Looking Back At The 2025 Man vs. Machine Rankings Debate: Who Won? (Episode 958 with Evan Silva, Mike Leone, Adam Levitan)
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Head Referee Adam Levitan settles the score once and for all as we revisit the preseason fantasy football ranking debate between Evan "The Man" Silva and Michael "The Machine" Leone, assessing who won the argument now that all the dust has settled.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:57 - Jameson Williams
6:23 - Trey McBride
8:19 - Kenneth Walker
10:09 - Christian McCaffrey
14:37 - Chris Olave
18:05 - Tony Pollard
20:53 - Jaylen Warren
23:58 - Jake Ferguson
25:03 - Tetairoa McMillan
29:35 - Trevor Lawrence
32:33 - Jaylen Waddle
34:31 - Jahmyr Gibbs
38:12 - Brian Thomas
41:48 - Jaxon Smith-Njigba
45:04 - Lightning Round
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 958 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | My name is Adam Levittan, and we are gathered here today for what has become one of our most |
| 0:28.6 | anticipated shows of the season. |
| 0:31.0 | It is the Manverse Machine Recap Show. |
| 0:36.5 | For this, we have once again United the Man, Evan Silva, and the |
| 0:42.1 | machine Michael Leone. Silva, welcome. How's going? It's going really well. Anticipate another victory |
| 0:50.6 | today. And I just want to make sure that Leonie doesn't turn this into another debate show. |
| 0:57.0 | This is a reaction show, Leone, because I know that he's been goading me through private back channels. |
| 1:03.0 | I might have to cut some mics here, you know, like they're doing on the presidential debates now, |
| 1:07.0 | where when people aren't talking, they cut the other person's. |
| 1:11.4 | Mike, Leonie, how's going today? |
| 1:13.9 | Representing the machines, of course. |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, I appreciate Evan preemptively trying to stymie the free flow of ideas in order to get |
| 1:22.1 | his propaganda into the forefront with no pushback. |
| 1:25.9 | I also appreciate that we have made Levit Tans so incredibly nervous for this because me and |
| 1:32.6 | Silva are just squabbling in DMs when the Lovtans. |
| 1:35.0 | Like I thought we were just having fun. |
| 1:37.0 | No, this is not about fun whatsoever. |
| 1:40.0 | You know, I think that like when I see people in public, they're going to come up to me and be like, |
| 1:44.8 | you were an idiot, you said this about this player. They don't, they come up to me and they say, you screwed up the man versus machine debates. I'm like, leave me alone, man. I put so much effort into all this other stuff and people are all over me about the man versus machine results. It's insane. All right. On today's show, we are going to have some old-fashioned actual fun. |
| 2:05.6 | You will remember back in August, we did Man versus Machine, |
| 2:10.3 | in which Silva, aka Man, and Leone, aka Machine, |
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