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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, December twenty eighth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your Man, MG,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Grant joined by Michael F. Florio. We got a

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Speaker 1: great episode for you today. We are previewing the second

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Speaker 1: half of the Week seventeen slate of games. Be sure

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Speaker 1: to check out our Wednesday episode to hear the first half,

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Speaker 1: also giving you our fantasy heroes for Championship Week. But

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Speaker 1: let's get started with some hot takes. Time to get

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Speaker 1: spicy with some hot takes for Week seventeen.

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Speaker 2: Start us off, Mike, just remember when schedule came out

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Speaker 2: in May, like and everyone gets excited for it. And

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Speaker 2: you saw what that Chiefs Bengals Week seventeen game, and

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Speaker 2: we're like, that is gonna be the game that decides

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Speaker 2: all the fantasy championships. Joe Burrow's gone, The Chiefs are

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Speaker 2: not the Chiefs this year. I don't care. Just like

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Speaker 2: we drew up back in May, this game is going

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Speaker 2: to determine championships. I think Patrick Mahomes is going to

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Speaker 2: have a vintage Patrick Mahomes game.

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Speaker 1: In this one.

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Speaker 2: The Bengals have been torched through the pass as of late,

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Speaker 2: they allowed three hundred and two to Nick Mullins. They

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Speaker 2: allowed over twenty fantasy points to Mason Rudolph last week.

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Speaker 2: And then on the other side, like t Higgins is

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Speaker 2: going to win people some championships. I think Clyde Edwards

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Speaker 2: are Laire could get in on the fun. So I

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Speaker 2: think this is even though it's two teams that haven't

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Speaker 2: quite lived up to the high, high expectations we put

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Speaker 2: on them, I think they're gonna come through.

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Speaker 1: Just find this. Yeah, I do like Cees this week too.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a surprise smash spot for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people. For me, I think the teams

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Speaker 1: that are gonna win you championships the forty nine Ers

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Speaker 1: and the Rams, both of them playing pretty good. Look,

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Speaker 1: I know the Niners got blown out last week, but overall,

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Speaker 1: they've been playing great football all year long. The Rams

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Speaker 1: have been speaking of Franks red hot, they have been

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Speaker 1: red hot offensively for the last several weeks, and they

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Speaker 1: have sort of been in playoff mode for a while.

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Speaker 1: They get the Giants, they get a Giants defense that

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Speaker 1: has not been good all year long, and so I

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Speaker 1: think whether it's Matthew Stafford, Cooper Cup, Puka Nakua, Kyron Williams,

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Speaker 1: DeMarcus Robinson has big sleeper vibes this week you are

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Speaker 1: playing those guys, and of course with the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 1: we know you're starting everybody, Perty, Samuel CMC, I, you Kittle.

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Speaker 1: All these guys are in play very much this week

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Speaker 1: against the Washington Commanders. So if you've got Niners or

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Speaker 1: Rams on your team, put them in your lineup. I'm

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Speaker 1: not guaranteeing that you will win a Fantasy championship, but

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be in a very good spot to win

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Speaker 1: a title this year. All Right. We still have a

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Speaker 1: handful of more games to get to, including Patriots at

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Speaker 1: the Bills. Let's not talk about the Patriots. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about the Bills. Is it time to set Stefan Diggs.

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Speaker 1: He's been pretty bad the last six weeks.

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Speaker 2: I have him as a sit this week in stardom Sittam,

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Speaker 2: which I know some of you are gonna be like,

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Speaker 2: this is the week Digs get right, and I will say, hey,

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Speaker 2: easily could be. He is still Stefon Diggs. He is

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Speaker 2: still awesome. He has a history of success against the Patriots,

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Speaker 2: but since week ten nine Fantasy points per game. I

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Speaker 2: know there was an underthrow last week on a long

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Speaker 2: play that could have been a tough down. But this

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Speaker 2: is a third straight year now where the month of

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Speaker 2: December is going to statistically be the worst month of

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Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs season. It is very concerning because December is

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Speaker 2: when fantasy games matter most. Not a must sit, you're

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Speaker 2: not sitting him for like Rashid Shaheed or someone like that.

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Speaker 2: But if you have another option, like the Fantasy Live team,

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Speaker 2: if I made it to the finals, I was sitting

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Speaker 2: him for Amari Cooper this week. So it depends on

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Speaker 2: what your options are. But if you have another one,

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Speaker 2: I think you can get away from this.

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Speaker 1: So you're saying you learned your lesson after last week

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Speaker 1: sitting a Mari Cooper for Stefan Diggs.

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Speaker 2: See if I did, If I made that sat last week,

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Speaker 2: I'd be in the championship right now.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, you talk about just regrets. Yeah, I get

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Speaker 1: it right, Like everything that you've seen over the last

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Speaker 1: six weeks says to sit Stefan Diggs, I just I

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Speaker 1: know I'd be scared because at some point he's gonna

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Speaker 1: go off. Though, Stephan Diggs games are gonna happen again.

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Speaker 1: And the thing about is the Bills. They're just doing

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Speaker 1: whatever they need to do to win. And maybe that

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Speaker 1: doesn't involve just feeding Digs targets, but at some point,

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Speaker 1: if they're going to want to get in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and advanced in the playoffs, they're going to need Stefan Diggs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: tonight plays.

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Speaker 2: The only concern with that I have is against the Patriots,

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Speaker 2: who have been playing much better. I'm gonna give them

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Speaker 2: their credit. I don't know if this is a game

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Speaker 2: where they'll have to feed them.

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Speaker 1: Very true, based on the Patriots, they may not have

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Speaker 1: to score a lot of points, so they may not

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Speaker 1: need a lot of Stefan Diggs. It's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: tough decision for a lot of folks across fantasy. This

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Speaker 1: week Dolphins Ravens, which could be one of the games

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Speaker 1: of the week, certainly on paper it is. Are you

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Speaker 1: worried about any of the Dolphins after seeing what the

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Speaker 1: Ravens did to a forty nine ers offense that has

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Speaker 1: a lot of similar principles to Miami? You worried about

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Speaker 1: any of the Dolphins players this week? Petrified?

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Speaker 2: I have Tua as a sit obviously if you made it,

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Speaker 2: if you survived last week with Tyreek Hill and all

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Speaker 2: the in my leagues to Tyrek Kill team got eliminated

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Speaker 2: last week, I think you still start Tyreek Hill. I

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Speaker 2: think we have to find out who the lead running

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Speaker 2: back is and you could start them because most of

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Speaker 2: it is banged up. Tyreek Hill is in one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle is going to be out. Look, a lot

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Speaker 2: of you Ravens fans have been tweeting me about something

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Speaker 2: the other guys said that wasn't me. But I'm saying

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Speaker 2: this right here. Dolphins fans feel free to clip it

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Speaker 2: if they proves me wrong. I think the Ravens are

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Speaker 2: going to come out and punch the Dolphins in the

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Speaker 2: mouth this week.

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Speaker 1: Michael f Florio is not the Michael Florio that runs

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk. We'll hope that after all these years,

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Speaker 1: some of you would have figured it out, but apparently

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Speaker 1: not when that guy on the other three letter network

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Speaker 1: says some bad things don't come to this guy because

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Speaker 1: it wasn't him. By the way, you mentioned the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: I mean Cam Wolf are on cam Wolf tweeting earlier

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Tyreek Hill Jalen Waddle, where he moster devon

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Speaker 1: a chan among the Dolphins who did not practice on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is precautionary because some

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Speaker 1: of these guys are banged up, but just something to

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Speaker 1: sort of pay attention to as you get ready for

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Speaker 1: that game. I would stay away from Tua everybody else

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Speaker 1: Raiders at Colts. Davante Adams had a big game game

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Speaker 1: a couple weeks ago, I had a not great game

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Speaker 1: last week. Do we stick with him this week against Indy?

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Speaker 2: I have him in a league, and I'm really nervous

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Speaker 2: because the Colts are really bad against the run, but

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Speaker 2: they've been good against the pass. So my fear is

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Speaker 2: like this is going to become a game like last

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Speaker 2: week where they're like.

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Speaker 1: Eight in O'Connell.

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Speaker 2: You're not throwing the ball at all. We're just going

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Speaker 2: to keep especially if Josh Jacobs's back, so I'm probably

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Speaker 2: gonna have to start him, But it really does depend

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look I again, sort of like with Stefan Diggs, right.

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Speaker 1: I can't completely get away from Devonte Adams just because

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Speaker 1: he's always there's always a chance he goes off for

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Speaker 1: one of those big games. The ceiling this year has

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Speaker 1: there's still a chance that he can put up wide

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Speaker 1: would still roll with him, but just understand that there's

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Speaker 1: a lot more risk with Davonte Adams. You know that already.

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Speaker 1: It's Week seventeen. Rams at the Giants. We sort of

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Speaker 1: touched on this a litle litle bit when we talked

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Speaker 1: about Tyrod Taylor taking over as the starter. Can we

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Speaker 1: trust Darren Waller against the Rams this week?

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Speaker 2: I think so because in the two Tyrod Taylor started

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Speaker 2: two games this year, and it was Darren Waller's best

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Speaker 2: fantasy game and his fourth best fantasy game of the

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Speaker 2: year twenty three points and over nine fantasy points. And

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Speaker 2: the Rams are top five and yards touchdowns fantasy points

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Speaker 2: allowed to tight ends, and they're gonna put up plenty

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Speaker 2: of points against this Giants offense, so I think we'll

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Speaker 2: see them throwing a lot in catch up mode. Look,

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Speaker 2: I'm not telling you to start him over like Sam

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Speaker 2: you're going any deeper like I'd play him over Dalton

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Speaker 1: Yeah. No, I would definitely play Darren Waller for some

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Speaker 1: would give Waller a shot there. Cardinals at the Eagles

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Speaker 2: Though it doesn't look like Marki's Brown is gonna suit up.

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Speaker 2: If he does, he's very boom or bus. Greg Dortsch

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Speaker 2: top streamer there. He's been just getting safe volume as

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Speaker 2: of late, and every once in a while he breaks

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Speaker 2: out a random big play and I'm always like that

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Speaker 2: helps no one, And then I remember that Lawan Jones

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Speaker 2: is the biggest Greg dor I'm like, okay, that helps

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Speaker 2: help keep it. Besides that no one else.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah. Part of me has been trying to squint

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Speaker 1: really hard and make a make a play for Rondelle Moore.

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Speaker 1: But I think again, this is another DFS kind of

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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily need He didn't need a ton of targets

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Speaker 1: necessarily to make a big player put up a big number.

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Speaker 1: But it's a lot of low percentage throws that he's

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Speaker 1: generally getting from Kyler. But on the flip side, when

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Speaker 1: it comes to giving up explosive pass plays, the Eagles

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Speaker 1: give up a lot of them, so there's a possibility

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Speaker 1: for that, but it's just too risky for your championship

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Speaker 1: lineup there. Steelers at the Seahawk, Mason Rudolph getting the

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Speaker 1: start for Pittsburgh this week at quarterback. Can we trust

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Speaker 1: any of the Steelers with this championship on the line.

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are gonna ask about

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Speaker 2: George Pickens. You said yes at four plays. I think

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Speaker 2: it's like of his production on four plays, Yeah, like

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Speaker 2: you need one of those big plays to have any

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Speaker 2: nice day out of George Pickens. So he's more of

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Speaker 2: the play like if you're an underdog or you're going

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Speaker 2: very deep and you are a little bit deeper and

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Speaker 2: you want an upside shot. I do think the running

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Speaker 2: backs are in play this week. Since Week nine, Seahawks

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Speaker 2: have allowed the most rushing yards of running backs, second

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Speaker 2: most touchdowns weekly. We're seeing running backs go off against them.

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Speaker 2: Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys, who are playing at home.

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