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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What is up,

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Speaker 1: straight Fire, Fam, It's me Jason McIntyre. Special episode of

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Speaker 1: Straight Fire Labor Day Weekend. We've got a tremendous guest,

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Speaker 1: Matthew Berry, with all your fantasy football needs. I have

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Speaker 1: me and my son have four drafts. Four this weekend.

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Speaker 1: It is gonna be crazy bonkers. Were actually out of

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Speaker 1: Matthew Berry the perfect guest to get you through your

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Speaker 1: NFL drafts. Um it's a long interview. Matthew is goes

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Speaker 1: deep beyond. He names three guys I don't even know

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Speaker 1: exist on the fantasy realm. So there's a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about college football next week. Congrats on the

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Speaker 1: twelve team expansion college football. We're all happy for We're

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Speaker 1: all here for it. But without further ado, let's get

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Speaker 1: to our guest, Matthew Berry of NBC Sports. Jason likes

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Speaker 1: to think he knows everything when it comes to sports.

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Speaker 1: I know what sports stance want, but for everything he doesn't.

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Speaker 1: He knows a guy who does. Let's just say I

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Speaker 1: All right, let's welcome into straight Fire a special guest.

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Speaker 1: He's the pre eminent fantasy football voice in America. He's

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Speaker 1: also been in a movie with Robert Downey Jr. I

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Speaker 1: one of the most talked about guys in sports media

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Speaker 1: over the last month because he left ESPN, left ESPN four,

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Speaker 1: NBC Peacock. He's gonna be on Sunday Night Football. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's everywhere. Matthew Berry, what's up? Man? Life is good?

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Speaker 1: My friend, life is good. I'm it's you know, it's August.

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Speaker 1: It's busy. Obviously, I'm an account in its tax season.

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Speaker 1: But I've never been happier. Man, life is great. Geez,

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Speaker 1: you get get out, you leave the Death Star in Bristol, Connecticut,

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Speaker 1: and you move over to NBC and I'm listen. I

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Speaker 1: read the great column. Um, you brought your column from

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Speaker 1: ESPN NBC. I read it about the move. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: everybody reads the column so they don't need the background.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just curious. Were there moments where your stomach

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Speaker 1: a thousand per ESPN was my home for fifty years

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Speaker 1: I feel like, as as really specifically to ESPN Fantasy

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Speaker 1: And so I'm really proud of at and you know,

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Speaker 1: Fantasy when I got there was you know, behind a paywall,

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Speaker 1: And by the time I left, it was you know,

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Speaker 1: I said something nice Matthew, I'm gonna go a little

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Speaker 1: against the grain here Fantasy football. Where are you most

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Speaker 1: against the market of any player, preferably at the top

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Speaker 1: higher on Jalen Hurts this year than I am. I

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Speaker 1: get work. He's gonna get the early down work. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna get the red line and go the red zone

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Speaker 1: and goal line stuff. They'll use Pollard more in the

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Speaker 1: passing game, especially because Helps not healthy yet, they lost

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Speaker 1: Amrii Cooper and Cedric Wilson. It's really just Ceedee Lamb.

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Speaker 1: So I think you'll see more of a more balanced

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Speaker 1: offenses here. I think they'll use Pollard in the passing game.

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Speaker 1: Pollard played some wide receiver in college. But Zeke's still

430
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Speaker 1: gonna wind up with sixteen to eighteen touches a game

431
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Speaker 1: on one of the better offenses in football Tyrone Smith's injury.

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Speaker 1: That is not ideal. Of course, Again, Zeke Elliott may

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Speaker 1: average three point five yards for carrying like it may

434
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Speaker 1: not be pretty, it may not be efficient, but just

435
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Speaker 1: because of the volume and the goal line work that

436
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Speaker 1: he's gonna get, he's gonna get a thousand yards. He's

437
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Speaker 1: gonna get ted touchdowns. He's like there's a floor with

438
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Speaker 1: Zeke and at full health, like he could easily be

439
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Speaker 1: a top ten guy. Right, So I'm I'm in on

440
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Speaker 1: Zeke this year again at his a DP I don't

441
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Speaker 1: love or hate players. I love or hate where they're

442
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Speaker 1: getting drafted. And for Ezekiel Elliott, to your point, to

443
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Speaker 1: be only be a couple of spots ahead of Breee Hall,

444
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Speaker 1: maybe around ahead of Breee Hall. Uh, you know, round

445
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Speaker 1: and a half to me, Like, give me a guy

446
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Speaker 1: that's proven on an offense. Whatever you think of Dallas Jason,

447
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 1: you don't think they're you don't think they're equal to

448
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Speaker 1: the Jets. They're gonna be a much better offense to

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Speaker 1: the Jet definitely. Um, all right, we could wrap up

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Speaker 1: with this, Matthew. So you know last year I ended

451
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Speaker 1: up losing in the championship because I, first of all,

452
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Speaker 1: alm Ross st Brown went off for this guy. And

453
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Speaker 1: I'll say this, I know a lot of people think

454
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Speaker 1: you win with the draft, like you really went with

455
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Speaker 1: the waiver wire in late season. Bullshit, because I know

456
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Speaker 1: this guy who beat me Justin Jackson the week before,

457
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Speaker 1: like the backup to Heckler is Austin Ekeler had like

458
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Speaker 1: a huge game and then ambros st Brown destroyed me

459
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: in the championship game like a jackass. I bench Boston

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Speaker 1: Scott for for Ronald Jones, who did nothing against the

461
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Speaker 1: pathetic Bengals. Anyways, I'm not angry. I'm not angry. Um yeah, yeah,

462
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Speaker 1: I'm over what is the state of play right now?

463
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Speaker 1: Matthew around late round flyers like backups who could pop

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Speaker 1: ambros st Brown was like a mid season guy justin Jackson,

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Speaker 1: Boston Scott like a foreman I had on my bench

466
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Speaker 1: last year. That the backup for Derrick Henry. I think, UM,

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Speaker 1: give me some late round names that not everybody in

468
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Speaker 1: their mom is on when they google late round fantasy

469
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Speaker 1: flyers or whatever. Yeah, I mean that's the That's the challenge,

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Speaker 1: of course, is right? Is that, Like there's so much

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Speaker 1: and there's so much coverage that it's hard to do that.

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Speaker 1: But I will do that, and I think you're absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: What I would say in general, very quickly is that

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Speaker 1: the that your draft is a blueprint. You don't need

475
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Speaker 1: to leave the draft of the team that you're gonna

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Speaker 1: start every week, week in, week out, because that's impossible.

477
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Speaker 1: Ben if you have full health of everyone, and even

478
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Speaker 1: if you nail every draft pick, the fact is is

479
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Speaker 1: that there's gonna be bi weeks, so your team is

480
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Speaker 1: always a work in progress and there are always guys

481
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Speaker 1: like you mentioned a moan Ross st Brown, Jalen Widdle

482
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Speaker 1: had a huge year. Justin Jackson the one the one

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Speaker 1: week that Eckler was out with COVID, he had that

484
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Speaker 1: big game. But right, but there's also like even like

485
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Speaker 1: think about DeVante Freeman, who a year ago this time

486
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,159
Speaker 1: was sitting on his couch hoping for a gig, but

487
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Speaker 1: then the you know, the Ravens called him and from

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Speaker 1: weeks nine through four I'm sorry, weeks nine through uh,

489
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Speaker 1: I think twelve or thirteen last year, it was like

490
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Speaker 1: a top sixteen fantasy running back, like DeVonta Freeman. There

491
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Speaker 1: was about a month there in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: season where DeVonta Freeman was useful, and so there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be pockets like that. You know, they were like a

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks last year where Darryll Williams the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: was useful, and so there's always gonna be guys like that.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you Jason that it is uh. It

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Speaker 1: is constant monitoring of the waiver wire and improving your team.

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Speaker 1: Think about Deebo Samuel over the second half of last year.

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Speaker 1: He was fine on the first half, but then he

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Speaker 1: just absolutely crushed down the stretch I I mean, I know, yeah, no, listen,

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Speaker 1: I know people that won their championship with Jared Patterson

502
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Speaker 1: because that's not right. Yeah, but that's what you have

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Speaker 1: to do. I have some names. Okay, you you tell

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Speaker 1: me your guys. So I have an ongoing list in

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Speaker 1: my notes. Whenever I like, here's something on a podcast

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Speaker 1: or TV or seeing on a on a story. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this kid Sharp wide receiver for the Bears,

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Speaker 1: Taj Sharp didn't even make the team. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, I'm not to me. I would much if

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Speaker 1: I'm investing in the Bears passing game for a late round. Guy,

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Speaker 1: give me Cold Comet. They're tight in who's going outside

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Speaker 1: the top twelve of tight ends on Yahoo. I think

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Speaker 1: he's going to get tight and fifteen the last time

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Speaker 1: I look, but he's going way way late. Cold Comet

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Speaker 1: last year had over ninety targets, over sixty receptions, zero touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: Insanely unlucky, just really really unlucky. But I mean like

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Speaker 1: it's he's like the poor man's Kyle Pits. You know

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Speaker 1: we talked about Kyle Pits scored only like the one

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Speaker 1: touchdown last year. Um Cole Commet and meanwhile, the Bears

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Speaker 1: had three other tight ends Jimmy Graham, Jesper They you know,

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Speaker 1: they had a couple of guys. And those three tight

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Speaker 1: ends got thirty four targets and scored six touchdowns on

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Speaker 1: thirty four targets, and Cole Commet had zero on overs,

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Speaker 1: to be exact, So I think Comet is gonna be

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Speaker 1: a has a lot of positive regression. So there's that. Um.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you some names here in terms of in

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Speaker 1: terms of late round running backs, we've already talked about

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Speaker 1: a bunch of them. Uh so you know, um, but

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Speaker 1: you know, I think Kenneth Ganewell is interesting. I think

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Speaker 1: uh Michael Carter is interesting. I think in the PPR league,

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Speaker 1: I think Nahim Hines is interesting. Um. You know some

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Speaker 1: of those guys. You want to throw a name at me,

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Speaker 1: I'll give you an answer. But about okay, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: Uh Josh Palmer l a Chargers. Ye, I was gonna

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Speaker 1: mention him. In terms of wide receivers, I really like No,

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Speaker 1: I like Palm or quite a bit. I like um. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Josh Palmer is great third wide receiver for for the

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Speaker 1: Chargers in games in which either Keenan Allen or Mike

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Speaker 1: Williams missed. Last year, he averaged over sixteen Fantasy points

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Speaker 1: per game, and we expect that offense to take a

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Speaker 1: big step up. I think he's really solidified himself as

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Speaker 1: as the number three. Oh yeah, k j Osborne. Listen

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Speaker 1: to the people are sleeping on the Vikings office and

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Speaker 1: maybe not as much I've been screaming about them for

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Other people have as well. Like

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Speaker 1: last year, Kirk Cousins threw for or for over four

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Speaker 1: thousand yards, was one of six um was one of

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Speaker 1: six quarterbacks. He's one of six quarterbacks in the NFL

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Speaker 1: to throw for over thirty touchdowns and over four thousand

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Speaker 1: yards each of the last two seasons. Here's the other five,

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: and Kirk Cousins. And so Kirk Cousins did this last

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Speaker 1: year thirty three touchdown passes is UM over four thousand

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Speaker 1: yards and the Vikings were bottom fourteen and pass rate

555
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Speaker 1: like they were conservative last year. And now here comes

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Speaker 1: KOC with Wes Phillips from the Ramps McVeigh tree. It's

557
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 1: gonna be a very similar offense, pass first, pass heavy, Jefferson,

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Speaker 1: thelan Osborne, IRV Smith, Dalvin Cook out of the backfield.

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Speaker 1: The Vikings are gonna have a really fun and explosive

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Speaker 1: fantasy friendsent offense. Did I did? I did a column

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Speaker 1: for rotor World dot com and sports edge dot com

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Speaker 1: that published yesterday. My ten lists attend and I attend

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Speaker 1: bold predictions, and one of my bold predictions was a

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Speaker 1: bold prediction, So don't clickbait me here, but this is

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Speaker 1: my bold priction was Kirk Cousins leads the NFL and

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes, I just bet them. And then I love

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. Yeah yeah. And by the way, and also

568
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Speaker 1: one of my other bold predictions was, justin Jefferson has

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Speaker 1: the greatest season ever for a fantasy football wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: It's a bowl. It's a old prediction, but yeah, k

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Speaker 1: j Osborne. Um uh, I will tell you that uh

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Speaker 1: Wandell Robinson of the Giants, they're using him a ton

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Speaker 1: day ball loves the slot, uh lot slot receiver. Ton

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Speaker 1: of targets to Cold Beasley last year, I think a

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Speaker 1: hundred twelve with with the Bills last year. They're using

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Speaker 1: Wandell Robinson. That's a great nugget. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: who that guy is. Honestly, Yeah, he's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: starting slot receiver for the Giants. And like Darius Tony

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Speaker 1: and Kenny Galladay or the other two, and they both

580
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Speaker 1: have have struggled to stay healthy, along with Sterling Shepard

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Speaker 1: and Wandell Robinson is who Dave all took. That's who,

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Speaker 1: you know. He's the only guy in the team of

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Speaker 1: wide receivers that has the starting role that the new

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Speaker 1: regime has brought in. I like, um, actually, you know,

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Speaker 1: we talked about Dallas, Michael Gallant, Michael Dallups going outside

586
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Speaker 1: the top seventy wide receivers. And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he plays Week one, but he's gonna play, you know,

588
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: week two or three. And like he's gonna be the

589
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Speaker 1: number two wide receiver in an offense that we think

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Speaker 1: is gonna be better than average, you know, with a

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Speaker 1: good crack. Um uh, this is not a This is

592
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Speaker 1: not a sleeper by any stretch of the matter. But

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Speaker 1: I think he's going to way too late in drafts.

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Speaker 1: That's Allen Robinson. Never under estimate the importance of getting

595
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: a quarterback upgrade for a wide receiver. The most glaring

596
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Speaker 1: example of that, of course, is Cooper Cup. Last year

597
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: we went from Bared Golf to Matthew Stafford. But Allen

598
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Speaker 1: Robinson's going from Chase Daniel and Nick Foles and Mitch

599
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Speaker 1: Robinski and Andy Dalton and Justin Fields to Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 1: That's the best quarterback he's ever played with. And it's

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Speaker 1: not close. Um, speak of the same thing, Terry McLaurin.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you think of Carson Wentz, Carson Wentz is by

603
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Speaker 1: far the best quarterback that he's ever played with in

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Speaker 1: his career. Um, and Uh, I can tell you that, Uh,

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Speaker 1: Johan Dotson, they love him in Washington. Dots, You're a

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Speaker 1: Washing they love Remember Washington, I do love Washing. Can

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Speaker 1: you have to take that with a grain of salt.

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Speaker 1: But I'll just tell you I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: folks over there, and I'm I'm just telling you ray

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Speaker 1: reviews on Dots and Uma. Fox Sports Radio has the

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Speaker 1: listen live. I'm almost certain that nobody has asked you

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Speaker 1: about this. I'm literally to mention it on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Since people who I'm drafting with listen to the pot

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Speaker 1: to this podcast, Trent Sherfield Miami Dolphins. What do you hear?

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Speaker 1: He has not He has not been mentioned to me,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I have you know, that's an interesting one.

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Speaker 1: The problem with Miami for me is, um, who knows.

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Speaker 1: I mean, right, there's a there's a there's a history

622
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Speaker 1: there um with McDaniel, with Schrfield, But you know, I

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Speaker 1: just I don't know what that offense looks like. I

624
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: think it will be good, and I think it'll be interesting.

625
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Speaker 1: But to me, if I'm investing in the Miami Dolphins

626
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Speaker 1: offense based on both a DP and what I think

627
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Speaker 1: will the role will be, I'm much more interested in

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Speaker 1: Edmonds and most dirt at their a DP than any

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Speaker 1: of the past catchers because I don't know how gets

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Speaker 1: split up between Waddle and Tyreek Hill. And they've got

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Speaker 1: Kasecki and they signed Cedric Wilson, and not that Cedric

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Speaker 1: Wilson is gonna be a fantasy factor, but he's gonna

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Speaker 1: get enough targets that maybe he eats into somebody else's.

634
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Speaker 1: And I just and I'm still not convinced to us.

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Speaker 1: You know, a franchise quarterback. I think a lot of

636
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: people aren't yet, So we just don't know what we're

637
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: gonna get out of tah And I just that one

638
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: just makes me um, makes me nervous. I think Chris

639
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: Olave is really interesting again, given Michael Thomas's health issues,

640
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry is fine, but there's no upside there if

641
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas this time, A lobby is just gonna have

642
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: a monster season. I like guys that you know it,

643
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: you know, the the Ezekiel Elliott of the wide receivers

644
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: that no one ever likes. Is Robert Woods again, Robert

645
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: Woods three years. Yeah, big injury there years or but

646
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: like he's gonna start like he's been. He's been practicing

647
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: in the preseason. He's not. He's not gonna start the

648
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: season on the on the pup list. Apparently is healthy.

649
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: I mean, there was like a percent target share that

650
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: A G. Brown had that he took with him to Philadelphia.

651
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like trailing. Brooks is ready for prime time

652
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: just yet. He's still a work in progress. Like him

653
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:23,520
Speaker 1: over the second half of the year, but at least initially,

654
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: Robert Woods is going to be the guy. Um and

655
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: he's going outside the top forty among wide receivers. Everyone

656
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: wants to talk about Romeo Dobbs, and I like Romeo Dobbs,

657
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: But um, Alan Lazard's gonna be Aaron rodgers number one

658
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: wide receiver and he's being drafted outside the top fifty

659
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: wild receivers on Yahoo. Well, actually Aaron Jones might be

660
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: his number one receiver. That's fair, that's fair. They're gonna

661
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: both guys. I think Dylan and Jones both. The other

662
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,719
Speaker 1: thing is, you know, Matthew, don't you think again? The

663
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: reason I mentioned Sherfield. Miami's schedule is rutal. They play

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Speaker 1: amazing quarterbacks. They're gonna get scored on a lot. They're

665
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: gonna get lit up. I know their secondary was good,

666
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: they're still gonna get and Miami, I think it's gonna

667
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: be playing a lot of catch up. Whereas the opposite

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00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: for the Packers, I think their defense might be the

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00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,399
Speaker 1: best in the league. They're gonna be shutting people down

670
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: and I don't see them having to throw the ball

671
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 1: around a lot. I think the lean on Jones and Dylon,

672
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: But again that's more speculative versus who's gonna actually play right?

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00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: Uh No, listen, I think Jones and Dillon both have big,

674
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: big years. Uh. We did this stat again on Fantasy,

675
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 1: but we'll happy. I'll give a shout out to my show. Um.

676
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 1: But in these seven games, and by the way, also

677
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: of my Love Hate as well, Jones and Dylon both

678
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: made my Love the Love list and I love Hate.

679
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: But there are seven games in the Matt Lafleur era

680
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: in which uh, Aaron Rodgers played and Davanta Adams did not.

681
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: And in those seven games, Aaron Jones average over twenty

682
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,520
Speaker 1: five Fantasy points per game, which last year would have

683
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: been the number one running back in Fantasy average. Jones

684
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,680
Speaker 1: was five targets a game as well, so you know

685
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Speaker 1: there and then A J. Dillon, Like again you heard

686
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur one a and one a. A J. Dillon

687
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: cut thirty four balls last year, which I think people

688
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,959
Speaker 1: were shocked at. People were absolutely shocked at. So uh,

689
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 1: which he proved he could catch the ball, you know,

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00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,879
Speaker 1: and so, um, those are those are some guys. I'll

691
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: give you a couple other quick names here later in

692
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Speaker 1: your draft. I think Isaiah Mackenzie. He's a little bit

693
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,279
Speaker 1: beat up right now, but out of the spot They

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00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: absolutely love him in Buffalo. He's gonna have a I

695
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have a big year. Um uh, listen,

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00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: everyone likes, you know, George Pickens is sort of the uh,

697
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 1: the shining new thing. But I think that's legit. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I like Christian Kirk by the way, that's you're the

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Speaker 1: h You're the guy who likes Kristian Kirk. Well, here's

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00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 1: the thing on Christians, Well, you follow the money. People.

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00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,280
Speaker 1: People are are anti Christian Kirk because they couldn't understand

702
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: why this guy got eighty four million dollars or whatever

703
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: it is. But that's not your money. What do you care?

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00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is exactly. I mean, like

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00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: the preseason game that he played with the starters, he

706
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: got seven targets. Every other pass catcher combined for seven targets.

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00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: Follow the money. Doug Peterson is a former NFL quarterback,

708
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,960
Speaker 1: former Andy reidisciple. Obviously, you know, head coach of the Eagles.

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00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: He's a past first guy. He didn't they didn't bring

710
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:25,120
Speaker 1: in Doug Peterson, former NFL quarterback to have Trevor Lawrence handoff.

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00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,239
Speaker 1: He's gonna be throwing a ton. By the way, that

712
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: team is bad the defense is bad, they're gonna have

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00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: to be throwing a lot. And so Christian Kirk is

714
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: a good wide receiver, and we think Trevor Lawrence is

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00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: a good quarterback. He can't judge anything last year on

716
00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 1: the Urban Meyer mess, right, But like Trevor Lawrence came

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00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: into the NFL. It's like the most heralded college football

718
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: prospects since Andrew Luck. I'm not willing to say that

719
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,279
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence all of a sudden sucks after one, you know,

720
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: dumpster fire of a year um last year. And so

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00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:54,840
Speaker 1: I think they will be throwing a lot, and I

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00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 1: think Kirk is gonna have a monster year in terms

723
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: of his targets. Uh. I will also say, why can't

724
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: I give you one more? One more fire? I mean, Matt,

725
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: I could do this all day with you, literally, because

726
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: you've got so many good guys. But give me one

727
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,439
Speaker 1: more and then we'll wrap it up. I'm gonna believe

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00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,720
Speaker 1: in Isaiah Likely, the rookie tight end for the Baltimore Ravens.

729
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: They run. They were Isaiah Likely of the Baltimore Ravens

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00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 1: have a monster preseason. He's gonna be their number three

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00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 1: pass catcher. They run a lot of twelve. They're gonna

732
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 1: run two tight end sets a ton this year, and

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00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: so after Mark Andrews and Rashad Bateman, Isaiah likely is

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00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: going to be the number three pass catcher on the

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens. And I know everyone thinks that they're gonna

736
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: go more run heavy this year, and that last year

737
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: was an outlier because all the running backs got heard.

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00:37:37,719 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 1: And so you know, last year, the Ravens were top nine,

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00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,240
Speaker 1: and they were ninth most pass attempts in the NFL,

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00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: and Jackson was throwing it all around and Huntley was

741
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 1: later in the season when Jackson got hurt. I believe

742
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: what you think about this here, gust Edward's gonna start

743
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: in the pup list. J K. Dobbinds, we don't. He's

744
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: iffy for week one. You got Mike Davis, Kenyan Drake.

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00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: They may have to throw. And the other thing, Jason

746
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: is is that I think gets lost. And so Isaiah

747
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: likely has had a huge preseason. Um uh. And so

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00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,919
Speaker 1: I'm a believer in in him in a big way. Uh.

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00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: But what I would say to you is is that

750
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 1: and this is something that gets lost a lot in

751
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: fantasy football analysis. This would be my last point. And

752
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: I think for for your listeners and for you to consider,

753
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: is that a football team, an NFL football team, It's

754
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: just like in many ways any other office in America.

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00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: It's a workplace, and football players are people just like

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00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: the people you work with, and just like the people

757
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: you work with, and just like other workplaces, there's office politics.

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00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 1: There are people that are favored by the bosses, there

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00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: are people that aren't. There are relationships. People sometimes get

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00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: rewarded when they shouldn't. People have egos, People do sometimes

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00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: things that their self motivated by. People sometimes do things

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00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: out of fear. Like players have emotions just like all

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00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: of us. They're human beings, just like all of us,

764
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: and they have both good and bad emotions. And so uh,

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00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 1: if I am Lamar Jackson and I've met him once

766
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 1: in my life when he was a rookie, so I

767
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: can't say I know him at all. And this is

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00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:12,399
Speaker 1: this is entirely speculation. I have not heard this from

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00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: a source or anything like that. This is pure percent speculation.

770
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: But if I'm Lamar Jackson and I'm gonna sit and

771
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there looking at the fact that a guy

772
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: in my division who has insane, insane, this is the

773
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: wrong word, has some horrific off the field allegations against him, right,

774
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: and hasn't played football in two years, and got a

775
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: guaranteed contract of basically a quarter of a billion dollars.

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00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: And then I look over to Denver and here's a

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00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: guy who's on the north side of thirty and just

778
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: got another quarter of a billion dollars. And I'm young,

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00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: and I'm a unanimous m v P. I've got a

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00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: un unanimous m v P trophy to my name if

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00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 1: I'm that guy, if I'm Lamar Jackson, I'm sitting there

782
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: looking all around. I want to be the highest paid

783
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: quarterback in in the NFL. You know, bar none, I

784
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: want my where's my court of a billion dollars guaranteed?

785
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: And so as he enters this season with his contract,

786
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 1: like if you're Lamar Jackson and you can check out

787
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: of any play and you can call whatever coverage you want,

788
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,480
Speaker 1: and you're sitting there somewhere in the back of your

789
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 1: mind going, you know what, I deserve a quarter of

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00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: a billion dollars or more. And by the way, he

791
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: does given the NFL economics right now, Yeah, what's he doing?

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00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: Handing off or is he throwing They don't, they don't,

793
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: they don't. Look it's you, that's deep, dude. I'm listening.

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00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: I'm I want to be clear about this. I'm not

795
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: saying I think Lamar Jackson does anything to hurt the

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00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 1: Ravens chance to win. At the end of the day,

797
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,919
Speaker 1: he's always going to try to help the Ravens win.

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00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's gonna go rogue just to try

799
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: to pat his staff while looking out for number one though. No, No,

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00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: I'm absolutely not saying that. But what I'm saying is

801
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: is that if I'm Lamar Jackson, I've got an ego

802
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: to me and I'm just gonna be like, whoa, I'm

803
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: looking wrought the NFL and I'm seeing these other guys

804
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 1: um that you know that, whether it's because of their

805
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: age or because their their other baggage, getting these massive contracts,

806
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: and I am young and i have literally won a

807
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: unanimous m v P trophy and I've led my teams

808
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: the playoffs every year? Where what why? Where is my

809
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: court of a billion dollars? I'll show you. I mean,

810
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I don't like again, I

811
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: don't think it's like I'm gonna pad my stats. But

812
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: I think it's it's a mentality of like i'll show

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00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,919
Speaker 1: you contract here, baby, it's a contract here. I want

814
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ball out like nobody's business. And so again,

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Speaker 1: I just don't think he's gonna be He's listen, They're

816
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: still gonna run. But I just I think Lamar Jackson

817
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: has a monster year and I think he does it

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00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 1: with his arm as well, And so I'm not concerned

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00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: about the people that say, like, oh, I think the

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00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,759
Speaker 1: volume will be low, and I just don't think they're

821
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: gonna be run heavy. And I'm like, I don't know, man,

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00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: I just I don't see Lamar Jackson saying like that's

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00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: all right, I'll just keep handing off. He's gonna ball

824
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: out the good stuff. Matthew Berry the congrats on the

825
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: move to NBC. You can find him on Peacock uh

826
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: rodal World. I mean, he's basically everywhere in the fantasy space.

827
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: And after you losing Week one, everybody, do not be

828
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: too depressed. The season is not over. I've started owing

829
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: three and made the playoffs before. It's a long season.

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00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: And that's where Barry comes in. Like every week you

831
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: gotta be scrolling that waiver wire, right, you gotta know

832
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 1: what's going on. Barry's the guy. I appreciate that, Jason

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00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: and I get one more plug in. One of one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons I left NBC. We talked about a

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00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: lot of the reasons I left NBC, but one of

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00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: the other reasons I left, yeah, that I left ESPN

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00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: four NBC as I have these side businesses under the

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00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: brand Fantasy Life that I'm really trying to build up

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Speaker 1: that I'm really like. NBC has been super supportive of them.

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Speaker 1: UM and UH, I really appreciate it. So Fantasy Life

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