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‘GM Street’ — Blue Chips: Offensive Position Rankings (Ep. 126)

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4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's Mike Lombardi and Tate Frazier continue Lombardi's tradition of identifying the blue-chip players at each offensive position, including quarterbacks (04:00), running backs (09:30), tight ends (16:15) and offensive linemen, heading into the 2017 NFL season (20:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:09.2

Welcome to GM Street. I am Tade Frazier and sitting across from me today. Mr. Michael Embardi. Embardi. How you doing? I am great. Tade. I'm doing great.

1:17.9

We we have a lot to do football season is right around the corner. It's basically the middle of August now because you didn't know and had to check your calendar and we have football the first of September.

1:28.4

It's right there. We can see it's staring us in the face pre-season's happening hard knocks is happening football is just taking the top of everything.

1:35.0

Watch it. I am. It's been great. I

1:37.5

always watch it. I never would watch it. I just kind of never thought I really was very good. But you like it. Yeah, this season they're playing the hits. You know, so people that remember hard knocks. It used to be the fun times like Ocho Sinko and since the

1:48.7

Andy Bengels. Yeah, they went away from that a little bit and now they're like, okay, we have to Sean Jackson. We have James Winston. Right. Let's just show these guys. Let's make it entertaining Mike Evans and those are the people that people want to watch and now they're actually showing it. So

2:01.0

congrats you HBO. This is not a plug. This is not a sponsor. This is just hard knocks. It's been good this year. That's good. It's good to hear. Yeah, just check it out. Today we have what we like to call the blue chippers.

2:11.7

Bambardi. You wrote a column on this right for the NFL. Yeah, I'm for quite a few years. Well, actually Bill Simmons made it popular because we wrote right the column about like who I thought were blue

2:21.9

chippers in the league and get everybody pissed off because they didn't agree with me. And he kind of because we would talk about it on the BS report about the

2:30.0

podcast. We would talk about the players. Some guys have left off some I left on and the consensus was this back and this is just take this is five six years ago. How

2:38.3

much things have changed. So we felt like I always felt like if you had seven players that were blue chip or red chip, which is top 10 and a league.

2:45.8

Red chip is top 10 a league. Blue chip is top five and a league. Yep. If you had seven of the offensive or defensive lineman. Five offensive lineman, five defensive lineman, four and a

2:55.8

Russia that were in the red or blue chip categories. You should make the final four apply offs, which is the conference championship game. Yep. That I think has changed a little bit because the way

3:05.8

quarterbacks get the ball their hands so quickly. The way the offensive line doesn't have to always protect as well. I think it's lowered a little bit, but it's still critical to have them in the

3:14.2

blue in the defensive line. But this year what we have is we're going to start with offense, the end at the offense of the whole league. Yep. And blue chip or the top five players at the position. And when people hear blue chips, I think they

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