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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre. What's up, Everybody, Friday,

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Speaker 1: August twenty eight, Straight Fire. It's a Friday. This week

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Speaker 1: feels like it's taken forever. You know how the pandemic

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Speaker 1: feels like it's taken years off your life. This week

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Speaker 1: feels like it's taken months off mine. I will start here.

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Speaker 1: I was absolutely blown away by the response to Thursday's podcast.

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Speaker 1: I really didn't think people are gonna love that. Um,

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Speaker 1: you guys know, it's pretty clear that I don't love

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Speaker 1: talking about the politics and the social issues on a

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Speaker 1: it's gonna rub a lot of people the wrong way. Oh,

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Speaker 1: And like sports are supposed to bring us together, not

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Speaker 1: divide us. So I don't love these topics. But apparently

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Speaker 1: you guys, like he said, and it went well. The

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Speaker 1: numbers were good, and uh, I think we're gonna try

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Speaker 1: to limit that though. Today in today's podcast, we have

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Speaker 1: an amazing guest coming up. You guys know that fantasy

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Speaker 1: football is rapidly approaching, and I had my first draft

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Speaker 1: But my big money draft is Saturday. I won't say

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Speaker 1: how much it is on the buy in. I think

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Speaker 1: a couple of guys in the league listen to the

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Speaker 1: show two years ago. I did really well. Last year

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Speaker 1: not so much, and uh, I need to be ready,

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Speaker 1: So I thought i'd get a great guest for us.

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Speaker 1: So Matthew Berry, Mr. Fantasy Football from ESPN. He's been

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Speaker 1: in uh. He was in the Last Avengers movie. He's

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Speaker 1: He will join us in ten or so minutes. But first,

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Speaker 1: I also want to thank everybody for subscribing, rating, and reviewing.

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Speaker 1: My last check on Thursday, we were like nineties six reviews,

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Speaker 1: in like week three, you know, it's pretty fun and exciting.

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Speaker 1: And I guess the biggest story in sports today is

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Speaker 1: still the NBA and I came out of my comfort

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Speaker 1: NBA as is in this fascinating spot where culturally it

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Speaker 1: is just absolutely massive, off the charts huge social media.

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Speaker 1: It's a juggernaut. Basketball players constantly talked about huge on

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Speaker 1: sports becoming less popular partially because of the social issues.

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Speaker 1: Now we'll see what happens with the TV ratings. Again,

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Speaker 1: They're not end all be all. But I got into

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Speaker 1: this your dust up on social media, of course Thursday,

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Speaker 1: with the former NFL tight end Mark Tellis Bennett, and

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Speaker 1: he was trying to say that TV has less relevance

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Speaker 1: than social media and Lebron has a hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: there's zero evidence that that is true, that social media

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Speaker 1: course social media is huge, but it's still in its infancy.

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Speaker 1: martell Us. I mean we've seen this in entertainment, um sports,

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Speaker 1: Now in the finals, those numbers will ratchet way up,

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Speaker 1: time for me to dovetail right into our guest, the

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Speaker 1: Great Matthew Berry. Listen. He gives a lot of amazing

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Speaker 1: fantasy football advice. Hopefully he can help you win your league. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: who's a buddy of mine. Really nice kid. Uh. Matthew

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Speaker 1: rate and review. Here's Matthew Berry on the Fantasy football

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Speaker 1: a guy I've known, I think probably more than a decade,

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Speaker 1: he's Mr Fantasy Football in American football. There is no

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Speaker 1: bigger guy in fantasy sports than Matthew Berry. Matthew, how

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Speaker 1: his NFL career. And by the way, he's never missed

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Speaker 1: a game due to injury as well, right he has.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just saying, like, just how many balls are

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Speaker 1: the gonna go around? Now? To your point about Randall Cob,

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Speaker 1: there was a time There's it's a small sample size,

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Speaker 1: but there was a time last year in which a

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Speaker 1: Marii Cooper, Michael Gallup, and Randall cop are all healthy

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Speaker 1: and if you look at their per game averages, they

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Speaker 1: were all top thirty wide receivers. So that offense has

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Speaker 1: shown it can support that. And even though Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 1: is the new head coach, they're keeping Kellen More, They're

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Speaker 1: keeping the same offensive system basically. So, uh, do I

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Speaker 1: I'm out on Ceedee Lamb as at least initially a

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Speaker 1: consistent fantasy ascid, somebody that you're gonna that you're going

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Speaker 1: to start every week. But do I think when you're

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Speaker 1: in the later parts of your draft and you want

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Speaker 1: to take a flyer that you know, Am I out

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Speaker 1: on him? There? No, absolutely, because we know the upside

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Speaker 1: is enormous. We know that offense can actually support three

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Speaker 1: Fantasy relevant wide outs. We don't have a large, large

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Speaker 1: sample size, but we haven't seen it before. We know

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Speaker 1: the talent is immense there. I'm high on Doc who's

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Speaker 1: planned for a deal this year, and Ceedee Lamb is

447
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Speaker 1: one of those guys that if he can get the

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Speaker 1: ball in space, he can take it to the house.

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Speaker 1: So I don't mind him at all as a late

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Speaker 1: round flyer, but I would not go in the season

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Speaker 1: with him as one of my starters. Here's a running back.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at your list in the top twenty. I'm stunned. Listen,

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Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards, Hilaire rookie. I get it. He's gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna eat in the Andy Reid system. But it

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Speaker 1: looks like you have him sixth ahead of Nick Chubb,

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Speaker 1: who is at thirteen. I'm projecting Chubb to be a

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Speaker 1: monster this year. Basically the Delvin Cook in Stefanski's system

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland to New offensive tackles. I think I think

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Speaker 1: Chubby is. I would have Chubb in the top six.

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Speaker 1: Why are you down on him? Does it have to

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Speaker 1: do with maybe him not getting all the carries with

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Speaker 1: Kareem Hunts still there and Edwards Hilaire at six seems

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Speaker 1: um wow, So a couple of things here, so we

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Speaker 1: can tackle both those guys. Let's start with Clyde Edwards Hilaire.

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Speaker 1: I've been told, by the way Jason, and what do

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Speaker 1: I know, I'm a moron, but I've been told, actually

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Speaker 1: it's pronounced Clyde Edwards Hilaire, that the H is sort

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Speaker 1: of silent. But that's a big that was a big

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Speaker 1: thing with him. Um, so that's what I was talking.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true or not. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I've never met the man, but um, for whatever it's worth,

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Speaker 1: but that's how I always pronounced it as Clyde Edwards

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Speaker 1: Hilaire and uh at any rate c E H. So

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Speaker 1: for me, fantasy success comes from two very simple things.

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Speaker 1: Talent an opportunity. We agree on the town, right. I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of evaluators had him as the number

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Speaker 1: one running back coming out of college. It was a

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Speaker 1: toss up between him and Jonathan Taylor. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people like DeAndre Swift as well. Um, but you know

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Speaker 1: he's right there in that mix. He's the only player

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Speaker 1: in SEC history where over a thousand rushing yards and

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Speaker 1: over fifty receptions in the same season. The only guy

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Speaker 1: you think about all the great running backs that have

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Speaker 1: come out of the SEC and the only guy that

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Speaker 1: can say that Clyde Edwards Hilaire. Okay, Um, you think

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Speaker 1: about an Andy Reid running back. Once Damian Williams opted out,

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Speaker 1: suddenly that whole job is his because think about who

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Speaker 1: else is there. So I'm just saying we know about

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Speaker 1: the talent. And by the way, Andy Reid after the

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Speaker 1: draft compared him favorably, not like you know he's a

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Speaker 1: version of but just said, like, I think he's better

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Speaker 1: than Brian Westbrook. Ye. Now, a little bit of that

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Speaker 1: coach speak. Okay, but fine, remember two thousand four to

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Speaker 1: two thou that time, friend, that's those five seasons under

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid, Bryan Westbrook was the second best running back

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Speaker 1: in Fantasy playing on an offense that, all due respect

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Speaker 1: Donovan Gonnabb didn't have Patrick Mahomes as the quarter Yeah

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Speaker 1: and so um and he's saying he thinks Glydewards Lair

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Speaker 1: is better than Brian Westbrook. All right, here's the thing, uh,

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Speaker 1: In the last fifteen seasons, the lead running back of

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Speaker 1: an Andy Reid offense has average eighteen Fantasy points per game.

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Speaker 1: That would have been running back eight last year, ahead

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Speaker 1: of Alvin Camaro. M hmm, now you have. But by

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Speaker 1: the way, and that's over fifteen years, you have basically

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Speaker 1: everyone in this offense coming back Super Bowl chance like

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Speaker 1: and so, and then you think about, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: who could potentially take touches from Clyde Edwards Hilaire the

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Speaker 1: only running back in Andy Reid's history that he's drafted

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Speaker 1: in the first round. He's never dropped a running back

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Speaker 1: in the first round before, but this this year he did. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and so, like, is it gonna be Deondrew Washington? Danrew

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Speaker 1: Washington is a nice player, filled in well for Josh

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Speaker 1: Jacobs last year. College roommates, college teammates with Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: of Texas Tech. But Andrew Washington, like, I mean, you know, um,

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Speaker 1: Darwin Thompson who couldn't get on the field last year

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Speaker 1: and Darryl Williams, who was more of a fullback blocking guy.

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Speaker 1: I actually think they're always is sort of interesting if

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Speaker 1: you're in the best ball league, but like it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be the Clyde Edwards Hilaire show. Like you think about

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Speaker 1: and like, if you're the lead running back of an

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid offense, Jason and I literally mean you. I

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Speaker 1: literally mean if Jason McIntyre were the lead running back

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Speaker 1: of an Andy Reid offense, you could put up some

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Speaker 1: points here. Think about think about let's let's be kind here,

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Speaker 1: Let's think about some you know, uh, middle of the

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Speaker 1: road NFL talent Correll buck, Alter Sharkndrick West Spencer were Like,

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Speaker 1: there's a long list of running backs that haven't really

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Speaker 1: caught on anywhere else in the NFL and yet had

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Speaker 1: fantasy relevancy because they were the lead running back for

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid. And now you've got a guy that everyone

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Speaker 1: agrees talent wise is among the elite. UM going there

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Speaker 1: getting twenty touches a game like this is the one

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Speaker 1: where I'm sort of talking out of both sides of

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Speaker 1: my mouth because I'm saying I want consistency. I want

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Speaker 1: guys that I've seen do it before. But um, for me,

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Speaker 1: the consistency here is lead running back of Andy Reid's offense.

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Speaker 1: Whoever parried into the story. And then you're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: oh it's that guy. Oh oh, it's c e h.

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Speaker 1: It's the you know, the star of LC is running game.

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Speaker 1: Like Okay, now, man, you know like and so, by

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Speaker 1: the way, I know you think that's high. But I

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Speaker 1: will just tell you that in any league that knows

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Speaker 1: what it's doing, Clyde Edwards Layer is not getting out

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Speaker 1: of the first round. They'll be at least one person

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Speaker 1: in your league that's into the hype. Like he says,

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Speaker 1: I that I would agree. I mean I'd take him

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Speaker 1: over Joe Mixon. Um. But at anyway, So what about

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Speaker 1: Nick Chilburn? You why don't you love Mr chilb So

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Speaker 1: my ESPN rankings are based on ESPN Standard Game. By

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Speaker 1: the way, it's free to play. Gotta get a plug in.

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Speaker 1: Please play at ESPN dot com. Sign up for free. Uh,

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Speaker 1: download our app free, it's all free. Uh. You can

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Speaker 1: start a league today. Um. And the game is PPR,

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Speaker 1: so full PPR. And you look at what Nick Chubb

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Speaker 1: did once cream Hunt came last year. First eight games

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Speaker 1: of the season, Nick Chubb was All world second half

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Speaker 1: of last year average the same basically amount of fantasy points,

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Speaker 1: scream Hunt. They were both outside the top fifteen running backs,

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Speaker 1: and so I agree with your premise to this point.

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Speaker 1: I agree that Cleveland offense is gonna be better. I

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Speaker 1: agree the line is going to be better. I believe

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Speaker 1: Kevin Stepanski is going to be more of a you know,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna want to run the ball to set up

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Speaker 1: play action. I believe it's gonna be a more efficient offense.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be in scoring position more often. So I'm

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Speaker 1: with you on all those things. And I also agree

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Speaker 1: that Nick Chubb is a very talented running back. Just

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Speaker 1: from a pure NFL standpoint, my concern is Jason so

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Speaker 1: scream Hunt, and I just don't know, like he's literally

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Speaker 1: like if you look at the numbers over the set

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Speaker 1: and half of last year, Kareem Hunt and Nick Chubb

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Speaker 1: were basically the same fantasy player on a point per

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Speaker 1: game basis, Kareem Hunt had more receiving yards, Nick Chubb

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Speaker 1: had more rushing yards, but they scored about the same

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Speaker 1: amount of fantasy points per game. And that you know,

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Speaker 1: and so your draft the way he's going in drafts,

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Speaker 1: Nick Chubb is going in the first round, like he

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Speaker 1: needs to be the guy in the first eight games,

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Speaker 1: not the guy that was next to Cream Hunt in

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Speaker 1: the second half. And so I wonder, yeah, I wonder

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Speaker 1: how much of that is coaching, because Kitchens was pretty

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Speaker 1: terrible last correct, But um, yeah, no, that's a that's

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Speaker 1: a great point about you never want a guy in

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Speaker 1: the first round who's splitting carries obviously that's right, or

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Speaker 1: splitting running back touches. Kareem Hunts is good at pass

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Speaker 1: catching running back is there is in the NFL. And

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Speaker 1: so I don't think if you're Kevin stan I believe

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Speaker 1: this fantasy football. I think sometimes we make it too

589
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Speaker 1: hard and we overthink stuff, right. I always write, you know,

590
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Speaker 1: I write I read an article every year called the

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Speaker 1: Draft Day Manifesto, which is now on sp dot com

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Speaker 1: Company Man, And one of the things I say is that, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you when you're trying to analyze fantasy football,

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Speaker 1: when you're making any decision who to draft, who to start,

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Speaker 1: do I make this trade, do I pick up this player,

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Speaker 1: Do I start this guy over this guy? Ask yourself

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Speaker 1: one very simple question. What's most likely to happen doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean it's always gonna happen. But it's just to play

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Speaker 1: the odds, right. It's like you sit down to the

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Speaker 1: blackjack table and you always split aces and eight. You know,

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Speaker 1: you always you always, um you hold on seventeen. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean it always gonna work. You know sometimes that the

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Speaker 1: you know dealers showing dearil showing at twelve and post

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Speaker 1: a nine. It happened. But the fact is is that, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you play the odds more often than not,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna work. And so you think about what's most

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Speaker 1: likely to happen in Cleveland. Do you think Kevin Stapanski

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Speaker 1: and we're talking merely NFL. We're not talking about anything

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Speaker 1: off the field, but merely as an NFL player, do

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Speaker 1: you think Kevin Stapanski gets to Cleveland goes, you know

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Speaker 1: what I need of in this offense, less Kareem Hunt.

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Speaker 1: Let me figure out a way to get Kareem Hunt

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Speaker 1: out of this offense. No, of course, not from a

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Speaker 1: from a purely NFL standpoint, cream Hunt is an insanely

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Speaker 1: talented player. And so I think Kevin sa fans, you've

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Speaker 1: heard rumors that they're like Kareem Hunt's gonna be their

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Speaker 1: slot receiver. The fact is is that I think Nick

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Speaker 1: Chubb the argue, the pro Nick Chubb argument is is

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Speaker 1: that that offense is so much better than it was

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Speaker 1: last year. Because I agree with the Kitchens, you know

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Speaker 1: that was a disaster last year. That the offense is

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Speaker 1: so much better last year, that the that the decrease

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Speaker 1: in touches for Nick Chubb is made up by the

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Speaker 1: increase in goal line carries, that the offense is more

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Speaker 1: efficient and it's scoring more and that they win getting

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Speaker 1: close to your point, to your point, Dalvin Cook led

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Speaker 1: the NFL and goal to go carries last year led

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Speaker 1: the NFL and goal to go carry. Now the Vikings,

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Speaker 1: all due respect, didn't have Odell Beckham Jr. Right, I

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Speaker 1: mean there's That's the other concern here is that when

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Speaker 1: they get in close, is it always going to Nick

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Speaker 1: Chubb or is Kareem Hunt involved? They to a big deal.

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Speaker 1: They've got David and Joke who are still there. They

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Speaker 1: suddenly like a lot of guys there that we've seen

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Speaker 1: have success in the NFL. So I think the Browns

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Speaker 1: could be a post hype sleeper kind of offense. Because

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Speaker 1: we were all on the Browns last year and that

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Speaker 1: obviously blew up on our faces. But um, that's my

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Speaker 1: concern on Nick Chubb in a full PPR scoring setting

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Speaker 1: is that I don't know that he gets enough passing

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Speaker 1: down work and that Cream Hunt eats into enough of

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Speaker 1: his work that it doesn't make him the dominant guy

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Speaker 1: that he was over the first half of the season.

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Speaker 1: But I'm with you. I think Nick Chubb's a I

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Speaker 1: think he's an awesome running back, and I think that

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Speaker 1: offense is going to be a lot better this year. Alright,

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Speaker 1: So last one is kind of, um, it's a difficult

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Speaker 1: one because if I I'm not as high on Tom Brady, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, forty three years old as everyone else. Is

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Speaker 1: the big discussion of Godwin or Evans, who is the

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Speaker 1: smarter pick. The big number that jumps out Matthew, of course,

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Speaker 1: is that Jamis Winston loved action. Last year. He loved

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Speaker 1: to throw the deep ball. His average throw traveled uh

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Speaker 1: ten and a half yard, second most in the league.

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady last year twenty eight for average throw traveling.

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Speaker 1: He he doesn't do the play action as well, and

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Speaker 1: he's got his old security blanket and Gronk. So are

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Speaker 1: you on the team Godwin team Evans or are you like, hey,

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Speaker 1: they're both gonna split and there's Gronk and you seem

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Speaker 1: to love this running back to Kid Vaughan that they drafted.

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Speaker 1: How do you handle the Godwin Evans discussion? Well, I

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Speaker 1: think I'm I'm in on both of them. I have

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Speaker 1: both them slightly lower than where they finished last year,

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Speaker 1: but I have both a top ten wide receivers. I'm

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Speaker 1: in on Brady. Let's just start there and then we

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Speaker 1: can we can move to answer your question. So again,

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Speaker 1: this is one of those like as we said at

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Speaker 1: the top of the show, like I want consistency. I

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Speaker 1: want the same thing I want, you know, And so

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Speaker 1: there's big but there's a few exceptions, and I think

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady is one of those exceptions. Um So a

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Speaker 1: couple of things. So first off, just the offense, right,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a fantasy friendly offense. Jamis Winston

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Speaker 1: through already interceptions last year. Right, we all know it's

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Speaker 1: famous that, right. People don't realize Jamis Winson was the

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Speaker 1: fifth best quarterback in Fantasy last year. M Like they

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Speaker 1: were six and past percentage last year. And then You're like, well,

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Speaker 1: that's because they were down and everything like that. Maybe,

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Speaker 1: but Bruce Arians has always been a throw first coach.

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Speaker 1: Think back to his time in Arizona. Everyone said Carson

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Speaker 1: Palmer was done. He played two years in Oakland. Uh,

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Speaker 1: he had averaged like fourteen Fantasy points a game. They're like,

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Speaker 1: Carson Palm was done, he's over. Well, he played four

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Speaker 1: years under Bruce Arians in Arizona, and other than the

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Speaker 1: year that he got hurt, like in Game five or

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Speaker 1: something like that, he threw for four thousand yards. Thread.

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Speaker 1: It was four years in Arizona. He was thirty six

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Speaker 1: years old, you know, and I think car a thirty

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Speaker 1: six year old Carson Palmer is probably in Tom Brady

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Speaker 1: years forty three because Brady's obviously a genetic freak. Um.

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Speaker 1: In Carson Palmer's thirty six year old season, he finished

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Speaker 1: as QB five under Bruce Arians. A good call on

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Speaker 1: Carson Palm. Remember like, I almost want an m v

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