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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, November two, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your man, MG,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Grant with my guy Michael f Floria. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: we're previewing the rest of the Week nine slate, plus

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Speaker 1: we're giving you our fantasy heroes. Continuing our look at

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Speaker 1: the Sunday early slate, we got the Rams at the Packers.

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Speaker 1: Now the Rams trying to wait to see what the

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Speaker 1: status of Matthew Stafford is going to be as he

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Speaker 1: injured his thumb last week and the loss to the

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Do we keep riding with Cooper Cup and

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Speaker 1: Pooka Nakula And on the other side, what do we

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Speaker 1: do about Christian Watson and Aaron Jones and a Packer

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Speaker 1: offense that has been just straight up bad.

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Speaker 2: I know they've been They've let you down a little

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Speaker 2: bit as of late, but I still think with Cooper

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Speaker 2: Cup and Pooka Nakula, the upside is far too high,

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Speaker 2: especially with four teams on by in every place that

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Speaker 2: I have those two, I'm not even considering sitting them,

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Speaker 2: so I would not wreck even if Matthew Stafford doesn't

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Speaker 2: play this week. I still think the upside is too

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Speaker 2: high for these two guys that I'm gonna put them

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Speaker 2: in my lineup and understand that the risk might be

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Speaker 2: single digits, but the upside is twenty plus. As for

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Speaker 2: the Packers, Watson is a sit right now. Half of

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Speaker 2: his targets this year have been uncatchable. It's more on

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Speaker 2: Jordan Love than on him. But we're getting no big

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Speaker 2: plays out of this Packers offense. It's been a grind

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Speaker 2: just to get anything going. He has not reached twelve

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Speaker 1: In a game this year.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Jones, I don't know what to do with him.

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Speaker 2: Every week he suits up and it's like, Okay, he's playing,

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Speaker 2: but he's playing less snaps than AJ Dillon. They're splitting groundwork.

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Speaker 2: He's not really getting used in the passing game. I

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Speaker 2: think because of the status of the running back position

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Speaker 2: right now, you probably just got a roll with Aaron Jones.

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Speaker 2: But I feel worse about him than I have in years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what to do with Aaron Jones.

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Speaker 1: Christian Watson. I could figure out how to bench and

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Speaker 1: about that. I would say I'm with you. You're riding

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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup, you're riding with Pooka Nakua. Since Cup came

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Speaker 1: back in week five, those two guys combining for about

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Speaker 1: two thirds of the targets about seventy five percent of

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Speaker 1: the air yards. The floor obviously is lower now, the

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Speaker 1: ceiling probably a little bit lower. But just because they're

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Speaker 1: the potential for them to still have a good game

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Speaker 1: regardless of who the quarterback is. And you know, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if it's Stafford somehow, or if it's going

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Speaker 1: to be Brett Rippon, or you know, maybe if John

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Speaker 1: The upside to that is that, hopefully with Stafford, this

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Speaker 1: is a short term thing, so you're only having to

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Speaker 1: Texans two running backs who have been meh or worse.

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Speaker 1: You got Rashad White on one side, you got Damian

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Speaker 1: a bad game against the Panthers. But Rashad White's playing

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Speaker 1: pretty well lately. Do we stay with the hot hand here?

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Speaker 2: He's given you over fifteen fantasy points in two straight

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Speaker 2: He's getting used more in the passing game, which goes

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Speaker 2: a long way. And the Texans they're not what they

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Speaker 2: allowed five passing touchdowns this season after allowing the fewest

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Speaker 2: I didn't like him coming into the year, and I

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Speaker 1: We are getting better results, and I think he actually

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Speaker 1: You keep getting those targets from Rashad White. You look

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Speaker 1: and I think you stick with this. Commanders at the Patriots. Look,

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Speaker 1: bad over the last couple of weeks. Can we stream

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Speaker 1: him against the Commander's defense that is incredibly toothless right now?

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Speaker 1: And do we trust any of his pass catchers.

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Speaker 2: I think you can stream Mac Jones this week, And

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Speaker 2: I'm not telling you to play him over your regular

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Speaker 2: You know you're Dak Prescott's or anyone like that, But

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Speaker 2: Dak is the name that keeps coming to my mind.

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Speaker 2: I try to think of a quarterback, but like Jared

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Speaker 2: Goffson by this week, Trevor Lawrence is on by, Brock

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Speaker 2: Mac Jones is in play because of the matchup. Commanders

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Speaker 2: have allowed the third most passing yards, most passing touchdowns,

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Speaker 2: Dmario Douglas, who last week led them in.

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Speaker 1: Routes and targets. I think I feel bad because Kendrick

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Speaker 1: Their secondary is getting cooked on the regular. So mccorkel

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Speaker 1: Chris o'lave in the New Orleans offense? Very unfortunately?

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Speaker 2: Like I believe that Chris Olave is one of the

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Speaker 2: think it's seventy one percent of the Saints passes on

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Speaker 2: last year we were calling Chris Olave mister air Yards

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Speaker 2: a bit of an up and down year for Chris Olav.

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Speaker 2: He's not at the point where we can't start him

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Speaker 1: It's just one of those things where everything seems to

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Speaker 1: just doesn't happen. The very smart, very talented, very funny

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Speaker 1: He keeps track of what he calls unrealized air yards,

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Speaker 1: there's still a lot of ballgame left in terms of

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Speaker 1: the regular season. It's only week nine, right There are

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Speaker 1: It's incredibly frustrating. I'm not willing to give up though

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Speaker 1: We still got a whole bunch of games left to go.

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Speaker 1: We got the later part of the slate, plus Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night Football, Monday Night Football, and our Fantasy Heroes. As

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Speaker 1: we come back on the NFL Fantasy Football Show, looking

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Speaker 1: at the late slates of games from Week nine, We'll

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Speaker 1: start with the Colts at the Panthers. Do we start

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Speaker 1: Zak Moss? Do we start any of the Panthers running backs?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you start Zach Moss one hundred percent. I don't

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Speaker 2: think people fully realize that in the four games that

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor has played, Zach Moss has outscored him in

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Speaker 2: three of them. They continue to split opportunities, like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: last week Taylor played more snaps, but they it was

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Speaker 2: fourteen opportunities to Moss's thirteen. Moss is the one that

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Speaker 2: gets used near the goal line a bit. They're both

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Speaker 2: a matchup, you start them both. And I think on

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Speaker 2: the other side, Chuba Hubbard is in play as a

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Speaker 2: sneakier option. Sixty six percent of the snaps this past week,

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Speaker 2: Miles Sanders had two touches. So the Colts they struggle

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Speaker 1: Chuba Hubbard for sure, starting Zach Moss. You mentioned the

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Speaker 1: run that Zach Moss has been on lately. He is

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Speaker 1: is still getting it done. Even with Jonathan Taylor there.

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Speaker 1: other side, I guess you can start Chuba Hubbard. I

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Speaker 1: don't want any part of that backfield because the worst

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Speaker 1: thing to happen last week was that you had three

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Speaker 1: So I'm starting him. I'm starting him because of the

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Speaker 1: I I don't know, Maybe I'm just being too optimistic

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Speaker 1: if you're losing and you need, if you need to

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Speaker 1: it's the Chargers and the Jets from New Jersey. The

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Speaker 1: Chargers got a much needed win last week against the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Justin Herbert is still in play. I

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Speaker 2: as Halloween for and Saft Garden Ohs and DJ Reid

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Speaker 2: and the Jets allowed by far, it's like sixteen fantasy

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Speaker 2: points per game to opposing wide receivers. Every other team's

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Speaker 1: You talk about Sauce Gardner and I went and looked

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Speaker 1: this up on PFF. He has been targeted on just

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Speaker 1: the Jetropolitans. That is the end of the Week nine slates,

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Speaker 2: Don't ever call me a homer, because I'm going with

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow against my Buffalo Bills. Joe Burrow looked healthy

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Speaker 2: this past week. Not only did he throw for two

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Speaker 2: Now he gets the Bills I knew. I know they

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe Burrow looks like Joe Burrow again, and the

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Speaker 1: both Taylor and Moss will get plenty of touches. Both

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Speaker 1: we are in the back half of the fantasy regular season,

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Speaker 1: and it's flying along.

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Speaker 2: At this point, it is flying and Week nine is

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Speaker 1: This week. They really are very very good this week,

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Speaker 1: so looking forward to that one. And on the West coast,

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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Josh. We'll talk to you again real soon.