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Speaker 3: Five five dollars. This is a regular level happing a

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Speaker 1: You're saying that humans need fantasy to make life bearable.

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Speaker 1: Humans need fantasy to be human. My goodness that we speak.

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Speaker 3: I prone, relentless, refusing to give up.

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Speaker 2: All right, hit that horn? Very bless there, Hello and

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Speaker 2: welcome to the Fantasy Flex Podcast, presented by prist Picks.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Samantha pervide As always, I am so

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Speaker 2: excited to be joined by Brandon Anderson, who is an

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Speaker 2: NFL and NBA writer. Here at Action Network, where you

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Speaker 2: can find on Twitter at meeting Brando Brandon, can you

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Speaker 2: believe it is week fourteen?

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Speaker 3: I can't believe it? What's wilder? Is as week fourteen

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Speaker 3: and we still have bye week? Like what we're doing,

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Speaker 3: it's like crazy, it's really nuts, Like we're already, you know,

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Speaker 3: we're on the cusp of the NFL playoffs. We're already

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Speaker 3: at Fantasy playoffs, Like how are we skipping out on?

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Speaker 3: And it's four good teams too, like four of the

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Speaker 2: If you have someone like Jalen Hurts, Like, that's going

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Speaker 2: to be tough to you know, stream quarterbacks in week

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Speaker 2: fourteen when you really need someone like do you.

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Speaker 1: Trust Derek Carr?

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Speaker 2: Like, there's just yeah, a lot of player is going

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Speaker 3: Cool.

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Speaker 2: Well, this episode is going to be a little bit

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Speaker 2: different than normal. We are just going to do a

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Speaker 2: playoffs edition of Playhole Drop.

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Speaker 1: So Brandon, why don't we kick it off with quarterbacks?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 3: So let's get our PhD at quarterback. I like this

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Speaker 3: trio that you came up with. It's a very injured,

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Speaker 3: Who are you going to hold or drop?

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Speaker 2: This may be a Panther's home er thing, but I

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Speaker 2: am going to play Cam Newton all the reasons that

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Speaker 2: we liked him before, Like we knew that that explosive

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Speaker 2: crap game, you know, qbr A five point nine is

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Speaker 2: after firing offensive coordinator Joe Brady. And the matchup is

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Speaker 1: And yeah, there's some bus potential, but I think like.

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Speaker 2: At this point, I'm swinging for the fences, so I

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Speaker 2: like to play Cam Newton. I'm going to hold on

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Speaker 1: And then Burrow, I mean, he's the drop for me.

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Speaker 2: He's looked a little better over the last two games,

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Speaker 3: You play him fair enough.

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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of considerations here to your point,

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Speaker 1: It might be ugly. You don't want to watch that game,

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Speaker 3: On this list, my vikings Jersey on, but.

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Speaker 1: on to running backs.

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Speaker 3: All right, so running backs we have, you know, a

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Speaker 1: It's a theme. It's like the backup guys, you know,

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Speaker 3: So true, they are side dishes. So which side dish

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Speaker 2: And now this is going to make me totally sound

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Speaker 2: like a Homer, but I'm going with Tuba Howard. So

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Speaker 2: it's easy to forget, like kind of things that happened

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Speaker 1: That I no longer have to like wonder what's happening.

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Speaker 2: He definitely shouldered the Lion's share of the workload during

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Speaker 2: six Fantasy points and half PPR. His upside I think

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Speaker 1: More to the run. The matchup is also excellent.

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Speaker 1: For the hold, I am going to go with Danta Foreman.

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Speaker 2: He is just coming off of a one hundred and

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Speaker 2: especially if Jeremy McNichols ends up returning. Danta Foreman could

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Speaker 1: Then Jamal Williams is the drop.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm saying this as of Wednesday, not knowing if

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Speaker 2: that is when I'm going with Once you played Chuba

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Speaker 1: Interception, love to see it.

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Speaker 3: All right, back to PhD. At wide a receiver, we

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Speaker 3: have Darnell Mooney. We've got Brandon Ayyuk, the tastefully named

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to go with playing Jerry Judy.

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Speaker 2: He bounced back after disappointing Week twelve record a kind

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Speaker 1: A recipe for success.

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Speaker 3: whoever Kyle Shanahan chooses. We don't know. But maybe I

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Speaker 3: get some carries, and we don't know if Elijah Mitchell

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Speaker 3: is going to play. I trust San Francisco's offense to

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Speaker 3: give us stats. Trent Williams, George Kittle, Jimmy Garoppolo. They're producing.

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Speaker 3: Someone has to get those stats. Maybe it'll be my guy, Brandon.

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Speaker 3: I'll take a shot because I'm not excited about the

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Speaker 3: other options.

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Speaker 1: Fair enough, I mean, Brandon.

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Speaker 2: It's weird because I feel like I felt kind of

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Speaker 2: strong about Mooney being the hold, but the other two

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Speaker 2: I kind of could have flipped because Jerry Judy has

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Speaker 2: been kind of unimpressive.

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Speaker 1: As well in that Aneemac offense. So we shall see

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Speaker 1: how a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of these relationships kind of work out moving forward.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to everyone's favorite position, and

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Speaker 2: that is tight end.

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Speaker 3: Yes, our tight ends today are Kyle Pitts, Tyler Conklin

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Speaker 3: from My Vikings, and Zach Ertz. Now it's the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: Of course, this is just becoming a Vikings podcast or

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Speaker 1: like a Brandon.

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Speaker 3: Brandon Vikings podcast. Everyone else we're just living in it.

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Speaker 1: Also, like how the mighty have fallen.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's mighty, but like this, this

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Speaker 2: is a fall from grace for Kyle Pitts to be

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Speaker 2: in bus Yes, bargain Bin.

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Speaker 1: Titans, And I think that's a generous characterization.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I gotta be honest. When I saw this list,

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Speaker 3: I was like, uh, is this a typo? Why is

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Speaker 3: Kyle Pitts? Oh, his numbers really have taken a beating.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, you want to be in the list with

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Speaker 3: Tyler Conklin. We were not expecting that at the start

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Speaker 3: of the year. But I want to hear what you

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Speaker 3: how to say, Where does Pitts fall into your your

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Speaker 3: your mix. I'm curious, so.

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Speaker 1: Everyone knows I was really high on Kyle Pitts.

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Speaker 2: He's been very disappointing in the latter half of the

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Speaker 2: season since PK eight, when he faced Carolina for the

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Speaker 2: first time. He was held to two catches for thirteen yards,

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Speaker 2: and so then he is tight end twenty nine, averaging

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Speaker 2: just five point five fantasy points in half PPR. I

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Speaker 2: want to hold him because he has upside. You can't

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Speaker 2: trust him this week against the Panthers. They have only

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Speaker 2: allowed one double digit fantasy performance to a tight end

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Speaker 2: this year. That was Dalton Chaltz in Week four, and

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Speaker 2: like last week, they kept Mike a sticky in check

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Speaker 2: for three point two points in Week twelve before their bye.

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Speaker 1: So I want to hold him. Maybe it's maybe he's

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Speaker 1: just emotional, like I can't let go. I can't like.

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Speaker 1: I'm like he's he's like he's like Jack in the

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Speaker 1: Titanic and I'm Rose and I'm like, I can't let go.

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Speaker 3: I never let you go.

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Speaker 1: So the play for me is going to zach Ertz.

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Speaker 2: I know it hurts coming off of an abysmal Week

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Speaker 2: thirteen against the Bears, the Bears have been like very

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Speaker 2: permeable to the past, but tough against tight ends. He

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Speaker 2: caught just one or two targets for ten yards finishes

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Speaker 2: tight end thirty eight. How many teams are there in

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Speaker 2: the NFL. Again, I expect him to bounce back against

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Speaker 2: the Rams, who who allowed fifteen point one fantasy points

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Speaker 2: in Week four two. Max Williams, who was the Cardinals

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Speaker 2: tight end at the time. Max Williams is up this season.

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Speaker 2: I think his talent and strength in this offense just

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Speaker 2: kind of like keep him in.

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Speaker 1: That must start realm. And like Tyler Conklin, he's a

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Speaker 1: fine guy.

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Speaker 2: I wrote about him the Waiver Wire Colin like he's

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Speaker 2: fine to pick up as a streamer, and I have

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Speaker 2: no issue with you doing that. I just like of

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Speaker 2: this group, I feel like he's he has like the

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Speaker 2: most bust. I don't know, I just like he's not

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Speaker 2: appealing to me, He's not speaking to me. It was

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Speaker 2: a strong Week thirteen, so you know, without him feeling out,

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Speaker 2: Conklin could see an increase of targets could be going

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Speaker 2: to kJ Osborne.

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Speaker 1: Not totally sure how that's going to shake out.

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Speaker 2: I think he has the worst matchup of the three

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Speaker 2: though against the Steelers, who ring tenth best against fantasy

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Speaker 2: tight ends. Like I said, fine spots start with you know,

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Speaker 2: four teams on buy. But I trust Vikings. The Vikings

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Speaker 2: kind of less than some of the other teams.

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Speaker 3: Don't we all? Don't we all trust the Vikings. We're

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Speaker 3: losing to the ten and one Lions last.

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Speaker 1: Week, Brandon, I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 3: I'm out on Conklin in this trio. Also, he just

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Speaker 3: he doesn't have the upside, doesn't have the sex appeal.

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Speaker 3: And I think too that he's probably end up doing

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Speaker 3: a lot of blocking in this game. The Steelers have

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Speaker 3: a really strong pass rush and Minnesota's O line is

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Speaker 3: banged up, so I think Conklin might not end up

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Speaker 3: getting as many of these extra Thieland targets as you expect.

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Speaker 3: So I would I would not overreact to the nine

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Speaker 3: targets last week. He was a very easy Of all

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Speaker 3: the ones we've done, he was the clearest for me.

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Speaker 3: So I'm just gonna play Kyle Pitts. I'm just going

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Speaker 3: to start my stud. I know that he hasn't played

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Speaker 3: like a stud. He hasn't had more than four catches

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Speaker 3: or more than sixty two yards in six games in

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Speaker 3: a row. The targets are there, though I know the

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Speaker 3: tight end numbers for Carolina. He's basically a receiver. Not

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Speaker 3: that receivers are doing much better against the Panthers anyway,

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Speaker 3: I'm just playing my stud. If I don't like zach

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Speaker 3: Ertz has been good, but I thought his numbers were

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Speaker 3: a little better than when I looked. We don't really

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Speaker 3: know yet if it's a Kyler Murray thing, like maybe

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Speaker 3: zach Ertz was playing so well because it wasn't Kyler,

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Speaker 3: and Kyler likes to throw to the receivers a little more.

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Speaker 3: I just I don't feel like I have to start

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Speaker 3: zach Ertz. He's good, He's fine. You can start with

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Speaker 3: if you have him. But because I don't feel like

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Speaker 3: I have to, I'm just gonna play my guy, Kyle

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Speaker 3: Pitts that I took with my third, fourth fifth pick,

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Speaker 3: that I know is talented, that I like. I don't

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Speaker 3: if I if I sit zach Ertz, maybe I lose

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Speaker 3: fifty yards, maybe I miss a touchdown. If I sit

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Speaker 3: Kyle Pitts in a key game and he puts up

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Speaker 3: ninety one hundred yards a big game, like I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna think about it all off season, so this

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Speaker 3: is a start your stud spot for me. I'm just

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Speaker 3: gonna play Kyle.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the dark Side, Brandon of being Kyle Pits Apologist.

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Speaker 1: It is as it's a fan club that has been.

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Speaker 2: Leaned out, you know, cold, a little bit small, a

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Speaker 2: small island of fans.

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Speaker 1: I am just happy to hear that someone else is

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Speaker 1: even higher on Kyle Pits than I am. All right

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Speaker 1: that I'll do it for this special PhD episode.

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Speaker 2: As a reminder, Sean Kerner and Chris Raybround are here

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Speaker 2: on the Fantasy Flex every Monday, Wednesday and Friday giving

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Speaker 2: you guys all the DFS, waver wire and rankings info

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Speaker 2: you need to dominate your fantasy leagues. I will be

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Speaker 2: back next Tuesday with our final round of twenty one

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Speaker 2: questions with our special guest, Jamie Eisenberg of CBS Fantasy.

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Speaker 1: Specific by prize picks. Peace out, y'all,