett. Tyler Lockett, his fifth year, finished as the wide receiver 13. That was the highest of his career before we started to see him breakout. So fifth year breakouts happen more often than you think.

Elijah Moore, if he gets the opportunity, I think he can deliver with Josh Allen. So that is my hottest take. And do you guys agree? Is it hotter than the sauce or no? Yes. I think it's hotter than the sauce. And this sauce sucks. By the way, the salt work better than anything else.

I wish I would have done that. You know the great thing about this episode is too? It has such great rewatchability because I don't know, anything you just said outside of Laijan. I heard Elijah Moore. So Bogman, I hope you heard stuff. I feel sick. I'm sweating.

Like I would be if I was depending on Elijah Moore as one of of my top wide receivers, but what do you think about this? Because you're a Keon-Colman guy. Yeah, I'm a Keon-Colman guy, but we know this is a hot take. This is a guy that might end up as the fourth wide receiver, being a wide receiver won for this team. And I think Eli Moore definitely has the talent to do this, right? Like you said, very similar skill set to Tyler Lockett.

Josh Allen can throw the ball. My thing is, this dude's had so many concussions. I thought he probably should have retired than playing again. So one more bad pop, and I think that might be a wrap for Eli Moore, but he's a good player. And he was very undersold going to the bills. And, you know, as far as bold takes go, it's way bold in the mind. Anthony Richardson finishes his QB6 is, you know, I mean, it's bold because he might not start a game. But Eli Moore might be, might not get enough snaps to be a top three wide receiver on the bills.

So this is a very spicy take spicier than the sauce. So, oh man, I didn't think it was ever going to calm down. I'm telling you that salt. If it hasn't come down for you guys, the salt works the best. Well, that was a hot take. And if it maybe was just hot enough or not even hot enough, make sure to check out our cheat sheets. Because if you agree with Erickson,

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we have all officially completed our hot takes. Erickson, you seem to be struggling a little bit. What do you think? It hit all the sauces to the takes. It hit all the back nine. My lips are on fire, right? Dude, it's the lips. It's the worst.

That's why I kept grunting. I was doing okay. I thought, man, I'm handling this scorpion sauce pretty well. And then it just all of a sudden, my lips just... I think it's because... I think it's because... Like, you already killed 50% of the nerves in your mouth with the ghost stuff.

So it took a little bit longer for the Trinidad stuff to hit. But when it did, it was worse. It was worse. I didn't think it was going to be worse than the ghost stuff, but it was. Well,

let us know. You're the man. Doing two dabs on all of those? Incredible. I'm struggling a lot. And I did feel like I was going to throw up about five minutes ago. But luckily,

I think I'm going to be able to save that for about five minutes from now to get out of here. But let us know in the comments, what was your favorite sauce and your favorite sauce? and your favorite take, your favorite reaction. You got the comments below,

because we're always doing great giveaways when you're subscribed and you comment, but what was your favorite hot take in this one? And by the way, that could be the player or that could be the reaction because they were quite good moments. Hey, Bogman, remember when you said this was nothing and everything was all fine about 45 minutes ago?

I do feel now. Look, I would put the yellow sauce as spicy as mustard, I would say, but this stuff might murder me, this Trinidad Scorpion stuff. This is stuff where like you're making chili. You put one drop in it and you're good. Yeah, we put quite a few too many drops. But you guys completed the hot take challenge.

I hope everybody enjoyed it. We are off the proverbial hot seat. The sweat is starting to go away just a tiny bit. The red is sticking with the color for me. But, you know, that's how it is. It was a tough challenge and I hope you guys all enjoyed it. Make sure you're subscribed on the YouTube side for Andrew Erickson. And Scott Bogman.

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