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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, it is Monday, September fourth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to a special edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast,

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Speaker 1: where we are laboring for you even on Labor Day.

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Speaker 1: It's me and your man, MG Marcus Brand joined by

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Speaker 1: Michael F. Florio Short Show Today. Florio, we just have.

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Speaker 2: We have one special guest and that's it.

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Speaker 3: One very fun guest that I'm very excited to talk

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Speaker 3: to near and dear to my favorite team's hearts. So

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm excited.

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Speaker 1: That absolutely, So we'll get to that. And otherwise it's

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Speaker 1: a Labor Day weekend. It is a holiday weekend. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure a lot of you out there have been doing drafts.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you're enjoying time with your family, but we also

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Speaker 1: appreciate you taking a little bit of time out of

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Speaker 1: your day to join us and listen to us talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit of fantasy football.

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Speaker 2: Join now by a very special guest.

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Speaker 1: He was a seventh round pick out of the University

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Speaker 1: of Kentucky back in two thousand and eight, played eight

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Speaker 1: NFL s, including six with the Buffalo Bills three years

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Speaker 1: with one thousand receiving yards.

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Speaker 2: It is Stevie Johnson. Florida.

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Speaker 1: I know you were excited one of your your great

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Speaker 1: bills wide receivers is here. You gotta be fired up about.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, my Stevie knows, but he was my favorite

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Speaker 3: player growing up. So it's just to get to talk

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Speaker 3: to him and stuff as an honor. The thirteen and

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Speaker 3: Fitzpatrick was they were a very fun combination.

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Speaker 2: So Stevie Man, appreciate the time. Man, how are you nowadays?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm good man. I'm living out here in San Diego. Yeah. Man,

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Speaker 4: me and Mike we go back.

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Speaker 5: You know, in the days where things was things that

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Speaker 5: we see now was new. You know, it was somewhat new,

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Speaker 5: especially in a Buffalo area, so it was it was.

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Speaker 5: It was a classic time. But we're definitely in greater

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Speaker 5: times now.

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Speaker 1: So you were a guy, you were a late round pick,

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Speaker 1: but you ended up having a very good career, as

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Speaker 1: I mentioned eight NFL seasons. When you see guys now

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Speaker 1: who are are getting drafted late or going undrafted and

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Speaker 1: signing as free agents, what sort of advice do you

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Speaker 1: have for those.

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Speaker 5: Of players believing in themselves, believing their skills, because the

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Speaker 5: rounds really don't.

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Speaker 4: Matter as far as skill and talent go.

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Speaker 5: And hard and you know, having a passion to be

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Speaker 5: whatever you want to be on that team. You know,

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Speaker 5: given the situation, you know, when it comes to thinking

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Speaker 5: about money, you know that you got to you gotta

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Speaker 5: clear your mind and understand that that will come. If

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Speaker 5: you work hard and you handle your business, the money

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Speaker 5: will come. So you know, don't cloud your mind with

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Speaker 5: the money because it's easy. You know, especially nowadays with

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Speaker 5: all that entertainment and social media that goes on. You

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Speaker 5: can see a lot. You can see everything that's going

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Speaker 5: on and how much fun someone's having, and you want

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Speaker 5: to be there right now, you know, but you got

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Speaker 5: to lock in and stay focused and understanding it will

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Speaker 5: happen if you be patient.

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Speaker 3: And a big part of fantasy football, we're always looking

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Speaker 3: for wide receivers who could break out and exceed the

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Speaker 3: expectations coming in you as a receiver, and you teach receivers,

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Speaker 3: is there any like specific trait or anything like that

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Speaker 3: this guy's he's got it, He's going to break out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I see what receivers. I see like certain movements.

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Speaker 5: You know, if they can come to balance, if they

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Speaker 5: look at and I can tell like, Okay, this person,

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Speaker 5: he's checking off a list of things that can be

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Speaker 5: a contributor at first, and then it just comes down

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Speaker 5: to experience. You know, a lot of these kids are

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Speaker 5: coming into the game with great skill. You know, they

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Speaker 5: got a lot of seven on seven camps and private sessions.

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Speaker 5: A lot of us retired guys are now training and

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Speaker 5: than that, you know, and and so the talent is there,

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Speaker 5: in situations, and then you know, you see these kids

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Speaker 1: For so, as you watch the NFL nowadays, who are

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Speaker 1: some receivers that have really caught your I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: we know the guys were big stars, but there's some

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Well, I honestly don't don't look at too

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Speaker 5: kind of lock in on on the Bills, the Bills,

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Speaker 4: So I really like the tight end. I like the

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Speaker 4: tight end Dogon kinkaid.

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Speaker 5: I feel like, you know, before we got him, our

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Speaker 5: you see how he moved. He's put in some of

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Speaker 5: And I think they go somewhat forced the issue with

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Speaker 5: I kind of locked in on him thus far.

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Speaker 3: And you talk about being locked in on the Bills.

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Speaker 3: I'm the resident Bills fan on the network. We have

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Speaker 3: our Josh Allen bobblehead right here. No pressure on the Bills.

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Speaker 3: I did pick them to win the Super Bowl this year.

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Speaker 4: But what did you there?

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Speaker 6: You go, and you also just give a little plug.

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Speaker 3: You made the official Bills Mafia song Buffalo against the

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Speaker 3: World check it out on YouTube. But you picked them

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Speaker 3: to win the Super Bowl, I guess high expectations. What

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Speaker 3: do you think of the moves they've made and heading

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Speaker 4: I think they made some good moves, to be honest.

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Speaker 5: You know, from a real standpoint, I thought we should

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Speaker 5: have should have picked up Dalvin Cook and then just

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Speaker 4: I think it would have been good for business.

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Speaker 5: And you know, obviously he's a solid back and you

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Speaker 4: You know. I just thought that have been cool just

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Speaker 5: So that's from my fan perspective, and you know, from

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Speaker 5: a business point, I'm cool with it. You know, let's

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Speaker 5: just continue to load up. I say I'm cool with

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Speaker 5: You know, it's a long season and guys are getting better,

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Speaker 4: I would love to see some more alignment.

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Speaker 5: I think Jason Peters out there be cool to see

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Speaker 1: So having spent most of your career in Buffalo, you

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Speaker 1: picked them to win the Super Bowl. What would it

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Speaker 2: What would it be into that city to have a

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Speaker 4: And I mean everything to him, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: And I think it'll it'll be cool.

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Speaker 5: But they it ain't like they'll they'll be like like

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Speaker 5: I think they jump right back to the next season.

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Speaker 5: I feel like we're gonna do it again. You know,

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Speaker 5: it's the same, it's the same thing. We just you know,

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Speaker 5: one of those franchise that don't have that Bowl yet,

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Speaker 5: and you know, everybody want to have that Bowl.

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Speaker 4: When I had that championship, feeling that that's bring it

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Speaker 5: I think the city's been blessed, to be honest, having

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Speaker 5: unbelievable seasons, players, player engagement with the city. The only

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Speaker 3: I did pick them to beat the forty nine ers

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Speaker 3: in the Super Bowl, so the Stevie Johnson Bowl we

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Speaker 3: two years ago that if the Bill's winning Super Bowl,

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Speaker 3: I will jump through a table on this show.

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Speaker 6: If they win, you're gonna come jump in.

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Speaker 2: One with us.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll throw you through the table.

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Speaker 6: I agree.

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Speaker 5: I am down for that safely though, I really like

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Speaker 5: I want them to be. But I mean, yeah, we

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Speaker 5: did rock bottom.

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Speaker 4: All right? Come up? We turned it up.

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Speaker 1: So you are you're hosting a charity fantasy league this year?

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Speaker 2: Now? Is this your first year playing fantasy football?

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Speaker 4: Officially tapped in week by week?

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Speaker 5: This would be the first year that I'm that I mean,

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Speaker 5: and I'm I'm looking forward to it. I get a

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Speaker 5: lot of cameos when it's fantasy football time.

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Speaker 4: So it's turned up and it got me really hyped.

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Speaker 5: So I wanted to link up with one of the

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Speaker 5: more community engagement.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because Florida, you're you're involved in this, right, Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Me and Stevie set up the league. It's filled. We

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Speaker 6: got the draft coming up later this week. What's your

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I'm going with so like I'm trying

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Speaker 5: to get the combination. You know, I know Josh and

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Speaker 5: Diggs or Gaye, they gonna give us. They gonna give

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Speaker 5: us thousands, you know what I'm saying. They will give

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Speaker 5: us points. So I'm trying to get the combination. You know,

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Speaker 5: some might not like in this either, but you know

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Speaker 5: that Miami combination will wado In and Hell and Tua.

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Speaker 5: If I can get that three, that's that's that's points

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Speaker 5: right there too. And I just got to check out

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Speaker 5: a defense. I still got some work to do.

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Speaker 1: So, I mean, nowadays you talk about receivers, and I

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Speaker 1: know you said you watch the Bills, you sort of

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Speaker 1: watch the Niners, but just the league as a whole,

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Speaker 1: it's so much.

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Speaker 2: More geared to wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: Do you feel like you showed up maybe a few

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Speaker 1: years too early compared to where to how receivers are

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Speaker 1: balling out nowadays.

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Speaker 4: I was right on time.

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Speaker 5: I think I saved a lot of these guys money,

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Speaker 5: you know, with and it's not only me, you know,

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Speaker 5: Chad and Steve Smith, they they did things that inspired me,

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Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. Even further, than that Dion

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Speaker 5: and Andre Rising, you know, those guys was doing with showtime,

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Speaker 5: you know, but I think we was all at our

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Speaker 5: right time, you know, molding the next generation of superstars.

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Speaker 5: And you can see it now. You can see you

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Speaker 5: can see the league being fun. I really think this

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Speaker 5: is gonna be the most entertaining league or season of

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Speaker 5: the NFL thus far.

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Speaker 6: Is there any receiver who reminds you of your game?

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Speaker 5: There's there's things that they do, but none that's that's

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Speaker 5: I've just been mentoring partner with Charles Roberts with Delaware North,

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Speaker 4: You know you'll be okay.

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Speaker 5: And right now we own book actually on book two,

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Speaker 5: But it's you know, it's a ton of things I got,

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Speaker 3: Definitely go out if you have children in your football

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Speaker 6: But also, Stevie, we.

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Speaker 3: Mentioned the charity league that's going to your Exposure Academy,

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Speaker 5: So anything is helpful and anything is appreciated because, I mean,

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, So I'll go folks and go check that out.

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Speaker 1: Guys, you're on Instagram right, Exposure Academy on Instagram.

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Speaker 4: It out at Xaxposure Academy.

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Speaker 1: All right, so go check it out on Instagram. Also

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Speaker 1: the books, there's always a way with Stevie J. Freddy

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Legend of Fitsmagic And you can find it

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Speaker 1: Absolutely to go check those out there. Stevie, We appreciate

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Speaker 1: I will definitely be you know, I'll be talking to

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Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, for sure, man, We'll see how this

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Speaker 4: Man. I know I'm gonna make some bogus trade off.

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Speaker 1: Got Hey, Man, that's the whole point of playing fantasy.

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Speaker 1: That's the whole fun of it. Hey Man, appreciate you, man,

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Speaker 1: Take care Stevie.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, love y'all, big.

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Speaker 2: Big thanks to Stevie Johnson. Look. I always loved dudes.

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Speaker 1: From the seven oh seven area code because that is

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Speaker 1: for hanging out with us. Go check out the Exposure Academy.

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Speaker 1: Go check out his books on Amazon as well. In

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Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Stay happy, safe and healthy,

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