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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly

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Speaker 2: source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and

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Speaker 2: whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show.

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Speaker 2: Now here's your host, Paul Chargion.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchie and

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Speaker 1: co host today Brian Johnson.

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Speaker 3: Hey, buddy, what's up charging season? I know feels like, well,

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Speaker 3: it's it's draft season, it's Thor season.

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Speaker 1: It is Thor season. And that brings me to a

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Speaker 1: scheduling note. Last week we cut two episodes with Thor

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Speaker 1: on rookie running backs, and I had mistakenly said that

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Speaker 1: with those were going to air back to back and

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Speaker 1: then we were gonna do free agents. But it's actually

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Speaker 1: free agents right here in the middle. So you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get more of Thor next week in part two of

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Speaker 1: his Rookie running Breakdown, like a dozen more rookies to

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Speaker 1: talk about.

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Speaker 3: We hit on.

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Speaker 1: We hit the six big ones that are like Day one,

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Speaker 1: Day two guys last week. Will hit on about a

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Speaker 1: dozen more next week.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say only two episodes or I know

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Speaker 3: it's and we joked about like a whole Ken Burns

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Speaker 3: series on the twenty twenty five running back draft class. Yes, I imagine.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna do the history of jazz and then we're

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Speaker 1: going to do all the rookie running backs with Thorne

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Speaker 1: Eystrom next week.

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Speaker 3: And I'll touch on it, of course in this episode.

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Speaker 3: How I'm a best ball early best ball player. But

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Speaker 3: I'm just like, is this like total zero running back?

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Speaker 3: And I'm just like drafting any rookie I can find,

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Speaker 3: you know, past like round ten basically obviously like gend

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Speaker 3: is going early, but outside, I mean, there's just so

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Speaker 1: Well tell me how early is going because yeah, you

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Speaker 1: can make a case for him.

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Speaker 3: First overall, well, he's now right now like he started

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Speaker 4: That's too low. That's too low.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we'll see, I think, and he hasn't really

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Speaker 3: moved a lot. We'll obviously where he ends up getting

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Speaker 3: ends up on you know who, you know, he's not

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Speaker 3: gonna be at the Falcons. But you know what I'm

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Speaker 3: saying is the wrong team who knows the Falcons could

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Speaker 3: draft that who they're not you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: But anyway, he's up there. But uh then kind of

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Speaker 3: the major drop off. But you've got podcasts and podcasts

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Speaker 3: talk about the rookie running backs a lot.

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Speaker 4: We do, for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, today, the focus of this one, we're covering players

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Speaker 1: who found new teams in free agency. So we're not

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Speaker 1: gonna do guys who reupt with their own team. We

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Speaker 1: got to pick our battles. We're talking through the fantasy

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Speaker 1: relevancy of the players who changed to change teams, and

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Speaker 1: that gives us an opportunity. It's it's a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys and a lot of relevant ones. Interestingly, you know,

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Speaker 1: we were talking running backs. Probably the least interesting position

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Speaker 1: of good ones that hit free agency. Maybe there's not

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Speaker 1: the rookie running back class that's coming in. But let's

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Speaker 1: start at the quarterback position. Brian and your guy Sam Darnold. First, emotionally,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm happy for I wanted the Raiders, you know I

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Speaker 3: The Raiders were like kind of the sexier landing spot

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Speaker 3: with Brock Bowers. I've been a Jacobe Myers fan for

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Speaker 3: many years now, going back to the Patriots, and they're

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Speaker 1: You're talking all you're taking all my geno Smith talking points.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, but anyway, going to Seattle, that didn't happen.

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Speaker 3: But Sam's a Seahawk now twelveth Sam Pearl Sam thinking

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Speaker 3: of some Seattle references.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it should be sound Sam or Sam

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Speaker 3: Pearl jams from Seattle.

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Speaker 3: It's not that good though, but it makes It's not

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Speaker 3: From from a fantasy perspective, though not denying it's not

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Speaker 3: Right now we're looking at Jackson Smith and Jigba. Basically,

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Speaker 3: comes to fantasy. He's falling in that you know, QB

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Speaker 3: It's a West Coast system that they're running in Seattle.

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Speaker 3: Clinton Kubiak is the new OC. He and Donald were

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Speaker 3: together in San Francisco a couple of years ago. Donald

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Speaker 3: But they're gonna run a system similar to what they're

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Speaker 3: running Minnesota. But again, they don't have Justin Jefferson JSN

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Speaker 3: a viable weapon. But I don't know, we'll see, we'll

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Speaker 3: see how it goes. Offensive line major concerned major, which

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Speaker 3: chaunted him in Minnesota last year. It's gonna follow him

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Speaker 3: they weren't gonna do that with Donald don Ross to

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Speaker 3: salary cap blah blah. But anyway, Uh, it's it's a

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Speaker 3: slight downgrade fantasy wise for Donald, but he's got the job. Now.

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Speaker 3: I'm excited to see what happens, and you know I

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Speaker 1: Personally, I think the offensive line is a major problem

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Speaker 1: Seattle brought in to the no meaningful, no meaningful free

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Speaker 1: nervous for Donald here and unclear if Jackson Smith in

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Speaker 1: JIGBA can be a quality number one receiver without having

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Speaker 1: side of that coin. Gino Smith going to the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, reunites with Pete Carroll and what I

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Speaker 1: Know you're a sympathizer, but in a.

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Speaker 1: Geno Smith nor Pete Carroll ever prioritize tight end production

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Speaker 1: I'm still extremely bullish on brock Bauers, and I would

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be one of my favorite sleepers for this season.

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Speaker 1: I could see one thousand yard season coming for Jacoby

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Speaker 1: He can be much better than he has been with

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The only thing that's ever held Kobe down outside

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Speaker 3: Way, Yeah, going back to New England, is that he's

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Speaker 3: just he's gotten injured and it's really been like concussions

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Speaker 3: run a couple of times. Yes, but when he plays, he's, uh,

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Speaker 3: he's elite. I'm gonna say that. I mean, if you

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Speaker 3: watch him play, he's got an elite skill set.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, now, Gino Smith by far the best quarterback you

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Speaker 1: And Gino it's gonna appear in a bunch of my

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Speaker 1: I think he's going to be underdrafted, and I like

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Speaker 1: Takes Ashton Genty in the with pick six, and that'll

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Speaker 1: that will make the whole offense better for sure. Let's

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Speaker 1: let's pivot to Justin Field, who goes to the Jets

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Speaker 1: as the presumed starter, right at least for the moment, Brian.

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Speaker 3: think Fuels will be the starter, and I think drafters

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Speaker 3: do mentioned the early Bestball drafting, before Fields had a home,

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Speaker 3: You know, the ADP that I'm looking at hasn't even

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Speaker 3: He's already moved up the quarterback twenty one ahead of J. J. McCarthy,

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Speaker 3: he's an elite from a fantasy perspective over the years.

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Speaker 3: Here is a Fantasy points per game where he's ranked

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Speaker 3: not overall points, but points per game. Starting in twenty

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Speaker 3: but he's got Garrett Wilson. He's proven to be an

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Speaker 3: He's had DJ Moore, he had DJ Moore in twenty

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Daniel Jones and we'll just spend a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, that's what you would lead leads me

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Speaker 4: I think that's it.

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Speaker 3: I think which is clearly the better position you want

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Speaker 3: And now he's been durable for sure, but pretty pretty

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Speaker 1: But as it as it stands today, he's running back one,

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Speaker 3: I think, like every team's gonna draft a running back

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Speaker 3: We'll see how good he is. You know, he's in

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Speaker 1: He's a you know he can catch and they don't.

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Speaker 3: Later on, I looked this up really quick. The Chargers

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Speaker 1: He noted that Greg Romans running backs in all of

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Speaker 3: Brian, Yeah, and you know, people, I was assuming you

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Speaker 3: You know, Cuba suffered the season ending knee injury late

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Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, So people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought Cuba looked really good last year, and

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Speaker 1: then post ACL, and it's just he's just not the

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Speaker 1: same guy, averaging three point eight yards per carry and

434
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Speaker 1: really unable to distinguish himself from all the other randos

435
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Speaker 1: that they've that they've rotated in and out of that

436
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Speaker 1: Denver backfield. So I I can't get excited about this one.

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Speaker 3: Brian, Nah, I think we've said enough.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the octation. Then I

439
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Speaker 1: agree we've said enough. I mentioned at the outset, the

440
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Speaker 1: running backs are gonna are the least important position out.

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Speaker 4: Of all of these.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the wide outs and Davante Adams now

443
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Speaker 1: with the Rams, this is a tantalizing landing spot.

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Speaker 4: What do you think?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I love this for Davante and for

446
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Speaker 3: everyone involved, even Pukakua. I mean people are like, oh,

447
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 3: Pooka's gonna hurt Pooka. The rising tide lifts all boats.

448
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 3: We say that all the time. This is both of

449
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,679
Speaker 3: these guys are gonna be more open basically, and speaking

450
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Speaker 3: of being more open, Adams starting from week twelve on

451
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 3: last year, who he was a borderline league winner Fantasy wise,

452
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Speaker 3: of course, not for the Jets, they weren't winning, Jack Squatt,

453
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Speaker 3: but from week twelve on DeVante Adams was eleventh best

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Speaker 3: in Fantasy points data, average separations scored on in reperspective,

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Speaker 3: Kuka and Nakua was nineteenth best, and Cooper Cup, who

456
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Speaker 3: he's essentially replacing, was fifty first of sixty nine wide recips.

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Speaker 1: And that's why Cooper Cup is not yet signed.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: So huge upgrade for Snatt, Stafford and then this whole offense.

460
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Speaker 3: The Rams wide receivers led the NFL in receptions last

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Speaker 3: year two hundred and sixty nine. The Giants were second,

462
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Speaker 3: shockingly with two hundred and fifty one catches, so, you know,

463
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Speaker 3: just probably the most perfect landing spot for Davante Adams

464
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Speaker 3: and for his teammates. I mean, Sean McVay sent sent

465
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Speaker 3: Adams supposedly narrated highlight tapes of routes that he'd be running.

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Speaker 3: You know, he was like dubbing his voice over, like

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Speaker 3: all right, Davante, this is what so he was. Adams

468
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Speaker 3: said he was sold from Jump Street. So this just

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Speaker 3: seems like a match made in heaven. I mean, Adams,

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Speaker 3: let's see where he's at now. He was kind of going,

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Speaker 3: you know, fourth round, but that's gonna be going up

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Speaker 3: now right now. He's wide receiver for twenty one, but

473
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Speaker 3: he was definitely more like mid twenties. But he's gonna

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Speaker 3: I could see him leap frogging, leap frogging right now.

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Speaker 3: He's behind like T Higgins, Terry mcclaurr, and I think

476
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Speaker 3: we might see him, Savi, you're worthy, He's gonna jump

477
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Speaker 3: over him for sure. DJ Moore, I'm liking Adams more

478
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Speaker 3: than those guys now now that he's on the Rams.

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Speaker 4: Agreed. I love this landing spot.

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Speaker 1: We know that Sean McVay can manufacture targets to his

481
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Speaker 1: receivers unlike really any coach in the NFL, you know,

482
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Speaker 1: and pukin Akua. Honestly, this this might help pokin Akua

483
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Speaker 1: as much as anybody because they needed a better second

484
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Speaker 1: receiver and they didn't have it.

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Speaker 4: And while we love the idea of.

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Speaker 1: Like the whole offense, like passing offense funneling through Pooka,

487
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Speaker 1: that might have been unsustainable. And so I just you know,

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Speaker 1: this could be one of those situations where Pooka is

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Speaker 1: better having somebody else on the field that defenders have

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Speaker 1: to have to prepare for. Let's go to DK Metcalf,

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Speaker 1: who now goes over to the Steelers. They paid a

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Speaker 1: second round pick and five years and one hundred and

493
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Speaker 1: fifty million dollars man. That is the largest contract for

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Speaker 1: a non quarterback in the history of the Steelers franchise.

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Speaker 1: Brian and DK Metcalf obviously is a special player, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's really like historically there's really not a

497
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Speaker 1: comp for DK Metcalf. But the problem is the production

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Speaker 1: really through his entire career and he's now he's it

499
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Speaker 1: was six years in Seattle, production was just okay. He

500
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Speaker 1: was basically a one thousand yard receiver. Most years right

501
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Speaker 1: in that one thousand yard range. His touchdowns for a

502
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Speaker 1: guy his size, Brian, his touchdowns the last three years

503
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 1: were six eight and last year five. Now you can say,

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00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 1: all right, well, maybe Seattle didn't use him as well

505
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: as they could have, but is Pittsburgh gonna use him

506
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Speaker 1: any better? Especially when we don't know the quarterback situation,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 3: With Arthur Smith. Yeah, and Arthur's right right, the most

509
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Speaker 3: head scratchingly friendly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Look, it's tricky. The only quarterback under contract

511
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Speaker 1: right now is Mason Rudolph. They're not going to bring

512
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Speaker 1: back Russell Wilson. You know, Aaron Rodgers as of this

513
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Speaker 1: taping is a is a possibility. But even so, at

514
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Speaker 1: this age of his career, you know, his Aaron Rodgers'

515
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: abilities and his personality are both question marks.

516
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Speaker 3: Although Aaron Rodgers in the AFC North on the Steelers,

517
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 3: like yeah, I even makes it into like November. It

518
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:19,200
Speaker 3: just sounds so gross. No part of that offense whatsoever.

519
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 3: The thing is DK Metcalf for me, Like, I know

520
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 3: he's a great player, obviously a physical specimen like we

521
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 3: haven't seen really, but like the one play that I

522
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 3: can remember from Dk Metcalf is when Gino threw a

523
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Speaker 3: pick on Monday Night Football against the Cardinals and he

524
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Speaker 3: chased it was like Buddha Baker or someone down like

525
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Speaker 3: one hundred yards. You remember that, Like he chased, like yeah,

526
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Speaker 3: that was awesome. Yes, Metcalf based him down all you know,

527
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Speaker 3: you like, yeah, like a twenty yard head start. Basically

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Speaker 3: that's what I remember most of dcp's careers at.

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Speaker 1: Play, but that which was which was unbelievable. It was

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Speaker 1: a credit to him for that. Now, in fairness, Aaron

531
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Speaker 1: Rodgers just powered DeVonta Adams to fantasy success, as you

532
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 1: adroitly outlined just moments ago. But Rogers is the best

533
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: case possible scenario at this point for Pittsburgh because after

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, who's not coming back, and Rogers, your available

535
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Speaker 1: free agent quarterbacks are Gardner Minshew and Jamison Winston, both of.

536
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Speaker 3: Whom Will's on the time by Kansas City.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you.

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00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: All right, that makes it Jameis Winston and I don't

539
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 1: I'm not even positive.

540
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 3: With the next next Cousins.

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Speaker 4: Well it's not available right now, but so.

542
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Speaker 3: They're not going to release Cousins.

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Speaker 4: The Falcons doesn't.

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00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: Sound like, I don't know.

545
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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers picked twenty one in the draft, so I

547
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Speaker 1: don't think they have a solution coming there. Maybe the

548
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: big winner here is George Pickens, who gets number two coverage.

549
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: He'll get you know second, you know less.

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00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 3: I don't know.

551
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: I think most of the better most of the defensive

552
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 1: tension to the passing game is going to go to

553
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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. So maybe George Pickens ends up a winner here.

554
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: But with the quarterback situation, Arthur Smith and everything else,

555
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: I don't like this for DK Metcalf.

556
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 3: No, and don't. I don't necessarily like it for Pickens either.

557
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 3: I think it just it might help him, but just

558
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 3: because the quarterback situation, like you said, I think it's

559
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 3: just kind of ye, not too thrilled about it. Twenty

560
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 3: one that puts them in the Jackson Dart range. Now

561
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,840
Speaker 3: kind of people are saying Jackson darts kind of steam

562
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Speaker 3: in his.

563
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,760
Speaker 1: Way into the quarterbacks always right, Yeah, quarterbacks always do.

564
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 3: But that's not really going to equate to fantasy success,

565
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:42,080
Speaker 3: probably in his Brookie year, so it's not really too exciting.

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Speaker 1: Hey, speaking of no fantasy success, let's go over to

567
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Speaker 1: Josh Palmer as he goes over to Buffalo.

568
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 3: Nice segue. Won't spend a ton of time on Josh Palmer,

569
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Speaker 3: but there is one another interesting metric I found on

570
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Speaker 3: Fantasy Points again, Fantasy points data. Palmer's separation score over

571
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Speaker 3: the last two years. He was twenty first of seventy

572
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Speaker 3: nine wide receivers and twelve of seventy seven wide receivers,

573
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Speaker 3: so he can get open. He's had injury history. He

574
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Speaker 3: hasn't been playing on the most electric offenses in the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: He missed a lot of last year. But you know,

576
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Speaker 3: he goes to Buffalo. I we don't even mention where

577
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Speaker 3: he's playing. Really, he goes to Buffalo where not a

578
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 3: ton of competition outside of Khalil Shakir Amari Cooper. We're

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Speaker 3: not gonna talk about him on the show because he's

580
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Speaker 3: still a free agent and he's probably not gonna get

581
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Speaker 3: picked up by anybody. But it's really, you know, Khalil

582
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Speaker 3: Shakir Andkean Coleman, but Palmer going into a starting role

583
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Speaker 3: for the Bills. So I'm intrigued. As a late round dart.

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Speaker 3: He's an underrated separator, what can you say? So if

585
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Speaker 3: he gets if he stays healthy, stays on the field,

586
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Speaker 3: gets open. He's got a chance to produce with Josh

587
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Speaker 3: Allen a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk goes over to Houston. This is an intriguing

589
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Speaker 1: one to me. Have you seen word intriguing a few

590
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Speaker 1: times and you come up with better word. Houston traded

591
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: for Kirk. It was only a seventh rounder, but to me,

592
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: it's always it always says a little something when you

593
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Speaker 1: give up anything to get a player, and they needed

594
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: they needed one after losing stuff on digs. He had

595
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Speaker 1: the knee and he's also a free agent and TAC

596
00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: Tank Dell's possible career ending knee injury.

597
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, bad news there.

598
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, it's a it's brutal, way worse than most knee injuries.

599
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: Dislocated knee plus the ACL and some other cls that

600
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: I I don't remember. Is MCL or PCL. Just disaster

601
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Speaker 1: knee injury for Tank Dell. Now, the good news is

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk walks into the best offense of his career,

603
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Speaker 1: and he's got some sneaky upside here. He is a

604
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Speaker 1: slot run. A slot runner. Two thirds of his routes

605
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: over his career have been run from the slot.

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Speaker 4: And he'll do that.

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00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: For Houston, Nico Collins will be on the outside. But Brian,

608
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 1: there's no number three, proven number three receiver on this team.

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Speaker 3: No, definitely, it's like a Xavier Hutchinson. Yeah, but blanking

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Speaker 3: on John.

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Speaker 1: Mitchie, John Mitchie, I mean, which I don't know if

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Speaker 1: there's still optimistic about him. I'm not, but maybe, you know,

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00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:15,479
Speaker 1: maybe they are, and you know, and they might they

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00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: might put some draft equity into the wide receiver position

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Speaker 1: as well. But you know, we have seen in the

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Speaker 1: past Kirk has been a guy seven or eight targets

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Speaker 1: a game, five six catches a game, fifty yards and

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Speaker 1: the Rando touchdown here and there. You know, he's like

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Speaker 1: one of those guys in Guillotine that you can start

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Speaker 1: your first like five weeks with Kristin Kirk. Didn't it

621
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Speaker 1: blew up last year? He was not very good last year,

622
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: but maybe better here in a better offense. Three years

623
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: ago Kirk had eleven hundred yards and eight touchdowns. But

624
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,720
Speaker 1: that was three years ago. He's only twenty eight years old.

625
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: Just not a game changing chat talent. Despite the fact,

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00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: do you remember Christian Kirk was at one point the

627
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: highest paid wide receiver in the league.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just kind of shocked that he went for

629
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Speaker 3: so cheap and to a division like basically like any

630
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 3: other team that wasn't in the same division as the Jaguars.

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00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,959
Speaker 3: You offer him a seventh, they're probably gonna take that

632
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:15,040
Speaker 3: over sending him to Houston, right, Yeah, like how there's

633
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 3: no interest? Like I mean, Kirk would be a nice

634
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 3: slot option for the Vikings, would he not? I know

635
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Speaker 3: the Vikings on, but I don't know anyway. Yeah, I

636
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 3: think there's there's I don't think he's a dead cat

637
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 3: by any means. And you get him a good value

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00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 3: right now.

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Speaker 4: We've still got it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's gonna be interesting to I think

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Speaker 1: he'll be interesting where his ADP drops. I think he'll

642
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: he'll probably be a value there. Brian, let's take a break,

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Speaker 1: and when we come back, let's continue with some of

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Speaker 1: the free agent wide receiver moves and the white and

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Speaker 1: the one tight end move you need to know about.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchion and Brian Johnson

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Speaker 1: with you.

648
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 4: Are all right, let's got We've got.

649
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: A few more receivers to get through. Diammy Brown blew

650
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: up in the playoffs and showed us the side of

651
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: him that we'd been waiting to see since he was

652
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: drafted in the third round by Washington. Hits free agency

653
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 1: and now goes to Jacksonville.

654
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, speak of you mentioned his playoff performance two and

655
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 3: twenty nine yards in three games. He led all wide

656
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 3: receivers in the in the postseason.

657
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 4: Wow, okay, yeah.

658
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 3: Huge postseason for Diami, So I led to a big

659
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 3: payday going to Jacksonville. Where let's start with last year,

660
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 3: So Diamie Brown didn't see a ton of targets. But

661
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 3: speaking to efficiency, we mentioned it before with Palmer, Brown

662
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 3: was very efficient. His seven point six yards after the

663
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:56,359
Speaker 3: catch per reception ranked eighth among one hundred and ten

664
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 3: qualifying wide receivers, and he also first eleven miss tackles

665
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 3: that would have led all of the Jacksonville Jaguars last year,

666
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 3: including Brian Thomas Junior. So I'm not saying Brown is

667
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 3: gonna usurp BTJ as a wide receiver one, but I

668
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 3: think he's certainly taken the job of Gabe Davis. And

669
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 3: uh yeah, he's in a very advantageous spot lining up

670
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 3: opposite of BTJ, who is already elite. So Diami Brown.

671
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 3: You would get he almost didn't have an ADP in

672
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,880
Speaker 3: terms of twenty round drafts, which are deep drafts. But

673
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 3: he's climbing heavily now and in an offense that's uh.

674
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 3: You know, people are excited about the Jaguars offense. Shover

675
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,240
Speaker 3: Warren can say, hello, who.

676
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: Are these people that are excited about the Jaguars?

677
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 3: Well, I will will betj is he's a first round pick.

678
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 4: Oh, there's some that is exciting.

679
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about the departed in Evan Ingram, but

680
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 3: you know, Breton Strange, I don't know. This is all

681
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 3: at cost really outside of inside of BATJ there's a

682
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,440
Speaker 3: there's a the new head coach. I'm blanking on his name,

683
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 3: but he's you know, was he the Bucks oc and

684
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 3: the Bucks.

685
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 4: Had a yeah Liam call?

686
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 3: Yeah Liam Combs so uh uh? Quarterback of from UMass

687
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 3: played with Victor Cruz. I don't know, if you.

688
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 4: Phil, I didn't know he threw to Victor Cruz.

689
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, they played together.

690
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 4: I did not know.

691
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: I did not remember that. I remember Victor Cruz's mariachi moves.

692
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, the old salsa Victor Cruz man. He I don't

693
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 3: want to get into it. But he you know, the

694
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,239
Speaker 3: one they won the Super Bowl. I'm gonna get into

695
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 3: it now. He got he's got, he got famous, and

696
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 3: he never matched that Super Bowl a year and just

697
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 3: fell off a cliff. Basically, he was living it up

698
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 3: in New York for too long. But anyway, who are

699
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 3: we talking about? To Aamy Brown? I'm in on Brown.

700
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 3: Let's see right now.

701
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:52,280
Speaker 1: Is.

702
00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 3: Uh Miammy Brown wide receiver ninety?

703
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: Dang all right, I get you know, everything's relative to value,

704
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 1: as you said, and wide receiver ninety.

705
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 4: I'm intrigued.

706
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 3: He's right now he's going after Gabe Davis. That's about

707
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 3: to change. Yeah, we're talking Darius Slayton Leak, Washington, Michael Wilson, Territory,

708
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 3: Troy Franklin. Yeah, give me, give me Diami Brown there,

709
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 3: especially in Bestball. You know he's got that that Spike

710
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 3: Week potential for sure.

711
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.

712
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 1: There's a you got to pick your spots for for

713
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: him if it's anything like in the past. But if

714
00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: he gets regular playing time, which he did not get

715
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 1: in Washington, Dianmy Brown could be interesting there. I'm a

716
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 1: little excited about Jacksonville, so I'm gonna recind my snide

717
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: comment from two minutes ago about Jacksonville and especially if

718
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 1: they decide to go go with Tank.

719
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 3: That would be yeah. I'll say, you gotta be excited,

720
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,640
Speaker 3: always excited. Thanks could get that Bell cow, I would

721
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 3: love that.

722
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: Let's talk DeAndre Hopkins briefly. He goes to the Ravens.

723
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:58,959
Speaker 1: It's a one year deal.

724
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 3: I you know, look, I'm wide receivers go to die.

725
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 4: No kidding, isn't that the truth?

726
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 3: It's the Ravens or the Titans. It's like, yeah, those

727
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 3: two places where it does Brian Moss Titan.

728
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, Titans.

729
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: Those are some epic days for for Hopkins. Like the

730
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:27,720
Speaker 1: Chiefs last year desperately needed wide receiver production after Rishie

731
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:29,760
Speaker 1: Rice went down, You'll remember, but they couldn't.

732
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 4: They didn't.

733
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: They couldn't get it from Hopkins. And you know that

734
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 1: was with Patrick Mahomes. An offensive desperately needed a wide receiver.

735
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:40,319
Speaker 1: This is this is a run first Ravens team with

736
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: better receivers on roster and better tight ends on roster.

737
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: Hopkins is going to be an afterthought and I can't

738
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: muster any enthusiasm here. He's gonna be Hopkins is going

739
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: to be on his third team in one calendar year

740
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: and his fourth team in three years. There's a reason

741
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: teams keep giving up on Hopkins. It's it's a borderline

742
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame career. Maybe not even borderline. He's sitting

743
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: at thirteen thousand receiving yards. It's it's been a tremendous

744
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: career in totality. But this, this move to the Ravens

745
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: does not interest.

746
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 3: Me at all. Brian. No, he's probably taking Nilson Aguilar's job.

747
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 3: And that's basically what I'm expecting to get from DeAndre

748
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 3: Hopkins is Nilson Aguilar.

749
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,880
Speaker 1: Out of every but that's about right out of everybody

750
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: that we talked have talked about on this entire show

751
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: forty plus minutes. The guy who has the best landing

752
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: spot is the one tight end we're going to discuss,

753
00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,040
Speaker 1: and that's Evan Ingram who goes to Denver. Brian, I

754
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: love this spot, and I think Sean Payton is an

755
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: ideal coach for him to to to.

756
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 4: Be paired with.

757
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: And Hevin Ingram is right now as it stands, the

758
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: second best receiver on this team.

759
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 4: So talk to me about your thoughts.

760
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: See, I want to see if you share the interest

761
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: I've got in Evan Ingram going to Denver.

762
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a uh, you know, the obviously no competition

763
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 3: at the tight end position as of now for Ingram,

764
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 3: uh walking into the starting job. I highly doubt that

765
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,399
Speaker 3: the the Broncos are going to draft. There's a few

766
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 3: enticing tight ends in the draft is here if I

767
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,479
Speaker 3: doubt Denver is gonna go after one now that they've

768
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:24,919
Speaker 3: signed Ingram. Yeah, you know the thing? Sorry, I think

769
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 3: with Denver, though Peyton does seem like the perfect coach,

770
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 3: He's got this like joker role that hasn't he hasn't

771
00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 3: been able to fill and supposedly Ingram is going to

772
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:36,320
Speaker 3: fill that. Uh. I guess he hasn't had the joker

773
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 3: role if it's a tight end, because over the last

774
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 3: two years, Denver tight ends have been dead last and

775
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:45,439
Speaker 3: targets under Sean Payton, so that needs to change. But uh,

776
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 3: Ingram certainly more exciting than Greg Dolci, who is never healthy,

777
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 3: and I'm every other Denver tight end over the last

778
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 3: Tew year is very forgettable. So yeah, Ingram is was

779
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 3: the one really big name tight end out there. He's

780
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 3: found there there's no other tight ends waiting in the wind.

781
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 3: Really it's it's all Angram. So he's definitely got a

782
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,160
Speaker 3: bump and value. I think we'll see him going let's

783
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 3: see right now he is. He was kind of outside

784
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 3: the top ten and he still is. He's tight end sixteen.

785
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 3: But that's going up. That's gonna go off.

786
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 4: I kind of go a lot.

787
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, he'll be sniffing that top top ten range.

788
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 4: Yep, right in that range.

789
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

790
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 3: I think Djoku, Tucker Craft, Dalton Kincaid, Colston Loveland is

791
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 3: in that range. He's one of the rookies, the aforementioned rookies. Yeah,

792
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:42,919
Speaker 3: Tyler Warren, Colton Loveland, two rookies and early early top

793
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,959
Speaker 3: twelve tight ends adb.

794
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 1: There's no there's no buddy else on Denver at the

795
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: tight end position to give him any trouble. Adam Trautman

796
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: and Lucas Krawl and Nate Adkins.

797
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 3: Uh.

798
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 4: And that's yeah.

799
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 1: So I'm really optimistic about about what and Ingram has

800
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do.

801
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 3: There.

802
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: It felt like he was you know, we know he

803
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: can be highly productive because he has been, and I

804
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: think he goes right back to being them and Ingram

805
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 1: that we saw a couple of years ago.

806
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 4: And I'm excited for that.

807
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 3: Get get a little up there in age thirty one,

808
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 3: I believe older than I thought.

809
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he didn't do much for a long time, right,

810
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: so I feel like, you know, we were waiting and waiting,

811
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: and this happens with tight ends, right where they take

812
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: a while to develop. Those first few years were pretty

813
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:33,400
Speaker 1: meager for him, and then he had then he had that.

814
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: He had a relative breakout season in a couple of

815
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: years ago with Jacksonville when he posted almost a thousand yards,

816
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: and you know, everything changed for him. So yeah, well see,

817
00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: hopefully good things coming from Evan ingram In. Oh that'll

818
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: be his gosh, that'll be his ninth. This is ninth

819
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: season coming out. Brian, Dude, it's a little Yeah, that's sneaky.

820
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 4: Thirty years old.

821
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we're just getting old. You know, it's never old.

822
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: It's Fantasy Football Weekly, Brian. No, No, these never get old.

823
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 1: We've been doing this for thirty years. Not one of

824
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 1: them have felt old. O. They're all they're all fresh,

825
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:09,000
Speaker 1: new and exciting.

826
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 4: And we'll be.

827
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 3: Speaking of old though. We should. Just some old the

828
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,919
Speaker 3: players unsigned as of this recording that are out there,

829
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 3: Amari Cooper, Keenan Allen Cooper, cup Stefan Diggs. Not as old.

830
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 3: Those are wide receivers. Nick Chubb still unsigned running back.

831
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 3: I'd like to say I think Nick Chubb's got a

832
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 3: little left in the tank. I think I'd like to

833
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 3: see where he ends up. Definitely old. The quarterback, Aaron Rodgers,

834
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins, Russell Wilson, they're still out there, but those

835
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 3: are the names out there. JK. Dobbins, he's out there

836
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 3: running back.

837
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 4: That's about it.

838
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 3: We're almost, We're almost. We're ready for the draft. Almost ready.

839
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Speaker 3: We got some episodes with Thor coming up right, Yeah.

840
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 4: Too, Yeah, we're yep.

841
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: We're gonna break down, break down all the positions with

842
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 1: Thor for most of the rest of marching into April.

843
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're gonna get a lot smarter about the

844
00:43:58,400 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: rookie class coming up in future reps.

845
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,799
Speaker 4: So it's a Fantasy Football Weekly. Thanks for listening, everybody. Brian,

846
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 4: your great job, and.

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00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:06,920
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00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,400
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