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Speaker 1: This is the lad Podcast with your host JJ zachera

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Speaker 1: JJ zacherfan. What's up everyone, It's JJ Zacharyeson in this

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Speaker 1: episode ten to eighty of the Late Round Fantasy Football podcast.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for tuning in. I'm back from San Francisco. I'm

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Speaker 1: back from Radio Row. The super Bowl's over. Congrats the

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Speaker 1: Seahawks fans. That means if we're officially in the off season.

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Speaker 1: Though hopefully you guys like the change of pace of

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Speaker 1: last week's shows, but we're full blown back to the

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Speaker 1: regular podcast schedule starting with this episode. What you already

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Speaker 1: saw was sell candidates. I talked about some buy candidates

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Speaker 1: last week. This is just the reverse players you might

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Speaker 1: want to consider trading away from your dynasty teams. Cells

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Speaker 1: are always more difficult than buys because we have fewer

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Speaker 1: players to choose from. With buys, we can get deep,

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Speaker 1: we can talk about bottom of the barrel players who

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Speaker 1: we can get for cheap. With cells, it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: that much sense for me to say that you should

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Speaker 1: sell someone who ranks as like the two hundredth overall player.

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Speaker 1: In order for a player to be a cell, he's

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Speaker 1: got to give you something decent in return, so to

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Speaker 1: help me out with today's list. I looked at my

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Speaker 1: Dynasty rankings and I compared those rankings to keep Trade Cut.

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Speaker 1: It's not perfect, but that site at least allows me

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Speaker 1: to get some baseline for market sentiment. If my rankings

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Speaker 1: like a player far less than where he's ranked on

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Speaker 1: Keep Trade Cut, I figured he's probably worthwhile to call out.

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Speaker 1: Keep in mind, though I don't think these players are

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Speaker 1: trade candidates no matter what. They're just players who I

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Speaker 1: appear to be lower on versus consensus in your individual league.

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Speaker 2: That might not be the case.

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Speaker 1: This is just a conversation starter, and it allows you

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Speaker 1: to hear some logic that you might be able to

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Speaker 1: apply to your teams and your own circumstances. Now, before

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Speaker 1: we get to those cells, I just want to send

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Speaker 1: another reminder that the twenty twenty sixth version of the

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Speaker 2: For pre order.

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Speaker 1: This year's guide is bigger and better than ever. Seriously,

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Speaker 1: not only have I revamped the models, but you're now

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Speaker 1: to get tight end profiles, not just tight end scores.

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Speaker 1: Myself and Brandon Gadola have been working really hard on

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Speaker 1: One area where Dynasty managers can really win big is

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Speaker 1: not just knowing when to sell players high, but when

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Speaker 1: to sell younger players high. Age is going to be

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Speaker 1: part of the value equation for every player. The older

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Speaker 1: So if you can find a younger player who might

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Speaker 1: of a value bump, and if you sell that player

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Speaker 1: at the right time, it's massive for your Dynasty teams

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Speaker 1: one of those players. For me right now, this might

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Speaker 1: as it is to admit that Henderson currently sits thirtieth

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Speaker 1: the RB seven. Now, admittedly I can kind of understand

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Speaker 1: As many of you know, I have the year two

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Speaker 1: But essentially he's part of the weekly starter category, not

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Speaker 1: When looking at Elite Producers. Now, these are relatively arbitrary

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Speaker 1: don't think Stevenson's going anywhere in twenty twenty six. The

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Speaker 1: a little bit more volume from Trayvon Henderson in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Let's stay with this theme of year two running backs.

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Speaker 1: I'm a few running back spots lower than consensus with RJ. Harvey,

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Speaker 1: Harvey's advanced numbers were really worrisome last year, or at

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Speaker 1: score comps. R J. Harvey's top comparables right now are JK. Dobbins,

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Speaker 1: But there are a lot of questionable running backs on

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, but the Broncos probably won't enter twenty twenty

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