Biggest 2023 Hits and Misses: What We Learned Part 1 (Episode 696 with Evan Silva and Adam Levitan)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva take a look back at their biggest 2023 season-long hits and misses. They talk through their initial rationale for their bearish and bullish positions on players, and why they turned out to be right or wrong.
In this episode, we discuss:
A down year from Kelce and Mahomes
Is Tony Pollard dust?
Talking through Bijan, Rhamondre, and Breece's 2023
The Alexander Mattison debacle
What to learn from D.J. Moore
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Timestamps:
(2:53) - Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes
(7:40) - Tony Pollard
(11:43) - Bijan Robinson
(15:02) - Rhamondre Stevenson
(17:51) - Breece Hall
(19:52) - Lamar Jackson
(21:48) - Christian Watson
(25:01) - Alexander Mattison
(28:16) - D.J. Moore
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to episode 696 of the official established |
| 0:20.9 | the run. |
| 0:21.6 | Podcasts on the run.com podcast my name Levitan. I am one of the co-founder |
| 0:26.8 | Evan Silva and we are officially, officially in the off season now. I have seen both the son and my kids over the last week or so |
| 0:36.1 | almost makes you feel happy to be alive. Evan happy off season has it going? |
| 0:41.5 | Same to you and we haven't done actual season-long fantasy football analysis and like for in what feels like forever. |
| 0:49.0 | But we're going to do some today. It's a it's a recap show but yeah the weather has been unbelievable in Chicago I mean it's |
| 0:57.4 | 60 degrees and sunny today it's supposed to get up to 70 degrees early next week. I mean it's a great time to be alive. |
| 1:06.4 | Great time to get outside. My doctor ran a blood panel on me and my only vitamin |
| 1:12.4 | shortage was vitamin D and I realized I don't |
| 1:16.0 | get enough sun man got to get out there in the sun absolutely too low on the |
| 1:20.2 | vitamin D anyways on today's show we are going to look back at our biggest on the exercise is not to victory lap or to self-looth |
| 1:33.0 | that be miserable about our misses. |
| 1:34.6 | It's to try to learn something, to try to make |
| 1:36.9 | some takeaways from our hits and misses |
| 1:39.1 | and stuff that we can use going forward. |
| 1:42.0 | This is going to be a two-part series. Today we'll hit our early round hits and |
| 1:46.4 | misses. Next episode will hit our later round hits and misses. Before we get |
| 1:51.7 | into that here today, two quick reminders. |
| 1:54.0 | First, the NBA comes out of their All-Star break on Thursday. |
| 1:58.0 | There is no one on earth predicting player performance in the NBA games at the level our guys are and I honestly don't say that lightly. |
| 2:05.8 | Dink, Gallagher, the whole team just grind into the nub 24-7-365 to stay on top of rotations and injuries and guys resting. |
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