What's up everyone? Welcome into the front yard fantasy hour presented by fan duel. I'm your host Simon joined as always by my co-host Jay and John Luke Garofalo. What's up boys? What's up? What's happening? I'm just glad I have another connoisseur of the elite Italian sandwich on the show with me today. Ben Danucci and we have got known sandwich aficionado and writer for DLF and trophy smack Mike Fiella joining us today aka daddy's home FF on Twitter. Mike thanks so much for taking the time to come hang out with us today my man. Well love hanging out with you too and Jail's here too which is. I'm glad you're here. Papa. I can't wait to play with you. I was wondering how many minutes into the stream it would be before we got a jab at Jail from Mike. A minute 40. Honestly I'm a little disappointed. I thought we'd get it in the first 20 seconds Mike. If your intro was shorter you would have. Losing your touch Papa. Guys today we brought Mike here to play some fantasy football jeopardy. Before we get into that though we got some people in the chat here saying hello. Born to laugh what's up and they're kicking us off with a question to start this off with one of the hottest players right now Mr Mike White wants to know if they should start Mike White this weekend or Kenny Pickett Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mike. If you want to pick between these two guys to start this week and did you start Mike White or would you start Kenny Pickett. Oh man that's that's kind of gross to be honest so first of all I'm sorry that this is your current situation. But I think the answer is Kenny Pickett I mean they both actually have really good matchups with the Falcons and the Vikings. So you know neither neither defense really scares me but I'm going to go pick it on this one just because with Najee out you got Jalen Warren and you have a little more explosion out of the backfield. I think Pittsburgh puts up a few more points so give me pick it over white but man I wish you had something better I'm sorry. This one's gross but I think I'm going to roll Mike White just just the upside I don't see any upside with Kenny Pickett he hasn't. Yeah I think he's allergic to throwing touchdowns at this point like it seems abnormal the lack of touchdowns that he's thrown over his last. Hold on he threw one last week. The Steelers organization might be allergic to passing touchdowns at this point so I'm going to roll Mike White out there. Like you said decent matchup Joe you're going Mike White. Yeah I think it's razor thin though. Yes it is a toss up the tiebreaker for me is that matchup with Minnesota. We got Michael in here saying we've got to go white over time he likes Mike White the magic that he's bringing to the field. We got DJ in here. What's up DJ. Welcome DJ. Glad to have you here. And Grimm fans said let's go bills get that Survivor League. Grimm is still in it. Grimm is still alive going into week 13. Grimm I'm like flabbergasted. I have never made it past week five and week one is my most common elimination point. I'm blown away my man and that you've got the bills still available in week 13. You've been playing pretty tight my friend. Albert in here. Hello everyone. What's up Albert. Hello Albert. And we got a question from Moe in here. Moe said how much have you all won. Jail how much have you won. A lot. The most. So much. That's so much. What about you Mike how much have you won. So believe it or not I'm fan duo. I probably shouldn't say this on their channel. I've been playing that free roll for two and a half years and I'm up. Pretty soon you might turn that into ten bucks. Two and a half years plus eight bucks. I have never made a deposit. Beautiful. We also got Stiggy man in here. What's up. Welcome in. Glad to have you in the chat guys today. Like I mentioned before we are going to play some fantasy football jeopardy before we get into that though a couple of reminders. First and foremost if you are not following our sandwich expert fantasy genius guest Mike go and follow him on Twitter right now at daddy's home F F. He can turn zero dollars into eight dollars over two and a half years you don't want to miss out on the type of advice this dude's given after you do that. Head on back over here make sure you like this video if you're enjoying what we do if you like playing some jeopardy ahead of Thursday night football and then head on over to our channel for yard fantasy on YouTube hit that subscribe button because good news if you're enjoying this we got so much more of the same over on our channel as much as a bunch of other games to I'm just saying if they like jeopardy there's a whole playlist you can just click on jeopardy you got like 20 different versions of it. And that's an understatement it's definitely more than definitely more than 20. You guys ready to get into our game of jeopardy today. Yeah. I'm going to go ahead and pull this up and I'm going to explain how today's game is going to work. If you've ever seen the popular TV show jeopardy then you already have a general idea of what we're doing here. This is almost just like that game except most of these questions are going to be about the NFL or fantasy. So on your turn you will pick which question from the board you want to answer category and value amount. Get it right. You're going to add that money to your score. No punishment for getting it wrong throughout the game. We are not buzzing in we're going in turn order. There's one other twist that's different than the TV show. If you get your question right so Mike you're going first let's say you get your question right. You get to pick the category for the person that goes after you so you get to send JL to whatever category you want if you get your question right. We'll go like this until we run out of questions or run out of time at which point we will move into final jeopardy the one and only question in the game where you can lose money. I'm going to give you a category and everybody is going to write down their wager. Get the question right. You're going to add that money to your score. Get the question wrong. That money will be subtracted. The contestant with the most money at the end of final jeopardy will be our champion for today and your calls cash will be faxed to you with in 45 business days. 45 business days. It's standard. It's standard across the industry guys 45 business professional cash like that. It's just the standard. It's what we got to go with. You guys ready. Yep. Let's do it. Let's do it. Also FBI in here asking his doc going to stream on here. I hope so. That'd be freaking cool if Dr. Disrespect showed up. That'd be wild. No, I don't think he's planning on joining us next week next week is when we got him pending his acceptance of the invitation. I'm just a little concerned that the guys in the chat that's just a little buggy work. It's not a huge fan, guys. Mike, you are going to go first. I'm going to explain these categories to start thinking about which one you would want to take. The first category is do you remember? Do you remember what happened earlier this year in the NFL? So if you think you remember what happened earlier this year, then this category is for you. World Cup facts. The World Cup is going on right now. This is all facts about the World Cup. We've got a grab bag, which can be literally anything. Anything can be in there. Even a boat. Which this is all about identifying sandwiches. I'm going to show you a picture. You tell me what the sandwich is. And then fan dual fun. This is all going to be Thursday night football related from the fan dual sports book. Mike, you've got the first selection. Which category and value amount would you like to go with? I'm going to leave my favorite category out there just for a minute. I'm going to start with do you remember for 300? Do you remember for 300? And a reminder to everybody in the chat. Play along with us if you want to play along. We'll shout you out for getting the answers right. We'll mock you if you're very wrong, but it's all part of the fun. Here is your first. It's the same from you. Oh, 100%.  Here is your first question, Mike. Do you remember which wide receiver started out the 2022 season with a number one overall PPR wide receiver performance in week one with 39.4 PPR points in a final stat line of nine receptions for 184 yards and two touchdowns. Was it Jamar Chase, Devin DuVernay, Justin Jefferson or Gabe Davis? I'm looking for the wide receiver that was first on the week in week one of the NFL season. I have drank a lot since then. Mike, I'll be honest. I'm glad you got this question. So I am going to say that it is Jamar Chase. Who is Jamar Chase? Jamar Chase final answer. We have some guesses in the chat. Michael going with JJ, Anthony also taking Justin Jefferson. DJ going with Chase agreeing with you. Grim fan also agreeing with you that it's Chase and Albert going with Justin Jefferson as well. I think I would have guessed Davis because I just remember Gabe Davis absolutely right. I just immediately I was like, no, Gabe Davis is not going to happen. Then he happened. I want to win with Jefferson. Gabe Davis had a big game, but I don't think he had nine catches. Right. I think he had two touchdowns, but I don't think it was that many catches. I think you're right, Mike. Well, the correct answer is Justin Jefferson. Justin Jefferson started the season. I won 50-50 on that one. Against the Packers. He came out there and had himself a game in week one. Reminded us that he was the dude. Shout out everyone in the chat getting that one right there. Mr. Scampers came in at the buzzer as well with the Justin Jefferson and we got a Vikings fan, Anthony. He said definitely JJ then Skoll baby. He's like, I remember that one. Mike, unfortunately you got that one wrong, which means it is going to be Jail's turn and Jail. You've got free reign of the board, my friend. Let's see. Let's go with the little grab bag. I'll do grab bag 300. Grab bag 300. Get lucky. A, B or C? B baby. B? B. I'm sorry. It was A Jail. You did not get lucky. So you're not going for that one. I'm so sorry. Did someone say get lucky? The porn box is just note out. 69. X, X, X life right on.  We're welcoming all here. That is funny that right as soon as I said get lucky all the four showed up. J. You got free reign of the board. They'll did not get lucky.  Let's pop the top on which, which I will go with 300 as well, which, which for 300 J. What kind of sandwich is this? Why much? That's a Rubin final answer. Easiest question. Come on. That is a Rubin sandwich. Jay, you are going to add three your score And You get to pick Mike's next category one round through you get to pick Mike's next category I like Mike. So the chat news one's so easy Oh, yeah, they had a Michael Rubin DJ with Rubin ledarius with Rubin mrs. Kippers with Rubin And anthony said too easy guys for being honest. I'm not a sandwich guy So I was not sure the difficulty level of identifying a sandwich. So these may be gonna be like a pbj I kind of froze for a second, I couldn't think I was like all I can hear is sourcrout sourcrout sourcrout in my head So Mike is gonna also go to which which Mike what's it gonna be? 500 I at this point. I have no faith that these are in order. So 500 in which which what kind of sandwich is this? That is Oh delicious What is that? Oh, we've never seen that in my life I Wanted inside me. Oh that looks good though.  I don't know how to like how the difficulty is so they could This is like a random like place price diamonds house. I just invented a sandwich I Googled them. Yeah, the fan the fanciest sandwich. I can think of is uh, yeah the montecristo Final answer. That's what I got. Yeah Well, mike Who would be absolutely correct? This is the montecristo sandwich. It is a ham turkey and swiss cheese Deltecker's sandwich that then has the bread dipped in egg batter and cooked like french toast on the outside Often served with a jam or custard as well That was the giveaway. That's the only thing I know that has egg on it and uh, I tried one once in my life And it was gross so I never never went back Well, mike that is gonna add 500 year score in the chat some people in here got that one michael with the montecristo Mr. Scamper's also the montecristo The dairies knew it was a montecristo and uh, there is no chat knows their sandwiches The chat.  No, we also had some sort of turkey dip French toast pizza. I'm with anthony on that one. I mean technically it is kind of stuffed french toast So it's not completely wrong. You're not wrong grim fan. You're not wrong mike Took you a minute, but you did get that one right gonna give you $500 and the opportunity to pick jails category Where do you want to send jl? Where we going papa? Oh come on. You know where we're going world cup facts God 500 Doesn't matter because everyone is a 500 for me jail Mexico has the most all-time world cup losses of any nation with 27 Which nfl franchise has the most all-time losses with 785? Is it the arizona cardinals the detroit lions the cleveland browns or the washington commanders? And just a clarification note. I did say franchise So it is that franchise even if it moved locations Makes it harder All right easier if that's a clue i'm gonna go with i'm gonna go with washington commanders final answer Yeah It is the arizona cardinals with 785 all-time losses the detroit lions are second With 701 then the commanders in the browns a little bit further down that list Shout out michael and ladarius for getting Simon you know they're just a ploy for you to show that the browns aren't as bad as some other franchises Oh, absolutely not I want to highlight how bad exactly this is wild that they're even up there with how like short of a life that franchise has had Yeah, i thought they got they kept all their records and stuff like that when they did They do but i don't even think like they came from baltimore and i how long they're there Yeah, i thought it was the lions to be honest because they don't lions would be a good guess. Yeah, they've been there while Anthony said should be lions. He's with you It will be eventually anthony will be right at some point ideologically anti lions Anthony was just answering uh from 30 years in the future where it's the Um, unfortunately jl that's gonna get you zero points But maybe you guys know a little bit more about that world cup facts category now Jay, where would you like to go? Let's go grab bag for 400 Grab bag for 400 What's the capital of new jersey? Is it jersey city? Is it new work? Is it atlantic city or is it trenton? Newark who cares final answer? It is Trenton The capital of new jersey. Jay Princeton is i think maybe you got to go back to New Jersey Tim tim goes to new jersey mike. Yeah, the armpit of new york, so Hey, new jersey's a a fine place. Respect. Okay. Fantastic pizza. I will say I didn't know trenton new jersey existed until this moment He thought trenton then you did trenton new jersey was it just a guy in new jersey I named trenton on the corner What up? Yeah, that is the capital. It's just a guy who stands out in new jersey They elect a new trenton once every three years. That's the most popular in new jersey Ladarius in here only wanted to get it right nice job ladarius But uh anthony agreeing with uj. The new work. I knew that one would be a little tricky. That's where that big airport is Before we move on to our next question Vj had a question in here for us. You want to know romanthory stevensson davin cook or rashad white and full ppr I'm also flexi nomin chimera Should I keep him or change him to george bickens terry mclauren or tyler boy? So let's just start with that first part romanthory stevensson davin cook or shod white Mike, which of those three would you be starting this week romanthory stevensson? damien harris is out with the thigh injury And he's been doing it on the ground through the air Looking outside my window as i'm very close to jillett stadium. It is windy as hell here So I am thinking back to last year's Pat's bills game where it was almost all ground game if you remember uh mac jones through three times During that game. So I think it's going to be a big remandre day Here's the thing mike doesn't even matter if it if it wasn't a ground game Because remandre stevensson. I found out this morning. It has the second highest target share on the steam 18.6 percent if you just keep the last three games just take the last three uh games as you account 25.8 percent the highest on the team The man's the man's getting you Yeah, he's what we thought kamara was gonna be. Yeah, I'm with you. It's remandre stevensson I think you're gonna get a unanimous remandre here, but the next part is where it might change. I'm starting davin cook over Oh, it's a different question alvin kamara or george bigans terry mclauren or tyler boy I'm keeping alvin kamara in there jay. What would you be doing? Would you be flexing one of those other players? If it's if it is avan kamara between one of those three then yes I agree, but if you are able to put either davin cook or rishad white in for kamara I put both of those guys in it would be cook then white then kamara for me Yeah, I think cook cook is the is the next big name for me if you I'd flex him Yeah, cooks the the odd man out, but I want to get him in my lineups if I can Yep, uh, I would just go mclauren over kamara. I have no faith in kamara anymore like zero He's he's barely rostered both this one Damn harsh words for alvin kamara, but uh as someone who's been starting them a lot recently mike I've been like close to just rage dropping him like what the hell is even going on here Jay You got that one wrong, which means it isn't mike's To go and he's gonna free right on the board before we do that though craig in the chat. What's up craig welcome in He said i'm surprised that jail had the courage to show up with mike I don't get to see my dad very often. So when he chooses to spend time with me, I got to take advantage He's very absent You've been a disappointment jail the rest of the family gets to see me a lot. It's just you know Acknowledging my disappointments is hard for me sometimes. I know I disappoint myself. That's fair It's not because he hates you.  Where do you want to go here? Yeah, let's let's let's put this with another 500 I'm gonna go grab bag. Let's mix it up Grab bag for 500. Here's what I want to know What's the following gatorade flavors that I make up frost arctic freeze frost ic charge frost glacier freeze Frost arctic blitz or frost glacier cherry Uh, see the second or third i'm gonna go frost glacier glacier freeze you made up Final answer final answer. Okay. Well, the correct answer So this question is Frost arctic freeze is the one that's way too much Is not real. I don't believe you look it up the chat's all on the ic charge I think it's white if i'm not mistaken White or purple like that's pretty much the only color Yeah, I only know them by colors. So I have no idea what their actual names are It's red green blue. Don't get it started on don't get it started on this Mike There's six different types of blues and you know, I don't have I don't have time for this Jay. I'm usually wildly hungover and just If you give me if you give me eight blue gatorades and ask me to identify them, I would never get it done Like Just bring me a blue and a breakfast sandwich and we're getting out of bed Gary's am in here. What's up, Gary? When you put them all next to each other every single one of them does sound fake Honestly, Arctic freeze sounds the most real out of any of them. I'm gonna be honest with you guys. They're all fake That's every single one of them every single one of them is made up by some random scientists Mike unfortunately that one is incorrect between John Luke.  You got free reign of the board Where do you want to go? All right, let's go with uh, let's go with do you remember for 500 Do you remember for 500? The Cleveland Browns beat all of the following teams in 2022 except for which one? The Panthers the Buccaneers the Bengals the Falcons or the Steelers Which of these teams did the Browns not beat this year?  So I don't know if you're referring to us or the question but either way Right All right, I'm gonna go with Pretty sure they beat the Steelers.  It was They lost 23 to 20 and we've got our falcons fan ledarius in the chat going with falcons. He knew it Albert also got falcons correct dj got falcons and our boy carlos in the chat with the falconitos You got that one right? That's delicious. He said everyone has beaten stealers And craig said lol, they just beat them last week Dammit It happens fast man. The season comes at you fast On to buffalo. That's jail's mindset him and bill bellichick. Just let's go on to the rear view mirror on to buffalo Jail, unfortunately, you got that one wrong, which means jay. You got free reign of the board Where are you rolling here? Let's go world cup facts for 300 World cup facts for 300 The world cup has been played a total of 21 times 21 was the number one by which of these nfl hall of fame running backs Jerome bettis jim brown ledanian tomlinson or barry sanders Ledanian tomlinson final answer final answer That is correct. Ledanian tomlinson was number 21 j barry sanders I thought it might trick you there because it was another one in the 20s, but Ledanian tomlinson was the first non giants Jersey I bought because he won me a fantasy championship back in the day So I had I had one when they changed to the the jerseys with the white stripes on the side Hot Chat was on top of this one the difficulty of answers has been skewed in jay's favor like quite a bit Hey I didn't write the questions, but then I did write the questions It's because he told me what the categories were five seconds before he told you guys So that's the reason why I have the edge. That's fair Lidarius got that one right dj got that one right as well Mr. Scampers and anthony knowing it was tomlinson and then baseball master coming in here with barry and then I feel that baseball master. I feel that feel that pain Nice job getting that one j. Um You get to pick mike's next category. Where are you sending mike mike? Where would you like to go? I'm good with whatever buddy. I'm gonna get it wrong anyway. Let's send mike Wow World cup facts But give me 400 man. I don't it don't matter anymore 400 here we go belgium scored the most goals of any team at the 2018 world cup with 16 Which quarterback threw the most passing touchdowns in 2018 with 50? Was it andrew luck? patrick maholms russell wilson or matt ryan 2018 Was four years ago Correct That's all I got. Uh, give me andrew. Give me andrew luck. Tell me when I went on top with some big numbers can't help you here I got nothing luck. It's a final answer final answer Andrew luck was number two that year with 39 But that was patrick maholms coming out party with 50 passing touchdowns in his first year as the full starter The chat was on this one. Lidarius getting that one right baseball master as well Albert with maholms mr. Scampers with maholms and anthony getting that one too. Nice job my friend Mike I'd have been with you. I would have guessed luck as well I for whatever reason I was thinking that maholms wasn't the full year that year because I don't know years It could be four years ago. It could be 12 years ago. I don't know when the hell he started I was shocked when I looked this up and I saw andrew luxe named second I was like no no he was retired by like 2015 Like it just seems like the andrew luck era of the nfo was so long ago, but it was just a couple years ago Do you guys see the uh the interview that came out today where patrick maholms was on the travis kelsey and jason kelsey's podcast? He said that um when he was getting interviewed by kansas city Matt naggy was the offensive coordinator at the time and he wanted the chiefs to draft him So he gave patrick maholms all the plays that they were going to go over the night before He wasn't supposed to do that. So he came in and oppressed and he read because he knew all the plays He said he stayed up all night and checked all the plays and Said that you know he went to kansas city blew him out of the water Best player ever Matt naggy I feel like that's like the only thing good. He's ever done Well, and then he did it for a different team than he was made the head coach for like like he got the chiefs patrick maholms And then left and ruined the bears Um, that's pretty rough. He's your bilky milky true bilky J. L. It is your turn. You've got free reign of the board. Where are you rolling my friend? Before I choose friendly might throw your fantasy questions in the chat We will answer them between rounds as we're here for i'm gonna go with fandall fun 400 i'm gonna get some points Here we go to get on the board probably not J. L. Which of the following is most likely to happen according to the fandall sports book So this is the one with the best odds to happen a mac jones to have 300 plus passing yards and three plus passing touchdowns b Josh allen to have two plus passing touchdowns in each half C either josh allen or mac jones to have 500 plus passing yards Or d each team to score one plus touchdown and one plus field goal in each half D give me the d final answer Final answer The correct answer is b josh allen to have two plus passing touchdowns in each half at plus nine 50 The one you selected is actually d is the third one at plus 2200 The mac jones have 300 plus passing yards and three plus passing touchdowns is at plus 1400 right there I'm with you jl. That's the one. I would guess as well. Thank Lidarius was agreeing with you as well saying complete guess I think that's the first miss today. Yeah, he's been on his game. He's been absolutely Look scamper's got the everybody got the d Everybody everybody was going with d. You know what whenever that happens. It makes me think like what do they know? Know what I mean? We know everything's like like what do what do they know? What is not you the sports? When everybody goes d i'm wondering I love with what dj said in the chat You pull it up real quick Simon said matt naggy was an awesome arena football qb for the columbus destroyer So that's not Oh, I love it a great point In baseball saying plus 2200. Those are good odds. That obviously is I mean that's I don't mind that at plus 2200 10 bucks to win 220. Just throw that down there. See if it happens I don't mind it either Um craig said fantasy question What is better being able to be invisible or being able to fly mike easy which of these would be better This is a ridiculous question fly. I mean what why you don't have to pay for gas or Airline tickets. I could just be somewhere else. I could fly out and kick jails. That's only two minutes Apple doesn't fall far from the tree because I'm I'm gonna take it flying too I'm flying straight to you papa I'm not giving you on You can't run away from me anymore I'm not sure I would ever trust that I'd be able to fly forever. You know what I mean I'd be constantly afraid that that would just stop being able to fly Like like I'd be flying and all of a sudden I just like if I stop being in this if I stop being invisible suddenly I just get caught If I stop flying I fall to the earth plummet I'd be too nervous to worry about birds attacking you too. That is that's something to consider You know, you just fly it around Do you worry about that on a normal everyday basis? No, but I'm not in the air all of a sudden I just makes all these birds super aggressive towards you. Probably you're in their domain. They're like, all right. I live here Baseballs with me said but you could fall and die. Yeah. I'm I am with you Carlos is a good point too from the movie chronicle, you know, get struck by lighting when you're up there get by plane You know, maybe a squirrel grows some now you got flash power. Now you got electricity Yeah, that's how it works Yeah, and every bird that runs into you you get bird powers bird man bird man bird lightning man It's just gonna keep on adding together Grimm's and Simon did you get your Josh Jacobs? Jacob's usually ordered after his 86 yard touchdown run not yet But there is gonna be one coming to this house at some point this off season And uh syndicate sports said it's worth a sprinkle at plus 2200 It's worth a sprinkle That's the official uh terminology that they use in sports betting There's a sprinkle here and a sprinkle there Jake had a question for us and wanted to know if we had any running backs or wider severs with easy Schedules the rest of the way Do you guys have any players that come to mind whenever you're thinking of easy schedules throughout the playoffs? Have a ctn man that Jacksonville Jaguars playoff schedule rest of season schedule is absolutely beautiful I have to pull it up here in a second Whoever is the running back for the Jets as well. I know the Jets that was one of the reasons why I was very high I'm not breeze hall He has a great fantasy schedule for running backs and george pickens for wide receivers also Take a look at derrick henry and the fun digs schedule Derrick henry is going to Todd girly these playoffs and just win people championships all on his own I don't think he plays a good team the rest of the way Hot man It's gonna be rough just watching derrick henry destroy you if he's on the other person's team with a good match I'm sure it's gonna be something they're like. Yep. Yep. That checks out. Right. Did you see who he's playing? It's insane Yeah, it's so cake. It's it's amazing and and digs same thing And maybe gave davis my payoff for you because but when you talk about the chargers The texans the cowboys and then if your league is dumb enough to go into week 18 the Jags I mean derrick henry is going to run rough shot over those teams The Jacksonville Jaguar schedule rest of season detroit lions next this week tennessee titans Dallas cowboys new york jets houston texans and then tennessee titans again if you play week 18 That's pretty hot baseball you're saying let's go titans and carlos wanted to know um Do you bench damien pierce after this week's matchup? So they have a good matchup this week damien pierce is not getting benched for me this week I know it's been disappointing the browns they're playing the browns and the browns are the only team worse than the texans When it comes to opposing fantasy running backs you play damien pierce even though it's been disappointing But the texan schedule coming up after that I do think is rather difficult and he's the kind of guy that can get just completely game scripted out So after the browns, they've got the cowboys the chiefs Uh, actually, you know what you've got a locked and loaded running back from the playoffs titans jaguars I'm not too worried about it The titans are number one against the run. Yeah way The end also, um, I I saw jake cealy tweet this out. I think it was yesterday One thing, you know, everybody's asking about the rookie wall It's not necessarily hitting the rookie wall, but he's hit his max touches He's already over his touches for any year in college So he might just be wearing down, you know, it might not only be just the Matchups just the getting phased out of the offense. It's also just be hitting that wall physically It's pretty it's pretty exhausting to put the entire team on your back. So I mean, not that they've gone anywhere. So it's been a short piggyback ride, but still it has But a very heavy one It's just on a treadmill. He's just sprinting in place the world's most violent treadmill Just just powering through it guys. We're gonna move on to our next question now Jay, you got that one wrong. No jail got that one wrong, which means jay. You got free reign of the board Where do you want to go here? Let's go with fan duel fun for 500 Knocking out the big money values. Here you go Put these players from highest to lowest receiving yards line. So the one with the highest line for receiving yards So the one with the lowest line for receiving yards, all of these are at minus 110 Just so you know the odds for them the four players I need you to rank are jacoby mires Gabriel davis remandre stevensson and dawson knocks Do I have to? Yeah, I mean no, you can just take a zero. Yeah, but that's no fun. Okay, so highest to lowest receiving yards line so I want to start with the player who I think is going to have the most receiving yards. Is that correct or that the fan duel sports What does the highest line for right? Right? Okay. Um I will go with remandre stevensson Gabe davis Jacoby mires and dawson knocks So you're going stevensson davis mires knocks final answer final answer Okay, we had some guesses in the chat ledarius going with mires davis knocks stevensson Carlos going with davis mires stevensson knocks and mr. Scamper is going with the same thing davis mires stevensson knocks the correct answer is Davis mires stevensson knocks stevensson there at 39 and a half you I think you over thought it I galaxy brained it You galaxy brained it carlos and scampers shout out getting that one right nice job guys.  Where do you want to go? My friend the board is yours Which which for 400. Let's see if we can uh Make some numbers here Which one for 400 which which Which which for 400 What kind of sandwich is this that's a cuban That is a cuban sandwich mike nice job my friend That's gonna add 400 to your score giving you the lead and bringing mustard gives that one 100 Yeah, the mustard uh and the the flat brad right smushed on down. I had one like two days ago, so He's like Left over to the Nice job mike you get to pick jail's next category. Where are you sending him? Perfect. So to make sure that he can't catch up I am I don't think you got to worry about that I'm not but I just let's just put it away and have me and j uh dual it out. So let's give him world cup facts Two cup facts jail going for 200 shout out baseball ledarius and mr. Scampers for getting the last sandwich question Jails going with world cup facts for 200. Here is your question The world cup trophy went missing for seven days in 1966 when it was stolen before the tournament Much like russell wilson's ability to play football went missing before this season How many times has russell wilson finished as a top 12 quarterback this season in four point for passing touchdown weeks one three Five or seven times jail. Simon. I think you got this wrong. I don't see zero Zero stands are negative one would be also accepted. I'll go with one One as your final answer jail. Yes One is correct and week four He was the qb3 that is the only time he has done that this season Um and as our good friend jeff bell pointed out He even found a way to finish outside the top 32 quarterbacks last week behind both jordan love and erin rogers of the green bay packers Impressive russell wilson. You played the whole game nailing it Before we move on from this one jail. I wanted to ask you you got any hope for a russell wilson bounce back this season This season I have a the tiniest tiniest bit of hope because here's the things that talent that doesn't vanish overnight And so I think he could turn it around Do I think that's the most probable outcome? Absolutely not. I would not bet any money on that. I wouldn't sprinkle anything on that Baseball master said no No, mike. What about you? You got any hope for russell wilson this year? Are you think they can get it together next year? Maybe no No, no, absolutely not.  It's gonna go down as one of the worst deals ever made in the philodistry out Broncos We got a question from dj in here before we move on to our next one. Nice job getting that one, right jale dj wanted to know derrick car or trevor laurance Who you starting this week jale will come to you first who you starting derrick car trevor laurance It's trevor laurance. It's trevor laurance this week and every week Over derrick car rest of season you're rolling trevor. What about you mike? Are you agreeing or are you going derrick car? We're doing rest of season or just this week Give me both Um, so let me take a look at the matchups here real quick trevor laurance plays the lions this week Yeah, it's laurance uh this week and rest of season. I'm agreeing What about you jay? Yeah, clean sweep like we talked about with travesty t and the jaguars have a fantastic schedule And trevor laurance has seemed to finally turn that corner One more question from dj in here in half ppr christian kirk or christian watson Well, i'm gonna go with the wide receiver of the quarterback. We just talked about going against the lions They both have a pretty good matchup though. Um, i'm gonna take christian kirk I feel a little bit more secure in that watson's upside against the bears after what we just watched mike white do to them Though is uh, it's tempting. It's tempting mike. Which way are you rolling here? I'm gonna hedge my bets here dj and tell you if it's a full point ppr.  What about you? What did he okay cool? I'm gonna go christian kirk In all formats except non ppr Yeah, christian christian kirk is the main guy on that offense. He looks great romeo dobbs is coming back this week Not that I expect that to impact christian watson that much, but I don't think christian watson's the number one on the team still What about you j? Yeah, uh, like he's uh jail said romeo dobbs is expected back this week and christian watson didn't do anything last week until Join love game in and he basically took a slant into the house. Um, he was not having a good game It was just one of those lucky plays. He's got the ability to take it to the house every Every play, but I want the consistency out of christian kirk and a similar upside cowards All cowards Dale you got this one right though That's gonna add 200 to your score getting you on the board and you get to pick j's next category before you do that Though reminder for everyone watching keep throwing your questions in the chat And if we do not get to your question on today's show right after this over on our youtube channel front yard fantasy I will be live with two of our great friends nate polvo and jake parry answering all of your questions So come on over to fantasy football office hours and hang out with us. That's all we're doing answering your questions jail Where's j going? All right. Let's send j Send j to fan dual fun Fan dual fun j. Which value would you like? Let's go 300 300 Which player has the best odds to be an anytime touchdown scorer in this game at minus 120 And just so you guys know anytime touchdown score does not include passing touchdowns. Is it stefan digs remandry stevensson or josh allen? Surprise josh allen is in there even with rushing. I usually don't include quarterbacks. So that's kind of throwing me Um, it's between digs and allen for me I'm going to go with stefan digs Final answer final answer I'm sorry. It was remandry stevensson at minus 120 He's the only one in minus odds for this prop anytime touchdown score digs at plus 125 allen 200 The chat was kind of with you though baseball digs Lidarius josh dj with josh allen mr. Scampers with digsy Our man carlos only one to get this one right and carlos also had a question for us Want to know what do you guys expect from deshaun watson's first game back in two years? Mike so deshaun watson going up against the texans this weekend. Uh, what are you expecting from him rust? I'm expecting rust. It's not a good team. He hasn't played in two years, um 150 a touchdown in two picks 150 a touchdown in two picks jail. Are you a little more optimistic for his uh for his first outing back? Yeah, I am. I'm not I'm not worried about any early rust from deshaun watson. Uh, I think the the only narrative that I I'd be willing to to consider here apart from just that he's going to come back and ball out because that's the type of talent That he is is that they the game script gets uh gets in a place where they just run the ball because they can't on houston But this is an easy match up for deshaun watson and the student has been in every single high stake situation Uh throughout his career right going back through college.  I think he's a fine play Um, but I do think since this houston team we've seen how easily you can beat them on the ground And the browns have someone named nick chubb on their roster who's probably just going to run all over them It's going to limit deshaun watson's upside in this game for me Jay unfortunately, you got that one incorrect, which means mike you got free reign of the board. Where are you rolling? I'm gonna go with the high number. Let's go. Do you remember for 400? Do you remember for 400? Which of the following wide receivers did not have a top five ppr week through the first six weeks of the season And that is ppr top five at their position mac holland Michael pitman tyler lockett or drake london only one of these guys did not finish in the top five I am gonna go tyler lockett who I think has been steady But didn't have any boom weeks earlier in the year from what I can remember Final answer final final answer tyler lockett I'm sorry the answer is drake london his highest finish in that time period is wide receiver 10 mac holland's did it in week three michael pitman did it in weeks one and six and tyler lockett did it in week five The chat all thought it was michael pitman michael pitman michael pitman michael pitman Yeah, they all started hot except for lockett i thought like michael pitman is just like the least memorable fantasy player Like I just never remember that he does well That's why I did this category because I feel like recently the perception of michael pitman's changed and we do this every year Where we let the back half of the season change how we view the front half of the season and what happened there But pitman pitman started out on fire. He had some really great finishes over the first part of the season Um carlos and you're saying I legit only said pitman because I drafted him in the second He has destroyed me. It was a spike I guess I'm sorry that is incorrect. Which means john moog. You've got free reign of the board. Where are you rolling here? All right I want to I want to hurt like so i'm gonna take which which 200 that's not which which for 200 Jail, what's the name of this sandwich? Oh, come on.  It's like a sloppy joe, but I didn't know that I was chicken.  It does kind of look like Nashville chicken. I'm I give you that Final answer jail.   Yours is easy I'm literally looking at the bread for clues Look at like four different pixels It's just really blurry. It wasn't blurry at all. It wasn't blurry for me either Uh, let's send jay to you know what I tried to give jay some help last round He just absolutely fumbled it. Let's send him to which which Okay, jay, there's one question left. What kind of sandwich is this?  Come on There it is Final answer final answer It is the blt the bacon lettuce and tomato that one you could have just read what was in front of you Just told me what was in the picture and you would have gotten that one right napkin Mayonnaise lettuce Napkin mayonnaise lettuce the nmt except I messed up all those Um, so it's okay Jay you got that one correct between do you get to pick mike's next category? Where are you sending him? Let's send mike to grab back Also baseball in here saying a lot It's a lot of mail over there like you want 100 to 200 and grab 200. Why not? Okay What's the name of this pokemon is it porcupig lechonk harnie tank or n swine? No, no, Simon.  Um Well, Mike you only had this one just came out like a month ago.  I wanted it to be lechonk and I caught a lechonk and I named him bebop So I just wanted to say that everybody caught a lechonk that played that game. It's literally the first pokemon I just want I didn't say that it's crazy And scamper said lechonk should be something. Well, good news lechonk is this is absolutely that. Yeah, lechonk is under his eye there I'll say is he got paint eye or something or like what's going on there? Somebody had a rough night They need some arctic freeze blue gatorade We had guesses in the chat a lot of n swine thinking that was the correct answer on that one And baseball said if that's the new one, that's wrong That's wrong. I don't know what that means, but he's not Happy about this Also, mr. Scavers a gold wings, dude. It's gold wings under the eyes And maria said i'm so sad. I know this I thought the same maria. That's fair. I was like you will not believe what kind of pokemon. I just caught Oh Where's jail going mike? I don't know. I got it wrong. You got it wrong I don't I just make it up as I go every time Uh, let's go with uh, do you remember? For 200 or 100 200 Here you go Which former first round tight end scored two touchdowns on two targets in week one Finishing as the number two ppr tight end that week. He has not scored another touchdown sense Was it no offense oj. Howard eric ebron or albert aqua bayonam Thank you. I think it was oj. Howard Final answer. Yeah It was oj. Howard two targets two receptions two touchdowns in week one on the houston texans has not done two letters in his first thing I put i put them on the block in our league like immediately in seconds later classic You guys all got the alert and i'm waiting wait for all the boys to come to the yard Bring all your offers I Was so happy and then immediately like it was like i'm just going to enjoy this because it's never I'm just having fun for one week and i'm not going to get my hopes up though Nice job getting that one. No offense kind of threw me off because he is first round tight end I could not remember how he did it for week one All of these guys were first round tight ends except alberto.  Let's send j to grab bag Jay 100 you ready? I guess put up just killer. Hello What I need to know is what does jl stand for is it jebediah lufthansa? Jaeger meister lugnut juicy lover or john luke? All the above baby Well for me, it's juicy lover, but it stands for john luke final answer Final answer I'm sorry. It is john luke. You got that. Absolutely correct. Jay. That's going to be a hundred I like jager meister lugnut. That's that's a pretty good one. That should be your alternate personality Carlos and john tabious liverstone You have to legally change it to that now. That's better than john luke. I'm fine with that It's already gonna be my son's name now liverstone welcome in Baseball said jl audio every time I see the speakers man every single time I think that Hey, you got that one, right? We got time for one more round if we run through it. Where are you sending mike? um Mike any preference? No, wherever you want buddy. I'm ready. Send him to fendall for me 200 let's do it 200 Who has the higher rushing yards line on the fan dual sports book for tonight's game? Is it devin singletary or josh allen? josh allen Final answer final answer. We're at 2.5. I'm sorry. It's devin singletary at 51.5 josh allen at 46 in a half That one was a little bit tricky for sure. Sprinkle allen then in that race Yeah, I don't mind allen on that one jail. Where are you going? All right? Let's go with uh, let's go with do you remember Do you remember for 100 in week two? Tua tongue of iloa was the number two scoring quarterback in four point for passing touchdown leagues with 40 point 86 points And throwing for 469 yards and six touchdowns leading his team to an exciting 42 to 38 victory The only quarterback to outscore him was the one he faced on the field that week Who was the number one scoring quarterback in week two? Was it jared goff lamar jackson josh allen or jacobi bresset Week two week two. I don't think mar jackson was until like week four. I'll go with josh allen final answer. Yeah All right, it was the mar jackson The ravens dolphins game was in week two or to a tongue of iloa went for 469 yards and six touchdowns We did not remember It messed up fantasy statistics for the ravens defense for like eight weeks where they looked like an incredible match up And they weren't even that good of a match up game was ridiculous It was absolutely absurd what dairy said lamar jackson and then baseball said pay him Pay him I hope they don't so the giants can Okay, one more shot. Which one do you want? Let's go world cup facts Here you go You're a great one the first world cup in 1930 which NFL team won super bowl one Was it the green bay packers the houston texans or the carolina panthers? The this one's really tough, but I think I'm gonna just take a random shot in the dark with green bay packers The green bay packers is absolutely correct Jay can add 100 to your score tying you up with mic Going into final jeopardy and we'll show this last question just for fun here Which team is favored to win tonight's thursday night football game? The bills are the patriots Not the bads It is the bill you're right not The bills are favored so guys the category for your final question is going to be The playoff picture the playoff picture So I need you guys to write down your wager mike. You've got 900 available. Jay. You got 900 jl You got 600. Let me know how much you want to wager and then we will move into our final jeopardy question It's people in the shack in the chat getting that one right Baseball said bills the Darius with bills mr. Scampers with bills baseball said da billa And grim fan with bills by a million bills just 3.5 Also, baseball in here saying true daily double. You should have a Yeah, in fairness, they opened it five and a half. So uh money's been on the patch over the past couple days just saying I don't mind paths plus three and a half tonight sprinkle it The shark sprinkle it the total tickets are on the bills, but the big money's been on the paths I like it.  Yeah, let's see them I'm all in 900 jl went with 150 And j went with a number that makes my math hard Yeah, it makes me hard too Thanks so much j. I really appreciate that Here is your final question Your final question is Which of the following teams would miss the playoffs if the season ended today? The washington commanders the seattle seahawks the new york jets or the new york giants Three of these teams are currently in the playoffs. One of these teams is not which team is it? Give you guys about 30 seconds to write down your answers for that one and then we will reveal And j Actually, the math's not that hard as if I do mic's math first. It's just close to close to his numbers Mike you got your answer. It looks like you're done Jay you got your answer. Yep You got your answer jl actually hold on one second Oh wait, he has to cheat real quick. Sorry guys. Yeah, let's get you school going Yeah, hold on while j looks at the answer real quick to make sure he wins I guess you can't even make sure you won because you were a wimp and left two dollars off your score right there Well, go ahead and reveal your answers. Let's see what you guys got We've got the commanders the commanders and the commanders crippled commanders. We're all wrong From everybody here. I'm in the chat baseball with commanders No fan with jets unfortunately carlos with jets lederious with yes The correct answer is The seattle seahawks are currently out of the playoffs jl With a score of 450 to 2 to 0 is our fantasy jeopardy champion today It was worth it for the komodo dragon Nice job jl that was awesome watching you cheer to be wrong on the last one in order to win All I wanted was to be absolutely wrong I nailed it jl congrats on the win and mike i want to thank you so much for taking the time to come and hang out with us today my man We appreciate you always like being here. You guys are the best in jl. You're here too. So I am also here We should go follow mike Yeah guys if you're not already following mike do it right now He's on twitter at daddy's home ff and he has the daddy to follow over there So you're gonna want to make sure you're following him That's gonna be it for us on the fan front yard fantasy hour here on fan dual But good news right after this we have a show where we are doing nothing But answering your questions in fantasy football office hours over on our youtube channel at front yard fantasy We'll hit this one real quick before we sign off jl godwin or diante Are you rolling godwin? What about you mike godwin or diante godwin? Jay clean sweet. It's a clean sweep and then for kickers. I don't know flip a coin mike You got an opinion on the kicker go check out windelians. She is the kicker expert in the fantasy space Yes, a great foley windelians will give you the weekly roundup of kickers Go follow windelians for that guys That's gonna be it for us join us on office hours over on our youtube channel at front yard fantasy And then tomorrow morning on the front yard fantasy morning show on our youtube channel as well From 7 to 10 a.m. Eastern time wake up and start your day with us until five minutes for now though We are out of here. Adios everyone. Enjoy thursday night football and we'll see you on another time. Bye.


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Okay, folks, well, you can tell I always gauge the success of a meeting by the kind of energy in the room and we've got so much energy in the room it's hard to control them I it's got to be you Eric I don't this hour of the day on a Thursday normally people's blood sugar is so low you know they're sleeping rather peacefully through the foreign procession not today it's gonna be great welcome we're glad we're glad you're all here this is a this is a great opportunity for us as we continue the military strategy for them and I do want to say special thanks to our friends at Rolls Royce that are able to make us possible for us to do this for the Washington policy community great pleasure to welcome Eric Olson now this is a I just asked him we'd not met before although I've known him reputation Lee and I assumed any guy with the name Eric Olson who's from Seattle had to either be Norwegian or Swedish and he turns out he's Cherokee okay so I really kind of blew that wide open huh you know it's just so so much my ethnic terror stereotyping he's I should have known however because he's got the reputation for being tougher than a woodpecker's lips and and he's had every command that you can have in the special forces and of course is now at the top and it's a great opportunity for us to have him here thank you thank you and you know this is a this is an important discussion for us to be having as a policy community that thinks about about national security I was up on the hill when the act was created that created program 11 and at the time it was a Hobbesian choice because it was a community that was suffering inside a big military establishment that didn't value it and then the question was how do you promote it you promote it by giving it an independent status and standing but then it created a more structural barriers that we have to work through and I think that's the central question of how do we how do we integrate a force that's out every day far more engaged than normal forces and it has been I think non-stop there but make it part of a whole and we're still working on that and and I this is why I'm so anxious to hear Eric's thoughts this morning and our panelists who are going to share further conversation with us it's a wonderful morning thank you all for coming let me turn it to Ozzie Nelson who's going to do this for real and give you a proper introduction thanks very well welcome everyone my name is Rick Ozzie Nelson and I'm the director of the Homeland Security Encounter terrorism program today I'll be the moderator for the first part of our event which will be Admiral Olson's remarks and then we'll allow the admiral party to depart and then we'll break into the panel which will be hosted by Jim Mikulschevsky Admiral Olson is the eighth commander of special operations command his bio is in front of you I won't read it to you after reading his bio I realized that mine was probably four four sizes too big so now I need to go back and reduce mine if I can capture if you can capture his very prestigious career in such short language I must be able to capture mine but basically he has served in a variety almost every role as a special operator from a staff officer to a peacekeeper to to a direct action individual and he is obviously well respected as and is the first Navy four star seal in the history of the community we were just talking about them beforehand after the Admiral gives his remarks we'll go ahead and go into some questions for the Admiral I'll be the moderator which is me I get the one with a big ruler there are questions and answers not statements and answers so out of respect for the Admiral and his time please limit your remarks to a question and give the Admiral an opportunity to to respond to it and we will have microphones about too so you can answer your question with a microphone but again we are truly honored to have Admiral Olson here and sir I'll go ahead and turn it over to you Martin thank you Ozzie Dr. Hammer thanks for that kind introduction I do claim some Cherokee blood but I also can't deny my Scandinavian roots I am honored to be here with you this morning thank you for being here I relish this opportunity to represent the members of the United States special operations command all that that great force does my remarks today will follow a simple progression I'll begin with an overview of the United States special operations command its functions and its authorities and then I'll talk about SOCOM's role in the current operational environment and finally I'll talk about the future environment and how I see United States special operations command fitting in to what the United States and the United States Department of Defense do in the future at the end of my remarks I do look forward to an informal question-answer period with you I'll be especially eager to discuss what United States special operations command is doing with its its budget and its acquisition authorities my purpose this morning is clearly not to market United States special operations command or special operations forces the people who serve in the operational units are by far the best representatives of the talent and capabilities that this community has to offer I'm more here to educate the United States special operations command and special operations forces are unique within the Department of Defense the roles and missions are unique and and we're unique in how we prepare and present our force to operational commanders around the world who employ them much of this is quite nuanced but I think it's useful for this audience especially to understand it and I don't mean to sound professorial in my presentation this morning at all but I will support any of your requests for college credit what I'm done let me let me begin with a brief history of how United States special operations command came to be and the basic architecture and functions of the command some of you lived through this but it's worth a review this will be a so-called 101 of sorts the Department of Defense activated United States special operations command about 23 years ago in fact we're about three weeks shy of our 23rd birthday April 16th 1987 activated at MacDill Air Force Base Florida where the commander and the staff of United States readiness command were sort of reflavered as United States special operations command the first commander general Jim Lindsay who was on his way to take command of readiness command was renominated and reconfirmed as the first commander of United States special operations command in route the this is established as a result of law the unified combatant command was created as legislated by an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 1986 often known as the Nunn Cohen amendment or Cohen Nunn amendment depending on whose secretary of defense at the time as a follow on to the Goldwater Nichols defense off reorganization at Congress mandated that a four-star command be established and demanded that it be a four-star command in order to give it true parity with the other unified combatant commands and that it be established to prepare special operations forces to carry out assigned missions and if directed by the president of the secretary of defense to plan for and conduct special operations title 10 section 167 of United States code defines United States special operations command its authorities and its responsibilities which uniquely combined at certain aspects of the other combatant commands the military departments and certain defense agencies so uniquely United States special operations command does have its own budget authorities and budget responsibilities through major force program as Dr. Hamry described it is major force program 11 in the department of defense budget it is provided separately to the secretary of defense for the purpose of of answering those requirements that are peculiar to special operations in nature and the commander special operations command is the manager and executor of that budget additionally we have our own acquisition authorities so that special operations command can develop and procure and develop means in includes research and development activities and then procure special operations peculiar equipment supplies or services and headquarters is also responsible for the development of special operations doctrine just as military services write their own doctrine and responsible for the training and education of special operations skills and knowledge to rely on the services for service common aspects of that but special operations command again is responsible for the special operations peculiar aspects of training education before September 11th 2001 US OCOM's primary focus was on organizing training and equipping special operations forces and providing forces to support the geographic combatant commanders of the world central command European command Pacific command and the like also supported US ambassadors and their country teams this was steady work kept our operational force employed and deployed about 25 percent of the time in about 25 percent of the force on any given day was outside the United States in support of operational commanders and US ambassadors mostly conducting theater security engagement activities with counterpart forces in several dozen countries at a time and over the course of a typical year would have served in 120 to 140 different countries around the world in 2004 with the force heavily engaged in both Afghanistan and Iraq the secretary of defense and the president expanded the United States special operations command responsibilities and when finally codified as policy US OCOM was assigned as the combatant command responsible for synchronizing the Department of Defense's planning for global operations against violent extremist organized organizations and networks synchronizing was not a doctrinal term at the time synchronizing needed to be defined and so it was defined through the codification process that assigned United States special operations command that authority and it is essentially the responsibility synchronization is arranging in time place and purpose actions for maximum or optimum effect but know that I said we synchronize planning we don't synchronize operations the operations themselves are synchronized by the operational commanders to have responsibility for the outcome of the operations and in that case we are clearly in a supporting role and we are a force provider the geographic combatant commanders each have a sub unified special operations command known as a theater special operations command or Tsock through which they generally exercise their operational command their operational authorities these theater special operations commands are themselves commanded by one or two star special operations admirals or generals who work for that geographic combatant commander supported by our headquarters at United States special operations command and with baseball season just over the horizon the analogy is that these theater special operations commands are the catcher's mitts into which United States special operations command pitches are deployed force they then receive and employ the force on behalf of their geographic combatant commander bosses so as a synchronizing United States special operations command reviews receives reviews coordinates and prioritizes department of defense plans that support the global campaign against terrorists and their networks and then we make recommendations to the joint staff and the office of the Secretary of Defense regarding force and resource allocations to meet global requirements this is in response to the demands presented by the geographic combatant commanders and then in 2008 United States special operations command was further designated as the Department of Defense proponent for security force assistance and proponent is another term without a clear definition the authorities of proponency are in fact conveyed in whatever mechanism assigns one as a proponent but so com responsibilities in this role are similar to our responsibilities for synchronizing the planning against violent extremist networks we assist policymakers in deciding which potential partner nations the United States military ought to work with in what priority and in what manner and then through a staffing process carefully in conjunction with United States joint forces command we receive requests for us for assistance forces from geographic combatant commanders and make recommendations to the joint staff regarding which special operations forces which general purpose forces or which combination of forces are most appropriate for a particular security force assistance mission this is and will continue to be a very collaborative effort in which we advocate and support department policies and direct coordination with our interagency partners primarily with State Department but also with USAID Treasury and justice and many others and security force assistance is emerging as a more powerful term it is he it is becoming a more coherent path through which our nation can better work with international friends and partners is bringing together many disparate uncoordinated efforts under a under a single umbrella so where generally does the United States special operations command fit into United States strategy the most recent revision of the national defense strategy includes the need to strengthen current alliances and build new partnerships to defeat global terrorism and prevent attacks against us our allies and our friends it includes the need to prevent our enemies from acquiring and using weapons of mass destruction it includes the need to work with others to help diffuse regional conflicts and the need to transform national security institutions to face the challenges of the 21st century the national defense strategy also describes the strategic environment for the foreseeable future although foreseeable future is a term that I view as oxymoronic as a as a global struggle against violent extremist ideology that seeks to overturn or overrun the international state system it goes further suggesting that beyond this transnational struggle we will face other threats including a variety of irregular challenges quest by rogue states to acquire nuclear weapons and the rising military powers of other nation states success in dealing with these threats will require the orchestration of national and international power over years and decades to come and this will have to be done in an unprecedented way United States special operations commands piece of the defense pie lies primarily in our global responsibilities to provide trained and ready special operations forces to synchronize department of defense planning against violent extremist organizations and to serve as department of defense's proponent for security force assistance in order to do this it's responsibility of United States special operations command to transcend the boundaries of the geographic combatant commanders before I get into more into discussing what so-called does in the current operating environment I do need to touch on what special operations activities are there are currently 12 activities that are specifically assigned to United States special operations command these are most of them are included in the original legislation that establishes they are defined as core special operations activities in so far as they relate to special operations forces this does not give special operations command ownership of any of these activity areas but it does mean that within each of these act area activity areas there are tasks that are peculiar to special operations in nature and therefore our responsibility to prepare a force to conduct these 12 tasks I'll just read through them briefly their direct action counter terrorism counter proliferation of weapons of mass destruction unconventional warfare for an internal defense security force assistance civil military operations psychological operations information operations counter insurgency special reconnaissance and the catch all other activities as may be specified by the secretary of defense or the president so there's a few obvious ones in there such as direct action and counter terrorism these are clearly bread and butter activities within the special operations community but there's also a few that are more nuanced and I'll just talk about a couple of them because they and your understanding of them are important to our current operations first is unconventional warfare this is often misunderstood as the opposite of conventional warfare it's not unconventional warfare really is a doctrinally defined set of activities that essentially is stimulating and supporting insurgents when there is a government that is considered illegitimate or hostile that is challenged by by a force then supporting that force is unconventional warfare and this was the case in Afghanistan in the opening weeks of operation and during and freedom where there was a relatively mature but relatively incapable force in opposition to the illegitimate hostile Taliban government in place at the time that was predominantly the northern alliance but it was partnered with other forces within Afghanistan and the insertion of a relative handful of 12 men operational detachments alpha green beret a teams then supported and stimulated that northern alliance force and the other anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan in an unconventional warfare campaign that ultimately led to the Afghans themselves evicting the Taliban from Kabul so unconventional warfare is is essentially the flip side of counterinsurgency and now that there is a legitimate government in place in Afghanistan supported by the United States and challenged by an al-Qaeda supported Taliban insurgency we've transitioned from unconventional warfare to counterinsurgency as an activity in in Afghanistan this counterinsurgency as as conducted by the United States is primarily through the conduct of foreign internal defense and security force assistance activities so these include all actions intended to enable Afghan sovereignty and the protection of the Afghan peoples so one can make the case that al-Qaeda is now the unconventional warfare force stimulating and supporting the Taliban in its challenge against the government that they consider to be hostile to them the last core activity that I'll highlight here psychological operations again a broadly misunderstood term it may stir up in certain audiences images of mind control or brainwashing I call it truth-telling for a purpose the truth as a matter of law and as a matter of policy and for the purpose of influencing a foreign audience in a manner that is helpful to mission success and generally and most often for mutually beneficial purposes it does involve the distribution of information to serve again primarily mutually beneficial purposes including those intended to demoralize our enemies so it's a that's a bit about so-coms roles and missions I'll get more into that during the question-and-answer period if you want me to now I'll get into how we do some of what we do so com has responsibility to synchronize a planning to defeat violent extremist organizations and networks these net organizations could be radical Islamic groups they could be narco terrorist networks and other non-state actors who threaten the United States the Department of Defense campaign strategy against terrorism is contained in concept plan 7500 this is 750 pages long it's top secret in classification but in a brief and unclassified manner I can tell you that it is the Department of Defense plan crafted by United States special operations command first approved by Secretary Rumsfeld and then by Secretary of Gates so it became the Department of Defense con plan it it has authority within the Department of Defense it is a guiding plan as it affects other combatant commanders and the military services but it's a supporting plan in the interagency environment for combating violent extremist organizations and it supported by regional plans crafted by each of the geographic combatant commanders around the world it does provide the framework for two fundamental approaches to defeat our adversaries we call them the direct approach and the indirect approach these are terms that are making their way into the common lexicon while the direct approach focuses on isolating the enemy threats and then taking military actions against them the indirect approach focuses on shaping and influencing the environment to eliminate local support to or tolerance of terrorists and their activities so these approaches are independent they cannot be isolated from each other they are certainly not mutually exclusive and both are necessary to form the balanced whole the direct approach as you would suspect consists of those efforts to directly disrupt violent extremist organizations this is capturing killing interdicting and otherwise destroying terrorists their facilities their organizations and their networks in order to prevent them from harming harming us in the near term it also denies access to and use of weapons of mass destruction by violent extremist organizations some of whom have clearly expressed their intent to acquire and use them against us these operations are conducted almost exclusively by military forces do d is in the lead for the United States on the direct approach it's urgent it's necessary it's chaotic it's kinetic and the effects are almost always near term and short-lived well the direct approach is required to mitigate immediate threats the overall effects of the direct approach are not decisive the direct approach is a holding action that buys time and space for the indirect approach to achieve its long-term results decisive results come from the indirect approach in which we enable partners to violent to combat violent extremist organizations by contributing to their capabilities through advising training equipping or otherwise supporting their efforts it includes efforts to increase other governments willingness or improve their capabilities to remove terrorist sanctuaries from their territories and includes military support to activities intended to erode the underlying causes the underlying factors of that contribute to to terrorist activity in the first place the the basic conditions of economic depression religious extremism intimidation and more so stabilizing the environment impacts the enemy in the long term it is the concept of draining the alligators I'm sorry draining the swamp rather than attempting to capture or kill all the alligators so although the direct and indirect approaches are fairly easy to define in theory they are often difficult to distinguish in practice it is a careful balance that is required and often in intertwining people units and capabilities cannot be categorized as either direct or indirect some of the activities that they conduct can be categorized as direct or indirect but only at the time that those activities are occurring and often they occur simultaneously the military is in the lead on the direct approach as I said in the direct in the indirect approach the United States military is to a large degree pushing from behind it's not our responsibility to lead the indirect approach but admittedly much of the capability at least in the United States government to conduct these kinds of activities the mass and the money reside within the Department of Defense there's a balance between the two that again that has to be carefully executed and this is where you will find the core of special operations and in the balance of effective direct and indirect operations the combination of high and high technology enabled tactical skills and the understanding of the operational context of their application a good example of this is what occurs in most days in both Iraq and Afghanistan training with the Afghan National Army Afghan National Police Afghan Army commandos the Iraqi special operations forces at a very high level training eating living planning fighting with them when when the counterpart forces fight with us in support it looks like the direct approach they look like us they move like us they shoot like us through night vision video it's difficult to tell them apart from us it looks very much like the direct approach when they burst into a room in the middle of the night to put the habeas grab us on the bad guys separate the the good from the bad the ultimate effect of this ultimately though is enabling partners to combat violent extremist organizations themselves so that we can leave and they can control their own destiny that intertwining happens several times a night in several places across Iraq and Afghanistan it consumes most of our special operations force that we provide on any given day whether it's in Baghdad or Anbar or Marjah or Farah another example from Afghanistan comes from special forces teams living in remote camps well apart from any other military force their purposes to understand the local environment steep themselves in it and contribute to local security by identifying and supporting the tribal and village leaders who are willing to take action against the Taliban support in this case in this case comes mostly in the form of schools wells bridges and other development projects as rewards for anti Taliban activities in these villages and as you can imagine this is very sensitive it's quite dangerous and it's being done every day by special operations troops in their 20s and 30s our nation's special operations forces are also at work applying the indirect approach elsewhere around the world we are typically in 75 to 80 countries on any given day mostly conducting unit to unit engagements and training events these operations involve the special forces a team a seal platoon marine special operations team Air Force combat aviation advisors often working in remote places with a relative handful of counterparts and for many of the partner nation units this is the most prestigious training that they will get all year and it leads to some very important relationships we do many civil affairs operations during which our forces work with local leaders and us a id whenever and wherever possible to determine which schools need to be painted and where schools and where wells ought to be dug or what else will bring value to our presence we normally contract with local people to do the work so everybody wins but the key to success in this balanced approach is persistence building partnerships is key and it requires a fostering of long term military to military relationships and ideally these military relationships will survive the temporary vagaries of politics the decisive effects of our nation's persistent engagement with partners around the world can be clearly in places like the Republic of the Philippines where for over five years special operations forces have been advising and assisting that nation's armed forces in their successful campaign against radical Islamic insurgents who are linked to al-qaeda in their southern islands even more pronounced are the effects of our nation's persistent partnership and military engagement in support of columbian forces where for over 10 years us special operations forces have been advising and assisting the armed forces of columbia in their fight against the leftist FARC in recent years the columbian armed forces have dealt serious blows to that organization and as you all know in about a year and a half ago it culminated in the dramatic rescue of us and columbian hostages the significance of that operation is that it was planned led and conducted by the columbians themselves columbians who had trained with and among united states special operations forces for several years it's a testament to the time and the resources and the efforts that our nation is committed to enhancing their capacity over the last decade in order to best train our people and put the people in the right place at the right time we do need to have an understanding of our current and future operational environments the united states special operations command headquarters has developed a way of thinking about the future world we don't pretend that this is an estimate or a forecast simply a way of thinking about it it's based on trends and connections that we see emerging a prioritization of those which ones are positive that ought to be encouraged which ones are negative that ought to be challenged in some way we see an increasing globalization complexity and chaos emerging from from this thought model there's an increasing demand for natural resources beyond oil that's driving people to move and and to compete within the regions or around the globe regional economies and societies and cultures are becoming increasingly intertwined by the growing global networks of communication and finance and trade the nature of the geostrategic environment is clearly changing until the end of the cold war the bipolar nature of the strategic environment allowed nation states to effectively hold global friction points to a manageable level the security environment was actually less complex but national economies were also less intertwined and and less interdependent and more importantly nation states themselves exerted control over information that equated to a primacy of influence over their populations but today the strategic environment can no longer be viewed in the pure westphalian model of nation states although that model will endure as a model of international order for some time to come rather the international complexity now has supranational and national and non-state actors competing for strategic influence and access across the globe the the friction produced by the interaction of three dominant factors these being transnational crime violent extremism and significant migration are driving much of the way the world behaves and and these have become dominant global factors the internal controls of nation states have eroded and sovereignty ain't what it used to be territorial sovereignty can still be defined and defended to a great degree but economic sovereignty informational sovereignty and cultural sovereignty are under continuous challenge in areas where governments are not able to wield great influence over their people or support their basic needs non-state alternatives are likely to emerge individuals may identify less with the state and in some cases return to historical and enduring affinities of tribal alliances natural terrain boundaries and familiar cultural norms they may accept substitute governments that provide structure and process with intolerable limits and the legitimate government then becomes less relevant in these places and the non-state actor then gains local dominance this is generally a destabilizing factor where it occurs and it's an opportunity for crime and extremism to take root United States special operations command deliberately leans forward to ensure that proper resources and tools are being applied in these regions we call it moving ahead of the sound of guns as as proud as we are of our ability to respond quickly to gunfire when it occurs we are at least as proud of our ability to move ahead of the sound of guns in order to prevent that sound ultimately from occurring in in places that are at risk again last week United States special operations command forces were present in 79 countries around the world to the tune of about 12,000 people not surprisingly about 10,086 percent of special operations forces deployed from the united states were deployed into the u.s central command area of responsibilities that's where the most urgent demand is but while we were deployed to dozens of countries around the world we were in direct combat in only two of them iraq and afghanistan we were at risk in perhaps a half a dozen others so who actually does this i'll talk about that for just a minute special operations force is now total over 58 thousand people about 52,000 of them are in uniform and except for a couple of thousand at us socom headquarters the force resides primarily within four service components us army special operations command navy special warfare command air force special operations command and marine corps forces special operations command and in one subunified joint command the joint special operations command slightly more than half of the total force is in the army component and the total force includes many of the forces that you would expect and are aware of the army special forces of the green berets army rangers in the 75th range of regiment helicopter air crews rotary wing aviators in the 160th special operations aviation regiment the night stalkers active duty civil affairs and active duty psychological operations practitioners are under the command of special operations command when they are in the united states air force fixed wing air crews largely flying the variants of the venerable c-130 hercules platform but getting more and more into smaller platforms including the tilt rotor cv-22 variant of the special operations variant of the osprey air traffic controllers who can operate independently in remote areas and and para rescue medic para rescue medics from the air force navy seals combatant craft crewmen and many submarine operators and marine corps rain assault forces and foreign training specialists and then all of the vehicles and airplanes and helicopters and boats and logistic support and intelligence experts and administrative specialists and in and technicians and instructors and strategists who support that force are within the united states special operations command there's a plethora of other disciplines that give the force its capability and its sustainability about four fifths of our force is active duty with about one fifth in the guard or reserve this is a significant shift from five years ago we were about about one third in the reserve component as opposed to the one fifth that we are now about two-thirds of our force is non career special operations forces meaning that they serve in the special operations community for an assignment or two over the course of their careers about one third is the soft careerists those who volunteer are selected who go through a training program that typically has an attrition rate associated with it and then who earn a MOS a military occupational specialty that that assigns them to the special operations forces for for most of their careers our operators average close to 30 years old this is significantly older than general purpose force units they're about 70 percent married and they are doing what it is they came in to do about half of our force has come in since 9-1-1 and they are doing what they expected to do at the heart of everything united states special operations commandos is the special operations warrior these are real people who go forth and conduct the difficult and dangerous missions that this nation asks them to do to solve the complex problems to endure the challenges that make our strategies work the complexity of the operating environment requires that special operations forces be of the highest quality that they maintain the highest levels of war fighting expertise but also that they understand where they are that they have knowledge of the regional the sub regional micro regional environments in which they work too often special operations are thought of as unilateral high-risk one-shot deals there are many times of course when that is the case but what's truly special about special operations is the ability to work with and through others in pursuit of mutually beneficial outcomes to unusually complex situations and fundamental to this effort is our recognition that humans are more important than hardware and that quality is more important than quantity in special operations forces we believe that substance trumps theatrics that knowledge trumps doctrine that finesse trumps mass and that presence without value is perceived as occupation it is important to be able to accurately predict the effects of our behavior in the unchanging context of geography culture and history of the places we go to do this requires understanding that we simply don't have and we in the special operations forces do pride ourselves on being somewhat more qualified with respect to languages and cultures and regional expertise than than the broader military forces but we remain under qualified in many key languages and dialects and under educated in many key areas we continue to expand these programs we continually stress the need for a few individuals to be thoroughly steeped in other languages and other regions we've collectively termed these projects and programs Project Lawrence inspired of course by T. E. Lawrence of Arabia who's an imperfect model but one who does convey a sense of the value of local expertise this is intended to produce individual regional expertise in a way that simply doesn't exist now so that we can gain and sustain a credible persistent approach in in these regions these initiatives include an exploration of innovative options to permit specialization without sacrificing promotion opportunities or retention and this is a cultural challenge within our own military and as important as retention is to maintain our investment in people recruitment is equally important we do seek the right people for the right jobs we hire the best people we can for the jobs that we assign them to do one example of this is an initiative currently primarily within the army it was stimulated by a request by special operations command it was supported strongly by the secretary of the army it was approved by secretary of defense in november of 2008 and it was implemented just over a year ago in february 2009 this is an initiative known as MAVNI military sessions vital to the national interest and under this program visa holders not citizens not green card holders but visa holders who are in the united states for a period of of two years are eligible to enlist in the united states army there is a vibrant blog on this a number of visa holders in the united states are communicating with each other about the advantages and disadvantages advantages of enlisting the united states military but the response has been tremendous and 14 000 people have filled out the form that indicates an interest in enlisting the army 4 000 of these indicated an interest in serving in or in support of special operations forces over 800 are now have now enlisted in the united states army 172 are under orders to the special operations community 81 have already reported for duty all of them speak english as a second or third or fourth language 82 percent of them have at least an associate's degree one third of the master's degrees that enlisted into the united states army last year enlisted through the MAVNI program so if i sound excited about this i am it is uh it is one that we continue to support and consider ourselves primary to be of primary benefit to us we do recognize that the non-military and non-government sectors of american society as well contain specific areas of expertise that are essential to progress in the military campaigns in this new normal from anthropologists to x-ray technicians we do have to embrace disciplines and knowledge outside of traditional military fields we need to find ways to bring this into our world the concepts behind balancing direct and indirect approaches and what amounts to or what some describe as a global counterinsurgency effort are not new to how we conduct irregular warfare in in many ways the cold war was the aberration and this is back to more traditional forms of warfare i'll i'll quote pure military skill is not enough a full spectrum of military paramilitary and civil action must be blended to produce success the enemy uses economic and political warfare propaganda and naked military aggression in an endless combination to oppose a free choice of government and suppress the rights of the individual by terror by subversion and by force of arms to win this struggle our officers and men must understand and combine the political economic and civil actions with skilled military efforts in the execution of this mission i'm quoting president john f kennedy in his forward to a 1962 united states army manual on special warfare special warfare being the community that ultimately evolved into the joint special operations community that i now serve pure military skill will not be enough while the ability to conduct high end direct action activities will always remain urgent and necessary and the highest end most technology enabled man hunting and thing hunting operations are conducted by special operations forces we acknowledge that it is the indirect actions that will have the most decisive and enduring effects the balance and intertwining of direct and indirect are key and so now i'll quote sun sue there are not more than five primary colors blue yellow red white and black yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever be seen there are not more than five cardinal tastes sour acrid salt sweet and bitter yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted in battle there are not there are not more than two methods of attack the direct and the indirect yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers the direct and indirect lead on to each other in turn it is like moving in a circle you never come to an end who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination and that is the business and the beauty of special operations forces i am ready for your questions i'll say up front that i won't provide any meaningful detail on specific operations that are being conducted under a geographic combatant commander's authority but i'm happy to talk about just about anything else you would like to address thank you very much


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