Justin Jefferson and David Montgomery join the show + Saquon Barkley Prop Bets

Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry

NBC Sports

Nbc Sports Edge, Rotoworld, Football, Sports, Matthew Berry, Fantasy Sports

4.3 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

February 5: Matthew (@MatthewBerryTMR) and Connor (@ConnorJRogers) kick off the show with Vikings star WR Justin Jefferson, discussing Sam Darnold and Jordan Addison’s emergence this season. Jay (@croucherJD) and Matthew also sit down with Lions RB David Montgomery and former All-Pro RB Shaun Alexander. Bengals OL Ted Karras and Alex Cappa also drop by the set to discuss Joe Burrow and share a Tom Brady story before the crew wraps up with Saquon Barkley and Patrick Mahomes rushing props their betting.

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0:00.0	Fantasy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry, served by Applebee's.
0:12.2	Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour, day three on Radio Row for Super Bowl 59 in New Orleans.
0:18.3	Connor Rogers alongside Matthew Barry, and guess what?
0:21.3	If we needed a louder way to start off our Wednesday interview schedule, we got wide receiver
0:25.6	one sitting with us, Justin Jefferson.
0:27.5	What's happening, man?
0:28.3	It's good, dog.
0:29.3	We're so excited to have you here.
0:31.1	So much of an upgrade over Jake Croucher.
0:32.6	Oh, my goodness.
0:33.5	We're going to see if we can just keep you for the rest of the show.
0:36.4	You want to help us interview some guys?
0:37.9	Why not, man? I'm all here for it.
0:41.0	Let's go. Fantasy football royalty, Justin, obviously, elite wide receiver in the NFL.
0:46.0	I want to talk about this season. Going into the season, there were questions around the quarterback in Minnesota.
0:51.9	Is it going to be JJ? Isn't it going to be Sam? What's this offense going to look like without Kirk? At what point did you know, oh, Sam, we got something here?
1:00.4	Yeah. I mean, just being in training camp and, you know, just talking with him and picking his brain and just seeing some of the throws that he were making in training camp.
1:12.6	I knew he was going to be a good quarterback.
1:15.8	You know, we just needed to surround him with some weapons.
1:22.1	You know, me, JA, T.J., Aaron Jones, you know, those type of guys to help him out.
1:25.5	You know, that's all that he really needs is a little bit more help.
1:29.6	You know, and that's looking back on it and looking at his career, that's a little bit something that he lacked a little bit was, you know, that extra weapon, you know, that firepower
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