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Speaker 1: What's up, friends, and welcome into Fantasy pros. This is

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Speaker 1: the Fantasy Football Podcast. I'm Chris Welsh, and we have

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Speaker 1: got ranks for week two. Week one in the books,

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Speaker 1: and joining me for the Week two ranks show, of course,

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Speaker 1: is Pat Fitzmorris Andrew Erickson. Both might be making appearances

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Speaker 1: when we talked about the accuracy contest, because yes, we

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Speaker 1: do have a weekly accuracy contest that we put out

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Speaker 1: there every single week and into the season long stuff.

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Speaker 1: We talked about it in the last episode, Fitzie, where

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Speaker 1: you did quite good in believe it was drafts, No,

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Speaker 1: it was in season. You're always an in season killer.

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Speaker 1: You kind of did it again today, which we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about in just a second. So how are

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Speaker 1: we feel in for Week two?

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Speaker 2: Good?

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Speaker 3: I'm ready to overreact to a lot of things that

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Speaker 3: happen in Week one and just assume that it's all

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Speaker 3: going to continue apace and that everything is going to repeat,

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Speaker 3: So let's go from there.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 3: This is always kind of an important show, I think

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Speaker 3: because trying to figure out what might be an overreaction

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Speaker 3: and what you know, we probably shouldn't underreact to. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's gonna be some uh, fiery takes come in Erickson.

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Speaker 1: If we weren't overreacting, did we really even have a

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Speaker 1: Week one? You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: No, It's a good point to bring up because I

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Speaker 4: think that a lot of what I've absorbed from the

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Speaker 4: media is, you know, we're overreacting to this, We're overacting

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Speaker 4: to that. Well, it's like we have to react to

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Speaker 4: some things, and now is it becoming advantageous to almost

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Speaker 4: react too much when maybe we're not reacting enough to

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Speaker 4: some of these teams? And really, what I'm most interested

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Speaker 4: is who is this year's New Orleans Saints right where

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Speaker 4: you saw them in the last the first two weeks

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Speaker 4: of last year's come out? Is this the like the newest,

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Speaker 4: the greatest show on turf with Derek Carr and Clint

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Speaker 4: Kobiac and this offense? They killed the Panthers in Week one,

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Speaker 4: and then they played Dallas and then killed Dallas in

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Speaker 4: week two. Then obviously things just fell way, things got

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Speaker 4: way off the rails. So is there another team like that?

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Speaker 4: Is that the Steelers? Is that the Jets? Like like

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Speaker 4: teams like this that really blew up in Week one?

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Speaker 4: Is here to stay and are the Miami Dolphins as

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Speaker 4: bad as they looked in Week one as well? We're

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Speaker 4: gonna break it down.

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Speaker 1: Well, the answer is yes to the last one. But

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Speaker 1: in this episode, we're gonna be breaking down our wide

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Speaker 1: receiver ranks. We've got the three tiers wide receiver one

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Speaker 1: through twelve, thirteen through twenty four. You get it. We're

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Speaker 1: going to be picking out some of the big names,

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Speaker 1: a lot of wide receiver stuff from big names, and

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Speaker 1: some potential overreactions to some players vaulting up in value.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll be answering your Week two questions as far

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Speaker 1: as wide receiver goes. But first, let's do take a

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Speaker 1: look at the accuracy rank contest in week one. Give

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Speaker 1: a shout out to the top three rankers out there.

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Speaker 1: Matthew Musler from Fantasy Sports Advice Network finished number one.

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Speaker 1: I believe was like number one quarterback and two and

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Speaker 1: running back or flip it just really good in that area.

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Speaker 1: That's really hard to do in the ranks context contest.

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Speaker 1: Nick Mariano from Rodoballer was number two, and Kyle Senraf

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Speaker 1: I'm going for two was number three. Those are your

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Speaker 1: top three. But gentlemen, you guys know where I'm going this.

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Speaker 1: The two guys here on the show, not me finished

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Speaker 1: killer this week. Fits, you were top ten. You finished

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Speaker 1: ninth in the ranks contest, so let's start with that.

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Speaker 1: What do you think got you there? I mean, that's

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Speaker 1: a ridiculous out the gates run finishing inside the top ten.

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Speaker 1: As soon as I saw it, I was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course this happened. You killed it again, my friend.

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Speaker 2: Oh thanks Walch.

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Speaker 3: I really didn't pay that much attention to the ranks

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Speaker 3: this week. The one thing I was kind of dwelling

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Fits, you were so amazing. What are all

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Speaker 1: the good things You're like?

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Speaker 4: I do not.

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Speaker 1: I didn't pay attention. That's just how good you are. Okay, Ericson,

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Speaker 1: You're not going to be left behind though you finished thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: So we had two top fifteen finishes from the guys

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Speaker 1: on this show ericson, did anything stand out as you

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Speaker 1: you're only focused on a negative like the AJ Brown one.

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Speaker 4: No, I wasn't as focus on the AJ Brown one

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Speaker 4: because that was the one that everybody essentially got wrong.

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Speaker 4: I was really more focused on just the Jets and

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Speaker 4: pretty sure. I told someone on Reddit to start your

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Speaker 4: not feel great about that. So that was the biggest

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Speaker 4: We talked about him, this guy should be the top

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Speaker 4: So it's like that was another one that we didn't

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Speaker 4: But in some of these two quarterback LEAs, if you'd

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Speaker 4: up pulling out a massive win for you. So those

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Speaker 4: are the hits, But I'm definitely more I was definitely

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Speaker 4: But Fields said in the production meeting after like rewatching

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Speaker 4: And when I think about it in retrospect, I'm like, man,

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Speaker 1: Happen quarterback revenge narratives. Put that in the bucket and

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Speaker 1: we'll come back to that at a different time. You

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Speaker 1: week two. Here is our top twelve board, gentlemen. It

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Speaker 1: looks like aforementioned Jamar Chase coming in at number one

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Speaker 1: this week in the consensus ranks, CD lamb Att two,

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Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson at three, Molik Neighbors, Brian Thomas. That fills

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Speaker 1: Those are your wide receiver ones for the week, your

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Speaker 1: There's multiple wide receiver ones that failed this past week,

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Speaker 1: both of you guys are higher on him this week,

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Speaker 1: so fits just you don't have to go crazy into

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Speaker 3: I'm putting this one in the stuff happens category, Like

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Speaker 3: no concerns about Nico's target share or his talent. My

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Speaker 3: that game for Nico is that the Rams were sometimes

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Speaker 3: but in the grand scheme of things, I'm not concerned.

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Speaker 1: Ericson, you know, seem to be you got him three,

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Speaker 1: you got him really high this week, so you think

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Speaker 1: this is a bounce back. I almost kind of wanted

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Speaker 1: the day it's probably going to be like neither. But

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Speaker 1: if you were more worried about Nico or Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Nico definitely are not worried about this week, as he

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that this is a good bounce spot

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Speaker 4: for him. They're playing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We know

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Speaker 4: that this is a classic pass final defense. And again,

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Speaker 4: when Nick Chubb is your RB one, you're gonna have

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Speaker 4: to attack the Buccaneers defense through the air. We saw

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Speaker 4: the Falcons with Bijon Robinson have the league the week's

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Speaker 4: worst rushing success rate among all running backs. B Jon

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Speaker 4: Robinson the one oh one and almost all of our

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Speaker 4: fantasy drafts. He was the worst running back on a

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Speaker 4: Collins against this blitz heavy Todd Bowles defense. What does

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Speaker 1: You got him as wide receiver one with what you

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Speaker 5: Two.

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Speaker 1: These are wide receivers thirteen through twenty four, and this

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Speaker 1: Mike Evans, Cortland, Sutton, DK metcalf at eighteen, DeVante Adams

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Speaker 1: the room here ECR fourteen, and you guys are both

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Speaker 1: expectation is a big bounce back. Erickson has got him

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Speaker 3: There's a user in the Fantasy Pros discord who asked

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Speaker 3: to AJ Brown and Bucky Irving for Jamar Chase, and

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Speaker 3: Brown had one target in Week one. Jalen Hurts did

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Speaker 3: only slight concern I have with AJ Brown is this, like,

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Speaker 3: what if new Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patillo is a

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Speaker 3: major downgrade from Kellen Moore, who was the Eagles OC

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Erickson, when you look at the rank, AJ

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Speaker 1: Brown didn't move to a spot where anyone's going to

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Speaker 1: the you know, the talk around town is for AJ Brown,

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I think that AJ Brown is probably set up

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Speaker 4: Fits brought up with the potential downgrade with the offensive

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't actually be surprised if DeVante Smith actually has

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Speaker 4: But as I'm looking at this rank, I know we

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Speaker 4: I think there may be is just some slight concerns

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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf returns to Seattle. So we have got some

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Speaker 1: we got some revenge game narrative going on here. And

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Speaker 1: he's also ECR wide receiver number eighteen. You two are

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I sort of understand the appeal with him.

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Speaker 3: Like DK had a pretty good game against the Jets

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Speaker 1: I don't know of any passing game with the Steelers

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Speaker 4: of their players, the offensive players, knew the defense. Metcalf

434
00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,480
Speaker 4: knows about this defense. So am I going to fade

435
00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,120
Speaker 4: the revenge game narrative when we just saw it work

436
00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,480
Speaker 4: out for this exact team. With the quarterback and Aaron Rodgers,

437
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,440
Speaker 4: I don't think so. So that's why I moved Metcap

438
00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,640
Speaker 4: off in my rankings. Originally I had him close true

439
00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:55,679
Speaker 4: to where I had him ranked last week, which was

440
00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 4: outside the top thirty. I'm more optimistic about him now

441
00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,720
Speaker 4: as a wide receiver to net not as high as ECR,

442
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:06,480
Speaker 4: closer to ECR, but I think that the narrative is

443
00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,000
Speaker 4: going to be, like, hey, we want to get DKMF

444
00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,960
Speaker 4: a touchdown. I mean, Aaron Rodgers through four touchdowns last

445
00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:11,680
Speaker 4: week and none went to DK, which was kind of

446
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:13,600
Speaker 4: weird because that's where you assume that's where he would

447
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,880
Speaker 4: see his biggest role. So the fact that he spent

448
00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:17,800
Speaker 4: last year with Seattle, I think that's going to help

449
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,160
Speaker 4: the Steelers passing game. He can provide some intel for Rogers,

450
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,240
Speaker 4: for Arthur Smith to scheme up a game plan. It's

451
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,240
Speaker 4: going to be effective against some of these corners. So, yes,

452
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,560
Speaker 4: they are talented, but so is DK MECAF and he's

453
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:28,919
Speaker 4: a monster. Put the ball in his hands, and if

454
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Speaker 4: they're doing that, giving him layup touches and targets close

455
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,679
Speaker 4: to the line of scrimmage, like you could see him

456
00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,000
Speaker 4: running for a lot of yards and homecoming.

457
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Speaker 1: Another really talented wide receiver, especially out of Week one

458
00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,359
Speaker 1: was a Mecca Agbuka. He looked awesome and shout out

459
00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,760
Speaker 1: to Deebro. Debro was really high ranked on him. We

460
00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,600
Speaker 1: were doing the Sunday stream and people were asking questions

461
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,000
Speaker 1: and just all in, and it looks like we kind

462
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:54,040
Speaker 1: of might need to be considering to be all in.

463
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Speaker 1: He is wide receiver twenty this week, I mean four

464
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Speaker 1: spots off from Mike Evans. The ranks are pretty interesting. Ericson,

465
00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 1: you are right on consensus. Fitz, you're a little bit lower.

466
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:05,960
Speaker 1: We'll go to you in a second, but talk to

467
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Speaker 1: us about the positive narrative. Ericson on a mechag Buka

468
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 1: this week again and why he can continue to thrive.

469
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Speaker 6: Well.

470
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Speaker 4: I think the thing with Houston and I noticed this

471
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 4: was they were having Derek Stingley matchup a lot with

472
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,920
Speaker 4: DeVante Adams in that first matchup. So when you look

473
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Speaker 4: at Okay, we have a perimeter cornerback, who are we

474
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Speaker 4: going to match him up against with Tampa Bay, It's

475
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Speaker 4: probably Mike Evans. Like this is what Mike Evans usually does.

476
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Speaker 4: He always draws the opponent's number one cornerback. And what

477
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Speaker 4: does that mean for mikeg Buka that you're just gonna

478
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Speaker 4: eat again? Like that just what he's gonna do. He's

479
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,159
Speaker 4: just gonna feast. He's gonna get favorable looks against the

480
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,360
Speaker 4: lesser cornerbacks on the Houston textas. It doesn't mean that

481
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,840
Speaker 4: he's never going to draw any type of coverage from Stingley,

482
00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 4: but Stingley's legit. And if Baker Mayfield knows that, yes,

483
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,679
Speaker 4: Mike Evans will get his opportunities. But Mike Evans is

484
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Speaker 4: entering this matchup with a more boomer brush profile. Where

485
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,960
Speaker 4: Agbuka again as good as he was last week, he

486
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 4: only had six targets, Like there's room for that to grow,

487
00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 4: especially when you leave the team and routes run. I mean,

488
00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,000
Speaker 4: he's an absolute stud. He lines up all over the field,

489
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,200
Speaker 4: he lines up why he lines up a slot and

490
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield loves him. Everyone of the Buccaneers loves him.

491
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Speaker 4: So you just got to keep starting him.

492
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Speaker 1: So, I Fitz, you have a little bit less less

493
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Speaker 1: optimism at least as far as your rank goes here.

494
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: If you know you're like a two wide receiver league,

495
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,439
Speaker 1: your ranks are pretty much being like he's not a

496
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,040
Speaker 1: starter this week where the ECR would have him. I

497
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 1: kind of agree with the like stingley idea here, But again,

498
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:24,840
Speaker 1: I don't want to paint it like you hate him

499
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 1: or anything like that. But what what's got the like

500
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 1: negative rank? Is it more about you just the love

501
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 1: of these other players or the uncertainty of the week

502
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:32,680
Speaker 1: to week role?

503
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I love the player. Buka is going

504
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 3: to be a really good NFL receiver. I think we

505
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 3: know that. I'm just not quite ready to put him

506
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,400
Speaker 3: in the top twenty. Really nice debut with the two touchdowns,

507
00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,360
Speaker 3: but you know, as Ericson pointed out, only six targets,

508
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 3: the target volume was just okay, eighteen point eight percent

509
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 3: target chair. So you know, like if he had fired

510
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,359
Speaker 3: out with like fourteen targets, I might feel a little

511
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 3: bit more strongly. So I want to be a little

512
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,320
Speaker 3: cautious for now. By the way, just for the record,

513
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:02,760
Speaker 3: that Seahawks steal game is in Pittsburgh, so DK does

514
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 3: not get to go back to Pike Place Market before

515
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 3: the game.

516
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,400
Speaker 2: But that might be good. He won't get fish slim

517
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 2: on his hands.

518
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:09,680
Speaker 1: Oh did I say returns to Seattle?

519
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 6: Yeah? I think I.

520
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 1: Saw him coming. Yeah, I may have said like he

521
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 1: returns to him. I meant has he played Seattle, but you.

522
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 4: Can will not be the homecoming queen.

523
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: All right, This guy, this last guy in this range

524
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 1: here is I think it's probably one of the most

525
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: polarizing players this week because there's a lot of narrative

526
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: built around him. It's Ricky pirosol E CR wide receiver

527
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: twenty four, and there's a lot of reasons behind it. Obviously,

528
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback play will rock Purty play or not, not

529
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:41,800
Speaker 1: even sure if that matters as much. And not that

530
00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:43,640
Speaker 1: mac Jones is good, but he'll slang it. We saw

531
00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 1: what he did with Brian Thomas last year. Jawan Jennings.

532
00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 1: That is a bigger question that can put him out there.

533
00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 1: So you compare those and you know, fits and I

534
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: and Offline had kind of talked about, like, you know,

535
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,360
Speaker 1: whether those two play could really be dependent on the rank.

536
00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,320
Speaker 1: But then on the other side of it, you have

537
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,720
Speaker 1: a perfectly bad Saints team and you've got a projection

538
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,200
Speaker 1: got in Ricky Piersaw Ricky Pearsall is number three receiving

539
00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,919
Speaker 1: on PFFS projections for the week. So you've got all

540
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,080
Speaker 1: these things that are coinciding. There's a lot of questions.

541
00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 1: There's a lot of thought after optimism, except when it

542
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 1: comes to you too, wide receiver twenty four. Fitz has

543
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 1: got him at thirty one, Ericson, you've got him at

544
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 1: thirty three. I get the concerns fits. Why don't we

545
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,600
Speaker 1: start with you? There's a lot of stuff. There's tons

546
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 1: of questions about Pearsaw. So if you want to lay

547
00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: it out, here's where he is. If this happens and

548
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,720
Speaker 1: that happens, feel free to it. But what do you

549
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,000
Speaker 1: think about Pearsall this week?

550
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 4: Yeah?

551
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,439
Speaker 3: I mean this is just sort of a placeholder ranking,

552
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,480
Speaker 3: and I guess I'm tentatively ranking him as if brock

553
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 3: Perty will not play.

554
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Speaker 2: This week, although maybe I shouldn't.

555
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,880
Speaker 3: I gif the forty nine ers have to start mac

556
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,920
Speaker 3: Jones at quarterback like Brian Thomas Junior thrived with mac

557
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 3: Jones and Jacksonville last year, and the target volume should

558
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 3: be pretty good for Pearsall with no George Kittle he

559
00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,240
Speaker 3: is the hamstring injury. Probably no Juwan Jennings, who's one

560
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 3: of about forty seven wide receivers. He picked up a

561
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 3: shoulder injury in Week one, So yeah, I may have

562
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 3: to come up a little from wide receiver thirty one.

563
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 3: I think you're probably playing Ricky Pierce all under almost

564
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 3: any circumstances this week.

565
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he is. Like, if you want to

566
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 1: tie it to something, I think it's more tied personally

567
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: to Juwan Jennings being out there because Mac is going

568
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 1: to sling the ball. That's not a good team that

569
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 1: they're playing. Christian mccafferrey is going to go. But as

570
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,000
Speaker 1: you mentioned, there's no Kittle, There's none of that. That's

571
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Speaker 1: the narrative. I'm painting ericson you hate him thirty three

572
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,359
Speaker 1: barely startable, let's hear it.

573
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Speaker 4: I think that I'm just wrong because of like looking

574
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 4: at my notes, trying to make paint the picture for

575
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Speaker 4: why he should be outside the top thirty, and I'm

576
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Speaker 4: just drawing blanks because I can't really think of a

577
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Speaker 4: good reason. So this is something that I'm gonna have

578
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 4: to adjust. I think Fitz brings up a good point

579
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Speaker 4: where we do have some ambiguity with well, who the

580
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 4: other receivers are going to be playing in this game?

581
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 4: Who's the quarterback going to be? And I can't get

582
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 4: out of my mind that if Mac Jones starts this

583
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Speaker 4: game again. They just gave the big contract a rocker.

584
00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 4: Did the forty nine ers really want to go out

585
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 4: and make mac Jones look really, really good. I like,

586
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,399
Speaker 4: that's just about keeping the back of my mind, and

587
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 4: I don't think that they want to do that. And

588
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 4: we all know the Shanahan system. It's like, he could

589
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 4: probably go out there and throw for three touchdowns and

590
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,520
Speaker 4: three into passing yards and then they'd be like, well,

591
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 4: why they give the contract to brought perty Like I

592
00:26:18,760 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 4: could see them trying to avoid that. It's like, we're

593
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,439
Speaker 4: just gonna fe McCaffrey, like, that's what we're gonna do.

594
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 4: He's gonna score all the touchdowns. We're not gonna pad

595
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 4: mac Jownes stats whatsoever. So I'm definitely big braining a

596
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 4: little bit here, But it wouldn't shock me if they

597
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:34,679
Speaker 4: just don't have this massive passing output against the Saints.

598
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 4: I think that Cooler mckintree is kind of an underrated cornerback,

599
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 4: to be honest, I think that he got to look

600
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Speaker 4: pretty good in some of his matchups. When he's going

601
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Speaker 4: up against Marvin Harrison Junior in Week one, I think

602
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 4: that he's gonna draw coverage with Ricky Pearsall, so I

603
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,040
Speaker 4: think that's something to kind of monitor. But that being said,

604
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 4: outside the top thirty, with just the optics and the targets,

605
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 4: the opportunity he could see, especially just after a breakout

606
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:55,959
Speaker 4: game in Week one, picking up where he left off

607
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,360
Speaker 4: at the end of last year, so he's definitely going

608
00:26:58,400 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 4: to be moving up the ranks.

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Speaker 1: Gentlemen, our final wide receivers. These are wide receivers twenty

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Speaker 1: five through thirty six. We start with DJ Moore going

636
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Speaker 1: up against Detroit DeVante Smith, Tyreek Hill. All the way

637
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Speaker 1: down at twenty seven, Travis Hunter, George Pickens, Jacoby Myers,

638
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Speaker 1: Jamison Williams, Debo, Hollywood Brown, Romadoonze, Jerry Judy, and Calvin Ridley.

639
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: Some interesting ones in here. Maybe some guys undeserved. Tyreek

640
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 1: Hill really falls. DJ Moore kind of tumbles down a bit.

641
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: But let's talk about Jamison Williams ECR thirty one. Some

642
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,760
Speaker 1: big expectations last week. Not quite there. You guys both

643
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,080
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644
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Speaker 1: wide receiver twenty one to ten wide receiver spot difference.

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Speaker 1: That is pretty dramatic. So talk to us about Jamison

646
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: Williams and why you are bullish on him.

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Speaker 4: Well, the lines are playing at Ford Field, which is

648
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Speaker 4: the course field of the NFL, and they're going to

649
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Speaker 4: score points this week. Guys. I think the Lions aren't

650
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Speaker 4: as bad as what we saw in Week one against

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Speaker 4: the Green Bay Packers on the road their home in

652
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Speaker 4: the Dome. I think that you're going to get a

653
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Speaker 4: bounced back performance, something that lines overle You just look

654
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Speaker 4: at the total in that game, you look at the

655
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Speaker 4: implied team totals. Lions are number two on the week,

656
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Speaker 4: so Vegas expecting them to score points. I'm expecting the

657
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Speaker 4: score points here and how do they do that with

658
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Speaker 4: their number one or number two most explosive playmaker and

659
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Speaker 4: Jamison Williams. The thing with Williams is. He can win

660
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Speaker 4: you your week, and I want to have that offensive

661
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Speaker 4: firepower in my lineup as a wide receiver three. Again,

662
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Speaker 4: I'm my game as a wide receiver two because I

663
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Speaker 4: just don't think you should bench him like you need

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Speaker 4: to have his upside in your lineup because of the

665
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Speaker 4: week winning upside he can deliver. Again, I don't think

666
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Speaker 4: that taking away what the Lions offense looked like in

667
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Speaker 4: Week one is necessarily going to help us because the

668
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Speaker 4: Packers were selling up to stop all explosive plays. It's

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Speaker 4: why Jamier Gibbs had ten targets, It's why Dave Montgomery

670
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Speaker 4: was seeing multiple targets in the passing game. They were

671
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Speaker 4: doing everything in their power to make sure that no,

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Speaker 4: there's going to be no explosive downfield plays from this offense.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that the Bears will have as much

674
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Speaker 4: success with that with the lines playing at home where

675
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Speaker 4: they can I think dictate pace a little bit more offensively.

676
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Speaker 4: So I'm gonna buy the dip on Jamo fits.

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Speaker 1: A year there with it. You got him right at

678
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Speaker 1: the end of your wide receiver twos, you're buying big

679
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Speaker 1: weeks ahead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I love Ericson's corps Field comparison, So like, what

681
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Speaker 3: does that make lambeau Field. Well, you're a baseball guy.

682
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Speaker 3: What are the big Pitchers Park?

683
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Speaker 2: Seattle?

684
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Speaker 3: Yeah?

685
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Speaker 1: Great American Ballpark. Now I'd be like the Reds Great

686
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Speaker 1: American Ballpark.

687
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's lambeau Field.

688
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Speaker 3: And we saw the Lions offense just have a shipwreck

689
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Speaker 3: game against the Packers in green Bay.

690
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Speaker 2: Nothing worked, there were no big plays.

691
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Speaker 3: The Packers dbs kept everything in front of them, and

692
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Speaker 3: the pass rush was getting to Jared Goff quickly. The

693
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Speaker 3: Green Bay defense might end up being one of the

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Speaker 3: best in the league, like the sort of matchup that

695
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Speaker 3: has us downgrading Packers opponents in our rankings all season.

696
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Speaker 3: I expect the Lions offense to get well this week

697
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Speaker 3: at home against the Bear. Chicago's d played well for

698
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Speaker 3: half of the Monday night game against the Vikings, then

699
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Speaker 3: kind of fell apart the second half. Bear's cornerback Jalen

700
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Speaker 3: Johnson didn't play in that game. He's been out with

701
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Speaker 3: a groin injury that caused him to miss most of

702
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Speaker 3: training camp, and Jalen Johnson is by far Chicago's best cornerback.

703
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Speaker 3: If he's out, Goff is gonna have a big day

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Speaker 3: and Jamo is going to be part of it.

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Speaker 1: Kind of back to what we said at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the show. You know, overreactions they come in all

707
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Speaker 1: different forms, and sometimes it can be like I had

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Speaker 1: this great guy that I drafted and he didn't have

709
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Speaker 1: a great week, and now I don't know if I

710
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Speaker 1: want to get him out there, and it's like that

711
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Speaker 1: might be just too close to the overreaction train for

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Speaker 1: a guy like Jamison Williams. Calvin Ridley comes in at

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Speaker 1: ECR thirty six. Ericson, you were pretty vocal about your

714
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Speaker 1: concerns and you hit a bet on the under Thank

715
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Speaker 1: you to his crucial and critical, awful drop that definitely

716
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Speaker 1: got you there. But yeah, ECR thirty six, you guys

717
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Speaker 1: are both higher on him. Fitz will start with you. You've

718
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Speaker 1: got him at wide receiver thirty, so you got him

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Speaker 1: as like a mid wide receiver. Erickson's even a little

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Speaker 1: bit more bullish again, So FITZI, why don't you hit

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Speaker 1: us with some Calvin Ridley real quick?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

723
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Speaker 3: Really just had that brutal matchup against the Broncos with

724
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Speaker 3: the best pass rush in the league in Denver, and

725
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Speaker 3: also Patrick certain junior, just a lockdown corner who was

726
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Speaker 3: on Ridley for most of the game. I just think

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Speaker 3: a wide receiver thirty six ranking in ECRs an overreaction.

728
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Speaker 3: I drafted Calvin Ridley in a lot of leagues and

729
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Speaker 3: just kept him on the bench last week in leagues

730
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Speaker 3: where I could afford to, knowing it probably wasn't going

731
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Speaker 3: to be a very good week. I to won a

732
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Speaker 3: little bit of money betting the under on his receiving yardage.

733
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Speaker 3: But I'm starting Ridley everywhere this week. His matchup against

734
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Speaker 3: the Rams like not easy, but also not the skull

735
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Speaker 3: and crossbones matchup that Ridley had last week against Denver.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Erickson, you've got him at wide receiver twenty six.

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Speaker 1: I like, amnor looked like good, like really good, like

738
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Speaker 1: a lot of good underlying stuff. But you know, decent

739
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Speaker 1: amount of that was about Redley being taken out of

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Speaker 1: the game. You think it's in a bounce back. In

741
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Speaker 1: the world of big rank jumps, this is a ten

742
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Speaker 1: wide receiver jump between barely being a startable wide receiver

743
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Speaker 1: three to him almost being a two for you. So

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Speaker 1: you think we're gonna have a complete turnaround for Ridley

745
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Speaker 1: this week?

746
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because this is kind of where I was ranking

747
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Speaker 4: him during draft season. I think this is kind of

748
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Speaker 4: the area he was in and just knew week one.

749
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Speaker 4: It's like, guys, like week one's not gonna be good,

750
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Speaker 4: Like you have to keep this in mind when you

751
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Speaker 4: draft Calvin Ridley. And we even talked about it in

752
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 4: offseason shows where it's like Calvin Ridley the best buy

753
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Speaker 4: low after week one. So if we don't draft him,

754
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Speaker 4: you just go trade for him for a week two

755
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Speaker 4: because he's gonna bomb in week one. And that's exactly

756
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Speaker 4: what we saw and too again to his discard, I

757
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Speaker 4: would say he didn't help himself. I mean he helped

758
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Speaker 4: me make money with the unders on the props, but

759
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Speaker 4: him driving passes and basically making cam Ward's dad you

760
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Speaker 4: know almost like oh no, Like what's going on with

761
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Speaker 4: this guy that was a cam Mood's dad. They panned

762
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Speaker 4: him in the stadium when Calvin Ridley dropped the ball

763
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Speaker 4: and man was like so defeated. It's like, come on, you.

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Speaker 1: Got to help went out to the stairs hew the

765
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Speaker 1: railing was like, ah huh, that would.

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Speaker 4: Hurt classic disappointed dad, just like, oh, man, so we

767
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Speaker 4: should get a better effort from Ridley. Yes, the Rams

768
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Speaker 4: do have a fierce pass rush like we saw against

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Speaker 4: the Houston tex However, I think the Titans offensive line,

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Speaker 4: even though they're dealing with a JC Leatham injury, still

771
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Speaker 4: probably better than the Houston Texans. And look, Camwore's not

772
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Speaker 4: afraid to just sling it into stand in that pocket

773
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Speaker 4: and just rip it, and I think that's going to

774
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Speaker 4: give rid the opportunities. And again, the Rams cornerbacks I

775
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Speaker 4: think are still not that great. Even that pass rush

776
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Speaker 4: I think hides some of their vulnerabilities in the secondary.

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Speaker 4: They didn't get exposed against the Texans, who really only

778
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Speaker 4: had Nicocollins. But I think that really's going to see

779
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Speaker 4: enough volume. And again, he had a twenty eight percent

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Speaker 4: target share, he played all the snaps, and he's a

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Speaker 4: top thirty receiver in the projection, so even just median projections,

782
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Speaker 4: I think that he's being undervalued outside the top thirty

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Speaker 4: in ECR.

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Speaker 1: All right, top thirty six wide receivers in the books.

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Speaker 1: Those are the names. You guys can check them out

786
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Speaker 1: over at finniscros dot com slash rankings. But that leads

787
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Speaker 1: us to our final thing. Who's a wide receiver that

788
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Speaker 1: did not hit this that absolutely should have. It makes

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Speaker 1: you sick to your stomach or you just think they're

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Speaker 1: going to finish a little bit higher fits. We'll start

791
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Speaker 1: with you. Which wide receiver do we not talk about

792
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Speaker 1: that was on the list that should have been?

793
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Speaker 2: Chris O.

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Speaker 3: Lave is just outside the top thirty six in ECR.

795
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Speaker 3: I've got him just inside, like I'm not that far

796
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Speaker 3: above consensus, but I'll probably be above consensus on him

797
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 3: most of the year. Like I think A lava is underrated.

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Speaker 3: The reason he fell in drafts is mostly because of

799
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Speaker 3: the concussion fears. Well, he's healthy now or mostly healthy.

800
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Speaker 3: DIDs spend some time in the medical tent in that

801
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:23,959
Speaker 3: Saints Cardinals game. But LaVey had thirteen targets, caught seven

802
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Speaker 3: of them for fifty four yards, and I think that's

803
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Speaker 3: kind of indicative of what we're going to see this year.

804
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Speaker 3: Heavy target volume all year, and while he's probably not

805
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Speaker 3: going to be super efficient with those targets since they're

806
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Speaker 3: coming from Spencer Rattler, I think the sheer target volume

807
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Speaker 3: and catch volume Chris olave has is going to make

808
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Speaker 3: him a wide receiver three, a playable wide receiver three

809
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Speaker 3: all year long.

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Speaker 1: A lot of it looks like he's got like a

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Speaker 1: timeshare built in that tent.

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Speaker 4: It's it's well, Spencer Rattler's not helping when he throws

813
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Speaker 4: hospital balls.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's all going to be a lot better

815
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Speaker 1: this week with the ford Anders pass rush in their corners.

816
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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's going to be a lot better.

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Speaker 4: Spencer Raler is going to do he put through the blender.

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Speaker 4: The Roberts Solimn blenders coming.

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Speaker 2: Not gonna be good.

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Speaker 1: Take out all the frustrations, all the players that are injured.

821
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Speaker 1: They're going to take it out on them, all right,

822
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Speaker 1: ericson your wide receiver three, he didn't make it. Of course,

823
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Speaker 1: this is the name. Of course, this is the guy.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear it.

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Speaker 4: Just one bad week and we're all out. I mean,

826
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Speaker 4: I'm going right back to the well here with Jalen Waddle.

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Speaker 4: I still think that he can be a top thirty

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Speaker 4: six receiver. And it has to do with the matchup.

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Speaker 4: The Patriots secondary was absolutely destroyed by Gino Smith. Of

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Speaker 4: all the quarterbacks, Gino Smith, Jacobe Meyers, Trey Tucker, everyone

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Speaker 4: was making plays, especially downfield explosive plays. The Patriots are

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Speaker 4: missing Christian Gonzales and he makes a big difference in

833
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Speaker 4: their secondary. So when he's not out there, this past

834
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Speaker 4: defense was one of the worst that we saw in

835
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Speaker 4: Week one. The Dolphins, their defense is still a mess.

836
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Speaker 4: I think their offense can bounce back just a little

837
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Speaker 4: bit here playing at home, and I think the thing

838
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Speaker 4: to point out too, part of the reason why they're

839
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Speaker 4: all the offense was so terrible in Week one didn't

840
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Speaker 4: have a lot of volume. They only ran forty six

841
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Speaker 4: offensive plays because the Colts scored, i think on every

842
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Speaker 4: single possession that they had, so the Dolphins didn't really

843
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 4: have the ball that much to go along with all

844
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Speaker 4: the turnovers. But they averaged sixty three plays per game

845
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Speaker 4: last season, so that's almost seventeen less plays, and the

846
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Speaker 4: lowest plays per game last year among all NFL teams

847
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Speaker 4: was fifty eight. So just an increase and just play

848
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Speaker 4: volume from the Dolphins offense, you're going to see more

849
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 4: targets for Jalen Walla, for Tyreek Hill, and it's a

850
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 4: plus matchup. Jalen Walla historical is also just cooked the Patriots.

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Speaker 4: You look at some of the game walks he's done

852
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Speaker 4: against this team. He's very, very productive, a considering the Patriot.

853
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 4: They're playing at home, so I think that has the defense.

854
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 4: I think is still a mess for Miami, but I

855
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 4: think their offense doesn't play nearly as bad as it

856
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Speaker 4: did in Week one.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully, through our conversations here we answered your guys's questions,

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Speaker 1: your big wide receiver questions for week two. If we

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Speaker 1: did not, don't want you guys to forget. We've got

860
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Speaker 1: our weekly start and Sit live stream on our YouTube

861
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,439
Speaker 1: channel where you guys can come and ask whatever type

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