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Speaker 3: Dan Bayer with you.

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Speaker 4: We're pleased to be with you talking about the NFC

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Speaker 4: East for fantasy purposes. Last week we did the AFC East,

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Speaker 4: and you've got Josh Allen, you got eight Chan, you

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Speaker 4: got a couple of heavyweights, and then you've got a

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Speaker 4: bunch of question right well, even going down to Tyreek

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Speaker 4: Hill and guys that had been fantasy heroes in the past,

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Speaker 4: it's what's their role, what's the offense look like?

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Speaker 3: Is discord? Are they still with the team when we

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Speaker 3: actually break camp?

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Speaker 4: Because you still have some of those little rumors floating

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Speaker 4: out there in the NFL world. But when we look

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Speaker 4: at the NFC East, you know, writing down based on

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Speaker 4: where Fantasy pros rankings are on average. Right now for

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Speaker 4: the early draft returns, we've got two quarterbacks in the

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Speaker 4: NFC East coming into the top five. Jaden Daniels coming

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Speaker 4: in at number three, with Jalen Hurts right behind him.

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Speaker 4: I might have them flipped. And there's something with Washington

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Speaker 4: that in terms of they're over under win total and successes,

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Speaker 4: while Daniels may be a better, more efficient quarterback to

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Speaker 4: the numbers, wins and everything else follow.

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Speaker 3: Not to mention the.

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Speaker 4: Terry McLaurin part of the equation right just sitting out there,

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Speaker 4: he's currently ADP wide receiver seventeen in PPR leagues and

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Speaker 4: he's very unhappy with his contract not showing up now

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Speaker 4: does that settle of that more likely than not, but

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Speaker 4: it does add a wrinkle to things. For a team

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Speaker 4: that greatly overachieved. They bring in Deebo Samuel as his

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Speaker 4: you're looking at a guy like Jaden Daniels.

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Speaker 3: I don't think I'm paying the tax.

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Speaker 1: You're not. I am, and I am paying a lot

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Speaker 5: And the reason being is I think that that Daniels

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Speaker 5: gets his points for Washington fantasy wise, whether they're winning

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Speaker 5: last year transpired, it was a mostly successful year for Washington,

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Speaker 1: They had their field goal.

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Speaker 5: Fest against the Giants that they ended up winning, but

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Speaker 5: you had Jaden Daniels doing some damage with his legs

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Speaker 5: at that point. That still continued, Mike, but he wasn't

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Speaker 5: So that to me is whether Washington is up or down.

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Speaker 5: And they may be ten and seven this year, they

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Speaker 5: I don't know how it doesn't change for Jaden Daniels.

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Speaker 5: And the additions that they made Laramie Tounsel now at

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Speaker 5: you're not giving the football to somebody who you just

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Speaker 5: So I'm higher. You're high on Jayden Daniels, don't get

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Speaker 5: me wrong, but I still would take him over Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 3: Be that guy. He condus to push that so that

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Speaker 4: DeVante Smith coming into twenty three, so it's fantasy starters.

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Speaker 1: The only way that they're gonna win any games.

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Speaker 4: the room, we continue our fantasy previews, going division by division.

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Speaker 4: We look at the AFC West and the tea's was

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Speaker 4: a star losing twenty five pounds. Will it make him

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Speaker 4: a better fantasy player? For myself, I think my brain's

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Speaker 4: my twenty twenty five prognostication. When we get to the

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Speaker 4: You can find all old episodes up wherever you get

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Speaker 4: your podcast. As Dan and I and our guy Ian

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Speaker 4: Roddy get back into the lab. But according to reports

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Speaker 5: But I think just the optics of being like, I've

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Speaker 5: I don't know this division, Mike, just as a whole

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Speaker 1: That's no diffist.

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Speaker 4: But the Raiders with two guys in the top five

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Speaker 4: And then justin Herbert at eleven, I head of Gino

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Speaker 5: their offenses. Let's go Bijon Saquan and Jimior Gibbs, but

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Speaker 5: We're still wondering if Derek Henry's gonna fall off a

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Speaker 4: Guy rising up. Everywhere else, we're looking at guys like

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Speaker 4: It's like, that's not how they want to play. You

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Speaker 5: So how much does that help justin Herbert? Probably not

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Speaker 4: Right, Jagie Harris will fall forward for three point eight,

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Speaker 5: And there's only so many stats per game, you know,

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Speaker 4: to do big things at nan Byron Fox. Find me

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Speaker 4: over at Swollendome. You hear Dan during the week on

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Speaker 4: The Gottlieb Show, as well as Cavino and Rich and

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Speaker 4: here with me on Sunday mornings as we traverse the

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Speaker 4: sporting universe.