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Speaker 1: Wow, what is Welcome to another edition of the NFL

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Line Podcast. It's me Man M G. Marcus Ground

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Speaker 1: alongside the Fantasy Hall of Famer Michael Fabiano and uh

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Speaker 1: fas it was, this is another weird week. I think

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Speaker 1: this is another kind of weird fantasy. I mean, Mitchell

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Speaker 1: Jerbinski looked like Joe Montana six touchdown passes, Jared got

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Speaker 1: five touchdown passes. It was an insane week for quarterbacks, man,

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Speaker 1: And like, I'm not talking about Aaron Rodgers, because Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers did not have a good game by his stands,

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Speaker 1: talking about some of these matchup based quarterbacks like Andy Dalton.

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Speaker 1: My goodness, gracious, some of these quarterbacks are putting up

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Speaker 1: huge numbers, you know. And we may get to it

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Speaker 1: a little bit later on this show, but I just

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Speaker 1: I was looking last night. It's been it has been

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Speaker 1: a quarterback heavy year, like insane, insane quarterback year. But

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Speaker 1: even Dak had eighteen point more than normal. It's been.

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Speaker 1: It's just been wild for the quarterbacks behind the glass.

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Speaker 1: As always, it is our loyal and faithful producer, Sir

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Speaker 1: Edward L. Murphy Esquire Murph what's up? Yeah, just going

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Speaker 1: along with but fab just said, the NFL is so

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Speaker 1: unpredictable but gets so fun. You have these quarterbacks just

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Speaker 1: throwing for four yards, you have six touchdowns. You have

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Speaker 1: teams you don't expect to win winning. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: I might hate how my team is playing, but I

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Speaker 1: have I'm definitely a fan of of the league in

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Speaker 1: general this year. It's a lot of fun to look

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Speaker 1: at the man we're in that Yankees jersey behind the glass.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah, oh yeah, sorry, Mark, I did

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Speaker 1: see you. I did see on on Twitter on Sunday

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Speaker 1: that that you hit sort of you're kind of waving

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Speaker 1: the white flag by the Giants. It's over. Like, I'm

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Speaker 1: just a fan of my fantegy football teams. I'm a

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Speaker 1: fan of the amount of offense in the league. It's

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Speaker 1: of the NFL this year. Yeah, I just thought I

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Speaker 1: thought that was funny. He's just he's just, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's kind of thrown in the towel watching the Giants

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Speaker 1: on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. We got planning

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Speaker 1: to talk about we are at the quarter pole, right,

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Speaker 1: and it's funny, as I say this, because I know

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Speaker 1: that when I say this somebody out there who's a

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Speaker 1: huge horse racing fan, it's probably gonna tweet at me

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Speaker 1: and tell me that I'm saying it wrong, because in

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Speaker 1: horse racing, I know, the quarter pole is when there's

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Speaker 1: one quarter of the race left to go. Screw you.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Yeah, that's actually the actual term,

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Speaker 1: but nobody uses it that way. Everybody says the quarter

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Speaker 1: pole when you get to one quarter of the season.

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Speaker 1: So that's how I'm gonna say it. Uh, it's the

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Speaker 1: quarter pole. We're gonna talk about the the If we

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Speaker 1: could do some draft things over again, how would we

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Speaker 1: look at some of these players who either have underperformed

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Speaker 1: or overperformed. Would we draft them in the same way?

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Speaker 1: Would we? Uh? We do something different? Who are the

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Speaker 1: biggest busts, biggest surprises? All that kind of stuff. Plus,

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Speaker 1: because it is Monday, we'll talk waiver wire as well,

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Speaker 1: get you some names that you may want to target

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Speaker 1: as you go forward. We are into the bys. We

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Speaker 1: have byes last week, we have two buys coming up

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Speaker 1: this week, so a lot to talk about there as well,

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Speaker 1: And maybe it's some of your tweets as well. For

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Speaker 1: Monday moments you can, Uh kind of vent a little bit,

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Speaker 1: because that's what we like to do here. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: let's do some news. H Rob Gronkowski left the Patriots

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Speaker 1: win on Sunday with an ankle injury. In fact, the

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Speaker 1: latest update is that he is considered day today, which

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Speaker 1: a little bit nerve wracking because the Patriots are on

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Speaker 1: a short week. They play on Thursday this week, so

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Speaker 1: that means it's a couple of days, a couple of

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Speaker 1: fewer days for Gronk to get healthy and be back

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Speaker 1: out there on the field. Um, I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: this is big. I know Gronk hasn't been great since

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Speaker 1: week one, He's just kind of been you know my,

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Speaker 1: But it's Gronk and we're looking for we're looking for

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Speaker 1: tight ends anywhere. So to potentially take one of the

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Speaker 1: it is. Uh. Ian Rapport though, did tweet that Gronk

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Speaker 1: is quote not horrible, so we'll see what happens. But

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Speaker 1: Gronkowski is a question mark. He lose Tyler Effort and

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Speaker 1: prayers out to Tyler Effort. That was awful. I hated

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Speaker 1: will this Lee got hurt. So if you need a

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Speaker 1: So this is this is a really difficult position to

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Speaker 1: would you pick up Dwayne Ellen? Oh I can't do it.

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Speaker 1: I mean I just think I feel like on a Thursday,

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Speaker 1: you got Julian Edelman back. The good news for Gronto

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Speaker 1: is like when he comes back, if it's Thursday or

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Speaker 1: so defenses can't, you know, focus all of their attention

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Speaker 1: on Gronkowski should open up things for him. Maybe he

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Speaker 1: and I just made a trade last week which helped

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Speaker 1: neither one of us that Juju and Gronkowski. But we digress. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's sort of made actually kind of made me feel

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Speaker 1: So it was even in the in the sense that

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Speaker 1: nobody all sucked right exactly. Um, you mentioned Tyler Ifort.

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Speaker 1: He is done for the year, had an awful, awful

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Speaker 1: seen it. Either way, the season is over. I came

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Speaker 1: This was just bad. He was having a good game, too,

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Speaker 1: very productive game. He was a guy that I liked

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Speaker 1: a lot going into the week and we just helped things. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Now I know that, you know, I think the knee

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Speaker 1: jerk reaction for a lot of people might be to

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Speaker 1: go and try to get Tyler Croft. But let me

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Speaker 1: let me throw in the name c J Usuma Usama.

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Speaker 1: have a touchdown, not a lot of targets at this point,

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Speaker 1: I would say, you know, give Usama a shot. He's

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Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon, in case you're still looking for a tight end.

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Speaker 1: But it's man, it is bleak out there. It is bad,

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Speaker 1: it really is. And if you drafted Travis Kelsey, You've

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Speaker 1: has been pretty good too, It's it's you, Marse, so

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Speaker 1: use him up. The hardest name I've ever had to

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Speaker 1: to pronunciate on air, though, Shay and Jira two too.

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Speaker 1: I could die to say that name forever, pres State's finest.

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Speaker 1: And Edie's like, who the hell is Shade Man? Why?

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Speaker 1: Why ever? See her? Played for the Charge? Yes for

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Speaker 1: Huamanwanui know that one. I don't say that one. I

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Speaker 1: have Marker say yeah, exactly, I'm good. Um. Other news,

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Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook admits that he is not one, which I

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Speaker 1: is not the Dalvin Cook we were hoping. This situation

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Speaker 1: you're not doing him any good. You're not doing Murray

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Speaker 1: And more importantly, you can't help fantasy owners by doing

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Speaker 1: And they've got the Eagles this week, and the Eagles defense, guys,

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Speaker 1: there's more risk than reward as long as he's dealing

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Speaker 1: for Ryan Fitzpatrick Huh, alright, Ryan's Patrick Banks for Jameis Winston.

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Speaker 1: As the Bucks lost, they got not just lost, they

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Speaker 1: got rolled by the Chicago Bears. Was embarrassing, just rolled

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Speaker 1: by the Chicago Bears on Sunday. And if it's Patrick

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Speaker 1: Patrick mom. Uh you speak of running backs, I mean

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Speaker 1: you've got Kenyan Drake and he was a guy I

428
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Speaker 1: are you worried that Frank Gore is going to live

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Speaker 1: I've seen a weekend and week out. Obviously, kid drinks

433
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434
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Speaker 1: wait for mark Ingram to be lifted from his suspension now. Way,

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Speaker 1: that's my Uh, that's that's that's that's my the one

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Speaker 1: for him to get in there and get involved with

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Speaker 1: the way you see the Saints running the ball. I

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Speaker 1: can only imagine that mark Ingram getting those hand off

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Speaker 1: some of those touchdowns away from Kamara. I'm so excited

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Speaker 1: about that. So I think my team overall, the Russian

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Speaker 1: we talked about miss fraternities. I had Cooper Cup on

447
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Speaker 1: most miserable feeling of today. Um, everything else I could

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450
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Speaker 1: to be kicking myself in a butt about come Tuesday morning,

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Speaker 1: trust me. But every single week so I talked about

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Speaker 1: Brian Dawkins Men's events all out or all in on

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Speaker 1: October four, Man, I mean so honored and blessed be

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Speaker 1: a part of that. Uh Me and Brian obviously played

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Speaker 1: be exact, And in that time, Man, we created a bridge,

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Speaker 1: uh kind of fellowship of monks um two guys that

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Speaker 1: she men maximize their lives in every role whether his

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Speaker 1: husband's uh fathers, coaches, teachers, whatever role you see yourself

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Speaker 1: as um as a men in this you know, in

463
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Speaker 1: in society, the a just finding a way to maximize

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Speaker 1: the throwing through the things of having a good character,

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Speaker 1: a good integrity, being able to fall back on your

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Speaker 1: instincts as a man and and and and be more

467
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Speaker 1: than what you see others. We see other guys fall

468
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Speaker 1: into depression, pornography, and you know these these other insecurity

469
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Speaker 1: things the guys are going through. We just kind of

470
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Speaker 1: felt there was a need once he stepped away from

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Speaker 1: the NFL UH to put together a platform. And this

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Speaker 1: conference is the first of many. There's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: platform for men to sit down and listen to us

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Speaker 1: have testimony about things we struggled with throughout our lives

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Speaker 1: UM as players and as husbands and fathers, UM and

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Speaker 1: then try to give these gas and encouragement and some

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Speaker 1: structure of how to like put these uh put these

478
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Speaker 1: things back together in their lives and be better men. Hey, well, Sean,

479
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Speaker 1: appreciate the work you guys are doing in the community.

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Speaker 1: Look forward to to kind of continuing to to follow

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Speaker 1: this and all the words that you and Brian Dawkins

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Speaker 1: and everybody's doing, and appreciate the time. Best of luck

483
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season and fantasy hopefully we can

484
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Speaker 1: we can talk to you later and you have have

485
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Speaker 1: pulled this out and figure out a way to win

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Speaker 1: a championship. I'm looking forward in and making a run

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Speaker 1: like I said, when market comes back, I'm looking forward

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Speaker 1: Thanks agatting to Sean Barber for dropping by to talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about his Fantasy team, and he had

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Speaker 1: charity work he is doing along with Brian Dawkins, and

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Speaker 1: I wish him continued success with that and with the

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Speaker 1: Fantasy team as well. It's good to know, though that

522
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Speaker 1: even the former former players still make some of these

523
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Speaker 1: same mistakes. With man, we're all looking at the same numbers.

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Speaker 1: You know who you know? Jordan Howard was a perfect example.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like trying to predict a human endeavor is

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Speaker 1: difficulty and people don't understand that Twitter. I think they do.

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Speaker 1: I think they just like to vent at us, and

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Speaker 1: we are we are the focus of their rage sometime.

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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you gotta look at yourself in the mirror. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's right, You're the one who hit submit on that

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Speaker 1: proster um. Alright, So here we are we are. By

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Speaker 1: the time tonight ends, we will be four weeks through

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Speaker 1: the season, so most everyone will have played four games,

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Speaker 1: their quarter of their season will be done. So that

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Speaker 1: seems like a good time to kind of look back

536
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Speaker 1: at the draft and how things went in your respective drafts,

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Speaker 1: and and your tweet, your scheduled, your your strategy a

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Speaker 1: little bit, think of some different things, think of how

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Speaker 1: you would do it over if you had a chance

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Speaker 1: to do it over. So let's just start at the top.

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Speaker 1: I mean, when we were back in the summer, we

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Speaker 1: were talking about four guys that could possibly be the

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Speaker 1: number one overall pick. I mean at the time, it

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Speaker 1: was in no particular order, you know, leve Bell, Todd Gurley, Ezekiel, Elliott,

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Speaker 1: David Johnson. I would say that at this point in

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Speaker 1: this season that list might be down to three, and

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Speaker 1: I think only one of those four guy guys would

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Speaker 1: be in that I'll say this, you know, I'll say four.

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Speaker 1: I'll put it back at four. And with two of

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Speaker 1: those guys in that list. So if you were drafting today,

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Speaker 1: let's go Todd Gurley and say Zeke Elliott, Alvin Camara,

552
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Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon. Who would you take number one? For me?

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Speaker 1: It would be Gurle and uh, Camaro would be a

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Speaker 1: very close two. You know, as great as he is

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Speaker 1: marketing rams coming back, I mean he's gonna see some

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Speaker 1: touches out of that backfield. Uh. You know, Camara has

557
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Speaker 1: been very successful as a pass catcher two two weeks

558
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Speaker 1: ago had twenty targets. But I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: live Bell. Okay, So in our experts, to the guy

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Speaker 1: drafted live Bell, I think I was like fourth or

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Speaker 1: fifth overall. Um, and uh news hadn't really broke that

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Speaker 1: there could be a potential long layoff here for him.

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Speaker 1: And UM, yeah, I won my first game, I've lost

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Speaker 1: the last three. And I can promise you right now

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Speaker 1: James Conner just is not Levian Bell. And after last

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Speaker 1: night we saw what the Steelers offense did or didn't do.

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00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger looked terrible. He looked terrible. Even at home,

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Speaker 1: you looked terrible. And you know, I'm sitting there on

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Speaker 1: my concup thinking to myself, James Conner, ain't Levian Bell

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Speaker 1: the and and you know I got I got wrapped

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Speaker 1: into it. Two. The first week he was ridiculous, you know,

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Speaker 1: a hundred thirty five yard rushing, thirty four fantasy points

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Speaker 1: and then every week Marcus is fantasy points have dropped

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Speaker 1: and dropped and dropped, and I get it. Yesterday was

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Speaker 1: a big part of it was game script because the

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00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: Ravens were winning. The Steelers are being in the run.

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Speaker 1: But the Ravens hell. Even even in game script games,

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Speaker 1: uh that are negative for Levian Bell, He's still putting

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Speaker 1: up big numbers. So I sent a tweet out and

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Speaker 1: I said, I missed at Levian Bell and I had

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Speaker 1: like the Deadpool where he does like the Little Heart again,

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Speaker 1: and lev like that tweet. Um, I missed the hell

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Speaker 1: out of Levion Bell. Right now, I've got him in

584
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Speaker 1: three leagues. Steelers fans, they have Damnische's gotta be missing

585
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Speaker 1: Levian Bell because the offense. I'm not saying it's falling apart,

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Speaker 1: but it is not nearly as good as it was

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Speaker 1: when Bell was the guy there. And here's the bad

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Speaker 1: news though, I mean, with what happened to Earl Thomas

589
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Speaker 1: and that stunk man, I was so upset that got hurt.

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Speaker 1: That's that's sort of adding fuel to the fire for

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Speaker 1: Levian building, right, He's come back before week ten, and

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Speaker 1: you know, I came in here, I'm thinking maybe I

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Speaker 1: should do some sort of just you know, really impassioned

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Speaker 1: emotional plea to Levian to come back. But after what

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Speaker 1: happened to Earle, I don't think I'm gonna do that

596
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Speaker 1: because it would be selfish of me to want Levian

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Speaker 1: Bell to come back without getting the money that he

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Speaker 1: so rightly deserves, just to help me on a fantasy

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Speaker 1: football team. With that being said, I really do believe,

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Speaker 1: and I've said this for weeks now, that unless Levian

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Speaker 1: Bell gets traded, he's not coming back. He's not coming

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Speaker 1: back until he needs to. And pretty much at that point,

603
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Speaker 1: who knows what's happening with James Conner, who knows what's

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Speaker 1: happening with the offense there, who knows what's happening with

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Speaker 1: the dealers. They're they're going in the wrong direction right now.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Levian Bell is is sort of he's

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Speaker 1: proving his point, you know, with what happened to Earle

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Speaker 1: and what's happening with the Steelers offense. And James Connor

609
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Speaker 1: is a good player, don't get me wrong, you know,

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Speaker 1: very inspirational story. He's not Levian Bell. And so if

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Speaker 1: you drafted Livian Bell in the first round like me,

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Speaker 1: you can't replace him. You just can't. James Connor has

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Speaker 1: been good, but he hadn't been great and his look

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Speaker 1: look at his yards pecuy average the last few weeks,

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Speaker 1: it has not been good at all. He just can't

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Speaker 1: replace him. So at this point, and I've talked about this,

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Speaker 1: and we've talked about this about making trades for Levian Bell.

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Speaker 1: Should you try to trade him to trade for him?

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Speaker 1: At this point, if you have him, unless you're willing

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Speaker 1: to give up nothing, you know, you can't trade him.

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Speaker 1: You can't trade him because the man is not coming

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Speaker 1: back to me. He's not coming back unless he gets traded. Now.

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Speaker 1: One thing that I would love to see is and

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Speaker 1: because the Colts have done this this sort of thing before,

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Speaker 1: you know, trade for that big name running back didn't

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Speaker 1: really work out for them at that point, I remember

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Speaker 1: I was excited when that deal happened. I'm like, oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, I remember I remember getting I think I

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Speaker 1: wrote actually for NFL dot Com. I think I said

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Speaker 1: that they were gonna be kind of the new Triplets

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Speaker 1: with the figured Andrew Luck, t Y Hilton, and Trent Richardson.

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Speaker 1: It was gonna be the new you know, Peyton Manning,

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Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison, uh, Adrian James situation. I was wrong. See now,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy say, if you're listening to me, and I know

635
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Speaker 1: you're following me on Twitter, you're probably not listening. But whatever,

636
00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: go and make the move, man. I mean, I get it.

637
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: The problem is you can't sign him a long term deal.

638
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: But imagine Olivian Bell and Indianapolis. My goodness, gracious that

639
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: the month just starts to salivate over the stats that

640
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: he could put up in that offense. Look a wood

641
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,440
Speaker 1: and he Hinz is doing as a bass catcher in

642
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: that offense. And if that ever happened, goodness gracious, everything

643
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: would be forgiven. Livian Bell would return to being uh,

644
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: the elite fantasy running gack that he is. Now. With

645
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: this being said, James Connor is not a must start anymore.

646
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: I mean, he's getting touches. He's probably an RB two,

647
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 1: he's not an RB one anymore. Good matchup this week

648
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: against Atlanta, so we can see what happens there. But

649
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: we can't kid ourselves. James Connor is not Levian Bell.

650
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: And until we get Bell back in that offense, Number

651
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: one Fantasy Fantasy drafted him in the first round are

652
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: going to continue to suffer. Number two, the Steeler's offense

653
00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,680
Speaker 1: is going to continue to suffer. And I mean Antonio

654
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: Brown hasn't been what we were hoping for when we

655
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 1: dropped him in the first round. I'm not saying it's

656
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: because of Levian Bell, but there's just something not clicking

657
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: there with that Steeler's offense. It's been very inconsistent. When

658
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger plays as badly as he played last night

659
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: at home, uh you know, in a divisional game, I mean,

660
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:32,440
Speaker 1: the offense just there. There's there's issues there right now.

661
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: So if Leave is listening, and I guarantee Jim Mercy

662
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: is not listening either, But I'm still gonna say it,

663
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 1: lev we miss you. I missed watching you play football.

664
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: Even if I didn't have you on my fantasy football team.

665
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 1: I loved watching you. I hope you get back soon, man.

666
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: And if you don't wear the old black and gold

667
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: or is it the black and yellow? What do they

668
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: call it black and golden? It's not gold, it's yellow.

669
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: But anyways, whatever color uniform Levan Bellas, maybe it's a

670
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: Colt's jersey will help. Just not the Jets. The Jets stink.

671
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: Just not the Jets. Uh. We will all be waiting

672
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,480
Speaker 1: for you, my man, because Fantasy fans and Steelers fans

673
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: are like, are certainly missing your production. Man. Look, you

674
00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: might not be willing to say that that Antonio brown

675
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: struggles have have a lot to do. I think it does.

676
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: I think it does. I think it's all yeah, it's

677
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: all part and parcel. I mean for sure, yeah. I

678
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: mean I think just not having that actual, that other

679
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: threat there that you don't know what what's going to happen,

680
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 1: that that guy that you have to pay attention to, um,

681
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: I think that opens things up in that offense. And look,

682
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: I don't know anything, obviously, I'm not in that locker room.

683
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: But I just have a sneaking suspicion that some of

684
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:44,240
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown's frustration this season has less to do with

685
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: what's happening, you know, in the huddle and on the field.

686
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,120
Speaker 1: And maybe this is my own speculation in the front office,

687
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: because you know, he understands that without love Bell there,

688
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard for him to get his it's

689
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for this offense to move. But this

690
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 1: is life now, this is your life now. And if

691
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: if you dry to Levian Bell, you're sort of stuck

692
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: because if I'm in your league and you're trying to

693
00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: hang him out there in a trade, I'm not gonna

694
00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: take at least I'm not gonna give you much for him,

695
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: you know, you know, take t J Yelden, right, I know,

696
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I legit. I'm gonna try to lowball you.

697
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: And you know, maybe if I can stash leve on

698
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: my on my roster somewhere and and hold on until

699
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: he comes back, but I'm not gonna give you anything

700
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: of real value to Yeah, and back to the initial conversation.

701
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: So right now, if you're looking at sort of how

702
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 1: the first round should sort of break down, it's still

703
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,000
Speaker 1: a lot of running back somewhere. So, I mean, it's

704
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: still it's still Alvin, it's still Girly, it's Melvin Gordon

705
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 1: who I think Money Smith got in the second round

706
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: in our draft. I mean a lot of people right

707
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: before he was kind of a fringe, you know, back

708
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,279
Speaker 1: into the first man because he's so he's been so

709
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 1: good the last couple of years. Well, for some reason,

710
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: just don't believe in him. But I think it's it's

711
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: just more that he's not efficient, and it's because he

712
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 1: gets you know, I think the fear was what happens

713
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,880
Speaker 1: if he doesn't get the same number of of touches,

714
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: but he's getting the same number of touches um, so

715
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,320
Speaker 1: that that still makes him. I mean, yeah, great, Michael

716
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: Thomas is a first round pick. Um, say, Quon Barkley

717
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 1: is still a first round pick. Adam Feeling into the

718
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: first round pick right well, yeah, I mean Feeling was

719
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: what like a late second. He's been tremendous second or

720
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 1: third round or yeah. So, I mean we're learning more

721
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: and it's ridiculous to you right now, I'm looking at

722
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: our our numbers here on NFL dot com flex starters,

723
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,919
Speaker 1: all of the players running backs, wide receivers, tight ends.

724
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:33,720
Speaker 1: You've got Girly at two, then you've got Cooper Cup

725
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: and then Brandon Cooks and Robert Woods all in the

726
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: top twenty one. This is among all players that aren't quarterbacks,

727
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: kickers and defenses like that's that's just saying something, man.

728
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: And if Jared Goff, he better be owned in your league,

729
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,439
Speaker 1: because if he's not, you're not playing in a good league.

730
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,200
Speaker 1: But this guy, if he hasn't been in your starting lineup,

731
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,919
Speaker 1: you gotta consider him. And even if you have Aaron

732
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: Rodgers on your team, Aaron Rodgers is not a guy

733
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: who's a quote unquote must start. I talked about that

734
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes all week. If you have Mahomes, uh,

735
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 1: if you have Matt Ryan, Hey, Jared Goff, this dude's bawling. Man.

736
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: This guy is balling. His numbers have been incredible, and

737
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: he is He's not a system quarterback. He's a talented

738
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: guy who's really gained a lot of confidence in mcveigh's offense,

739
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: and he's got three tremendous weapons in the passing game,

740
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: and he's got Todd Gurley behind him. Sometimes, as Yoda

741
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: would tell us, you must unlearned what you have learned,

742
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,399
Speaker 1: and sometimes trying to put Jared Goff in your line

743
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 1: up over a guy like Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers

744
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 1: just feels odd. Don't be afraid to do it, man,

745
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: do not be afraid to do it, especially in what

746
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: we've seen this year quarterbacks, man, I mean, the position

747
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: has got a lot of supply and not a lot

748
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: of demand, and it's it's coming down to the point

749
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: where if you've got a quarterback who maybe isn't a

750
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: big name and he's not Drew Brees. Uh, you're not

751
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, it doesn't matter. You can start quarterbacks over

752
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: these guys. Look at Blake Portles, Blake Portals. The one

753
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: week that everyone was on him, he stuck, which was

754
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: last week, and then everybody kind of faded him. Right, Okay,

755
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: you didn't have a good game last week. I'm gonna

756
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: back off of Blake Portals. And guess what Blake Portals does,

757
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: has another twenty point effort. No. No, By the way,

758
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: if if memory serves me right, he plays the Chiefs

759
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,760
Speaker 1: next week. He does. He's on the road at Kansas

760
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: City next week. So that's gonna be an interesting one.

761
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, yeah, I looked. I was looking

762
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,479
Speaker 1: at quarterbacks last night, and the one thing I noticed,

763
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: first of all, every week so far, there has been

764
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: at least one quarterback that has put up a five

765
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,000
Speaker 1: touchdown game. Ryan Fitzpatrick had the four passes in the

766
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: one run in week one. Um, you know, week two

767
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: you had Patrick Mahomes throwing for for six. In Week

768
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 1: three you have Ryan Ryan who threw for five. Drew

769
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: Brees were through three and ran for two more. Uh.

770
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: And then you know this past week Trabisky with the six,

771
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: Jared Golf with the five, Derek Carr well he had four.

772
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you know every week there's one one quarterback

773
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: who who has put up five or more touchdowns. UM,

774
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like that has less to

775
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:09,800
Speaker 1: do with some of these quarterbacks and more to do

776
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: with the fact that defenses just are they're just so

777
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: so handicapped. I mean, they're just their handcuffed that they

778
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: can't do anything. So how's this arcust? So right now

779
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: we're talking Mahomes hasn't played a tonight yet, but he's

780
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: got thirteen touchdowns. You got Rivers at eleven, Goff at eleven,

781
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton at eleven, Fitzpatrick and Elevin Cousins at ten,

782
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: Ryan at ten. So right now, the guys that are

783
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:35,280
Speaker 1: eleven or more are on pace for forty four touchdowns. Okay,

784
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: So and if you put my homes in there, you've

785
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:41,280
Speaker 1: got five guys on pace for forty four touchdowns plus.

786
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: And then you've got Matt Ryan who's got ten, Brady's

787
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: got nine, Andrew Luck's got nine. These guys on pace

788
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:50,320
Speaker 1: for thirty plus touchdown passes. It's insane. It is insane.

789
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,200
Speaker 1: And part of it, I think has to do with

790
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: the rules for the defense, because I can't you know,

791
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: if I'm a defender, I can't even hug a guy

792
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,840
Speaker 1: like Mayfield got hugged by a defender yesterday he got

793
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: you can't hit all the guy. He could have kissed

794
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 1: him and he still got thrown a flag. I was ridiculous.

795
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: You can't hit a quarterback, you can't touch a wide receiver. Um.

796
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: I mean, there's just there's there's you can't play defense

797
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 1: in this league. And I know you're part of it

798
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 1: is because fans like points, fans like offense. You know,

799
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 1: certainly you want to protect the quarterbacks because they are

800
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: the marquee players here. But it just, yeah, man, it's

801
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: just don't you miss like those old like the old

802
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: school defense battles like you know, and if you got

803
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: bears and fightings. It's like, you know, ten to seven

804
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: and the Battle in the Track. I missed some of

805
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 1: those games. I like the points, but I mean the

806
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: offense can't have this big of an opportunity and advantage

807
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,959
Speaker 1: over the defense. It's not fair. Like I'm not gonna

808
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: sit here and pretend that I love you know, like

809
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: thirteen twelve games all the time. Like some of them

810
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: are some of them can be entertaining, but at some

811
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: point you want the defense to be able to kind

812
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: of push back and not you want it to be

813
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: the defense get some wins and not that the offense

814
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,400
Speaker 1: is always taking out. Guys are afraid to hit dudes.

815
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying you got drill them, but like

816
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: they're afraid to even hit him right for fear of

817
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: getting a penalty. Maybe that's why Matt Ryan and Drew

818
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: Brees have each other game where they rushed for two

819
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: touchdowns because defenders, it's a quarterback, I can't touch You

820
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 1: can't touch him. I mean you just you just can't.

821
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: Um So, now, looking at some guys who were first

822
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: round picks or fringe first round picks, um would any

823
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: of these guys still be first round. If we were

824
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: drafting right now, would you still take these guys in

825
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: the first round? And I and I asked it because

826
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 1: it's more of a thought of not only what they've

827
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: done so far, but your confidence level that maybe they

828
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: can turn things around and and maybe make up that value.

829
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: So it just hurts me to ask this one. But

830
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: David Johnson, I mean, would he still be I mean, certainly,

831
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: I think he's completely out of the conversation for that

832
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: number one overall pick. I think that part is dead.

833
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: But do you still think that he would be worthy,

834
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: that they can turn things around enough that he'd be

835
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 1: worthy of being maybe a back half of the first round.

836
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I like what I saw yesterday more more

837
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: than I had when sat radif was a quarterback. So

838
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: but I'd probably I'd probably go late first, early second

839
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: on him. Crazy stat like, just looking at the numbers

840
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: in PPR leagues, he's got the same number of Fantasy

841
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 1: points as Austin Ekeler, who's balled out by the way.

842
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: But yes, I know, but I mean not expecting David.

843
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: David Johnson and Austin Eckler weren't supposed to be mentioned

844
00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 1: in the same sense. J Yelden has more Fantasy points

845
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 1: right now than DJ. You know that as a side.

846
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: As an a side, I've had to kind of come

847
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: around on t J Yelden because I was not a

848
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: t J. I'm not a big fan either. My my

849
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 1: problem with t J. Yell didn't was that he just

850
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: fell down a lot. And I mean seriously, like his

851
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,279
Speaker 1: first couple of years in the league, Like I would

852
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: watch him get the ball in space and he would

853
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: just fall down. And I like running backs that don't

854
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: just fall down of their own accord, like I want

855
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 1: them to have to be tackled, and he just I

856
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: don't know, he just had bad balance. I don't know

857
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: if he's doing yoga now, if he's learned how to

858
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: paddle board or something. Seems like his balance is better.

859
00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: He's not falling down all the time, and he's productive.

860
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: So fort If for Nett is out next week and

861
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: he got yelled in against Kansas City, get up. I

862
00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 1: don't even know what to tell people about Leonard for

863
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 1: a man like you're you're just you're in a world

864
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 1: to hurt. Yeah. Um mentioned Antonio Brown. He has not

865
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: he has not been really Antonio brownish. He had a

866
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: really nice touchdown catch on Sunday gets Baltimore, but it

867
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: was otherwise fairly average day, especially by Antonio Brown standards.

868
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: He was the consensus number one wide receiver off the board.

869
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: But would you still make him a first round pick

870
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,400
Speaker 1: at this point? I would, you know, I don't like

871
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: to take wide receivers in the first round, so for me, uh,

872
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: that's sort of a stretch to say that. He He

873
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: was in my top five in the preseason, and I

874
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: still think there's plenty of time for him to turn

875
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,440
Speaker 1: it around. Hasn't been a great start, but again, I mean,

876
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 1: you mentioned Levian Bell and how his absence is is

877
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: sort of affecting the Steeler's offense, and it's not been good.

878
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: But you look at and again we're only through, you know,

879
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: a handful of weeks here, so you can't go crazy

880
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 1: just yet. I mean, Shaan Jackson Robert Woods both had

881
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: more Fantasy points than Antonio Brown. Calvin Ridley, Calvin Ridleyvin

882
00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: Ridley is the greatest. Calvin Ridley has got more Fantasy

883
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: points than Antonio Brown. Juju has more Fantasy points than

884
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown, Cooper Cup has more. You get the picture.

885
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 1: It's been a slow start. To the season, But I

886
00:43:09,719 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: still say based on his resume and the fact that

887
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 1: every year, year in and year out, I mean, this

888
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: guy is right near the top, if not at the top,

889
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: at that wide receiver position, I'd still say he's worth

890
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: the first round pick. Next week they host the Falcons,

891
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: so you would think Dutch and again Roethlisberger. The home

892
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: road narrative is kind of going backwards the last couple

893
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: of weeks, um, but that just two weeks. Are you

894
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: still afraid to play Ben Roethlisberger despite that sideways turned

895
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks Atlanta at home? I mean,

896
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: it's more about the matchup, It's more about the level

897
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: where that game is being played. So alright, so then, uh,

898
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt, who last year was everybody's favorite rookie running back. Uh,

899
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: he's been an afterthought and otherwise high powered offense. He

900
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 1: was kind of a late first round, early second round guy.

901
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 1: I can't imagine you're at this point spending more than

902
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 1: what third fourth round, not even that much on him

903
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: at this point. Yeah, he definitely ain't going in the

904
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 1: first round and second round is is sort of sketchy

905
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 1: at best at this point, but his saving grace has

906
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: been that he's actually gotten into the end zone three times.

907
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: But I mean, look at his yardage. Sixty eight rushing yards,

908
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 1: that's it. I mean, if memory serves me correctly, he

909
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: had like a hundred forty something in the first game

910
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: last year. I think it was against New England. So

911
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:30,160
Speaker 1: those opportunities, those yardage, uh, those yardage totals leave a

912
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: lot to be desired. I mean, And the biggest thing

913
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: is they're not throwing him the ball. Nope. I mean

914
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,879
Speaker 1: last year just one catch his three targets all year long.

915
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 1: Last year he was getting about four targets per game. UM.

916
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: This year it's one per game, one in each game.

917
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,240
Speaker 1: It's almost like just a Chris Rey like here, here's

918
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 1: here's what's the big difference. Well, I mean Patrick mahomet

919
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: not checking down down the field. UM. But yeah, you know,

920
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 1: he's actually had some decent, you know, fairly decent rushing

921
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: yardage numbers. I mean, he had seventy five yards in

922
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: Week two against Pittsburgh. UM. But other than that, he's

923
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 1: he's Lamar Miller. I mean, really look at I mean,

924
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,200
Speaker 1: the way he's performed, he's he's kind of Lamar Miller

925
00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: and he sat the poor guy like that. I mean

926
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: with facts as facts. So there's I just now I said,

927
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: third or fourth round, mean maybe now that I'm looking now,

928
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: Markus was like, hell, I mean he may be you know,

929
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: maybe top fifty. Yeah, I mean that we'll see it.

930
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: Just it has not worked out for Kareema. Isn't fantasy fist.

931
00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: It is a fickle alright. So on the flip side, now,

932
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: some of these guys that h you know I have

933
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: played well even even if we had high expectations. Some

934
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: of these guys who have exceeded some of these expectations

935
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: and where you would draft, and I mentioned we talked

936
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 1: a little bit about Melvin Gordon. I mean he was

937
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 1: a guy who was back half of the first round.

938
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: You know on Fantasy pros. Uh, they're kind of consensus.

939
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 1: A DP had him meant like number eight overall he

940
00:46:00,080 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 1: would be. I mean he's a legitimate maybe not number one,

941
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: but he's the top three pit now all of a sudden, yeah,

942
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 1: I mean, and and the what he's really doing. And

943
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: he's always been a good pass catcher. He's twenty four

944
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: catches already, right, you know, I mean average six catches

945
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 1: a game as a running back that's pretty good. And

946
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: and Philip Rivers has all the faith in him in

947
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: the world. Is both the runner and pass catcher. And

948
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: the Charges are always going to score points. And another

949
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: thing that we didn't see coming with the Chargers that

950
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 1: has sort of come to fruition. The defense is not

951
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,360
Speaker 1: that good, is not good. So so again you're in

952
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: a situation where Melvin Gordon's gonna see a lot of

953
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 1: opportunities to score because well that offense is gonna potentially

954
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: need to catch up in games. Uh. Moving forward, Uh,

955
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: next one up. Adrian Peterson, who I know you and

956
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: I were both kind of like, ah, stay away. Well,

957
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: now he's dealing with the ankle. Now he's dealing so

958
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: he's gonna day to day I believe right now is

959
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: the early reports that you know, Washington had to buy

960
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: last week. They are back in action this week, but

961
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: he is sort of day to day with that ankle,

962
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens there, which could certainly, you know,

963
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:00,759
Speaker 1: although you know what, I feel like, we saw this

964
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 1: to his last couple of years, to where he spends

965
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: all weeks sort of like hobbling around in practice and

966
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:08,760
Speaker 1: then he goes out and he'll get, you know, twenty

967
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 1: five carries and then put up a decent stat line.

968
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: But this is a guy who you know, obviously the

969
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 1: start of of the preseason wasn't really on anybody's radars.

970
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 1: Get signed after the Darius Guy's injury and kind of

971
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: worked his way. Was by the time we got to

972
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: the regular season kicking off, he had become like a

973
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: tenth round pick. Yeah, And I mean at this point

974
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: he would be drafted higher. But I'm still waiting for

975
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 1: the wheels to fall off. I don't know me too,

976
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: actually I am. I mean, I don't want to be

977
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 1: a hater, but I mean he's one of the greatest

978
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 1: running backs of our generation. But fantasy or otherwise. But

979
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: another thing too they have to worry about is I

980
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: think they play on Monday Night. So if we don't

981
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: get some positive reports towards the end of the week,

982
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: then you may be thinking, Okay, can I play him?

983
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: Do I do we have to sit him because it's

984
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,359
Speaker 1: a Monday night game. But I mean, he's been better

985
00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 1: than advertised. But I've been saying it and I don't

986
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: care still saying it. I'd tell on him. I just

987
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 1: don't know that he's gonna survive a full sixteen game schedule.

988
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: I just don't. Yeah, he's he's Monday night on the

989
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 1: road in New Orleans. Um, Which is that a revenge game?

990
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:12,960
Speaker 1: I know? Is that a revenge? Well, I mean, actually

991
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 1: it is traded him him, they dumped him for Alvin Camaria,

992
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: traded in Arizona. That's totally a revenge, it is. Yeah.

993
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: So hopefully his status becomes as clearer as the week

994
00:48:24,760 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: goes on, because if he's raring to go and playing

995
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: against the Saints, he's gonna be pissed. Yeah, no, absolutely,

996
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 1: But like what you look at you guys straighted away? Man,

997
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: look straight away? I still I still just you know,

998
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: the the what has been grood for him is the

999
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 1: fact that they're giving him a lot of touches. And

1000
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: I just don't know that it continues all year long.

1001
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: I just don't know that they have room in the

1002
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: offense for him to get twenty carries a game. Maybe

1003
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:53,719
Speaker 1: there is, and maybe I'm wrong, but I'm willing to

1004
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 1: kind of bet against that this year. Yea. And how

1005
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:58,840
Speaker 1: about another dude who's long in the tooth for a

1006
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: running back, But Shawn Lynch, I mean, you know, I

1007
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: didn't love him coming in this season because of Doug Martin.

1008
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,439
Speaker 1: Holy how I would admit I've been I've been wrong

1009
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: on him because he looked because last year he didn't

1010
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: look like he had much left. It looked like he

1011
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: was just sort of, I won't say, going through the motions,

1012
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: but it was like, yeah, he's back because it's the

1013
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 1: Raiders and he's back in his hometown and you know

1014
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,359
Speaker 1: that's why he wants to come in and play out

1015
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: the string with the Raiders before they leave for Vegas.

1016
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: It just didn't seem like, you know, like like he

1017
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:28,439
Speaker 1: was kind of all in. But this year he looks

1018
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:30,840
Speaker 1: all in, and he looks like Marshawn Lynch, Like he

1019
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,839
Speaker 1: looks like the Seattle Beast mode that we saw when

1020
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: they were going to Super He was trucking dudes, and

1021
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:38,320
Speaker 1: Cleveland's got a good defense. He ain't show you yesterday.

1022
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 1: But do you remember that that one run that he

1023
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,720
Speaker 1: had where they whistled it dead, which he got would

1024
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:46,840
Speaker 1: have gotten loose and probably scored a touchdown. If I

1025
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: had Marshawn and I saw that, I'd be so pissed

1026
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: because my goodness, gracious, he wasn't down at all. I mean,

1027
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: that's Marshawn Lynch. I mean, come on, dude, Like so

1028
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: that was an awful whistle awful watching watching him run.

1029
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: It's like I imagine trying to be a defender and

1030
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: tackling Marshawn Lynch, And it's sort of like, you know,

1031
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: if if somebody were just standing into the street wildly

1032
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: swinging their arms just win meaning their arms around, how

1033
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: you'd have to kind of be sort of careful to

1034
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: try to get in there. Like, I feel like that's

1035
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,320
Speaker 1: what tackling Marshawn Lynch is. Like, Yeah, I just envisioned

1036
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 1: like ak Bar hitting Matt money Smith. That's kind of

1037
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,200
Speaker 1: what it would be like for Marshawn Lynch to hit you.

1038
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: But I mean boom. But right now, the way he's played,

1039
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: I feel like he's he's like a second round he'd

1040
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:36,800
Speaker 1: be a second round pick, right imagine that if you know,

1041
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: if we were discontinues, if we were to draft over

1042
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:41,359
Speaker 1: right now, Marshall Lynch is a second round running back

1043
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, you know, I mean I

1044
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: think he I think he has been that good so

1045
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 1: far this season. Um wide receiver Brandon Cooks and you

1046
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: know there were obviously expectations. He joins this offense in

1047
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles with the Rams, and my concern with

1048
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,400
Speaker 1: him one was that there weren't gonna be a lot

1049
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: of touchdowns, and so far he's scored just one. Um.

1050
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 1: I was worried that he would be more inconsistent that

1051
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 1: you would have right there with you. So far, it's

1052
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: been all up all the time. And even without the touchdowns,

1053
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: he's he has done enough to be a legit, you know,

1054
00:51:13,160 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: almost a wide receiver. One run. He's giving you fourteen

1055
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: plus in PPR every single week. He's giving you over

1056
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: twenty twice, and and I'm on board with you. I

1057
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: thought he was more of like a two or three

1058
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: than a one or two because of Robert Woods and

1059
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: because of Cooper Cup. But this offense is so good.

1060
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:34,040
Speaker 1: It's so good that there's just there's enough for all

1061
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: these guys to eat. And I didn't even mention Ty Curley,

1062
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: who's arguably the best running back in fantasy football. So

1063
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: it's it's been a surprise to me. But the Rams

1064
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: go into games and they just chuck it down your throat.

1065
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 1: They chuck it down your throat, They run girly, uh

1066
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: and they chuck it some more. And that's why Jared

1067
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: Gostummers have been so good. And that's why I mean

1068
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks we mentioned it. I mean, Brandon Cooks, Robert Woods,

1069
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: and Cooper Up are all in the top twenty five

1070
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 1: in PPR scoring, not among wide receivers, among everybody, among

1071
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:09,879
Speaker 1: running backs, wide receivers and tight ends. It's ridiculous. Yeah,

1072
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: And the part of it is because of all those

1073
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:17,000
Speaker 1: guys you mentioned. Um, you can't you can't focus your

1074
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:20,840
Speaker 1: energy defensively on one guy. You know, like if you

1075
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:22,919
Speaker 1: if you spend all your time trying to slow down

1076
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,280
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks, then you know, as we saw a Cooper

1077
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: Cup goes wild or Robert Woods goes wild. I mean,

1078
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: you can't focus on your energy on Todd Gurley. And

1079
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:32,400
Speaker 1: they've even gotten their tight ends involved. I mean, there

1080
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 1: was thought that maybe the tight ends start to get

1081
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:35,919
Speaker 1: more involved this year. That hasn't even been the case.

1082
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: And they haven't. They haven't missed them. You know, nobody

1083
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: nobody's complaining that Tyler Higbee or Gerald Everett aren't really

1084
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: getting involved in this offense because I mean, they're they're

1085
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: just rolling right. And you look at the schedule too,

1086
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: and at this point their matchup proof Minnistota's defense is

1087
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: not as good as we thought it was going to be.

1088
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: But I mean they got wrapped last week. You're at

1089
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: Seattle and you mentioned it on the show. On the

1090
00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: TV side, I mean, the legion of broom is it's

1091
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,719
Speaker 1: over a lot of pour them out At Denver. I mean, okay,

1092
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 1: you know, tougher matchup. You know, Denver is not as

1093
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,240
Speaker 1: good as it used to be. At San Francisco, good matchup,

1094
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: Green Bay shootout, potentially, New Orleans shootout, potentially, Seahawks uh

1095
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:15,800
Speaker 1: Kansas City shootout, potentially, at Detroit shootout potentially. Then you

1096
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: got the Bears in Week fourteen. That's probably the hardest

1097
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: and toughest match that they're gonna face all season long.

1098
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: Then you've got Philadelphia the week after, but again home game.

1099
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: Eagles are not good defensively on the road. It's weird.

1100
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: Just look at the numbers. I'm telling you the truth.

1101
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: And then Week sixteen at Arizona, so you can be

1102
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: having a lot of a lot of those l A

1103
00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: rams leading a lot of people into their playoffs and

1104
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 1: through the championship. What right now, and this is me

1105
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: my galaxy brain projecting way down the road. Um, if

1106
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:50,040
Speaker 1: you have Rams, if you have you know, Girly Woods,

1107
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: Cup Cooks Golf, you need the Saints, you need you know,

1108
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 1: somebody in the NFC North. That's if it's the Bears,

1109
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: if it's the the Vikings to turn it around, you

1110
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:05,520
Speaker 1: need somebody. You just need somebody else to keep pushing

1111
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: the Rams. Yes, yes, they're gonna have They're gonna have

1112
00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: this division locked up because there's nobody else in the

1113
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: NFC West. It's going to challenge them that the Stalks

1114
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: are a mess, the Niners are a mess, the Cardinals

1115
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 1: are awful. They're gonna lock up this division by Halloween

1116
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: the way this is going. So then the only thing

1117
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,880
Speaker 1: that that is keeping them really focused is chasing that

1118
00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: that number one seed and and the home field advantage

1119
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 1: throughout the NFC playoffs. That's going to kind of keep

1120
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,919
Speaker 1: them motivated. But even if they get a lead there

1121
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: and and you know, kind of wrap that up fairly early.

1122
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 1: Not that I don't think they're gonna sit guys completely,

1123
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 1: but you might see guys just playing a half. You know,

1124
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:45,319
Speaker 1: you might see Jared Goff you know, kind of kind

1125
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,720
Speaker 1: of not not going all out. I mean, look, they

1126
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: rested all their guys in the preseason, so it's not

1127
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 1: like Sean McVeigh is above just sitting guys, you know

1128
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: that once once they have everything done, so you kind

1129
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,440
Speaker 1: of need to cheer for somebody else in the NFC

1130
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: to keep pushing the raised just so that the Rams

1131
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 1: have to kind of play their guys and make sure

1132
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: they get wins each and every dingy. I remember there

1133
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: was a time years ago where I mean it was

1134
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,240
Speaker 1: like I think Peyton Manning was was the typical example,

1135
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:14,080
Speaker 1: or Ederan James is, like the Colts would always win

1136
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 1: their division, they'd always sort of set themselves up for

1137
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,839
Speaker 1: the playoffs early, and then you'd always have to sort

1138
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:22,080
Speaker 1: of replace some of your best players. And there is

1139
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,279
Speaker 1: a small movement in fantasy to move Fantasy championships a

1140
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,759
Speaker 1: week fifteen because then you kind of knew that you

1141
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: were going to get your guys and it wasn't fair. Um,

1142
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: but yeah, that could potentially be an issue this year

1143
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: with UH with the Rams, hopefully not. I think that

1144
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: the NFL schedule makers have done a better job now

1145
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: where there's you know, more important games toward towards the

1146
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: end of the schedule, so that hasn't happened as often,

1147
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, that that was something that used to

1148
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,880
Speaker 1: happen all the time. And if somebody don't catch up

1149
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 1: with the rams or that offense doesn't slow down, it

1150
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: could be a potential issue right around the holidays. One

1151
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: last one, Manuel Sanders, who I love the Manuel Sanders. Yeah,

1152
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: this year we're all on him, dude, But you know,

1153
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 1: he was a he's a round eight guy. I mean,

1154
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: part of the reason I liked him was because I

1155
00:56:06,080 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 1: felt like I felt like even there would be an

1156
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: upgraded quarterback. Obviously with case keenum that he and Marius Thomas. Generally,

1157
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 1: when that offense works well, their numbers have tended to

1158
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,319
Speaker 1: be very similar to one another. And so my thought was, well,

1159
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna get similar production to the Marius Thomas,

1160
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: why not get that. But wait three or four rounds later.

1161
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: Uhmanuel Sanders has been lights out. He has he has

1162
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: exceeded touchdown. Yeah, he's exceeded my expectations. Obviously, we don't

1163
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 1: know what he's gonna do on Monday night. We haven't

1164
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: seen that game yet. We would think he'll be pretty good.

1165
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: And then and then you got the Jets and they

1166
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: can't stop slow receivers. See D D. Westbrook, right, who

1167
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: I told you to start last week? He is a

1168
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 1: guy that um and boy, then then you got the

1169
00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:49,359
Speaker 1: Rams the following week. I'm just looking at the schedule here,

1170
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: you got Kansas City two weeks later. Oh and we

1171
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: we kind of we kind of all like Sanders because

1172
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,799
Speaker 1: what we of what we saw with case last year

1173
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 1: with Adam dealing targets a lot a lot Seeners run

1174
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 1: a lot of rots out of the slot, and it

1175
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: is is clearly Um is clearly worked out for fantasy owners. Yeah,

1176
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 1: I mean, so he's been He's been fantastic. He had

1177
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: a round eight a DP. But by the time we

1178
00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: got to the regular season, I suspect that bumps up

1179
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: probably you know, four four rounds or so. I mean,

1180
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:20,680
Speaker 1: he's probably guy you're looking at in me the fourth

1181
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: fifth round in a lot of drafts. So, uh, he

1182
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 1: has returned more than expected value so far this season. Um. So,

1183
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,080
Speaker 1: now that we are through pretty much four weeks and

1184
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 1: we're looking at this, who in your mind has been

1185
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: maybe the biggest bust so far? Just one? I mean, okay,

1186
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,400
Speaker 1: sure you got a couple. I mean I mean, dude,

1187
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: there's a bunch and so so for net so far.

1188
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: And I get it because I get it because it's injuries.

1189
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:48,800
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you can call someone a bust,

1190
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: but I mean based on where you drafted him. So

1191
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: I mean McCoy, I mean, they're not even giving him

1192
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: the foot. But I thought he I thought he was

1193
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: gonna be bad. I didn't think he would be the well,

1194
00:58:00,040 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 1: all were sort of like anti McCoy. We didn't like

1195
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 1: him this season based on age, based on offense. But

1196
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: they're not even trying to get dude, it's bad. Uh.

1197
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 1: You know Dalvin Cook, I love him. Uh, injuries have

1198
00:58:11,520 --> 00:58:13,240
Speaker 1: really hurt him. And he was a guy a lot

1199
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: of people, including myself, thought we're gonna really break out

1200
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: this season. I mean he was he was sort of

1201
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 1: a back of the line RB one, top end RB two.

1202
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 1: Hasn't done it so far this year. Uh, Larry Fitzgerald

1203
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,919
Speaker 1: has been banged up. He hasn't produced. And I don't

1204
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: know whether it's not the hamstring or the quarterback situation,

1205
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:34,080
Speaker 1: but he hasn't been getting it done. And one that

1206
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: that a lot of people were on this guy in

1207
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: the preseason, and I actually saw him drafted as high

1208
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: as the fourth or fifth round. But Chris Hogan, Yeah,

1209
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 1: that one, Chris Hogan. I mean, there's a chance that

1210
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan could end up being on the waiver wire

1211
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:49,439
Speaker 1: at some point in the next two or three weeks,

1212
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: depending on what happens with Josh Gordon and Julian Edelman

1213
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:54,439
Speaker 1: in his return. Yeah, that was one, and I liked.

1214
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: I liked Chris Hogan. I also thought he had a

1215
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: short shelf life fantasy y yea. When we said this

1216
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 1: in the summer, we certainly didn't know that the Patriots

1217
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: are gonna trade from John Gordon, but we knew that

1218
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman was going to come back and that was

1219
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 1: going to deflect that. But Philip Dorset, Dorset, Dorset, he

1220
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: has been. He has been the better fantasy receiver so

1221
00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:19,640
Speaker 1: far this year in New England, and and Chris Hogan

1222
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: has been. Seven eleven has has closed its doors. Um

1223
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: that has been there still out there by the way,

1224
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:30,080
Speaker 1: seven eleven, there's still there's one across the street from

1225
00:59:30,080 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: ours there. I never thinks from back east they're all

1226
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 1: Carmelin farms. I have no idea. It's all yeah, see,

1227
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: it's all Carmelin Farms. So seven eleven, I'm like, okay,

1228
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: so I don't get out of this building from like

1229
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: August until December. So yeah, it's like across the street.

1230
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:52,040
Speaker 1: Um yeah, some of the other the big would you

1231
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 1: call maybe maybe it's too far to call, you know,

1232
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham a bust, but he's been a disappointment. Well

1233
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: he's not getting at the end owned and uh defense

1234
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: is clearly keying on him. And they have some other

1235
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 1: options too, especially with sa Kwan Barkley. But I mean,

1236
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: I mean I talked about this in the preseason, like, oh,

1237
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: b J was gonna see some touchdown regression, like he

1238
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:14,880
Speaker 1: just was. The Giants had no running game at all

1239
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 1: last year. Nothing. I mean they it was it was

1240
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, uh, the Wayne Gallman they had last year,

1241
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 1: and and and and Orleans dark Will. I mean it

1242
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 1: was it was bad. I mean it was bad. They

1243
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 1: just didn't have anybody. And Sakwan Barkley is is one

1244
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 1: of these guys. You know, he's he's a talent that

1245
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 1: doesn't come out of the collegiate level very often. And

1246
01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 1: you know, he's right there with the Zeke Elliott in

1247
01:00:39,080 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: terms of his skill set. He's very good, maybe even

1248
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 1: a better pass catcher, uh than than a lot of

1249
01:00:43,680 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 1: these running backs in the game right now. I mean,

1250
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 1: clearly a guy who is elite when it comes to

1251
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: PPR leagues. So I'm not surprised that the touch on

1252
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: production has not been there. I'm not ready to call

1253
01:00:52,320 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 1: him a bust yet. I mean, the guy is still

1254
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 1: got thirty one yards in his first four games, thirty

1255
01:00:58,120 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: one catches. But is this someone you're you're clearly worried

1256
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 1: about like moving forward, like to the point where you're

1257
01:01:05,520 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: gonna put them on your bench. I mean, I don't

1258
01:01:07,040 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: think so. I'm not gonna put them on my bench.

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Speaker 1: I will say, though, what what does worry me? And look,

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Speaker 1: this is mine, this is my general rant against efficiency, right,

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Speaker 1: and I know that with analytics taking a big step

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Speaker 1: forward and being a big part of what teams do,

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01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: and look, I get it. Look a lot of smart

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01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:23,480
Speaker 1: people have put a lot of work into this, and

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01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: there have been results on the field. But it also

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Speaker 1: changes the way you look at some of these players

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Speaker 1: because now what is key for quarterbacks is completion percentage,

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01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,240
Speaker 1: right and trying to complete as many passes as they can.

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01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 1: I mean, Drew Brees is out here talking about completions

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Speaker 1: is a realistic option for him this year, and maybe

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Speaker 1: it is, But a lot of that also means that

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Speaker 1: you're throwing a lot of safer passes, a lot of

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01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: shorter passes. And so now the uh, the goal is,

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01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:51,280
Speaker 1: especially for wide receivers, is you alreds after the catch

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01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 1: have to be a big deal. It also changes the

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01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 1: way defensive decent defenses play. They will play a lot

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Speaker 1: more center field. They'll try to keep everything underneath. It's like,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are baseball fans, right, It's like

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01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: playing mill doubles defense, right, You you back off, you

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01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: play the corners, and you just try to make sure

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Speaker 1: that you keep everything in front of you. And so now,

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01:02:07,520 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 1: sure you get guys like Tyreek Kale, and I think,

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01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: oh b J has that ability to go out and

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01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: and make plays and and get pot get by defenders

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01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:17,280
Speaker 1: after the catch. But man, it gets a whole lot

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Speaker 1: harder as opposed to say, Julio Jones, who's making catches

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Speaker 1: you know, twenty yards down the field. I mean, I

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01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: think I saw a tweet earlier today the Giants haven't

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01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:30,720
Speaker 1: even tried to target Odell more than twenty yards down

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Speaker 1: the field. Since Week two, they haven't. They're not even

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01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:35,160
Speaker 1: trying to get him down the field. And that is

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01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 1: a little bit worrisome to me because now all of

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01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 1: a sudden it does put a lot of pressure on

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01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 1: the wide receivers and only make the catch, but suddenly

1295
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 1: turned that seven yard pass into a twenty thirty yard game.

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01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: Sometimes you do it, sometimes you don't. The weeks you don't,

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01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:52,280
Speaker 1: those hundred yard games end up being like forty yard games.

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01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:55,160
Speaker 1: And that's that that's the part that Worries made. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know, that's my own little rant. I also

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01:02:57,720 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: think that efficiency, while it is useful and uh in

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01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:04,120
Speaker 1: you know great and wins games, just isn't fun to watch.

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01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: I just think he fishient football is sort of boring.

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01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: But I'm sure i'll get some you know, analytics people

1304
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: like you know, you'all get me in my mentions. Don't care.

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01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: Fishing football is boring to watch. Um biggest surprises so far,

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01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 1: I mean I would put I would say Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 1: at the top of that list. I mean, we we

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Speaker 1: thought he could be okay, um, I didn't think he

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01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: would be the second coming of Damn Marino. Yeah, he's

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01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 1: been ridiculous. I can't wait to watch him play Denver.

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01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 1: But boy, I can't. You want to talk about games.

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01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch uh Kansas City Jacksonville. I

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01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:40,360
Speaker 1: mean that's great defense, great offense. That's gonna be fun.

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01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:42,920
Speaker 1: Andy Reid clearly saw something. I mean, he was like

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith career season. Ship you off to watch him,

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01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: didn't take care. And Mahomes is there. I mean, Jared

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01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: Goff is there too. You gotta think about him. I

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01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 1: get it. You know he showed flashes last season. But

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01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: this Tyler Boyd has been awesome. What you got three

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01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 1: games straight with twenty plus PPR points And you know

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01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 1: A J. Green is not sarfering at all. He's putting

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01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 1: up numbers as well. And you've got to be so

1323
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 1: coming coming into drafts. And you know, if you just

1324
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: agree disagree with let me know. I think we all

1325
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 1: thought d J. Moore was going to be the best

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01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,840
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver. I think for me it was either

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01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: it was either him or Michael Gallut was kind of

1328
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 1: a tossa, but neither one has been anything but Ridley.

1329
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 1: This guy is scoring touchdowns like they are going out

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01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:30,440
Speaker 1: of style. I feel like we sort of underestimated him,

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01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: and I remember watching him at Alabama, and you know,

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01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 1: I think what happened is you saw at Alabama that

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01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: he made plays, but there was also a lot of

1334
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 1: really bad quarterback play right at Alabama. I mean, you know,

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01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 1: I know they ended up winning a championship and and

1336
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 1: to a top of Valoa. I probably butchered that. Sorry

1337
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:51,280
Speaker 1: to utter than you know. He he came in late

1338
01:04:51,480 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: in the season and it came into the championship game

1339
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 1: and got him a win. Jalen Hurts struggled trying to

1340
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 1: connect with him, and I think that sort of clouded

1341
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: my impression of him. But the dudes a technician, man.

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01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: I mean, he kind of runs routes and gets open

1343
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:05,440
Speaker 1: the way we saw with a young O'Dell Beckham and

1344
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: and the way that offense works, especially around the the

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01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 1: goal line. He's just so valuable. All right, Marcus, I

1346
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:13,920
Speaker 1: got a question for you. So I've got Pittsburgh this week,

1347
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: great matchup, and then you've got Tampa Bay the following

1348
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: talked about which is a great matchup. Say, he just

1349
01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 1: keeps going nuts, and he's got six touchdowns right now,

1350
01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 1: which leads all wide receivers in the in the NFL,

1351
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:30,160
Speaker 1: somebody after Week six offers you O b J for

1352
01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley. See, this is why fantasy football is hard,

1353
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:37,320
Speaker 1: because in the preseason this would have been the biggest

1354
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:39,240
Speaker 1: no brainer in the history no brainers. And now Markus

1355
01:05:39,280 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 1: is thinking about it. Yeah. I mean, if you would

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01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:42,400
Speaker 1: come to me in August and said I'll give you

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01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley for Odell Beckham, the junior, I would have

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01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 1: I would have dropped a lot of expletives and told

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01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 1: you to leave me alone. But now, but now, say

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01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:53,800
Speaker 1: he has you know, three touchdowns in the next two weeks,

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Speaker 1: which is very possible considering the competition that has got

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01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 1: going on. I'm it's not out of the relic possibility

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01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: that someone would say I'd rather have Calvin Ridley than

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01:06:03,680 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 1: O b J. Or is it um? No? I mean,

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01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody out there will make that move. I wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: And maybe maybe this is bias, right, maybe this is

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01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: just a sample size by its having seen Beckham do

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01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 1: this over a longer period of time means I still

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01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:18,880
Speaker 1: believe and I'm still gonna hold out hope because I

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Speaker 1: still think. I just think at his best, Odell's ceiling

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01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: is way higher than Calvin Ridley's ceiling on a week

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Speaker 1: to week basis, And so I think that alone makes

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01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,160
Speaker 1: me hesitant to make that move. But you're right. I mean,

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01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,439
Speaker 1: you said it, and I had to sigh and think

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01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: about it exactly. You got to think about it because

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01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:40,400
Speaker 1: you know it is it is a legitimate possibility of

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Speaker 1: at least it's not. It's not a completely ridiculous thing,

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01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 1: uh to think about. So, yes, those are those are

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01:06:46,800 --> 01:06:49,000
Speaker 1: kind of draft do overs. I'm sure we'll probably do

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01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 1: this again we get the midpoint of the season, because

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Speaker 1: you know, we'll learn a whole lot more and some

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01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 1: of these guys who are hot right now may have

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01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,320
Speaker 1: fallen off. Some of the guys who were cold right

1384
01:06:57,360 --> 01:06:59,440
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Speaker 1: wake up and see what sort of good is you

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01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:02,840
Speaker 1: got into the fantasy tree. So as always, uh, some

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Speaker 1: of the names on the waiver wire last week was

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Speaker 1: really heavy on wide receivers. This week kind of a

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Speaker 1: well this year. I know, and people talked about this

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Speaker 1: forward based on what it was last season and lasting

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Speaker 1: John Ross was he was the guy that everyone thought

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Speaker 1: was gonna help improve this offense. It's actually been Tyler

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Speaker 1: Boyd who's been tremendous. Even though Ross did find the

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Speaker 1: end zone yesterday. But I mean the Bengals again perfect

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01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 1: mix of they've got good time the passing game and

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Speaker 1: their defense is not all that good. So Dalton is

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01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:52,640
Speaker 1: certainly worth a look off the waiver wire if you

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01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 1: still available right now, still a free agent and about

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Speaker 1: eighty five pc of leagues on NFL dot Com, although

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Speaker 1: sometimes are numbers are a little it obsc so um.

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Speaker 1: But he's not the only quarterback, right I mean, we

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Speaker 1: talked about Jamis Winston, who is a potential pick up

1451
01:10:07,120 --> 01:10:09,439
Speaker 1: off the waiver wire, not for this week because you're

1452
01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 1: not going to be able to use him because the

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Speaker 1: Buccaneers have a bye, but I mentioned Blake Portals, and

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Speaker 1: Blake Portals is a guy who's available in a lot

1455
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:19,240
Speaker 1: of leagues right now playing the Chiefs, and dare I

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01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: say it because I'm Russell Wilson killed me this week

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01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:26,360
Speaker 1: in one of my leagues, actually in two of my leagues,

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01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: and he's about the Rams coming up, and the Rams

1459
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:34,560
Speaker 1: own him. They own him, Like Russell's numbers against the

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Speaker 1: Rams typically are awful. I think it's like five wars

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01:10:37,720 --> 01:10:39,799
Speaker 1: last seven, he said, sixty or a few points awful.

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01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:43,760
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick pick up Blake Portals and start him

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01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:46,639
Speaker 1: if I can get him over Russell Wilson this week.

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Speaker 1: And I ain't gonna think twice like you know what, Russell,

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01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:55,560
Speaker 1: see you, buddy, Chiefs. Great matchup for Portals, potentially no

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01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,600
Speaker 1: foreig net again, I'm doing it. I'm doing it. But

1467
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:00,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna listen to my own advice. Okay, which maybe

1468
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:04,719
Speaker 1: I should do Tom because other people are listening. But dude,

1469
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:06,720
Speaker 1: I mean, like you could start anybody, anybody with a

1470
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:10,639
Speaker 1: good matchup. You could start him Mitchell six touch Mitchell

1471
01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:12,680
Speaker 1: and Priscy is not that good. He's not that good

1472
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:15,920
Speaker 1: to bucking your defense is terrible. It's just terrible. Like

1473
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:18,439
Speaker 1: Mitch Drobinsky might not have six touchdown passes in his

1474
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 1: next three games combined. But it's about the matchups. It's

1475
01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:24,840
Speaker 1: about the matchup. I actually thought that Mitch Drobinsky could

1476
01:11:24,880 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 1: be decent this week. I mean I said he was

1477
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 1: a guy that that was worth a look. And I

1478
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 1: know we did be hot take takedown last week on

1479
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:34,479
Speaker 1: Fantasy Live. I said he'd be a top ten quarterback.

1480
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 1: I mean that was a hot take, right, that was

1481
01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:38,599
Speaker 1: a hot take did here because I thought I thought

1482
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:41,280
Speaker 1: even a good game for Trubisky, his ceiling was like

1483
01:11:41,360 --> 01:11:44,600
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen points. Um. And then I'm sitting there on

1484
01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:48,560
Speaker 1: Sunday watching him just sling touchdown passes and that was insane.

1485
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:52,040
Speaker 1: I mean, that was crazy. That was beyond what I am.

1486
01:11:52,080 --> 01:11:54,479
Speaker 1: So I'm in a super flex league and I put

1487
01:11:54,600 --> 01:11:57,840
Speaker 1: in acclaim for Drabinsky and I got him because I

1488
01:11:57,880 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 1: had Cam on a by and so this team no one,

1489
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:02,880
Speaker 1: you know what, no one cares about my fantasy foot

1490
01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: Let's just say I put up two hundred and twelve

1491
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:08,599
Speaker 1: points that that one league alone, two undred twelve points,

1492
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:10,559
Speaker 1: and dr Bisky was a big part of it. Um

1493
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:12,680
Speaker 1: a name on this list that that I think is

1494
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 1: kind of a sneaky one. We were talking about what

1495
01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 1: rookie wide almost sad wookie rookie Wide. I want to

1496
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 1: hear you say this guy's name. Uh well, I just

1497
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: like to say Kiki. I just like to say kick

1498
01:12:25,600 --> 01:12:28,600
Speaker 1: cood Um. Now you sound like an a walk now right?

1499
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:31,719
Speaker 1: I know that's like a sand person or a jowl

1500
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: or something that um so Couti, who was a rookie

1501
01:12:36,479 --> 01:12:39,679
Speaker 1: receiver with the Houston Texans. You know, because it's certainly possible,

1502
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 1: it's certainly possible that people don't know who this guy is.

1503
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:47,519
Speaker 1: Um with the fourth round pick on Sunday, fifteen targets.

1504
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:50,280
Speaker 1: I mean this was the season debut, fifteen targets, eleven

1505
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 1: catches a hundred and nine yards. Obviously, when you've got

1506
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 1: new Copkins and Will Fuller, that sort of volume is

1507
01:12:56,360 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 1: not going to be there for you every week. But

1508
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:01,360
Speaker 1: when I think he feels is an important role working

1509
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 1: out of the slot in this offense. It's a thing

1510
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:06,320
Speaker 1: that Deshaun Watson hasn't had. The thing that Deshaun Watson

1511
01:13:06,479 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: does is because the offensive line is bad. One. He's

1512
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:11,800
Speaker 1: usually on the move, but he spends a lot of

1513
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:14,360
Speaker 1: time holding onto the football and he takes a lot

1514
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 1: of time to throw the ball deep down field, which

1515
01:13:17,080 --> 01:13:19,560
Speaker 1: is fun, especially when it's working. It gets yards, it

1516
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:21,680
Speaker 1: gets in the end zone, that sort of thing. But

1517
01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:24,439
Speaker 1: in terms of moving this offense on a consistent basis,

1518
01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:28,040
Speaker 1: it's a lot of low percentage throws. Cutie working out

1519
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 1: of the slot can give them an option that's a

1520
01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 1: little bit shorter downfield, can those short routes, those intermediate routes,

1521
01:13:34,600 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: And when Deshaun Watson is under pressure, a guy that

1522
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 1: he can outlet the football too. So I think there's

1523
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:41,280
Speaker 1: a definite role for him in this offense. And it's

1524
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:43,559
Speaker 1: a passing game that has worked very well. I mean,

1525
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:46,760
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller has been a non factor really most weeks

1526
01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:49,000
Speaker 1: in this offense, but they're still putting up yards. I mean,

1527
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:51,439
Speaker 1: Watson has given you three hundred plus yards pretty much

1528
01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:54,599
Speaker 1: every week this season. So now he's got another guy

1529
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:57,400
Speaker 1: to kind of outlet two when things start to go sideways,

1530
01:13:57,880 --> 01:13:59,880
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, he's a guy that, especially

1531
01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:01,560
Speaker 1: deeper league, it's definitely worth the pick up in the

1532
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:04,160
Speaker 1: stash if he's not already on a roster somewhere. But

1533
01:14:04,240 --> 01:14:06,600
Speaker 1: I just think they're going forward. He's gonna start to

1534
01:14:06,720 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 1: kind of work in. Again, you're not gonna get fifteen

1535
01:14:08,960 --> 01:14:11,880
Speaker 1: targets every week for this guy. But I do think

1536
01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 1: he's got he's got a possibility an option to it

1537
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 1: to really be kind of productive and think about it

1538
01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:19,560
Speaker 1: will Fuller. I mean, here's a lot of things he

1539
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 1: ain't durble. He's not I mean, he ain't nicked up

1540
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 1: a little bit on Sunday, So I mean that's something

1541
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,519
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. Uh, you talked about niheim

1542
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: Hines a little bit. I mean you're basically making a

1543
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:32,600
Speaker 1: plea for the Colts to trade for Levion Bell. But uh,

1544
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:34,800
Speaker 1: in a in a backfield that has been hard to

1545
01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:36,759
Speaker 1: figure out. At least we have figured out that nineheim

1546
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,479
Speaker 1: Hines is the pass catching running back back is And

1547
01:14:39,640 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 1: if you look at the numbers that he's put up

1548
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:43,120
Speaker 1: as a pass catcher, I mean they've been very impressive.

1549
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 1: Now we don't know what's going on with Marlon Mack

1550
01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:47,840
Speaker 1: and uh, they do have a Thursday night game this

1551
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:50,560
Speaker 1: week against Patriots. So but I mean, Hyines need to

1552
01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 1: be owned in most leagues, especially in PPR leagues, because

1553
01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: Jordan will Is ain't getting it done. Now. Now, the

1554
01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:58,840
Speaker 1: one thing that that you gotta look for, Like Robert

1555
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:01,160
Speaker 1: Turbin is gonna be office spension now, so I don't

1556
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:02,880
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna mix him in as well, And

1557
01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:04,800
Speaker 1: we don't know what's going on Marlon Mack. But at

1558
01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 1: this point, I mean night Naim Hynes has like one

1559
01:15:07,920 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 1: for your point that David Johnson, and it's all about

1560
01:15:10,280 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 1: what he's doing as a pass catcher right now. He's

1561
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:15,400
Speaker 1: got twenty two catches, okay, which is tied for the

1562
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:18,360
Speaker 1: fourth most in the league with Christian McCaffrey, who clearly

1563
01:15:18,400 --> 01:15:20,519
Speaker 1: had a bye week already. But James White too, so

1564
01:15:21,320 --> 01:15:23,240
Speaker 1: he ain't gonna give you any rushing yards, but he

1565
01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:25,680
Speaker 1: could potentially give you, you know, somewhere in the neighborhood

1566
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 1: of five to six catches uh per week. And if

1567
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,639
Speaker 1: you're hurting for a running back this week and Mac

1568
01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:33,640
Speaker 1: can't play and we don't know what's going on with

1569
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 1: turban uh Heim, Haynes is someone to keep an eye on.

1570
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:38,880
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb is a guy that did a lot of

1571
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:41,040
Speaker 1: people are gonna go get after the big ginning three

1572
01:15:41,120 --> 01:15:44,799
Speaker 1: carries though, right, three carries, so I mean the average

1573
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: like thirty something yards that carry was like ridiculous now

1574
01:15:47,320 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 1: he had too long Yeah, dude, I was. I was

1575
01:15:50,160 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 1: sort of joking with j J. Zacharies and our pal

1576
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:55,880
Speaker 1: for to the show. Uh. He talked about it on

1577
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 1: Twitter and I jokingly responded with, yeah, but you take

1578
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 1: away those two long touchdown runs. He has had one

1579
01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 1: carry for one yard, so obviously the guy is not

1580
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:06,240
Speaker 1: any good. Um. I'm torn because on the one hand,

1581
01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: he looked obviously he looked great. He had too long

1582
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:11,320
Speaker 1: touchdown runs, but as you mentioned, just three carries. Think

1583
01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 1: I think those are the only three snaps he played.

1584
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:16,799
Speaker 1: Were those three carries? The Browns seem to like Carlos

1585
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,280
Speaker 1: Hide who's finding the end zone on a weekly basis,

1586
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:21,320
Speaker 1: which has it hard for them to get him out

1587
01:16:21,320 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 1: of the lineup. I just feel like this is one

1588
01:16:23,439 --> 01:16:25,920
Speaker 1: that everybody's gonna reach four and you'll get him. And

1589
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: then because what three carries has been his season high?

1590
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 1: He had three carries in week one, Weeks two and

1591
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 1: three he had two carries apiece, and then week four

1592
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:35,760
Speaker 1: he had three carries. Yeah, I'm not in on it.

1593
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: I just that seems to make it hard to go

1594
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 1: get him unless unless they can give you more opportunity.

1595
01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:42,640
Speaker 1: This just feels like you're you're reaching for something that

1596
01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 1: may not be there. Yeah, heck, he had a great game,

1597
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 1: two big runs, but volumes not there. Those kind of

1598
01:16:49,360 --> 01:16:52,000
Speaker 1: numbers are not sustainable based on the number of touches

1599
01:16:52,040 --> 01:16:54,920
Speaker 1: that he's getting, right, It's just yeah, I mean, it's

1600
01:16:54,960 --> 01:16:57,960
Speaker 1: just not happened. One running back that I would target though,

1601
01:16:58,000 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 1: And I don't know that he's out there. I'm looking,

1602
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:01,160
Speaker 1: you know, I've looked on and NFL dot Com. I

1603
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 1: looked on a couple of other sites. He could be

1604
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:06,400
Speaker 1: out there. Aaron Jones, dude, he's so much better than

1605
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,720
Speaker 1: than Time Montgomery and Jamalway is just so much better. Yeah,

1606
01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:11,640
Speaker 1: I mean, and we staided last season two and and

1607
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 1: there's still I get it. It's like the three headed

1608
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 1: monster situation. But Aaron Rodgers did go to bat for

1609
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 1: him last week. We saw a video on the social

1610
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:20,120
Speaker 1: where he said, hey, we gotta get in the ball

1611
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:22,280
Speaker 1: and he's he's like Ryan Grant. And for those of

1612
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 1: you who haven't been playing fantasy football for a long time,

1613
01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 1: Ryank Gurrant was a pretty good fantasy back for the

1614
01:17:27,560 --> 01:17:30,360
Speaker 1: Packers years ago, but not the not the not to

1615
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 1: be confused with the current cult yes, exactly right. Don't

1616
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 1: confuse the two. But I mean I would like had

1617
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:38,479
Speaker 1: Jones look good. And I get it to Bill's defenses

1618
01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:40,960
Speaker 1: and any good against the run, but to me, I

1619
01:17:41,040 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 1: feel like, at some point, you know that the talent's

1620
01:17:43,200 --> 01:17:45,640
Speaker 1: got a freaking rise, you know, and get more opportunities.

1621
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:47,479
Speaker 1: And I know McCarthy likes to use Williams and he

1622
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:50,160
Speaker 1: likes to use Time Montgomery as well, but I mean,

1623
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: Jones is the best back in that trio. Hopefully Aaron

1624
01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 1: Rodgers is, you know, whispering and McCarthy's here and saying, hey,

1625
01:17:56,760 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 1: you know, Jones is pretty good, and get the more touched.

1626
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:01,600
Speaker 1: I know that that you know, what you're saying is

1627
01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:04,720
Speaker 1: what everybody's saying. That he is the more explosive back then,

1628
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:07,720
Speaker 1: were productive back he looks better. But man, at this point,

1629
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: we've got about fourteen games worth of sample size of

1630
01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:14,919
Speaker 1: these guys together, and regardless, it has been a committee

1631
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:16,640
Speaker 1: and I just think this is what Mike McCarthy is

1632
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 1: going to do. Um And so I don't know, maybe

1633
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 1: maybe Aaron Rodgers has some poll in that in that respect,

1634
01:18:21,080 --> 01:18:22,880
Speaker 1: but I just think that this is the life we

1635
01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:25,160
Speaker 1: live now. And on top of it time. Montgomery is

1636
01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 1: still getting sprinkled in there. Yeah, and so we do

1637
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:30,240
Speaker 1: have Detroit this week though their defense is awful against

1638
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:33,639
Speaker 1: the run, Yeah it is. It's awful against the run.

1639
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 1: Just the question is you know which one of those

1640
01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 1: guys will get the money touches um, So I think

1641
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:41,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones is worth a pickup. I just think that

1642
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:43,320
Speaker 1: you know, this is this is this is who we are,

1643
01:18:43,439 --> 01:18:45,120
Speaker 1: this is where we are. I don't know. I kind

1644
01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 1: of like them this week as aft. So well, we'll

1645
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 1: see some other names. Just to keep an eye on

1646
01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:50,840
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston. Obviously, we talked about Cameron Brad who I

1647
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:53,320
Speaker 1: think gets some run because Jamie seems to like throwing

1648
01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 1: the Cameron braid Um who leads the Jaguars and targets

1649
01:18:56,439 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 1: right now? Who does the West again? That that that

1650
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: wide receiver play in the chap that wide receiver, Gideo,

1651
01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 1: good luck trying to figure that out. And Taylor Gabriel

1652
01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:10,080
Speaker 1: don't chase the points on that one because he had

1653
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 1: the huge week and you're right there off this week also,

1654
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:14,160
Speaker 1: So that's a that's another thing to keep in mind fans.

1655
01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:16,640
Speaker 1: McDonald is another player that that we've talked about is

1656
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:17,960
Speaker 1: a guy you could pick up if you need a

1657
01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:21,320
Speaker 1: tight end. Don't want so many of us do? I know? Right,

1658
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,120
Speaker 1: he had a good tweet on that last week, like

1659
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:27,720
Speaker 1: he hopes someone gets trucked, somebody does something else embarrassing. Right,

1660
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 1: we're talking about him, Nick Vanett also with will dis

1661
01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: leely hurt. Nick Vanett could be one again. If you're

1662
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 1: this is this is where we're at, really, Marcus, this

1663
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:38,800
Speaker 1: is where Vannett we're at. Nick Vanett. Of course you

1664
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:41,600
Speaker 1: can find all this information out and more on the

1665
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: NFL app. It's back this season, completely reimagined. You can

1666
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:48,560
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01:19:48,640 --> 01:19:50,920
Speaker 1: your phone, along with the all new Game Center for

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01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:53,880
Speaker 1: breaking news, highlights, stats in real time insights from around

1669
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 1: the NFL, or for your favorite team. Be sure to

1670
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:58,360
Speaker 1: download the NFL app. I have it. It's great. I

1671
01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: use it to especially when I'm out about and a

1672
01:20:00,920 --> 01:20:02,680
Speaker 1: game is going on that I can't necessarily sit down

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Speaker 1: and watch it. It was great to kind of keep

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Speaker 1: updated with get highlights, all that kind of stuff. So

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01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:10,639
Speaker 1: it is totally worth your while. U for you audio,

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Speaker 1: Do we have an eat Monday? Moaning tweets we do,

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Speaker 1: and you actually shared a couple on your own feed.

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01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:18,400
Speaker 1: Pretty funny, uh, in a in a sad way. But

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Speaker 1: let's do some my hashtag Monday morning tweets. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: everyone who sent those out. We have at g D post. Uh.

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Speaker 1: I started fits Tragic over Lucky. We have at Tim

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01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:36,040
Speaker 1: swin Yard. I started Jordan Howard over Golden Tate. Seemed

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01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 1: like a safer beg. I mean, you know, I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, they're playing the Bucks and Jordan like

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01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:44,320
Speaker 1: it made sense. I understand that it makes all the

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01:20:44,439 --> 01:20:46,120
Speaker 1: sense in the world why I would do this. But

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01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:49,240
Speaker 1: I started Drew Brees over Marcus Mariotta. Of course that

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01:20:49,320 --> 01:20:51,360
Speaker 1: made sense too. I mean, you can't kick yourself for

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Speaker 1: these things. Game is supposed to be a track meet, man,

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Speaker 1: it was not. I mean I get it, like, you know,

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01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:58,439
Speaker 1: it's funny, but you can't kick yourself for these decisions.

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01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:02,040
Speaker 1: These are the decisions a smart fantasy people would make.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that was just it doesn't turn out that way.

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01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:06,120
Speaker 1: I think it was with like nine seven at halftime

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01:21:06,240 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 1: or something like that. They had four the Saints had

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01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:11,200
Speaker 1: four trips to the red zone. The Giants stopped. They

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Speaker 1: seld him the three field goals in one touchdown. The

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Speaker 1: hero of that game would be Will Lutts. Yeah, I'm not. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about that. Um in the

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01:21:20,920 --> 01:21:24,800
Speaker 1: same boat as your Monday morning started Juju over Cup. Yeah,

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01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 1: that was a That's how I started. I said that

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01:21:26,920 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 1: I I picked the wrong USC receiver in one of

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01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:32,559
Speaker 1: my leagues. I I started Juju and I left Robert

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01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:35,880
Speaker 1: Woods on my bench. Again, man, it's like one of

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01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 1: those things everyone's doing that everyone's looking at the same number.

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01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:43,720
Speaker 1: Made sense. Stuff happens. Two more good ones here. I

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01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:48,080
Speaker 1: started Dalvin Cook over Calvin Ridley on my flexh goodness, gracious,

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Speaker 1: that one hurts. I actually started cooking one of my

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01:21:50,880 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: leagues because I didn't have another player that I trusted

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01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:59,000
Speaker 1: enough to go over, and I'm thinking, okay, maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: get a touchdown out of him. I got and DJ

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Speaker 1: Sean oh eight five. I started four Net over James White.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean I probably yeah, I probably would

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01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:10,760
Speaker 1: have done that too, because you know you figured you

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01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: figured four Net was back, right, that means he's healthy,

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01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:14,719
Speaker 1: he was gonna play, but then he ends up leaving

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Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury. So that, uh, that sucks. Uh well,

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Speaker 1: that'll do it for this show again. Thanks to Sean

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01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:24,160
Speaker 1: Barber for stopping buy best luck to him in his

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01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:25,800
Speaker 1: fantasy The best left to all of you out there

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Speaker 1: and your fantasy teams. Hopefully the Monday Night game treats

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01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,800
Speaker 1: you well, get you a win however you need it

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01:22:30,920 --> 01:22:33,720
Speaker 1: to go down and so be sure to come back

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Speaker 1: for the next edition of the NFL Fantasy Line Podcast.

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01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:38,160
Speaker 1: In the meantime, I always remember, when nothing's going right,

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Speaker 1: go left. We'll see you on Thursday. Come back Left.

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Speaker 1: Bellow became Colt All