Hey everyone, welcome back to the Fence Blue's football podcast with Bobby Sylvester and

the number one most accurate expert out of over 140 experts through five weeks.

My good buddy Mike Tagliere, Tag's serious congrats on the great start man.

Thanks man. I don't feel so great though. I mean it was it was number one going into this week and it was really a rough week for me in terms of like the best and everything else.

It just didn't feel like it was a week right hit. I mean that's going to happen from time to time. It's just like I'm not going to compare myself to an NFL player, but it's going to happen where we have bad weeks.

It's just going to happen sometimes. So they I do appreciate that. It means a lot and I know there's a lot of smart people in this competition.

So I know it's not going to last always and forever. So I definitely want to appreciate it while I have it. So it fluctuates so much. You know, like you could move from first to sixth and one week and I think everyone has those bad weeks except Sean corner from stats.com.

Yeah. You can't really afford to have one if you want to keep him behind in the standings, but it was a great run and hopefully you can stay in the top three, maybe bounce up to the top one again here at the end of the season.

I know everyone thinks like we have some rivalry and we do disagree sometimes and poke fun each other. It's fun, but I tend to agree with you much more than like anyone else in the industry. I see you dominating. It's been a blast, dude.

Yeah, no, it's definitely it's been a lot of fun. And that's the thing is just like, you know, what we do is we take the information that we're given and we try and present it in a way that you guys understand it.

And a way that makes you feel good, you know, I think the ideal thing for me is when when our followers are listeners, when they when they press that submit lineup button, I want them to understand why they're doing it. And if we're doing that, that's basically all that matters to me. So it makes me happy.

So tags right before the show, I was running up the stairs and I stubbed my big toe. It's like mangled man. I'm serious. I'd rather get punched in the man parts than stubbed my big toe. There's no doubt about it. It's probably the most underrated pain spot on the body.

Oh, man, I've pretty much I've hit my foot so many times that it's like I've mastered the whole breathe in and just hold in your aggression and just understand like embrace embrace the pain for a moment.

Like it's weird. I have this thing with pain where I get I'm okay with it just because I've learned to almost just understand that what it what it's like to feel pain because think about it this way.

You'd rather feel pain than feel nothing at all. I guess. I don't know. I feel like rather feel like I didn't feel my mangled toe.

I feel like no, my guy didn't think that at all when I hit my toe.

So we had a number of big injuries this week tags. We'll cover the implications of the two big ones then touch on some others. So let's start with Aaron Rogers.

Broken collarbone really just terrible. I mean, he's the best player maybe in the history of football.

Tags first, I saw that some of your followers were getting into it with you about the legality of the hit. Why don't you give your take then we'll talk about Jordi Nelson, Devonte Adams and the running backs because everyone is asking right now.

Yeah, so one of the big things for me like when I watch football, I watched so much football that I could tell you when a player is trying to intentionally hurt someone and the way that bar came down on Aaron Rogers, he was intentionally trying to bring all of his weight down and come down on his shoulders.

Like if you go and watch that and that's the thing is some people have told me they're like, my key didn't know the ball was out. I don't really care if he knows the ball was out or not. When he went to grab him the way he knew the ball was out. He knew the ball was out man.

And the way he lifted him and turn he literally twisted while he had a mid air and it all happened so fast that I don't expect most people to see these things, but it's something that I see when I watch the game because I see so many tackles. I understand how things are supposed to go.

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