I'm going to go and Hello and welcome to episode 144 of the official Establish the run

podcast my name is Adam Levitan I'm one of the co-founders here at ETR I am the father of the most beautiful beast in the world Jerry and we're coming off of a just play the best plays kind of weak.

Yes, that's right. It did not take Matt Patricia

aka in a legend rocket scientist to understand

that the three best plays on the week 14 slate were Devante Adams, Derek Henry, and

Travis Kelsey. Of course, just play them and log out, right? Easy game.

Well, it should have been. It should have been my friends, but I come to you, I come to you still

tilting because I did not handle the late news right, handled it really poorly in fact.

And that's just inexcusable and quite frankly embarrassing. Let's start with the first piece of Sunday news, which was the overnight report that Irv Smith would play,

but could be limited by his back injury and we already

knew Kyle Rudolph was out. You know Irv Smith obviously a talented dude former first-round pick

yeah he'd been limited in practice and yet the report was from Adam Shefter who is the absolute stone best, but the Vikings only had two tight ends on their active roster, Irv and Tyler Conklin.

This is a team which loves to play two tight end sets. So at 3100, really good athlete,

really good pass catcher, good game environment was worth the gamble I think,

at least worth thinking about over Logan Thomas at tight end

Okay but but we can live with that one you know that's okay in a vacuum the second one this Brendan Cook's news just comes out of nowhere

reports emerge on Sunday morning that he's going to be inactive.

Okay, so now we have Deshaun Watson, so unbelievably productive, down to literally two usable wide receivers in Kiki Kutet and Chad Hansen.

You know, why is there a lot of separation between them?

Yeah, Kutee has far better pedigree, but Watson was clearly fine throwing into Hansen last week.

Both would have similar usage in terms of snaps and routes run.

You know and I had no interest in Kute at 5k when we thought Cooks was going to play. but okay okay you know we'll see on that one we'll see if we need the

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