So, welcome back everyone for the second talk of the day. Just before I make the introductions, a few reminders. If you have questions, you can ask on app.sli.do and the code is hashtag insect20. Questions can be upvoted, so make sure to read the questions before you ask your own. Also make some noise on Twitter, the handle is at insect underscore IO. We always like to have attendees make a little bit of noise for us. And also make sure to take note of the code of conduct, it's something really important for us that we enforce quite strictly and that we like people to read it because we spend a lot of time writing it. So without further ado, let me introduce our next speaker. His name is Holger Unterbrink and Holger is working for Cisco Talos, the threat research organization of Cisco. Their goal is to find and reverse engineer new unknown malware campaigns and esteem uncovered attacks like nutpedia, I want to cry, DNS to an age, sea turtle and many more. He is frequently presenting on international, internal and external conferences. For example, Microsoft digital crime consortium, Google annual reverse engineering meeting. Just the ISC, the fourth international conference on cybersecurity and privacy Balkan. Besides Munich, SEC IT Germany, Cisco live and many more. His talk is going to be dynamic data resolver, either plug in extending either with dynamic data. So thank you, Holger and please proceed. Hi, and welcome to the live stream of my presentation dynamic data resolver. My name is Holger Unterbrink and I'm a security researcher at Cisco Talos, mainly looking into malware research, threat hunting and tool development. I'm based in Germany and if you like to follow me on Twitter, you can find me at hunterbr72. Today I would like to introduce you in a new tool which I have developed in the last month and which I'm releasing next week, the dynamic data resolver. Dynamic data resolver is mainly an either plug in which goal it is to resolve dynamic values like registers, for example, or memory values at runtime by using instrumentation. So if you're interested in ESI in something like call ESI, and you want to know the value of ESI, you can use DDR to resolve it. And to guide you through the main features of DDR, let me proceed with the one which I've already mentioned. So finding dynamic values, you can not only resolve these absolute values like you have seen before, which are stored in a certain operand or in a certain register. You can also resolve pointers and pointer pointers which are stored in these operands. And you can get the memory they are pointing to. So if you're analyzing an unpacking routine, for example, and you see that EDI is pointing to a buffer which has the MZ at the beginning, then you might be lucky that you have found the next stage of the unpacking routine which constructed the PE header. And this is just one example where it can help you to analyze an malware sample statically. Of course, there are hundreds of other things like crypto routines and many, many other things where it is pretty handy to get these dynamic values inside of your static analyzers. As far as DDR is almost instrumenting every single instruction of the executable, depending on what you have, what command you have picked, you can also easily use it for code coverage. And DDR is not only marking the instructions which were executed, it is also marking it with a certain color depending on how often the instruction was executed. If you see an instruction which is marked light green, you know it was executed once. If you see an instruction with, let's say, dark red with much warmer color, then you know that it was executed many more times. And with this, it helps you to find, for example, crypto routines which are often looping through the same basic blocks, et cetera, et cetera. It is also collecting all the jump calls and similar instructions which are touching API calls. So any time one of these instructions tries to access an API call, it is written into this table. And the table, of course, is searchable. So if you're looking for a certain API call like Virtual Alloc or LotLibrary, you can just hit Control-F and search for it. If you then do a double-click on the line, it brings you directly to the program counter inside of your disassembly to the location where this API call was accessed. So you can see exactly the instruction which tried to access this API call in your disassembly. Pretty much the same applies for strings. DDR tries to collect interesting memory location which are looking like strings. So it is putting all of them in this table, which means you can search for certain strings like MZV or anything else you're interested in. And then again, do a double-click on the line, and it brings you to the instruction which accessed this string at runtime. You can also dump buffers in a smart way. You just have to hand over three parameters to DDR, the buffer size, the buffer address, and the actual location where you want to dump the buffer or when you want to dump the buffer. You're doing that by marking the operand which stores the size, for example. And then you are selecting use marked operand to get buffer size. So at runtime DDR will read the value from this operand, no matter if it is an absolute value like you can see here on the slide, the C8, or if it is a register or something like that. You're doing the same for the buffer address and for the location where you want to dump the buffer. So if you have something like a virtual-alloc, you know that the function returns a pointer to the allocated buffer in RAX. So you would mark RAX and pick the use marked operand to get buffer address menu point. Then you're looking in your disassembly where this buffer is filled with something you're interested in. You're marking the line and you pick the mark address to dump buffer to file menu point and you are done. The only thing which is left is you have to execute the sample and dump the buffer. And of course you can do that multiple times in the executable. So you can dump multiple buffer buffers in one step. Of course today malware comes often with anti-analysing checks and if you want to disable and patch these anti-analysing checks, you have three different options. You can either use the knob out functionality by marking these instructions which you want to disable and then they are getting knocked out at runtime. Or if you want to manipulate the control flow, you can just patch certain flags in the e-flag register. So if you have a conditional jump for example, something like jump not zero, you can mark the line. You can click toggle e-flag at runtime and you would manipulate the zero flag for example and toggle it which means that at runtime it would get the exact opposite value which means the jump would do the exact opposite thing than it would do if you would execute the sample in a normal way. And last but not least, you can also completely skip functions if you like. If you have a function, let's say something which detects a virtual machine and you want to skip it, you can completely skip it and return a fake return value. Which means that the other parts of the sample getting a fake return value which is telling the rest of the sample something like, okay, we didn't found any virtual machine. We can proceed. We don't have to exit. We haven't found any analyzing stuff, so no debugging or anything like that. We can just execute all malicious functions. So you can skip the function and fake any return value which you would like. If all of that is not enough to do aesthetic analysis of the sample, you can also create an x64 debug script. And when you're creating the x64 debug script with DDR, it builds a script which is also applying all the patches which you have set up before, all the patches which I've talked about on the slide before. And it is writing them into an x64 debug script and using the x64 debug script language to implement these patches. And then it is breaking at the address which you have highlighted in IDA. So you can just execute the script inside of x64 debug and it will automatically break at the point which you have marked in IDA.  If you don't like x64 debug, you can also create an executable with an endless loop at the marked address. So you can mark in certain address in your disassembly. You create an executable and the original executable gets patched with an endless loop. So DDR is overwriting two bytes. So when you're executing the executable, it is looping forever. So you have time to attach debugger to it, your favorite debugger which you would like, and then you just have to replace these patched bytes, the two ones. You can use the DDR output for that like you can see here on the bottom of the slide.  OK, so this is what you can do with DDR. Let me talk a little bit about the architecture of DDR. It is highly recommended to use the plug-in on one machine and use the DDR server and the Dynamo-ri client on a separate machine. Keep in mind that we are doing instrumentation and we are really executing the malware. And you probably don't want to execute the malware on the same machine where your IDAR and your IDAR license is running on. So we would highly recommend to use two virtual machines, for example, one where you have a running IDAR and another one where you run the server component and the actual instrumentation DLL. Of course, you can run it on the same box, but again, it is not recommended. The way it works is that the IDAR plug-in is sending the commands to the DDR API server and the DDR API server is controlling a command line tool, the Dynamo-rio client. This is a client which you can also run standalone. For example, if you want to analyze the sample on a completely air-gapped system and you don't want to access it via IDAR, you can just install the Dynamo-rio client on that box, which is pretty easy. And you can put nothing else on this physical box. It's completely air-gapped. This malware sample gets instrumented. It is collecting all the interesting data, writing this data to a JSON file. And then later on, you can copy the JSON file to the analyst machine and read it into IDAR if you like. And then you can use the IDAR plug-in pretty much the same way like you would have used the plug-in from the beginning on. So these are the two options. Either you're running it manually on the command line or you're doing everything from the IDAR plug-in and the whole process is fully automatic. As you have seen on the slide before, I'm using the Dynamo-rio instrumentation platform for doing all the instrumentation. And the reason for that is that Dynamo-rio is an extremely rich API for instrumentation. It comes with a lot of different tools. It comes with a lot of different API functions which are helping you a lot when you are trying to implement something like that. So you don't have to think about a lot of underlying issues for the different architectures, for example, and so on. No matter if it is x64-bit or x32-bit, Dynamo-rio is able to instrument the binary no matter what kind of sample you have. Dynamo-rio also comes with an BSD license, which is pretty nice, so you can easily use it inside of your tools. And another really important point is it is a supporting self-modifying code. And it can also trace files which are starting threads. It's multi-threaded capable. And it can even trace new processes which your sample is executing. And the probably most important thing is it is really well documented. I don't really want to compare it to Intel PIN, but it is doing a pretty similar thing, except that I like it a little bit more. And it is, at least for my point of view, a little bit better documented. The installation is also super simple. You just have to unpack and zip file, and that's it. So it has a lot of advantages. And as far as we already have a PIN trace inside of IDA, I don't want to invent the wheel again. So I picked Dynamo-rio for this implementation. Dynamo-rio is around for at least 10 years, I would say. It's pretty stable. And again, coming with a lot of features. And the main feature, one of the most important feature, if you want to analyze malware samples, samples is probably that it is built from scratch with the idea of being totally transparent to the instrumented malware sample or to the instrumented sample. With this, you can still detect Dynamo-rio if you're actively looking for it. But so far, I haven't seen much malware which is actually doing that. And hopefully, even after the presentation, that doesn't change, but I'm giving my fingers crossed. So the way it works is you are executing a Dynamo-rio client by executing, for example, the DR-RUN.exe one, the DR-RUN tool. And you can use your own DLL, which is the main engine of the instrumentation. Now the DLL is collecting all the data, it is controlling the instrumentation and then also sending the data back to the JSON files. And the way you would execute that on the command line is just by the way you can see here on the slide. DR-RUN, exe, dll, dll, ddr, dll, and then the ddr, dll config parameters and then the sample which you want to analyze. And the result, as I mentioned before, is a JSON file. And then you can either import the JSON file to IDA or you have done this whole process automatically by using the IDA plugin. This is how the JSON file looks like. And you can see that it is collecting pretty much all the registers and all the interesting memory points or pointers at more or less every single instruction. And as far as this is, of course, generating a certain overhead, you have several options inside of DDR to only do the instrumentation for certain basic blocks, for example, or for certain ranges, for certain instruction ranges inside of your executable. And with this, it's still extremely fast, even that fast that even time-measuring, anti-analysing routines are often not detecting that anything was instrumented. The whole workflow works like, you can see here on the slide. The first thing you have to do is if you want to use the plugin, you are executing the DDR server, which is the API server, which you have seen before.  You just do a right mouse click and execute, for example, a light trace, which is tracing through the whole segment to the whole code segment, for example, and collecting a certain amount of data there. This command is sent over an encrypted channel to the server. The server is then executing the Dynamo-Rio command line and the DLL, the DLL is generating the JSON file. And then finally, the JSON file gets sent to the IDA plugin by the server. And then you can use this data inside of your static analysis by just right clicking on an operand or on an instruction line and picking some of these menus. So get value for source operand, for example, or get the value of a certain register, whatever you are interested in. By the way, you can see here on the right side of the screenshot, something like xax equal no data. That doesn't mean that we haven't found any data. That just means that the absolute value which was taught in EAX is the 27B6. And this is just an absolute value which is not pointing to anything. So you know that there was not a pointer or pointer pointer stored inside of this register. It is just an absolute value which was used in the instruction. Before we are moving to the demo, let me quickly warn you about a pretty nasty behavior of Windows if it comes to executing Python scripts inside of a command window. Unfortunately, if you're marking any text inside of the window, inside of this command window, Windows will freeze this Python application. So it's not getting executed until you are hitting escape. Which means that your DDR server is pretty much frozen. And of course, it will not accept any commands from the plugin anymore. So if you are receiving a timeout error or something like that on the IDAR plugin side, it is very likely that you accidentally marked or highlighted something here in the DDR server output and that has frozen the server. So you can either hit escape a couple of times and the server gets executed again or if that doesn't help you just do a Ctrl Z and restart the server. Both works and then you can proceed with the commands with the right mouse, click in IDAR in the plugin and everything works like before. But just be warned about that one. Try not to mark anything or if you're marking a text in the output window, make sure that you hit escape a couple of times afterwards. So a quick final disclaimer. Of course, DDR is not replacing your brain.  It is quite powerful. So keep in mind that something like patching is might be dangerous and could crash the sample. I've also seen malware, which is for example, killing the whole process chain until Explorer XE. So that would also kill the Python server and the communication would obviously not work anymore. But nevertheless, like for any tool, it doesn't fit at all, but at least it will fit most of the samples and hopefully it will help you with your analyzing. Okay, enough about that. Let's move to the demo and let me show you how the thing looks in real life. Actually, before we are switching to IDAR, let me quickly show you the important parts of the source code of the sample, which we are going to analyze. The first thing is that the sample is comparing its process name with evilmalva.exe, which means if its process name is not evilmalva.exe, it will copy an instance of itself to the temp folder and then it is executing this instance. So the first instance is just leaving and the second one is recognizing that it is running under the process name evilmalva.exe. So the comparison is not true and it will just print out this message new instance running from temp folder and then proceed with the rest of the code. Again, I don't want to go through all of the source code, just the important parts for the demo. And one thing you should recognize is that A can never be bigger than five. We are doing a mod five here, so there's no chance that A can ever be bigger than five, which means that the following comparison will always be not true and it will always print out the message A is not greater than five. At least in theory because we will see later on during the demo that we can patch this behavior inside of DDR. The last thing which you should keep in mind for the demo is that after this comparison, we have a dialog box which is asking for a value. This value is getting assigned to A but that's a really important part is that you remember that there's a dialog box which would stop the execution of the sample and of course we don't want that. We want to get it executed in one step. So we will also knob out later on this dialog box and skip it. Okie dokie. With this, let me switch over to IDAR. Okay, so we've loaded the sample into IDAR and we move to the location where it is comparing the process name with evilmalve.exe. So usually the sample would be executed with a different process name and it would go this path where it is just copying itself and launching a second instance of itself. But of course we are not so much interested in this path. We are more interested in the other path and the rest of the sample code. So what we want to do is we want to patch this comparison and we can do that by toggling the zero flag, for example. It's a jump not zero. So if we are inverting the zero flag, it is doing the exact opposite of what it is supposed to do. So we go and go to the DDR patch menu, toggle E flag. We are picking the zero flag, the F flag, click okay and that's it. The next thing which we want to do is we want to get rid of the dialogue box, as I mentioned before. So we are moving over to that part of the code. We are marking the code and we can just knob out all these instructions at runtime. Again, we are moving to the patch menu and we are picking the knob out marked instruction at runtime option. So now we can execute another DDR command. So for example, we can run a trace if we want to get a code coverage, for example. Now we do that. We have to wait a little bit and it has sent the command to the DDR server. The DDR server has executed it and sent back the analyzers in form of the JSON format. So you can see here, the light trace is done. If we are now moving back to the process check and if we highlight all the instructions which were actually traced, now we get a nice code coverage and we can also see that the other path was executed even if the process name was not evilmelva.exe, it went this path and it has executed all these instructions here. And it has also skipped that part at runtime. Before I'm moving to the next feature, I would like to come back to the warning which I have mentioned during the presentation that you should be very careful with marking the output text of the DDR server. So for example, if I'm moving over to the DDR server and if I'm marking something, it can even be just one character as long as something is marked in this window, the process is frozen. And if we now try to execute and trace like we did before, for example, then it will run into a timeout. It takes a little bit and Bob, you see, failed to run trace for segment. If you are running into this and if you want to test if the communication is working between the server and the IDAR site, you can always test that with your browser. Now, if you're going to the root directory of the server, you can just do that in your browser and you see that it is timing out. So if we are moving again over to the DDR server, I can hit escape a couple of times and you see all the commands are coming back in and the application is now unfrozen again. If we are doing the test again, you see that this counter is now counting up and the communication is working again. So I could now move back to IDAR and run the trace again or whatever I want to do. And all the trace will be executed as you've seen before. Done. Okay, so after we have analyzed the sample and we found an interesting buffer which we want to dump to disk, we can do that the way which I've mentioned during the presentation. So we have, for example, Virtual Alloc and we know that this parameter is the buffer size. So we can just go to the DDR menu dump and we choose that one as the buffer size. Then we are marking RAX because we know that this is including the pointer which is pointing to the buffer and we are heading that over to DDR. Get buffer address. So now we need to find the location in the code where this buffer is filled with something interesting which is in this case here. So we are just marking the line and we are handing over the third parameter to the dump and we are done. We can now see that DDR has all the parameters which are necessary to dump this buffer. So now we can finally execute the sample and write the buffer to disk. So again, the sample gets executed and the buffer gets dumped to disk. So we can write it somewhere to the desktop, for example, and you can see now it is the buffer which we have or it's a string which we have copied into the buffer. So the last thing which I would like to show you is how you can generate x64 and debug scripts. And as I mentioned before, these scripts are including all the patches which you have done before. To demonstrate that, let me manipulate this comparison where we are checking if A is bigger than five. Again, we are going to the E-flex menu and as far as it is this time and jump less equal, we have to toggle the SF flag. Okay, so now we are done and now we can generate the script and the x64 debug script. Now it has generated this script and sent it over to the Melva site. So where the server is running. We can now load the x64 debugger, go to scripts and load this file. So now you can see that it is doing all these patch tricks which you have seen before and we can execute this script and now we can move to the different break points. So here we have, we break right before this compassion and you can see if I'm stepping over it that it has manipulated the SF flag and the comparison now thinks that A is greater than five even if that is theoretically impossible. Okay, that's it regarding the demo. Let me switch back to the PowerPoint presentation. So I hope you liked the demo and if you want to see more features, you can watch the YouTube video which I have here on the bottom of the slide. As I mentioned before, the plan is to release the tool next week and if you don't want to miss the release you can follow me on Twitter. With this we have reached the Q&A section and I'm giving back to the NorthSecFox. Well, thank you very much Helga that was very technical and in-depth talk. Maybe a bit too technical for me because I am not so knowledgeable in reverse engineering. So we'll let a few seconds, few minutes for people to ask questions. The link has already been posted. So it's app.sli.do. Just while waiting just a quick message if for whatever reason and not just for this talk but any talk you feel overwhelmed because it's too hard for you take it as an opportunity to rise curiosity and learn about these things because I know for a fact that you can quickly get overwhelmed and have a feeling that you're not wise enough for these things but as you dig and you try these things there is not a lot of feeling as great as popping your first buffer overflow and having a calculator up here on your screen. So without further ado, let's start with the first question. So the first question from anonymous user is there any plan to make it work with Gaidra too? Not in the moment because my time is limited. I wish I could do that but it's not too realistic in the moment to be honest. Okay, thank you. Does it also from an anonymous user? Does it also support processes which are launching other processes and threads? Yes and no. So the command line tool is supporting that and the problem with that is that you cannot lock all these files at the same time. Well, you can but the Gaidra plugin can't consume them. So what you can do is you can run the command line tool and it will generate certain JSON files per process. And it will also track all the different threads of the processes. So then you can later on load these JSON files manually into Gaidra. Okay, thank you. So I guess this brings us to the next question. What happens if I apply two different batch functions to the same instruction? That is something you should usually not do because only one will win. It will probably not crash the, it will probably not crash the DDR process, but it has results which can't be foreseen. So I would not recommend doing that. Oh, well, I guess it's good to know. Thank you. So the next question from Humblepian. Aren't you afraid that malware detector will now try to detect it? Yeah, a little bit. But it's always a question of if you want to release something in public or not. Of course, if I would have kept it private, it would be more comfortable for myself. But I put a lot of time and effort into it and a lot of spare time. So I thought it would be nice to share it with people even taking this risk. Yeah, no, that's very good. Thank you. Thanks to you. So I guess the next question is actually follows. Why don't you release it today? Why not? Because there are some organizational issues which I still have to overcome. Like how can I release it on the Talos GitHub and so on? So it's more organizational stuff than technical stuff. So I guess like would you release it with like open source free license? Yes, yes, absolutely. I will release it as an open source tool. And it's very likely that I will release it in the mid of next week. Okay, so it's very, not today, but... Exactly. Very shortly, thank you. So the next question from an anonymous user. Can I use Dynamo RIO also for fuzzing? Yes, absolutely, absolutely. For absolutely every instrumentation tasks, it's a really recommended tool. Perfect, thank you. It's from my point of view. So I'm sorry, they're telling me that the time is over. There is one other question. I'm gonna ask it very quickly. So is there a way to make it work with pack malware or would you need to unpack the malware first? Absolutely, it's actually the main goal to use it for unpacking malware. So what I'm using it usually for is to correct the first stage of the unpacker. Of course, if you have code which is unpacking something and copying something to a buffer which you can't see in your disassembly, then you probably can't use it for the second or third stage. But that heavily depends on the case and how the malware has implemented the second and third stage. So you can absolutely use it for everything. And again, this is definitely the goal of the tool to use it for unpacking malware. Perfect, that makes it very powerful. Well, thank you, that's all for the Q&A. Again, a warm thank you for your participation in the online event and I wish you a great day and I hope that you can enjoy the rest of the conference. Thank you, you too, bye-bye. Thanks everyone. We see you in a few minutes for the next talk by BX.


Thursday night football is right around the corner as the New York Giants in the Philadelphia Eagles battle it out in this NFCE showdown in Lincoln Financial Field with a capacity crowd of 0. Tua Tugovailoa is officially named the starter in Miami. It's Tua time. We're gonna be unpacking that and what that means for the Miami Dolphins moving forward. Also the decision to bench Ryan Fitzpatrick in the process and Tony Brown's suspension is coming to an end in week 8, meaning that the Seattle Seahawks and many more teams are in pursuit of the wide receiver. Speaking of week 8, the trade deadline for the NFL is coming up. We're gonna be talking about which players that every single team, all 32 teams, should target prior to the trade deadline. All of that and much more on a brand new episode of Time 2 Football. Glad that you guys are joining us on this Thursday. My name is Hasan Khan, the host of this show. So we're doing this show from now on on Thursdays 7pm every single week. We used to do this on Wednesdays but last week we did this on Thursday. We had a great turnout. It seemed like everyone was able to chat with us and watch this as it premiered live on YouTube and we're gonna continue to do this as a pre-game show prior to the Thursday night football game. So instead of watching Colleen Wolf or Joe Thomas or Steve Smith or Michael Irvin on this awkward tape delay on an NFL network, you can chat with us. You can interact with us and this is gonna be a fun podcast that you can interact with me while I'm in the chat. If you guys are watching this on the computer, what's up? I'm waving you guys on the chat on the side. But if you guys are watching this on mobile down below, chat with us, interact with us. I'm probably typing something right now. I don't know what I'm gonna type, but I'm probably typing something right now that's gonna be pretty awesome. So interact with us and chat with us. Ask your questions. I'll be in the process of chatting with you guys and interact with you guys as we watch this show. Like we mentioned, a lot to talk about on this show and it's gonna be very, very fun with that trade deadline. We're gonna play a little bit of game while I'll explain later on. First, we wanna thank Feedspot.com for their continuous support by naming us as one of the top 100 NFL podcasts in the world. So Feedspot.com, thank you so much for that honor and the rankings of NFL Live and around the NFL, the NFL's official podcast and ESPN's official podcast to be in that company means a lot. So thank you so much to Feedspot.com. We're gonna start with the topics that we have for the show like I mentioned prior in the beginning. But first, we have to give the most prestigious award on the show, not the Checkdowns Award, not the NFL. They stole that from me, but my own personal award, the Hungriest Player of the Week. Hungriest Player of the Week, the one that wanted it the most. The one that played Hungriest may be given to someone like Derek Henry with that amazing overtime game that he had against the Houston Texans. Maybe to someone like Kenyan Drake who was in danger of losing his starting job, but then he just showed out against the Dallas Cowboys solidified at Dagger with that long touchdown run. But we're not gonna give it to those guys. We're gonna give it to someone that is underrated because that's what the Hungriest Player of the Week is about, naming those players that don't get that much attention but played like they were Hungri. That's right. We're gonna give this award this week to a kicker. Our second kicker this season, Brandon McManus of the Denver Broncos showed up and showed out against the New England Patriots. Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not seven, not eight, not nine. Six field goals for Brandon McManus. 18 points responsible for the Denver Broncos, putting up 18 points in that game and winning 18 to 12 against the New England Patriots. Kicked a 54 yarder, I believe it was. Kicked a 52 yarder and many more field goals on top of that. Brandon McManus proved that he's capable of playing in the NFL so take that. All the kids growing up making fun of him for having the name Anus in his last name because Brandon McManus proved you wrong and proved why he is deserving of the Hungriest Player of the Week. Only the second kicker this season to be named the Hungriest Player of the Week we named it to Harrison Butker back in week two but your week six Hungriest Player of the Week is Brandon McManus. Now to get into the topics for the show. We have a lot to talk about with Tua Tugovailoa. A surprise decision by head coach Brian Flores to name Tua this starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. It's a surprise because Ryan Fitzpatrick has been playing lights out. If you want to talk about fantasy football perspective I believe it was four or five straight games where he's had over 20 fantasy points in those games. 10 touchdowns, seven interceptions which is kind of, you know, that's turnovers need to be worked on but that didn't even matter because he's been playing lights out as far as the passing game goes and the running game having two rushing touchdowns on the ground as well. He's been playing as if his career didn't matter at that point. He has nothing left to lose. He's at the tail end of his career. This may be his last season in the NFL so he just decided to all of a sudden bomb the ball down the field and just show up and show out. So Ryan Fitzpatrick is benched in the process and that was a surprise. We're gonna unpack the quotes and what head coach Brian Flores said with the decision of benching Fitzpatrick for Tug of Iloa. And this is what he said. We feel like that this is the best team or best thing for the team. We feel like through practice and meetings and walkthroughs that he's ready. And that's how we're going to move forward. And then he was asked about Fitzpatrick. Fitz has done a great job. He's been productive. His leadership's been great. It's not an easy decision for me or us as an organization but we felt like for the team now in moving forward, this is the move we need to make. And I don't know if you saw the reaction by Ryan Fitzpatrick and the comments that he made but it kind of pulled the harsh strings for a lot of NFL fans because Fitzpatrick is a guy that you want to root for and it was kind of sad because what he said is it broke his heart and he was hurt the whole day by being benched. And he felt like that this was his team and it caught him off guard. And it was a surprise. It was a shocker. So in that sentiment, we feel for Fitzpatrick.  It really is sad because I was rooting for the guy. He looked amazing. But nonetheless, the business decision is to move on with Tua as a starting quarterback. So what does this mean for the Dolphins? Are they gonna be as good with Fitzpatrick out of there and to replacing him that they were with Fitzpatrick as a starting quarterback? I don't know personally and we haven't seen enough of Tua especially with the lack of pre-season. So we don't know just yet. We just saw that one drive that he came in and through a couple of passes. But if I had to make an educated guess on this, I think that the Dolphins will be fine with Tua moving forward. You think about it, with Floor is making this decision with the way that Fitzpatrick has been playing, the level that he's been playing at, the decision to take him out and put Intua saying that he's ready moving forward, you've gotta have a lot of balls and a lot of faith in Tua to make a decision like that. You must really believe that he's ready to make a significant impact in the NFL if you're ready to get rid of one of the, dare I even say, as far as QBR goes by ESPN, a top 10 quarterback this season and Ryan Fitzpatrick to take him out as far as quarterback rating goes and put into a Tugovai Loa. You must have a lot of confidence in him. So with all that said, Tua in that instance could be the next Lamar Jackson, could be the next Kyler Murray, could be the next Patrick Mahomes. I don't know, it might happen, but I think that Floor is on that track and on that road and believes that that could happen for the Dolphins. Because listen, this decision probably would have made a lot more sense if the Dolphins were one and five or oh and six. You've got nothing to lose. Why not just put Intua, give him some experience so that by year two, he could just take off. But the fact that you're three and three and I believe a half game behind and the AFC East for the lead behind Buffalo Bills, you're in the thick of the playoff race and you make that decision to change your starting quarterback who wasn't that bad at all. You must really have a lot of faith in Tua Tugovai Loa.  Because three and three, I believe that the Miami Dolphins organization of this team can make the NFL playoffs. They're in contention to make that seventh, that new brand new seventh wild card seed that was introduced this season in 2020. So Tua we're gonna have to see very talented quarterback. Heart hurts for Fitzpatrick but Flores loves the decision and has a lot of faith in Tua. Next topic, Antonio Brown. Ooh, man flashbacks to 2018, 2019. When this guy was in the news for his character issues and just jumped around from team to team eventually got traded to the Raiders and then called Mike Mayock a cracker and eventually got traded to the Patriots and released by the Patriots, no one wanted him. So suspended by the NFL by Roger Goodell is gonna, that suspension is gonna end in week eight. It's week seven right now, it's gonna end in week eight. He is eligible to sign with any NFL team and at this point right now the Seattle Seahawks are contenders for Antonio Brown. Why you ask? They brought him in for some workouts here and there in the past. Also Russell Wilson has been training with Antonio Brown in summer workouts. So Brown, who looks like he's in shape from the summer workouts still wearing his Raiders helmet. He looks like he's good to go and is gonna be the next Seattle Seahawk at this point. Adam Schefter of ESPN stated that there are many more teams in the process of signing Antonio Brown. We don't know which teams those are. The only teams that we know for sure are the Seattle Seahawks. Some other teams that we would wanna talk about, we're gonna get to those. We have three specific teams besides the Seattle Seahawks we're gonna mention, but kinda leaning towards the Seahawks if Brown were to sign with the Seattle Seahawks. I'm sorry, man. I think the Seahawks team is super well-bound. Right now they're looking amazing, better than ever. DK Metcalf has the next big thing at the wide receiver position and you add in Antonio Brown. I don't think Antonio Brown is gonna get tons of yards and receptions or anything, but he's going to be a good decoy for people like DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett. So even if Antonio Brown has lost a step, he's gonna do wonders for the Seattle Seahawks in that process. Top three, think about that. Top three receivers for the Seattle Seahawks, DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Antonio Brown, whichever order you wanna put them in, this Seahawks team will be amazing if they sign Antonio Brown. Defense needs a lot of help, but it doesn't really matter if you sign Brown and your offense can score touchdown after touchdown after touchdown, so the Seahawks would be incredible for Antonio Brown. Other teams that we wanna talk about, I don't know Antonio Brown's interest with many of these teams because you may wanna sign with someone with the best chance of making the Super Bowl like the Seattle Seahawks, but three teams we really needed to focus on that need that wide receiver help. Let's start off with the Green Bay Packers. And the thick of things, couldn't make the Super Bowl, they have a great team, had that one game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers where they did not look that good, but they're able to rebound and they're still in contention of making the Super Bowl. This team desperately needs wide receiver help. They wasted that first, I don't wanna say wasted because I don't know how it's gonna turn out, but that first round pick on Jordan Love is not working out for them right now in the moment in the currents in 2020. So they need that wide receiver after Devon Funches opted out of COVID-19 speculation. He opted out of the 2019 season or the 2020 season. And Devonta Adams is basically the only good wide receiver that they have. Alan Lazard is currently injured and Marquez Valdes-Stanley has been a kind of a disappointment at this point. So adding that number two wide receiver and Antonio Brown would do amazing things for Aaron Rodgers in that passing game. They already have a run game. They already have a good passing game and what they can work with because you have Aaron Rodgers, one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. Adding an Antonio Brown with Devonta Adams side by side or in opposite sides, that's a dream come true. That's like something that you would see in Madden. So Antonio Brown signing with the Green Packers would be pretty awesome to see. Another team that we wanna talk about that could be in conversations with Antonio Brown was in conversations of trade talks prior in 2019 during the 2019 off season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, the San Francisco 49ers. Why not? They always seem to need offensive weapons or get some offensive weapons. You could make the argument that they're fine. This is not their biggest priority. I understand, it's not. Okay, they need some help with the injuries that they have on defense. They could use some defensive help. You have Debo Samuel coming back from the injury. Brandon Iuk looks like he's gonna be a good player in the NFL, you're fine. But if you add in Antonio Brown, is that really gonna hurt? If he gets over the character issues, think of the things that Antonio Brown could do with this offense with Kyle Shanahan and his creativity. Okay, we saw it with Debo Samuel, how he came up to being one of the better wide receivers in the NFL with his breakout season last season was because of the creativity that Kyle Shanahan created and the opportunities that he created for Debo Samuel in that 49ers offense did the same thing with Brandon Iuk. Used him in the run game, used him in the pass game. He's been used in special teams a couple of times as well. So Kyle Shanahan just has a knack for this. He's able to just look at people's strengths, look at his players and his strengths and really expound on their strengths. And Antonio Brown could be a good wide receiver that he could use in the passing game, dare I even say in the running game as well if we were to see that with the way that he's been using Debo Samuel and Brandon Iuk. So Brown to the 49ers, do you guys believe that it's a possibility? Interact with us, chat with us, comment down below. Let us know, is that a possibility, a new target for Jimmy Garoppolo? The last team that might be contenders to sign Antonio Brown, I think this is a no-brainer. I don't think this is a surprise, but the Philadelphia Eagles should be in pursuit of getting Antonio Brown. Reason being is because of the injuries that they had on that Eagles offense, okay? I don't care what you say, what anybody says. If you don't agree with this, you may not watch a lot of football, but Carson Wentz is still a capable starting above average quarterback in the NFL. He's not the problem in Philadelphia. And if you disagree, listen, I don't know what else to tell you.  All the injuries, he needs a lot of help on that team. That's all I'll say. And Antonio Brown would be a great help for that Eagles team. Alshon Jeffrey continues to be inactive week after week after week. When you think he's so close to playing, he's inactive. Tonight against the New York Giants, he's gonna be inactive. Deshaun Jackson will finally be playing after suffering an injury and he'll be back into the starting lineup. Jalen Rager, they're waiting for him to come back. It's gonna be another couple of weeks before he's back. Zach Ertz just got hurt. Out four to six weeks is on IR. He could also potentially be traded, but we'll be talking about that later on once we get to the trade deadline portion of this show. Dallas Goddard currently, right now he is injured, could be using another couple of weeks to get back up to speed before he is back into that Eagles lineup. So this team could use a lot of help currently right now. So if they wanna make a move to sign Antonia Brown, I would say nothing more than vet minimum to sign Antonia Brown, which at that point, I don't know if he's gonna agree to that, but if they were to sign him veteran minimum, that would be amazing for the Philadelphia Eagles because like I mentioned, the injuries and then Marquis Goodwin, the guy that the trade of four is out because of COVID-19. So, Antonia Brown to the Eagles. Is that a possibility? Comment down below. And out of all these teams, which one do you believe he has the best chance of signing with me personally? I believe it's the Seattle Seahawks, but interact with us, let us know. What's your opinion? All right, time for the fun part of this show. Trade candidates for 2020 prior to the trade deadline next week. So we wanted to split this up AFC and NFC. We're gonna start with AFC first. We're gonna make a little game out of this. Okay, let's say that in the NFL, prior to the trade deadline, let's just use your imagination. Use your mind. Let's say that every team has to make at least one trade prior to the trade deadline. It's a rule. And once a team makes a trade, that player is out of the conversation, is no longer, could be mentioned twice when we talk about these teams.  Let's say that every team has to make a trade. The Patriots, who are their number one trade target or the trade candidates in 2020? A lot to talk about. There's John Ross. There's AJ Green. They need some receiver help. But let's talk about a guy that we just talked about, Titan, Zach Erch. Listen, this is a rumor that's going around. One NFL writer has stated that Joe Thunny, the offensive lineman for the New England Patriots, very good player, could be traded to the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for Zach Erch. That would be a win-win for both teams. The Eagles desperately need offensive line help. The Patriots desperately need Titan help. And Zach Erch to the Patriots. Can you imagine that? Erch and Newton will be back to his old self. Zach Erch will be. So Zach Erch to the Patriots would be the number one trade target for the New England Patriots. Sticking in the AFC East, the New York Jets. Okay, you're gonna see that a lot of players from the Jets as we read off these teams are gonna be, a lot of Jets players are gonna be traded out of the New York Jets organization because they wanna rebuild and get more draft capital. But who is coming in to the New York Jets organization? They needed a lot of help on the offensive line. At wide receiver, we tried dial in on wide receiver. Brandon Cooks from the Houston Texans would be a great trade target for the New York Jets. Listen, getting some receiver help for Sam Darnold or potentially another quarterback, we're gonna get to that later on, would be big for the New York Jets. The Texans have stated that Will Fuller, Brandon Cooks, Randall Cobb and Kenny Stills, their top four wide receivers are all eligible or are all on the trade block to be traded because they're trying to erase the problem that Bill O'Brien caused and trying to get more draft capital. Not a single pick in the first round or the second round. Can you imagine if the Jets would have bite and trade potentially a second round pick for Brandon Cooks? Cause it seems like Brandon Cooks can play after Bill O'Brien or since Bill O'Brien got fired, Brandon Cooks ate receptions in one game, nine receptions in the other. Looks like a threat in the NFL. So Brandon Cooks in the New York Jets would be great. The Bills needed a lot of help on defense as well. At corner, they could use some help. And at the edge of rushing position, we have Akeem Hicks from Chicago as a trade candidate for the Buffalo Bills that they should pursue. Listen, Hicks is getting a little bit older in age and he's regressing just a bit in Chicago. And he's a couple of years into his contract so if the Chicago Bears want to move on with him, the Buffalo Bills should bite on it and should trade for Akeem Hicks and could help out that defensive line because if you saw that game against Kansas City, that defensive line, that front seven did not look the greatest. So they could use some help on that line. The Miami Dolphins, the last team in the AFC East. A lot of needs on this team as well on defense. But let's talk about the offense. So let's talk about the offensive line. Let's talk about Justin Pugh, Pugh, Pugh, Pugh from Arizona, signing that big contract after becoming a free agent from the New York Giants. Little bit of a let down in Arizona, not living up to the numbers that he signed with, he signed for with the Arizona Cardinals. So if the Cardinals have buyers remorse, they could trade Justin Pugh and the Miami Dolphins should jump on that to solidify their offensive line. AFC South, the Jacksonville Jaguars, they need help on that defense. Listen, if you still think that Jaguars defense is as good as they were in 2017, they got rid of everyone. They got rid of Cleis Campbell. They got rid of Yannick Nagakwe, who just got traded. We'll be talking about that in just a bit. They got rid of Jalen Ramsey, A.J. Bouye. They need help everywhere. They drafted C.J. Henderson, but I think they still need some cornerback help on top of that. And Brian Pugh of the New York Giants is a good option for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Listen, he's not that bad. He really isn't. He hasn't been looking the best, but I think it's more so because of the Giants defense than it is Brian Pugh as a talent. And bringing Pugh in, like we mentioned, the Jets need to get players out to get more draft capital and rebuild. Getting someone like Brian Pugh into the Jacksonville Jaguars will be big for the Jaguars. So not that bad of a player could help that Jaguars secondary. The Indianapolis Colts, their defense is solid. They're often to solid as well. You could say that they need some help at the quarterback position. Maybe in the future. Yes, for now, Philip Rivers is okay. He's decent enough. They could always use some offensive line help, some more depth. And that's why I believe that Jake Matthews of the Atlanta Falcons would be a good trade target for the Indianapolis Colts. So Matthews is up and down for the Falcons and the Falcons have battled with this for so many years.  Should we resign him? I don't know. He's been good at times, but then he's been bad at sometimes and then eventually when it's time for a new contract extension, he plays good enough for the Falcons to be like, oh okay, yeah, let's resign him. And then he just does the same thing where he's just up and down. So if they wanna get rid of him completely, move on with him. The Colts could be contenders to land Jake Matthews. The Tennessee Titans staying in the AFC South. Michael Brockers in LA would be good edge rush help for that Tennessee Titans defense. That defense we expected to be much better. We expected them, but when they signed Jadavion Clowney, oh man, no brainer. This defense is gonna be top 10 without a doubt. They've been kind of a let down. And you could say that that could be because of the secondary. Malcolm Butler has not been looking as good as we expected them to. They've lost to Dory Jackson, but a Jackson is coming back. So maybe that secondary could be better. But Michael Brockers on the edge with someone like Jadavion Clowney, with someone like Hale Landry, with Jeffrey Simmons mixed in there as well, could be good news for that Titans defense. The Texans of the last team in the AFC South, the trade candidate for the Houston Texans. I know I'm kind of breaking the rules in my own game because I have to pick a team or a trade candidate for every single team. But I'm gonna go ahead and say whatever it's my game, I make up the rules, I can do whatever I want. The Texans, no trade candidates at all. What are you gonna give up? You have nothing to give up for a trade candidate. I mean, you could try to receive or yeah, for another player, but more than likely what teams want in exchange for players is draft capital. And you have absolutely nothing to offer in the first round and the second round and you could land some starters with a third round pick or it's gonna be hard though for the Texans to make a trade. So there's absolutely no one that they could trade for and they shouldn't trade for anyone and they shouldn't give up any draft picks because at this point, Bill O'Brien really screwed everything up. So they really need to hold on their draft picks and not trade for anyone.  Don't make a move for a player. The AFC North, the Pittsburgh Steelers, Marcus Cannon of the New England Patriots, opted out because of COVID-19. So this could be a good trade for them in the future moving forward in 2021 and moving forward, okay? So the Steelers, they have a lot of contracts on their offensive lines coming up after the 2020 season. I believe it was, oh my gosh, eight players on that offensive line that need contract extensions or you need to make a decision on them to move on from them. So getting someone like Marcus Cannon who has a more so two or three years left on his contract, getting him from the New England Patriots, a pretty good player in himself could do really well for the Pittsburgh Steelers, a move that they can make for the future after this season because he opted out for COVID-19. The Cleveland Browns, linebacker help, edge rushing help, okay? Joe Sherbert signed with another team. He's gone from the Cleveland Browns, Matthew Judon, a player from the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens are non-committal on Judon in his future. He's playing on the franchise tag, good player, but the Ravens could move on from Matthew Judon and could move on to the Cleveland Browns saying, hey, you know what, we're done, you can have them. Cleveland Browns could jump on that and sign Matthew Judon to a long-term extension if they were to trade for him. The Ravens, okay, so they just made a trade for Yannick Nagakwe, okay? So that pretty much sums up their one-trade target prior to the trade deadline. Yannick Nagakwe is gonna help out their defense and their edge rushing ability. But what I had prior to Yannick Nagakwe was trading for Corey Littleton from Las Vegas, okay? So he was great with the Rams. He's regressing with the Raiders just a bit. So if they have buyers remorse, the Raiders have, then they could have traded away Littleton to the Baltimore Ravens and he would be cheaper than Matthew Judon as well. So that's what I had prior to Yannick Nagakwe getting traded, but Nagakwe is that trade target for the Ravens. The Cincinnati Bengals, secondary help. And they're gonna say with the AFC North, sign or trade for Steven Nelson.  He's good when he takes the risks, risky player, takes risks, high-risk, high reward, but man, when he just, he gets burned often. That's just the reality. He got burned in Kansas City, he got burned a lot in Pittsburgh and if he were to go to the Bengals, he may get burned a lot, but if they need some secondary help, which they do, the Bengals could make a move for another AFC North cornerback and that is Steven Nelson, which the Pittsburgh Steelers will happily be able to give up and trade away to the Cincinnati Bengals. The Chargers wrapping it up in the AFC with AFC West. Jemon Brown in the Philadelphia Eagles, huge let down. I don't know if you watched some tape of Jemon Brown on that offensive line at the guard position. It's not the greatest this season in 2020. So if the Eagles just wanna move on from him, I don't blame him. And the Chargers, they could use some offensive line help. It's not that big of a need, but it could help getting someone like Jemon Brown. Who knows, maybe he'll have a resurgence and you could get him for something cheap if you're Los Angeles. The Las Vegas Raiders, safety help, Keanu Neal, often injured in Atlanta, so the Falcons could be at this point. I could not be trusting of signing him to a long-term extension and could be moving on from Keanu Neal. Great player as a Falcons fan personally. I would love to keep Keanu Neal, but I understand that the Falcons wanna move on just because of the injury issues that he's been having. It hasn't played a lot for the Falcons, so the Las Vegas Raiders could make that big splash move and getting Keanu Neal. Justin Simmons is a player on the Denver Broncos that could be traded to another AFC West team, the Kansas City Chiefs. Simmons could be a trade target because Simmons has not agreed to a long-term contract extension. They're at odds for that deal to be done by Denver and could be moving on from the Denver Broncos if they were to trade their way to the Kansas City Chiefs. They need safety help and can you imagine if he would align up with Taran Matthew as the other safety and could work in some reps with Juan Thornhill. So that would improve their secondary very, very much. The Denver Broncos just got rid of Justin Simmons, let's say it to the Kansas City Chiefs. They need safety help or they keep Simmons and they were not committal about his future so they could move on. You still need a safety. Jabril Peppers, who was traded earlier a couple years back with that Odo Beckham trade when they traded him to the Cleveland Browns. But Jabril Peppers is now on the Giants and he would be a cheaper option than Justin Simmons. So a good replacement, a good player and you get to save some money at that, so why not? Now to move on to NFC trade candidates. If every single team, if you guys are just joining us, we stated that every single team has to make one trade prior to the trade deadline. So if that were a rule, which player would they target as a trade candidate? So starting with the NFC North, the Green Bay Packers, trade candidate, they need a wide receiver so bad. There's John Ross out there, but why not get the other Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver and AJ Green, much more trustworthy than John Ross. We talked about this with Antonio Brown. If Antonio Brown signs with the Packers, you'd have him and Devonte Adams on opposite sides. Green and Adams on opposite sides is, well, come on. Come on, that's a dream come true. A team that is capable of making the Super Bowl, trading for AJ Green would be fantastic. The Chicago Bears, okay, so they need a quarterback. They really do. They're five and one and they're gonna continue to win games and continue to make a push at making the NFC playoffs, meaning that in the NFL draft, they're not gonna have a high draft pick. You're not gonna get a good quarterback. You're not gonna get Trevor Lawrence. You're not gonna get Trey Lance. Instead, you've got to trade for a quarterback and Sam Dornold of the New York Jets could be an option to come to Chicago. Why not? The Jets could trade him away since they're already certain that they're gonna get the number one pick and if they want to take the risk that Trevor Lawrence is gonna make the decision to enter the NFL, they could land Trevor Lawrence. So with that number one pick, the Jets get Trevor Lawrence, move on with Sam Dornold and the Bears get the quarterback of the future. The Detroit Lions, Pernell McPhee of Baltimore. Listen, there's some contract talks or contract odds with the Ravens. They have to make a decision on McPhee and Judon and a lot of defensive players at that point for the Baltimore Ravens. Let's move on with some of them. Let the Detroit Lions handle that. You pair them up with someone like Trey Flowers could be a good pass rush help. They need linebacking help as well. So Pernell McPhee, if you wanna run a three, four, four, three, whatever it may be, he could be good in either scenario. The Minnesota Vikings just traded away Yannick Nagakwe. If you wanna make another move for a defensive lineman, Jonathan Allen of the Washington football team could be an option. They have great defensive line help. They've got Chase Young there. They've got Matt Iannis. They've got a lot of players that they are eligible to trade away on that defensive line and Jonathan Allen is one of them. You've already got Deron Payne and Iannis there in the defensive tackle position. Allen, let's move on. Contract extension is coming up. We don't wanna pay him a lot of money. Let's move on with him and get him to the Minnesota Vikings. This New Orleans Saints, Solomon Thomas just tore his ACL. This is another move like we talked about with the Pittsburgh Steelers trading for Marcus Cannon. This is a move that's made for the future. Okay, this isn't really a right now kind of move. He can't make an impact now. Obviously he's out for the season. But if you trade for Solomon Thomas, his asking price right now is lower than ever, they're able to sacrifice giving up some defensive line players. The San Francisco 49ers are. Trade for Solomon Thomas. You could have some help on that defensive line and the defensive tackle or the defensive end position as well. So he would be some good help and good depth for the New Orleans Saints. Staying with the NFC South, the Atlanta Falcons. Shaquille Barrett of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers another NFC South edge rusher had that breakout season when he had 19 sacks last year in 2019 is playing on the franchise tag because they're not sure yet if they want to sign them to a long-term deal. That's okay. Trade him to the Atlanta Falcons, okay? They've already signed Dante Fowler. They've signed or they've got rid of Vic Beasley. They have Tak McKinley who could be a trade candidate because he's been kind of up and down as well for the Atlanta Falcons. Shaq Barrett could be an edge rusher that you could use for the future and could be a cornerstone in Atlanta. So that would be a good move for the Falcons. The Carolina Panthers, a lot of help is needed on that defensive front. You could trade for a defensive player but instead why not make your offense much better in a position that you need? David Najoku tied in of the Cleveland Browns has stated, listen, I demand a trade. I want out. You have Austin Hooper, Brown's eligible to trade David Najoku. Let's give them up. Why not? We have Hooper and the tight end position is thin. Ian Thomas is not gonna get it done. In Carolina, you land a tight end that has great athletic ability, could help out with that offense in David Najoku. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Okay, so I had them originally trading for Jonathan Allen but I gave that to the Minnesota Vikings because they already traded for another defensive tackle and that is Steve McClendon of the New York Jets. Listen, that's gonna help out a lot on that defensive front. Okay, Vito Veja has been in and out. They got rid of Jared McCoy a couple of years ago. They need some more defensive line help. That run defense is good with Nadalma Kong-Sue mixed in there as well but you could always use depth on that defensive line and Steve McClendon trading for him from the New York Jets is a good move by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now on to the NFC West. The Seattle Seahawks, ooh, secondary help. Okay, signed Antonio Brown, get your wide receiver help but you also need secondary help as well. Why not get a veteran cornerback that a team is willing to give up and that is Joe Hayden. Listen, this move is not smart for the future because Joe Hayden is getting up there in age and he may not be that much of a productive player as he was in the past anymore but you're not really thinking about the future. You're trying to make a Super Bowl run right now. Sign Antonio Brown for Super Bowl run in 2020. Trade for Joe Hayden for a Super Bowl run in 2020. Help out that secondary so your team could be much better when you get to February. The San Francisco 49ers, Malcolm Butler and another cornerback that could be traded from the Tennessee Titans, ship them out. He's been up and down as well for the Tennessee Titans underwearing or he's been underwhelming compared to the contract that he signed and he signed a five-year $61 million contract. They wanna get rid of that. They don't want anything to do with that. Hey, San Francisco 49ers might be able to pick up some of that contract. Might be able to deal with that. So if you wanna move on from Butler, Sherman's been hurt. You need some secondary help. That defense needs help. Why not bring in Malcolm Butler? The Los Angeles Rams. Linebacking help is a big need. Alex Anzalone in New Orleans. Okay, they need a linebacker since they got rid of Corey Littleton who was a very underrated player for the Los Angeles Rams. He's with the Raiders now. Anzalone from the New Orleans Saints could be a good player for the Rams. The Saints are willing to give up linebacking help if it comes down to it. Okay, they drafted Zac Bonn. Okay, they're waiting for Kiko Alonzo to come back from an injury. They already have DeMario Davis. They have a lot of linebackers that they can play with so why not trade Anzalone? His contract ends after this year and you can move on with him to the Los Angeles Rams. The Arizona Cardinals. Could use some help in a lot of different positions but let's talk about the tight end position. Dan Arnold is a good player. I like him a lot but he's not gonna be a difference maker. Add some depth to that position. Someone small, Cameron Brait at the tight end position. Listen, O.J. Howard is also another trade candidate at that point but if the Buccaneers want to stick with O.J. Howard because he's much more talented than Cameron Brait as well as Brait being eligible to play this year because of Howard was out with an injury trade away Cameron Brait for something small and that would help out the Arizona Cardinals offense a lot. The Philadelphia Eagles. We talked about this with Zach Erz and the New England Patriots making that trade for Joe Thunny. The New England Patriots offensive linemen would help out the Eagles so much. Trade away Erz, you don't need him. You've got Goddard, he's hurt. Get rid of that contract. Get Joe Thunny a much more promising and cornerstone player for that offensive line much more of a need for the Philadelphia Eagles. The Dallas Cowboys taking with the NFC East. Anthony Harris from the Minnesota Vikings. Great season in 2019. Signed a franchise tag, could not get a deal done with the Minnesota Vikings so the Vikings could be eligible to move on with him and you need some secondary help with that horrendous that historically bad Dallas Cowboys defense of sign or trade for Anthony Harris. The New York Giants. A lot of players that they need. Wide receiver is a big need as well but let's stick with that offensive line because if you saw when Saquon Barclay was there he was not getting it done with that offensive line. Still bad, you need help. Alex Mack, the center from the Atlanta Falcons. Nick Gates is a center right now and I like him a lot. Good player, I'm not saying to move on from Nick Gates with the New York Giants but he's a player that could play guard, could play tackle. You could shift him around different places on that line. Alex Mack could be your center and with this contract coming up with the Atlanta Falcons, they could resign him. It would not be out of the realm out of the possibility of the New York Giants signing him to a long-term contract extension. So the Giants bolster your offensive line with Alex Mack and the Washington football team. They need a lot of help as well. Let's talk about wide receiver help with John Ross. Okay, Stephen Sims is not gonna get it done as a number two wide receiver for the Washington football team. You have Terry McLaurin on one side, John Ross as a deep threat, that's a match made in heaven. You helped out your offense so much that needs a lot of help. Listen, the quarterback position, whether it be Dwayne Haskins, whether it be Kyle Allen, whether it be Alex Smith of the future, whether you draft someone in the NFL draft, that's to be decided later on. You don't know anything about that yet, so don't make a move in the next week for a quarterback. Instead, make a move for a receiver that was a former top 10 pick that has a lot of potential and a lot of upside and that is John Ross. So those are our trade candidates for the 2020 NFL season prior to the trade deadline. So do you agree with any of this or do you disagree? Who would be your trade candidates that you see being traded in the next week or so? So comment down below, chat with us and let us know who those players are. Now to get to the last segment of this show, that is fan questions, fantasy football questions that you guys have been leaving on the Starts and Sits videos every single week. We pick a few of these every week and we're gonna answer them. Starting off with our first one, this is from Sean Peterson with two Ts. Where are the Chinese babes? Okay, so I've been saying for the last couple of weeks that there have been so many Asian bots commenting on their Starts and Sits videos that have been taken over. And that is just ruining people's experience of leaving comments and leaving questions in those fantasy football Starts and Sits videos.  The last of a dying breed on those videos. So Sean, great news. Those Chinese babes are coming to an end. All right, so legitimate questions now. YouTuber Jay Marquardt says, or asks, should I trade Todd Gurley and Hunter Henry for Travis Kelsey? I already have Cook and Connor and will follow for a flex if I trade Gurley. Okay, so look at Gurley's potential for the rest of the season. I believe it's gonna be a middle of the pack running back to for the rest of the season, which isn't bad. A good player that you could start, I would say almost weekly if you wanted to and especially if the matchup is good. But with you having good running back depth, I wanna ask you who else are you running backs, okay? Because you have Cook, you have Connor, are you able to have a good replacement at running back for James Connor's bye week or even this week if you have Dalvin Cook on a bye? Do you have good replacements? If you do, then yes, trade Todd Gurley away because you gotta think about it. You're really just trading Hunter Henry for Travis Kelsey. You can afford to trade away Todd Gurley and so here's the thing with trades, okay? A lot of people don't wanna make those trades if it's gonna trade away a good player, but you have to think about it. You have to take one step back to take two steps forward and for you to trade away Todd Gurley would be one step back, but two steps forward would be getting a number one tied in the rest of the season that you can rely on that's gonna be an improvement from Hunter Henry and that is Travis Kelsey. So to answer your questions, if I had a good running back, that's good depth for bye weeks, for Connor, for Cook, maybe someone like Antonio Gibson, maybe someone like just like a little bit lower that you drafted a little bit lower or later in the draft, then yeah, I would go for it. John, your swift is coming up so you could be a good replacement here and there, but if you don't have that much running back depth, I really wouldn't make that trade, but think about it one step back, two steps forward, whatever that means for you. Next one from Pack Attack. So I have Bell, McKinnon, Davis and Swift. Who to start even though Davis had 11 points? Start Mike Davis. Mike Davis, even though this last week was kind of his quote unquote down week, even though he had 11 points, which is not that bad, he's still that number one running back for Carolina and will be at least for one more week. So get the most out of Mike Davis while you can. He's been looking better than ever. So Mike Davis, I love him as a start over any of those players. Next one, Goo Punch Live. Man, I'm in a wide receiver bind. I have to bench one player. I have Alan Robinson, Fuller, Lockett and AJ Brown. Depending on the matchups or looking at the matchups for all of those, I would bench, this might be a week you may wanna bench Alan Robinson. He's going against the Rams and he could be lined up one-on-one with Jaylen Rams. You follow the whole entire night. I don't like the odds. I really don't. Maybe he'll get three receptions, four receptions, five receptions, put up a decent amount of PPR points, maybe like eight or nine, but you gotta look at the upside and the potential of the other players. Okay, so AJ Brown, at this point after this week, I'm gonna take AJ Brown off those must-starts videos because it's gonna be a given that AJ Brown is gonna be a must-start every single week. So keep that in mind. Brown, you have to start every single week. He's your wide receiver one. Lockett and Fuller. Okay, Fuller is getting to that point where he may be a must-start every single week. Dependable of the number one target for DeSean Watson. It has a great matchup at that point and what could be a high-scoring game with the Green Bay Packers. Tyler Lockett has a good matchup as well with Arizona and what could be a high-scoring game. So the potential is there for Brown, Lockett and Fuller and Robinson is just left high and dry, lined up with Jaylen Ramsey. You may wanna sit Allen Robinson this week. This one, next one is from Matthew J.M.Z. I have Johnnie Smith, Austin Hooper and Hayden Hurst. I don't need three and only need two. Who should I drop? It would be tough to drop any of those but if I had to make a decision on any of them, I would drop Hayden Hurst. Johnnie Smith is the fifth best tight end. I think he's a top five tight end in fantasy football so far this season and that's including the bi-week that he had. So Smith is your tight end one. Austin Hooper is going to develop into a tight end one just because of the volume that he's getting. I mentioned this last week but Hooper is a start because I may have mentioned it on the show or maybe in the chat last week but Hooper and the Browns, the number one or the number two team in the NFL with the most target share to tight ends the Cleveland Browns. So I would stick with Austin Hooper as a good backup to Johnnie Smith. Hayden Hurst, it's going to be up and down. He's going to leave you high and dry some weights. You don't know which weeks he's going to go off, which he's going to have a good week or a bad week. So Hurst out of those three, I would drop him. Let's do a couple more. This next one is from Richard Waites. Waites, waites, waites, let's go with waites. I have Michael Thomas, Boyd, Cooks and Higgins. Who do I start and who's my best flex option? I'll have to sit one, just don't know which one to sit. Well, I mean, I think we got your answer right now. It's going to be Michael Thomas because he just got a hamstring injury. So instead, I will, since that's pretty much a given and that's an easy answer or a question to answer, I'm instead going to give you another take on Michael Thomas. The question should be, should you trade Michael Thomas right now because of the lack of playing time that he's having? A lot of you guys drafted him as a high top five pick in the fantasy football draft and you're frustrated with him. I understand. Listen, if I were you, I wouldn't make a move on Michael Thomas right now because there's going to be some Michael Thomas owners out there that are frustrated, that are ready to move on, that need those bench spots because some wide receiver or another wide receiver is going to go off or maybe Des Bryant is in talks of signing with the Baltimore Ravens and he's like, oh man, I want to sign Des Bryant. I want other players off the waiver wire, but I have no room. I need to get rid of someone. I'm frustrated with Michael Thomas. That's where you can keep, you can creep in, creep in and inquire about Michael Thomas. Trade for him because the rest of the season, the second half of the season, Michael Thomas is going to do well. He's going to be back to his Michael Thomas up to speed player that he was. People give him the nickname slant boy. Who cares? Who cares? He gets a lot of reception. So he's great at PPR league. So I would trade for Michael Thomas. He's by low right now. Last one from Nick Mundo. Choose the best flex option for my PPR league. Joshua Kelly, Justin Jackson, Boston Scott or Brandon Cooks. PPR. Let's do a process of elimination. I'll start with that. Josh Kelly, no, no go. He was my drop of the week for running backs because he's good to have if you're Justin Jackson. So Nick, you're doing a good job because if Justin Jackson, if you're a Justin Jackson owner and he were to get hurt, you have Josh Kelly there. So you're doing the smart thing by rostering both of them but do not start Josh Kelly. I believe it was Justin Jackson who was the better back against the New Orleans Saints before the bye week. He just looked better. He was involved in the passing game. Josh Kelly has not been looking good if you look from the eye test. He was involved in 35% of give or take, 35% of offensive snaps while Justin Jackson was involved in over 60% of offensive snaps for the chargers. So Justin Jackson is a much better option than Josh Kelly. So Kelly eliminated. Boston Scott is gonna be running in a, or he's gonna be operating in a running back by committee approach. This was confirmed by Doug Peterson. This was confirmed in week one when Miles Sanders was injured. Boston Scott did not do much. So Boston Scott is gonna be in that committee. Yes, good matchup against the Giants, I understand but I would not put my stock in Boston Scott especially if you have Justin Jackson and Brandon Cooks. Cooks is a start just because the matchup as far as Green Bay wide receiver or Green Bay quarterbacks against wide receivers is not the best but it's gonna be a high scoring game. So Cooks is gonna be a good start but I would have more faith in Justin Jackson. If I had to choose any of those players as the best flex option, it would be Justin Jackson out of any of them. Like I mentioned in over 60% of chargers offensive snaps, Josh Kelly has not been looking good and every running back that is faced to Jackson on Jaguars, most of them at least have ran well against the Jaguar. So Justin Jackson is a start this week. Wow, that'll do it. That'll do it for this episode of Time 2 Football. So again, ladies and gentlemen, we come out with this Thursdays at 7 p.m. We want your opinions. Do you guys prefer this as a good pre-game show prior to that Giants equals or any Thursday night game every single week? Cause like I mentioned, we take you away from Colleen Wolfe and Joe Thomas and Steve Smith and Michael Irvin in that awkward tape delay and interrupting each other and you're gonna have to listen to Joe Buck now. There's nothing I can do about that. Sorry about that.  Comment down below and let us know. Also, be sure to hit us up on the iTunes or the podcast app on iTunes cause we come out with this podcast every Thursday at 7 on iTunes as well. 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whether times are tough or times are good, I think every business needs a consistent and stable rhythm of offers. And I wonder what yours is. Now you don't know what I'm talking about, let me explain. An offer is basically an announcement or invitation to your audience to work with you, to buy your product, to hire you for your services, to join your program or event, it's a call to action that is related to an exchange of money with what you offer in your business. So you have got to have a stable rhythm where you are making these calls to actions and invitations, even when times are really challenging and unstable, which is right now during the recording of this, we are going through the coronavirus pandemic and a lot of businesses are, unfortunately, the retail businesses, many of them are shutting down. So, but many of you who are watching this don't run a retail business, you run a business that where you can offer something online, which I have been doing for more than a decade and my business has not had any change, barely any change since the pandemic began. It's the same because I offer everything online. So I really, really recommend that to starting today, if you don't already have a stable rhythm of offers that you start one today. Okay, so let me explain what my rhythm is and then you could see how you want to create yours.  So I hope you enjoy this. This is not actually my living room, but I welcome you into this virtual living room with snow outside, wherever you think about your favorite place that snows, that's where we are. And we've got the warm fire here, so you're welcome to join me and let's sit around and talk about your rhythm of offers. So, if you've been following my content at all, you know I talk a lot about having a consistent rhythm of content, right? Creating and distributing content. And I obviously will keep talking about that. I do it myself. This video is an example of my consistent rhythm of content. I say that it's kind of like the heartbeat of one's business.  I want to say that if content is like the heartbeat of your business, then having consistent rhythm of offers is like having a consistent breathing pattern. Breathing in, breathing out, or maybe better yet to say, a consistent rhythm of eating and sleeping. So, it's that important. If you are, so many of you I've seen, there's people that I work with, people in my audience, I noticed that you basically just talk about your services when you are inspired to, or when you really need clients, then you go, hey, everyone, I need clients right now. And so, if that's the case where you only talk about what your product and services are when you need money, then you're gonna always go through this up and down what people call the feast and famine cycle in business. It's like, when you have clients, things are good, you're making enough money. When you don't have clients, you're like struggling, maybe you have to get credit, or it's, you've got to be consistent with your disciplines of authentic business. I call them disciplines of authentic business. There are seven of them. And that's another blog post. You can Google seven disciplines of authentic business to read all about it. But here in this one, I just wanna talk about your discipline of having an ongoing regular series of offers. Okay, so I promised you, I would tell you mine. Mine is very simple. Every single month, I have a launch of some kind. And it's a light, I call it a light launch. It's like a light launch, except it's a light launch every single month. And you can see what my launches are. If you go, you can literally see how I launch, okay? Here's how I launch. You can go see it for yourself. Go to my Facebook business page, Facebook.com slash George Cal community. I have two Facebook pages, okay? I have three Facebook pages. Make sure you go to the correct one. Facebook.com slash George Cal community, okay? My Facebook business page, if you look at what I post on Wednesdays, every single Wednesday, I post something related to the current launch that I'm doing. So you can see how I do it. And you can copy whatever I do. You can copy or borrow it for your own use, customize it for yourself. I always say that all my content is open source, all my offerings, all my invitations, everything I do is open source. You're always welcome to borrow it, learn from it, use it for yourself, emulate it in however you want. Okay, so that's what I do every Wednesday. I have some kind of post. Maybe it's a Facebook event. Maybe it's a text-only post. Maybe it's a video or whatever it is about the current launch. Actually, sometimes I do a video about the current launch on Tuesdays as well as Wednesdays. So that's once a month, I do a video on Tuesday about the current launch. But usually I only do something every Wednesday on my Facebook page about my current launch. So go and check it out. It's basically one call to action each week, okay, to my Facebook community. And then I also email my launch list. I have a special email list for people who want to hear about my launches. And by the way, I do notice that the virtual background is kind of flickering every now and then. So I'm gonna change it to this one. I don't think flickers. Let's see if it's better. So join me now on a beach. It's kind of a windy day, unfortunately. So you might not want to go surfing unless you're really good at it. Hopefully you can relax with me here for another few minutes. Okay, so I do a monthly light launch. And when I say light, I really do mean it. It's very simple. I don't stress out over it. I basically make a Wednesday post and then I email my email list and then I might ask my clients to help me share it. That's it. That's all I do for the launch. So it's very, very doable. And I recommend you do the same. Every now, in terms of a ratio between how much you invite people to buy your stuff versus how much you're just giving, blessing them with content, free content. I always talk about a ratio of one out of every five to 10. So for every five to 10, free content pieces that you put out there make one invitation or announcement asking them to buy something. Like, again, make one invitation to call to action posts. Hey, buy this for every five to 10 content posts. Now, why five to 10? Well, if your audience is colder, maybe you should do more like one out of 10. If your audience is warmer, you could do one out of every five. I do about one out of every seven because I, like I said, I make a Wednesday post, right? Asking you to buy something. And it could be either the current, I'm creating a new course or I'm selling an old course. So I make a post every day on my Facebook business page. I sometimes schedule it so it goes out, but there's some content that goes out every day. So therefore my rhythm is about one out of every seven. So what about you? What is your rhythm of calls to action, rhythm of offers? Like I said, I have a monthly launch of some kind of course, new or old. I recommend that you do the same. Will you please consider this? Please consider launching a new course or an old course every month. It doesn't have to be complicated. Like I said, just making a social media post once a week and then emailing your list once or maybe twice a month about the current launch. That's what I do. If you join my launch list, I call it, basically the email list where I sell you things. Do you wanna see how I sell? Join my email list where I sell you things. It's georgecow.com slash invitations. georgecow.com slash invitations, but an S at the end, is my launch list. It's, you'll join, once you join. In fact, even before you join, you can see literally all my emails going back months and months of how I do it. So watch how I do it. Go to georgecow.com slash invitations. There's a link there to read all my past emails where I sell stuff. So you can borrow as much of that as you want. So I email the list two to three times a month, that list. Of course, my content list, I email every week with my free content and at the bottom I have some invitation. So please consider having a monthly launch. Keep it simple. The reason why I recommend a monthly launch is because then, get this, you get 12 opportunities to test per year. Let me say that again. Every year, you only have a limited number of opportunities to test what your audience will buy from you. And many of you are wasting your opportunities because you only ask for clients whenever you are desperate for them or when you need them. And so I don't know how often that is. Maybe that's only four times a year or six times a year. I do it 12 times a year. And because I do it so consistently, all of you, my audience, you're used to it.  So you're still here. One of my posts, I talked about how we should not be afraid of losing people because the people who are ideal clients or ideal audience will always stick with us through thick and thin. So you have to get to some kind of consistent rhythm of inviting them into your business. Now, they don't always have to buy from you. You don't make them feel bad, but you at least need to invite so that they need to be reminded. You need to be reminded every month of what I sell. Otherwise, you think I just make videos for fun, right? But that's true of your audience too.    That's what our audience assumes until we step out and say, hey, by the way, this is a business and I would love for you to buy my product. I think that you'll enjoy it. I think you'll really benefit from it and you're supporting my business also, right? Or please hire me for this service because I think those who really help, those of you who are struggling with this or who are wanting to achieve this or who are wanting to heal from this, please hire me for this because that's what I offer. I love doing this and you'll be supporting my business and you'll be getting the healing or getting the transformation or getting the problem solved. That's what I do. You see, so making an offer is not bad. It's basically being in a closer relationship with your audience. That's all it is. So if you have an offer that is something they want, right? At a price that they can afford, that they can see is a really good price for what you offer, then they'll buy. And so that's why you need to keep testing, testing, testing. Hey, this month it's this. Will you buy it? Is this something interesting for you? Oh, it's not, it's okay. I'll have another offer next month and maybe that'll be more interesting for you. You see, so give yourself more opportunities to test with your audience, experiment, so that you'll know what the world, what your audience wants to pay you for. So what we're always trying to get to, I call it the calling of our business. Would you like to find the calling of you? What is your calling? The calling of your business is that intersection. Imagine two circles, right? Your passion, your skills and what the world wants to pay you for. What is your passion and skills and what the world wants to pay you for? There is an intersection there and you're trying to figure out what that intersection is and that's what frequent offers, tests allows you to figure out that intersection so that you can find that sacred intersection between your passion and skills and what the world will gladly pay you for because they want it from you, they need it from you. So I hope that this is encouraging. Please, starting today, start a rhythm of offers. Okay, I have a blog post associated with this video if you wanna read more and kind of look at it step by step, but start a rhythm of offers so that you can give yourself those opportunities to find the calling, the purpose of your business. All right, I hope this is helpful. I'm George Cal, authentic business coach. I always enjoy hearing from you and if you enjoyed this video, I think you'll like my other videos about authentic marketing, building a stable and growing business that supports your life's calling. So that's what I love talking about. I wish you well and I look forward to seeing you in the next video. Thank you for those of you who are joining me for this Facebook Live and in fact, I'm going to take a moment now just taking a minute to see if anybody has made any live comments and those of you watching this, please go ahead and comment below. I'd love to see if this made a difference for you, if this made sense for you, if it helped you at all and let me go ahead and go and see if there's any, while you're waiting for me, go ahead and comment below if you'd like. Let's see if this is working, okay. Well, thank you so much for joining me. Jennifer and Breon, Tanya, April, Jeff, thank you so much. So I will see you all in the next video. Until then, go and create your stable rhythm of offers, particularly in unstable times. Unstable times need stable people. So be one of those stable people for your audience. All right, be well. Take care.