Man vs. Machine 2025: Evan Silva and Mike Leone Debate Their 20 Biggest Fantasy Football Disagreements (Episode 887)
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🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Head Referee Adam Levitan proceeds over the biggest event of the year: 2025 Man vs. Machine. In one corner - Evan Silva, representing men who sometimes mow their own lawns and touch grass. In the other - Michael Leone, representing the machine, the spreadsheets and the virgins.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Who does Head Referee Levitan award he victory to?
- Why is Evan so low on CMC?
- What makes Brian Thomas Jr. warrant the 7th overall pick?
- Has Jaylen Waddle cleared Tyreek Hill as WR1 in Miami?
- Can you overlook Chris Olave’s concussion history?
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:38 - Jameson Williams
8:32 - Trey McBride
12:16 - Kenneth Walker
16:33 - Christian Kirk
21:40 - Christian McCaffrey
27:51 - Chris Olave
33:33 - Jayden Blue
38:07 - Tony Pollard
42:11 - Jaylen Warren
46:54 - Matthew Golden
52:32 - Justin Fields
56:09 - Jerry Jeudy
1:01:39 - Jake Ferguson
1:04:43 - Tetairoa McMillan
1:09:46 - Trevor Lawrence
1:14:50 - Jaylen Waddle
1:19:53 - Jahmyr Gibbs
1:27:41 - Brian Thomas Jr.
1:32:22 - Jaxon Smith-Njigba
1:38:24 - Ricky Pearsall
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 887 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:22.8 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:24.9 | And today we have all had circled on the calendar has finally arrived. |
| 0:30.0 | Yes, it is indeed time for our annual man-vers machine rings debate show in the north corner representing the men the humans |
| 0:42.9 | the alphas the grass touchers the ball knowers it is evan Silva draped in a united states |
| 0:52.1 | constitution polo shirt. |
| 0:55.2 | Evan, welcome to the ring. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, it's good to be back. It's good to be back. |
| 1:00.3 | You know, trying to defend my title after Whippin'Leoni last year. |
| 1:05.1 | And we are going to continue to save fantasy football from the spreadsheet socialists. |
| 1:10.4 | We are making fantasy football great again. |
| 1:15.1 | And in the south corner, |
| 1:20.1 | representing the machines, |
| 1:23.0 | the virgins, the spreadsheet socialists, |
| 1:26.0 | the pale ones, the basement dwellers, or in Leonie's case, the attic |
| 1:29.3 | dwellers. It is Michael Leone. Welcome to the arena. Leone. How's it going? I'm feeling ready |
| 1:36.9 | to whoop on Gallum stuck in his cave there in the dark wearing the U.S. Constitution shirt. |
| 1:43.0 | Last time, Evan wore that shirt, he couldn't quote one line from the U.S. Constitution, but Last time I've wore that shirt, he couldn't quote |
| 1:44.8 | one line from the U.S. Constitution, but we get it's all for show. So yeah, let's get on with it. |
| 1:50.9 | All right. On today's show, we are going to have an old-fashioned debate. We have identified |
| 1:57.7 | the 20 players Silva and Leone disagree most on. |
| 2:02.2 | They will state their case and I, serving as your honorable judge, will declare a winner. |
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