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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey, everybody, Welcome to Friday and another edition of

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Speaker 1: the Stardom Centum Show. I'm Marcus Grant with Michael lef Florida,

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Speaker 1: who writes the Stardom Citem column. You can find that

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Speaker 1: every week at NFL dot com. Clash to Start sit

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Speaker 1: and joined by Lakwan Jones, who does not write the

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Speaker 1: Stardum Centum column. Yes, thoughts, we'd like to have him

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Speaker 1: hang out with us and to offer some of those

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Speaker 1: thoughts about what he is reading, hearing, seeing and all

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Speaker 1: of the above. Florida. It is week ten. The countdown

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs is really really on because we got

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Speaker 1: what about five weeks or so six weeks until the

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Speaker 1: Fantasy playoffs start. In most leagues usually it's a week fifteen,

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Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen. So the clock is ticking, which means starts

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Speaker 1: and sits become all that more important for everybody. So

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Speaker 1: on that note, though, let's start with the quarterbacks. Who

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Speaker 1: is up and who's down this week?

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Speaker 2: Cannot believe it's already week ten? Already start, Jayden Daniels,

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Speaker 2: I know a couple weeks ago I said too obvious

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Speaker 2: that they start. I'm not going to be including him

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Speaker 2: in this article, but he's facing the Steelers, so I

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Speaker 2: just kind of wanted to be like everyone. It's okay,

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Speaker 2: continues starting him. I'm starting Brock Purdy against the Bucks.

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Speaker 2: Just a fantastic matchup. Same thing for Sam Darnold against

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Speaker 2: the Jaguars. Those are the two best matchups a quarterback

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Speaker 2: can have so far this season. I know the Bears

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Speaker 2: are a tough matchup, but I'm a Drake May believer,

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Speaker 2: so I'm starting him this week. I am also starting

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Speaker 2: a former Ram and a current RAM, Jared Goff and

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Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford. I like both of their matchups to kind

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Speaker 2: of bounce back this week, and then my sits Patrick

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Speaker 2: Mahomes coming off as two best games. But this is

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Speaker 2: a tougher, much tougher matchup than he's had in recent weeks.

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Speaker 2: C J. Stroud because I don't know if the Lions

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Speaker 2: defense passing defense is getting enough credit. They have been elite,

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Speaker 2: especially as of late. I'm sitting toa because Lakwan, your

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Speaker 2: Rams defense deserve a lot of credit. They have definitely

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Speaker 2: bounced back at bo Nick. I know we all believe

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Speaker 2: in Bonnicks, but he's playing the Chiefs, so I'm going

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Speaker 2: to get away from him there and then Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 2: I know it's a good matchup, but he's had good

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Speaker 2: matchups the last couple of weeks and has finished with

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Speaker 2: single digit Fantasy points.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been it's been rough for Caleb Williams. We'll

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Speaker 1: see what the Bears can do to try to get

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Speaker 1: him back on track a little bit. But Lakwan c J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud legitimately one of the bigger disappointments this year. Is

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Speaker 1: this just a I don't have my receivers or is

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Speaker 1: there something else, because it feels like this goes beyond

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Speaker 1: just the injuries that he's had to deal with this year.

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Speaker 3: It's the old line not being able to keep him

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Speaker 3: up right, I mean, the second most sad quarterback this season.

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Speaker 3: And like even when he did have the Trio wide

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Speaker 3: receivers Tank Dell, Stefon Diggs and Nico Collins, he wasn't

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Speaker 3: lighting it up those first five weeks. So it wasn't

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Speaker 3: like anything that you know that was going on on perimeter.

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Speaker 3: It was more so that old line. He was without

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Speaker 3: his center for a very long time, banged up, so

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Speaker 3: therefore a lot of press sure is getting to him.

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Speaker 3: So you have to give him time for some of

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Speaker 3: these big plays to develop, because this Houston Texans offense

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Speaker 3: they just want to go vertical and not being able

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Speaker 3: to go verticals keeping him the underneaths and getting to

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Speaker 3: the run game depending on Joe Mixon. So I can't

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Speaker 3: really see CJ. Stroud in that same lens that we

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Speaker 3: saw him last season surprising folks and lighting it up.

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Speaker 3: And with Nico Collins possibly coming back, I don't know

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Speaker 3: if this is going to be the right fix. You

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Speaker 3: know that where the initial problem is is the offensive

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's just it has been. It has

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Speaker 1: been underwhelming, to say the least so far. Maybe Nico

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Speaker 1: Collins coming back helps that a little bit. But to

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Speaker 1: your point, he does not block, he does not pass text.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's sort of a problem there right now.

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Speaker 1: I know, Florya, you or a Drake may stand. I

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Speaker 1: think we're all sort of coming around to that. Is

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Speaker 1: this How much of a test do you think this

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Speaker 2: I think it's a big test. It's one I think

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Speaker 2: he could pass for fantasy purposes because of what he

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Speaker 2: Daniels was held in check against his Bears defense till

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Speaker 2: late in that game. Granted that was a week where

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Speaker 2: I'll say is May has faced some tough defenses already,

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Speaker 2: just he's one of those quarterbacks I think because he

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that's sort of the thing

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Speaker 1: with the football for sure. So very curious to see

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Speaker 1: how he performs against that Bears defense, which has been

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Speaker 1: pretty good for most of the year. Over to running backs,

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Speaker 1: who are your starts and sins this week?

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Speaker 2: I know you like him as well. I have DeAndre Swift.

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Speaker 2: I think he is a fantastic start against the Patriots.

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Speaker 2: Tony Pollard continues to just get so much volume, so

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Speaker 2: even in a tough matchup, I think you start him.

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Speaker 2: Ramadre Stevenson. I know the Bears on papers seem like

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Speaker 2: a tough matchup, but they allow a lot of explosive

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Speaker 2: Najee Harris getting so much work. He is in the

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Speaker 2: midst of his best fantasy stretch in probably two years.

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Speaker 2: And the Commanders allow the most explosive runs to running backs.

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Speaker 2: Tyrone Tracy Junior has taken over that backfield. Panthers allowed

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Speaker 2: the most rushing yards, touchdowns, fantasy points to running backs.

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Speaker 2: And then I'm sitting my bucks running backs if I

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Speaker 2: can not only do they eat off of one another's plates.

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Speaker 2: The forty nine is run defense has been great. I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna get away from Tank Bigsby because the Vikings have

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Speaker 2: been good against the run and if they're gonna be

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Speaker 2: in ketchup mode, it'll be more Travis etn Javonte Williams.

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Speaker 2: They keep saying they want to get estimated more involved

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Speaker 2: in the Chiefs shut down running backs every single week.

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Speaker 2: And then Raheem Moster. You'll like this one La Kwang

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Speaker 2: because he's gotten some volume, but he's more of a

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Speaker 2: like a floor play, I would say. And the Rams

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Speaker 2: And then lastly, my guy Jonathan Brooks. I'm very excited

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Speaker 2: to see him play, but I don't want to just

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Speaker 2: be getting him right into my lineups right A way

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Speaker 2: more I want him on my roster, not in my

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Jonathan Brooks right because

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Speaker 1: we are all sort of sitting here waiting for the moment,

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Speaker 1: right and he's active, although he may not play this

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Speaker 1: Hubber to an extension. Yeah what now, Like, what are

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Speaker 1: we doing with Jonathan Brooks?

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Speaker 2: I mean for redraft?

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Speaker 3: You gotta be crying, you know, being that you know

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Speaker 3: you waited this long to try to deploy him into

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Speaker 3: starting lineups. But you know, I feel like, you know,

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Speaker 3: this is kind of what it's been all season. Juba

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Speaker 3: Hubber has been playing well and he's earned that contract,

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Speaker 3: and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: I feel like you take Chowba Hubber out of what

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Speaker 3: he has momentum going right now in that backfield, it's

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Speaker 3: gonna hurt the offense. When you're already hurting on the

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Speaker 3: perimeter at wide receivers that are fully developed, and you

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Speaker 3: lost a veteran Deontay Johnson. You need to keep something

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Speaker 3: steady and intact. So I think more so for the

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Speaker 3: future for Dynasty folks. It's not looking good for Jonathan Brooks.

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Speaker 3: But I might disagree based on you know, we're seeing

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Speaker 3: two running backs being able to be deployed in the

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Speaker 3: same offense with David Montgommer, Jamir Gibbs and even in

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Speaker 3: the past with Mike Anderson and Tatum Bell.

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Speaker 1: You know, with the Broncos that won two punch it works.

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Speaker 3: So you know, in modern day we seen Nick Chubb

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Speaker 3: over there in Carolina if they actually get that old

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Speaker 3: line to be intact, get some wide receivers on parameters

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Speaker 3: from veteran you know, approach, and then they should be fine.

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Speaker 1: I love that you dip back into the Mike Anderson

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Speaker 1: Tatum Bell years with the Denver Broncos. Speaking of Denver Broncos, Florio,

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Speaker 1: do you really believe Sean Payton when he says we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get audric estimate more touches.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. He's been saying it for a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks now, right, I think is Julia McLaughlin going

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Speaker 2: away either? It might just be like a three headed

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that I think is probably the most

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Speaker 1: likely scenario, though, like everybody's I keep seeing tweets like, oh,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna get more involved, and then like he gets

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Speaker 1: like three snaps. I'm like, okay, Like he didn't lie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Bright had two people too. I mean like,

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Speaker 1: but it's just it's the same thing as like, you know,

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Speaker 1: Sean Payton, like we should really give Marvin Mims more involved.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, who has the power to do that?

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Speaker 1: You Like, I don't even know who that is. He

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Speaker 1: didn't even know what he looks like.

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Speaker 2: Probably just he looks at a depth chart on paper.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, yeah, that guy, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: That guy, Yeah, that guy. Sure whatever. Speaking of wide

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Speaker 1: receivers for you, who's starting? Who's sitting this week?

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Speaker 2: Brian Thomas Junior because he eats against zone and the

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Speaker 2: Vikings play a lot of zone. But I will say

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Speaker 2: I felt a whole lot better about that call when

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Speaker 2: it looked like it would be Trevor Lawrence. But I

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Speaker 2: still think he's in play with Mac Jones, George Pickens.

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Speaker 2: The Commanders play a lot of man, and Pickens has

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Speaker 2: done well against man this year. Josh Downs because he

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Speaker 2: nine targets in two straight and five of his last

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Speaker 2: six games. He's averaging nearly sixteen Fantasy points per game

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Speaker 2: in that stretch. Must start option. I would say Khalil Shakir.

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Speaker 2: He is the wide receiver that gets the most volume

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Speaker 2: by far against zone coverage, and the Colts play zone

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Speaker 2: at the second highest rate. Darnell Mooney. I know Lakwan

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Speaker 2: was talking him up on today's show. I think he's

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Speaker 2: a strong start this week. And Calvin Ridley because volume,

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Speaker 2: like he's averaging ten targets per game in the last month.

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Speaker 2: Marvin Harrison Junior. I know you spoke about potentially getting

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Speaker 2: away from him yesterday on the show, Lakwan, I agree.

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Speaker 2: I think this is a week where if you could

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Speaker 2: get away from Harrison, you should. Jalen Waddle, he hasn't

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Speaker 2: done anything since Week one, really fantasy wise, single digits

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Speaker 2: every week since Week one. Courtland Sutton has been trending up,

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Speaker 2: but now he gets a really tough matchup against the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs and then Xavier Worthy. Just two targets last week.

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Speaker 2: I know he was kind of boomer bust already, but

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Speaker 2: with DeAndre Hopkins there, it looks like that's all he

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Speaker 2: is going to be this season is very Boomer Bust.

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Speaker 1: Ask you about George Pickens. I mean, I think this week.

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Speaker 1: I think you're starting George Pickens mostly every week just

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Speaker 1: because of the way the offense works. But you know,

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Speaker 1: concern that Mike Williams is gonna start to take away

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Speaker 1: a little bit about what he does.

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Speaker 3: He might take away some vertical shots, but the good

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Speaker 3: thing about Russell Wilson, He's gonna keep chucking it down,

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Speaker 3: so there might be enough volume on a vertical threat,

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Speaker 2: Pat Fryermuth has not done a whole bunch with Russell

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Speaker 1: Uh. Yeah, it's been It's just been a major major

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Speaker 2: He is not the new Travis Kelsey like many said

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Speaker 2: he was gonna be right.

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Speaker 1: No, no, that only happened. He only did that against

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Speaker 2: I've watched that a couple of times just to remind

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to watch it because I don't

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Speaker 2: But we were watching that live in the green room.

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Speaker 1: Actually I remember, yeah, yeah, I was not having a

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Speaker 1: good day that I meantime, though, this show has been

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Speaker 1: great and the Stardom Cintam column is great, and go

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Speaker 1: check that out at NFL dot com slash start sit

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Speaker 1: to get the more in depth write ups on a

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Speaker 1: lot of the names that Florio mentioned here on the show. Today.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, though, goods place for us to set

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Speaker 1: it down for the week. That'll do it for this

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Speaker 1: edition of the Stardom Cindam Show. Hopefully you have a healthy,

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Speaker 1: happy and prosperous week ten. Everybody, enjoy the football. We

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Speaker 1: will talk to you again real soon. I'll count help, Bob,

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Speaker 2: Yah.