MY FINAL *Raiders Record Prediction* For 2024! (Bleacher Report Livestream)

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, am I live? I believe I'm live right now. I'm going to need people in the chat to tell me, and I'll introduce myself in a second because I'm sure there's a million people on Bleacher Report that are like, who is this schmuck that I'm looking at talking about the Raiders with their Raider Nation flag and a mug placed just right here? We're going to get into everything, but first I just need to know, can you hear me? Can you see me? How are we doing this beautiful Labor Day? I said I'm live. I'm just waiting for the notification here to get going, and we'll talk about the Las Vegas Raiders. I am live. Let's go. What's going on? Seeing and hearing you, great. I want people in the chat. I see Raider Rod. I see, I don't know how to say that. I see JC Gibb. I see Dawson Miles. I see a bunch of people. Let's get it, man. Real quick, introduction. First of all, thank you to Bleacher Report for having me on here. This is my first ever live stream on Bleacher Report. My name is Rodney. As you can see in the bottom left, I have a Raider YouTube channel. It is all aboard Raiders. We're talking all things Raiders, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Bleacher Report reached out to me. They said, hey, we want you to be here for September. Do some record predictions and some game recaps. Today, for about a half hour, we are going to be recapping. No, we're going to be doing the record prediction for the entire 2024-2025 season. We're going to go quarter by quarter. What do I mean by that? We're going four games, four games, four games, four games until we get to that final record. We're going to do quarters because that's what AP does. AP talks in quarters, so we're going to be talking in quarters. As you can see down here, that is my YouTube channel to the left. Or is it to the right for you? My right, your left. All aboard Raiders. You can head over there after, but for right now, stay right here because Bleacher Report is where it's at. Wow, I just got the notification. That's crazy. I just got the notification on my phone from Bleacher Report and that's me. Wow, that's crazy. All right. Look, before we get into the record prediction, we're going to start with a poll and I want people, listen, in the chat telling me their thoughts and opinions. The Raiders made an interesting decision to go with Gardner Minshew instead of Aiden O'Connell. I made a video a couple of days ago discussing that. I believe there's a chance that Aiden could start more games than Gardner. I believe that Aiden was better quarterback in the preseason in training camp. However, I think that they're going with the experience and the mobility. This is the first poll that we're going out with. Who do you think will start more games for the Las Vegas Raiders? Is it Gardner Minshew? Is it Aiden O'Connell? Who do you want to start more? Do you think that Gardner is going to win enough games to stay there for the entirety of the season or more often than not? Because here's my thoughts on this before we get into the record. I believe it's going to come down to the first four games. If we are 2-2 or better, they're going to roll with Gardner. If we're 1-3 or 0-4, I think they immediately pull the plug on them. So we're going to let that poll run for a little bit here. We got people in the chat. I see Triple. I see Zachary. I see Jay Martinez. What's going on? Everyone's here. I love it. I absolutely love it. Goldie, how we doing? I'm really torn about this. Again, I do think that Aiden was the better quarterback. People say that Josh Allen is great 90% of the time and then 10% he's sugar high Josh Allen. If we can get rid of sugar high Gardner Minshew here, the Raiders have a chance to do something decent here. So I'm going to let this poll go for a little bit more. But for right now, it seems as though Gardner Minshew is the heavy, heavy favorite here to start more games. Sean says Aiden is a better quarterback for sure. Again, I don't disagree. But then Alex comes in and says he has no more ability. So I agree with that as well. Okay, I'm going to unpin this poll here and we're going to get into the record prediction. So like I said, if you missed in the beginning, we're going to go quarter by quarter, which means first four games are doing chunks. Here's the thing though. The Raiders have a history, right? Ups and downs, chaos most of the time, right? The Raiders have a history of playing one team very, very well. And that team is the Denver Broncos. So when we look at our schedule, I'm going two W's right off the bat. One, October 6th at Denver W. One, November 24th, you're preparing your Thanksgiving meal and you're going to watch the Raiders, again, beat the Broncos. You are crazy if you think I'm going to sit here and predict it for the first time in however many years it's been. What is it? Five, six years that the Broncos are finally going to beat us with the rookie quarterback. Now, I'm not here to tell you that Bo Nix is a bad quarterback. He seems to be a little bit better than we initially thought, right? Here's the difference though. It doesn't matter if he plays better than we think. If he's an above average quarterback, if the team around him and the coach around him is not great. Look at Justin Herbert. There is no doubt about it that Justin Herbert is a better quarterback than anybody that the Raiders had the last 10 years. And yet we still beat them just as often as not more often than they beat us, which means that you need not only a good quarterback, but a good scheme around you coaching wise. And Sean Payton hasn't proven anything in terms of being a good coach outside of coaching Drew Brees. And they have little to no weaponry compared to other teams in the division compared to the Raiders. So look, I'm not taking shots at Bo Nix. He might end up being a great player, right? It takes more than that. And right now, the Raiders have the more complete roster. That's why immediately right off the rip, I'm going two games, Ws for the Broncos or for the Raiders on both of them. Okay, so these first four games, again, I think these are crucial to whether or not Gardner actually keeps the job, right? Because you start out this game September 8, we believe Justin Herbert's going to play in this week one game, right? The reason why I'm leaning towards saying the Raiders come out on top in week one is because there is a sneaky narrative that not a lot of people are talking about. And that is Antonio Pierce versus Jim Harbaugh, right? Jim Harbaugh was the only other coach the Raiders considered hiring instead of Antonio Pierce. And there's a lot of people in the media, fans of other teams, whatever, that said, I can't believe the Raiders went Antonio Pierce instead of Jim Harbaugh. And if you don't think he's not only using that APS as bulletin board material for himself, not only for himself, but for his team, his team that went out of their way, Max and Devante, they pulled a Rudy and basically said, if he's not our coach, trade us, right? If you don't think they're going to move heaven and earth to try to show that AP is going to have a more successful career than Jim Harbaugh 2.0, I think you're crazy. And I think that's why they're going to try heaven and earth to win this game. It's going to feel like a mini Superbowl. Obviously this game is in Los Angeles, but it's going to feel like a Raider home game. The second game, that's a tough game. That's at Baltimore. I think this is, this is where it looks like Gardner Mintry won the job because of his mobility, right? You're playing the Chargers, the Ravens, uh, we'll skip the Panthers right now and the Cleveland Browns. Those are three teams that have really, really good front fours and our offensive line is good, but it's not great, right? The left side of the offensive line has not really had a lot of reps in training camp. So I think these first four games, like I said, are very important. And here's how I see them playing out. I think it's going to be a lot of ups and downs early for the Raiders. We go four and two, if we count the Broncos, but the first four games, I think we go two and two, which is enough for Gardner to keep the job. I think we win week one. Like I said, I think we're going to be going balls to the wall and I think we're going to beat the Carolina Panthers. We don't really know what Bryce Young is going to do his second year. He barely played in the pre-season, right? Um, again, the Ravens, that's a tough game. Look, as much as I would love to say that the Raiders are going to go 14 and three, you know, there, there are teams that have distinct advantages at quarterback, right? Lamar Jackson, Deshaun Watson, um, I think that there are going to be times where we're just going to get outmatched, where the two-time MVP is just going to have his day. And our defense is great, right? The Raiders defense is for sure one of the best, if not the best in the National Football League, but the great equalizer is that quarterback. So for right now, here's how I have the first four games going. I got two and two. What are your guys' thoughts on these first two games? Do you have it differently than me? I'm looking at TD. He says, need to be mobile in today's football. I'm looking at, uh, Raider Nation. His mobility will be our demise. He's not accurate. We're talking about going to mental hospital balls, makes decent or makes bad decisions when he improvises. I get it. The hospital ball is, um, is tough. It's not great. I actually can't make the screen any bigger. This is the way it has to stay. I tried to make it bigger, but it's not two and two is about right. Yeah, I agree. And Brown's defense is elite. So there's no doubt about it. Um, okay. So let's go right into, oh, triple says, do you think the Raiders losing to the Browns is more about Deshaun or their defense? Um, probably more about their defense. We'll say, let's pretend in a perfect world that Gardner Minshew and Deshaun Watson are the same, right? I think we think Deshaun's a little bit better, although he's fallen off a cliff compared to what he used to be. Um, I do think the Cleveland defensive might be able to have their way, especially on our offensive line, if it's still not a hundred percent healthy. Although that was a game I struggled with. I went back and forth on the Browns game, but right now I'm trying to play it a little bit more realistic. And that's why I have it as a loss. Let's talk about Q2, the second quarter of the season. We got Steelers, Rams, Chiefs, Bengals. This is the hold onto your butts portion of the schedule. This is where rubber meets the road. If we're clicking with Gardner, this could be a great year. If we got to pull him and go Aiden here, I don't know how many more games we have of consistent football. And I know for a fact that I've got some family members watching who are Pittsburgh Steelers fans. And I'm here to tell you right now, there's no way in heck, I don't know if I could say that other word on Bleacher Report, that I'm picking the Steelers to beat the Raiders. Not a chance. Second quarter, we're going win-win, which gives us three straight wins, thanks to the measly Denver Bronco win that we gave before. And then we go two straight losses to the Chiefs and to the Bengals. So what do you guys thought so far as I take a magical sip of water about how I have us through our first 10 games, really through our first eight with these two Bronco games, I got six and four. And I will explain now why I have that. Here's my thought process. The Steelers, great defense, right? That's it. We have the advantage at quarterback. We have the advantage at probably running back. We have the advantage at wide receiver. We have the advantage at offensive line. I mean, look, I don't even know who the Steelers quarterback is going to be by this point. And Mike Tomlin is maybe the most underrated coach in the league somehow. He's literally never had a losing season. They're just not a very good football team. I'm sorry to all my Steelers fans watching. And I just don't see us losing that game, especially a home game. Now look, hopefully Antonio Pierce has been able to get a lot of the Raider Nation to keep their tickets and not sell them to a bunch of Steelers fans. Because that's kind of the elephant in the room, right? Is that we don't, you know, our home field advantage is not great. It's not great at all. So we got to make sure that we show up for these games. And I'm going to send another poll out here. It's how many games do you see the Raiders winning? I'm going to do this before I finish here because I don't want you guys to be swayed by my thought process here. So I have us beating, oh my goodness, I have us beating the Steelers. And then this Rams game, look, there are going to be games that you expect to win that you lose. And there are going to be games that you expect to lose that you win. This Rams game, just like the Cleveland game, I went back and forth on. But I do believe there are going to be games that our defense wins. And again, this is not a Rams home game. It says it on the schedule, but we all know how that's going to go, right? We all know the Raiders fans are going to show up. LA is Raider town. And they have a lot of offensive weaponry, right? Puka, Nakua, Cooper Cup is devastating. This is a game where you got to have guys like Nate Hobbs, like Jaquorian Bennett, like Jack Jones to play outside their mind. You're going to need to steal possession. Max Crosby, strip sack on Stafford. Stafford is a statue. And if we could pin our ears back, the games that we're going to be able to win that we shouldn't be, are going to be against teams with quarterbacks who are not mobile, right? Like Trevor Lawrence can run around, Deshaun Watts can run around. These games might be tough for us to win if Gardner Mitchell isn't playing his absolute best football. And I'm looking at the poll right now. Nine to 10 wins is kind of the range where you guys are thinking right now. Okay. I like that. That's interesting. I'm not going to give mine away. If we are playing a team that's better than us, quote unquote, we're going to need the quarterback to be a statue because that's how we affect the quarterback when he can't move around. Even people like Mahomes who, Mahomes is a very mobile quarterback. He's Houdini, right? That's what Collinsworth and Romo and all them say. Houdini. And then Jack Jones, you know, he stopped that magic and the magic was over. We need to get to the quarterback. I think this is going to be one of these games where, you know, everyone's picking Rams, Rams, Rams. We come out on top, but then fall, kind of fall back down to earth here. Lose to the Chiefs at home, lose to the Bengals. The Bengals game I won't spend too much time on. This isn't a Superbowl preview. So I think the Bengals are going back to the Superbowl. I think Joe Burrow is out for blood. I think this is going to be a ridiculous season for him. Sneaky MVP. Joe Burrow seems like Thanos from time to time. He's the only one that can consistently get inside of the head of Patrick Mahomes. And that's just a really tough game to go to. 10 a.m. body clock. I don't put a lot of stock into the body clock, but some people do. So we'll throw that in the going to be tough for the Raiders category. Alex says, need Tyree Wilson to show up? Absolutely. What do we see here? Howard, we easily have to potentially get double digit wins. L.A. says I like 11 and 6. Any win is a good win. Our secondary is young and we need experience. A cornerback, no doubt about it. Mahomes is a pocket passer first. He only runs around if he has to. That's not Minchu's game. And no doubt about it. And look, when we start comparing Gardner-Minchu to Patrick Mahomes, it's over. We lost, right? So I think I'm just going to write that Bengals game off as they're better than us. The Chiefs is interesting because we beat them last year. We know this, right? And we beat them in Kansas City and we play them again in the schedule. I'm not going to spoil what happens there. The thing here is that I think we caught them off guard in that first A.P. game. And I don't or I guess the second A.P. game. Yeah, A.P. when we were up 14-0 in the other game. I think we caught them off guard just how good our defense was. And I think the Chiefs. Yeah. Who just said it? The Chiefs are out for blood, Radio Nation said. The Chiefs are going to play this like a mini Super Bowl. And I don't foresee this being a blowout. I think a lot of these games are going to be close games. And that's what I was saying on my channel. Oliver Reuters, go head on over there like we see here. But after this, stay on here for this. I think that every one of these games, wins and losses are going to kind of look the same. And I think that's what we need to see out of A.P.'s first year. I'm not expecting to go to the Super Bowl here, but we just need a little bit of consistency. Even like the John Gruden era, which started to get better before his ultimate firing. It was a lot of this, a lot of ups and downs. And it's like, and then McDaniels was chaos 2.0. We just need this to be a little bit more controlled and concise. And I think that these games are going to look more consistent. You're going to be like, well, this is kind of what I expected, either way, good or bad, positive or negative. I think the Chiefs are going to treat this like a mini, mini Super Bowl. But if we split these four games, I think that's going to be big for us to sort of ride the ship and make one final playoff push here going into the second half of the season. Okay, so as I close this poll here, we got 1% says five or lower. Nope. Yeah. 31% says six to eight wins. 61% says nine to 10 and 7% says 11 plus. I don't hate it, guys. I do not hate it. Let's get in to quarter three. And I want you guys in the chat to give me your final record predictions before I get into quarter three here. And I got to tell you, this last stretch here was so difficult because there's a lot of teams, a lot of like, like, are these teams good? I don't know. Let's see what I said here. Quarter three, we're coming off a bye. Historically terrible coming off a bye, we are. I think there was a game. Was that the Falcons game of 2020? We were coming off a bye. We just had beat the Chiefs, or no, we just had beat the Jets, Henry Ruggs, Hail Mary. And we lost to the Falcons like 40 to six. We are so bad coming off a bye. I think Antonio Pierce is going to write that ship. Okay, we got Zee Jones. Is that Zee Jones? In some hot water right now. 11 and 6. Gino says 8 and 9. We got a 10 and 7 with a million exclamation points. Gladiator 9 and 8. 9 and 8, 11 and 6, 11 and 6, book it nano. Shout out to Hawaii 5-0. Okay, Q3, coming off a bye. Again, we're not going to count this Bronco game because we already talked about it. Coming off a bye, Miami. We played them last year. Aiden played terribly. The defense was very good. We could not move the ball, and we lost by one possession. I believe the score was 20 to 13, something like that, 21-13. I think, again, this is going to be a tough game, no doubt about it. Coming off a bye is going to help us a lot. We probably go to Florida or to the East Coast a couple days early, if not a week early on that bye, to get the body clock ready for the 10 a.m. start. This is going to be coming off of two straight losses. We do not want to drop, it was 6-4 to 6-5 out of the bye. If we could win this game, we could ride the momentum to the Broncos game and then to the Chiefs game, which you've already seen, I've checked off as a win. That's right. I'm splitting the Chiefs games. I think that's fair. Again, where the Chiefs are going to be ready for us the first time we play, we will now be ready for them on Black Friday. Go out there, get your flat-screen TVs and your air fryers for little to no dollars, maybe a payment plan, doesn't matter. This game nationally televised Black Friday. Is this the Black Friday game or am I talking on my, my, you know what? I thought it was, was this not the Black Friday game? I think it is the Black Friday game. Whatever, doesn't matter. We're going to ride the momentum of this Dolphins win coming out of the bye because here's the thing, here's the thing. Like I said, we played them very well last year and this is all contingent on if Gardner, this is all really Gardner-Mitchell and because the Dolphins defense is not afraid of the Dolphins defense. They got worse because Christian Wilkins ever heard of him who was on the, it is the Black Friday game. Thank you. Thank you. Christian Wilkins, who was on the Dolphins defense, which wasn't very good, it was fine, is now on the Raiders. I'm not afraid of their defense. This stretch of games here is going to come down to Luke Getzey. If you just look at the Raiders weapons in a vacuum, right? And I know you got to take the quarterback out and that's tough to do. Stay with me for one second here. Stay on target. Devontae Adams, if he's still here, not traded by them. Jacoby Myers, the best, one of the best wide receiver combinations in the league. Trey Tucker, who's coming on, who looks like a Tyreek Hill, Henry Roach type player. Brock Bowers, Michael Mayer, right? These are weapons that you can move around and Luke Getzey has shown already an ability to take a Brock Bowers and put him in the backfield to stretch the field with the Trey Tucker. This is all with a vanilla offense, right? So, if he can dial some deep balls up in this Miami game to keep the defense honest and then we could just pound the rock with Zemir White and Alexander Madison, Dylan Lalby coming out of the backfield, right? There is endless opportunities to win these games that teams do not expect us to win and it all comes down to Gardner Mintu. I've been saying for the longest time, Gardner Mintu doesn't need to be Steph Curry, he needs to be Chris Paul. Just distribute the rock, don't do anything crazy. If you need to make a play every now and again, go make a play. But for right now, I have us beating the Chiefs, but here's the problem. When you beat the Chiefs on Black Friday, you kind of have to come back down to earth, right? And I think this is where we're on the highest of highs. Oh my god, we're going to win the division at Tampa Bay versus the Falcons at Tampa Bay. I think that's the biggest trap game of all time. If we go Black Friday, nationally televised audience beat the Chiefs and we're like, oh now we got to go to Tampa Bay, who even cares, right? That's a trap game, no doubt about it. And then the Falcons, I just think the Falcons are going to be a really good football team this year. I think this game will be a really interesting game to see if our defense is going to be able to disrupt Kirk Cousins or if they're going to have by then the Falcons that is enough time to get a cohesive system going here with their new weapons, with Bijan and Kyle Pitts, their defense is sneaky, not terrible. I think these are both like back to back like, oh man, three in a row just beat the Chiefs. We're going to go undefeated the rest of the year and then kind of come crashing back down to earth. So here's where I stand right now, eight and six. And right now I would have said the Falcons game, the Dolphins game, and the Falcons, the Dolphins, the Rams, and the Browns, that feels like our season right there because those were the games I was just flipping coins up until the last second. I couldn't quite grasp how I felt either way about those games. I decided to split them. I think that's the best thing to do here. And let's jump into the last quarter here. Final predictions for quarter four, the last three games, I got dub Jacksonville, dub Derek Carr, losing the last game of the season to the Chargers. I believe we're going to end up with a better record than the Chargers, right? And I'll get to the Saints game, the Jags game. Let's talk about week 18. I believe we're going to have a better record than the Chargers, right? I think it's going to be close. I think we're going to have a better record. I think 10 and seven, and here's where I'm going to go with my last poll here. I think 10 and seven gets you into the playoffs comfortably. I think you have a chance with nine and eight, but I think that doesn't mean you're going to make the playoffs. And then eight or lower, I think you're out. I think we're hovering from eight to 10. I think the Chargers are hovering from six to nine. So this last game for the Chargers might mean a lot more to them than it will to us, right? With all that being said, I think they're going to be playing for more, playing harder, and that's why I have them beating us in week 18. Let's talk about the Jags and the Saints. The Jags are weird. Trevor Lawrence just got paid a lot of money, and Doug Peterson came in that first year and kind of turned things around, and then in year two, it got a little weird. And here come the Houston Texans, right? And you don't know what you have with Will Levis or Anthony Richardson. Both showed decent flashes. The Jags could be one of these teams that just kind of falls back into the obscurity that they've been known to fall into every now and again. And trust me, as a Raider fan, I know what that obscurity is like. We're never bad enough to get the first pick in the draft. We're never good enough to win the Super Bowl. We're kind of right in the middle there. And the Jags and the Saints both feel like they're right in the middle with us. I think the difference here is that our offense and our defense is just better than the Saints and better than the Jags. They might have slight advantages at the quarterback, but I think where they have slight advantages at the quarterback, we've got massive advantages everywhere else. The Derek Carr game, I mean, look, that's going to be insane. I'm assuming he's still the quarterback by then. I hear some people saying, Spencer Rattler, you never know. I know. I don't think he's going to start any games this year unless Derek Carr gets hurt. And Derek Carr's sneaking an Ironman. Doesn't miss a lot of games. Right now, the poll, it's looking like people thinking we're a playoff team or a bubble team. Not a lot of people saying we don't want to win the playoffs or get into the playoffs. Well, here's my question to you in the chat if you're watching. If we make the playoffs, what seed are we going to be? Is it division winner? Is it the last seed? Is it the top wildcard team? I believe in 2021 we were the fifth seed out of complete nowhere. End up losing to the Bengals who go to the Super Bowl. The Derek Carr game, I think the fans in New Orleans are going to be backing him. Again, this might be a very, very important game for him. I just think Antonio Pierce is going to get to these guys in such a way that it's not going to be hard for us to match the intensity of the crowd and of the other team playing, right? I see right here we'll be in the final wildcard. As long as it's a seed, do we care? Not really. I mean, beggars can't be choosers, right? We want to just get in the playoffs. Let's just get in. Last seed to lose wildcard. Okay, so here's where I stand right now. I think we do not win the division. I think we are one of the wildcard teams, and I think we probably lose in the first round of the playoffs to Houston Texans or to Kansas City Chiefs, right? I think we're going to muddy that game up, and here's the thing. We kind of feel like the Giants in a way, the 08 Giants with Antonio Pierce on that defense, and okay, and let's take a mental image of this. I got us going 10 and 7, right? Okay, I'm going to now go back to my face. We feel like the 08 Giants in a way, and what I mean by that is that we got great offensive weapons, right? They had, you know, Plexiglas Burris and Helmut Ketch, right, and Brandon Jacobs. They had all these guys, and then they had a stout defense. Nobody wanted to play the Giants in the playoffs. I believe that year they played the Patriots in the regular season, and they lost by maybe one possession. I could be wrong on that, but I'm pretty sure that's what happened. It was a long time ago. I was nine years old. I think if we make the playoffs, you're going to hear a lot of people saying that is a team that nobody wants to play because defense travels, and I think this year you have to look at the games like the Broncos games. That's two of them right off the bat. The Panthers game, right? The Steelers game. These are games where we have the quarterback advantage, right, and that's not a lot of games on our schedule. Our quarterback situation is not ideal, but the games where we have a distinct quarterback advantage, we have to win, and I think Antonio Pearce is driving home that consistency, right? We have to win the games that we have a quarterback advantage in, so that's four or five on the schedule, and then the rest of the way, you're going to have to steal a Rams game. You're going to have to try to steal a Dolphins game in Miami, and if the defense shows up and travels and Antonio Pearce is the master motivator that we all believe that he is, we could win 10 games and make the playoffs. So those are really my final thoughts here. What do I see in the chat here? Not making the playoffs, you know, with our quarterbacks. I understand that. Wild card if the defense is the lead, our quarterback is the lead, we'll make a deep run into the playoffs. Interesting. I don't see that. Hopefully we don't shoot ourselves in the foot. I agree. Mintry starting, it's realistic to think he's not going to get it done. I've lost all my enthusiasm for the season. Garner was made the starter. Let's talk about this right there before I sign off. I was cautiously optimistic going into the season with Aiden starting. I've now dropped the L.Y. and the optimistic, and I'm just cautious. I don't know how this is going to go. I'm always going to be excited, and I will be back here Monday, the Monday after our first game, which is the 9th, I believe. Yeah, September 9th. I will be here 1 p.m. Eastern to recap the game. Hopefully it's going to be a win that I'm recapping, but either way, I'll be here for half an hour every single Monday in September at 1 p.m. So, my final record prediction for Bleacher Report for the Las Vegas Raiders is 10 and 7. Thank you guys so much for watching. If you like this, make sure you set these reminders, and I'm going to be live every Monday, and then head over into the bottom of the screen that says YouTube backslash All Aboard Raiders. That's where I'm talking all the time about this stuff, and then I send out little notifications on there to come here for the live. Thank you so much for watching. I will see you next time, and thank you, Bleacher Report, for having me on.