Episode 111: Baker Debuts, Andrew Luck Returns, Rickie's PGA Chances, 5-Star Friday
Kanell & Bell
CBS Sports
4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Kanell and Bell react to a heavy slate of preseason football in the NFL, including a pretty impressive debut from #1 overall pick Baker Mayfield and a potential quarterback battle in Cleveland, the return of Andrew Luck to football action after 585 since his last in-game pass, Tom Brady sitting the opener and other rookie QB performances from Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. Danny and Raja then discuss comments from the NCAA hoops VP on premature rule changes and lack of communication with USA Basketball, James Dolan saying he's not selling the Knicks, and Jayson Werth claiming that 'super nerds' are killing baseball. The guys analyze Rickie Fowler's chances to finally win his first major championship, then welcome in CBS Sports Fantasy Football expert Dave Richard to discuss fantasy implications from the NFL preseason. Hana tells us what's socially relevant, plus 5-star Q&A Friday and finally, Topics!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Off the Venge with Danny Cannell. |
| 0:02.8 | Danny Cinell. |
| 0:04.5 | And Raja Bell. |
| 0:08.8 | Bill has the big ring of 22 to Roger. |
| 0:13.0 | Saw the future of football right before your eyes. |
| 0:16.1 | Just yell it out, man. |
| 0:16.9 | He can't go to me. |
| 0:17.7 | What is going on? |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to Off the Bench. |
| 0:19.3 | Happy Friday, everybody. |
| 0:20.6 | Hope everybody good week. |
| 0:21.4 | Ready for the weekend to kick off. We got a big show lined up for you. Danny Cannell and |
| 0:25.4 | Raja Bell here. We have Dave Richards. Going to break down a little fantasy football. |
| 0:28.7 | We're going to hit all the preseason action that have some advice for you, Raja. Okay. Anything you saw last night? Just throw it out. Just throw it out. |
| 0:42.4 | It's so tempting because you see glimpses of stuff and you're like, oh, man, here we go. |
| 0:47.0 | Like, this guy's going to be great. This guy's going to change their season. This team is going to look good. Don't do it. Don't fall for it. You should look good. You should look good. |
| 0:55.8 | Everyone, or are you talking about specifically quarterbacks? I can't take anything away from anything I saw last night. |
| 1:01.0 | You should look good. I'm not saying great. You should just look good. Like, you should look dialed in, precise, clean. If you look bad, that's more concerning. That's a telling. That's what we're telling. Yeah. Got it. So we heard about the Cam Newton, |
| 1:12.5 | Calvin Benjamin beef all week, right? Calvin Benjamin goes |
| 1:14.8 | on the athletic, puts Cam Newton on blast. |
| 1:17.3 | So that was one of the things I was |
| 1:18.7 | most looking forward to was the |
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