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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Wednesday, August twenty first, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, where we should

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Speaker 2: probably take stock of how many leads we're in. It's

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Speaker 2: me and your man, MG Marcus Grand joined by Michael F.

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Speaker 2: Floyo and Lakwan Jones. We are one step closer to actual,

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Speaker 2: real life football. How are we feeling?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: First off, we're all back together again too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're in the same room.

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Speaker 6: We're here, we can we can touch.

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Speaker 2: Out and touch each other, right, But yeah, we're getting

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Speaker 2: closer to football. We are one last week of the preseason,

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Speaker 2: a week where not a lot of folks play. But

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Speaker 2: then we'll try to dive into some things maybe we

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Speaker 2: want to see in this. Uh well, the talk about

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Speaker 2: some news and rumors as well, play a little hype trainer

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Speaker 2: smoke screen. But more importantly, we have a special guest

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Speaker 2: on today's show. Uh oh, you are hight QAUI because

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Speaker 2: you sort of made this happen, so I figured I

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Speaker 2: should I should maybe leave this to.

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Speaker 5: You to introduce ourself. Yeah, Man t tales with us today.

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Speaker 5: Man Like this is going to be a great podcast

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Speaker 5: with great energy. Man and what's going on?

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Speaker 7: My god, there he is fam Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 7: glad to like have these conversations and then also to

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Speaker 7: get a little more information on certain guys that I'm

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Speaker 7: targeting into this fantasy twenty twenty four season.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and you know, nobody better than than the crew

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Speaker 8: over there at NFL Fantasy.

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Speaker 3: So I'm really excited about this.

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Speaker 2: We are appreciative of you kind of hanging out with us,

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Speaker 2: that you were tapped into the fantasy community. Obviously, you

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Speaker 2: guys know Man Tying a guy who had a great

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Speaker 2: career at the University of Notre Dame, played in the

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Speaker 2: NFL for the Chargers and the Saints as well. But

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Speaker 2: tell us a little bit about you and namely, like

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Speaker 2: when did you start playing fantasy football and what was

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Speaker 2: it that attracted you to the game.

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Speaker 3: You know, I first played two years ago.

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Speaker 8: That was my first ever fantasy football league that I

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Speaker 8: ever joined. You know, I was one of those those

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Speaker 8: players that while I was playing out to get the

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Speaker 8: messages from fans.

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Speaker 3: Like, man, you lost me the game, and I was.

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Speaker 8: It's not that serious, you know, And as of two

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Speaker 8: years ago, I'm like, yeah, it's serious.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm one.

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Speaker 3: Of those fantasy football guys.

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Speaker 8: Now that I'm doing research, I'm listening to interviews, I'm

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Speaker 8: seeing what the head coach is saying about certain players.

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Speaker 8: I'm saying, who's who's in training camp. So I'm one

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Speaker 8: of those guys. And I will say when I first started,

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Speaker 8: I had no idea what I was doing. I went

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Speaker 8: off of who I felt was the best fit at

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Speaker 8: that time. I drafted Tom Brady in my first NFL

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Speaker 8: fantasy draft. And for those that play NFL fantasy, you know,

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Speaker 8: I understand why everybody else was laughing at my picks.

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Speaker 3: As I started to get the.

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Speaker 8: Gist of NFL fantasy football, I eventually won the league.

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Speaker 8: I'm one of those guys, I said on Good Morning Football.

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Speaker 8: I'm you see, I'm very very active on my fantasy

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Speaker 8: football league. I'm always on the waiver wire. I'm always trading.

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Speaker 8: I said that become the general manager that I hated

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Speaker 8: while I played. You're you're out. Yeah, So I'm that guy.

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Speaker 8: It's been a blast. My wife hates it because she

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Speaker 8: knows I'm about to turn in my two week notice

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Speaker 8: on Thursday.

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Speaker 4: We're all fifteen fifteen days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's that's my that's my history so far.

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Speaker 6: And look, look defensive players.

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Speaker 9: So your whole life has been spent trying to stop

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Speaker 9: offensive players. But now for fantasy you're you're rooting for those.

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Speaker 9: Does it is there like an internal conflict or something.

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Speaker 9: Does it go against your nature to root for the

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Speaker 9: offensive player?

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Speaker 3: Now, No, there's no internal conflict.

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Speaker 2: For me.

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Speaker 8: It's I'm trying to win, you know what I mean

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Speaker 8: exactly give me the best advantage of winning these games.

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Speaker 3: That that's who I'm trying to go for.

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Speaker 8: You know, I think for me defensively, because we in

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Speaker 8: our league we have one defense, it's simple for me.

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Speaker 8: I think I know who the top five defenses are

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Speaker 8: as far as point producing and fantasy football year in

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Speaker 3: And you know, guys really don't pay attention to that.

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Speaker 8: But if you're really paying attention to like the Cleveland

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Speaker 8: Browns defense to the Baltimore Ravens defense two years ago,

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Speaker 8: I believe it, or last year, there's a point where

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Speaker 8: the Seattle Seahawks they're putting up like twenty plus points

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Speaker 3: For those little defensive advantages.

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Speaker 8: But for the most part, I don't care if it's

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Speaker 8: a tight end, if it's a kicker. I'm going to

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Speaker 8: draft you so that you could help me with and

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Speaker 8: so yeah, I don't discriminate when it comes to positions.

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Speaker 5: No, that's great, man, I mean have you drafted already?

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Speaker 5: Is there a draft coming up?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 5: What's going on?

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Speaker 3: So this is this is this is the thing. I

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Speaker 3: have a draft on Sunday.

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Speaker 8: And I told my guys I actually fly back to

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Speaker 8: next week. But I told him, I say, man, I'm

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Speaker 8: traveling on Sunday. Can we kick it back? And you know,

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Speaker 8: preseason technically isn't over yet. You know things could happen.

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Speaker 8: And one of my boys hit me back with, well,

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Speaker 8: if you're trying to draft somebody that potentially could be

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Speaker 8: traded or could be cut, I think you're looking in

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Speaker 8: the wrong place.

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Speaker 3: So they caught me a little bit on that book there.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and then I have two more that's on the

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Speaker 8: following Sunday. So it's gonna be a good a good time.

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Speaker 9: I think you need to put your two week ind

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Speaker 9: notice in a little bit earlier your clock.

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Speaker 8: Then Now, if I put it in too early, bro,

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna be single wife.

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Speaker 5: And we had them nights on the counch man.

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Speaker 3: I got that. I timed it up perfectly.

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Speaker 2: You know, well, I gotta say, because you were saying

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Speaker 2: before the show that you know, you have some guys

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Speaker 2: and you're trying to not necessarily let out too much

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Speaker 2: information about who you sort of like, I will, I

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Speaker 2: will tell you this from somebody on our side, you know,

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Speaker 2: having done this for a while. The first time I

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Speaker 2: ever did a league with people who listened to the podcast,

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Speaker 2: I was sort of in that same boat where I

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Speaker 2: was shocked when everybody kept scooping up all the guys

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Speaker 2: that I liked, the Sleepers, because it was reminded of like, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: people actually listen to this show things we do. So

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Speaker 2: I totally understand where you're coming from in that in

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Speaker 2: that regard, Yeah, it's it's it's.

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Speaker 8: Gonna be tricky. We're gonna have a great show. I'm

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Speaker 8: gonna tell everybody what I think about certain people. There

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Speaker 8: are a few individuals that I like to keep them,

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Speaker 8: you know, I like to keep them tucked away. They're

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Speaker 8: my little jewels, and you know, you think about it.

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Speaker 3: I have my list.

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Speaker 8: But Sam Laporta was one of those guys last year.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if anybody remembers. But Sam Laporta was

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Speaker 8: like one of those reserved guys in I think he

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Speaker 8: last year. But I kept following the Detroit Lions training

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Speaker 3: So right when I saw that, I was like, oh,

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Speaker 8: Following this training camp for about about seven eight more

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Speaker 8: I'm not going to draft a tight end in the

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Speaker 8: first six rounds whatever. I'm gonna draft Sam Laporta in

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Speaker 8: the last round, and everybody's gonna be like, oh, what

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Speaker 8: do you know?

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Speaker 3: And those off.

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Speaker 8: So I like to keep those guys tucked away that

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Speaker 8: I'm kind of targeting. But you know, everybody, for the

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Speaker 8: most part, knows the main guys there. There's certain you know,

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Speaker 8: I have certain opinions about certain guys, and you know,

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Speaker 8: certain guys that I like that other guys may not like.

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Speaker 8: And you know, me and me and we actually had

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Speaker 8: a great conversation about a certain person that they all

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Speaker 8: whole thing. If you know, how is this whole thing

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Speaker 8: and it kind of solidifies and gets me ready for

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Speaker 8: my draft.

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Speaker 3: So this is gonna be a win win for me.

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Speaker 6: Sam import a great example.

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Speaker 9: Some takes are hot takes in August, they will not

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Speaker 9: be hot takes come January.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for example, So you talk about, you know, watching

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Speaker 2: and listening what happened last year the preseason with Sam Laporte.

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Speaker 2: It kind of gets me to a headline I saw

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Speaker 2: recently Arthur Smith, the offensive coordinator now for the Pittsburgh Steelers,

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Speaker 2: in the preseason, because, let's be honest, the Steelers offense

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Speaker 2: preseason games. Russell Wilson struggling, justin Field, struggling. Arthur Smith says,

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Speaker 2: the preseason could distort reality. Now for you, you've been through

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Speaker 2: training camps, you've been through preseason battles. How much do

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Speaker 2: how much of what we see in the preseason does

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Speaker 8: Well, I think there's a big difference between preseason games

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Speaker 8: football standpoint, I care more about what happens during training camp,

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Speaker 8: preseason practices versus the game. The game is it's more vanilla,

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Speaker 8: it's more basic, you know, just get out there, do

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Speaker 8: their thing, and a lot of bad guys when they

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Speaker 8: the practices against another team is a lot more competitive

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Speaker 8: than the actual game. It's it's it's that's just the

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Speaker 8: way it is in NFL. So that's why from from

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Speaker 8: from a fantasy football standpoint, I'm watching the practices. I'm

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Speaker 8: watching what the reporters are saying about certain practices. Who

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Speaker 8: stood out in those practices, Who is to go through

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Speaker 8: targets in those practices, you know, versus watching the games,

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Speaker 8: and you know, basing my opinions off of the game.

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Speaker 8: Because majority of those guys, who who are you going

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Speaker 8: to You're gonna see in the fall, they're not going

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Speaker 8: to play during the preseason, especially now with there are

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Speaker 8: only being three pieces in games, they're not playing. So

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Speaker 8: I don't really watch the games and hold a lot

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Speaker 8: of weight over those, but the practices I'm definitely including

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Speaker 8: to those.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I gotta ask you, guys, I mean Florida,

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Speaker 2: when obviously we spend a lot of time reading preseason reports,

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Speaker 2: how much do you sort of buy in and how

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Speaker 2: much do you just sort of say, okay, let's kind

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Speaker 2: of pump the brakes on some of these things.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, once to man tized, I think the practice goes

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Speaker 9: a long way. And like Russell Wilson was not out

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Speaker 9: there for a lot of practices this summer, so it's

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Speaker 9: partially why the Steelers offense looked as bad as it did.

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Speaker 9: To me, it's always about opportunity, Like if you're out

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Speaker 9: there with the ones and maybe you're not doing a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was in on George Pickens. Worried about George Pickens.

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Speaker 8: I don't get anxious around the preseason struggles and training

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Speaker 3: And then I know that.

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Speaker 8: That's that's the situation that gets me more more anxious

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Speaker 8: That's exactly what it is. For me, That's how I

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Speaker 8: How are they using him? I felt that, you know

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Speaker 8: Last year, I had Swift and I felt like Swift

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Speaker 3: And taking six points. You go to you know what

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Speaker 2: You and me, We were the same with de Andre

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Speaker 2: Stick around for more of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.

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Speaker 4: It's time to see who will Deliver? Presented by Uber Eats.

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Speaker 2: Always like to play a little hype train or smoke

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's you know, maybe it is a little bit

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Speaker 2: we happy to have man Ti say out whether you

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Speaker 4: Him on gener Degenerate. So Man Time. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: I read a headline, maybe kind of set it up

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Gannon, the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, talking

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Speaker 3: To all the guys who's in my fantasy football league,

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Speaker 8: Because Kyler is one of those guys. For me, guy,

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Speaker 3: He also has Trey McBride, who's I think his named

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Speaker 4: Yep, that's it.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Michael Wilson, he mentioned I'm looking at you.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at you, Lakwan, because I know if there

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna say hype trained. Okay, Like, what are we

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Speaker 5: here's why. Because of the weapons that he has on

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Speaker 5: You did not mention I'm going to get you tickets

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Speaker 3: Here's my Jewela Kwan. I didn't mention the reason.

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Speaker 4: All right, tickets.

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Speaker 6: He's my bad bro.

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Speaker 5: But we got to jump on this hype train just

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Speaker 5: based on Kyler Murray where he could produce this for

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Speaker 5: you feel about Kyler Murray this year.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna not only every reason that these guys said

441
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Speaker 9: that I love Kyler Murray, but I think situationally, there's

442
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,760
Speaker 9: so many reasons to love him. Like he is back

443
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Speaker 9: from the ACL injury now. He himself said last year

444
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Speaker 9: he had difficulty like fully trusting his knee and maybe

445
00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,600
Speaker 9: that's something that MATTSI could speak on even more. But

446
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Speaker 9: that's something we hear players talk about a lot, like

447
00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,240
Speaker 9: when you first come back from an injury. A lot

448
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Speaker 9: of it is just like regaining trust and all of that.

449
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Speaker 9: So I expect Kyler Murray to run more but even

450
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Speaker 9: more than that. Last year, he didn't play until Week ten.

451
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Speaker 9: It was his first time with a new coordinator in

452
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Speaker 9: the NFL, like he had Cliff Kingsbury every year up

453
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Speaker 9: until that, So he was learning a new offense or

454
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Speaker 9: at least executing a new offense for the first time. Plus,

455
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Speaker 9: like Michael Wilson was routinely hurt late in the year,

456
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Speaker 9: Marquise Brown was in and out of the lineup, and

457
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Speaker 9: when he played, he was playing more of a decoy role.

458
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Speaker 9: He was really going out there with Drey McBride and

459
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Speaker 9: like Greg Dortch, And that's kind of it. Now he's

460
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Speaker 9: got some more pieces. He's got the big piece in

461
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Speaker 9: Arvin Harrison junior. Yeah, I think, And and the Cardinals

462
00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,600
Speaker 9: defense was awful last year. They gave him a ton

463
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Speaker 9: of points, which would mean even more throwing and even

464
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Speaker 9: more dropbacks because more dropbacks for Kyler means more scrambling.

465
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

466
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Speaker 2: I mean, I want to ask you about that, man Tip,

467
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Speaker 2: because you obviously you had a couple of injuries in

468
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Speaker 2: your career. You had an achilles injury, you had some

469
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Speaker 2: other like ankle and foot injuries. How much of it,

470
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Speaker 2: Obviously there's a physical part of that into rehabbing. But

471
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Speaker 2: how much of coming back is just sort of mental

472
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Speaker 2: and being able to trust your body again.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean that's that's the second half of the battle, right,

474
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Speaker 8: Like it's one to repair the physical what the physical injury,

475
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Speaker 8: but then there's a mental aspect of man, I don't

476
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Speaker 8: know if I can trust this. You know, you start

477
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Speaker 8: to go to some PTSD. Man, the last time I

478
00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,159
Speaker 8: stepped like this, this is what happened. And that's what

479
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,680
Speaker 8: happened when I tore my achilles. I told my achilles

480
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Speaker 8: in twenty sixteen. I played a twenty seventeen season, had

481
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Speaker 8: a great season, but I still wasn't moving the way

482
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 8: I was that I wanted to move. There's always that

483
00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,400
Speaker 8: thought and back of your head, like, man, what if

484
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Speaker 8: this thing happened again. But then when I came in

485
00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,680
Speaker 8: the second year, the confidence was there. I was slighter,

486
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:09,520
Speaker 8: I was stronger. I had a whole off season to prepare.

487
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Speaker 8: I was with the new team for the second year.

488
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Speaker 8: So it's a lot like Kyler, if you know, he's

489
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Speaker 8: had a whole year to kind of fiel it out

490
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Speaker 8: to train. He's been under the same system for a

491
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Speaker 8: second year, so you know, it's I'm really excited. And

492
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Speaker 8: obviously I brought to the hype trained with Kyler and

493
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Speaker 8: all the tools, and you know, thanks to Lakwana of

494
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Speaker 8: exposing my.

495
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Speaker 4: Reason why.

496
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the reason why I.

497
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Speaker 8: Really liked dors was because I really liked Rondell Moore,

498
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Speaker 8: and Rondell Moore great, Dorsch plays that position that he played,

499
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Speaker 8: that's that slot position. And I feel like when you

500
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Speaker 8: have a guy like Marvin Harrison Junior who's going to

501
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Speaker 8: attract so much attention, you can need a guy in

502
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Speaker 8: the slot that when those hot routes comes and that

503
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Speaker 8: he needs to hit him. He had he's able to

504
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Speaker 8: do that, and Rondell Moore was able to do to

505
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Speaker 8: do that for the Cardinals the past two years. And

506
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Speaker 8: now Greg Dortch is in there and I've heard nothing about.

507
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 3: Anything, but I've heard all positive.

508
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,239
Speaker 8: News about him, and now that he's number four, I

509
00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 8: hope everybody kind of forgets about him and I can

510
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 8: pick him up late in the round.

511
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Speaker 3: But because of la kwand earlier.

512
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Speaker 4: Well, well, we'll.

513
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Speaker 2: Work on trying to either get this part cut out

514
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,600
Speaker 2: or we'll make it like subscription. We'll make a subscription

515
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 2: subscription only. Yeah, that folks, after I pay. Yeah, it's

516
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 2: an exclusive. We have to pay for it to get

517
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 2: these to get these tips. But while we're on the

518
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Speaker 2: subject of guys coming back from injury, Tim Patrick with

519
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Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos. Uh looked like he was really ready

520
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 2: about to take off. And then a couple of years ago, Uh,

521
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,680
Speaker 2: he had a a an achilles injury or acl injury.

522
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Speaker 2: Then he followed up with an achilles injury. So it's

523
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Speaker 2: been two years of sort of bouncing back. Uh, he's

524
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Speaker 2: on his way back. He's played well in the preseason,

525
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Speaker 2: and he says, quote, you guys haven't seen anything yet.

526
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Speaker 2: So Manti, when you talk about, you know, the Broncos offense, Uh,

527
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Speaker 2: Tim Patrick specifically maybe the Broncos offense, are you buying in?

528
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Speaker 2: Is this a hype train on on what you think

529
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Speaker 2: the Broncos can be? Which side notes to that they

530
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 2: officially named Bo Knicks as their starting quarterback. I don't

531
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Speaker 2: know that's a big surprise. But where are you on

532
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 2: this Broncos offense this year?

533
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Speaker 3: I'm definitely bought in.

534
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Speaker 8: Why because Sean Payton was my head coach for three

535
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Speaker 8: years with the Saints and and the question with with

536
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Speaker 8: Patrick is who's going to fill that Michael Thomas role.

537
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Speaker 8: That's always the when you understand how Sean Payton structures

538
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 8: his offense, he literally has an idea of how he

539
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:28,840
Speaker 8: wants his offense to be run, and then he just

540
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 8: grabs body types and puts them in situations. And so

541
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,960
Speaker 8: you're always gonna need a Michael Thomas kind of kind

542
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Speaker 8: of kind of guy. And then you think, Okay, who's

543
00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:41,520
Speaker 8: the who's the Alvin Camorrow guy? Okay, I know who

544
00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 8: that is with McLaughlin, you know. So I really am

545
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 8: bought into the Denver Broncos and that hype train. You

546
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,679
Speaker 8: watch how bow Knicks played last week, Man, let me

547
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,680
Speaker 8: tell you, like it was hard to come off to

548
00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 8: Drake me like hype train when he played last week.

549
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Speaker 8: But then bo Nix goes out there and does what

550
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,240
Speaker 8: he does. You know, So there's a lot of great

551
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,439
Speaker 8: options for fantasy football owners. I'm late in the draft.

552
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,600
Speaker 8: You know, there's there's talks about, man, I can just

553
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 8: I can just push the quarterback off till later in

554
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,760
Speaker 8: the draft, you know, because there's so many people there.

555
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 8: But I'm definitely in on the Denver Broncos and you know,

556
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 8: Tim Patrick and doing his thing yeah.

557
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,800
Speaker 2: I mean, Flora, Look, I'm with Manta. I watched bow

558
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 2: Knicks last week and I thought, Man, I'm really encouraged

559
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 2: by what I saw. I'm really excited about this Broncos offense.

560
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:31,879
Speaker 2: I mean, Tim Patrick seemed like he was ready to

561
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Speaker 2: make the leap, then had back to back years where

562
00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 2: he missed the season because of injuries. I mean, I guess, specifically,

563
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 2: are you back in on Tim Patrick generally?

564
00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 4: Though? Are you? Are you higher now on the Broncos

565
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 4: than you were earlier.

566
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Speaker 9: I'm definitely higher on the Broncos offense than I was earlier.

567
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Speaker 9: I'm not fully I'll say this is a hype train,

568
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 9: but I'm like kind of reluctant to buy tickets to

569
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:52,840
Speaker 9: it makes sense.

570
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,000
Speaker 6: I like Tim Patrick, but.

571
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 4: Like he's riding stand by on the pipe train, I.

572
00:25:58,200 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 3: Gotta see it.

573
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Speaker 9: Like what I loved is that not only did Bo

574
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 9: Nix look amazing, Tim Patrick was his top target. He

575
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,520
Speaker 9: threw him four different times, but Nicks was spreading the

576
00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 9: ball out a lot. That is something that we see

577
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 9: sometimes out of Sean Payton's offense. Patrick before the injuries

578
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 9: was always like a seven hundred yard, six to seven

579
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,399
Speaker 9: touchdown guy. If he can get to that again, he

580
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,879
Speaker 9: will be very fantasy relevant. I just have questions will

581
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 9: he be able to take a bigger step than that,

582
00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,320
Speaker 9: because there's still guys like Court and Sutton there. The

583
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,639
Speaker 9: running back is gonna be heavily involved. Greg Doltrich is

584
00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,120
Speaker 9: becoming a tight end sleeper now, so I think he's

585
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,960
Speaker 9: more one of those names that will be really useful

586
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 9: as like a bye week injury replacement. You could grab

587
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 9: him off the waiverard. What he has done, though, is

588
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Speaker 9: he's made me firmly stop drafting taking late round darthros On,

589
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 9: Marvin Mims, and Troy Franklin.

590
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Speaker 6: I thought those guys might be the two. It is

591
00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 6: clearly Tim pat.

592
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Speaker 4: He was gonna ask Lakwan who is the number two

593
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:51,639
Speaker 4: target in Denver?

594
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:51,880
Speaker 3: Now?

595
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Speaker 4: Is it Patrick? Is that somebody else?

596
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Speaker 5: I mean it could be Patrick, And I want to

597
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Speaker 5: say that I'm on the hype train. I have never

598
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Speaker 5: left the Tim Patrick hype train. And I mean, if

599
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,480
Speaker 5: we go back to twenty twenty.

600
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Speaker 4: And twenty, it was in the shop for two years.

601
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, look, I was at the last stop Wight.

602
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be at the last stop again because if

603
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 5: we look back to twenty twenty and twenty twenty one.

604
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 5: If I told you he led the Devon Broncinson touchdowns

605
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 5: back to back seasons, you wouldn't believe me because it's

606
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 5: like one of those things that flew under the radar.

607
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 5: He's a seven hundred guy. But I feel like with

608
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 5: this offense with bow Knicks and how he's able to

609
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 5: create these scoring drives. You look at twenty twenty to

610
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 5: twenty twenty one, he had twenty one red zone targets.

611
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Speaker 5: He's a huge threat. This is a big target for

612
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 5: bow Knicks where he can make these situations, and Tim

613
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 5: Patrick could be a guy that can find the end

614
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 5: zone more times than not. I mean, look, he's a

615
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 5: best ball guy. But I'm actually like, if you're in

616
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 5: a deeper league, man, stashing Tim Patrick could be a

617
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 5: nice play here because the guy is going to end

618
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 5: up being such a huge red zone threat for bow

619
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Speaker 5: Knicks if he's going to be able to go down

620
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 5: to go down and create these scoring drives.

621
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Toto Manti's point too, is Sean Payton's offense. I know

623
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Speaker 2: they were last year. They struggled last year. I have

624
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 2: a hard time believing that that offense is going to

625
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 2: be as bad a second year in a row. Now

626
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 2: that he's able to kind of work some of his

627
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 2: uh his schemes in there, get some of his guys

628
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 2: in there, I think it's going to.

629
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Speaker 4: Be a better offense last one.

630
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Speaker 2: Robert Salad, the head coach of the New York Jets,

631
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 2: talking about their rookie running back Braylan Allen, says he

632
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 2: is quote and all around good back. Now, MAN'SI obviously

633
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,359
Speaker 2: Breece Hall is there and looked great last year. He

634
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 2: is the lead running back in that offense. Are you

635
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 2: buying that Braylan Allen can have a role or is

636
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 2: this just a coach sort of like praising a rookie

637
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 2: early on in his career.

638
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's smoke screen to me. You know, you don't.

639
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 8: It's it's it's encouragement for his player, you know, it's

640
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 8: it's it's showing his support. But remember, like we're looking

641
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 8: at looking at it from a fantasy football perspective. You know,

642
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 8: it's like, yeah, well he probably get in there. Yeah,

643
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 8: he probably getting there, you know to to spell spell

644
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Speaker 8: priest help. But than that, it's the briest Hall, the

645
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 8: priests Hall show. Like there's there's no way with his production,

646
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Speaker 8: especially you know him him coming off of injury last

647
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 8: year and you know, started a little tight, and then

648
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 8: towards the second half of the season, a guy just

649
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 8: broke out and I didn't have him. Matter of fact,

650
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 8: I was a victim of brines Hall just going off

651
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 8: against the Washington Commanders, and I'm.

652
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 3: Like, oh my god, I'm throwing him at all.

653
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,719
Speaker 8: Please, I'm throwing him these checkdowns describing me nuts and

654
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,920
Speaker 8: so it's all smoke to me. You know, briest Haw's back, there,

655
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 8: got Aaron Rodgers back. You know, you have Wilson on

656
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Speaker 8: the outside. Yeah, it's it's just encouragement for his young

657
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Speaker 8: his young player, and you know, we'll leave it at that.

658
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Speaker 3: But it's a briefs fall.

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Speaker 4: Show for me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, lakwan is, is Briylan Allen anything more than a handcuff?

661
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Speaker 2: Does he have standalone value at this point?

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Speaker 5: I don't even know if we can call him a handcuff.

663
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Speaker 5: He's like a watchless guy. I mean, you're watching and monitoring,

664
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Speaker 5: and obviously he will be a guy that you won't

665
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Speaker 5: want to pick up if bries Hall suffered injury. But

666
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Speaker 5: I don't see anything fantasy relevant on a week to

667
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Speaker 5: week basis for him to get into starting lineups. I mean,

668
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Speaker 5: it's unfortunate because he's a great talent. I mean, I

669
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Speaker 5: like everything that I'm seeing from in preseason, But like

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Speaker 5: Manti said, it's the Breese Hall show until it isn't.

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Speaker 2: I mean, so last year Floria was looking Dalvin Cook

672
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Speaker 2: got about four to five carries a game as the

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Speaker 2: backup there with the Jets. Is that about what you

674
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Speaker 2: expect for Braylan Allen? Could he possibly carve out more

675
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Speaker 2: than that?

676
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Speaker 9: I think he'll get more than that because the Jets

677
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Speaker 9: offense will be better, so they'll just have longer drives

678
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Speaker 9: where maybe, but I think Braylan Allen there's one area

679
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Speaker 9: where he could be a huge thorn in the side.

680
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Speaker 9: He could be the goal on runner potentially because he's

681
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Speaker 9: built like Derrick Henry. But look, Briest all had one

682
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Speaker 9: goal on carry last year. Now granted that was half

683
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Speaker 9: of the Jets goal on carries, but still they.

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Speaker 6: Had to But I'm just like, hey, maybe they chose.

685
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Speaker 9: They decide we want to keep Breeze Hall fresh and

686
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Speaker 9: we don't want him taking those hits. But yeah, I

687
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Speaker 9: think he's nothing more than a handcuff. But I did

688
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Speaker 9: like him as a player coming out during the draft process. Yeah,

689
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Speaker 9: I liked him too. I liked him in college. But

690
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Speaker 9: I'm kind of with you, guys. I don't know that

691
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Speaker 9: there's enough opportunity there to make it sort of sort

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Speaker 9: of worthwhile.

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Speaker 2: we still have another week of preseason games. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: take a quick break dive into preseason week three, and

698
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Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll see if Manti has any more

699
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Speaker 2: gyms he wants to unearth. Otherwise we'll try to ask

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Speaker 2: him some other fantasy related questions. Manti tale sitting in

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Speaker 2: with us here on the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. It's

702
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Speaker 2: time to drive your Draft, presented by the all new

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Speaker 2: hybrid Toyota camer One more week of preseason football, and

704
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Speaker 2: I guess this is where I should be a company

705
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Speaker 2: guy and tell you that you can watch all these

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Speaker 2: games on NFL Network starting on Thursday night, the Bears

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Speaker 2: and the Chiefs. In fact, there is a quadruple header

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Speaker 2: on Saturday, and then then things wrap up on the

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Speaker 2: network on Sunday e or Sunday morning, I should say

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Speaker 2: Sunday morning, I guess Pacific time, Sunday afternoon Eastern time

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Speaker 2: with the Titans and the Saints. But of course, over

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Speaker 2: the course of the week, you can see every single

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Speaker 2: preseason game on NFL networks.

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Speaker 4: Will be sure to check that out.

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Speaker 2: Man t Tao hanging out with us here as we

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Speaker 2: dive into the third week of the preseason. And so, Matt,

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you, because the last week of

718
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Speaker 2: the preseason, we live in a world now where starters

719
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Speaker 2: are playing fewer and fewer snaps. Anyway, certainly last week

720
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Speaker 2: of the preseason, teams are starting to just make sure

721
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Speaker 2: that all their guys are rested and protected, put them

722
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Speaker 2: in a bubble as much as they possibly can. What

723
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Speaker 2: should we be looking for in a week like this?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know there are a lot of guys

725
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Speaker 2: still trying to kind of fight for their football lives

726
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Speaker 2: and make rosters. What sort of things are you paying

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Speaker 2: attention to in the final week of the preseason.

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Speaker 8: Well, I think it's a team by team basis. You know,

729
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Speaker 8: there's some teams or some coaches that like they like

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Speaker 8: to have their players play a little bit of that

731
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Speaker 8: last game, so there's a momentum going into the season.

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Speaker 8: There's other teams that they don't want to play their guys.

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Speaker 8: They want to make sure that the guys arrested, they're fresh.

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Speaker 8: They they'll probably really really hammer them during the week

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Speaker 8: in practice, but say, hey, listen, we're doing this so

736
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Speaker 8: when the game comes, you're not playing. So it's a

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Speaker 8: team by team basis. For me, at the end of

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Speaker 8: the day, understanding what training camp is all about from

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Speaker 8: a team standpoint is their ability to critique their talent

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Speaker 8: and get those rosters down. So, you know, keeping that

741
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Speaker 8: in mind, I like to look at, okay, what teams

742
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Speaker 8: you know, before the game starts, what teams are planning

743
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Speaker 8: on playing their starters, and even if the starters play,

744
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Speaker 8: you won't really see them playing a whole lot. It's

745
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Speaker 8: it's really the last chance for guys who are on

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Speaker 8: that that that cusp to make make the team or not.

747
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Speaker 8: So you know, as as as we get further and

748
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Speaker 8: further into the preseason, it starts to get more I

749
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Speaker 8: don't really watch from that's right, like the guys that

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Speaker 8: are playing, but that the starters do play for a

751
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Speaker 8: number of series. I'll kind of watch and tune into

752
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Speaker 8: that because you can kind of get a good taste

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Speaker 8: of what that team's going to look like.

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Speaker 3: And then you you you.

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Speaker 8: Make your picks, and then when the season season starts,

756
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Speaker 8: you roll. But the a's a team by team basis.

757
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, guys, I know that you know,

758
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Speaker 2: we've already heard from a lot of teams that they're

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Speaker 2: not going to play their starters. You know, I know

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Speaker 2: Chiefs Bears is on our network. I would be very

761
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Speaker 2: surprised if we see Caleb Williams or Romo Dunes anybody

762
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Speaker 2: like that. I don't expect we're going to see Patrick

763
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Speaker 2: Mahomes throwing behind the back passes this week.

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Speaker 4: It's three.

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Speaker 2: So I want to ask you, man, I want to

766
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Speaker 2: ask you about this, right, because here you are. If

767
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Speaker 2: you are, say a linebacker, you're trying to make your roster, right,

768
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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, the two time MVP is

769
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Speaker 2: throwing behind the back passes, right, you're just trying to

770
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Speaker 2: read your keys. How frustrating is that if you're a

771
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Speaker 2: defender trying to trying to deal with something like that.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's almost it's a big disc you know, honestly,

773
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Speaker 8: you know, it's just like the game is.

774
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Speaker 3: So easy to you that you're gonna do that, you know.

775
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 3: And if I'm if I'm a veteran on.

776
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Speaker 8: The other side, like I'm just like talking to my

777
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 8: young cats and like, bro, you better go hit the guy,

778
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:17,439
Speaker 8: like I don't know.

779
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Speaker 7: What, Like, don't do guy's living counting on it.

780
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Speaker 8: He threw up behind the back pass in the middle

781
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Speaker 8: of the game, and then in his in the side

782
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Speaker 8: of my interview, you know, kind of looked at it

783
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Speaker 8: as if it was a mistake and it kind of

784
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Speaker 8: happened like Patrick clips of you during practice that whole

785
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Speaker 8: week practicing behind the back pass.

786
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Speaker 3: So it was planned to a certain degree.

787
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Speaker 8: But at the same time, if I'm a linebacker on

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Speaker 8: the other side, I'm gonna get my revenge some way,

789
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Speaker 8: Shap Pat.

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Speaker 3: Trick or whoever the next quarterback is.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's it's it has to happen at when

792
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Speaker 8: he's just trying you at that point.

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Speaker 4: You know, that was my.

794
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Speaker 9: Thing too, Like I get you can't be like, all right,

795
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 9: this is what I'm gonna throw the behind the back.

796
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 9: It's gonna kind of be like, oh, but it wasn't

797
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,080
Speaker 9: done out of spite like he was doing it.

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Speaker 6: He knew what he was doing the highlight, he knew

799
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Speaker 6: it was good.

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Speaker 9: They've been practicing this for years apparently, just own it

801
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 9: like yo, I'm better than you.

802
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 3: That's it basically what it is.

803
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Speaker 8: It was just like you can't you can barely throw

804
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Speaker 8: the pass forward and I'm going behind my back.

805
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 3: I left, and then during.

806
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Speaker 8: The Super Bowl I literally threw a parallel to the

807
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Speaker 8: ground like I'm doing.

808
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 3: Everything that you can't that you know what I mean.

809
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Speaker 8: And so it's just one of those Patrick Mahomes things, Like,

810
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Speaker 8: you know, one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever played,

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Speaker 8: definitely the greatest quarterback in this generation. You know, he's

812
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Speaker 8: just doing stuff that's just unheard of. I've never seen

813
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Speaker 8: somebody throw the ball in a game behind his back.

814
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Speaker 3: It's just unheard of.

815
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Speaker 5: What's next?

816
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Speaker 3: It's crazy.

817
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Speaker 2: Well, so here's the thing we also, though, have We

818
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Speaker 2: now have a generation of quarterbacks who's gonna grow up

819
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Speaker 2: watching Patrick Mahomes is gonna start working on these things

820
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Speaker 2: and like so like I I sort of wait with

821
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Speaker 2: anticipation and with a little bit of dread to like

822
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Speaker 2: my kid gets old enough.

823
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Speaker 4: So I can be like, you.

824
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Speaker 2: Didn't you should have seen Patrick Mahomes doing that, and

825
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 2: he's gonna be like, all right, dad man, that's enough, right,

826
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Speaker 2: Like you know, like like we're gonna have quarterbacks doing

827
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:06,479
Speaker 2: this kind of stuff all the time. I'll talk about

828
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Speaker 2: how Patrick Mahomes was special and and my kid is

829
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Speaker 2: gonna be like, yeah, you're dad, ever go away, right.

830
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Speaker 9: Holmes and Steph Curry, those are two that are like,

831
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Speaker 9: you have to come, you have.

832
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Speaker 4: To be there.

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Speaker 2: Tho, it's the natural evolution of things, without a doubt.

834
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Speaker 2: So A Manti talked about kind of what he was

835
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Speaker 2: looking for in the fact that there's not quite as

836
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Speaker 2: much obviously to watch from a fantasy perspective in the

837
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Speaker 2: rest of the preseason. But for you guys, I mean Florida,

838
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Speaker 2: I'll start with you. Is there anybody in particular, any

839
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Speaker 2: team in particular you'd like to see?

840
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Speaker 4: It was a little bit more from before the season starts.

841
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Speaker 6: The Patriots.

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Speaker 9: I really like what the Patriots have been doing in

843
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 9: the sense of, like when it's Jacobe persseat out there,

844
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Speaker 9: we're gonna give you kJ Osborne and Damario Douglass and

845
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Speaker 9: these veteran guys.

846
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Speaker 6: But when it's Drake May.

847
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Speaker 9: You're going out there with Jalen Polk and Javon Baker

848
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Speaker 9: the future at this position here, and I want to

849
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 9: see more. Look, I'm a Javon Baker stan. I want

850
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Speaker 9: to see him show out. But I really think what

851
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Speaker 9: they're doing is they're being like you three going to

852
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 9: learn together and develop together, and uh Brissett and the

853
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 9: veterans will hold it down early on. But when we

854
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,439
Speaker 9: make this switch, I don't think it's just a quarterback switch.

855
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Speaker 9: I think we're gonna get the wide receivers the young

856
00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 9: guys playing with Drake May as well. So I kind

857
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Speaker 9: of like that, like let them get all of those

858
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Speaker 9: reps in preseason and in practice together, knowing that at

859
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Speaker 9: some point this year there's going to be a youth

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Speaker 9: takeover in New England.

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Speaker 4: Anybody any other team that you want to keep an

862
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Speaker 4: eye on the corn.

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Speaker 5: Well, there's a couple players, and I would like to

864
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Speaker 5: see more of the tight ports. No all, you need

865
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Speaker 5: to seen enough.

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Speaker 6: We've seen enough.

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Speaker 4: We're not.

868
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Speaker 5: Right now, but I would love to see more of

869
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Speaker 5: the tight ends Pauls, but I would like to see

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Speaker 5: Kate Stover, Ben Sennen, John new Smith like I want

871
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Speaker 5: to see more of these guys get more involved, and

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Speaker 5: Ben Sennen's one that I really want to focus in on.

873
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 5: I'm going to see him get more reps because he

874
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 5: is truly a threat in the middle of the field

875
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 5: and he brings some attitude after to catch as well.

876
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 5: And I know zach Ertz is there, but I really

877
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 5: think he's there more so is a mentor to install

878
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 5: the offense because he's very familiar with Cliff Kingsbury's offense.

879
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 5: So I think guys like Ben Senna I just want

880
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 5: to see get a little bit more involved before we

881
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 5: get into the season, just so I can have that

882
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,160
Speaker 5: confidence in drafting him in some of these leagues.

883
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a couple of you know, kind of number

884
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 2: three receivers I want to keep an eye on, Like

885
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,240
Speaker 2: I don't know how much we'll see Jermaine Burton necessarily

886
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 2: with the Bengals, but I kind of want to see

887
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 2: how they're using him. I want to see Jayleen McMillan

888
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 2: with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as well. We know Mike Evans,

889
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 2: we know Chris Godwin. McMillan sort of has a role

890
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 2: I think potentially in the future, and I kind of

891
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 2: want to keep an eye on sort of what he does.

892
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 2: I don't know how much or if at all, will

893
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 2: see these guys, but it's just sort.

894
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 4: Of my own little personal wish list. And I good.

895
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 6: I think that's what week three is four right of

896
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 6: the preseason.

897
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 9: It's not for guys that you're gonna be drafting and

898
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:41,439
Speaker 9: starting week one.

899
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 6: It's for like week ten.

900
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,360
Speaker 9: When all these injuries are had I and you're like, oh,

901
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,920
Speaker 9: I remember Tommy DeVito that yeah.

902
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 3: All right.

903
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:51,959
Speaker 4: So man, TI, I know you you've mentioned a couple

904
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 4: of guys that you like.

905
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 2: I don't want you to reveal your whole hand here

906
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 2: for anybody who might be watching or listening to the show,

907
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 2: So I will ask you this, Are there guys that

908
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 2: maybe you're a little bit concerned about, that maybe you're

909
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 2: staying away from. And look, you can, obviously, if you

910
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 2: want to use this time to throw out a few

911
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 2: red herrings to maybe scare off some of your.

912
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 4: League mates, you can certainly do that.

913
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 2: But it just any guys that maybe like the offense

914
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 2: or the situation makes you a little bit nervous this year.

915
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 8: Well, I told LaQuan about this, and I actually asked

916
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 8: him about it. I had the first pick in one

917
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 8: of my leagues, and I hate the first pick.

918
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 4: I don't.

919
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,240
Speaker 3: I hate the first pick.

920
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 8: And so that that that goes to tell you, I

921
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:40,960
Speaker 8: am very, very afraid of Christian McCaffrey going into this

922
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 8: year understanding the workload that he got last year. Understanding

923
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 8: you know that they might they may or may not

924
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 8: have Brendan Nyoku, who is kind of like that, that reliever.

925
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 8: I know they have Deebo, but Diebo is kind of

926
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 8: like Christian, so they kind of do the same thing.

927
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 3: You know, they have Kitto there. Rock Party didn't.

928
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 8: Really have a good showing last game against the Saints,

929
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 8: and just the injuries I think besides the Niners, the

930
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 8: Dolphins were also the other team that had a lot

931
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 8: of injuries going into this year. Christian has a calf

932
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 8: thing that he's dealing with. I had a calf thing

933
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 8: before I had and I don't even want to say

934
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 8: my injury because I don't even want to send that

935
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 8: energy his way.

936
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:25,959
Speaker 3: I wanted him to have a healthy.

937
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,760
Speaker 8: Year, but that that pick scared me as the number

938
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 8: one pick, and so I actually traded out of that

939
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 8: pick to go to the twelfth pick.

940
00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 3: So I got. I got the.

941
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 8: Pick that I wanted, but it had it mainly was

942
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 8: because I was really concerned about Christian McCaffrey being there.

943
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,800
Speaker 8: And when you guys, know, when you have the first

944
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 8: overall pick, it's like the NFL Draft. If you don't

945
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 8: get it right, you're pick to pick twenty five. So

946
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 8: it's like you better get this thing right. And I

947
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 8: just was. I was too concerned about that number on

948
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 8: an overall pick, and so I traded back and now

949
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 8: I'm in a lot better position. But Christian McCaffrey different

950
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 8: definitely is somebody that you know I'm watching and I

951
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:08,839
Speaker 8: was concerned about.

952
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you because you mentioned Brandon Ayuk, right,

953
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 2: I mean, he's still working out his contract situation. We

954
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 2: got Cde Lamb holding out, Jamar Chase holding out. At

955
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 2: what point should we be worried about these guys who

956
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 2: are holding out? I mean, we are about two weeks

957
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 2: away from the season starting. When does it become an

958
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 2: issue for you?

959
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,360
Speaker 3: What? I think it depends?

960
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 8: Right, So, it seems like Cde's situation is about to

961
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 8: figure itself out, and I think we all can agree

962
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 8: that if the Cowboys don't figure it out, soon they're

963
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 8: going to have to figure it out the hard way

964
00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 8: because without CD Lamb they really have nobody else. So

965
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 8: that's going to figure itself out. Now, Brandon ni Yok

966
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 8: situations is a little different. They keep going back and forth.

967
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 8: You know, first it was that the the Niners are

968
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:53,320
Speaker 8: trying to trade him to the Browns, the Patriots, or

969
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 8: the Steelers, and then the Steelers were out, and then

970
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 8: you know, so it keeps going back and forth. I

971
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,239
Speaker 8: think what's happening as we get later into this preseason

972
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 8: and getting into the season, the likelihood of him staying

973
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 8: in San Francisco seems to be the case because at

974
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:09,879
Speaker 8: this point, you're not going to go to a new

975
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 8: place this late in the in the preseason. You know,

976
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 8: then you have to go there, you have to learn

977
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 8: a whole new system. You're going to be handcuffed because

978
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 8: the restrictions with your your familiarity with the with the

979
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 8: play calling, the teammates and all of that stuff. So

980
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 8: I'm putting my chips on the fact that Brendan Nyuk

981
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 8: is going to remain San Francisco forty nine er. But again,

982
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 8: it's all based on the situations. So for all the

983
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,719
Speaker 8: fantasy football owners, you really got to pay attention to

984
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 8: the narrative that's being played out, not only by the media,

985
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 8: but also what's being said by the athlete. You know,

986
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 8: the LOL period by CD Lamb a few weeks ago

987
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 8: was a little alarming. Now lower Jerry Jones is that

988
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,879
Speaker 8: in his tone about how he addresses the whole CD

989
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 8: Lamb situation. It seems like they're in a very good

990
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 8: situation position now. But again, just stay very very close

991
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 8: to those narratives and I think.

992
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:03,640
Speaker 3: You'll be okay.

993
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, I know a lot of folks are

994
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 4: worried about about that. Go ahead.

995
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 9: I was going back to CMC real quick. I know

996
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 9: you're worried about him for the calf and stuff like that.

997
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 9: But one thing I don't think gets a lot of

998
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 9: talking points, at least this summer is, if you include

999
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 9: the playoffs, CMC's coming off of career high touches and

1000
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 9: the season went until February. So, as a former player,

1001
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 9: is do either of those things like do they are

1002
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 9: they real? Like you had so many touches next year

1003
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 9: you might feel the effect of it and your season

1004
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 9: ended six weeks.

1005
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 6: Later than most of the players did. Does that have

1006
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 6: an effect on you the next year.

1007
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, that definitely has an effect, especially his position.

1008
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 8: You know, being the running back and the running back

1009
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:43,280
Speaker 8: for Kyle Shanahan's offense, you're getting the ball all the time.

1010
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 8: And the thing about being the running back is you're

1011
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 8: going to get hit every single play. And I know

1012
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 8: that early in Christian's career, he you know, he was

1013
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,920
Speaker 8: dealing with a lot of injuries and you know, they

1014
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 8: just keep adding up. And it's not like the NFC

1015
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 8: West plays soft brand of football. You know, you got

1016
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 8: the Seattle Seahawks in there, you got the La Brands there,

1017
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 8: you got you know, the Arizona Cardinals in there. They

1018
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:09,759
Speaker 8: all play really good defense. And I think, you know,

1019
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 8: the Cardinals defense is going to get better. But when

1020
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 8: you're Christian McCaffrey and you're you're the focal point of

1021
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 8: that offense, man, there's only so many punches that you

1022
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:22,960
Speaker 8: can take till your body is like, okay.

1023
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 3: I'm done. You know, I'm so uh.

1024
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 8: Yeah that the injury part of that of Christian McCaffrey,

1025
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 8: you know, besides his his past, it's just the amount

1026
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 8: of work that he gets in that system. It's you know,

1027
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 8: whether he gets injured or whether they have to really

1028
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:41,439
Speaker 8: take it off on the amount of targets that he gets.

1029
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 8: It's not in the best such the situation for me

1030
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 8: as a fantasy football owner. So that's why I'm kind

1031
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 8: of hesitating about that.

1032
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 5: That was a great point that you brought up about

1033
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 5: leading the league in touches, because that's kind of how

1034
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 5: he exited Carolina twenty nineteen. He led it with four

1035
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 5: hundred and three and then those final and two seasons

1036
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 5: he only played ten games and then he was off

1037
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 5: to San Francisco. So we might be sitting in that

1038
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 5: exact situation now, not the point where he's going to

1039
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 5: get shipped outside of San Francisco, but where that wear

1040
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 5: and tearror is going to start catching up and we're

1041
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 5: seeing in in this offseason. I mean, the guy just

1042
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 5: had a wedding too. He's not really like in football.

1043
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 4: He's a family man.

1044
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just saying it's like we all know, like.

1045
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 4: Eight bro, he's a fan.

1046
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 3: I'm a Rams fan.

1047
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 5: I me and Marcus go back each and every week.

1048
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 4: Man, I do know.

1049
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you've been a big Jordan Mason

1050
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,280
Speaker 2: guy too. And on the table, there's definitely there's definitely

1051
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 2: a I think a path where we see more Jordan

1052
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,600
Speaker 2: Mason just because the forty nine ers look, we want

1053
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,919
Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey get all the touches for our fantasy team.

1054
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 2: But Kyle Shanahan knows he needs to keep McCaffrey healthy

1055
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 2: for January and February, so they might sort of maybe

1056
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 2: ease off a little bit.

1057
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:56,760
Speaker 4: I think I think many.

1058
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 2: I think you're not alone in your line of thinking

1059
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 2: about about Christian McCaffrey at all. That was Drive your Draft,

1060
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,720
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1061
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1062
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 2: slash camera nanty. This has been great, man. We appreciate

1063
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 2: you hanging out with us. When can we see I

1064
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 2: know you're gonna be on on Good Morning Football. When

1065
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:19,359
Speaker 2: the next time we can maybe see you out here?

1066
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I fly out on Sunday.

1067
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 8: I'll be there for a majority of the week, but

1068
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 8: you know, I'm always in the building when I'm there.

1069
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 8: Lacwan knows like I kind of just hang out and

1070
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 8: then I head back to the hotel to get ready

1071
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 8: for the next day. But I'll be there I think

1072
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 8: after our last Good Morning Football segment that I was on,

1073
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 8: it went very very well.

1074
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 3: So the network is trying to get me out there

1075
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,400
Speaker 3: a lot more. And I'm excited about that because now.

1076
00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 8: I can get involved in a whole bunch of different things,

1077
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,479
Speaker 8: you know, especially in NFL fantasy, and.

1078
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 3: So I would love to be on the show while

1079
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 3: I'm there in LA.

1080
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,920
Speaker 8: You know, let me know what we can do and

1081
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 8: we'll I definitely love having these conversations because it helps

1082
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 8: me identify some people and then hopefully, you know, doesn't

1083
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 8: just keep spilling the.

1084
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry. I promised I won't.

1085
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 3: To be there. Bro.

1086
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 4: I would say this from our side.

1087
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 2: The door is always open, man, whenever you want to

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Speaker 2: come by, we would. We would love to have you.

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Speaker 2: It's been great having you on the show. Best of

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Speaker 2: luck this season, man. You know you gep Us posted

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Speaker 2: how those teams?

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Speaker 6: Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 8: Well you guys will know because if I come to

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Speaker 8: work one morning and I'm not talking to nobody.

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Speaker 2: Exactly some time, fantastic, uh there, you know many I

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Speaker 2: appreciate him stopping by as well. Be sure to check

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Speaker 2: him out on Good Morning Football in the meantime.

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Speaker 4: For us.

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Speaker 2: That'll do it for this edition of the NFL Fantasy

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Speaker 2: Football Podcast, The Happy, Safe and Healthy, do good, and

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Speaker 2: live well. Enjoy the final week of the preseason. Everybody,

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Speaker 2: Week one is around the corner, but stay good and

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Speaker 2: we'll talk to you all next week.

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Speaker 3: Wo