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Speaker 1: sweet cheeks. We've got all the experience in the world.

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Speaker 1: This is I want your Flex with Dan Bayer and

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. Mike and Dan break down everything you need

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Speaker 1: to set your lineups, from position rankings.

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Speaker 2: To starts and sits.

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Speaker 1: The guys help you make those hard decisions. And now

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Speaker 1: let's get your flex onde. Here's Dan Bayer and Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: Greetings, welcome in another edition of the iwatcher Flex Podcast.

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Speaker 3: Getting ready for a Week eight in the National Football League.

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Speaker 3: No fie weeks, no excuses, all right, except for the

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Speaker 3: fact that we already have one quarter of the league

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Speaker 3: playing at least their second quarterback of the year.

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Speaker 2: Mike Harmon, Ryan Berschinger Dan Byer.

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Speaker 3: With you here, breaking down the good, the bad, the

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Speaker 3: ugly of the week ahead as only we can do.

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Speaker 3: At Ryan Berscher where you find him on Twitter find

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Speaker 3: me over at Swollen del Bursh. We're ready for a

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Speaker 3: big Week five, a lot of chaos, a lot of matchups,

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Speaker 3: with some intrigue and certainly some difficult fantasy decisions to make,

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Speaker 3: especially with folks feeling a little bit burned from Deshaun

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Speaker 2: A week ago.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Deshaun Watson having to go to the media

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Speaker 4: and insists that he does in fact want to play.

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Speaker 4: Just so everyone is clear, I do want to do this,

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Speaker 4: but I can't. And you know what, as I've pointed

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Speaker 4: it is the injury that is really holding him back,

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Speaker 4: because my goodness, that'll look bad.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's just it.

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Speaker 3: It looked like so many bad actors playing quarterbacks and

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Speaker 2: Like that just doesn't look natural. It doesn't look right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so you know, the decision made on Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: it's done, it's in the past, and now they set

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Speaker 3: up for a big matchup against Seattle on the road

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Speaker 3: for this week. One big news item that did come

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Speaker 3: down on Friday is that Tyreek Hal had returned to

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Speaker 3: those were some of the reports coming out early. So

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Speaker 3: I guess fantasy owners breathing a sigh of relief because

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Speaker 3: they're gonna need everything they can I know, it's a

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Speaker 3: they got their their big bump beating the Bills last

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Speaker 4: Oh for sure. Yeah, a lot of scary news coming

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Speaker 4: out out of a Dolphins camp were out of nowhere.

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Speaker 4: It popped up on the injury report, and but yeah,

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Speaker 4: you have Tua not really doing any favors to to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, part of me wonders how much is all right?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think with some of it, right, you get

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Speaker 3: And as of yet, for people that like it don't

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Speaker 3: call a guy drafted in the third round to bust, right,

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Speaker 3: just not the way it works, right. Victor Webbin yamam

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Speaker 3: got to be this, this, and this, or to fail,

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Speaker 3: which is stupid. But that's Sports Dog Radio and sports

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Speaker 3: TV again. The theme of the week hot take nonsense,

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Speaker 3: the open critiques.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and just call me out to my face this week.

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Speaker 4: Bersh perfect, perfect. Well, we're talking about the Dolphins and

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Speaker 4: crack your top five this week? Harmon. Let's get to

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Speaker 4: your positional rankings. First off with your top five quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: Well, I can tell you right now spoiler alert, Tua

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Speaker 3: And let's face it, people still have like this giant cone,

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Speaker 3: somehow forget that eighty seven can catch the football. Lamar

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Speaker 3: Bear six most fantasy points allowed to quarterbacks. Still waiting

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Speaker 3: Jared Goff going up against the Las Vegas after getting

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Speaker 2: I'll take the over with golf this week. I like that.

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Speaker 4: I think GoF is a great play. We had talked

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're back at home where you're comfortable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And the matchup, even though the Raiders

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Speaker 4: feel like Golf can in fact get it going here

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Speaker 4: And yeah, the other guys, especially Herbert against the Bears,

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Speaker 3: Bersch so had great success with the quarterback rankings through

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's see if you can get some

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Speaker 4: hope you take it a step forward this week, Harmon,

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Speaker 4: Let's give us your top five running backs for week eight.

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Speaker 3: Dart throwing, because even if he complains and he wants

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Speaker 3: Alvin Kamara is the number one wide receiver and all

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Speaker 3: CMC going up against Cincinnati's keep the streak alive. They're

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Speaker 3: one cut and gone, and then I'm gonna pair up.

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Speaker 3: We had Patrick Mahomes leading the charge at the quarterback.

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Speaker 3: How about Isaiah Pachecko going against Denver. Most fantasy points

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Speaker 3: You want to buy the lights, buy the lights.

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Speaker 4: Please, please please. Pierre Strong killed me in my other

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Speaker 2: Where I'd be tempering my expectations.

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Speaker 3: You're looking for a big breakout game coming out of

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Speaker 3: that beat down by the Eagles a week ago, thinking

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Speaker 3: it's an easy return because they're at home. Not so fast,

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Speaker 3: Kenneth Walker the third going up against Cleveland, sixteen fantasy

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Speaker 3: points per game allowed. We watched what Indianapolis was able

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Speaker 3: to do a week ago, and some of those numbers

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Speaker 3: are obviously going to be skewed by the rushing touchdowns

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Speaker 3: of Gardner Minshew. Yeah, that's it, because that's the way

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Speaker 3: that works, right. It's all rushing yardage and everything put together.

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Speaker 3: Derek Henry against Atlanta. Maybe he gets sold off to

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Speaker 3: Baltimore Buffalo before the trade deadline, but Atlanta quietly second

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Speaker 3: best against running backs. Bush and then finally going back

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Speaker 3: to what could be the score fest as you laid

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Speaker 3: it out when you talk about Cincinnati and San Francisco.

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Speaker 3: Certainly I'll have my eyes on that game in the

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Speaker 3: afternoon is Cincinnati Bangles and going up against Brandon Ayuk

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Speaker 3: just nine Fantasy points per game his last three outings

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Speaker 3: for Ayuk. Wondering if this isn't Moraa, McCaffrey, Kittle, yust Check,

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Speaker 3: you name it, everybody, but the number one kind of game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I could see that, especially with Sam Darnold at

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Speaker 4: the Helm. You figure they're going to rely heavily on

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Speaker 4: Christian McCaffrey and go to a guy that he might

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Speaker 4: have a little bit more confidence than with George Kittle,

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Speaker 4: And I agree with the matchup isn't there for the

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Speaker 4: Rams this week? You know the Cowboys Obviously you had

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Speaker 4: the aforementioned Niners be able to throw all over them,

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Speaker 4: but other than that, this is still a very stout defense,

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Speaker 4: and with some extra time to prepare for them, this

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Speaker 4: is a pretty tough matchup for those guys. So I

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Speaker 4: would not be surprised if, especially with now that their

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Speaker 4: their running game is relying on literally Darryl Henderson and

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Speaker 4: Royce Freeman, that that offense is going to have some

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Speaker 4: trouble getting going this week. So yeah, the the Rams

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Speaker 4: do not feel like a great play at all this week.

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Speaker 4: So let's let's find some deeper cuts. Then let's go

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Speaker 4: to our fantasy ninjas here, Mike.

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Speaker 3: All right, last round of last call for week eight

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Speaker 3: of this fantasy for a into greatness. All right, let's

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Speaker 3: go Gardner Minshew going up against New Orleans. We talk

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Speaker 3: all about their defense. That's fine, as we've talked about

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Speaker 3: on the podcast and on the shows together. Bersch, the

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Speaker 3: guy plays with his hair on fire. There's gonna be

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Speaker 3: some ugly mixed in. There's gonna be some loss. But

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Speaker 3: you're looking at the Saints still giving up the eighth

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Speaker 3: most fantasy points per game to quarterbacks. Opportunity to go

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Speaker 3: make some noise, Desmond Ritter. Yeah, I'm really going off

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Speaker 3: the radar for you here, going up against Tennessee. They're

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Speaker 3: in the on the on the right side of things,

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Speaker 3: the eleventh best, but there's there are plays to be made,

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Speaker 3: and it keeps thinking that there's going to be that

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Speaker 3: moment where it clicks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The fumble issues really concerning, particularly around the goal line,

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Speaker 3: because i mean, look, that's given up a lot of

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Speaker 3: points there, but that is the wing and a prayer.

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Speaker 3: Daily Fantasy League Absolute bottom barrel valuation kind of prospect

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Speaker 3: right there, Alexander Madison going up against Green Bay. They've

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Speaker 3: given up the third most fantasy points per game to

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Speaker 3: running back, Sorry Bursch, Deontay Forman, Yeah, he still qualifies.

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Speaker 3: Why because he only did it once, so you gotta

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Speaker 3: go do it again. Thirteenth most Fantasy points allowed for

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Speaker 3: per game to running backs. And I like the the

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Speaker 3: way the Bears operated a week ago against Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: What's curious they were talking.

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Speaker 3: About you know what, now that was not the same

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Speaker 3: Raiders team that we saw on tape, which I think

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Speaker 3: is kind of curious. We'll see what the Chargers can

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Speaker 3: do because historically, as we know, not very good running

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Speaker 3: the ball, not very good stopping the runs. So we'll

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Speaker 3: we'll go there. The rare plug of Calvin Ridley. It

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Speaker 3: seems like we haven't really set his name a whole

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Speaker 3: lot last last couple of weeks at Pittsburgh tenth most

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Speaker 3: generous and with Christian Kirk getting a lot of the

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Speaker 3: attention at ETN at ten ETN coming out of the

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Speaker 3: backfield creating some chaos, maybe this is the opportunity for

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Speaker 3: Ridley to bust one deep and then just like with

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Speaker 3: Devonte Adams in the hot plays Squeaky Wheel and a

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Speaker 3: guy that you you know you need to make amends

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Speaker 3: with now a lave in some trouble for speeding and

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Speaker 3: everything off the off the field. But unless there's something

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Speaker 3: I've missed, he'll play, and Derek Carr is gonna do

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Speaker 3: everything he can to make sure everything's all right going

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Speaker 3: up against Indianapolis. So this is one where, assuming there's

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Speaker 3: no sudden downturn that takes him off the field, he's

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Speaker 3: a guy that's gonna have a huge target count as

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Speaker 3: he tries to make amends that Derek Carr miked up stuff.

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Speaker 3: Just a terrible look of what we already watched live

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Speaker 3: with our eyes now you get to hear it.

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Speaker 4: I am hoping for another big week from Deontay Foreman.

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Speaker 4: Of course, Roshawn Johnson has returned to practice, but you

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Speaker 4: gotta feel like after the huge performance last week, they

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Speaker 4: gotta keep going to Foreman, right, Like that's that has

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Speaker 4: to be the move. Yeah, of course, you know Johnson

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Speaker 4: definitely has some talent. They want to figure out what

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Speaker 4: they've got there. But I mean they won largely because

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Speaker 4: of the foreman's. Foreman's performance last week was great. It

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Speaker 4: was here. So and especially with running it back with

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Speaker 4: the rookie at quarterback, you figure you might want to

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Speaker 4: go with the running back that it's got a little

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Speaker 4: bit more experience and then help him feel more confident

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Speaker 4: there in the back. And yes, I agree with Gardner Minshew.

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Speaker 4: The Saints defense is talented, but as you said, like

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Speaker 4: they do give up points to quarterbacks and fantasy and

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Speaker 4: Minshew just plays with that with that intensity that is

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Speaker 4: rather fun to watch. And he've scored like crazy on

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Speaker 4: a very very strong Browns defense. So Gardner Minshew with

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Speaker 4: another big performance this week. We're talking about, you know,

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Speaker 4: him working his way into regular fantasy starting status.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, because just look at the way the

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Speaker 3: quarterback position has been. You know, some some usual suspects

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Speaker 3: that get it done. But if you didn't draft one early,

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Speaker 3: right you talked to zero running back strategy. Yeah, for

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Speaker 3: some they still issue drafting a quarterback too late and

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Speaker 3: then you get one of a muddled mass of middling

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Speaker 3: kind of opportunists. Back to the Bears real quick, Darrynton Evans,

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Speaker 3: you know, he gave you some good carries and some opportunity.

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Speaker 3: There a guy long ago in Tennessee that we had

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Speaker 3: some hope for Uh. Yeah, he loses out, Johnson'll come

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Speaker 3: back take his spot. The big thing with Johnson is

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Speaker 3: that he's also proven that a willing chipper and blocker

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Speaker 3: for quarterbacks. So with Bosa and Matc coming at him, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's probably a good thing.

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Speaker 2: All right. That's gonna do it.

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Speaker 3: For this edition of the I Watch Your Flex Podcast,

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Speaker 3: fun stuff talking with my guy Ryan Bershinger Dan Byer

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Speaker 3: with us as well. Always the the goodness, the highs lows,

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Speaker 3: We ride him with you here in Fantasy Land. Keep

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Speaker 3: it tuned, new episodes dropping every week as we roll

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Speaker 3: through all the way through the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: So for Ryan, I'm Mike. We'll see you next time out.

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Speaker 2: I Watch Your Flex

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