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Speaker 1: Wow, everybody, It's Wednesday, June twelfth, twenty twenty four. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, where we stopped believing

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Speaker 1: in cover jinxes years ago.

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Speaker 2: It's been your man, MG. Marcus Grant, Michael.

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Speaker 1: Lift Florio back from in New York, M Kwan Jones

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Speaker 1: who hasn't been to New York in a wild because

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Speaker 1: he lives in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Now well Florida one, We welcome back. Then, how was

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Speaker 2: the trip?

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Speaker 3: The trip was awesome. I love thank you to first

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Speaker 3: for holding it down last week. I love going back home,

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Speaker 3: getting to see all my friends, my nieces and nephews

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Speaker 3: are awesome, so shout out Dominic. Dorian Penny loved spending

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Speaker 3: all weekend with you guys. And yeah, if my boys

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Speaker 3: sounds a little hoarse, it's because I spent the entire

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Speaker 3: weekend from morning till night playing with a four year old,

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Speaker 3: a six year old, and an eleven year old.

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Speaker 2: So nice.

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Speaker 4: That tends to happen.

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Speaker 1: It tends to have And chances are you may have

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Speaker 1: picked up a virus or something, yeah, because you know,

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Speaker 1: kids are germ factories, so you might have picked up

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Speaker 1: something along the way there.

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Speaker 2: So but welcome back.

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Speaker 1: I know you were actually gonna be out hitting the

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Speaker 1: road heading to America's finest city for a couple of days.

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Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, because I got to go see from on

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Speaker 3: my side of the family, like my nieces and nephews

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Speaker 3: and now Nicolette's nephew. They're in San Diego for the week.

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Speaker 3: So tomorrow morning we're driving down for a few days.

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Speaker 3: And look, this is what we were talking about a

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Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago on the pod.

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Speaker 4: It's June. This is one of the few months where

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Speaker 4: we could just kind of like pick up and go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't know if you've looked. The Padres are

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Speaker 1: in town, the A's are visiting. I would think the

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Speaker 1: tickets should be easy to come by if you decide

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Speaker 1: you want to hit to you know, beautiful park, Diamtric Yeah,

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Speaker 1: go walk around Petco Park for a day. I would

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Speaker 1: recommend it. That's all I'm saying. We have plenty to

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Speaker 1: talk about today. We're gonna do some hype train or

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Speaker 1: smoke screen. It's been a while since we've one. We've

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Speaker 1: had OTA's come and go, so obviously there's some some

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Speaker 1: things we're talking about there. We'll also talk some early

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Speaker 1: round movers when it comes to Best Ball drafts and

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Speaker 1: that sort of thing, and kind of figure out whether

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Speaker 1: or not we would draft these guys at their current ADP.

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Speaker 2: But first, let's start with a little bit of news.

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Speaker 1: This one came out on Tuesday morning, and that is

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Speaker 1: because Christian McCaffrey is now the cover man, cover artist,

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Speaker 1: cover man for the new Madden game, Madden twenty five.

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Speaker 2: So I will ask you this, Lakwan, as the resident

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Speaker 2: forty nine or hater.

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Speaker 1: McCaffrey is sort of the one dot one in most drafts,

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Speaker 1: so we kind of need him to succeed. But you,

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Speaker 1: as a RAM fan and Niner hater, would certainly like

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Speaker 1: to pray on his downfall. How are you feeling about

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Speaker 1: him being on the cover right now?

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Speaker 5: Well confirmed, I will now be purchasing because I can't.

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Speaker 2: Have that house.

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Speaker 5: But I really feel as though Aaron Donald should have

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Speaker 5: been on the cover. The guy goes out on top retirement,

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Speaker 5: the goat like, what are we doing here? Misopportunity? I'm

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Speaker 5: not I'm not a fan of it, to be honest.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, then what I will do for you

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Speaker 1: is I will print out a picture of Aaron Donald

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Speaker 1: and you can like glue it to the cover of

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Speaker 1: Madden and have your own specialition.

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Speaker 5: Come on, that's not how that works now. It's all

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Speaker 5: digital gaming now, man, you can't get the cover the

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Speaker 5: physical I.

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Speaker 3: Will look download games all the time, But last year

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Speaker 3: when Josh Allen was on the cover, I went to

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Speaker 3: a game stop and bought a physical copy of the game.

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Speaker 3: Now it's so annoying because I need to have the

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Speaker 1: So I mean, if you were really a fan, you

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Speaker 1: double up and have both and then not to worry

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Speaker 5: We're so lazy now.

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Speaker 1: But Ford, I mean the cover Jinx is dead right,

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Speaker 1: Like we don't. This isn't the thing anymore, is it?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: Because I mean Josh Allen was on it last year

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Speaker 4: Who is it the year prior? I gotta pull up the.

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Speaker 1: Jackson, Tom Brady, Tom Brady and Patrick MAHOMESA.

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Speaker 3: Mahomes still went on to have a great year, like

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Speaker 3: like it's it's long dead the Madden curse. But what

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Speaker 3: everyone will point to it and say that's why.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, other than just you know, hey, he plays football man,

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Speaker 1: and and sometimes things happen. Sometimes guys get hurt, sometimes

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Speaker 5: Say you play it safe and you put Aaron Donald

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Speaker 5: on the cover, there's there's no Madden curse.

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Speaker 2: We're done. That's I'm not gonna let him die.

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Speaker 1: But guys who retired the year before on the on

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Speaker 1: the cover, we'll just do that.

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Speaker 2: At this point.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of guys retiring, Darren Waller announced his retirement after

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Speaker 1: eight seasons in the NFL lakwan. Is it because he'd

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Speaker 1: had enough of NFL football? Or was it because he

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Speaker 5: He really it might be a little bit of both, honestly,

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Speaker 5: because man, I actually sat there and listened to an

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Speaker 5: This ain't it. This ain't getting no iPod love none whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: Uh Well, I mean, I think basically he was trying

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Speaker 5: That that's not how you get her back. You just

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Speaker 5: made her run away further with this song.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know, if you've seen shots of

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Speaker 1: her Florio, she is certainly living her best life. It

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Speaker 1: looks like Kelsey Plum has very much moved on. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I agree, But I'm not gonna hate on Darren Waller.

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Speaker 3: Look, we've all been in this position, right and like,

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Speaker 3: there's there's much worse ways he could have went and

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Speaker 3: handled this, So I'm not Look, he's he's at a

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Speaker 3: I don't I didn't. It's the best song ever, but

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Speaker 3: I think it got a little too much hate it.

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Speaker 4: Give him, give him a little bit of time.

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Speaker 3: We've seen a lot of athletes be terrible as rappers.

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Speaker 3: Maybe maybe he could be one of the few that

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Speaker 1: We I mean, look, you're right, we have all sort

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Speaker 1: we regret after breakups, after tough breakups. You know who

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Speaker 1: among us hasn't posted an auto tuned rap video.

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Speaker 2: On YouTube in the Internet for the whole world. See

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Speaker 2: as a former rapper, I have not. All Right, well,

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Speaker 2: I have a question about that a little bit later on.

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Speaker 1: But let's let's actually talk about the football part of this,

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Speaker 1: because obviously he was a big part when he was

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Speaker 2: He is now gone.

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Speaker 1: Now presumably Lakwan Malik Neighbors is the number one target

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Speaker 1: there for Big Blue this year, but that begs the question,

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Speaker 5: This is a good question because you had Wanda Robinson

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Speaker 5: you know you have somebody that's as explosive, somebody you

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Speaker 5: he steps up as the second, you know target this offense,

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Speaker 5: where you know you're hoping that this offense can gel

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Speaker 5: So I mean I honestly think, you know, Darius Slayton's

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Speaker 5: a toss up between those two.

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Speaker 1: Any interest in either of those guys Floria or maybe

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Speaker 1: in Who's next it tied end, be it Daniel Bellinger

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Speaker 3: You, uh, moves the needle, not really like I don't

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Speaker 3: find myself really going after Giants guys, especially the later

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Speaker 3: you get, I mean, after Milik Nighbors, it completely fins out.

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Speaker 3: But if I am taking a shot on anyone, I

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Speaker 3: like Jalen Hyatt because right now.

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Speaker 4: We're talking best ball, like he is very explosive.

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Speaker 3: He can win downfield, but you don't have to try

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Speaker 3: to guess in basketball when those big long catches and

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Speaker 3: if they're tough to figure out when like in redraft,

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Speaker 3: He could come through in some of those games, but

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Speaker 3: it'll probably be Darius Slayton, who leads them in receiving

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Speaker 3: there's one year he didn't lead them since he's joined

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Speaker 3: the Giants. But he's just more of a safe floor

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Speaker 4: As for the tight ends, though, THEO.

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Speaker 3: Johnson is one, and then look we're talking about your

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Speaker 3: so probably for redraft, like someone that blossoms throughout the

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Speaker 4: But he's huge, and he is fast.

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Speaker 3: He's six six and he ran a four or five

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Speaker 3: Evan since twenty two thousand and three. He is just

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Speaker 3: One of the others was Jimmy Graham. So he could

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Speaker 3: be he could be a yat guy for them, but

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Speaker 3: even more than that, I think he can be their

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Speaker 3: right for him. So, yeah, you're talking about like an

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Speaker 3: eighteenth round pick or someone just to kind of write

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Speaker 3: down in your redraft leagues. I'm more excited for Johnson

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Speaker 3: than Bellinger. We kind of know what Bellinger is.

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Speaker 1: At this point, Yeah, I mean sort of where I am.

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Speaker 1: I've been drafting Alak Neighbors. I don't know that there's

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Speaker 1: another Giant that I've drafted really since there, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I think I do feel like Milak Neighbors by

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Speaker 1: the way, his ADP has gotten pushed up in part,

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Speaker 1: I mean one because you know he's going to be

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Speaker 1: the number one receiver there. He's a guy that we love,

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Speaker 1: we love his talent, but also because I think the

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Speaker 1: assumption has been for a long time that Darren Wallder

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Speaker 1: is going to retire, and so because of that, people

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Speaker 1: are like, let me get in on League Neighbors as

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Speaker 1: the one thing we feel like we can count on

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Speaker 1: in this offense. Beyond that, though, it has been kind

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Speaker 1: of kind of sketchy about who we really believe.

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Speaker 2: In there for New York.

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Speaker 1: Before we get off this topic, though, Lakwan, you mentioned

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Speaker 1: being a rapper.

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Speaker 2: If I remember, I think I've seen one of your.

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Speaker 5: Videos got poduct It's it's somewhere out there on YouTube.

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Speaker 5: I'm not going to disclose my rap name, but.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, who had the better rap career? Is that

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Speaker 2: Darren Waller?

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Antonio Brown? Or is it Cole Beasley?

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Speaker 5: Ah, Man, I gotta tell you one night out, I

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Speaker 5: heard AB come on, so throw that ish on. That's

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Speaker 5: somewhat of a banger out there. So he's obviously he's

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Speaker 5: the bar right.

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Speaker 2: Now, is he? I mean with the choices we have, yes.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, look, whatever your feelings on Cole

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Speaker 1: Beasley's you know, stances on you know, politics and facts whatever,

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Speaker 1: I honestly think he was kind of the best of

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Speaker 1: the three. Like Antonio Brown always made me cringe. Everything

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Speaker 1: he's put out there has been cringe worthy. Waller, I

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Speaker 1: think it's just kind of man. I weirdly think Beasley

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Speaker 1: might be the the best of the three, which is crazy.

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Speaker 3: I think AB just because one he's worked with Kanye,

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Speaker 3: which is insane, and two he's like performed at festivals

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Speaker 3: and stuff, so I think.

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Speaker 4: That gives them.

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Speaker 3: But if we're talking best, I think the best football

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Speaker 3: player rapper is Arion Foster.

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Speaker 2: Oh I forgot about that's right? Yeah, No, you're right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think.

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Speaker 5: That forgot about.

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Speaker 2: I think it did.

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Speaker 1: By the way, you mentioned Antonio Brown working with Kanye,

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Speaker 1: I mean that feels like two p's.

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Speaker 2: In a pod.

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Speaker 1: Those guys person those guys, It's not a surprise that

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Speaker 1: that they would have worked together.

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Speaker 2: It feels like they belong together for sure.

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Speaker 1: All right, back to the football stuff, Jordan Love says

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Speaker 1: he believes the Packers don't have to have a number

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Speaker 1: one wide receiver and Florida we sort of saw that

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Speaker 1: last year. You know, whether it was Jaden Reed, Christian Watson, uh,

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Speaker 1: Dontavian Wick, Romeo Dobbs, all these guys sort of getting involved.

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Speaker 1: If you had to designate somebody as the wide receiver

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Speaker 1: one in Green Bay, who would that be?

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Speaker 4: I think it's Jayden Reid.

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Speaker 3: And I think for like the first half of the

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Speaker 4: Clear that, like Jayden Reid was carving.

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Speaker 3: Out a role here where like they are going to

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Speaker 3: generate touches for him because Reid can do it all.

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Speaker 4: He can be.

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Speaker 3: Utilized as a runner and is a really good yak receiver.

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Speaker 3: He can stretch the field a bit. But I do agree.

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Speaker 3: I mean, when you have four different wide receivers that

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Speaker 3: And while Reid is the one that I feel best about,

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Speaker 3: I like him and everything, I do kind of find

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Speaker 3: also taking shots on like Dantavian Wicks, who goes really late,

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Speaker 3: receiver forty five is just someone I can can't quit

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Speaker 3: because we know how explosive he is and and I

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Speaker 3: understand all the risk with Watson and the hamstring and

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Speaker 3: then he let down last year and him and Jordan

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Speaker 3: Love have terrible, uh like numbers when you look at

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Speaker 3: really cheap, and I'm like, he's he's got huge.

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Speaker 4: Play capability and and a very high ceiling for fantasy purposes. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting too, because when Jordan Love took

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Speaker 1: over as the starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 2: Had left to go to New York.

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Speaker 1: There was a big conversation about how much Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: contributed to Christian Watson's success. I don't know that we

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Speaker 1: have a definitive answer on that, just because he still

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Speaker 1: hasn't been completely healthy. But Lacon, I mean, let's talk redrafts, right,

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Speaker 1: because I think in in Bestball, we're all willing to

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Speaker 1: basis looking at the Fantasy Pros consensus ADP. Now, mind you,

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Speaker 1: let's let's talk a redraft thing here, right, Reid Watson,

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Speaker 1: do Wicks?

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Speaker 2: Are we overdrafting them? I mean, how much does it

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Speaker 2: move the needle?

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Speaker 1: How much does it move the ADPs if we're talking

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Speaker 1: about having to decipher when they're gonna go off on

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Speaker 5: Maybe a little bit on Read, but I'm willing to

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Speaker 5: gamble on Read, just based on the fancy opportunities as

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Speaker 5: created for him. But Watson, he's still going a little

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Speaker 5: too high for me, being that with the injury history,

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Speaker 5: like availability, it's your best ability here and I'd rather

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Speaker 5: you know, fade Watson, you know, taking on the risks.

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Speaker 5: I know we're hearing good things coming out of camp

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Speaker 5: way too much risk there for especially for redraft, when

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Speaker 5: you're gonna have a guy that's probably gonna be on

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Speaker 5: out on those really big weeks because you're too cautious

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Speaker 5: about the injury or about the underperformance. So to answer

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Speaker 5: that question, you go for Wicks. You go for Wicks

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Speaker 5: who's shown the ability to show up, show out with

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Speaker 5: the limited opportunities. We see how explosive he is. We

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Speaker 5: you have the upside there. And he's the cheapest wide

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Speaker 5: safe and take Wis so he could show up and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think the thing with Wis because

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Speaker 1: right now wide receiver sixty, there is very little risk

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Speaker 1: involved in drafting him. But I mean, Florida, it just

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Speaker 2: Because you're like, well.

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Speaker 1: It feels like the odds of him giving you like

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Speaker 1: opportunities where he gives you, you know, twelve to fifteen points.

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Speaker 1: It just the packers feel very scary to me. The

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Speaker 1: as a group. I don't know if you feel the

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Speaker 3: No, I do, And I don't have a ton of

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Speaker 3: exposure to really any of them outside of Jayden Reid

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Speaker 3: confident he'll be out there in two wide receiver sets

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Speaker 3: if healthy. I feel the same way about Christian Watson,

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Speaker 3: like he will be on the fields because of what

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Speaker 3: the one that I'm fading because I think he's more

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Speaker 3: they're all healthy, and I know, like problems like that

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Speaker 3: tend to work themselves out. But it took injuries to

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Speaker 4: So largely it's read for me.

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Speaker 3: But even there, I'm like, I don't find myself going

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Speaker 3: into drafts being like I need to get one of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the upside there.

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Speaker 1: And then somebody pointed out to me a couple of

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Speaker 1: weeks ago that it's very similar to what we have

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Speaker 1: in Houston with Nico Collins, Tank Dell, and Stefan Diggs.

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Speaker 1: The difference being the Packers guys are a lot cheaper

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Speaker 1: you're going after in Houston. Last bit of news Zamir White,

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Speaker 1: Alexander Madison's they are quote in this together as they

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Speaker 1: aim to replace Josh Jacobs. We have sort of looked

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Speaker 1: Like nobody really moved on that now. I mean, Floria,

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Speaker 1: I do think that Zamir White is going to be

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Speaker 1: much the Raiders want to lean on him? I mean,

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Speaker 1: is there a fear that maybe Alexander Madison gets more

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I've never been a big Alexander Madison guy. Like last year,

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Speaker 3: So my one concern, and the thing I've been thinking

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Speaker 3: But on a week to week basis, I don't think

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Speaker 3: And you talk about Zamir White where he's getting drafted

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Speaker 3: kind of I think getting him closer to the floor

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Speaker 3: Zamir White where he's going. And Alexander Madison does not

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Speaker 2: Are you are you cool with Zamir White right now?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 5: I mean we don't have to worry about Alexander Madison

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Speaker 5: So I think you gotta kind of have that locked up.

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Speaker 5: way too high and then it becomes nasty work.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I could kind of get down with that.

441
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Speaker 2: I just I don't know.

442
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Speaker 1: Something is telling me that maybe we see more Madison

443
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Speaker 1: than we anticipate, at least early on. Maybe we get

444
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Speaker 1: midway through the season and the Raiders are like, oh

445
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Speaker 1: wait a minute, we don't like this, and then they

446
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Speaker 1: go back to Samirwai.

447
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I just feel like early on we might

448
00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:00,480
Speaker 2: be a little bit appointed.

449
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Speaker 4: U and Dylanabe the rookie, he's a sleeper there. I think.

450
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Speaker 1: I go back and forth on that, right because, like

451
00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:11,640
Speaker 1: I went early into this draft season, thinking like he's

452
00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:15,159
Speaker 1: got some sleeper value, and maybe he does, but it

453
00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,360
Speaker 1: feels like in OTAs you weren't hearing his name a lot.

454
00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:21,480
Speaker 1: In fact, you know, occasionally a Mirrordulla's name still pops

455
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,200
Speaker 1: up another not that I think a mirror of Doulah

456
00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,440
Speaker 1: is like worth drafting, but I feel like he's that

457
00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,199
Speaker 1: guy who can sort of wreck your year, you know.

458
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Speaker 3: I think one of those two have the best chances

459
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Speaker 3: of being the past catching back for the Raiders, and

460
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Speaker 3: and yeah, it'll be inconsistent usage and stuff like that,

461
00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,760
Speaker 3: but games where they're trailing and they have to throw

462
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Speaker 3: a lot, I could see those guys surprising.

463
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.

464
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Speaker 1: I think early on, I think I drafted some of

465
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Speaker 1: Lobby and maybe I'll go back to him a little bit,

466
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Speaker 1: depending on how things shake out when it gets to

467
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Speaker 1: training camp.

468
00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:53,200
Speaker 2: And that sort of thing. But who knows.

469
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Speaker 1: Who knows would take a break, We'll come back and

470
00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,879
Speaker 1: play some hype train or smoke screen, looking at some

471
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Speaker 1: of the things that came out of ota Is and

472
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how we feel about him. That's

473
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Speaker 1: next on the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. It's been a

474
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Speaker 1: while since we had played any hype train or smoke screen,

475
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Speaker 1: and so it felt like this is a good time

476
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 1: to do it because we've got news at least, we have,

477
00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,560
Speaker 1: you know, reports out of OTAs and that sort of thing,

478
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 1: and that's good enough to let us kind of, you know,

479
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,639
Speaker 1: come up with our own theories on something. So I

480
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 1: got four different talking points here we can decide if

481
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Speaker 1: it's a hype train or a smoke screen. This one

482
00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:34,560
Speaker 1: coming from Pittsburgh from Beat writer Mark Coboli, who says

483
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Speaker 1: Pat Fryarmouth quote could have a breakout year and that

484
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,280
Speaker 1: basically it looks like he and Russell Wilson have found

485
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Speaker 1: a connection so far in OTAs.

486
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Speaker 2: I mean, we have liked Friar Mooth.

487
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Speaker 1: I think at times, I don't think he's ever completely

488
00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,560
Speaker 1: lived up to what we hoped he could be. I

489
00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,439
Speaker 1: don't know that it's always been his fault, LaQuan, But

490
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Speaker 1: after you see these reports about him having a breakout

491
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Speaker 1: year hype train or smoke screen.

492
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Speaker 5: Hype train, I'm actually for it. And he's always been

493
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,800
Speaker 5: somewhat of a productive tight end when it comes to

494
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Speaker 5: the yards per row, when it comes him just getting

495
00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 5: open and his utility, it's just he just wasn't able

496
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:13,240
Speaker 5: to hit his full fantasy potential due to the quarterback play.

497
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 5: So you have somewhat of an upgrade here with the

498
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Speaker 5: quarterback play and decision making. And we know Russell Wilson.

499
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Speaker 5: Wilson tends to like lean on targets that he can

500
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Speaker 5: trust as well. And I think Pat Fayremuth getting this

501
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,000
Speaker 5: much hype early in the train, I'm here for it, man,

502
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,720
Speaker 5: hype train, smoke screen Floria.

503
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Speaker 3: I think it's a hype train because of the ADP,

504
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,199
Speaker 3: like you're getting him as a tight end two, and

505
00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,199
Speaker 3: he's one of my favorite tight end twos to take like.

506
00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,240
Speaker 3: He was awful last year, but I agree with Lakwan

507
00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,480
Speaker 3: it was because of the quarterback play and he also

508
00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 3: struggled to stay on the field last year. But Russell

509
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,600
Speaker 3: Wilson has shown us that he can get the tight

510
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Speaker 3: ends involved, especially in the red zone. He loves going

511
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,640
Speaker 3: to his big body tight ends and justin fields if

512
00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 3: and when he takes over. Has shown us that he

513
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:57,879
Speaker 3: can sustain a fantasy tight end and get the most

514
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Speaker 3: out of them. He made Cole Comet very fantasy relevant

515
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 3: so as potentially the number two target in this offense.

516
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 3: At tight End fourteen, I'm cool with taking him there.

517
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 1: I'm I'm on the hype trained for it as well, because,

518
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, it always feels like Russell Wilson wants

519
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,520
Speaker 1: to get his tight ends involved.

520
00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 2: I think we saw that in Seattle.

521
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how it worked in Denver because he

522
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,640
Speaker 1: could never keep his tight ends healthy, and I guess

523
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,320
Speaker 1: to some extent that was sort of the thing with

524
00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: the Seahawks as well. They could never keep a healthy

525
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,240
Speaker 1: tight end. So in terms of wanting to get Friarmuth involved,

526
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Speaker 1: knowing how talented he is, I'm all about the hype

527
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,359
Speaker 1: train there. My fear though, is, you know, is Russell

528
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Speaker 1: Wilson going to be the jinx that doesn't allow Pat

529
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Speaker 1: Fryarmouth to stay healthy?

530
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Speaker 2: You know?

531
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Speaker 1: I know that's more you know, correlation than causation sort

532
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 1: of thing, Like I don't know that Russell Wilson is

533
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: the reason guys get hurt, but it just seems like

534
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,439
Speaker 1: his tight ends never stay healthy.

535
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,640
Speaker 2: So that, you know, is my own little person.

536
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Speaker 5: There on hospitable walls or something.

537
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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I got to have to go

538
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 1: back and look, but I don't know if that just

539
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,200
Speaker 1: for whatever reason the tight ends just don't seem to stay.

540
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:02,800
Speaker 2: Healthy around Russell Wilson. I don't get it.

541
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Speaker 1: In Tennessee, Tyler Boyd says Will Levis quote tried to

542
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: do too much last year and can quote rely more

543
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,800
Speaker 1: on his playmakers. We know they've got DeAndre Hopkins. We

544
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 1: know that they got Calvin Ridley. They go out to

545
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 1: get Tyler Boyd. They have pass catching running backs and

546
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard and Taj Spears. You know, last year it

547
00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:28,200
Speaker 1: was it was sort of up and down on this one. Florio,

548
00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 1: I mean, so are you let's just say about Will Levis.

549
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 1: Are you are you hype training Will Levis or is

550
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:34,160
Speaker 1: this all a smoke.

551
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,400
Speaker 4: Screen hype train?

552
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Speaker 3: In fact, Will Levis is one of my favorite quarterbacks.

553
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 3: To take a shot on it. Where he's going right now,

554
00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 3: I mean he's going out like quarterback twenty three to

555
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 3: twenty four something like that in ADP right now. And

556
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 3: I've been taking a lot of him. Last year, he

557
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 3: led the NFL deep pass percentage twenty one percent of

558
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 3: his throws went twenty or more air yards. Every other

559
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,720
Speaker 3: starter was fourteen percent or less. He also led the

560
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,560
Speaker 3: league in hero throws at something like nine percent and

561
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 3: it was like almost double the next closest guy or

562
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 3: something like that. He did lock in on his first

563
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 3: read seventy three percent of the time, So Pylot Boyd.

564
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Speaker 4: Is right there.

565
00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 3: He can develop more and learn to read a defense

566
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 3: better and spread the ball out a little bit more.

567
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 3: There's a lot of area for growth with will Levis.

568
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 3: But just the fact that he's going to be heaving

569
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Speaker 3: the ball downfield, the fact that we're already hearing that

570
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 3: Brian Callahan and co.

571
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Speaker 4: Plan on throwing the ball way more than.

572
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Speaker 3: The Titans have in past years when Mike Brabel was

573
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 3: there and Derrick Henry was there. I think this Titans

574
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,880
Speaker 3: offense is going to look very different than anything we've

575
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Speaker 3: seen out of them for years.

576
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Speaker 4: And look, I don't care how it translates.

577
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Speaker 3: In real life, but for fantasy, Will Levis has a

578
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 3: high upside, has a high ceiling. I think he could

579
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Speaker 3: be something like remember that year were Blake Bortles where

580
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,200
Speaker 3: like the Jags were just losing, but he was putting

581
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 3: up big numbers.

582
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Speaker 4: Because that could be Will Levis this year, and I'm

583
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,160
Speaker 4: all about taking him where he's going.

584
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Speaker 1: The reason Blake Bortles put up big numbers that year

585
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 1: is because usually in the first half of games he

586
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 1: was throwing multiple interceptions and putting them behind and then

587
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: having to go out and throw. I mean, he was

588
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: a he was a prime candidate. He was sort of

589
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: the pre Jameis Winston. You know, it was kind of

590
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: what he was doing that year. Lokwan, are you in

591
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,920
Speaker 1: on will Levis? You're buying in on him this year?

592
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Speaker 5: Yes, I am. I mean the value on him is great.

593
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 5: QB two where you can get him Layton Drafts and

594
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 5: Best Ball right now, redraft, everybody's going to be down

595
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Speaker 5: on him. I'm here for Tyler Boyd speaking up for

596
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 5: his QB because he's such a great addition to that

597
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 5: offense as well being that the way they're going to

598
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 5: be able to utilize him to get these third downs,

599
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,240
Speaker 5: you know, converted. I think that was the biggest problem

600
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Speaker 5: for will Lews there. I mean, he had a sixteen

601
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 5: passer rating win targeting DeAndre Hopkins on third down. That

602
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 5: is disgusting. He's your best player and you probably couldn't

603
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 5: name any other wide receiver other than trey Lon Birds

604
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Speaker 5: and DeAndre Hopkins.

605
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Speaker 2: Man put some respect on Nick Westbrookakina's name.

606
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Speaker 5: You know what, I put some respect on it, because yeah,

607
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 5: I did pick him up off the waivers one time,

608
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 5: but again, I just feel as though they just did

609
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 5: right by him this year. So I'm jumping on the

610
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 5: train I am.

611
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Speaker 1: I don't know that I'm all in like you guys are,

612
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: but I do think there's reason to be optimistic the

613
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: fact that they have built around him, and you know,

614
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 1: we've talked about it with Carolina, how they've tried to

615
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,440
Speaker 1: build around Bryce Young.

616
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Speaker 2: They have done the same thing around.

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Speaker 1: Will Levis, and I think to your point, Florio, this

618
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: is going to be a very different looking Titans offense

619
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Speaker 1: than what we were used to seeing with Derrick Henry

620
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Speaker 1: Gaughan and just a complete overhaul of the coaching staff.

621
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Speaker 1: It's not going to look like any Titans offenses we

622
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,320
Speaker 1: have seen in the past at all. Couple things out

623
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Speaker 1: of Minnesota One defensive tackle Harrison Phillips says the Vikings

624
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Speaker 1: quote have two true number one running backs when it

625
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Speaker 1: comes to Aaron Jones, Anty Chandler Lakwan, I'll stick with

626
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 1: you hype train or smoke.

627
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 2: Screen on this one.

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Speaker 5: Smoke screen for sure. I think they're just trying to

629
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Speaker 5: hype up ty Chandler to put some you know, ire

630
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 5: unders but you know the do good du camp. I

631
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,880
Speaker 5: think this is Aaron Jones's backfield, to be honest, I mean,

632
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,440
Speaker 5: I'm not really gonna be handcuffing, you know, Tyler ty

633
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,399
Speaker 5: Chandler if I do get Aaron Jones. So I'm just

634
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 5: gonna go with the notion like, Okay, this is just

635
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 5: camp talk.

636
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Speaker 1: Uh you're feeling that way to Florida or is there

637
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: maybe something potentially there with ty Chandler.

638
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 3: I think he can be utilized as as like an

639
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 3: RB two. There worries me is like Aaron Jones has

640
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 3: been heavily propped up in fantasy because of a heavy

641
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 3: involvement in the passing game throughout his career. Ty Chandler

642
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 3: is a bigger threat to come in on third downs

643
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 3: or take a full drive something like that. Then AJ

644
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 3: Dillon was because AJ Dillon does not have good hands,

645
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 3: not good in the passing game. So ty Chandler is

646
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 3: definitely a bigger risk there.

647
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 4: But I agree with LQ.

648
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 3: With Lakwan, I'm not like baiting Aaron Jones because of

649
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 3: ty Chandler or anything like that. Although I also don't

650
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 3: find myself really actively going after Aaron Jones because he

651
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 3: is twenty nine years old and struggled to stay on

652
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 3: the field. Last year saw a little bit of dip

653
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 3: in production until late in the year where he just boomed.

654
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 3: Like I still think he has talent there and stuff,

655
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 3: but twenty nine years old for a player who's already

656
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 3: struggled to.

657
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 4: Stay on the field in his career.

658
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 3: If he falls to me at the right price, I'm

659
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Speaker 3: cool taking him. But he's not like a big target

660
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 3: of mine going into my drafts.

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00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: I'm sort of down on the Vikings.

662
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 2: I'm not drafting them, any of them.

663
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Speaker 1: I think at ADP if I get them the fall,

664
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Speaker 1: then I will look at drafting Vikings, but I'm not

665
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: taking any of them at cost right now, just because

666
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,960
Speaker 1: I have a lot of questions about the quarterback playing

667
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: what that's gonna mean for the offense in general.

668
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Smokespreen on this one.

669
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it's Harrison Phillips trying to be a

670
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: good teammate and pump up the guys around him.

671
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 2: I think they've got.

672
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: A borderline number one running back in Aaron Jones, and

673
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: then they've got a guy who can fill in nicely

674
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: in Ti Chandler when they need him to last one.

675
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna say, I know it's gonna be smoke.

676
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about it because it was

677
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: just funny to me.

678
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 2: Lakwan.

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00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: The Vikings coaches reportedly are quote blown away by Robert

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00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,640
Speaker 1: Tunyan your thoughts.

681
00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 5: I mean, you can see my face. I know this

682
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 5: is an audio broadcast, but my face is scrutched him, like,

683
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 5: what are we doing here? This is a smoke screen.

684
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 5: I mean, this dude's just trying to collect all the

685
00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 5: division rings here and you know, just be on each

686
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 5: team that he could be on.

687
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 2: And he's a good guy.

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00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 5: He's probably a great locker room guy. So I feel

689
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 5: like they just, you know, put this out there, just

690
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 5: say like, hey man, this guy's great. Man, he's great

691
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 5: for the team. But this is definitely a smoke screen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean, let's talk about this to Florida,

693
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: right Knowing that T. J. Hawkinson is not gonna be

694
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: ready at the start of the year, may not be

695
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: till mid to later in the year, is there any

696
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: potential value there with Tunyan?

697
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 3: No, because I don't even know if he's gonna be

698
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 3: the next tight end up like Josh Oliver, Johnny Munt.

699
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 4: Nikhil Harry making the move to tight end.

700
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Speaker 3: Like that's one that I was like, look, I know

701
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 3: it doesn't really mean a whole lot, but maybe it

702
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 3: means a little something until TJ.

703
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 4: Howkinson comes back in his back.

704
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 3: But yeah, last year, Adam Rank was accusing Robert Tunnian

705
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 3: of being a double agent for the Packers.

706
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 4: So he had one.

707
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 3: Year where he was heavily propped up by Aaron Rodgers

708
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,840
Speaker 3: throwing him into the red zone. Besides that, we know

709
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 3: who Robert Tunyan is.

710
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, big Bob man.

711
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 1: He had that one year as you mentioned, and hasn't

712
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: come to anything close to that. But yeah, that to

713
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: me was the epitome of a June hype train or

714
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: smoke screen comment. When I saw that kind of coming

715
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: across my Twitter timeline, I'm.

716
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 2: Like, what are we doing here? Come on?

717
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 5: Probably a good guy, he's probably a nice guy.

718
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's a really wonderful human being.

719
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: In terms of our fantasy teams, we are not interested

720
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: at all in Robert Tunyan.

721
00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: All Right, got a little bit more left to do.

722
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 2: We're gonna play some smasher pass.

723
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Speaker 1: When it comes to some early round Bestball ADP movers.

724
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Speaker 1: That's next on the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. Doing a

725
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: little something new here on the show, It's time to

726
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: Drive Your Draft, presented by the all new hybrid Toyota Camri.

727
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: We're talking about just some draft strategies as we get

728
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: into the midst of Best Ball summer. We are here

729
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: in mid June, and I'm sure everybody has done a

730
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: ton of drafts. Let me double check make sure I

731
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Speaker 1: am not on the clock. It appears it appears that

732
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: I am. I just went on the clock. I got time,

733
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: all right, So.

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about some some early round movers rounds

736
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Speaker 1: one through five in Best Ball Draft. Now, I picked

737
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 1: guys who have moved over the last week, so from

738
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: Monday to Monday called June third to June tenth, we'll

739
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,320
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, some of those guys who have

740
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: made the biggest jumps, rises or falls, and whether or

741
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: not you would draft them at their current ADPs.

742
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 2: So start with CJ. Stroud.

743
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: He is currently at fifty three point seven, has moved

744
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: and half spots down. He has fallen six and a

745
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 1: half spots in the past week or so look, fifty

746
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: three point seven, Lakwan, you're talking about getting him in

747
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: the fifth round at this point, are you okay smash

748
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: or pass at that ADP.

749
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,200
Speaker 5: I'll smash there. I think that's a great value where

750
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 5: you can get him. Mat I honestly have him as

751
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 5: my top five, you know, quarterback this season. So if

752
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 5: he's in the fifth round, he's dropping down you know spots,

753
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take him. I think, honestly, what's happening is

754
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,960
Speaker 5: his guys are getting pushed up because of the pre

755
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 5: camp hype, and I think, you know, all right, I'll

756
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 5: take the guy that I want anyway.

757
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: I mean, is that is that where you're at with him?

758
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: I know, Florida, you do like CJ. Stroud fifty three?

759
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: You know, fifty third pick? Are you okay with it there?

760
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 3: I'm okay with it, But I'm gonna pass because he's

761
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 3: going right around where Anthony Richardson is going.

762
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 4: And I'd rather Anthony Richardson because I think.

763
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 3: The the upside is like he's a video game cheat

764
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 3: code at playing quarterback. I think he has the capability

765
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 3: of just completely breaking Fantasy Football in the next couple

766
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 3: of years. But then after that like to me, c J.

767
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 3: Stroud is very similar to Joe Burrow. Neither of them

768
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 3: run a lot. They both have high powered offenses. I

769
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 3: understand that Stroud doesn't have the injury concerns as Burrow,

770
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 3: but I could wait multiple rounds and get like a

771
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 3: round or two and get Joe Burrow. I could wait

772
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 3: multiple rounds and get Kyler Murray or Dak Prescott. To me,

773
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 3: these guys are all in the same tier. Stroud is

774
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 3: the highest that I have ranked of this group. But

775
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 3: if I could get a three four round discount and

776
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 3: still get a quarterback in the same tier, That's what

777
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do.

778
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it's funny too. I think I think

779
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 1: what you said is gonna be a big litmus test

780
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: for people is how do you feel about C. J.

781
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: Stroud versus Anthony Richardson. They both have potentially similar ceilings.

782
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 1: How they go.

783
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 2: About it is going to be very very different. I

784
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 2: think it really does feel.

785
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: It really does determine how you feel about each guy,

786
00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: whether or not you're gonna make that move, or which

787
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: guy you're gonna take right around that same time. I

788
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: would probably tend to be PASSI just because I tend

789
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: to lean more to the Anthony Richardson side. No fault

790
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,400
Speaker 1: on anybody who's taking CJ. Stroud at that point, Like,

791
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 1: I have no issue with it. What's a way, I

792
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: just have been more toward Richardson in drafts.

793
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 2: That's it. James Cook.

794
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: He is down six point four spots to fifty five

795
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: point one, So Florio Smasher pass on the bills number

796
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 1: one running back at that spot.

797
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 3: I might surprise you guys, but I don't think I

798
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 3: have a single James Cook share yet. And last summer

799
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 3: I was one of the very vocal supporters of James

800
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 3: from like the moment his rookie year ended. I was like,

801
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 3: James Cook is someone that you should be all about

802
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 3: drafting in fantasy. And it ain't through last year, but

803
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 3: I think that the Bills looked at it and they

804
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 3: were like, Cook was really good down the stretch when

805
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,800
Speaker 3: we used him, but after that, remember after that Cowboys

806
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 3: game when he had all of that work, he did

807
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 3: kind of slow down. And I think they want to

808
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 3: get a second running back utilized here. And I think

809
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,319
Speaker 3: Ray Davis is a bigger threat to not only take

810
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 3: away vital like touches near the goal line and shortyard jusage.

811
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 3: But he's a good pass catching back as well, so

812
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 3: he could take full drives away from James Cook. Plus,

813
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 3: as much as I hated the usage last year, like

814
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 3: the Bills just didn't really trust James Cook a whole

815
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 3: lot near the goal line. So if his touchdown upside

816
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 3: is capped, that you're taking him as a low end

817
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 3: RB two, high end up sorry, low end RB one,

818
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,280
Speaker 3: high end RB two. That's kind of what his ceiling

819
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 3: is if the touchdowns capped. So I have been passing unfortunately,

820
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:26,959
Speaker 3: Oh my guy, Jimmy Cook.

821
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 2: All right, So Florio's not in on James Cook. Are

822
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:30,399
Speaker 2: you in LQ?

823
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 4: No?

824
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 5: I am not in just based on the magic name

825
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,439
Speaker 5: he said, Ray Davis. Man, this guy has his head

826
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 5: on the swivel. Great in the passing game, and I

827
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 5: think he's gonna be a huge factor in that red

828
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 5: zone to where you're gonna be getting James Cook. You know,

829
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 5: in those early rounds, you're not gonna be very happy.

830
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 5: You know, what you pay for him and versus what

831
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 5: your expectations were for him. I mean, honestly, you have

832
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 5: to look at the value that you can get in

833
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,239
Speaker 5: two rounds later, at that running back position rather than

834
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 5: taking the risk here with a guy with like James Cook,

835
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 5: who's gonna be very limited for your team.

836
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, the name you guys mentioned is the name that

837
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 2: I was thinking about. It was Ray Davis.

838
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: There just this feels a little bit too too spicy

839
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,720
Speaker 1: for me to get James Cook. Now, if he falls

840
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,800
Speaker 1: another you know, four or five spots, then maybe we

841
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: can talk about it again. But right now I can't.

842
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,479
Speaker 1: I can't quite do that. Over to Green Bay. Josh

843
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: Jacobs is thirty nine point two. He has fallen six

844
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: point nine six point two spots rather in the last

845
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,240
Speaker 1: week or so, I mean, lak On, I've been hearing

846
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: more and more about Marshawn Lloyd over the last couple

847
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 1: of weeks. So inside the top forty picks, smash or

848
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: pass on Josh Jacobs.

849
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 5: I'm gonna pass. I mean, I'm a little worried about

850
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 5: his injury history. I'm a little worried about Marshon Lloyd

851
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 5: as well, how he's being talked up so early. And

852
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 5: I honestly think that, you know, they look at Josh

853
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 5: Jacobs as a workhorse, and I think they're gonna run him.

854
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,719
Speaker 5: But I'm not quite sure if I can take him

855
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 5: in those early rounds just based on how I've been

856
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,840
Speaker 5: approaching drafts as of late, Like I haven't been going

857
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 5: very hard on running backs in the early rounds. I've

858
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,919
Speaker 5: kind of just been waiting until that fifth sixth round

859
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 5: with the six seven to even try to get an

860
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 5: RB that's going to be able to put up fantasy

861
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 5: points in my games.

862
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 1: I mean, Floria, do you believe Josh Jacobs is going

863
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: to get the same level of attention in Green Bay

864
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: that he did in Las Vegas?

865
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,760
Speaker 2: Is that worth taking him inside the top forty?

866
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 4: I think early on he will.

867
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 3: I think they paid him a lot of money, especially

868
00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:21,839
Speaker 3: for this year, so I think early on he is

869
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,760
Speaker 3: going to be force fed the ball. And my thinking

870
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,800
Speaker 3: originally was like the Packers have always had two running

871
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 3: backs largely because they kind of had to, and Josh

872
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 3: Jacobs bring could be what aj Dillon and Aaron Jones

873
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 3: kind of gave them individually, all in one package. But

874
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 3: the reason I'm passing on Josh Jacobs is because he

875
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,280
Speaker 3: might just be dust at this point. Like last year

876
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 3: he had the fewest Fantasy points per game over expectation,

877
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 3: and he he was I had him on a couple

878
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 3: of teams last year, he was really struggling despite having

879
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 3: a stranglehold on the volume in that backfield and getting

880
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 3: close to twenty touches a game every game, and he

881
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:05,959
Speaker 3: was still struggling to produce that. So not getting really

882
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 3: any discount on him from what we were paying last

883
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 3: season for him. It's just it's scary for me and

884
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 3: this range. I know this is still we're talking like

885
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 3: third fourth round for some For these running backs, I

886
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 3: think that this is where the dead zone is this year,

887
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 3: because they're all attractive names that you could sell yourself

888
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,000
Speaker 3: a story like this guy could easily be top five,

889
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 3: top ten, but there's so much risk with these guys.

890
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 3: So to me, I'd rather wait till like seventh eighth

891
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 3: round before I start taking my running backs.

892
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like this is a good spot to

893
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 2: get wide.

894
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: Receivers right in these these rounds here, you know, or

895
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: if you decide you want to pivot and maybe get

896
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: a quarterback or a tight end, I think you can

897
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,520
Speaker 1: do that in that situation, But I'm kind of nervous

898
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: about the running backs there. Rashad White fifty six point eight.

899
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: He's down five point eight spots Lakwan. Are we okay

900
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: with Rashad White right there? Uh?

901
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 5: Again, it's a little bit high for me. It's a

902
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:01,879
Speaker 5: bit high for me to be getting these running backs.

903
00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 5: But I would feel a lot safer if I do

904
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 5: take him, being that, I don't think Bucky Irvin is

905
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 5: a huge factor there, more so of a Marshawn Lloyd

906
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 5: you know behind him or stuff like that. I think

907
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 5: more so, you know, Rashad White, you're banking on that

908
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,919
Speaker 5: he sees as many targets, which I don't think will

909
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 5: happen again, but he will get his fair share of

910
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 5: that workload to where you could be okay with him

911
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 5: as your RB two.

912
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: I mean, last year, Florial, part of what made Rashad

913
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: White valuable in fantasy is that they stopped handing the

914
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: ball to him as much and they started throwing it

915
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:32,480
Speaker 1: to him as much.

916
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 2: Do we think we can count on that? You know?

917
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 2: And that does that make you feel better about his adp.

918
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 4: Uh No, I have not been taking Rashad White.

919
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 3: Look, if he continues to get the targets, then yeah,

920
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 3: then he'll be in RB one, probably low end, but

921
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 3: you're that's what you're paying for him right now? So

922
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 3: I feel like you're paying for close to the ceiling.

923
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 3: Last season, like, yeah, it's all him, CMC, Breese Hall

924
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 3: were the only running backs only players with five hundred

925
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,720
Speaker 3: rush and receive yards, but he had the fewest rush

926
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 3: yards over expectation he had. He was largely propped up

927
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 3: by touchdowns as well, eight touchdowns in the second half

928
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 3: of the season. And if maybe if they kept the

929
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:17,520
Speaker 3: same OC, I'd have less concerns. But now you're changing

930
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 3: your play caller there as well. We already know as

931
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 3: good of a pass catcher as he is, he is

932
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 3: one of the least effective runners at the position. So uh,

933
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 3: I'm concerned, and I do think, like, while I'm not

934
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 3: scared because of Bucky Irving, i do believe that he

935
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 3: is a bigger threat than Sean Tucker was. Like there

936
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 3: was no one behind with Shod White last year that

937
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 3: they had no choice but to find ways to get

938
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 3: this guy the ball and let him do his things.

939
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 3: So I've never been the biggest with Shod White fan.

940
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 3: People who watched like this last season and Fantasy Live

941
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 3: know that, But I just think there's there's a lot

942
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 3: of risk that could make this go very wrong. So again,

943
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 3: to me, this is the dead zone where I'm avoiding

944
00:41:58,800 --> 00:41:59,719
Speaker 3: all these running.

945
00:41:59,400 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 2: Backs that go.

946
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: I just had this feeling that years from now, we're

947
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: gonna look back and be like, you know, like last

948
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: year was the peak of Rashad White, right, that he's

949
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: just never gonna come close to anything like that. The yeah,

950
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:14,440
Speaker 1: you know, nine total touchdowns, fifteen hundred scrimmage yards, like,

951
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: it just doesn't feel like he's gonna get close to

952
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 1: that ever again.

953
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 5: All right, think, oh yeah, go ahead, I was gonna

954
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 5: add I think a lot of that had to do

955
00:42:22,239 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 5: with Chris Godwin, you know, not playing primarily in the slot.

956
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 5: That offense just wasn't what it used to be of

957
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 5: where he was used to, so those targets and dump

958
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 5: balls had to go somewhere.

959
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: All right, this one is gonna be directed at you,

960
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: Lakwan at least first. Kyron Williams down five point six

961
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: spots to twenty four point six, which means he was

962
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: going inside the top twenty yeah originally. Now he's still

963
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 1: inside the top twenty five, just barely.

964
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:51,799
Speaker 2: It's sort of before that dead zone.

965
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: A ram are you are you gonna smash your pass

966
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: inside the top twenty five for I.

967
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 5: Williams I'm so torn. I'm like in the on the

968
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 5: fan with it. Like there's some leagues I have exposure

969
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,440
Speaker 5: where I'm taking in that second and third round, and

970
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:06,479
Speaker 5: then there's some leagues where I'm like, I'm just gonna

971
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 5: stick my guns and just put at the running back

972
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 5: because the injury history, the injury bug on his jacket

973
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 5: is always gonna worry me every single week. I'm gonna

974
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 5: be holding my breath. And you have a threat back

975
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 5: there like Blake Korm who can really, really, you know,

976
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 5: excel in that red zone. So might see the dip

977
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 5: off in the touchdowns, you might see a dip off

978
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 5: in his usage, just to keep him healthy for a

979
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 5: season long. I know Sean McVay has been chasing this

980
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 5: one two punch for years now with cam Makers, drell Anderson.

981
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 5: You know, Malcolm Brown was even involved in that backfield

982
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 5: as well, trying to be that one to two punch.

983
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 5: And I honestly think people are not accounting how good

984
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,920
Speaker 5: Blake Korm was last year. And he's a touchdown scorer

985
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 5: and he's a touchdown getter, so I think a lot

986
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 5: of people need to be hesitant of taking him. So

987
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 5: I'm going to pass all right.

988
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,879
Speaker 1: I mean, for you, Floria, ask William's falling an over,

989
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: does they need to fall a little bit more.

990
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,840
Speaker 3: He's getting pretty close to the point where I'm perfectly

991
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 3: fine taking him. Like the only running back that goes

992
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 3: after him that I would like to see them flip

993
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,360
Speaker 3: is Derek Henry, because Derek Henry in round three is

994
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 3: an auto draft for me right now. But Kien Williams

995
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 3: is getting pretty close to that range where Henry's going,

996
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 3: And well, I agree with everything Lakwan said. It's like,

997
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 3: at some point this guy's gonna fall further enough where

998
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,439
Speaker 3: we're like he was the RB two last year once

999
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 3: he took over, and he was legitimately putting up CMC

1000
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 3: type numbers for a good stretch of that run. I

1001
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 3: still trust. I don't trust mcveagy usage wise with running backs,

1002
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 3: but I do trust that McVeigh will get the most

1003
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 3: out of the running game for the Rams. I trust

1004
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 3: that this offense, as long as Stafford stays healthy, will

1005
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,800
Speaker 3: be one of the better offenses in football. So I'm

1006
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 3: the further he falls, the more I'm coming back in

1007
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 3: on Kien Williams. That being said, though, I do think

1008
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 3: if you take Williams Blake Korum is a handcuff that

1009
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 3: you have to pair with him. Some backfields don't have one.

1010
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 3: The rams very much so do so if I can

1011
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 3: get the two of them, and the.

1012
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 4: Thing is where Korum's going is not.

1013
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 3: Like it's insanely expensive, so you very much so can

1014
00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 3: get those two guys together and then you have your

1015
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 3: base is covered.

1016
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: I think we're at a spot where I'm a lot

1017
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: more comfortable with Kien Williams in the top twenty.

1018
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 2: I don't think I could have made the move.

1019
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: I think as we get closer to twenty five, and

1020
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: if he somehow falls beyond that, then I'm absolutely all

1021
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: in on it, mostly because of what you guys said.

1022
00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: Blake Koram is the guy that I'm concerned about. Korum

1023
00:45:15,560 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: I've been drafting a lot of because I think I

1024
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:19,239
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have.

1025
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 2: A role anyway.

1026
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,760
Speaker 1: And then if something were to happen to Kieren Williams

1027
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 1: and he steps in and gets a whole lot more touches,

1028
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 1: So if Williams tumbles a few more spots than I'm

1029
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: one hundred percent on. But even now at it almost

1030
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 1: you know, pick twenty five, I'm a lot more comfortable

1031
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: than I was say about a month ago about him

1032
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:38,840
Speaker 1: last one, because I want to get somebody in there

1033
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: who's moving the other way. Kamaria Cooper has moved up

1034
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:46,360
Speaker 1: nearly five spots four point eight spots to forty six

1035
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: point nine Florida.

1036
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 2: I know in the past you have been a big

1037
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 2: Amari Cooper guy. Are you and Amari Cooper guy right now?

1038
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 4: Yes?

1039
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 3: One hundred percent in because I don't understand why people

1040
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 3: are insist on pushing this guy down. In his last

1041
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 3: six seasons, five of the six of them he has

1042
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 3: been a top twenty wide receiver in total fantasy points,

1043
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 3: and five of six of them he's been top twenty

1044
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 3: four in points per game. His ADP is going outside

1045
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 3: of the top twenty four wide receivers, now closer to

1046
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 3: thirty than it is to twenty four. And then his

1047
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 3: numbers also last season were kind of thrown off a

1048
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 3: bit by the games where Joe Flacco and Deshaun Watson

1049
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 3: didn't start. Remember the Browns were throwing out XFL quarterbacks

1050
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 3: with join a blank on the quarterbacks name.

1051
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,439
Speaker 4: But those games were bad.

1052
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 3: But with Watson or Flacco, he averaged eighteen point four

1053
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:45,120
Speaker 3: fantasy points per game, that would have been wide receiver six.

1054
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 3: You're getting this guy outside of the top twenty five

1055
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 3: wide receivers. He's one of the most consistent guys year

1056
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 3: in and year out. He's going to be the number

1057
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 3: one target again for the Browns. Yeah, I'm firmly in

1058
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 3: and I don't know why he continues to get disrespected.

1059
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,720
Speaker 2: Dorian Thompson Robbins and that's it. PJ. Walker, Jeff Driscoll,

1060
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 2: take your pick. All those guys, Yeah, started bad, bad,

1061
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 2: bad all started.

1062
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: They all started a bad, bad, not good, which is

1063
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: a great band, by the way. I mean, uh, lakwana,

1064
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: Are you cool with Mariy Cooper at forty six point

1065
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,479
Speaker 1: nine or somewhere around there.

1066
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 4: Absolutely.

1067
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 5: I mean he's one of those most disrespected ADP guys

1068
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,799
Speaker 5: and ends up out performing his ADP. And we know

1069
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 5: that they're going to be passing a ball a ton.

1070
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 5: I mean, they don't have Nick Chubb healthy back there,

1071
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:32,839
Speaker 5: so those targets, and they're going to be a very

1072
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:35,880
Speaker 5: pass heavy offense with the solid defense as well. So

1073
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 5: I think it's gonna be an efficient offense. You know,

1074
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 5: you hope Deshaun Watson takes a step forward, But I

1075
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 5: think of Mariy Cooper's that always been a great wide

1076
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 5: receiver two for my roster. So every time I see

1077
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 5: him there, I'm just gonna take him.

1078
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I just feel like he is again he's

1079
00:47:49,640 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 1: the guy that we know we can count on in

1080
00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: that offense, and I'm hoping that. Yeah, it would be

1081
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: great to see Deshaun Watson take a big step forward,

1082
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: But I just need Deshaun Watson to not be awful,

1083
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: and I think he can sort of pay off at

1084
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: that price. Stay healthy, yeah, stay, that's it. Just you know,

1085
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: Watson stays healthy, Cooper stays healthy. As long as Watson

1086
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: is not an absolute disaster under center, than I think

1087
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper is worth having at that price.

1088
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 2: So I see why he has moved up.

1089
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: I would like for that to sort of plateau, Like

1090
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: I don't want to see him move up too much more,

1091
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: but right there at about forty six forty seven, I'm

1092
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: okay to make that happen.

1093
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 2: There there you go. That was driving or draft.

1094
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 3: Okay, as long as someone doesn't take out his quarterback

1095
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 3: in his celebrity softball game.

1096
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:38,800
Speaker 1: Yeah that part, let's let's hope you avoid that anyway.

1097
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,239
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1098
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1099
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,520
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1100
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 2: Toyota dot com slash cambri. Are you guys on the

1101
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 2: clock in any any any Best Ball drafts right now?

1102
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 4: No?

1103
00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: I am no, Let's see, let me let me look.

1104
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: I am on and now it's gonna take forever for

1105
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: me to load this up. As I'm saying here, trying

1106
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: to do this be sort of clever. Yeah, I am

1107
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: on the clock right now with the Let's see, I've

1108
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 1: got the nineteenth overall pick I have already taken Bejon Robinson.

1109
00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: I got him at number six. Weirdly enough. I mean,

1110
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: that's kind of amazing to me. So I'm gonna come

1111
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: back and I am going to take I'm gonna take

1112
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:26,319
Speaker 1: my shot at Nicocollins. Oh, they're pick number nineteen. There

1113
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,280
Speaker 1: he is, Lock it in, Lock it in, Nico Collins

1114
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 1: at number nineteen and a Best Ball draft.

1115
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 2: There you go.

1116
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: That was just live a drafting for you here on

1117
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: the show. And that's a good spot for us to

1118
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:37,960
Speaker 1: take a pause for a little bit. We're back with you,

1119
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 1: of course on Thursday for the cheat sheets. Are we

1120
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,439
Speaker 1: talking god Zilla minus one this week? Have you yes yet?

1121
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: Have you wait? We got to make sure Florio's watched

1122
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: it first before we I.

1123
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 4: Haven't, but I'm going to this afternoon, all.

1124
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 2: Right, there we go.

1125
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:55,359
Speaker 1: So then we will talk some god Zilla minus one

1126
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: on the fantasy cheat sheet. We'll talk some other football

1127
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 1: stuff too, but that's not you know why we do

1128
00:49:59,239 --> 00:49:59,800
Speaker 1: the show.

1129
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 2: In the meantime.

1130
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: Thanks to Susie for putting the show together as always,

1131
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 1: for Florio for the quand I am Marcus. That'll do

1132
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,280
Speaker 1: it for this edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.

1133
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 1: Stay happy, safe and healthy, do good and live well.

1134
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: Enjoy the week, everybody. We'll talk to you again real soon.