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Speaker 1: guy's kind of a jerk anyway, So uh, they ended

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Speaker 1: up booting him. But I give Darryl Bevel credit for

429
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Speaker 1: taking the high road and giving as many reasons on

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Speaker 1: why he wouldn't have called a fake punt in that situation,

431
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Speaker 1: which I'll tell you what it won me over. So

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Speaker 1: I I support his decision in that in that spot,

433
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying a guy who's in an interim spot

434
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Speaker 1: just said I'm in charge like this, I'm not. We're

435
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: not laying down and Stafford, you know, for his point.

436
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,520
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think the guy gets enough credit

437
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Speaker 1: for continuing to play behind the tra offensive line that

438
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,760
Speaker 1: they feed him most years. He did the no look

439
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,000
Speaker 1: pass that he had against Tennessee and that was Patrick

440
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: Mahomes ESPN to do a thirty minute hour special on

441
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: the past itself. They would, they would do a complete breakdown.

442
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 1: But I mean, when you just want, if you can,

443
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,040
Speaker 1: if if you're listening out there and you don't know

444
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, just go Stafford, no look pass

445
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: on Twitter, on Google. It is amazing because he did it.

446
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 1: He did it from about fifteen to twenty yards out

447
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:34,880
Speaker 1: and he threw it into the end zone and threw

448
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Speaker 1: a dark for a score. It's truly, I mean he

449
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,199
Speaker 1: he does not get the credit for how good of

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. You know, he really is tending in New England.

451
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Speaker 1: Start the new dynasty, oh Man. Looking ahead the week sixteen,

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Speaker 1: Mike's gonna get you a couple of numbers, some hot

453
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Speaker 1: plays in a second. I just I want to point

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Speaker 1: out two things that I think are going to be

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Speaker 1: important for Week sixteen, and even to move ahead. Seattle

456
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,359
Speaker 1: and l A playing in Week sixteen scares me. And

457
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,560
Speaker 1: it's not just this game, Mike, but it's other games

458
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Speaker 1: that have playoff implications with teams uh division situations. Because

459
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,119
Speaker 1: the main goal is to win the football game. The

460
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,239
Speaker 1: main goal is to figure out a way how you

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Speaker 1: get one more point than the other team because of

462
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Speaker 1: what is riding on it. When you have two teams,

463
00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,880
Speaker 1: not like Seattle in the Rams, even specifically in their

464
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: matchup going against each other, there are guys that you

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Speaker 1: may have on your team that you want to play.

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Speaker 1: You know, DK Metcalf didn't have a great game against

467
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Speaker 1: Washington this past week and week fifteen, and I gotta

468
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 1: go up against Jalen Ramsey, So that turns that a

469
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Speaker 1: little bit more. You want to you know, play Chris

470
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Speaker 1: Carson will look Carlos Hyde had the fifty yard touched

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Speaker 1: on run. Now you bring roshot pennyback. You talked about

472
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Speaker 1: golf struggles that he had. You really you know, safe

473
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Speaker 1: about Cooper Cup and Robert Woods. So that specific matchup

474
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Speaker 1: scares the heck out of me. But even above all

475
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Speaker 1: the those things that I say, it's still the fact

476
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 1: of it's likely for the NFC West Crown. So that's

477
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,000
Speaker 1: all that they really, the coaches, really really care about.

478
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Speaker 1: So to expect like the huge, huge numbers you're gonna get,

479
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: you know in a game, it's it's just not gonna

480
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: happen when the most important thing is to leave that

481
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 1: stadium with a win sitting at forty seven and a

482
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Speaker 1: half the over under. I'm with you. I think this

483
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:26,119
Speaker 1: becomes more the ground control chess match as best you

484
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,400
Speaker 1: can look. The rams asn't mentioned earlier they'll play without Acres,

485
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,960
Speaker 1: so it goes back to Henderson and whatever the platoon

486
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:38,320
Speaker 1: situation becomes. But I think it's just very much that

487
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: you're not trying to go for the big home run

488
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Speaker 1: strike to potentially turn the ball over right. You're not

489
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Speaker 1: gonna force feed dk Metcalf going up against Jail and Ramsey.

490
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:50,360
Speaker 1: You're gonna do everything you can to get the ball

491
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Speaker 1: out fast too. So Aaron Donald isn't laying on top

492
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Speaker 1: of Russell Wilson all day. So it's I think there's

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Speaker 1: a lot before. It's not pretty. No, no, it's not

494
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Speaker 1: good for anybody. Why why do all these like young

495
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: talents have to come into the NFC West and terrorize

496
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Speaker 1: everything Aaron Donald, you know, Jalen Ramsey comes over and

497
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 1: now you've got Kyler Murrain the offense, the side of

498
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,679
Speaker 1: things with the Arizona. DeAndre Hopkins gets traded to the

499
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: NFC West and Nick Boss, I mean, stay away, go

500
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: to a different division for once. Chicago guy, I've had

501
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: what thirty years of my life ruled by Brent Aaron Rodgers.

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00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: But you eat it, lap He's not talking to me,

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00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: he's talking to lead to lap Our, our executive producer.

504
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: The good news is you've also had thirty years of

505
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,600
Speaker 1: Lions quarterbacks to go against, as we just hyped up

506
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. So that didn't even make much sense. Yeah,

507
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: that's true, that's true. Uh the quarterback, speaking of which,

508
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: in Week sixteen, I'll just say this before we get

509
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: to the to the names that you want to play. Uh,

510
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: love Justin Herbert against the Broncos. Why wouldn't you love

511
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,359
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert? I love Deshaun Watson against the Bengals. I

512
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: know the Bengals make you think man like what it

513
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,160
Speaker 1: did to Ben Roethlisberger. It's now a short week. You're

514
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 1: coming off of your big high the Texans. For as

515
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: bad as they maybe, Watson has been magnificent. Um. I

516
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,199
Speaker 1: think Herbert and Watson are are in store for very

517
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 1: good Week sixteens. So if you're in a championship game,

518
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 1: you're obviously playing Justin Herbert, You're obviously playing Deshaun Watson.

519
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: As you normally would, but I think that you could

520
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 1: just expect success from those guys usual studs. Mix in

521
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurt. You and I both love him. Good opportunity

522
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: this week going up against Alice. Uh, so he makes

523
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Speaker 1: my top five for the week. I've got him in

524
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Speaker 1: at number four amongst the usual suspects of Kyler and

525
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: my homes, et cetera. Hot players. We mentioned, you know,

526
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: Tom Brady a little bit before I'll stump for Trabisky.

527
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: He's got Jacksonville, Yeah, on the schedule, so an opportunity there.

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Speaker 1: You look at Ben against Indianapolis, He and Golf uh

529
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson, they all are on the cold cold

530
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Speaker 1: sore list appropriate at holiday holiday holiday time. UH. Russell's

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00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: still a back end number one. But if I'm looking

532
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Speaker 1: at my my guy on the bench, looking to see

533
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,280
Speaker 1: if I've got a better matchup there for Ninja purposes.

534
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,600
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan going up against Kansas City. Kansas City, a

535
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Speaker 1: team that's allowed a little over twenty points per game

536
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Speaker 1: to opposing quarterbacks UH ninth most in the NFL over

537
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: the last month, So an opportunity there. And then we

538
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 1: mentioned Ryan Finley because he runs the ball right if

539
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: he's gonna take off with his legs trying to evade

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Speaker 1: uh J J watt. I hope they might come up

541
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Speaker 1: to so you can hear him scream as what tries

542
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: to chase him down from behind? My god man. But

543
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: the opportunity again, daily Fantasy league potential. Just keep throwing

544
00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: the ball and Houston's defense maybe a bit over rasted

545
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: to give you an opportunity. So there's your quarterback, uh synopsis,

546
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: that's the quarterback position. Let's deal with the running backs

547
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 1: and wide receivers what you like moving forward four week sixteen,

548
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: because it is winning time. There are a lot of

549
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: championship games, a lot of games to avoid tattoos. Where

550
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: our boy Adam unfortunately I think, came up came up short.

551
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,600
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some ink. There's gonna be some ink there.

552
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: But who would you shy away from in week fifty

553
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Speaker 1: Week sixteen if you if you had to decide cold stars,

554
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take two running backs that stand out bad matchups.

555
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: Robinson against the Bears. Look, he'll be an RB two

556
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: based on touches, but also looking at Mike Davis going

557
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: up against Washington. Do know goes Guys with larger workloads.

558
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 1: We've got so many workload splits across the NFL, but

559
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: looking at guys who are primary ball carriers, I'm stamping

560
00:30:53,720 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: down expectations here. You're you're totally forgetting Christian McCaffrey may

561
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,719
Speaker 1: this this week, and he may come back and play

562
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 1: in a meaningless game, just like we've heard from week

563
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: fourteen week when he doesn't play after the bye, He's

564
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: not gonna play it all this season. I don't know

565
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: why they keep fooling us. Heck, even even on the

566
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: Monday night broadcast, Steve Leevy tried to say, yeah, Joe

567
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 1: Mixon could be back for the Bengals. Then, I don't

568
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: know if it was greasy or Riddick is like, um No,

569
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Speaker 1: that would be stupid. That would be really dumb if

570
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Speaker 1: they did that. And I'm paraphrasing, but that's that's Riddick

571
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:38,959
Speaker 1: auditioning for a GM role. That's just dumb. Who Although

572
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: he did make a cameo in the post game mocking

573
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Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster by singing the Corvette Corvettes. Well, I

574
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: will say this, if Matt Rule does play Christian McCaffrey.

575
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:51,959
Speaker 1: The first rule of the job of the new GM

576
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: would be to fire Matt Rule for making that decision

577
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, like there's no reason for him

578
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: to play in these final two weeks. But anyway, go

579
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: ahead with your cold SoRs. Yeah, cold stres for the

580
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: week at the look at also A. J. Brown's a

581
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: guy that I'm while we're gonna play him going up

582
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: against Green Bay, uh and looking at that just individual

583
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: matchup on the edge, It's not what I'm looking forward

584
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Speaker 1: to for him, right. We talked about cornerbacks and shutting

585
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: things down. Green Bay has got one of your best

586
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: in the games. So Alexander, Yeah, so and I like

587
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Speaker 1: saying year, I mean it's just good, uh, Nations of

588
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Speaker 1: the world kind of thing. Well, you know what you know,

589
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 1: it's you know, savan Akhmed is the exact pronunciation. Yeah,

590
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: so that's that's so, there's there's stuff. Trust me. It

591
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: took me I practice for weeks truly. And you you

592
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: and I've you know, talked about this as well of

593
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: getting games with me with tah you know, to a

594
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Speaker 1: tongue of Iloa. You know you're saying it's the tongue,

595
00:32:55,320 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: it's the tongue and dju that's what it is. Yeah,

596
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: that's that's it's trying to trying to figure out a

597
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: way to know and to be respectful. Yeah, I mean

598
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 1: that's just it. I mean that that's you and I

599
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: We we strive for that. I mean we could go

600
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: to the simple, just call them by their first name

601
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: and move on. But you know, where's the well people

602
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: still do it, Dan, other players. I mean we talked

603
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: about Acamed already, Kareem Hunt going up against the Jets. Uh,

604
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: not too big a stretch there, somewhat of a ninja

605
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 1: play because you get the goal line touches. You looking

606
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: at Leonard four Nette, You're not getting much in the

607
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: way of yardage. He's not rumbling very well like he

608
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: did once upon a time. But it would appear that Dave,

609
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,720
Speaker 1: at least for the moment, decided not to let tom

610
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Speaker 1: Brady dive into big biles, which I think he's got

611
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 1: to be a little salty about, right. That was one

612
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: of the extra perks for tom Brady were all the

613
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns when most of his contemporaries, I mean, looking

614
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,120
Speaker 1: at you, Phil Rivers wouldn't mother to do it. So

615
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: an opportunity there, uh and then uh, a little bit

616
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: deeper in terms of white outs, Brandon Cooks, Terry McLaren.

617
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:12,720
Speaker 1: On the plus side of things, Ninja's tarn Johnson Denver. Again.

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00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: They may get healthy, they may not. Uh. And even

619
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 1: with Mike Williams and Keenan Allen's surprise starts, he still

620
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,399
Speaker 1: found the end zone this past week. Uh. In terms

621
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Speaker 1: of the top five, all your usual suspects. The only

622
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: one I think for me that crack the top five

623
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Speaker 1: a little bit better. I've got Brandon you all the

624
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: way up there at number five against Arizona. Okay, all right, well,

625
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you one reason to start a guy,

626
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: And I told you look for the Saturday, the Saturday push,

627
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: because there are opportunities if you were one of those

628
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: people that said, you know what, I'm gonna put it

629
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Speaker 1: in a waiver claim for Antonio Brown because they heard

630
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: rumblings midseason that he could be coming back. When he

631
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: ended up coming back and he's actually been a contributor

632
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: and got in the end zone against the Falcons in

633
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Speaker 1: week fifteen. And now you have the Lions. And while

634
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: I actually think that Mike Evans is the guy that

635
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: stirs the drink there with Tampa Bay, Antonio Brown's numbers

636
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: cannot be denied, and they're comparable to what Chris Godwin's

637
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: put up over the last four weeks. I'm not saying

638
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Speaker 1: that you've been playing Godwin, but if you've been playing Godwin,

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Speaker 1: you have every right to play Antonio Brown. And I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what right now, I think Tom Brady trust

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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown probably more than anybody on that Buccaneers team.

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Speaker 1: So I like Antonio Brown, uh, just for the trust

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Speaker 1: factor against the Lions. For you give you one reason

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Speaker 1: to start. You mentioned J K. Dobbins that was might

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Speaker 1: give me one reason to bench as well, And if

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Speaker 1: he goes off, I'll just say it's one of your

647
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Speaker 1: bad plays, but I'll take the win on it. Only. No,

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Speaker 1: the only yard rusher the Giants have allowed this season,

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Speaker 1: according to my data, was Week one and that was

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Speaker 1: Benny Snell on the Monday night game. So when you

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Speaker 1: look back at who the Giants, I I mean even

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Speaker 1: Nick chobb got in the end zone for the Browns

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Speaker 1: this past weekend, but at sixty carries for fifty yards

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Speaker 1: or so, so that you know, and Nick Chubbs, you know,

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Speaker 1: one of the better running macks have gotten the national

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Speaker 1: football So the Giants have been able to keep those

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Speaker 1: guys in check. Still seeing Gus Edwards and obviously you

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Speaker 1: have Lamar Jackson running the football. Um so yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm actually with you on j K Dobbins. But

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Speaker 1: the the status the Giants ability to limit running backs

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Speaker 1: to get to that century mark is the reason to

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Speaker 1: Ben's j K Dobbins in Week sixteen, how about the

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Speaker 1: ability of the Giants to be logical in their play

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Speaker 1: calling and red zone opportunities. Okay, this was all about

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Speaker 1: their defense and shutting down. No good job by them,

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Speaker 1: uh and they should have gotten stomped by more I

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Speaker 1: Although I did have someone text me, do you think

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Speaker 1: him up. People tell me I'm wrong, good old, good

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675
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Speaker 1: he's been in the league for for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Throw a mustache on, I mean looks like a kid

677
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Speaker 1: wearing a fake mustache. That's uh, that's that's all right.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to the uh anymore you want to add

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Speaker 1: before we wrap this baby up. It is a Christmas

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Speaker 1: you've got for us Fantasy Ninja. Well, a couple of

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Speaker 1: guys that actually cracked the top five that are out

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Speaker 1: of the ordinary. And I just want to highlight how

684
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Speaker 1: good David Montgomery is because I think people still don't

685
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Speaker 1: trust him. I mean, he's been fantastic for the last month,

686
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Speaker 1: but the Bears run game was so deplorable for the

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Speaker 1: first three quarters of the season uh to date that

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Speaker 1: people have stayed away. But against Jacksonville, you've got a shot.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones is number one, just because I want to

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Speaker 1: make lead a lap feel good. I had a Christmas

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Speaker 1: I've got Tony Pollard sitting at number four, which he'd

692
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Speaker 1: said it going all the way back to week three,

693
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Speaker 1: Week four of the season. He looked better, he looked

694
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Speaker 1: more explosive than Ezekiel Elliott and what did you see

695
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Speaker 1: in week fifteen? An opportunity for him to show you

696
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Speaker 1: how much different that game could be with the explosive place.

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Speaker 1: Whether Zeke's back or not. I think they saw what

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Speaker 1: they needed too in their play calling this past week.

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Speaker 1: And then Alvin Camari, a guy that you and I

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Speaker 1: I know both are are bullish on whenever Drew Brees

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Speaker 1: is under center to be a little more of of

702
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Speaker 1: a factor so he cracks the top five. Um, I

703
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Speaker 1: think for this week, the biggest thing is is just

704
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Speaker 1: patients and not to listen to all the noise right

705
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Speaker 1: because Week sixteen, everybody starts throwing out wild stuff. Week

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Speaker 1: sixteen is winning time in the National Football League, but

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Speaker 1: it's really winning time in fantasy foot ball leagues. Each

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Speaker 1: of us has a purpose. We are destined to do

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Speaker 1: something meaningful, not only to support our loved ones, but

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Speaker 1: point conversion heading into Week sixteen. Have a Kimera Christmas

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Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, that's so, I'm I'm with you on

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Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara on Friday in the Christmas Day game against

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. I think that he stands out um end

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Speaker 1: your game by Saturday. And I put that out there

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Speaker 1: because there are enough plays in the Saints Vikings game,

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Speaker 1: in the Lions Buccaneers game, in the Niners Cardinals game,

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Speaker 1: and heck even in the Raiders Dolphins game where you

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Speaker 1: could give yourself a nice sizeable lead heading in the

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Speaker 1: Sunday when you consider the points that we could see

725
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Speaker 1: in some of those games, as we've talked about, So

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Speaker 1: go for it on Saturday. And then my final point

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Speaker 1: just kind of a general and this one with the

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Speaker 1: Rams Seahawks talk that we had not specific to that matchup,

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Speaker 1: but just what's on the line. Be very careful of

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Speaker 1: games that mean a lot because the only thing that

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Speaker 1: really matters to those teams is winning the football game,

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Speaker 1: and they're going to figure out ways to do it.

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Speaker 1: You know, they may not be as risky, they may

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Speaker 1: not take as many shots, keeping things closer to the vest.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would be worried about, worry about as

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Speaker 1: you enter Week sixteen, finding those key games where there's

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Speaker 1: something on the line, and there's big stuff on the

738
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Speaker 1: line and you and this goes for a week seventeen

739
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Speaker 1: as well when we get to that point. But just

740
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Speaker 1: stay away from those crucial games because those are the

741
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Speaker 1: games that I don't think are going to live up

742
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Speaker 1: to the expectations fantasy wise. Yeah, I think that there's

743
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,840
Speaker 1: some interesting matchups here on the schedule. Certainly we we

744
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 1: talked about the Pittsburgh slide and avoiding them a little bit. Uh,

745
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Speaker 1: Kansas City more Levian Bell with no uh Clyde Edon

746
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Speaker 1: Hilaire ready to play in this one, uh the injury reports.

747
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Speaker 1: I mean, look all the way through, you're gonna have

748
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Speaker 1: to make some very difficult decisions on those Friday and

749
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Speaker 1: Saturday games. That's the one thing I don't like about

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Speaker 1: their existence is just that Dan and and and the

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Speaker 1: other thing with with the Clyde injury. I hope you

752
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Speaker 1: weren't playing them because I I ended up. I just

753
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Speaker 1: I had to move off of him. And I know

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Speaker 1: that Levian Bell got into the end zone. And maybe

755
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Speaker 1: now they're just gonna be like, Okay, this is you know,

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Speaker 1: this is what we have to do. But they've showed

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Speaker 1: at times that they don't even care to run the ball.

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Speaker 1: They they actually did against the Saints that the the

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Speaker 1: numbers that Clyde put up and Levian Bell ended up

760
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Speaker 1: putting up. We're decent numbers. But um, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's a blast of the past and he

762
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Speaker 1: gets in the end zone a couple of times. I

763
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Speaker 1: just wouldn't, you know, get my oaks up. Well, But

764
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Speaker 1: that that's the point, right, is that opportunity? But just no,

765
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Speaker 1: you maybe making a deal with the devil, you know

766
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Speaker 1: on Christmas weekend? Uh, to try to get on board

767
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Speaker 1: there the over unders sitting at fifty four though so

768
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Speaker 1: awful tempting, no question my three Uh the dance with

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Speaker 1: of a question mark slash exclamation point there in terms

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Speaker 1: of your studs, because they're gonna be some temptations. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And particularly right we're looking at Minnesota New Orleans Friday

773
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Speaker 1: and those Saturday games. All of a sudden you might

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Speaker 1: start chasing. Don't overthink it, don't get caught up, right

775
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Speaker 1: unless you're in those you know, w R three situations

776
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Speaker 1: where like, all right, where's my higher ceiling? Hurts, don't it? Uh?

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Speaker 1: He's a top five play uh this week? Uh? And

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is crying, Uh, I'm just calling it what

779
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Speaker 1: it is. Uh, And then are you baking this holiday season? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's try. Baker Mayfield's got a date against the Jets.

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Speaker 1: Let's go little Jarvis Landry, a little Richard Higgins. Higgins

782
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Speaker 1: as of us sitting down to talk about this late

783
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: on Monday night, still only owned in about of Yahoo leagues,

784
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Speaker 1: which would expand to the entirety of the Fantasy universe,

785
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Speaker 1: except you know these expert leagues where there's nobody available

786
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Speaker 1: that's ever taken a snap or had a target. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Baker Mayfield play to go along with that parallel,

788
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Speaker 1: I did pick up Brown's defense to go up against

789
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Speaker 1: the Jets, which actually feel even better about that. The

790
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Speaker 1: Jets won because there's nowhere they're gonna do it in

791
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: back to back weeks, So I feel really good about that.

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Speaker 1: I just can't wait to play them in the ever

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Speaker 1: us have been there. Oh man, all right, Well, hey,

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Speaker 1: want your flex. We'll be back after weeks sixteen. I'll

800
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Speaker 1: look back at that week, take a look to look

801
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Speaker 1: ahead of weeks seventeen, and Mike and I actually have

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Speaker 1: some really good news. Podcast gonna be continuing through the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl at least, So we'll be joining you each

804
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Speaker 1: week to get ready for the NFL season, look ahead

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Speaker 1: to rookie draft classes that could have a role in fantasy,

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Speaker 1: and something that I really really advocates, figure out a

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Speaker 1: way to play fantasy during the NFL playoffs. So we'll

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Speaker 1: be doing some of that stuff as well, because there's

809
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun to have there. But my kids,

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Speaker 1: we're not winding down. We're just gonna keep on going

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Speaker 1: more caffeine and we'll roll it up even week seventeen.

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Speaker 1: We'll find some creative ways for you to to make

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen valuable because I don't know how many teams

815
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Speaker 1: are just gonna lay down this year. There's no Peyton

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Speaker 1: Manning dipping out. Remember how well that worked out for

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Speaker 1: them year after year with Tony Dungee all those years. Yeah,

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