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Speaker 1: What is up? Welcome to another edition of the NFL

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Live Podcast Marcus Grant alongside the Fantasy Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer Michael Fabiano and our man's Graham Barfield. Happy new

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Speaker 1: or gentlemen, Happy New Year? How are you man? Good?

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Speaker 1: It's good to see we're all back in one spot.

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Speaker 1: We were all kind of scattered. Uh. I know, Graham,

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Speaker 1: you were back home in Georgia. Fabs you went to

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Speaker 1: New York. Who was here darkening the streets of Los Angeles?

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Speaker 1: But they we're all back together again now. The seasons

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Speaker 1: all over. Um, just all for fantasy purposes. At least

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Speaker 1: I think my Cowboys season might be over in a

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Speaker 1: few days. We'll see, we'll see, we'll be going on

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Speaker 1: that negative Nancy than again. Um. What one quick thing

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Speaker 1: side of the glass. There is a car chase that

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Speaker 1: and drove right by my house. I believe I actually

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Speaker 1: I was driving up for anybody who cares, the're driving

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Speaker 1: police cars right on his tail, sirens blaring everything. Now

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Speaker 1: which is rare in Los Angeles. Uh. The police have

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Speaker 1: tried the pit maneuver four different times. And this guy

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Speaker 1: the things that we enjoy doing in Los Angeles. For

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Speaker 1: especially on TV, pretty much the city comes to halt.

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Speaker 1: The newsroom right now downstairs is not doing any work.

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Speaker 1: They are all watching this. They're screaming and yelling as

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Speaker 1: him informed. Uh, it is our own senior Edward L.

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Speaker 1: Murphy Esquire Murph, what's up? Yeah, guys, I these TVs

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Speaker 1: of the show, but first let's do some news. The

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Speaker 1: like we've been talking about just random things in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: all season long. We had Levian Bell earlier in the year.

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Speaker 1: Now we've got Antonio Brown, and it appears that they

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Speaker 1: You never know. And if you listen to anybody on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: media work. Crever Rand's is like in this headstorm with

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Speaker 1: But I mean, is there a place that you could

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Speaker 1: it seems like the last five six years, where's he

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll have more about Antonio Brown as this

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Speaker 1: By the way, the four or five still wide open.

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Speaker 1: This guy, I know what is going on. Man, He's

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Speaker 1: not even going that fast. I think he's like fifty

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Speaker 1: early nineties Honda. He's not going anywhere. Was this traffic?

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Speaker 1: first show of the new year. It is our first

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Speaker 1: So FABS you start us off. What was the thing

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Speaker 1: you learned? Well, I already knew that fantasy football can

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Speaker 1: be widely unpredictable. I also learned that this man here,

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Speaker 1: Graham Barfield, knows his stuff. And I would say the

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Speaker 1: But he's damn good, so make sure you follow him.

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Speaker 1: right because we've had so many good young running backs

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Speaker 1: come into the league at the same time. And I

430
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Speaker 1: think that and I think that has to do. I

431
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Speaker 1: think I think that right there is the keep for

432
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Speaker 1: why it goes away, because there was a couple of

433
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Speaker 1: years in there where we didn't have this level of

434
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Speaker 1: running back. Eleven of the top twelve scores in Fantasy

435
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Speaker 1: Football were receivers. The only one that managed to finish

436
00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,359
Speaker 1: in the top twelve was Davonta Frame. It was just

437
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,760
Speaker 1: a weird year where everybody got hurt. Jamal Charles Gonna ht,

438
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Speaker 1: Aaron Foster was still at the Texans that year. He

439
00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:06,840
Speaker 1: was fantastic. He got hurt. Yeah, I mean, we had

440
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Speaker 1: so many studs that you're getting hurt early, and that's

441
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Speaker 1: what kind of pushed the zero RB notion to the

442
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Speaker 1: forefront even this year. Late in the year, Girly gets hurt,

443
00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:18,480
Speaker 1: Gordon gets hurt, Connor gets hurt, and I mean it

444
00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,639
Speaker 1: still doesn't matter. Those teams were getting carried into the playoffs,

445
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Speaker 1: getting carried into whatever league you're playing in. Um, those

446
00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:27,439
Speaker 1: guys were carrying to you. And you look at the

447
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Speaker 1: top of the list. I mean, se Kwon rookie, you know,

448
00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,359
Speaker 1: McCaffrey a couple of years in the league. Girly still young,

449
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,680
Speaker 1: Camaro still young, Zeke Connor, uh Melvin Gordon, Joe Mix

450
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Speaker 1: and Tari Cohen. I mean, we're not even mentioning Levian Bell,

451
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Speaker 1: who will believe I believe will be twenty seven or

452
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Speaker 1: twenty seven when we start the twenty nineteen campaign. A

453
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Speaker 1: lot of Aaron Jones is an exciting young player. So

454
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Speaker 1: it's so it's Lindsay Chris Carson. Although you don't know

455
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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen in Seattle with the gletter running backs

456
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 1: that have there too, but he had a very good

457
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Speaker 1: season and he's a young guy as well. So there's

458
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Speaker 1: a lot to like at the running back position right now, guys,

459
00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,960
Speaker 1: a lot to like, no doubt about it. Youth, talent, potential,

460
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Speaker 1: and then whatever we get coming into the twenty nineteen

461
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,239
Speaker 1: class just adds to it. Alright. So I will say this,

462
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 1: So my thing I learned is it's gonna be worth

463
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Speaker 1: it next year to reach for a tight end. It

464
00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 1: really is, you know, And in the past you didn't

465
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Speaker 1: necessarily have to mean maybe you wanted to reach for

466
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Speaker 1: a gronk. Other than that you can kind of sit

467
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Speaker 1: back and wait and get guys. But what we learned

468
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Speaker 1: this year is that there were, you know, three or

469
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Speaker 1: four guys that you could count on consistently. You had

470
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Speaker 1: you know, you had Travis Kelsey, you had George Kittle,

471
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Speaker 1: you had zach Ertz. Tho of you guys that you

472
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Speaker 1: knew weekend and week out, we're gonna give you a

473
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Speaker 1: good number after that. The fall off was ridiculous. I

474
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Speaker 1: think we only had five tight ends top a hundred points,

475
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Speaker 1: which was the smallest number since I think going back

476
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Speaker 1: to twenty I believe it was umen the last time

477
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Speaker 1: we had just five tight ends reach a hundred Fantasy

478
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Speaker 1: Fighting market. McDonald was a top ten tight end, right,

479
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Speaker 1: I mean, but that's what I'm saying, Like you look

480
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Speaker 1: at the list of guys who were top ten Ti

481
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Speaker 1: also Cooper, it's you know, guys you couldn't. Kyle Rudolph

482
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Speaker 1: finishes as a top ten tied in and and he

483
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 1: did nothing for most of the season, has one big

484
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Speaker 1: blow up game kind of near the end, and that's

485
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Speaker 1: good enough. So I think this is gonna be a

486
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Speaker 1: year where, I mean, unless you really enjoy the headache

487
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Speaker 1: of trying to to dive through the waiver wire on

488
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Speaker 1: a weekly basis and find a streamer, it is going

489
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Speaker 1: to be worth your while to reach maybe in the

490
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Speaker 1: third round or something like that and try to find

491
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Speaker 1: yourself a tight end too, to at least know that

492
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Speaker 1: you've got that that spot solidified going into the season.

493
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Speaker 1: I take this, he's you're just still tilted about Ian Thomas.

494
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Speaker 1: You know, I could know, like I got one week

495
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Speaker 1: where I figured out Ian Thomas right, and then so like,

496
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Speaker 1: then I I play him. He does nothing in week seventeen,

497
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I don't know, i'd stay away from me.

498
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Speaker 1: Catches a touchdown. Yeah, I'm all, I'm all sideways about

499
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Speaker 1: Ian Thomas. But I do think looking back at it, like,

500
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Speaker 1: I just think you're gonna see, you know, I think

501
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Speaker 1: you're gonna consistently see Kelsey Urt's Kiddle kind of coming

502
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Speaker 1: off the board in the third round. I wouldn't be surprised.

503
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Speaker 1: It's some aggressive of league. Somebody aggressively reaches in the

504
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Speaker 1: second round for one of these guys just because you

505
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Speaker 1: know that you will have that position locked up on

506
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Speaker 1: a week to week basis. I think that's that's the

507
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,879
Speaker 1: fun argument is like where does where does Kittle, Earth's

508
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Speaker 1: and Kelsey go? I think Kelsey is. I think you

509
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Speaker 1: can make an argument that Kelsey's worth second a early

510
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Speaker 1: second round pick. I think again early, I would listen

511
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Speaker 1: to that argument. I mean, it's just consistent every single year.

512
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Speaker 1: But the big thing with Kelsey is he has such

513
00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: a high his touchdown ceiling is the most interesting of

514
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Speaker 1: the of the top guys at that position. Next season

515
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 1: is going to be where does Eric Ebron get drafted?

516
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: Because this guy had a boatload of touchdowns and Jack

517
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: Doyle's coming back, But it's like who, I mean, the

518
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 1: question is how much do people really believe in Eric Ebron?

519
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Speaker 1: And but also how bad is the rest to tight end?

520
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Speaker 1: I mean, like Ebron, even even if he's stouting with

521
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Speaker 1: Jack Doyle will still be a top top seven. Ebron

522
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Speaker 1: and Jared Cook Jared Cook might be the biggest litmus

523
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Speaker 1: t us next year out of anybody in the time

524
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Speaker 1: because like no, I mean like it was like everybody

525
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Speaker 1: grudgingly started Jared Cook because it's like, oh, yeah, he's

526
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,719
Speaker 1: you know, he's doing better than everybody else, but you know,

527
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 1: it was it was a roller coaster with him spending

528
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,879
Speaker 1: roller coasters. How about carousels? Uh, the coaching carousel is

529
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 1: open and spinning. So if you don't know the current

530
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Speaker 1: openings right now, Cincinnati, Denver, Cleveland, Tampa, Arizona, Miami, the Jets,

531
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Speaker 1: and the Green Bay Packers all have coaching vacancies right now,

532
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,160
Speaker 1: interviews are certainly underway in a lot of places, which,

533
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: by the way, what is this new thing with teams

534
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: like tweeting out in announcing we have completed the interview

535
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: process with so and so. It's like who who cares

536
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: like you're a contract? Right? Is it just like what? So? Yeah,

537
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: so we're done talking. That's cool. You don't have to

538
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 1: tell us. It's fine. Um. Some of the hot names

539
00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 1: out there, guys who are getting a lot of run

540
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: right now. Adam Gazes who formerly of the Miami Dolphins,

541
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Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy formerly of the Packers, Cliff Kingsbury formerly of

542
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech, and how the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach

543
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Speaker 1: at my alma mater, USC, although I would be shocked

544
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Speaker 1: if they opened the season with Cliff Kames Rios their

545
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator right now, Uh, Cowboys defensive backs coach Chris

546
00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: christ Rochard and Chief's offensive coordinator Eric b Enemy. Now.

547
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 1: There are many many more names out there, are many

548
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: guys who were getting looks and being talked about or

549
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 1: talked to. These are some of the names that just

550
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: keep popping up over and over again. Any one of

551
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 1: those guys jump out to you as like perfect fits

552
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: somewhere that could go somewhere and really, you know, maybe

553
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 1: kick a team up a notch offensively and make them

554
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: super fantasy relevant. I just think, you know, Arians is

555
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 1: out there as well, and I just think every everyone's

556
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: going to be thinking Cleveland, man, like, can we get

557
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: in Cleveland? Can we get them back to Arizona? Pretty

558
00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 1: Kitchens apparently is uh? Is he not being allowed to

559
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Speaker 1: take any offensive coordinator interviews or head coaching interviews or

560
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. I saw something about that

561
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,400
Speaker 1: earlier today, So I don't know if does that mean

562
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Speaker 1: that the Brons want to keep him there? Do they

563
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: keep did they keep Greg Williams as their head coach?

564
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: And move forward? We'll see. Here's the goal. Bruce Arians

565
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Speaker 1: comes back, he coaches Baker with Cleveland, he keeps he

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Speaker 1: keeps Freddie Kitchen his offensive coordinator. Freddy Arians hired Freddy

567
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: Kitchens and it was on in two thou that's that's

568
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: the goal. And then what in a couple of years

569
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Speaker 1: when Arians decides to retire, Kitchens just justle he just

570
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: moves on up. I think was that McCarthy. You're gonna

571
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Speaker 1: hear Jets for sure, you know, because he's a big name,

572
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 1: big Apple, So I would expect that he's going to

573
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: be in the mess there in New York. I have

574
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 1: a really outside of obviously Green Bay in Cleveland, I

575
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Speaker 1: kind of think the Jets are the most attractive job here. Well,

576
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 1: they have have a heck of a good young quarterback, quarterback,

577
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 1: they got a lot of money, so much cap space.

578
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,920
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got, i mean, seriously, a blank slate.

579
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Speaker 1: You've got Sam Donald in a blank slate essentially. I mean,

580
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 1: you've got Robby. They're going to be on the Bell sweepstakes. Absolutely,

581
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Speaker 1: I would think. I think that they've got to be

582
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 1: the odds on favorite to get Levy on Bell. I

583
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 1: mean from a fantasy perspective, I don't know how much

584
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Speaker 1: I love that, but I mean it's it's very I

585
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: don't know if it's likely, but it's very possible that

586
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,080
Speaker 1: he ends up with the men in Green Yeah, I'm so.

587
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:09,680
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at this. I mean, Cleveland, obviously, it

588
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: is very attractive because you've got Baker, You've got Nick Chubb,

589
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: You've got a good defense there. That's a that's a

590
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: certainly attractive situation. Uh, you know, I mean Denver has

591
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: issues Cincinnati. I don't know, I feel like they're just

592
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 1: they just sort of are who they are. Denver's skill

593
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: positions outside of outside of Lindsay really scares me. Well, yeah,

594
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Speaker 1: I mean you your wide receivers have I mean you're

595
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: you're either you've got very young or you've got aging. Yeah, Manny,

596
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,880
Speaker 1: I mean Manny's coming off in Achilles tear Um. Yeah.

597
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 1: The Broncos have punted a tight end pretty much since

598
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: Julia's Thomas had a little a little time and four

599
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: touchdowns in two years. Yeah, you had this time in

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00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 1: the sound man Um. Yeah. I mean the Broncos right now.

601
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 1: I mean that the defense is obviously still very very

602
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: good in Bradley Chubb was what we expected. But I

603
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: mean the Broncos skill positions are really really scary. How

604
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: do we feel about how do we feel about Like Tampa,

605
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: They've got talent. I mean DeShawn is not going to

606
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Speaker 1: be with that team, so I mean they do have

607
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: a little bit of talent on that roster. The Jamis

608
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: you mean, well, no, DeShawn Jackson, Jamis will be back.

609
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I know, he said Jamis will be back.

610
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: Jason licked said Jamis is going to be back. So, um,

611
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: I mean you still have Evans there. I mean you've

612
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: got O. J. Howard's He's he's a good young tight end.

613
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,520
Speaker 1: Maybe he's a guy that emerges at the position next season.

614
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: I would actually expect him to do that. So there's

615
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: some talent there. But their defense is it's their defensive trash. Well,

616
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: it's because Mike Smith, their former coordinator, basically decided we

617
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: want to stop the run instead of stopping the pass. Well,

618
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: how did that? How'd that go for the first two

619
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Speaker 1: weeks this year. I mean, there's still question marks about

620
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 1: their running game. Is Ronald Jones going to emerge into anything.

621
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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens with Ronald Joe's I mean, he

622
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: should be given an opportunity. They could still be looking

623
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Speaker 1: at at running back. They could look at Leve Bell too.

624
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things I could look at. LEVI. Um,

625
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: do we make too much of head coaches for fantasy purposes?

626
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we're sitting here and talk about it.

627
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: Sometimes we do, But I know that there are situations

628
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: where these guys head coaches oss make massive fantasy impacts.

629
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Speaker 1: I mean, like Andy Reid comes right, and you know

630
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: we can take Mike McCoy. Oh, sure, the Cardinals killed.

631
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean the Cardinals were battle here, let's

632
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: face it. Byron left which was put in terrible position.

633
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: But I mean that that offense was they certainly make

634
00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 1: an impact, no doubt about that. Um And and you know,

635
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: look at look at what Baker became once Kitchens to go.

636
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so so many little There's so many

637
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Speaker 1: and I think to your point that if Arians comes

638
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: into Cleveland, he's just gonna he's just gonna elevate Baker.

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Speaker 1: Like Baker could be a top ten quarterback next season.

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Speaker 1: He really could be, because you're look at you smiling,

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Speaker 1: because because Brady's Brady's you know, he's starting to go down.

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Speaker 1: You're starting to see some of the older guys. I mean,

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Speaker 1: even Breeze. I know he had a good season overall,

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Speaker 1: but he killed you at the end of the season,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if you can trust him outdoors

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Speaker 1: on the road. So there, the position is odd, man.

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Speaker 1: You know, there's some weird stuff going on at the

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Speaker 1: back position right now. The superstars are no longer the superstars,

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Speaker 1: and you're seeing some good young players. Lamar Jackson is

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Speaker 1: a guy who people could peg as a top ten guy.

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff is a good young quarterback. Obviously we've seen

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Speaker 1: him put up some numbers Drabinsky showed some flashes of

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Speaker 1: potential as well. It's so deep, it's ridiculous. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be again. This is the thing we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about quite a bit as we get along through

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Speaker 1: the season. All right, before you wrap it up, the

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Speaker 1: you know, the playoffs are starting in the NFL, but

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Speaker 1: we can still play the Playoff Challenge, which I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of folks play some daily fantasy. So in

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Speaker 1: case you're not familiar with the Playoff Challenge, you pick

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Speaker 1: a lineup, uh you obviously you score points based on

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Speaker 1: their performance. You can get multipliers for guys that you

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Speaker 1: have on your roster for multiple weeks. So if you

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Speaker 1: get a guy who you know that you start with

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Speaker 1: a wild card team and they score however many points

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Speaker 1: if they win, you get double points the next week,

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Speaker 1: triple points, quadruple points if they go all the way

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Speaker 1: through the super Bowl. But I'm looking at this as

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Speaker 1: guys who are potentially some some value picks, either in

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Speaker 1: the Playoff Challenge or maybe in daily fantasy. Uh, fab,

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Speaker 1: So you got as a daily pick, I've got Drabinsky

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Speaker 1: because I love the matchup against the Eagles. You know

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Speaker 1: their defense. I haven't been all that good all season long,

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Speaker 1: especially against the passing. When you're talking playoff challenge, like

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Speaker 1: you want to get players who could potentially advance a

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Speaker 1: couple of rounds, right, I mean, typically you're not going

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Speaker 1: to see a wild card team go to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: That hasn't happened in a while. Uh. And if you

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Speaker 1: look at the numbers, I actually just wrote a column

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Speaker 1: on NFL dot com. You can go and check that out.

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Speaker 1: I tweeted it out. There's a lot of good information

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Speaker 1: on there. But Robiskie's got that defense behind the man

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Speaker 1: and so like he could advance. Like, I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have any problems with the Eagles. You're going

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Speaker 1: around two. I think the Bears are a scary team

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Speaker 1: because that defense is just such a game changer, especially

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Yeah, grant who you got, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go with Lamar Miller. H Deante Foreman didn't play last week.

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Speaker 1: Lamar Miller came back from an ankle injury in Week sixteen,

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Speaker 1: came back and played Week seventeen, actually said a season

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Speaker 1: high and snaps at handled nineteen touches. Unfortunately, it was

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Speaker 1: Lamar Miller fashion he had nineteen fifties, six yards from scrimmage.

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Speaker 1: He did to get the score, but again, like Fabs

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Speaker 1: just said, Marcus alluded to, you have a chance here

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Speaker 1: to get a home favorite running back against the Colts

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Speaker 1: and taking I mean if obviously, if the Texans wind,

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Speaker 1: they'll move forward and you get that extra game. And

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Speaker 1: I kind of think everyone, even though Lamar Miller is

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Speaker 1: not ever sexy, everyone always forgets about him and he's

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Speaker 1: the stack compiler. Yeah, I'm Lamara Miller is kind of

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Speaker 1: like this car chase right now, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: they still guys still cruising. There are no cops with

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Speaker 1: it in the shot, right I'm gonna know Jordan Howard here,

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Speaker 1: I think one, because you know, they started to use

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Speaker 1: him more down the stretch. They started to getting him

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Speaker 1: more involved, especially near the goal line. He was scoring

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Speaker 1: some touchdowns, which is a big plus, I think, especially

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Speaker 1: if you're talking daily. He's not going to come with

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Speaker 1: the same value level as Saya Tarik Cohen. But you know,

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Speaker 1: like uh, Fabs and Graham mentioned, a chance to win

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Speaker 1: that first game, to keep going with a very good team,

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Speaker 1: especially a very good defense, I can keep them in it,

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Speaker 1: play defense, run the football, that's how some of these

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Speaker 1: coaches want to go. Jordan Howard, who was a disappointment

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Speaker 1: all during the year, could end up maybe surprising down

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Speaker 1: the stretch here. So that's it. This guy is still

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Speaker 1: cruising on the flour oh five, but we're in a

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Speaker 1: cruise out of here. We appreciate your listening, appreciate you

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