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Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into Fantasy Pros. I'm Ryan Warmley, joined

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Speaker 1: as I am every Monday by Tara Roberts, and we

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Speaker 1: are talking five moves to make before week eleven. Just

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Speaker 1: a handful of weeks here left in the fantasy regular season,

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Speaker 1: so we're going to try to give some advice to

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Speaker 1: make some moves to put you over the top into

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Speaker 1: that playoff push, maybe help get you a first round

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Speaker 1: buy if you're in such a position. Just a few

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Speaker 1: weeks left here. Like I said, so we're gonna, you know,

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Speaker 1: really really make that push here in the next month

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Speaker 1: and get into the playoffs. A quick reminder for everybody

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Speaker 1: that all of our weekly consensus rankings and tiers can

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Speaker 1: be found at fantasypros dot com slash rankings. And Tara,

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Speaker 1: you use this phrase when we were putting this show together.

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Speaker 1: You're going on a shopping spree today. There are more

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Speaker 1: buys in here than usually usually. We have a couple

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Speaker 1: of buys, a couple of cells, maybe a drop. This

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Speaker 1: is a by centric episode. Do you feel like it's

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Speaker 1: a buyer's market like the housing market can be sometimes,

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Speaker 1: or do you just happen to have a couple of

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Speaker 1: names extra that you really are feeling positive about right now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's you got a couple of guys

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Speaker 3: We've got some superstars.

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Speaker 2: On a downturn here that have negative perceptions. And as

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Speaker 2: I take a whole bunch of trade questions and stuff,

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Speaker 2: I start to see some names repeating and I'm like, huh,

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Speaker 2: that's very interesting. Okay, So yeah, we're it's a good

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Speaker 2: buymarket right now.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's start with one of those aforementioned superstars, because

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Speaker 1: you've got the of name on here who was a

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Speaker 1: top two pick in drafts that you are looking to buy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, by Bijon Robinson.

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Speaker 2: And you know, when it comes to Bijon, technically, is

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Speaker 2: there such a thing as a by loo?

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Speaker 3: How can you buy low on a player like that?

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Speaker 2: But if there is a time where his value is

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Speaker 2: as low as it possibly can be, that time is

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Speaker 2: right now. I've noticed fantasy managers are extremely frustrated with

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Speaker 2: the lack of consistency, lack of volume. The increased usage

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Speaker 2: of Tyler Aljier this past game didn't help here. When

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Speaker 2: you look at Bijon Robinson, he's the type of player

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Speaker 2: that you expect to be giving you league winning production

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Speaker 2: every single week. If you were getting this type of

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Speaker 2: performance out of Breeze Hall, that'd be like, okay, no problem,

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Speaker 3: Have no complaints here.

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Speaker 2: But when it's Bijon Robinson you start to get red

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Speaker 3: Then people are getting frustrated here.

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Speaker 2: He's had fewer than fifteen Fantasy points in half PPR in.

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Speaker 3: The past four weeks.

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Speaker 2: Here, it's not a major issue from my perspective, but

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Speaker 2: from a fantasy manager's perspective, again, it's very frustrating here,

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Speaker 3: Surprised how many people are willing to.

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Speaker 2: Part ways in order to trade and look for that

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Speaker 2: perceived shiny upside that some other running back has here.

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Speaker 2: Now some managers might be also looking ahead to the

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Speaker 2: playoff schedules and considering flipping Bijon, because at this point

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Speaker 2: you're looking at the playoff schedules and you might look

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Speaker 2: that is not a team that you want to run against.

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Speaker 3: Week fifteen, A Tampa Bay who.

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Speaker 2: Is, you know, not necessarily a terrible matchup, but they

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Speaker 2: are perceived as better against the run. So when you

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Speaker 2: else here. Bijon is somebody who, regardless of the playoff matchups,

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Speaker 2: I still want Bejon Robinson, But that opens up a

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Speaker 2: little selling opportunity there, and it's a great opportunity for

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Speaker 1: What do you think is a reasonable offer to send

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Speaker 1: trade for Bejon, who are some of the names that

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Speaker 1: it's different for a lot of players Bjon, like you know,

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Speaker 1: It's just lately as stumbled. You know, he only has

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Speaker 1: what is the type of name that you would throw

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Speaker 3: You know, honestly, very interesting.

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Speaker 2: I feel like people feel very positively about Josh Jacobs,

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Speaker 3: So you could honestly do a one for one from that.

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Speaker 2: Perspective with a guy like Josh Jacobs, because when you

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Speaker 1: Jacobs is RB seven on the season, Bijon's RB five,

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Speaker 1: so they've basically been right there, and like you said,

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Speaker 1: somebody like Bijon. Let's go to your next player to

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Speaker 1: buy here.

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Speaker 2: My next player to buy here is Michael Pittman. We've

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Speaker 2: talked about Michael Pittman before. Is a buy low or

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Speaker 2: just buy in general? Multiple times this season, and again

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Speaker 2: this is a perception thing. Michael Pittman has had a

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Speaker 2: strong season Greman quite frankly, the strongest season he has

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Speaker 3: One heading into this week, he was.

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Speaker 2: Literally the wide receiver ten on the season, and from

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Speaker 3: Here, Pierce had a fantastic day, there was no issue.

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, there's zero reason

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Speaker 2: looking at Alex Pearce, obviously he's been fantastic, But prior

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Speaker 2: You can look at that and say, hey, this is

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Speaker 2: One of the offense and quite possibly has taken over

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Speaker 2: the matchup is better over here or over there. But

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Speaker 2: when it comes to Michael Pittman and the performances that

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Speaker 2: He's a true wide receiver one. And this is an

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Speaker 2: excellent time.

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Speaker 1: To buy him, not just like coming off of this

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Speaker 1: tough schedule coming up, you know at Casey home against Houston,

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Speaker 1: So a tough stretch. That's the case you make when

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Speaker 1: trying to trade for him, right, Like, if you're trying

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Speaker 1: I think this is a good one. He's wide receiver

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Speaker 1: nineteen in the consensus rest of season rankings. Does that

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Speaker 2: It's too low for me, and I get it because

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Speaker 2: when we're looking across the board, we've got a lot

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Speaker 2: of wide receivers that are underperforming. We'll perhaps talk about

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about one of those underperforming wide receivers there,

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Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson. The days should have been better for Justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 2: It was a weird one. If the fantasy manager in

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Speaker 2: I assume that the lack of production for Jefferson was

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Speaker 2: a mess and poor Jefferson out there just can't get

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Speaker 2: an accurate ball. While again McCarthy wasn't perfect, a lot

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Speaker 2: of these issues, unfortunately that happened in this game were

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Speaker 2: specifically on Justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 3: He didn't look like his usual self.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna buy one more. Hopefully people will go

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Speaker 2: Quentin Johnston. Yeah, we're jumping back in here. Sunday's game

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Speaker 3: But despite that, he only saw five targets.

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Speaker 2: So you would want to get in there before he

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Speaker 3: The volume has been fine for him.

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Speaker 2: So if we can funnel this offense down to the

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Speaker 1: So interestingly, Tara, while we were recording this, which is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Alvin Kamara.

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Speaker 2: That shouldn't be That's not the first time that I've

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Speaker 3: This was a good game.

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Speaker 2: Twenty two carries, eighty three yards, three receptions. It was

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Speaker 2: the second although it wasn't fancy, it was not typical

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Speaker 3: So that was good to see here, But you cannot

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Speaker 2: Whatever they were piecing together has seen him to kind

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Speaker 2: that has allowed twenty points to twenty fantasy points to

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Speaker 2: They've been inconsistent and this was just the downturn here. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara for league winning upside. Once you know he's

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Speaker 3: And the same schedule does look good, so you can

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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, you cannot trust

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Speaker 1: I think you could look at the fantasy playoffs schedule

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Speaker 1: out of the bye you know, still as a game Miami,

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Speaker 1: thank the your lucky stars that he had a good game.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 1: The by the immediate buy does throw it off a bit,

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Speaker 1: but but I'm with you here. I think sell him

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Speaker 1: We'll go ahead and wrap things up there, Tara, best

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Speaker 1: of luck to everybody here in week eleven, and if

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