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Speaker 1: Before we jump in to the questions this week, I
Speaker 1: do want to head a little bit on Thursday Night
Speaker 1: football and my real question that I wanted to discuss here.
Speaker 1: It was thirty three to ten Broncos victory over the
Speaker 1: Saints in New Orleans. Was this Javant Williams being good
Speaker 1: or was this the Saints run defense being bad? Williams
Speaker 1: obviously fourteen carries eighty eight yards, two touchdowns. He also
Speaker 1: had three catches for twenty three yards, a breakout game
Speaker 1: for him within the twenty twenty fourth season. Was this
Speaker 1: Givante good or Saints bad?
Speaker 2: Fits a little bit of both.
Speaker 3: He ran hard, broke some tackles the Saints. The Saints
Speaker 3: defense was not good. I mean it looked like they
Speaker 3: were quitting almost on that side of the ball on
Speaker 3: national television last night.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean, like.
Speaker 3: What we were worried about, if we uh the Javante investors,
Speaker 3: which I certainly am, the rumors that maybe Odrick Estime
Speaker 3: would have more of a role this week, and we
Speaker 3: heard Sean Payton sort of talk about wanting to get
Speaker 3: Estime more involved. I think est May wound up playing
Speaker 3: five snaps, so that kind of wound up not being
Speaker 3: a thing. And I believe next week the Broncos get
Speaker 3: the Panthers, so we can feel pretty good rolling with
Speaker 3: Javante another week, but then the week after that warm
Speaker 3: I think it's your Ravens, who, as you pointed out
Speaker 3: on a different show this week, haven't given up fifty
Speaker 3: rushing yards to any running back this week. So, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, it might be a pretty good two week
Speaker 3: run for Javante before we get the hangover in week nine.
Speaker 1: What was your takeaway debro it.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, Javante looked good, but also this was
Speaker 4: a function of the Saints defense. I wrote it up
Speaker 4: in the primer. I said he's probably headed towards his
Speaker 4: best output of the season, and that's exactly what we saw.
Speaker 4: This Saints team is just a dumpster fire man Like,
Speaker 4: doesn't it feel so far in the rear view of
Speaker 4: the first two weeks of the season, how the Saints looked.
Speaker 4: And I'm not going to just pile on top of
Speaker 4: it and say like and I'll get to it. But
Speaker 4: I mean, Rashid Shaheed is out, Chris Olave is out,
Speaker 4: Paulson the debo, but you know, shout out to him.
Speaker 4: Thoughts are with him and the recovery. He goes out
Speaker 4: there hurt, battered, beaten. The offensive line is a shell
Speaker 4: of itself. But the other part of this is that
Speaker 4: this team has quit on Dennis Allen and he needs
Speaker 4: to go. He should have never come back this season.
Speaker 4: I hate that he did, but he needs to go.
Speaker 4: By gone. Clint Kubiak, run the team, pick somebody be
Speaker 4: the interim head coach. Burn it all down to the
Speaker 4: freaking studs. I'm ready for Saints to rebuild and just
Speaker 4: start over.
Speaker 1: I think that's completely justified. I don't disagree with with
Speaker 1: anything you just said on the Saint side of things.
Speaker 1: Is the quarterback situation so bad that outside of Camara,
Speaker 1: we're just not starting any Saints until Derek Carr is back?
Speaker 4: Debra, No, I mean I think with Shahi going out,
Speaker 4: can we also say, like Chris a labe and because
Speaker 4: he didn't play in this game, he's a player that
Speaker 4: people need to be training for, Like he is going
Speaker 4: to hoover targets? Like, what's he gonna get weekly, guys,
Speaker 4: twenty seven thirty percent targets here? Yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought when you started that set is I
Speaker 1: thought when you said twenty seven, you were gonna say targets,
Speaker 1: not target share. That's how many can expect him to get. Yeah, fits,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you know a lave. Are you
Speaker 1: interested in trading for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, uh, well not really because I've already got
Speaker 3: him on pretty much all my roster. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 3: it's it's probably gonna work out if Karr comes back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're looking at big weekly target chairs.
Speaker 1: Before we jump into this week's questions, let's check in
Speaker 1: with Colin Coward and his over under picks for the
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Speaker 1: some of our favorite player picks for this week's slate.
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Speaker 1: All right, Colin, let's start with the quarterbacks. We'll start
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen. He's QB five on DraftKings. On the season,
Speaker 1: in terms of scoring, it's been kind of up and down,
Speaker 1: though he's finished at QB one twice. He's also had
Speaker 1: some games where he wasn't even worth starting at all.
Speaker 1: In fantasy going up against the Titans. Do you think
Speaker 1: this is going to be another one of those either
Speaker 1: you know, all or nothing games or maybe somewhere in
Speaker 1: the middle.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, they really should have lost to the
Speaker 5: Jets if the Jets could kick field goals. Taylor rat
Speaker 5: made a couple of great plays. I think Buffalo tends
Speaker 5: to be a tad over valued because Josh Allen is
Speaker 5: so great and we love him so much, He's our
Speaker 5: superman that we just they're a roller coaster team. But
Speaker 5: I do think Amari Cooper is a really sound investment,
Speaker 5: no cost, high production, high character, so I and I
Speaker 5: think James Cook has a chance to return. I love
Speaker 5: their tight end play this point forward, I like Buffalo,
Speaker 5: and I like Josh Allen. There is no more excuses
Speaker 5: Amari Cooper and their slot receiver and their tight ends
Speaker 5: and James Cook. This is going to be a highly
Speaker 5: productive offense. Cooper solves one of their issues is a
Speaker 5: is a productive veteran wide receiver. I like Josh this week.
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you on Cooper. Do you think
Speaker 1: we're going to see that benefit pan out in Week
Speaker 1: one or do you think there might be a transition
Speaker 1: period here as he just gets accustomed to the offense.
Speaker 5: Well, I think there's so much change in New York.
Speaker 5: Devantae Adams may take time to be productive, but Amari
Speaker 5: Cooper is coming into an offense with Josh Allen and
Speaker 5: Joe Brady that I mean, their only issue is, you know,
Speaker 5: it's these big moments, it's third down, it's red zone,
Speaker 5: it's a productive offense. So and again, I think he's
Speaker 5: a I think, you know AFC player coming into a
Speaker 5: sound AFC organization. I don't think Amari Cooper is going
Speaker 5: to take very long. He's one of the better route runners,
Speaker 5: one of the smarter receivers in the league. I think
Speaker 5: it works pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: Another quarterback. I want to hit on Brock Perty going
Speaker 1: up against the Chiefs Super Bowl and rematch. Obviously, Perty's
Speaker 1: QB eight on DraftKings this season, seventeen point six fantasy
Speaker 1: points per game. He's been QB seven since Week three,
Speaker 1: over twenty fantasy points per game on DraftKings. The Kansas
Speaker 1: City defense has been good overall, you know, really just
Speaker 1: an impressive job, you know, under Steve Spagnolo. But what
Speaker 1: do you expect that of Purdy going up you know again,
Speaker 1: in this Super Bowl rematch that we've seen a few
Speaker 1: times now.
Speaker 5: Well, Shanahan's zero to four. I my gut feeling is
Speaker 5: nobody likes to bet against Andy Reid and a bye.
Speaker 5: But I do think the Chiefs are a little vulnerable
Speaker 5: on the road. I was talking to Greg Cosell this
Speaker 5: week and he pointed out that Mahomes, you can tell
Speaker 5: he's letting go of the ball early and moving early.
Speaker 5: He doesn't trust his offensive line. When I watch Brock
Speaker 5: Purdy in his arsenal, he has great trust in Shanahan
Speaker 5: and his O line in this spot, I think Purty
Speaker 5: old play well. I mean, I think there's certain things
Speaker 5: that feel inevitable, the Bills winning a Super Bowl with
Speaker 5: Josh Allen and the Niners eventually at some point, beating
Speaker 5: Kansas City in a game. I think this is the
Speaker 5: spot Brock Purty play as well.
Speaker 1: Let's look at our running back here at Saquon Barklay
Speaker 1: going up against the Giants game narrative. He's been one
Speaker 1: of the best fantasy running backs on DraftKings all season
Speaker 1: over eighteen points per game, that's good for RB three
Speaker 1: on the season, and facing the second worst rush defense
Speaker 1: in the NFL by yards per carry in the Giants
Speaker 1: rush defense. What do you expect out of Saquan in
Speaker 1: this one?
Speaker 5: Well, Andrew Thomas, the left tackle, the very good left
Speaker 5: tackle for the Giants, is out for the season. What
Speaker 5: does that mean? Daniel Jones probably has more three and
Speaker 5: outs and quick drives. Translation, Saquon Barkley gets the ball
Speaker 5: at our field position. I think they're a little concerned
Speaker 5: about Jalen Hurts and his turnover reality Again week to week,
Speaker 5: it feels like Nick Siriani's coaching for his job in
Speaker 5: a very progressive, smart and aggressive organization. I think Saquon eats.
Speaker 5: I think they play well. I Malik Neighbors is one thing,
Speaker 5: but when they lose Andrew Thomas, this is not a
Speaker 5: highly functional offense. I think Philadelphia gets lots of possessions
Speaker 5: and whether they get into the end zone or not,
Speaker 5: saqu is productive.
Speaker 1: Do you think that the Eagles as an organization and
Speaker 1: I guess really Nick Sirianni, as kind of a guy
Speaker 1: who coaches by emotion a lot of the time, is
Speaker 1: going to go into this game saying we want to
Speaker 1: see Saquon have a huge day against the Giants, specifically
Speaker 1: because of that remaining narrative.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's how Nick Sirianni rolls. I think
Speaker 5: he's I think he is. And also, when you're losing
Speaker 5: a potential job, you want to gain favor in the
Speaker 5: locker room, right as management maybe behind the scenes, asks
Speaker 5: players about the vibe in the locker room. So the position,
Speaker 5: it's a good question the position this week. If you
Speaker 5: were going to lose your job, you'd look for life preservers.
Speaker 5: Sirianni's life preserver is I'm a Saquon guy. I'm a
Speaker 5: team guy. I'm gonna get my player of the ball.
Speaker 5: That's what the Eagle players want. They want Saquan to
Speaker 5: go off, So I think he'll That's I think that's
Speaker 5: one of the better bets of the week.
Speaker 1: Let's look at some pass catchers here, Justin Jefferson going
Speaker 1: up against the Lions. Awesome matchup here in the NFC North,
Speaker 1: clearly the best division of football so far this season.
Speaker 1: Really excited for this one. Jeffson's been wide receiver on
Speaker 1: DraftKings this season. He's facing a Detroit pass defense allowing
Speaker 1: over ten yards per catch this season, tied for six
Speaker 1: bests in the NFL last year. In two games against
Speaker 1: the Lions, Justin Jefferson eighteen catches, three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: three yards and two touchdowns. One of the best receivers
Speaker 1: in football. What do you think we're going to see
Speaker 1: this weekend?
Speaker 5: Well, Vikings off a bye, more time to be creative,
Speaker 5: love that for Justin Jefferson. Aiden Hodgson's injury, they haven't
Speaker 5: replaced him yet, less of a pass rush, more time
Speaker 5: for Sam Darnold. I think Justin Jefferson has a big,
Speaker 5: big game.
Speaker 1: We're loving the players so far. I think that's pretty
Speaker 1: much all over so far. We've got a couple more
Speaker 1: thank you if we're expecting more offense here. Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: not one hundred percent determined to be making his return,
Speaker 1: It seems to be trending in that direction. We've got
Speaker 1: a are they playing tool on fantasypros dot Com that
Speaker 1: gives him something like an eighty to ninety percent chance
Speaker 1: as of right now based on the early practice reports.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that pans out. But assuming he's back
Speaker 1: on the field, he obviously was pretty productive in the
Speaker 1: games that he didn't miss, you know, across the season.
Speaker 1: Receiver seventy seven, but he's wide receiver twenty three, Week two,
Speaker 1: then of course missed the last three games. Going up
Speaker 1: against this Raiders defense. If he's on the field, do
Speaker 1: you think we'll see a big Cooper Cup Day.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 5: I think it's a low scoring game reasonably. I think
Speaker 5: off of bye however, Sean McVay is going to try
Speaker 5: to get Cooper a Cup looks, but because he's not
Speaker 5: certain to play and this is a must win for
Speaker 5: the Rams, I don't think Shawn's building the game plan
Speaker 5: around him, so I don't I don't think John. I
Speaker 5: don't think Sean in a must win position would do that.
Speaker 5: But my takeaway, he'll eat. They're going to have extra
Speaker 5: time to be creative, but there'll be limitations. I think
Speaker 5: the Raiders play really hard. I think they're anemic offensively,
Speaker 5: but I think Max Crosby they get a pass rush.
Speaker 5: I like the spirit the Raiders play. I just think
Speaker 5: they need a quarterback.
Speaker 1: We'll wrap up with a tight end here, Sam Laporta
Speaker 1: going up against the Vikings. We already touched on this
Speaker 1: game from the other perspective, or see me from the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position on the other side of this one
Speaker 1: tight end twelve five fantasy points per game on DraftKings.
Speaker 1: This season, he's been a huge disappointment relative to where
Speaker 1: he was going in drafts last season. In two games
Speaker 1: against the Vikings, just eight catches for forty seven yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. What do you expect out of Laporta
Speaker 1: this weekend?
Speaker 5: Low numbers and under I think the way to take
Speaker 5: the crowd out of Minnesota is to run the football
Speaker 5: and have long, slow, boring drives. Running the football with Montgomery,
Speaker 5: Jamiir Gibbs, and I think what Detroit's trying to do
Speaker 5: off that big win over the Cowboys, knowing Minnesota is
Speaker 5: going to be cute and clever offensively off a bye
Speaker 5: with a smart offensive coach, get the ball, run the ball,
Speaker 5: eat the clock. Laporta does more blocking than catching.
Speaker 1: We'll wrap up there. Awesome slate this weekend. Best of
Speaker 1: luck to everybody in all their bets and their fantasy players.
Speaker 1: Remember ahead to fantasypros dot Com slash challenge to play
Speaker 1: along all season long. Thanks for joining us, Colin, Thanks man.
Speaker 1: All right, let's shop into our questions for the slate.
Speaker 1: As always, are going through our ten biggest questions for
Speaker 1: this is now week seven. We are into that second
Speaker 1: trimester of the twenty twenty four season. Let's start with
Speaker 1: Bengals Browns with Amari Cooper gone and Nick Chubb returning.
Speaker 1: Who are the Browns worth starting in this one? Fits?
Speaker 3: It's not a long list worm In fact, I don't
Speaker 3: know if there's a list at all. The Browns haven't
Speaker 3: scored twenty points in a game this year. They're averaging
Speaker 3: two hundred and forty yards of offense per game. Obviously,
Speaker 3: I don't want to start Deshaun Watson. I don't want
Speaker 3: to start Nick Chubb because I don't know what his
Speaker 3: role is going to be if they've got him on
Speaker 3: a snap count or a carry limit this week. So
Speaker 3: I want to show me game out of Nick Chubb
Speaker 3: before I roll him into a lineup.
Speaker 2: Don't want to start Deontin Foreman.
Speaker 3: Don't really want to start David Nijoku because he's never
Speaker 3: just never had good chemistry with Deshaun Watson. I mean,
Speaker 3: I guess he's playable if you're sort of in the
Speaker 3: land of tight end too sadness. Don't really want to
Speaker 3: start Jerry Judy because I don't think he's good, Like
Speaker 3: I don't know how I know it stands to reason
Speaker 3: that he should benefit from the departure of Amari Cooper.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if Judy is good enough to capitalize.
Speaker 1: Do Youira, what do you think? Do you have a
Speaker 1: maybe a little more optimism here than Fitz does.
Speaker 4: I have a little more optimism, but it's not much.
Speaker 4: There's only one Cleveland brown that's worth starting this week,
Speaker 4: and it's David and Joku. That's it. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: I and my update of the primer will reflect this too.
Speaker 4: You do not need to play anybody from the Cleveland
Speaker 4: Browns backfield. I get you can run on the Bengals.
Speaker 4: This could be three to four running backs this week
Speaker 4: getting carries if Jerome Fod plays. If not, it could
Speaker 4: be three running backs. It could be Pierre Strong, Nick Chubb,
Speaker 4: Deonta Foreman, all of them getting between five and eight carries,
Speaker 4: and nobody is worth playing. But back to David and Joku,
Speaker 4: I mean he should be a PPR machine. Look at
Speaker 4: it as bad as Deshaun Watson is. David and Joku
Speaker 4: has like a of five A dots. So I'm only
Speaker 4: asking for Deshaun Watson to just basically handle elongated handoffs
Speaker 4: to David and Joku, and in that sense, then Joku
Speaker 4: can be good this week. I mean last week he
Speaker 4: had a thirty percent target share, so if he can
Speaker 4: replicate that this week in a good matchup, since he
Speaker 4: has been allowing a good amount of production two tight
Speaker 4: ends tenth most receiving yards and fifth most Fantasy points
Speaker 4: per game. So in Djoku, I think is very worth
Speaker 4: starting this week. But the rest of the Cleveland count
Speaker 4: me out. Nope, not worth you.
Speaker 1: No. No, if there is a receiver, is it Judy
Speaker 1: or I mean.
Speaker 4: When if we felt good about starting Amarti Cooper at
Speaker 4: any time this season? So do we feel you need
Speaker 4: better about a lesser talent and Jerry Judy?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm the no. No.
Speaker 1: Let's go to a much more fun game Seahawks at Falcons.
Speaker 1: Lots of players in this one are ranked very close
Speaker 1: to each other. So I want to play a little
Speaker 1: head to head with you guys and ask you for
Speaker 1: at a couple of different positions, kind of similar to
Speaker 1: what we do on the Thursday show. Actually Deep Ros
Speaker 1: Star with you. Who do you prefer at quarterback? Gino
Speaker 1: Smith or Kirk Cousins, Kirk.
Speaker 4: O James Baby, running the top five pay and passing
Speaker 4: right clip. Seattle has been a bottom three pass defense
Speaker 4: over the last few weeks, basically their last three games.
Speaker 4: They're They're horrible, They're wretched. It's Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: Easy for me, fits quarterback Gino or Kirk.
Speaker 3: I've got Gino ranked one spot higher. He is leading
Speaker 3: the NFL in passing yardage right now, and I think
Speaker 3: he's gonna feast in this one. Falcons rank thirtieth in
Speaker 3: pressure rate right now, so he's gonna have time to
Speaker 3: find dk Metcalf, Jackson Smith and jakeban Tyler Lockett.
Speaker 1: Those are QB ten and QB twelve in ECR for
Speaker 1: the record, at running back, these guys are both obviously starts,
Speaker 1: but just because they're very close to each other, I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask Jean Robinson or Kenneth Walker who's gonna
Speaker 1: have the bigger week Debro.
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be massive Kenneth Walker game. And
Speaker 4: that's kind of why I'm a little bit lower on Geno,
Speaker 4: only because I think Kenneth Walker is going off in
Speaker 4: this game. Atlanta cannot stop the run eighth most rushing
Speaker 4: yards per game, tenth highest miss tackle rate, their top
Speaker 4: six in success rates to both gap and zone runs,
Speaker 4: Like you want to see the monster blow up game
Speaker 4: for Kenneth Walker where he gets like one hundred rushing
Speaker 4: yards and two scores. This is it.
Speaker 1: This is RB four and RB five fits. Do you prefer?
Speaker 3: I also have them RB four and RB five, and
Speaker 3: I have bijon ranks higher. I mean, Debro's talking about
Speaker 3: how bad the Atlanta run defense has been and how
Speaker 3: bad the Seattle pass defense has been. Lately, the Seahawks
Speaker 3: have been getting smoked by running backs. The last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, the Giants rookie Tyrone Tracy eighteen carries for
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty nine yards in that Giants upset
Speaker 3: in Seattle, and then last week we saw the forty
Speaker 3: nine Ers trio of backups Jordan Mason, Isaac Grendo and
Speaker 3: Patrick Taylor twenty four carries for one hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: eight yards combined against the Seahawks last week, Seattle giving
Speaker 3: up one hundred and twenty four point five rushing yards
Speaker 3: per game to running backs and five point two yards
Speaker 3: per carry. Bijohn's can have a big day, and maybe
Speaker 3: Tyler Algier might be flexworthy too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good call.
Speaker 1: Ranks close together, at wide receiver Drake London and DK Metcalf,
Speaker 1: do you, bro, who do you prefer here? And I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure based on your history, I know the answer is.
Speaker 4: Going to be It's London time, baby all the time.
Speaker 4: I mean, we got stuff out on the old social
Speaker 4: medias that London is playing the Puka Nakua role which
Speaker 4: we've all seen come to fruition and it's been beautiful.
Speaker 4: There's no way I'm not taking Drake London here. He's
Speaker 4: gonna get so many freaking targets this week. It's gonna
Speaker 4: be awesome.
Speaker 1: Fits Drake London as wide receiver seven. DK Metcalf is
Speaker 1: wide receiver eight. Who do you prefer?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 3: With all of these one spot of separation in my rankings,
Speaker 3: but London calling?
Speaker 2: H Yeah.
Speaker 3: London has double digit targets in three straight games. He's
Speaker 3: had at least six catches in five straight games and
Speaker 3: four touchdowns in his last five games. The trends are
Speaker 3: very pro London here.
Speaker 4: It's so beautiful here.
Speaker 1: Last aleden for this game, Dardel Mooney. He's wide receiver
Speaker 1: twenty three, JSN Jackson Smith and Jigba wide receiver twenty six.
Speaker 1: So finally a bit of separation was still really close
Speaker 1: in ECR deverra. Who do you prefer this week? Mooney
Speaker 1: or JSN.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Mooney looking at his role in the
Speaker 4: Atlanta passing attack. He owns the deep role, and while
Speaker 4: the coverage show matchup isn't really in his favor, I've
Speaker 4: got him one spot ahead at JSN a wide receiver
Speaker 4: twenty seven and JASN water receiver twenty eight. I think
Speaker 4: that he could pop off a big play this week.
Speaker 1: Who do you like?
Speaker 3: Fits yet again one spot of separation in my rankings
Speaker 3: with all four of these worms, I've got Mooney over JSN.
Speaker 3: It's just JSN had one hundred and seventeen yards against
Speaker 3: the Patriots back in Week two. He hasn't had more
Speaker 3: than fifty three yards in any other game, and he
Speaker 3: has one touchdown this season.
Speaker 2: He's just been disappointing.
Speaker 1: Who do you guys like to win this game? Because obviously,
Speaker 1: as we laid out, like the play the respective players
Speaker 1: at each respected position, our ranks so closely, so these
Speaker 1: teams are fairly similar. Atlanta is laying a field goal
Speaker 1: at home. Fits do you have like a lean on
Speaker 1: that game?
Speaker 3: I am probably not going to put my own money
Speaker 3: on it, because I think this is like, it does
Speaker 3: look like it's going to come down to the final possession.
Speaker 3: In pools where I am required to make a pick
Speaker 3: against the spread, I took Seattle and the points the
Speaker 3: two and a half or three or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Deebro, what do you think I'm taking Atlanta?
Speaker 4: But for me, if I wanted to play this anyway
Speaker 4: in the betting market, I would just hit the over.
Speaker 4: And Fitzy's brought this up before, like, betting totals over
Speaker 4: fifty is not really something we like to do. There's
Speaker 4: just too many outs to failure. But both of these
Speaker 4: defenses are struggling. Both of these offenses have top five
Speaker 4: neutral pace, the play volume, the scoring potential. That's the
Speaker 4: way that I would bet this. I would bet the over.
Speaker 4: And there's not many totals that are this high that
Speaker 4: I'm looking to bet the over on, but this is
Speaker 4: one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Oh sorry, I was just going to say, I believe
Speaker 3: they are number I can't remember who's number two and
Speaker 3: who's number three, but they're number two and three and
Speaker 3: seconds between snaps, So yeah, like they play at a
Speaker 3: break neck pace. It's going to be a really fun game.
Speaker 3: Fun Week seven slate overall, we're kind of getting the
Speaker 3: bad games out of the way early on Thursday night
Speaker 3: and the London game on Sunday morning. But then after that,
Speaker 3: I mean, Packers, Texans, Lions, Vikings, Falcons, Seattle, even Jets
Speaker 3: Seattle is going to be kind of fun with DeVante
Speaker 3: Adams returning to the Jets, and see what Russell Wilson
Speaker 3: brings to the Steelers. So like, I'm excited about Week
Speaker 3: seven Fits.
Speaker 1: That is exactly what I was going to say, and
Speaker 1: then I you know, let you go first, and you
Speaker 1: took my point exactly, which is that this game is
Speaker 1: really fun Falcon Seahawks, and yet it's like fourth on
Speaker 1: the list of games I'm looking forward to this weekend
Speaker 1: because the Sunday slate is so awesome. So I totally agree.
Speaker 1: There are some really high level matchups here. We're about
Speaker 1: to jump into another high level matchup here, arguably the
Speaker 1: best on the on the slate. This is what I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to, actually, just because of the quarterbacks Texans
Speaker 1: at Packers, I mean CJ. Stradverord Jordan Love. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of talk over the offseason about how similar these
Speaker 1: guys were obviously a couple of years apart in the draft,
Speaker 1: but just last year was the year that like, okay,
Speaker 1: these guys are two of the future superstar quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the league. You know, I heard some podcasts in the
Speaker 1: offseason say that, like the Packers were kind of the
Speaker 1: NFC Texans and vice versa. So it's really intriguing to
Speaker 1: see them go go head to head. You know, the
Speaker 1: box score numbers haven't always been there for Strad this year,
Speaker 1: but he just if you watch the games, it's like
Speaker 1: so clear he's one of the five best quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: football at Jordan Love obviously missed some time. It's just
Speaker 1: a super fun matchup of two current and future stars
Speaker 1: at quarterback. You know, Love has been better for fantasy
Speaker 1: purposes in twenty twenty four. You know, the Texans defense
Speaker 1: is really good though, you know, particularly getting pressure. So
Speaker 1: who is the better game this week? Stroud and the
Speaker 1: Texans offense or Love and the Packers offense? Fits I'll
Speaker 1: start with you.
Speaker 3: I have to be a shameless homer and go with
Speaker 3: Jordan Love. It might be closer if Nico Collins weren't
Speaker 3: on IR for the Texans. But for what it's worth,
Speaker 3: I went on DraftKings to see what the statistical expectations
Speaker 3: sort of are for these two quarterbacks. Stroud actually has
Speaker 3: the higher yardage prop number as of Thursday night, two
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty seven point five yards Love's number two
Speaker 3: hundred and forty nine point five, butts for touchdowns. The
Speaker 3: over under for both guys was one and a half
Speaker 3: TD passes, but for Stroud it's minus one oh five
Speaker 3: to play the over and for Love it's minus one
Speaker 3: seventy five to play the over.
Speaker 2: So the odds will.
Speaker 3: Suggest that multiple touchdowns are expected for Jordan Love, but
Speaker 3: not really for CJ. Stroud, more of a fifty to
Speaker 3: fifty there.
Speaker 1: It's kind of hilarious fits that one of these teams
Speaker 1: is five and one and one of them is four
Speaker 1: and two, and their two of the most fun and
Speaker 1: offenses to watch, you the best quarterbacks, and yet one
Speaker 1: of these teams is in first place in their division
Speaker 1: and the other ones in the last place in their division.
Speaker 1: It is remarkable how deep and strong the NFC North is.
Speaker 3: Oh my well, they are one, two, three and four
Speaker 3: in point differential all the teams in the NFC North.
Speaker 2: That's wild.
Speaker 1: It's I can't remember ever seeing that. I'm sure somebody
Speaker 1: out there has the stat on if we've actually seen
Speaker 1: it before, I certainly can't think of it. It's it's
Speaker 1: really impressive. If you look at on the NFL's kind
Speaker 1: of stats page, you could look at net touchdowns on
Speaker 1: the season, every other division has at least one team
Speaker 1: in the negatives, obviously, whereas the worst in the NFC North, again,
Speaker 1: the Packers, is still a net three touchdowns up on
Speaker 1: the season. It's just it's insane. Deebro, what are you
Speaker 1: expecting out of this one? Do you think this is
Speaker 1: a matchup that lines up better for Strout and the
Speaker 1: Texans or loving the Packers.
Speaker 4: I'm taking Jordan Love here. I mean he has been
Speaker 4: lights out man top three QB and two of the
Speaker 4: last three games. I mean it just he's basically automatic.
Speaker 4: I mean he does not have it. He doesn't have
Speaker 4: a game on his twenty twenty four ledger where he's
Speaker 4: thrown less than two passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of what he did last season too,
Speaker 1: Like on once he also got going, he was just
Speaker 1: throwing touchdowns all the time.
Speaker 4: He is freaking awesome. He's QB three right now, so
Speaker 4: I don't as much I love CJ. Stroud. The out
Speaker 4: for Stroud to come away with a lesser fantasy day here,
Speaker 4: still play incredibly well, but come away with a lesser
Speaker 4: fantasy day. When Houston has been able to run the
Speaker 4: ball this year, they are going to run the ball.
Speaker 4: And this is again it's I mean, it's tried and true.
Speaker 4: It's every single year. The Packers are an awesome team,
Speaker 4: but they can't stop the run. So if Houston's able
Speaker 4: to feed Joe Mixon and he can get going, that's
Speaker 4: the differentiating factor for me with these two different quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Green Bay gets in the red zone, it's Love time.
Speaker 4: He's throwing passing touchdowns. Josh Jacobs good luck. But Houston
Speaker 4: when they get there, man, it's feed Joe Mixon. So
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go Jordan Love here.
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, let's get into one of those awesome
Speaker 1: matchups Lions Vikings. Detroit's offense is rolling, but so is
Speaker 1: Minnesota's defense prior to their bye week. Who comes out
Speaker 1: on top in this matchup the very fun Lines offense
Speaker 1: or the chaotic Vikings defense, Deebra start with you.
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna be the Lions, and I think
Speaker 4: this all comes down to one particular point, and we
Speaker 4: know that Brian Flores is going to blitz the ever
Speaker 4: love and heck out of Jared Goff. Quietly, Jared Goff
Speaker 4: has been the best quarterback in the NFL, or at
Speaker 4: least top three versus the Blitz. Like he's thirteenth in
Speaker 4: passing grade sixth and big time throw rate. He leads
Speaker 4: the NFL in yards per attempt versus the Blitz. If
Speaker 4: so fact, though, this is gonna be a huge Jamison
Speaker 4: Williams game. If Jared Goff can perform well versus the Blitz,
Speaker 4: JMO's numbers, I'll put this out on social media last night,
Speaker 4: like he has a twenty five percent target chair. He
Speaker 4: has four point seven yards per route run. When Jared
Speaker 4: Goff is blitz he's the number one option. When golf
Speaker 4: is blitzed, He's gonna get blitzed. If golf can perform
Speaker 4: well versus the blitz, Detroit's winning this game.
Speaker 1: Do you see it the same way?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'll say the Lions. This game does
Speaker 3: profile as a shootout. I think we're gonna see points.
Speaker 3: It's such a fun matchup. The Vikings gave up four
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five yards of offense to the Packers
Speaker 3: three hundred and ninety six yards of offense to the
Speaker 3: forty nine Ers. Now, granted, both the Packers and forty
Speaker 3: nine ers fell into holes against the Vikings, so kind
Speaker 3: of had to stomp the accelerator a little bit and
Speaker 3: juice up the game script. But good offenses can move
Speaker 3: the ball on Minnesota. The key for the Vikings has
Speaker 3: been forcing turnovers. They forced thirteen turnovers in five games,
Speaker 3: in at least two in every game. And it seems
Speaker 3: like Andrew Van Ginkel, my favorite defensive player in the NFL,
Speaker 3: forces all of them.
Speaker 2: He is just a maniac.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like, if the Lions can limit the mistakes
Speaker 3: and Flora's to Debro's point, like Flora's forces those mistakes
Speaker 3: by dialing up pressure and bringing it in unexpected ways,
Speaker 3: like you never know who's coming for the Vikings on
Speaker 3: the pass rush, which makes it really hard to be
Speaker 3: a quarterback against them. Like that, this is the team
Speaker 3: I would least want to face in the NFL if
Speaker 3: I was an opposing quarterback. But yeah, I think the
Speaker 3: Lions are going to move the ball. And to Deebro's point,
Speaker 3: like if the Lions can neutralize the Blitz and they
Speaker 3: do have a really good offensive line, I think GoF
Speaker 3: is going to do some business.
Speaker 1: I know this question was built around Lions offense verus
Speaker 1: Vikings defense, but you did mention a shootout fits. Do
Speaker 1: you think that we're going to see? You know, Sam
Speaker 1: Darnold and company do pretty well against the Lions defense
Speaker 1: now missing Aiden Hutchinson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's that's the thing, Like the Lions
Speaker 3: have I'm going to be interested to see the residual
Speaker 3: effect of the Hutchinson injury, not only like does that
Speaker 3: make the Lions a less daunting defensive matchup when you're
Speaker 3: considering start sit in fantasy? But I think it's going
Speaker 3: to change the outlook for some of the Lions themselves,
Speaker 3: like GoF has averaged twenty three and a half pass
Speaker 3: attempts in the Lions four wins. Like they've been they've
Speaker 3: had some squash jobs so far this season. I don't
Speaker 3: think that's gonna happen as much. I think we're gonna
Speaker 3: see more shootouts, which is probably good for goth Amen,
Speaker 3: Ra Laporta, Jamiir Gibbs, maybe not as good for David Montgomery,
Speaker 3: who's been getting a steady like fifteen carries a game,
Speaker 3: as Ben Johnson just keeps dialing up running plays and
Speaker 3: grinding it out in these close or not close games. Now,
Speaker 3: when we get close games like I think that might
Speaker 3: hurt Manty a little bit, but help everyone in the
Speaker 3: Detroit I.
Speaker 4: Really want to see one particular move. We saw the
Speaker 4: flurry of trades here. I just want to sneak this
Speaker 4: in here. Dude, tell me there is not a more
Speaker 4: Detroit Dan Campbell player than freaking Max Crosby. I want
Speaker 4: him to become a Detroit Lions so bad I could
Speaker 4: taste it like he would be awesome in Detroit.
Speaker 2: What about what about Hassan Reddick? Why is he not?
Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, Hassan Reddick just seems like, I mean,
Speaker 4: does he want to play football at this point? Like
Speaker 4: your agent fires you because you can't come to terms
Speaker 4: with any type of contract. Like at some point, man,
Speaker 4: like you just got to like look like you. I mean,
Speaker 4: even Jamar Chase all these wide receivers said like like
Speaker 4: at some point, let's go play ball and then figure
Speaker 4: out the money later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure if a guy who's intentionally not
Speaker 1: playing football right now is somebody that is in you know,
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell's good graces.
Speaker 2: But yeah, good point.
Speaker 1: But yeah the Max Crosby, Like, well, on the field,
Speaker 1: both of them wouldn't fit. But like yeah, off the
Speaker 1: field too, like Max Crosby just so class.
Speaker 4: Crosby just supreams Dan Campbell player, Like Dan Campbell would
Speaker 4: like walk in there and be like, Okay, we're building
Speaker 4: a monument to you. Day two.
Speaker 1: Next game here, Dolphins Colts. You know, maybe not the
Speaker 1: most like exhilarating game in a vacuum, But I just
Speaker 1: wanted to bring it up because I wanted to ask, like,
Speaker 1: coming out of the buy, did the Dolphins figure anything
Speaker 1: out with their week off or are we still like
Speaker 1: somewhat afraid of of starting their players in fantasy. As
Speaker 1: long as this quarterback situation remains what it.
Speaker 3: Is, fits Man, you would hope the bye week helps
Speaker 3: get Tyler Huntley acclimated to the Mike McDaniel offense, and
Speaker 3: now the Dolphins do get this soft matchup against a
Speaker 3: pretty flawed Colts defense. I want to say that this
Speaker 3: is the week where we finally get the big play
Speaker 3: or two we've been waiting for from Tyreek Hill. We
Speaker 3: know the Colts cornerbacks not a very good group, So
Speaker 3: I've got Tyreek Hill ranked inside my top twenty at
Speaker 3: wide receiver just kind of. I've over ranked him for
Speaker 3: weeks and weeks and weeks. I'm not gonna stop now.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to keep playing him and ranking him highly.
Speaker 3: And I'm optimistic Devon Achan can get it going. I
Speaker 3: don't know about Jalen Waddle. It seems like he's the
Speaker 3: guy who really most needs to to come back. He
Speaker 3: hasn't scored a touchdown this year, and he has not
Speaker 3: reached fifty yards in a game since Week one. You know,
Speaker 3: it's been really bad for Waddle ever since two I
Speaker 3: got hurt.
Speaker 1: What do you think do you brow, where are these
Speaker 1: guys ranked for you? Roughly this week.
Speaker 4: I've got a big disparity between Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 4: Like I've got Jalen Wattle all the way down at
Speaker 4: wide receiver forty one, I've got Tyreek Hill with wide
Speaker 4: receiver twenty two. I think this is a get matchup
Speaker 4: for specifically the Dolphins ground game. Tyler Huntley is Tyler Huntley,
Speaker 4: but can he just feed a few decent catchuple targets
Speaker 4: to Tyreek Hill and he takes one or two to
Speaker 4: the house. I think this is the get right game
Speaker 4: for their ground game. Though devon a chan this offensive
Speaker 4: line has been playing pretty bad. But this is the
Speaker 4: get right matchup for basically any running game in the NFL.
Speaker 4: If you got a problem running the ball, hi meet
Speaker 4: the Indianapolis Colts. They don't like to stop the run.
Speaker 1: Let's look at another maybe not most exciting matchup on paper,
Speaker 1: but that has an interesting question surrounding at Raiders rams.
Speaker 1: Who steps up for the Raiders offense the rest of
Speaker 1: the season without DeVante Adams? I mean, the most common
Speaker 1: kind of answer you see on social media throughout the
Speaker 1: week is brock Bauers. Is there a receiver that we
Speaker 1: think steps up as well? Does this elevate Bowers into
Speaker 1: like borderline like Titan one overall status. I mean, you
Speaker 1: might already have been there anyway. It's what do you
Speaker 1: make of the Raiders offense Sands Davante Adams.
Speaker 3: Well, obviously we're in the all you can eat target
Speaker 3: buffet for.
Speaker 2: Rock Bowers.
Speaker 3: I mean it's just three targets at the omelet station,
Speaker 3: two targets at the salad bar. You get the idea
Speaker 3: like there are going to be targets galore for Boers,
Speaker 3: But maybe there's some residual benefit for Jacoby my Like.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if Jacoby Myers is the kind
Speaker 3: of guy who's going to turn into you know, like
Speaker 3: a'm and Ros Saint Brown. As far as usage, I
Speaker 3: don't know if we get like a consistent diet of
Speaker 3: double digit targets, but probably eight or nine a game
Speaker 3: for Jacoby, So I think it at least makes him
Speaker 3: like a solid wide receiver three type the rest of
Speaker 3: the season. And maybe it makes Trey Tucker at least
Speaker 3: like worthy of flex consideration depending on matchup, and the
Speaker 3: matchups pretty good this week against the Rams, who are
Speaker 3: giving up a league high nine point zero yards per pass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned like the particular matchup this week,
Speaker 1: because I guess there's sort of two parts of the question.
Speaker 1: One is who steps up in this matchup in particular,
Speaker 1: and the other is kind of rest of season Debra,
Speaker 1: how do you see that plan out.
Speaker 4: In this matchup? I don't think Jacoby Myers plays, so
Speaker 4: I think it's gonna have to be all brought hours
Speaker 4: and that's basically it. I don't have a lot of
Speaker 4: faith in Trey Tucker, but I've got a lot of
Speaker 4: faith in Jacoby Myers if he can come back healthy.
Speaker 4: I mean the two games before he missed last week
Speaker 4: due to injury, nine targets, ten targets, and these were
Speaker 4: tough matchups, I mean against going against the Cleveland Browns,
Speaker 4: going against the different Broncos. Since Week four, he has
Speaker 4: had a thirty one percent target share, thirty four percent
Speaker 4: first read chare, so he is getting all the volume
Speaker 4: he can freaking handle. Yeah, I think fits he hit
Speaker 4: this perfectly. I think Jacoby Myers rest of the season
Speaker 4: should be valued as a wide receiver three if you
Speaker 4: can get him tossed into a trade specifically, because he
Speaker 4: missed last week, he probably misses this week. I would
Speaker 4: be trying to get him added on to any kind
Speaker 4: of deal. And if he's out on the word freaking
Speaker 4: waiver wire fifteen percent minimum.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember in our rookie draft this year
Speaker 1: and our work Dynasty League, when I got Bowers at
Speaker 1: the one TENN I do.
Speaker 4: I'm still waiting on trade offers for Trey Benson. My
Speaker 4: my inbox is gathering those.
Speaker 1: Those will those will not be coming. But yeah, you
Speaker 1: guys both you guys both had chances to take Bowers
Speaker 1: and you both passed, and I got them at the one.
Speaker 2: Whoa whoa, whoa?
Speaker 3: Hold on I was. I was not sitting down there
Speaker 3: one all way. But you had picks before that.
Speaker 1: It's my point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well one oh one. I wasn't taking Brockbi.
Speaker 4: I remember in that rookie draft if I had a
Speaker 4: first this year, he did and here and here's how
Speaker 4: I remember it is so I had a bunch of
Speaker 4: picks in that trap.
Speaker 1: I know nobody cares about this, but I had. I
Speaker 1: had a bunch of picks. I had like the one
Speaker 1: of four and then I had the seven, eight and ten,
Speaker 1: and so at eight I was, and you you had
Speaker 1: nine Debro. So at eight I was like, well, Debro
Speaker 1: has good tight ends already, and he loves Jonathan Brooks.
Speaker 1: So if I take Bowers here, which is what I
Speaker 1: would have done, then Dero is going to take Brooks.
Speaker 1: But if I take Brooks here, Dero is not going
Speaker 1: to take Bowers, then he'll slide to me to the.
Speaker 4: One because here's in that league I have Dalton Kincaid
Speaker 4: and Sam Laporta. So why the hell was I going
Speaker 4: to draft block Powers?
Speaker 1: Because Bowers is maybe now tight end one in the
Speaker 1: Dynasty arguably fair, but still where where is? But by
Speaker 1: the way, something that people actually care about? Where would
Speaker 1: you guys like Bowers the rest of season now amongst
Speaker 1: tight ends?
Speaker 4: Like I know, okay, only Travis Kelcey for me.
Speaker 1: Fits You've been like higher than anybody on Bauers, Like
Speaker 1: in terms of redrafting, everybody was hiring him in Dynasty,
Speaker 1: but you were all in on him even in redraft
Speaker 1: this year relative to consensus. Where do you see him now?
Speaker 1: Rest of season?
Speaker 3: I have him, I have him three behind Kittle and Kelsey,
Speaker 3: But man, it is hard to parse those three.
Speaker 2: I think they're all really close.
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Speaker 1: get into that Super Bowl rematch. You know, a matchup
Speaker 1: we've seen a couple of times now in recent years.
Speaker 1: Chiefs at forty nine ers, you know, a little less
Speaker 1: juice to this one than maybe in some of the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. But it still just feels like
Speaker 1: a cool matchup seeing these two teams go against each other.
Speaker 1: You know, Kyle Shanahan, Patrick Mahomes, just all the stars
Speaker 1: in this game. Still looking forward to this one a
Speaker 1: lot in the late window. Brandon Nyuk has just one
Speaker 1: game this season with at least fifty receiving yards. He's
Speaker 1: only finished inside the top forty receivers in one week
Speaker 1: on the entire year, Yet he's still ranked as wide
Speaker 1: receiver seventeen in our half PPR Expert Consensus Rankings four
Speaker 1: Week seven. So is this the week that he gets
Speaker 1: going fits?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The issue with Ayuk is that he is just not
Speaker 3: a target hog. He's a really good player, but even
Speaker 3: last year, when he was a thirteen hundred yard receiver,
Speaker 3: he only averaged six point six targets a game. Ayuk
Speaker 3: has had two games with double digit targets this season,
Speaker 3: four games with five or fewer targets, and the two
Speaker 3: games where he had double digit targets came against the
Speaker 3: Cardinals and the Rams, two of the worst pass defenses
Speaker 3: in the league. The Chiefs pass defense not among the
Speaker 3: worst pass defenses in the league. So I'm below consensus
Speaker 3: on him at wide receiver twenty one.
Speaker 1: Do you hear? What do you think? Again? He hasn't
Speaker 1: been inside the top forty much of this season, yet
Speaker 1: he's ranked inside the top twenty in ECR.
Speaker 4: He shouldn't be ranked that high. I'm pulling on my ranking.
Speaker 4: I'm low on Ayuk this week. I've got him at
Speaker 4: wide receiver twenty five, and honestly, I feel like I
Speaker 4: need to drop him. Yeah, I'm gonna drop him more, by.
Speaker 1: The way, by the way I say, and that he
Speaker 1: is actually wide receiver eighteen. Looks like he dropped between
Speaker 1: what I put together the outline. Still in the side
Speaker 1: the top twenty, but he is one spot lower.
Speaker 4: Than before wide receiver twenty nine, and I think he
Speaker 4: should be looked at as a mid to low range
Speaker 4: wide receiver three. This week, the cover shell matchup is
Speaker 4: terrible for him. I mean, Kansas City's running the second
Speaker 4: highest rate of too high right now on sixty seven
Speaker 4: percent of the defensive snaps. I Yuke's numbers against two high.
Speaker 4: He's always been San Francisco's single high beater. That's the
Speaker 4: games you see I you go off in and I
Speaker 4: write about this in the primer constantly, is that their
Speaker 4: splits between two high and single high are massive, so
Speaker 4: debos should be their go to this week. I Yuke's
Speaker 4: numbers against two high this year fifteen percent target chair
Speaker 4: one point one yards per route run, so not good.
Speaker 4: You need to sit Ayuk this week.
Speaker 1: It's where did you say you have Iu cranked twenty one? Okay,
Speaker 1: so lower than consentus, but not quite as low as
Speaker 1: as deep bro. I did want to sneak in a
Speaker 1: second question on this matchup with a different wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I just feel like we have to talk about Juju
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster seven catches for one hundred and thirty thirty
Speaker 1: yards to the last time we saw the Chiefs play. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they're coming off of bye so are we kind of
Speaker 1: treating Juju for the time being as Casey's wide receiver one?
Speaker 1: Or coming out of the bye week, do we think
Speaker 1: we're going to see rookie wide receiver Savior Worthy take
Speaker 1: a larger role in the offense. We do often see
Speaker 1: that with talented rookies coming off a bye. I've been
Speaker 1: talking about it all week. That's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: kind of profiles of players. To go after in trades
Speaker 1: is is you know, highly drafted rookies coming out of
Speaker 1: their bye week. So Deebra, how do you see that
Speaker 1: plan out? Do you think that this is kind of
Speaker 1: Juju's receiving room right now or do you expect to
Speaker 1: see more out of Worthy?
Speaker 4: I expect to see more out of Worthy and Juju
Speaker 4: also popping up with a late week hammy issue he
Speaker 4: was limited in practice on Thursday, doesn't look great for
Speaker 4: his outlook. I still think as of right now that
Speaker 4: he plays, but we do still have to take note
Speaker 4: of that the difference between Juju he walked away last
Speaker 4: week with a huge box score, but looking at the
Speaker 4: minute show of the numbers an eighteen percent first read
Speaker 4: chare he wasn't the go to. It was Kelsey and
Speaker 4: actually Exavier Worthy at a twenty seven percent first read here.
Speaker 4: So while the box score don't didn't look great for
Speaker 4: Examer Worthy, when Patrick Mahomes was dropping back, he was
Speaker 4: actually looking in Worthies direction more than he was looking
Speaker 4: for Juju Jujuju just happened to be open more last week.
Speaker 4: So I am higher, probably maybe a little bit than
Speaker 4: consensus about Xavier Worthy and his outlook. Rest of the season,
Speaker 4: and maybe a little bit more tepping on Juju considering
Speaker 4: the hamstring issue and some of the deeper numbers from
Speaker 4: last week.
Speaker 1: It's a good point on Juju week together this outline
Speaker 1: before that late week injury popped up? Are are they playing?
Speaker 1: Tool on fantasypros dot Com gives him a forty seven
Speaker 1: percent chance to play right now. That's one of our
Speaker 1: new tools. So it is slightly on the pessimistic side
Speaker 1: of Juju playing this week given that late week you
Speaker 1: know pop up of the injury fits what what do
Speaker 1: you think about this one? And maybe you can take
Speaker 1: a longer term view if we don't expect Juju to
Speaker 1: play this week, but kind of how do you see
Speaker 1: this this receiver room panning out for as long as
Speaker 1: you know this is these are the guys they have healthy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the late week injury designation is bad because I'm
Speaker 3: gonna have to pull him out of a lot of
Speaker 3: lineups because I picked him up pretty much everywhere, Like
Speaker 3: I think he's their wide receiver one going forward.
Speaker 2: I'd rather have him than Savi. You're worthy.
Speaker 3: So Juju is now in the Rashi Rice role as
Speaker 3: the short area receiver for Kansas City and this has
Speaker 3: been a valuable role, and Juju actually had it before
Speaker 3: Rashi Rice came in in twenty twenty three and proved
Speaker 3: to be a big upgrade over Juju. But in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, Juju had seventy eight catches for nine hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty three yards. So I think like seventy eight
Speaker 3: for nine to thirty three is the sort of pace
Speaker 3: we're going to see for Juju the rest of the way.
Speaker 3: And that's about seventy five percent of what Rashi Rice
Speaker 3: can give you. But seventy five percent of Rashi Rice
Speaker 3: is still a guy you're starting every week.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our next matchup here, Sunday eight Football
Speaker 1: Jets at Steelers. This one's pretty obvious. Fits will start
Speaker 1: with you, what are expectations for the startable Jets players
Speaker 1: in week one now that DeVante Adams is going to
Speaker 1: be joining them?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, Well, Adams is the most interesting case here. And
Speaker 3: I know in our start shit show earlier this week,
Speaker 3: worm Ericson was telling us how he thinks Adams is
Speaker 3: going to get peppered with targets right from the get go.
Speaker 3: I'm not as sure about that, Like, I don't know
Speaker 3: what the usage is going to be. I do tend
Speaker 3: to think Garrett Wilson is still going to lead the
Speaker 3: Jets and targets this week, but we'll see. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 3: Adams and Aaron Rodgers have a long and successful history together.
Speaker 3: I don't know, like, do we think the DeVante Adams
Speaker 3: hamstring injury was complete fiction? Because that's kind of the
Speaker 3: key of it. Actually, if there was something to it,
Speaker 3: maybe Adams doesn't play a full compliment of snaps. But
Speaker 3: if that was, you know, just a non injury meant
Speaker 3: to force a trade, then maybe we see Adams get
Speaker 3: like in a snapshare north of eighty percent. So that's
Speaker 3: kind of the key. And you know, hopefully the good
Speaker 3: game against the Bills on Monday night gets breeze Hall going.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you guys about this, what do we
Speaker 3: think DeVante Adams tells for Aaron Rodgers in fantasy? Like,
Speaker 3: is there any chance that with Garrett Wilson and DeVante
Speaker 3: Adams is his top two receivers like Rogers could flirt
Speaker 3: with low end QB one value the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: I would say yes, I don't know that I would
Speaker 1: rank him as a lower QB one, but I think
Speaker 1: the way you phrase it as flirting with that kind
Speaker 1: of value, I do think that. I mean, and I
Speaker 1: know that he's we kind of make fun of it
Speaker 1: a lot, but like Alan Lazard is not a bad
Speaker 1: wide receiver three, especially given his chemistry with Rogers, and
Speaker 1: so if he's behind now two guys that can play
Speaker 1: at a superstar level theoretically, you know, plus you know,
Speaker 1: passing the hall and just all of it, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think he's in that range of could
Speaker 1: very conceivably in any given week finish in the as
Speaker 1: a back half QB one.
Speaker 4: What do you think to you, bro, Yeah, I think
Speaker 4: he's He's in that that long tier of guys like
Speaker 4: the Jared Golfs, the Kirk Cousins of the world guys
Speaker 4: were Caleb Williams lately guys were were ranking somewhere between
Speaker 4: QB ten and QB fifteen ish. So yeah, I think
Speaker 4: he's gonna be on the fringe of that in a
Speaker 4: lot of different weeks. And probably it's going to pretend
Speaker 4: like the the matchup is it better for the ground
Speaker 4: game versus the passing game, and kind of like where
Speaker 4: we're we divving up touchdowns this week? If it's more
Speaker 4: towards the passing game, then yeah, I could see Rogers
Speaker 4: weeks moving forward, or we're ranking him as a top
Speaker 4: twelve quarterback. I think that Adams just it's it's the
Speaker 4: tide that raises all ships, man like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me like one thing to add one of
Speaker 3: the reasons I was not really interested in Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: coming into this season. I thought the Jets defense was
Speaker 3: going to be so good that, like Rogers just wasn't
Speaker 3: going to play in many shootouts, you know, like the
Speaker 3: Jets would put them in a lot of favorable scripts
Speaker 3: with their defense. But the Jets defense has not been
Speaker 3: as good as I thought, which means maybe there's a
Speaker 3: little more yardage upside for Aaron Rodgers than I thought.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think that's definitely. Because the thing about the
Speaker 4: Jets is you don't want to attack their secondary, but
Speaker 4: that's fine. You can run on this defense. Their run
Speaker 4: defense is not great, so depending on how teams attack
Speaker 4: them and saying like look like, okay, find your secondary
Speaker 4: is really stinking good. Okay, let's avoid the corners. It's
Speaker 4: user tight ends, so let's run the dang ball. People
Speaker 4: can have success if you have a good enough offensive
Speaker 4: line against the Jets defense right now, staying away from
Speaker 4: their secondary. So I don't disagree fit's a and just
Speaker 4: for the laughs, I do have DeVante Adams ranked over
Speaker 4: Garrett Wilson. I'm kind of in the ericson bucket here.
Speaker 4: I think that there's too much rapport here and basically,
Speaker 4: if they were walking into a situation, I mean, let's
Speaker 4: be real here, other people are calling the plays right now.
Speaker 4: For the Jets. They're still using the Nathaniel Hackett Aaron Rodgers' playbook,
Speaker 4: which is basically DeVante Adams knows for years, years and years.
Speaker 4: So I think this is much more of a seamless
Speaker 4: kind of transition for Adams and more of a you know,
Speaker 4: updated nomenclature for the playbook this year, but still the
Speaker 4: same old, tried and true plays like let's just play
Speaker 4: the hits this week and go out there and ball DeVante.
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson's wide receiver nineteen and half PPR ECR and
Speaker 1: DeVante Adams wide receiver twenty seven. So there's a bit
Speaker 1: of a gap there across the industry. Deeber I talked
Speaker 1: about this a little bit in a show earlier the week,
Speaker 1: but what I really love is the idea of them
Speaker 1: using DeVante Adams in this week, particularly in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know that he's going to get a
Speaker 1: huge workload overall, but I think if when he's on
Speaker 1: the field, it will be in kind of those high
Speaker 1: leverage moments. I think when they're near the end zone,
Speaker 1: and I would not be surprised to see him catch
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Like I think that's where if he's going
Speaker 1: to make an immediate impact, like maybe he was a
Speaker 1: little banked up with the hamstring working his way back in.
Speaker 1: I think that's where they use him his anytime touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Plus one fifty five I like quite a bit on Drafted.
Speaker 1: It's plus funny, right, I thought, you're right now because
Speaker 1: minus so I'm looking right now. Plus one fifty five
Speaker 1: on DraftKings first touchdown score, which I love too. You
Speaker 1: know Rogers is gonna want to go to him right away.
Speaker 1: Plus eight hundred.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm betting right now. I'm betting right now.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm already looking forward to seeing an Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 3: back shoulder throat to Devonte Adams again I've missed.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is an absolutely the only reason they
Speaker 1: wouldn't go to him, Like the absolute first play that
Speaker 1: they can in the red zone is if the Steelers
Speaker 1: like triple team him because they know it's coming to
Speaker 1: like you know that Rogers wants to force feed the
Speaker 1: ball to Adams to get him a touchdown.
Speaker 4: Especially like you know, I mean they're making the move
Speaker 4: to justify the move and to get you know, all
Speaker 4: the good feels rolling like immediately. Yes, I agree with everything.
Speaker 4: So I'm running to bet this right now. And I
Speaker 4: do have just two notes, Davante Adams. I have at
Speaker 4: wide receiver, where are you at, Davonte wide receiver eighteen?
Speaker 4: And I've got Garrett Wilson at wide receiver twenty as
Speaker 4: well as Davante is practicing in full all week right now,
Speaker 4: so I think he's gonna be a full go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I expect that as well. Let's go to there's
Speaker 1: another doubleheader for Monday night football. They are doing a
Speaker 1: ton of these this year. Ravens Bucks is one of
Speaker 1: these games. Two very explosive offenses playing you know, really well,
Speaker 1: tons of fantasy starters in this game. So rather than
Speaker 1: kind of break down all the matchups, because I think
Speaker 1: the matchups are pretty much good across the board. Given
Speaker 1: the offenses and the defenses they're going against. Outside of
Speaker 1: the running backs facing the Ravens run defense, pretty much
Speaker 1: everything else in this game, I expect to favor the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the things. So let's just have some fun.
Speaker 1: I want you guys to predict one player each who
Speaker 1: will score multiple touchdowns in this one, not including quarterbacks. Obviously,
Speaker 1: fifty can go first. Who is one player in Ravens
Speaker 1: Bucks who will score multiple times this week?
Speaker 3: How about the guy who scored multiple touchdowns last week?
Speaker 3: Chris Godwin eleven catches for one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 3: in a pair of tids against the Saints last Sunday.
Speaker 3: Godwin has turned into this red zone machine, which is
Speaker 3: kind of funny. He's already got five tds on the season,
Speaker 3: which is as many as he had in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: two and twenty twenty three combined. So let's let's give
Speaker 3: Chris Godwin two more this week.
Speaker 1: Deebro, I saw you nodding. Was that your pick or
Speaker 1: did you disagree?
Speaker 4: Oh? That was that was the pick that I was
Speaker 4: going to go with. Also adding in here Baltimore versus
Speaker 4: slot wide receivers, they have allowed the fifth most receiving
Speaker 4: touchdowns to the slot. But I was going to go
Speaker 4: with Godwin here, But also I do want to mention,
Speaker 4: if you want to go further down the page, I
Speaker 4: think the really fun pick here is Kate Auton Baltimore
Speaker 4: has been having a tough time guarding titands this year,
Speaker 4: giving out the most receiving yards and the tenth most
Speaker 4: fantasy points. If we were going to go off the
Speaker 4: page here a little bit, and it's not Godwin at
Speaker 4: really like Kate Otten this week.
Speaker 2: Look at the hurt on Worm's face that we didn't
Speaker 2: pick Derek.
Speaker 1: No, I think I think it's reasonable to not pick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what's his touchdown onds this week?
Speaker 1: I'm sure betting he gets one, you know two. I
Speaker 1: don't know they like to get him as one. I
Speaker 1: mean he could easy, Yeah, you get to I almost
Speaker 1: kind of wanted to pick somebody like like Mark Andrews,
Speaker 1: just to like go completely like you know, you know
Speaker 1: it's has been.
Speaker 4: Bad to see is not weird enough for your worm? Well?
Speaker 2: No not. I was gonna say, if we're picking Kate
Speaker 2: Mark and I thought.
Speaker 1: You guys are gonna pick Mike Evans, which is what
Speaker 1: would have been my pick, but I thought he was
Speaker 1: really I do think it was fascinating. I'm not hurt
Speaker 1: by it. I think it's interesting that all three of
Speaker 1: us are first instinct were Bucks players, not the team
Speaker 1: that's favored. So the Ravens I think are length three
Speaker 1: and a half. Do you guys think that the Bucks
Speaker 1: cover that? Then, if we're all kind of leaning towards
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay players to score multiple touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I've got Baker a lot. I don't
Speaker 4: know if they cover it, but it's it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a hell of a game.
Speaker 2: No, I bet the Ravens well.
Speaker 1: Then, then which Ravens is gonna get two touchdowns? Fits
Speaker 1: probably Flowers Flowers, the answer could be, the answer is
Speaker 1: probably Lamar Jackson if anybody other than Derrick Henry.
Speaker 4: We spent way too much time talking about the Ravens.
Speaker 1: Now we did half the segment of the bus. I
Speaker 1: do think that's an awesome game. Like, I think both
Speaker 1: the offenses are going to score a ton. That's gonna
Speaker 1: be a really fun one.
Speaker 4: So definitely, any any of the Ravens players you want
Speaker 4: to mention here, worm, I think we've kind of covered
Speaker 4: the entire skill position roster.
Speaker 2: Charlie Cole.
Speaker 1: I used to say all Mark Andrews as a joke
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson as he wasn't eligible, but as serious
Speaker 1: Ala Wallace.
Speaker 4: No, okay, sorry, moving.
Speaker 1: On, None of the none of the receivers would be
Speaker 1: actually actually you know you know who the real pick.
Speaker 4: Oh, here we go, see.
Speaker 1: The real pick is. Here's the thing about the Ravens.
Speaker 1: They don't typically do like the one guy outside of
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry like gets all the touchdowns. They spread it
Speaker 1: around when they get in close. If it is one guy,
Speaker 1: it's Isaiah Likely who I don't think that'll happen, but
Speaker 1: he's probably the guy if we're being real. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to Chargers at Cardinals. Before we get into
Speaker 1: the key question for Monday Night's matchup, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you guys about your Uber Eats Monday Night Meals
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Speaker 4: Dude, I'm gonna channel my best Ryan Reynolds in my
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Speaker 1: On, it's zzy. You were very excited when we were
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Speaker 4: Almost wore my Deadpool onesie on this show just because
Speaker 4: of that almost.
Speaker 1: What do you think of? What do you think of Arizona?
Speaker 3: I keep hearing about how good Pizzeria Bianco is in
Speaker 3: the Phoenix Scottsdale area, and I've never had it, but
Speaker 3: I've heard a lot of people say it is the
Speaker 3: you know, just an A plus pizzeria, so I would
Speaker 3: love to try that.
Speaker 1: I don't have a ton of knowledge about Arizona cuisine,
Speaker 1: and the first thing I think of immediately is just
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's really excellent Mexican food there that I
Speaker 1: would be happy to to.
Speaker 4: The way always.
Speaker 1: But when I googled it, the first thing that popped
Speaker 1: up of top foods you must eat in Arizona is
Speaker 1: fry bread, which I don't know what that is, but
Speaker 1: it's two of my favorite things are fried food and bread,
Speaker 1: So I am all in trying out fry bet bread
Speaker 1: the next time i'm there. But yeah, there's the big
Speaker 1: two that releasted when I googled it, Arizona Zone for
Speaker 1: fried bread and the invention of Chimney Changa's. So Debro
Speaker 1: already took the other one. But yeah, very if anybody
Speaker 1: knows what fried bread is, drop it in the comments.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure I could google it, but it
Speaker 1: sounds very good to me. There, you guys have it.
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Speaker 1: last game on the slate. Kind of a you know,
Speaker 1: pessimistic question to end on what's wrong with Kyler Murray?
Speaker 1: I know Kyler is somebody that you've talked about Debro
Speaker 1: a couple of times on the show this season. QB
Speaker 1: fifteen or worse in four out of his six games
Speaker 1: played so far in twenty twenty four. Is Kyler a
Speaker 1: starting option in fantasy against what has been a good
Speaker 1: Chargers defense? Where are we getting kind of further and
Speaker 1: further away of believing in Kyler.
Speaker 4: Kyler is a mid range QB two, and I might
Speaker 4: actually bump him to a low range QB two. It's
Speaker 4: the rushing is saving him, and two really good games
Speaker 4: are saving when people look at his season long stuff.
Speaker 4: It really lies to you. If you have Kyler Murray
Speaker 4: on any fantasy teams, you already know the pain that
Speaker 4: I'm about to discuss. He's been arguably and this honestly
Speaker 4: was last year too. I talked about this, and I
Speaker 4: was hoping for better returns this year, but he was
Speaker 4: arguably terrible as a passer last year and we've seen
Speaker 4: much of the same this year. Thirty seven qualif find quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Kyler Murray thirty second in yards per attempt nineteenth. In
Speaker 4: CPOE he is thirty six. There is only one quarterback
Speaker 4: worse than Kyler Murray as far as highly accurate throw rate.
Speaker 4: So all I can say, if you're starting Kyler Murray
Speaker 4: this week, you better hope he runs because the passing
Speaker 4: has been wolf this year.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this de row before throwing
Speaker 1: into fits. So I'm in a guillotine league with a
Speaker 1: couple of our coworkers at work, and I have Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray as my quarterback. So in a format like that,
Speaker 1: would you view that situation as I need to prioritize
Speaker 1: spending my fab dollars on a different quarterback. Okay, you
Speaker 1: don't believe that he's going to kind of come together
Speaker 1: later in the season.
Speaker 4: Okay, Nope, you need to get it. You need to
Speaker 4: get a quarterback that's that's actually hashtag good because it
Speaker 4: ain't Kyler fits.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you make of Kyler? Is
Speaker 1: there kind of anything you can identify that's been going
Speaker 1: wrong from this year? What do you expect rests of season?
Speaker 1: How are you evaluating the situation? And also, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of the matchup against the charg.
Speaker 3: Guillotine is probably the worst format for Kyler because he
Speaker 3: is wildly inconsistent, and that is just a hallmark of Kyler.
Speaker 3: And it always has been, like I've had Kyler in
Speaker 3: a couple of dynasty leagues and if you like follow him,
Speaker 3: and maybe you're not watching the game, you'll you'll see
Speaker 3: at halftime he's got like four Fantasy points and you're like,
Speaker 3: what's going on with Kyler? And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: by the end of the day, I'll have like twenty
Speaker 3: four Fantasy points. He is just game to game, half
Speaker 3: to half, wildly inconsistent.
Speaker 2: Debro is right.
Speaker 3: He is not a very good pure passer and he's
Speaker 3: not really a consistent runner. He's not the sort of
Speaker 3: guy who just delivers the goods with rushing week in
Speaker 3: week out, like Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 2: Just not that kind of guy. So yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 3: Feels like the numbers should be better because by most metrics,
Speaker 3: the protection has been okay for Kyler and he's got
Speaker 3: pretty decent weaponry now with Marvin Harrison Junior. Granted, you know,
Speaker 3: missed most of the Packers game last week with the
Speaker 3: concussion Trey McBride, but yeah, that Debro mentioned it. Like
Speaker 3: Kyler has averaged six point seven yards or fewer per
Speaker 3: pass attempt against every team he's played this season, against
Speaker 3: the Rams, who have one of the worst pass defenses
Speaker 3: in the league, even against the Commanders he didn't play
Speaker 3: all that well, So it hasn't been catastrophic though, Like
Speaker 3: he's had a couple of bangers, a couple of games
Speaker 3: with twenty plus points and everyone was ready to dump
Speaker 3: on him two weeks ago, and he played the forty
Speaker 3: nine Ers and wound up having a really good day.
Speaker 3: So man, in some ways, you almost have to just
Speaker 3: leave him in there and know they're going to be
Speaker 3: some bad weeks and good weeks and it's not even
Speaker 3: predictable based on opponents sometimes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, deeb R, I saw you mentioned in the chat
Speaker 1: here two games under fifteen rushing yards. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: not what you think of with Kyler.
Speaker 3: No, by the way, I've got him, I've got him
Speaker 3: ranked as a low end QB one. I'm just kind
Speaker 3: of like, that's my assessment of him. He is a
Speaker 3: low ENQB one and I'm just sticking him there every week,
Speaker 3: and I know I'm gonna be like, way too low
Speaker 3: some weeks and way too high.
Speaker 4: I'll throw this out there for people. This week, I
Speaker 4: would play Trevor Lawrence over Kyler Murray. This week I
Speaker 4: would play Anthony Richardson over Kyler Murray. I have no
Speaker 4: faith in Kyler Murray at all.
Speaker 2: I can get on with a rich but I cannot
Speaker 2: get down with Trevor.
Speaker 4: I just the New England Patriots are a pass funnal
Speaker 4: That's what I'm leaning into.
Speaker 1: Do you guys like that We're still having these doubleheaders
Speaker 1: on Monday Night like this deep into the season. Now.
Speaker 4: I love it for DFS purposes. It's it's wonderful. I
Speaker 4: love two gamers.
Speaker 3: As long as one's kind of a lousy game that
Speaker 3: I can just sort of like check in on during
Speaker 3: commercials and not feel like I'm missing anything on the line.
Speaker 1: I feel like these these could be two good games.
Speaker 1: It's it's the there's a world where it's not doesn't
Speaker 1: play out that way. But like again, I think Ravens
Speaker 1: Bucks is gonna be really explosive like Chargers Cardinals. If
Speaker 1: Kyler is playing well and you know JK. Dobbins is
Speaker 1: running all over the field like that could be a
Speaker 1: fun one too.
Speaker 4: So I think it's gonna be a fun week if
Speaker 4: you're a Chargers fan. I'll put it that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, I do think the Charger is
Speaker 1: gonna win, but we'll see how play is that. We
Speaker 1: will wrap up there. Thanks everybody for tuning in. Best
Speaker 1: of luck in week seven with all of your lineup decisions.
Speaker 1: You can head to Discord and ask us plenty more
Speaker 1: questions if you want. Debro and fits around there pretty
Speaker 1: much all weekend long, so be sure to check that
Speaker 1: out for fits and Debro. I'm Ryan Warmy. Thank you
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