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Speaker 1: To talk about the best qbs going in the NFL

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Speaker 1: right now and much more. With the playoffs now less

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Speaker 1: Michael if Floria will be here tonight with some waiver

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Speaker 1: the Insiders presented by Progressive Insurance alongside Ian Rappaport At

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Speaker 1: Mike Garafalo, I am Tom Peliicero. This is a very

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Speaker 1: Eight time Pro Bowl quarterback Philip Rivers is signing with

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Speaker 1: Late fourth quarter, fifty two seconds left Chargers down by three.

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Speaker 1: Chargers have now gone back to back games allowing fewer

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Speaker 9: a minute. It's been a minute since I've gotten that

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Speaker 9: I actually threw. I threw once this summer with Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 9: We were on vacation together and he was like, hey, man,

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Speaker 9: you know I got to get some throws in. Can

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Speaker 9: you catch for me? And I was like all right,

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Speaker 9: And I was catching for him and then you know,

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Speaker 9: like throwing it back or whatever, and then started to

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Speaker 9: feel pretty good. At the end of it. I was like, hey, man,

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Speaker 9: keep fought up for me. I just want to I

449
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Speaker 9: just want to fire a few here and there. And

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Speaker 9: I woke up the next morning and my arm was like,

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Speaker 9: my arm was having this just down sideways, and I

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Speaker 9: realized I had not been training the right way. So

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Speaker 9: that was And listen, this is partly what we're going

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Speaker 9: to talk about. I'm forty now, and so it's it's

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Speaker 9: a little bit different. You know, you got to take

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Speaker 9: care of your body at this point. You got to

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Speaker 9: drink like I'm partnering up with insure It to, you know,

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Speaker 9: kind of promote Insure Max which is forty two grand

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Speaker 9: protein drink. And you know, I've been doing all my

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Speaker 9: stuff from that standpoint, but my training and you know,

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Speaker 9: my training on the throwing and that space has not

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Speaker 9: been what it.

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Speaker 4: Was when I was a player. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I was going to ask what you're doing with ensure

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Speaker 3: Max protein, but you already just told us. So I

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Speaker 3: guess here's my question related to that football career.

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Speaker 4: Obviously over just went through that.

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Speaker 3: You have been spotted on the golf course with a

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Speaker 3: couple of our good friends. I play golf a lot

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Speaker 3: I am a mediocre If I consume ensure max protein,

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Speaker 3: am I going to be a good golfer?

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Speaker 9: You know I'm I'm not like the greatest on science,

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Speaker 9: So I know the science of after forty you know

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Speaker 9: every decade we lose eight percent of our muscle mass

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Speaker 9: if we're not catching enough protein getting enough protein. So

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Speaker 9: I know that if you're consuming your protein, you're working out,

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Speaker 9: you got the best chance for longevity. The best chance

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Speaker 9: for longevity is to practice a lot. You need that

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Speaker 9: muscle mass to practice practice a lot. So if you

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Speaker 9: start practicing more, I feel like that's the way for

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Speaker 9: you to get better at golf.

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Speaker 4: So I think the long roundabout answer.

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Speaker 9: Is yes, yes, if you drink and sure, it's going

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Speaker 9: to allow you the opportunity to practice more, to have

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Speaker 9: more muscle mass, and you get better at golf as well.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 1: I in so that can explain how you can hit

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Speaker 1: your driver more than one hundred.

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Speaker 2: And seventy five.

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Speaker 1: He does hit it straight, but it goes absolutely nowhere.

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Speaker 2: Matt, thanks a ton for the time.

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Speaker 1: Great seeing you as always, DoD We'll cut you down

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Speaker 1: the line.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate you guys. Thank you so much for.

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Speaker 1: Having men for one NFL MVP two potentially the next

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Speaker 1: NFL MVP. Could Matthew Stafford, Drake May Josh Allen be

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Speaker 1: the man? Jeffery Jini has got the breakdown. Next on

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Speaker 1: The Insider is presented by Progressive Insurance. New Today, Steelers

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Speaker 1: coach Mike Tomlins said DK Metcalf is moving in the

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Speaker 1: the right direction and does not think the stomach issue

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Speaker 1: that left Metcalf in the hospital overnight after the Baltimore

502
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Speaker 1: game is going to affect his availability for Monday night.

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Speaker 1: Bengals events end. Trey Hendrickson season is over. Underwent core

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Speaker 1: muscle surgery this morning. He should be fully recovered in

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Speaker 1: the next six weeks or so, of course, too late

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Speaker 1: to help out the Bengals. Hendrickson set to be a

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Speaker 1: free agent in March. Meanwhile, Jason Pierre Paul is back,

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Speaker 1: officially joining the Bucks practice squad at the age of

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Speaker 1: thirty six. Definitely the oldest player anybody is signing this week.

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Speaker 2: Wait, what's that?

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Speaker 1: Apparently he's not even close to the oldest players signing

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Speaker 1: this week?

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Speaker 5: Mike, Yeah, And look, JJ Watt, you know you getting

514
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Speaker 5: those production meetings, you can coast or you can actually

515
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Speaker 5: ask questions and learn some things. So here's what JJ

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Speaker 5: Watt learned in his production meeting for CBS.

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Speaker 2: Philip Rivers running that same offense in high school, so

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Speaker 2: he's been well versed in it. He's had communication with

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Speaker 2: Ain't Steiching about it.

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Speaker 5: Frankly, it's amazing to me that they're running this on

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Speaker 5: the high school level because I remember Brian Baldinger running

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Speaker 5: the wing tea and not running it very well in

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Speaker 5: high school.

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Speaker 2: Mark Russ joining us as well.

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Speaker 5: Mark, start with you, why Philip Rivers for the Colts?

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Speaker 5: Why does this make more sense than maybe some of

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Speaker 5: the other limited options that they would have had.

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Speaker 8: Well, the sense is right there with Shane Stikeen saying

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Speaker 8: he knows the offense.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's the end all be all of it. Right.

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Speaker 8: There can't be physical, it can't be how I played

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Speaker 8: five years ago.

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Speaker 4: It's really just he knows the offense.

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Speaker 8: And on this short time frame here, when you're looking

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Speaker 8: around the league and you got your board set up

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Speaker 8: of the free agency that are out there on the

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Speaker 8: street and guys that are on people's practice squad and quarterbacks,

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Speaker 8: it's they'd have to learn this offense. And if they

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Speaker 8: haven't played on a Shane Steigen or at any point

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Speaker 8: then that will be a challenge of learning it so fast.

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Speaker 8: So pretty much that's what it is. He knows the offense,

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Speaker 8: and then he's been there as well. Chris ballor the

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Speaker 8: general manager knows him as well. As of course it

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Speaker 8: feels comfortable with him as the person. It's Philip Rivers

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Speaker 8: as a person, as the leader, as the person that

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Speaker 8: knows the offense. But this just completely devised logic of

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Speaker 8: a forty four year old quarterback. Guys haven't played in

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Speaker 8: five years. Thought it was a joke when I first

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Speaker 8: saw it, you know, almost like when they signed Jeff

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Speaker 8: Saturday to be the head coach.

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Speaker 4: Kind of that same feeling that I had. But I'm

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Speaker 4: just hoping he makes it through the game.

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Speaker 8: Waldy, I'm not quite sure he'll be able to do that.

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Speaker 7: It's one thing to know the offense, Mark and Mike.

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Speaker 7: It's another thing. This is not Aaron Judge just putting

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Speaker 7: him in the middle of the lineup, you know, the

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Speaker 7: designated hitter. I mean, he's never thrown a pass to

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Speaker 7: Josh Downs. He's going to have to throw a past

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Speaker 7: to Josh Downs. He's a slot receiver.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you build timing in this period

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Speaker 2: of time.

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Speaker 7: I mean, we see miscommunication between quarterbacks and receivers every Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I thought he was curling out. He curled in

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Speaker 2: option route. I read this, you read that. I don't

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Speaker 2: know how.

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Speaker 7: He's going to get this timing down. It's got to

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Speaker 7: be the precision of a diamond cutter. And I just

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Speaker 7: don't think you could take five years off come back.

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Speaker 7: Even though he's thrown a past the Moley Cox or

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Speaker 7: Michael Pittman or hand it off to Jonathan Taylor. There's

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Speaker 7: just no timing with any of this. And he's going up,

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Speaker 7: you know, in Seattle this weekend against that defense that

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Speaker 7: is going to be hungry for him. We know he's

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Speaker 7: not going to run away from Big Tat Williams or

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Speaker 7: any of those monsters up front. I would think Mike

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Speaker 7: McDonald might want to test his you know, Blisz pickup

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Speaker 7: and some of the things that you know that you

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Speaker 7: have to actually work on to actually know and to

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Speaker 7: be able to get done.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's going to be a real challenge.

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Speaker 7: But if this is where they're at, and this is

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Speaker 7: where Chris Ballard and Shane Stike and are at right now.

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Speaker 2: I would say good luck.

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Speaker 7: I pray for the best for Philip here, but he's

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Speaker 7: got a murderer's road schedule.

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Speaker 2: For the next month right now, he does.

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Speaker 5: Listen, whether he starts this coming weekend's going to depend

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Speaker 5: We can't tell you that right now.

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Speaker 2: Nobody can tell you that. It's going to depend on.

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Speaker 5: What happens in practice the next couple of days, how

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Speaker 5: he looks. If he basically can survive without hurting himself

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Speaker 5: just in practice, that'll be a big.

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Speaker 2: Part of it as well. But he's got a shot.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you open today quarterbacks, maybe like a couple of

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Speaker 2: series better than nothing. We'll see, Mark Waldy, thank you

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Speaker 2: very much. Ian.

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Speaker 3: Frank Greig once told me the best quarterback mentally he's

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Speaker 3: ever come across picking up the an engineering protection is

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Speaker 3: Philip Riverts.

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Speaker 4: Hey, you guys were just talking about Philip Rivers. That's funny.

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Speaker 4: Clinton scenarios.

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Speaker 3: At that time of the year, three teams are win

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Speaker 3: and in this Sunday Broncos, Patriots, Rams, A bunch of

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Speaker 3: those teams have something in common. They all really good

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Speaker 3: quarterbacks were MVP candidates, not all of them, but a

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Speaker 3: couple of them. Jeffrey Chidia, welcome inside with the Insiders.

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Speaker 3: As you always do. You have a first read column

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Speaker 3: on NFL dot com breaking down the top eight MVP candidates.

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Speaker 4: I want to get into right now, and I want to.

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Speaker 3: Start with a guy who I don't know if there's

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Speaker 3: a front runner or not, but a guy who a

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Speaker 3: lot of people think is a front runner. Give me

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Speaker 3: the case for Matthew Stafford as MVP shron case here, and.

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Speaker 10: We talk about a guy who's got thirty five touchdown

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Speaker 10: passes and four interceptions. He's leading where I think is

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Speaker 10: the best team in football. He's got a dynamic offense.

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Speaker 10: It's hard to think he's going to suffer in any way.

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Speaker 11: Now.

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Speaker 10: He had that Carolina game, which is a only knock

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Speaker 10: against him when.

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Speaker 4: He had three turnovers.

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Speaker 10: Aside for that, but this guy's taking on some great

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Speaker 10: defenses Houston in Seattle and beating them. I think he's

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Speaker 10: the front runner by far.

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Speaker 4: Patriots got winning in scenario as well. We just mentioned it.

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Speaker 3: Part of the reason is because they got Drake May,

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Speaker 3: one of the big time up and coming stars of

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Speaker 3: this league.

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Speaker 4: Give me the case for Drake May as NBP.

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Speaker 10: Patriots best story in football right now, eleven and two

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Speaker 10: Hughes turnaround playing their best football since A Guyns Tom

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Speaker 10: Brady was playing there. This guy is first in the

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Speaker 10: league and completion percentage, he's second.

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Speaker 4: In yards and passer rating.

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Speaker 10: And for my money, I think if he beats Buffalo

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Speaker 10: in Baltimore the next couple of weeks, he's got a

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Speaker 10: pretty good case to be made for him doing it.

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Speaker 10: But the thing that hurts him right now that's soft schedule,

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Speaker 10: not enough big moments in big game.

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Speaker 4: So these next couple of weeks it can be big

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Speaker 4: for Drake May's candidacy. You want big moments in big games.

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Speaker 4: All right, Let's talk about Josh Allen.

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Speaker 3: I mean, if anyone saw what he did last week,

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Speaker 3: take it over in the fourth quarter as he tends

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Speaker 3: to do, and he goes from Josh.

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Speaker 4: Allen to Josh Alien.

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Speaker 3: I got to imagine that is part of his case

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Speaker 3: for being MVP.

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Speaker 10: Hu's case because we know that defense has not been

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Speaker 10: up to snuff this year for the Buffalo Bill. So

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Speaker 10: we know that Josh Allen every week has got to

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Speaker 10: go out and make it happen for this team with

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Speaker 10: this offense, and he's been doing it. He saw the

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Speaker 10: four touchdown game last week, get a six touchdown game

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Speaker 10: against the Buccaneers. The only thing that hurts him is

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Speaker 10: that he has more touchdowns this year than he had

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Speaker 10: last year. And really it's just like the origency device.

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Speaker 10: Once you win this award, you got to do a

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Speaker 10: whole lot more of the second time.

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Speaker 4: Around to get it. So I think that's hurt Josh

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Speaker 4: Allen right now, all right, all right, I get that.

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Speaker 3: What about a newcomer who has not won it, Jordan Love,

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Speaker 3: who's Packers had a big time win last week and

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Speaker 3: is kind of creeping into that conversation a little bit.

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Speaker 4: What say you on the Packers quarterback?

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Speaker 10: I'm really high on Jordan Love right now because he's

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Speaker 10: playing the best football the season so far. Last couple

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Speaker 10: of games, seven touchdowns, only win interception, huge division wins

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Speaker 10: over Chicago and Detroit. They feel like this offense is

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Speaker 10: coming together.

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Speaker 4: This team is starting to find it.

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Speaker 2: Screw, but he's taking a lot of hits.

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Speaker 10: People have a hard time falling in love with Jordan

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Speaker 10: Love and that probably hurts him on some of the

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Speaker 10: inconsistency they've had an offense.

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Speaker 4: But again, I think he's back.

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Speaker 10: In this race right now because of what he's been

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Speaker 10: doing for a team that's really on the.

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Speaker 4: Rise only a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: Cannot wait to see which way this goes, and I

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Speaker 3: would say can't go wrong with some of those picks.

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Speaker 3: Jeffrey Chidia, thank you very much for joining us in

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Speaker 3: the Insiders. Appreciate you and great stuff on NFL dot com.

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Speaker 4: As always, time.

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Speaker 5: To go inside with NFL Fantasy Live with our guy

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Speaker 5: Michael f Florio, whose team name is well not that creative, however,

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Speaker 5: sipping sharpon at I'm guessing Zach Charboney Marcus Grant at

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Speaker 5: nine and five going up against Michael f Florio in

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Speaker 5: the quarterfinal nine five.

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Speaker 2: Against eight and six. You know who I'm backing to

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Speaker 2: night anyway, because you're on the show, Michael f Let's go, buddy.

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Speaker 2: We made the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: I made the playoffs, So our rosters are pretty much shit,

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Speaker 5: but you know they can always tinker even in the postseason.

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Speaker 5: And there's less competition on the waiver wire because nobody's

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Speaker 5: playing in the clation bracket.

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Speaker 2: That's a fake thing.

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Speaker 5: What running back are we looking at here in when

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Speaker 5: it comes to the waiver wire this week?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sorry to my good friend Marcus.

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Speaker 9: I'm liking that meme the guy crying as he's got to.

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Speaker 5: Take the other guy out because I love Marcus.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be the one to end his season.

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Speaker 11: You know.

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Speaker 12: But look, we've ultimated the playoffs. Everyone watching, I'm sure

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Speaker 12: you're in the playoffs. Congrats, you are officially a better

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Speaker 12: GM than David Searns. But the running back that you

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Speaker 12: should pick up is Blake Koram Twelve carries last week,

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Speaker 12: one hundred and twenty eight yards, two touchdowns, and twenty

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Speaker 12: six fantasy points, and the Rams have discussed wanting to

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Speaker 12: limit Kyron's workload a little bit as he's recovering from

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Speaker 12: an injury and they're keeping their eyes on the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: But this isn't like a one week thing.

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Speaker 12: Blake Korum has averaged eleven opportunities and fifty six yards

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Speaker 12: per game since Week seven. And just a reminder, fives

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Speaker 12: are over with now right your ross, your lineup e

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Speaker 12: LAE should be pretty much set.

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Speaker 2: You want your handcuffs. I know Korum is.

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Speaker 12: A little bit better than just a handcuff, but if

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Speaker 12: you have Kien Williams, he is your number one waiver

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Speaker 12: wire priority and go get your backup running backs.

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Speaker 2: Blake Koram's awesome. He is fun to watch.

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Speaker 5: The football, and he's putting up enough Fantasy points to

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Speaker 5: be on Michael f. Florio's waiver wire. Targets to the

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Speaker 5: wide receiver position, we go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: Devon Vley of the New Orleans Saints look in the

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Speaker 12: last two weeks he's led them in receiving yards in

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Speaker 12: each game, and since thereby he is a twenty one

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Speaker 12: percent target share and a thirty four percent.

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Speaker 2: Air yard share, both are second on.

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Speaker 12: The Colts, behind only Chris Olave tied for the team

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Speaker 12: lead and end zone targets in that span. And then

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Speaker 12: in the fantasy playoffs he gets the Panthers, the Jets

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Speaker 12: and the Titans, not really matchups that scare you off,

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Speaker 12: and the Saints Kobe trawling and some of those having

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Speaker 12: to throw could be competitive games.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 12: I think Maley is like a safe floor option if

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Speaker 12: you've been streaming flex or you have injuries at wide

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Speaker 12: receivers something like that.

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Speaker 5: Tyler Shucks look really good at the quarterback position, so

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Speaker 5: you trust.

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Speaker 2: Him get the ball to Veiley the tight end.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of quarterbacks who look pretty good, youngsters rookies.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the tight end position.

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Speaker 12: The only must add in fantasy this week if he

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Speaker 12: is out, there is Harold fannin junior.

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Speaker 2: Like, yes, Shador Sanders is bawling out, or at.

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Speaker 12: Least he did this past weekend. But Harold Fannon Junior

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Speaker 12: with Chador has been awesome. He is say tightened six

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Speaker 12: on the season currently. I don't think enough people realize that,

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Speaker 12: but in the three games with Shador Sanders, he has

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Speaker 12: seen a twenty eight percent target share, by far the

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Speaker 12: highest on the Browns, and he's averaged fifteen fantasy points

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Speaker 12: per game. That's around what Brock Bauers is averaging this season.

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Speaker 12: He is a must start tight end giving the volume

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Speaker 12: and the production and in his final three games, one

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Speaker 12: very favorable matchup, one middle of the road, one a

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Speaker 12: little on.

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Speaker 2: The tougher side.

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Speaker 4: But if he's getting usage like that, you start at.

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Speaker 5: Trey McBride with your help. As you know, so I'm

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Speaker 5: not going to displace him. But if you don't and

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Speaker 5: you need a little bit of help or maybe a

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Speaker 5: little bit of book tight end, maybe get start two

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Speaker 5: Harrol fan and Junior.

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Speaker 2: How about another tight multip tight ends for the first

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Speaker 2: time this season.

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Speaker 12: I like Isaiah Likely this week, and tight end is

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Speaker 12: the one position outside of maybe quarterback that you could.

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Speaker 2: Be streaming week to week and be in the playoffs.

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Speaker 12: And look in the last three games, Likely has more targets, catches, yards,

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Speaker 12: and touchdowns than Mark Andrews. And I'd argue there's two

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Speaker 12: touchdowns that he should have had that he didn't, the

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Speaker 12: one that he fumbled out of the en zone against

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Speaker 12: the Bengals and the controversial no catch call in the

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Speaker 12: end zone last week against the Steelers. But he was

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Speaker 12: the Ravens leading receiver two weeks ago against the Bengals.

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Speaker 12: And in case you forgot, the Bengals have allowed the

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Speaker 12: most catches, yards, touchdowns, and fantasy points. That's every category.

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Speaker 12: They've allowed the most two tight ends. So he is

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Speaker 12: in play. And if you miss out on those options.

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Speaker 2: Here are more.

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Speaker 12: Again, grab your backup running backs, a couple of streaming quarterbacks.

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Speaker 12: I'd add JJ McCarthy to that list, and then some

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Speaker 12: upside young receivers.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, lots of good names you could still add

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Speaker 2: in the fantasy playoffs.

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Speaker 5: A lot of text back and forth between me and

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Speaker 5: Michael left today because I've got quarterbacks that got me here,

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Speaker 5: but they got some tough matchups this week, so I

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Speaker 5: might hit that waiver wire for two of those names,

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Speaker 5: or one of those names and one of the guys

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Speaker 5: that you just mentioned, JJ McCarthy.

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Speaker 2: We shall see.

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Speaker 5: Nobody in our league is watching, so I'm just gonna

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Speaker 5: just get out with it at this point.

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Speaker 6: You know why, Michael, I'm not afraid. I'm a playoff team.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, my friend. It's a good night if you

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Speaker 6: like uniforms. Thursday Night Football, Falcons, Bucks, the Bucks going

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Speaker 6: full creamsicle, the Falcons wearing the Steve de Berg Dion

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Speaker 6: Sanders red helmet throwbacks.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm having a moment just looking at

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Speaker 1: these uniforms right here. Hopefully the game looks that good.

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Speaker 1: Let's welcome in Sam Schwarzstein, Prime Video and Thursday Night

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Speaker 1: Football's analytics expert to go deep into the week fifteen

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Speaker 1: kickoff game. It's the Falcons and a Buccaneers team.

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Speaker 2: Sam.

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Speaker 1: They're looking the team of destiny out of the gate.

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Speaker 1: Now they still control their destiny, but they gotta win

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Speaker 1: some games.

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Speaker 4: What are you seeing from Tampa?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean this is a team that's the complete

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Speaker 11: jeckle In high to this season, and got to remember

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Speaker 11: they beat the Steelers, the Seahawks, and the Texans. They

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Speaker 11: have some big wins on their schedule, but it's their

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Speaker 11: difference from their wins and losses, and you're gonna be like, well,

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Speaker 11: of course, Sam, they play worse than their losses than

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Speaker 11: they do in their wins, but it's so vastly different

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Speaker 11: on their ep per drawback and that's how much they're

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Speaker 11: helping their chances of scoring on pass called bass plays

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Speaker 11: in their wins versus their losses. And they can still

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Speaker 11: make some big plays, but it's hard for them to

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Speaker 11: overcome interceptions.

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Speaker 4: It's hard for them to overcome sacks.

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Speaker 11: They're one of the few teams that have not scored

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Speaker 11: a touchdown on a drive in which they've had a sack.

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Speaker 2: That's a big deal.

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Speaker 11: Only one field goal, they only have zero point one

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Speaker 11: to two points poor drive with a sack, and a

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Speaker 11: lot of it comes down to Mega Buka, who's had

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Speaker 11: to step up with Mike Evans being injured, Chris Godwin

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Speaker 11: being injured, he's got to step up. He ran as

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Speaker 11: a forty nine percent catchery. If he's able to be

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Speaker 11: the guy this offense came back on track.

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield came out really hot. We were talking about

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Speaker 1: him as an MVP candidate early in the season. He's

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Speaker 1: been beat up like seemingly everybody on his team. What's

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Speaker 1: the X factor if there is one sam that maybe

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Speaker 1: will allow Baker to be on the ascent down the stretcher.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, no, play is dead with Baker Mayfield, and it

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Speaker 11: has to do with his ability to scramble and use

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Speaker 11: his legs to gain positive yards. It is scramble rushing

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Speaker 11: that people may not think he's number one in the

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Speaker 11: NBA in rushing EPA on scrambles, and it's because of

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Speaker 11: the win he chooses to scramble. He's not a first

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Speaker 11: down or a second down scrambler. He really does below

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Speaker 11: league averager at league average on those downs, but on

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Speaker 11: third down he jumps up to over thirteen percent scramble rate.

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Speaker 4: That forces defenses to have one extra.

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Speaker 11: Player in coverage and to always worry about even if

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Speaker 11: they cover everyone up, he still has an option to

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Speaker 11: run and get those extra yards downfield. Now, he had

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Speaker 11: a few weeks where he didn't even scramble. He went

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Speaker 11: back to scrambling last week a little bit smarter than

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Speaker 11: he was at the start of.

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Speaker 1: The season, Falcons officially eliminated from the playoff race.

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Speaker 2: Disappointing season. Michael Pennix Junior is not.

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Speaker 1: Out there, Drake London's not out there, but they we

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Speaker 1: still have a guy that, oh, a few million fantasy

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Speaker 1: players be watching this week in Bjohn Robinson.

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Speaker 11: Sam, Yeah, I'm Michael Elflorio is probably like, yes, it's

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Speaker 11: going to help save the rating for us because Bjeon

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Speaker 11: robinsons a must watch player. He is unbelievable when the

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Speaker 11: ball in his hands. I think what's unique about him.

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Speaker 11: He leads the NFL in scrimmage yards. It's the pass

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Speaker 11: game that he's so good at. He has one hundred

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Speaker 11: and seventy seven yards after contact over expected. It's in

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Speaker 11: the receiving game after catch. So here's the big point

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Speaker 11: for it. A lot of this comes up against the Bucks.

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Speaker 11: The Buccaneers give them the most receiving yards to running

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Speaker 11: backs when they're lined up against a linebacker, their star

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Speaker 11: War linebacker Levante David, maybe a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 2: He's old. He played against me in high school.

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Speaker 11: We graduated high school the same year, and he's the

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Speaker 11: one trying to cover Bjeon Robinson big matchup for Bjon.

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Speaker 1: Well, given the news today, Sam, maybe you can also

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Speaker 1: make a comeback here. Why not, let's see exactly what happens.

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Speaker 1: You can catch Sam Thursday Night Football's Trying Video with

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Speaker 1: Nextstat's alternate stream, covered kicks off in Prime Video and

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Speaker 1: NFL Plus at seven pm Eastern time.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Sam, We will see you next week.

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Speaker 1: Right now, you can go over to NFL dot com

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Speaker 1: slash Rookies to vote on the Pepsi zero Sugar Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Week. I would think, wow, guests, you doors

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Speaker 1: get a run away with it, But who knows? Caster

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Speaker 1: vote NFL dot Com Slash Rookies. The NFL unveiled the

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Speaker 1: eight finalist for the Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award today, a

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Speaker 1: list that includes some friends of the Insiders. Kyle van

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Speaker 1: nois on that list, DeForest Buckner, Buddha Baker, among others.

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Speaker 1: That award, like the rest of the NFL's awards, will

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Speaker 1: be available revealed at NFL Honors in February in San Francisco. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: ESPN revealed this last night. It's the monsters, inc al

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Speaker 1: cast I don't know what we're looking at other than

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Speaker 1: Mike Wazewski, Ia looks like he's really got some wheels.

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Speaker 3: Now, I think that was the Saquon tush push Saquon pitch.

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Speaker 3: Look at this party. I would get anything to be

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Speaker 3: in this party. By the way, this actually might gives

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Speaker 3: me some other ideas. When is the Malana oldcast I

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Speaker 3: think that would be really fun. Cars would be really good,

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Speaker 3: especially for fast guys. This actually has has some promise here.

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Speaker 5: Sure we could do Frozen. My kids are big on Frozen.

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Speaker 5: We can do a bunch of them.

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Speaker 3: But would would be a great story with great like

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Speaker 3: them all Avatar how about abbasutely looks like he should

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Speaker 3: be able to play.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, though, you know a lot of fur,

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Speaker 1: a lot to grab onto.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, we're back tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Tell you I get it.