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Speaker 2: Down in the one yard line. How about that? That

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Speaker 2: is the ultimate kabash and we are underway. Hello everyone,

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Speaker 2: welcome back to another episode of the Action Network NFL podcast.

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Speaker 2: I am Matthew Friedman, the editor in chief of Fantasy Labs.

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Speaker 2: We are coming to you with another podcast on the

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Speaker 2: Alliance of American Football the AAF. It is week five,

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Speaker 2: so we are nearing the midway point in the season

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Speaker 2: and with me is our resident Alliance expert, Ian Hartitz,

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Speaker 2: the director of the Fantasy Labs NFL platform and an

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Speaker 2: Action Network analyst, and also joining us to break down

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Speaker 2: the Alliance and this weekend's Action is Cynthia Freeland, an

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Speaker 2: NFL network analytics experts, a data scientist, and a co

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Speaker 2: host of the Game, Theory and Money podcast, which is

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Speaker 2: one of my favorite podcasts to listen to during the

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Speaker 2: NFL season and also for the NFL Network. She is

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Speaker 2: covering the Alliance and has quickly become a great source

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Speaker 2: of information and insight for the new league. Cynthia, thanks

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. We got a good look going here.

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Speaker 3: We're coming to you from formost of beach where it's raining.

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Speaker 3: So California people, even once you're originally from the Midwest,

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Speaker 3: we don't know what to do. So we just put

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Speaker 2: Well, that is exactly what is happening with Ian and

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Speaker 2: with me too, so we're all in this together. Ian,

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Speaker 2: how is it going with you? Ready to talk some Alliance?

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Speaker 4: We're still in the middle of the one turn. There's

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Speaker 4: still football on every weekend. I love it, man. I

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Speaker 4: still haven't had to go over the dark side that

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Speaker 4: they call basketball, so I'm still very much in the

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Speaker 4: af game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you know, kind of looking ahead for NFL.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we have free agency next week, the draft

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Speaker 2: isn't really all that far away. So a lot of

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Speaker 2: different aspects of football to enjoy at this time of

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Speaker 2: the year, which is a very nice thing. Cynthia. Let's

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Speaker 2: get into it. You release power rankings for the Alliance

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Speaker 2: and you have, you know, this math background with which

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Speaker 2: you have a very analytical perspective on these teams, and

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Speaker 2: now that we have four weeks worth of data, it's

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Speaker 2: not as if that really is all that much, but

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Speaker 2: it's maybe close to enough to get some sort of

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Speaker 2: I'm curious if you have some thoughts on how you

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Speaker 2: go about creating power rankings for a league that is

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Speaker 3: Well, the good thing is that most of these coaches

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Speaker 3: like what's singletary are going to do? Is he executing

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Speaker 3: been a little surprised with are the mandatory two point conversions.

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Speaker 3: I thought that coaches would like be just bananas and

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Speaker 3: like throw us like a whole bunch of different what

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Speaker 3: But I think, you know, initially and adjusting to the

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Speaker 3: Like I thought instead of like between sixty five and

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Speaker 3: Like you don't like basketball, and but pace is a

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Speaker 3: good one when you're projecting this football league. So ultimately,

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Speaker 3: what you're doing is you're looking at the past trends

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So give us a sense of your power rankings

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Speaker 3: So ultimately I look to see like, you know, everything

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Speaker 3: And that's played out so like it's really just asking

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Speaker 2: All right, let's look at some of the rush offenses

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Speaker 2: and pass offenses, pass defense, rush defense. Who do you

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Speaker 3: So rushing is interesting because like Salt Lakes starting to

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Thoughts on the different passing offenses that we see.

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Speaker 2: Obviously everyone really likes Orlando Steve spurriy or as their

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, look, obviously we have a quarterback change

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Speaker 3: You know, you've seen that's what happens everywhere. And Garrett

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Speaker 3: But like every quarterback is getting better, Birmingham's quarterback is

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Speaker 3: It's just look to see if they improve. Basically, here's

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Speaker 3: what it is. Can they complete at least three, like

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Speaker 3: Can they use play action? If yes, then you're golden, right,

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Speaker 3: because the ability to use play action in this league

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Speaker 3: it like Louis Perez is getting better every week, right,

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Speaker 3: He's starting to understand play action and execute it. I

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Speaker 4: High in Louis Perez to start the season, and I

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Speaker 4: So like how much evidence only four week sample size

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Speaker 3: So it's interesting because a lot of it has to

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Speaker 3: My hot take here the undefeated Orlando Apollos, but they're

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Speaker 3: playing brooming. Birmingham's past defense is the best. It's the

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Speaker 3: best pass defense in and it's the most consistent as well.

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Speaker 3: So those two attributes together are good. You've seen Birmingham

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Speaker 3: be susceptible to deep run plays. Okay, Well, if you're

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Speaker 3: taking care of the pass against the Orlando A, Paul's like,

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Speaker 3: I would downgrade all. You know, Like I love Charles Johnson,

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Speaker 3: He's one of my favorite players in the entire league,

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Speaker 3: but it's not a love thing. It's a fantasy thing, right,

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Speaker 3: So that's how I would view that. And then like

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Speaker 3: the linebacker play is it's very interesting, right, like these

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Speaker 3: Can play man. It's deep passing and ability to execute

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Terrence Garvin being out for Orlando is

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Speaker 4: I think San Diego has kind of emerged in my

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Speaker 3: So Connor Schultz for the Salt Lakes Stallions, he's an impressive,

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Speaker 2: Right, So, Cynthia, you probably spend as much time watching

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Speaker 3: So I got a chance at the I was at

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Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, that's interesting and great point there on

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Speaker 3: I genuinely there's a shortage of people who truly play

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Speaker 3: understand pass protection concepts, because that's not not all colleges

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Speaker 3: know pass pro great, Like that's like it's like anyone's resume, right,

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Speaker 3: Like if if you already have experience coding in you know, Python, great,

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Speaker 2: All right, let's jump into the action for this weekend.

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Speaker 2: In the first game on Saturday, the best game of

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Speaker 2: the two best teams in the league. No lines have

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Speaker 4: Yeah, First off, note this game starts at two pm

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Speaker 5: It's gonna be a good one.

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Speaker 2: Quickly.

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Speaker 4: Receivers are banged up, but I would note that we've

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Speaker 4: for butchering your name, bro.

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Speaker 3: But oh did a good job.

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Speaker 5: Hey, there we go. He had a knee injury.

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Speaker 4: Richard Mulaney is a guy we'll talk about later at

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Speaker 4: Then quickly, for Orlando you said earlier, Cynthia, I'm in

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Speaker 4: the backfield's kind of been a full blown committee all season.

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Speaker 4: But Terrence Garvin obviously you know, as you said, and

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Speaker 5: He was able to get in a limited practice.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get into the matchups and Cynthia, your

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Speaker 3: So this is like this is like a bad matchup

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Speaker 3: But again I already told you what at where I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Ian thoughts on this matchup.

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Speaker 5: Strength for strength.

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Speaker 5: I think I've ever seen down there for a stretch.

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Speaker 3: This one's hard because Denis Johnson is the one that

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Speaker 3: red zone again hasn't been great, But I do think

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Speaker 3: in this game you could have a deep run that

435
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Speaker 3: goes that busts beyond, like you know, it doesn't doesn't

436
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Speaker 3: need to necessarily be like the goal line stand because

437
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Speaker 3: the Iron are really good in their red zone anyway,

438
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Speaker 3: so they're probably going to try to get those deep

439
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Speaker 3: passes or deep runs or like just hit the home run.

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Speaker 3: They wouldn't try to do that. I would imagine a

441
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Speaker 3: bit more in this one, just because of the fact

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Speaker 3: that you know, look, Iron and the red zone are

443
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Speaker 3: like just they're the best in the league. So Denis

444
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Speaker 3: Johnson's the safest one for me, I would maybe look elsewhere.

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Speaker 3: I actually, like, I'm telling you this game, I think

446
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Speaker 3: it could be the Sherman Batty sort of breakout situation

447
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Speaker 3: if you want to be risky. And that's obviously on

448
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Speaker 3: the other side of the ball. But you're like, look,

449
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Speaker 3: Trent Richardson's scoring all the touchdowns. He loves scoring touchdowns

450
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Speaker 3: a so I does. But I think if you want

451
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Speaker 3: like maybe an interesting and interesting trip because the coaches

452
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Speaker 3: told me they like, we love Baty, We're trying to

453
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Speaker 3: get him worked in more, baby Baby Beaty.

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, let's talk about the other side of the

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Speaker 2: ball here. So the question is if the defense for

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Speaker 2: Birmingham is able to slow down a little bit, the

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Speaker 2: Orlando apollos is there often still going to be able

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Speaker 2: to score enough points to keep them in the game.

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Speaker 2: What is your thought on this offense versus the Orlando defense.

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Speaker 3: So the Birmingham offense, OK, right, so you got your

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Speaker 3: Trent Richardson, right, but like you like you have your

462
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Speaker 3: Lararius Perkins his backup, you got your Quinton Patten. I

463
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Speaker 3: think to me, it's like Trent's safe. I told you,

464
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Speaker 3: I like my sleeper from a different game for a

465
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Speaker 3: running back better. So if you're not going to go

466
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Speaker 3: Trent Richardson, then you're going to go within the other direction.

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Speaker 3: This is a low scoring game. I'm not going to

468
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Speaker 3: target a ton of people for fantasy in this one,

469
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Speaker 3: just because, to be perfectly honest with you, I think

470
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Speaker 3: it's going to be the lowest. I just think they're

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Speaker 3: going to keep it real. Like I think it's going

472
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Speaker 3: to stay real. Oh, like, I think there's going to

473
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Speaker 3: maybe be like, like the scores will be something like

474
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Speaker 3: twelve to eighteen. I love weird scores, so we're only

475
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Speaker 3: going to do weird ones. But you know, like, I

476
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Speaker 3: think that's the I think that's the kind of cadence

477
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Speaker 3: that you should expect in this game. Low scoring, So

478
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Speaker 3: don't don't spend too much time over analyzing it, right,

479
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Speaker 3: Like I look for sleepers elsewhere.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of Synthia here.

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Speaker 4: I mean, we're probably talking about the two best secondaries

482
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Speaker 4: in the league both playing in this game, and if

483
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Speaker 4: you can't create explosive plays, it's going to be hard

484
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Speaker 4: to put up.

485
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Speaker 5: Too many points.

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Speaker 4: The Trent Richardson thing this week is interesting because he's

487
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Speaker 4: been playing so many more snaps than anyone else that

488
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Speaker 4: he just you got to put him in fancy even

489
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Speaker 4: if he has fifty percent exposure to all these lineups.

490
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Speaker 4: But then last week we see he did play season

491
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Speaker 4: low fifty eight.

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Speaker 5: Percent of snaps.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't really think there's exactly a

494
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Speaker 4: changing of the guard coming on, but we did see

495
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Speaker 4: something they tell you.

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Speaker 3: I'm telling you something's up there.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Brandon Ross out carried him and it was like,

498
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Speaker 4: how many times can you watch the same running back

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Speaker 4: average two point five yards per carry until you do

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Speaker 4: something about it. So I will say, I mean, Richardson,

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Speaker 4: I still have five catches. Like, he's looked really good

502
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Speaker 4: as a receiver this year once he gets in the

503
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Speaker 4: open field, just been hard to come by, I think

504
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Speaker 4: in the middle of the box. But I'm hoping he

505
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Speaker 4: might have a little bit reduced ownership this week so

506
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Speaker 4: we can jump on it. But it's so tough to

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Speaker 4: look behind the offenses here.

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Speaker 3: I'm with you, Yeah, I mean, I just think, like,

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to spend too much time over analyzing

510
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Speaker 3: this one, like just because I just don't think there's

511
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Speaker 3: gonna be a ton of points here. You know, Garrett

512
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Speaker 3: Gilbert's the best one. He's the safest quarterback, sure absolutely,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like Trent Richardson, He's gonna

514
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Speaker 3: be safe, sure like, but not I don't like safe.

515
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Speaker 3: That's not sexy, it's not fun. So he yeah, football,

516
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Speaker 3: it's supposed to be fun, right.

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Speaker 2: So, Cynthia, you mentioned that it's hard for teams, at

518
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Speaker 2: least so far, and what we've seen teams to win

519
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Speaker 2: on the road. You like the Birmingham defense, So I'm

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Speaker 2: assuming that means that you are thinking the Iron have

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Speaker 2: a real chance of winning this game.

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Speaker 3: I think the Iron pull off the upset. I think

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Speaker 3: it's hard to win out all of your games, like

524
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Speaker 3: in any sport at any time. So this is the

525
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Speaker 3: best matchup. And the Iron are coming off a loss,

526
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Speaker 3: their first loss, like kind of an unexpected one. You know,

527
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Speaker 3: the Paull's played in the snow last week, Like not

528
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Speaker 3: saying that that really matters, but you know, it's another

529
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Speaker 3: road situation, like it's like it's tricky, it's going to

530
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Speaker 3: be I just think this is the time where that

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Speaker 3: defense just shines because we saw we saw last week

532
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Speaker 3: the Apollo's like got the Stallings, slowed them down. So

533
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Speaker 3: it's not like they're infallible, right they didn't look like

534
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Speaker 3: they weren't scoring like eighteen thousand points right like they were.

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Speaker 3: They kind of had to win in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 3: you know, it wasn't like a big blowout, all right.

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Speaker 2: Ian, which way are you leaning?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I think the I mean our projected lines I think

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Speaker 4: are pretty spot on at the moment. I kind of

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Speaker 4: tend to take that under the total what is going

542
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Speaker 4: to be because it does seem.

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Speaker 5: Like a low scoring game environment.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, if you have two of the best

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Speaker 4: teams in the league, and I think we kind of

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Speaker 4: assume they're going to be in a close game. So yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm more in client to take a chance on the

548
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Speaker 4: total I think in the spread.

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Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, so that seems like a potential spot

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get back to the Alliance. The second

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Speaker 2: game on Saturday, the Salt Lake Stallions at the San

572
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Speaker 2: Diego Fleet, I mean, not the most enticing game in

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Speaker 2: the world, but Cynthia, as you mentioned earlier, the Salt

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Speaker 2: Lake Stallions are a little bit potentially undervalued relative to

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Speaker 2: how they've performed record wise so far. Ian any injury

576
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Speaker 2: news and notes.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple of notes from both teams.

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Speaker 4: Biggest one San Diego starting quarterback Philip Nelson out and

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Speaker 4: definitely fracture is claviical.

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Speaker 5: So we're going back to the Mike Broocovici show.

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Speaker 4: Everyone saw Mike get his helmet pretty much thrown twenty

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Speaker 4: yards across the field in week one, really tough out.

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Speaker 3: First, I watched that his chin strap wasn't on.

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Speaker 5: Oh what quarterbacks are always doing?

585
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Speaker 3: That?

586
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Speaker 5: They got their mouth guards hanging out.

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Speaker 4: That's a lesson, but yeah, so's gonna be back out there.

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Speaker 4: I think he's in a better position now. But we'll

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Speaker 4: get into that more a little bit later. But good

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Speaker 4: news for San Diego at least the Mantre Mora, one

591
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Speaker 4: of the best pass rushers in the league. As we

592
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Speaker 4: said earlier, he was able to practice in full on Wednesday,

593
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Speaker 4: expecting him to return. Linebacker aj Tarpley is still sidelined

594
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Speaker 4: with a back injury, so we'd be nice to get

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Speaker 4: him back, but might not be able to this week.

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Speaker 4: On the Salt Lake side of things, Brandon Oliver seemed

597
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Speaker 4: to kind of take over the backfield last week, unfortunately

598
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Speaker 4: got a groin injury wasn't able to open up the

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Speaker 4: week with the practice. So we're looking at Joel Blagnon

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Speaker 4: and Trell Newby potentially forming a two back committee. They

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Speaker 4: also signed a guy named Nick Holly, and we haven't

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Speaker 4: got matt as Seattle waiting in the wings, so we'll

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Speaker 4: see how they end up forming that committee for this week.

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Speaker 2: All right, So we have right now Salt Lake projected

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Speaker 2: to win by a point or two. We have a

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Speaker 2: pretty low game total of around thirty eight points. Cynthia

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Speaker 2: start by looking at the Salt Lake offense against the

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Speaker 2: San Diego defense. What do you think of that matchup?

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Speaker 3: Salt Lake? I actually think both these teams are like

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Speaker 3: coming on. Yes, it's a horrible like we talked about earlier,

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Speaker 3: like quarterback injuries are just really hard in this one.

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Speaker 3: And yes, Bercovici like he started, but then he didn't,

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Speaker 3: and then he like, and they were looking better and

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Speaker 3: then like Mike Martz and Stell's a a notably confusing

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Speaker 3: offense for ever, like that's his thing, So they're starting

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Speaker 3: to catch on. So that leads me to believe that,

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Speaker 3: you know, this is going to be trickier. I think

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Speaker 3: Salt Lake does get the win. Salt Lake's been looking

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Speaker 3: great lately, like they're they're like coming up, you know,

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Speaker 3: like they obviously did at last week to the Apollos,

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Speaker 3: but they looked great, and I think stopping the run

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Speaker 3: is like something they do really well. And also the

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Speaker 3: fleet is you know, their defense is now going up

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Speaker 3: against the best offensive line in the AAF, so that's

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Speaker 3: going to be tricky for them to you know, kind

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Speaker 3: of overcome as well.

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Speaker 2: All right, Ian, what your thoughts on the matchup?

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Speaker 4: I think this sets up pretty nice for Salt Lake

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Speaker 4: because I mentioned before I think San Diego has the

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Speaker 4: best pass rush. But the one thing Josh Woodham has

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Speaker 4: consistently done good this year is get the ball out

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Speaker 4: of his hand quickly. I mean he has easily the

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Speaker 4: quickest average release time, And I mean we've seen the

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Speaker 4: morn A Pearson l work out of the slot and

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Speaker 4: just continuously kind of get fed these short crossing routes,

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Speaker 4: and you know, it hasn't produced the most big play,

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Speaker 4: but it's also been pretty much turnover free and it's

638
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Speaker 4: been an efficient offense, especially when paired with their running games.

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Speaker 4: So I think they do have the tools to move

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Speaker 4: the ball on the San Diego defense. I guess my

641
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Speaker 4: kind of question here that I'm trying to figure out

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Speaker 4: is one what the committee will look like without Oliver.

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Speaker 4: I think Trell Newby could actually be the fantasy guy

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Speaker 4: we want, considering he's more of the pass catcher.

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Speaker 5: And two who the number one.

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Speaker 4: Receiver is because it looks like it's Pearsonelle, but he's

647
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Speaker 4: also been stuck to the slot. And we've seen Kenny

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Speaker 4: Bell and Kale and Clay come back in these last

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Speaker 4: two weeks and really be more of a.

650
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,600
Speaker 5: Factor than we saw before.

651
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 4: So Cinthy, I'm curious if you had to pick some

652
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 4: like fantasy factors from the Salt Lake offense, who you're

653
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 4: looking at.

654
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 3: I like Clay, I think. I mean again, I'm not

655
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 3: always going like the most like volume guy, because the

656
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:06,159
Speaker 3: Nebraska guy Pearsonel He's he's been there, go to you

657
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 3: guy for volume. But I think that sets up nicely

658
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,639
Speaker 3: for Clay. He think he's been coming on strong in

659
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 3: the past few weeks. And again it's not a good

660
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 3: defense to target when it comes to passing, but not

661
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 3: necessarily because of like their old line is, it's the

662
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 3: biggest and they have played the best in terms of

663
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,120
Speaker 3: giving some time. And I think I think it does

664
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,479
Speaker 3: Sad I'm with you. I think I also think that

665
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 3: you know, Salt Lake wins by a considerable amount, maybe

666
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 3: like three or four points, not necessarily just one. So

667
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 3: I think it sets up nicely for you know, some passing.

668
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 3: Don't overestimate their passing. That's not the way it's going

669
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 3: to be. Just that they're just that's not there, that's

670
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 3: not their profile. And then I think you got to

671
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 3: look at the running back situations. Tricky for me because

672
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 3: I think like it started off Buanio and then you know,

673
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 3: you got like then you got Oliver and then you like,

674
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 3: for fantasy purposes, you want a guy who catches the ball.

675
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 3: But like, now we went back Blondie, Like, what are

676
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 3: we doing here? You know what I mean? So it's

677
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 3: it's tricky, but I would go with the safer pick

678
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 3: in that suite situation. But again the volume play might

679
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 3: be blan Yo.

680
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 2: All right, Cynthia, what about San Diego offense versus the

681
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 2: Salt Lake defense.

682
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 3: San Diego offense, so always Mike Martz is always going

683
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 3: to try to pass the hell out of the ball.

684
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 3: In their preseason game, Bercovici had I want to say,

685
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 3: four turnovers, it could have been five, and they passed.

686
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 3: They kept passing their way to win that it was

687
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 3: a preseason game, but essentially the same as the regular game.

688
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 3: Like so they kept you know, they did a bunch

689
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,040
Speaker 3: of turnovers. Like do not like stay away from Burga Vich.

690
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 3: I'm not suggesting you play him in fantasy, but you

691
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 3: could look to target as a as a pure upside situation,

692
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 3: you could look to target, like even Gavin Escobar is

693
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 3: one that flags for me. The tight end. So yeah,

694
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 3: I just think Gavin Escobar could be a good pickup

695
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,040
Speaker 3: for especially for your tight end position, just because they

696
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 3: think him and Bercovicci had a good chemistry prior to

697
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 3: Bergovicci getting replaced earlier on the season.

698
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's amazing how much Mike marsh is again those

699
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 4: tight ends involved, and we saw Marcus Ball have a

700
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 4: really good game last week as well.

701
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 3: Well. They're taller than all their wide receivers, so all

702
00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 3: the tight ends, there's no none of their wide receivers

703
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 3: are taller than their tight ends. Their tight ends are

704
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 3: like an inch or too taller than every single one

705
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 3: of their receivers, which is a very Mike March thing

706
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 3: to do for sure.

707
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 4: I think it's also cuteos to Mike mars for, you know,

708
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 4: using the talent at his disposal. And we saw Escobar

709
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 4: with the Cowboys, he was kind of more of the

710
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 4: slot tight end while Witton was in line than Marcus

711
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 4: Ball at Ohio State did a few things like that

712
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 4: as well. So one part I want to look at.

713
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 4: I know, you know, Mike Marx is always going to

714
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 4: pass the ball, like you said, but this run game

715
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 4: was one of the few backfields. We had a grip

716
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 4: on it. I mean, Gardners looked like the best running

717
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 4: back in the league. What didn't have a good last week,

718
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 4: but Tarrell Watson definitely, uh you know, being a physical,

719
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 4: grounded pounder as well. Here's the problem, Bishop Sankie, our

720
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 4: old friend is coming back from ir this week, and

721
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 4: now he's getting thrown to this mess. So do you

722
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 4: think Gardner and Watson are still going to kind of

723
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 4: be the two guys or are sank He going to

724
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 4: have a pretty immediate rule.

725
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 3: I think it's Gardner, Like I think, I don't think

726
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 3: he's gonna put a dent in Gardner's reps. I think

727
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 3: it'll if anything, it will be other people like it's Gardner,

728
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: and then maybe we could like rotate other people. That's

729
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 3: kind of how I That's what I would agin. Yeah,

730
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 3: I think he trust Jakwon Gartner the most.

731
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, logically all of that makes sense because of what

732
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 2: Gardner has done. And then I think Watson is also

733
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 2: a kind of undervalued guy. But I am a Bishop

734
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:17,479
Speaker 2: Sanki truther going back a half decade, So I'm just

735
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 2: gonna be the lone person on this bandwagon thinking that

736
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,240
Speaker 2: at some point He's going to have one game that's

737
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 2: really good and then I can take my victory lap

738
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 2: at that point and then off the bandwagon forever. So Cynthia,

739
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 2: you said you like Salt Lake for this game, Ian,

740
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: what are your thoughts.

741
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 4: I lean towards San Diego here. I think Brokeovici is

742
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 4: entering a much better situation. They have started to run

743
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 4: the ball a little bit more since I think week two,

744
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 4: week three, that was what Philip Nelson. So maybe Mike

745
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 4: Mars just goes back to chucking the ball around because

746
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 4: he did so in the preseason, like Cynthia said, and

747
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 4: also week one when I you know they would run

748
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 4: the ball well, but still just kind of refuse to

749
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 4: do it. But I think san Diego defense, especially again

750
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 4: the entre more back, will be enough to hold off

751
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 4: Lake and you know, getting points at home of I'll

752
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 4: take San Diego all right.

753
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 2: So on Sunday we have two games, the first one

754
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 2: Memphis Express at the Atlanta Legends, which is probably the

755
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 2: least inspiring game of the weekend. We have the Memphis

756
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 2: right now projected to win by about a point, and

757
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 2: another low scoring game we were thinking around thirty eight

758
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: and a half combined points ian any injury news and notes.

759
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,480
Speaker 4: Well, I will correct you. This would have been the

760
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 4: worst game of the weekend two weeks ago. But now

761
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 4: we've got some good quarterbacks playing.

762
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 5: We got Zach.

763
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 4: Mettenberger, Aaron Murray sec season. Maybe that's my mistake here.

764
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 4: Now wonderful teams because they have two quarterbacks.

765
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 3: Wonderful.

766
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 4: Yes, you're forgiven. Okay, So with quick injury notes. Atlanta

767
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 4: they're scat back Ackham Widley, who he saw have a

768
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 4: bunch of receptions last few weeks. He hit the ir

769
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 4: with the knee injuries, so one less guy to worry

770
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 4: about there. And Lawrence Pittman they're kind of fourth RB

771
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 4: has an ankle injury and he's looking iffy as well,

772
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 4: so so I'm gonna keep an eye on. We do

773
00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 4: have confirmation, if there's any out, that Aaron Murray will

774
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 4: be the starting quarterback over Matt Sims, so that's good

775
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 4: to know. And then for Memphis, they signed a running

776
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 4: back Darryl Virgie's I'm not exactly maybe they're not happy

777
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 4: with Stacy.

778
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not exactly sure what's going on there,

779
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 5: but some keep an eye on.

780
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 4: And they waived their wide receiver baby and Guerrero apologies.

781
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 4: I know he was kind of, you know, a season

782
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 4: long darling in the before the season got going, we

783
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 4: had no idea what the death charts would be, so

784
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 4: that sucks for.

785
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 5: Anyone that got him.

786
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 4: But goodness is the Mettenburger era is still alive and well,

787
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 4: if you guys can't tell, I'm all in on Memphis now.

788
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, the the Memphis Mettenburger era has been going strong

789
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 2: for what is it like a game?

790
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, game and a half, That's what I'm talking about.

791
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, so long lived metten Burger Cynthia. Any thoughts on

792
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 2: what we're going to see out of this Memphis offense

793
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 2: going against Atlanta defense.

794
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 3: And I made it clear that I really like Sherman Baty,

795
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 3: especially since I talked about him like all like in

796
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 3: all of the games, because he's He's the guy who

797
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 3: I think this is. I think this is the time

798
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 3: we get Like I told you, I would go anything

799
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 3: over even over the most you know, the Iron who

800
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 3: have the most stable running back in terms of fantasy.

801
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,000
Speaker 3: I think this is the Sherman Baty week. Like Sherman Baty,

802
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 3: Sherman Baty one more time, Sherman Batty, like I'm in.

803
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,879
Speaker 3: The coaches told me they liked him. I think this

804
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 3: is him giving his getting his chance in this matchup,

805
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 3: especially against the legend.

806
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:18,959
Speaker 2: All right, Ian, what do you think here?

807
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 4: I think Cynthy might be onto something. I mean, Zach

808
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 4: Stacy's been the guy there. He played sixty five percent

809
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 4: snaps last week, but we've had two straight games, right,

810
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 4: really hasn't gotten anything going on the ground and they

811
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 4: need some type of sparks. So yeah, I could definitely

812
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 4: see them making a change there sooner rather than later.

813
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 4: I'm trying to figure out these wide receivers a little

814
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 4: bit too, though. I mean the whole kind of offense

815
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 4: is a bit muddled with the quarterback switch and all that.

816
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 4: Last week we had Reye Horn, Alton Pig Howard great nickname,

817
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 4: and Dantes Byrd in the three wide receiver sets. Cynthia

818
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 4: kind of wondering who your preferences they're made from a

819
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 4: fantasy perspective. I think Reye Horn's kind of the fact

820
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 4: on number one, but he might not be like the

821
00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 4: most explosive guy.

822
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's volume wise. You think that's the pick,

823
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 3: but like I I don't know. I think I like

824
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,520
Speaker 3: the pig guy. He's an interesting one. So the legend

825
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,960
Speaker 3: their defense can be targeted on the perimeter. So whomever

826
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 3: you think you are going to get that advantage on

827
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 3: the perimeter with, like, that's who you should be going for.

828
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 3: So for me, it's hard because the routes that they've

829
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,280
Speaker 3: run have been a lot of different ones. It's very singletary,

830
00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 3: right like it's like, well, you're going to do a post,

831
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 3: You're going to do a go like then now you're

832
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,800
Speaker 3: gonna do the post. Like it's just very like normal.

833
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 3: So I don't know that one's like buyer beware. But

834
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:32,879
Speaker 3: whoever you think is going to be the perimeter guy,

835
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 3: that's the one that you should have your theory on.

836
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 2: All right, Cynthia, what about the Atlanta offense against the

837
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 2: Memphis defense.

838
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what we're going to get, Like,

839
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 3: let me be completely clear, Like that could be a

840
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 3: benefit in the sense of it you can't really gain

841
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 3: plan for it. But if you're talking about like pure

842
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 3: like fantasy strategy, it's a very risky strategy, right Like

843
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,760
Speaker 3: if you think, you know, I think, sure, great, go ahead,

844
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 3: but it's you know, it's very risky. So here's the

845
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 3: behind the scenes. Atlanta's had one shoes. So remember Michael

846
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 3: Vick left, Childress left. They've had like five or six

847
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 3: different people with their hands in this offense and it's

848
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 3: been four weeks. So it's kind of chaotic, right, And

849
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 3: so that's not It's like when you're playing in the

850
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 3: NFL and you're trying to and aj Green's not playing

851
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 3: and you're trying to figure out like which Cincinnati receiver

852
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,840
Speaker 3: to figure out, like good luck, you know, Like I

853
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:34,399
Speaker 3: don't know, you know. So that's the kind of thing too.

854
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 3: That's kind of my comp for that.

855
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 4: It's been such a mess there all year. I mean

856
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 4: it was even Matt Simms. I mean I wasn't I

857
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 4: didn't think he'd be good going in the year, but

858
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 4: he actually had a really good Week three. I think

859
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 4: he was kind of in a no win situation. I mean,

860
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 4: Aaron Murray kind of took his job not but yeah,

861
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 4: I'm with you in terms of trying to take advantage

862
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 4: of this.

863
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 5: It's just such a mess everywhere. We had seven wide.

864
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 4: Receivers last week played between thirty one and fifty three

865
00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 4: percent of the snaps, so it's just hard to tell

866
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 4: who's gonna be out there, and the running back committee's

867
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 4: kind of been evolving all year. I think Terran Foulston

868
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 4: might be the one guy we could look at. He

869
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 4: had seven targets last week and that might hold up

870
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 4: now that we know Wadley's not gonna be playing.

871
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think the better answer.

872
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 3: You need to know. You need to know when you're

873
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 3: doing this the return that you're expecting, right, Like, sure,

874
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 3: go for the guy that got the hardest target but

875
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 3: highest targets, but you're playing in a situation, what return

876
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 3: are you expecting from this person? You know what I mean?

877
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 3: And anything more than that's upside, right, So I don't know,

878
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,360
Speaker 3: Like this is just the offense, Like why didn't Murray

879
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,279
Speaker 3: start at the beginning of the season. That scares me, right,

880
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 3: Like Hackenberg started over Mettenberger. Because Hackenberg has played on

881
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 3: several NFL teams. That one was clear, right, and they

882
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 3: were trying to give him another chance. They were trying

883
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,279
Speaker 3: to make it work. But like Murray, you would have

884
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 3: thought he would have been the starter.

885
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 5: He has the hometown thing too. It made no.

886
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 3: Sense, right, So that gives me huge pause because you're

887
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 3: like the guy with the biggest name, Like because Usually

888
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 3: the way that it's worked is that the guy with

889
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,400
Speaker 3: the biggest names at least started week one. This is

890
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 3: now week five, So I don't know mess mess.

891
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 2: Messan anyway that you were leaning on this game.

892
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, give me the Express. Simply just said stay

893
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 4: away from the Mess and stay with the Express.

894
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:15,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

895
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 3: I think the Express are a better team than their

896
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 3: record would suggest, right, Like, I think they were a

897
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 3: little slow to switch their quarterback, and I think they

898
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 3: were and they're figuring out their offense, you know, like look,

899
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 3: Singletary is ground and pound, Like he's the best looking

900
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 3: into in his starter jacket by far. Nobody looks better

901
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 3: in that starter jacket than him. So apart from you know, like,

902
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 3: I think they're kind of like making their way with this,

903
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 3: but I think they're better than their records suggest. They

904
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 3: don't feel like they should have the record that they have,

905
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 3: you know.

906
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,720
Speaker 4: Even when they were getting killed in those Hackenberg games,

907
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 4: like it was usually a close game till the fourth quarter,

908
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 4: and then I mean defense on the field the whole

909
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 4: time hard to kind of uh, right.

910
00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 3: It's good, But if they're playing the whole time like

911
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,760
Speaker 3: they think about it, that's ten more snaps at least

912
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 3: on either side. Then you're used to in an NFL

913
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 3: game and it's fast. Thirty five seconds for the play

914
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 3: clock is fast, and the timeout situation is way different

915
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 3: in every like it's just a lot more and you

916
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 3: don't get to take special teams off. So there you go,

917
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 3: you know, like it's just a lot on the field.

918
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 2: Cynthia, that sounds pretty smart. You are a pretty smart person.

919
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,400
Speaker 2: Did you read a lot of books in your formative years?

920
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 3: So yeah, I guess, except I was like kind of

921
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 3: like I'm like a dorky smart, but like I'm more

922
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 3: like a math person. Like I'm I'm writing, like I

923
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 3: have to write an article later today, and I'm like

924
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,359
Speaker 3: sitting here like thinking of fifteen reasons to get out

925
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 3: of it. But you could ask me to code for

926
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 3: six hours and I'd be like, sure, let's go, you know,

927
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 3: Like so, yeah, I read a lot, and like I

928
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 3: guess I'm smart, but like it's it's more like I'm

929
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 3: functionally smart, like I figured out what I needed to

930
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 3: do to like get to like what I needed to do.

931
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: Well.

932
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 2: I have an idea. While you are doing things, if

933
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 2: you're too busy to read, you can listen to books

934
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Speaker 2: on Audible. Yeah. With Audible you get access to an

935
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Speaker 2: unbeatable selection of audiobooks, including bestsellers, motivation, miss thrillers, memoirs,

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939
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 2: do you have a book that is kind of like

940
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 2: a childhood favorite or one that is just kind of

941
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 2: your favorite right now?

942
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 3: Well, you know what I've been listening to on Audible

943
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 3: actually is the one about that crazy girl from Pharanos

944
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 3: that like scammed everyone out of all the money. Do

945
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 3: you know what I'm talking about?

946
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 2: No, but now I'm gonna want to listen to it.

947
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 2: You are.

948
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 3: It's incredible. She like you know that Pharahose company should

949
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,240
Speaker 3: became in this billionaire she scammed all of these investors

950
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,400
Speaker 3: of all of this money. I have to say, I'm

951
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 3: gonna tell you the name right now because I literally

952
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 3: am listening to it on Audible, like not this moment,

953
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 3: but as we're speaking. It's called Cold Please bad Blood.

954
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 3: Bad Blo opened my Audible app. I just opened my

955
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 3: Audible app and there it was Bad Blood.

956
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 2: It's great, Okay, so yeah, listen to that on Audible.

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972
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 2: back to the Alliance. The last game for the weekend,

973
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 2: the San Antonio Commanders at the Arizona Hotshots. We actually

974
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:48,480
Speaker 2: like the Hotshots quite a bit. In this game, we

975
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,040
Speaker 2: are projecting them to win by about seven points, and

976
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 2: we have a game total of around thirty nine and

977
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 2: a half as our projection. Ian any injury news and

978
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:58,240
Speaker 2: notes here.

979
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 4: Both teams are pretty healthy right now. Arizona Josh Huff

980
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,839
Speaker 4: wasn't able to practice Wednesday with a knee injury. I'd

981
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 4: have to look back, but I'm pretty sure he's kind

982
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 4: of been limited a little bit in practice with that,

983
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 4: so I'm not sure if that necessarily means he won't

984
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 4: play yet. But the good news for Arizona was Richard Mulaney,

985
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,800
Speaker 4: who was starting for them when the season started, returned

986
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 4: to a limited practice with a knee injury. And mentioned

987
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,560
Speaker 4: this earlier. He is the stone cold minimum three thousand

988
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 4: on Fanball, so if he's able to play like we

989
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 4: expect him to walk back into three wide receiver sets,

990
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 4: that's definitely a value play to keep an eye on.

991
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 5: Then.

992
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 4: For San Antonio, the only guy I wasn't able to

993
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 4: practice was Cole Hunt, their tight end with a lower

994
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 4: leg injury. Obviously not good for them, but for fantasy purposes,

995
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 4: not something to worry about too much. Big question and

996
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 4: sent that I'd love to your take on this. Logan

997
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,439
Speaker 4: Woodside played every snap last week, for the first time

998
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,800
Speaker 4: this season, we didn't see any Marquise Williams.

999
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,439
Speaker 5: I mean, maybe I'm giving Williams too.

1000
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 4: Much credit here, but I would love to see what

1001
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 4: this offense could do with him under center, to have

1002
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 4: a true duel threat versus what they've been with Woodside.

1003
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 4: Do you see them kind of continuing this quarterback uotation

1004
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,919
Speaker 4: or eventually making a change sometimes soon.

1005
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:01,799
Speaker 3: So I thought it was weird because we saw Williams.

1006
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 3: I thought they would do like well. I thought for

1007
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 3: sure we'd see Williams on every two point conversion. I

1008
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 3: thought for sure they were doing these weird things in

1009
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 3: the third quarter where they like do a series with

1010
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 3: Williams and like whether or not no matter what the

1011
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 3: score was, it was very weird. So I haven't seen

1012
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 3: him be used situationally yet. But last game it wasn't broke,

1013
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 3: so they didn't fix it. So I'm not sure if

1014
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 3: because they were winning and they were beating the Iron,

1015
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,560
Speaker 3: who's like Williams is not the deep passer that threat

1016
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 3: that you got from Woodside. So I think what you

1017
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,640
Speaker 3: see happen is I think better situational usages. I think

1018
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 3: you see Williams on those two points, and you see

1019
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 3: him in situations where they need the dual threat. I

1020
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:43,640
Speaker 3: don't think it's all woodside all the time. I do

1021
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 3: think it'll be more rotational. But if someone starts getting

1022
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 3: hot like we saw, I don't think they take them out.

1023
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:50,919
Speaker 5: That's fair.

1024
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 4: I'm just way one more week or so so Johnnyman's

1025
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 4: outcomes and adds a whole other variable of this situation

1026
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:56,919
Speaker 4: gonna happen.

1027
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 3: It's not gonna happen. Nope, I would we you know,

1028
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 3: I'll bake you a cake if Johnny Manzielan's up in

1029
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 3: the in the air, all.

1030
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 5: Right, I'll take you up on that. Okay, so real

1031
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:06,960
Speaker 5: quick on San Antonio.

1032
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,839
Speaker 4: Still, the backfield look like. Trey Williams, you know, really

1033
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 4: played well week three. Personally, I thought he might kind

1034
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 4: of take over the backfield last week.

1035
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 5: Didn't happen.

1036
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 4: Kenneth Faroll thirty carries, played almost eighty percent of the snaps.

1037
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 4: David COKBB was pretty much phased out though. I thought

1038
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 4: that was the kind of big thing to keep an

1039
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 4: eye on. Do you agree with me here? I think

1040
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 4: Kenneth Pharaoh and Trey Williams will have more of a

1041
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 4: sixty forty fifty to fifty split moving forward than what

1042
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 4: we saw last week.

1043
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 3: I legit think it's by feel like this is the

1044
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,040
Speaker 3: very much by field team. So I think it's Pharaoh's

1045
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 3: to lose. It's Pharaoh's like seventy sixty maybe, but like

1046
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 3: I think that's the way that they go into it.

1047
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:43,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, And there hasn't been much of a reason to

1048
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 5: take Paroll off the field.

1049
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 4: I mean, he's so some of those jukes he's made

1050
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 4: on fourth and onees have been really fun to.

1051
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,839
Speaker 3: Watch well, and plus like that that helps the mask

1052
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 3: where they're really deficient. The commanders are not good and

1053
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 3: their pass defense is really vulnerable. So you've seen the

1054
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,439
Speaker 3: command like their linebackers are good, but like their pass

1055
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 3: defense is not so great. So if they can establish

1056
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 3: a run and keep running and typically with Pharaoh, then

1057
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 3: it really masks their defensive woes. You know, like that

1058
00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 3: that pass defense is hard.

1059
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I saw Amber Charles Johnson getting open

1060
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 4: whenever he wanted against them, well foot.

1061
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 5: Thar side of the ball.

1062
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 4: Could you see Rashad Ross having a similar type of

1063
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,239
Speaker 4: game as Charles Johnson did against Antonio.

1064
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 3: Yes, I think Rashad Ross is like you pay up

1065
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 3: for him, you know what I mean? Like you're just like, yep,

1066
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 3: that's my that's my big ticket item this week, right, Like,

1067
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 3: I think that's going to be a higher scoring game.

1068
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 3: I think that the shots hot shots or the shot hots.

1069
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 3: Either way, the hot shots are going to win this one.

1070
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 3: But I think Rashad Ross has does his like interesting

1071
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,959
Speaker 3: and zone dances. Right, I think we see at least

1072
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 3: at least one maybe more. He's my that's the safest

1073
00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 3: bet for a wide receiver if you're playing Fantasy.

1074
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:51,919
Speaker 5: Yeah, good point there. God bless for shaw Ross.

1075
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,760
Speaker 4: Every time he scores, we get like a five second

1076
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 4: swaggy celebration in the end.

1077
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 2: Ze.

1078
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's super fun. We always have them on that.

1079
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 3: We always like, well, Rashad Ross like coming up, let's go.

1080
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 4: Last thing on Arizona. Drell Presley finally really had a

1081
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 4: big game last week. But I don't know he's been

1082
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 4: It wasn't really that much of a difference in his volume.

1083
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 4: He's still playing fifty sixty percent of snaps.

1084
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 5: He's been the guy.

1085
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 4: It looked like Tim Cook maybe for one week, but

1086
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 4: it's more or less still been Durell cow season. As

1087
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:20,960
Speaker 4: we like to say in fantasy, are you still riding

1088
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 4: with Presley just as you know, the lead back and

1089
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 4: one of the better offenses.

1090
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,800
Speaker 3: I am. I think it's still Presley. I think Presley's

1091
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 3: the guy. I think Presle will get a look at

1092
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 3: the NFL. The interesting thing, so, when their quarterback got

1093
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 3: hurt two weeks ago, we saw like, oh my god,

1094
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 3: it's the end of that. The hot shots, they're so good.

1095
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 3: And then it was like he was okay and he

1096
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 3: ended up playing whatever. But like you saw, like I

1097
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 3: talked to it at the top of this podcast, like

1098
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 3: when you saw that happened and they all got scared

1099
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 3: and I was like, well, Darrell Presley, let's go. And

1100
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 3: he did step up. Then you know, like maybe his

1101
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 3: yards per Carrie were like sort of down. But it's

1102
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 3: a lot easier when they can box him in and

1103
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 3: figure it out, right, like you put it in a

1104
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 3: substitute at quarterback, and the passing through it is diminished,

1105
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 3: you know, it's just like anywhere else. So I think

1106
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,319
Speaker 3: that's kind of part of the reason of it. They

1107
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 3: were like, is he is the quarterback hurt or not?

1108
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 3: What's going on? So I think that's part of why.

1109
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 3: But I also think like this game though, Like, if

1110
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 3: I'm paying for the high price situation, it's not Presley

1111
00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 3: in this one, because I do think the Commanders have

1112
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 3: really good linebackers, so they are linebackers, they will minimize

1113
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 3: his help, minimize his impact. I do think he's still

1114
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,319
Speaker 3: going to be a very valuable part. But like, if

1115
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 3: I'm going high price in this game, it's going Ross.

1116
00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 2: All right, and Ian, what way are you leaning in

1117
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 2: this game? Cynthia said that she likes the Arizona Hotshots

1118
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 2: and I think a high scoring game, right, So Ian,

1119
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 2: which way you leaning?

1120
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 5: Yeah? I'm a scenti here.

1121
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 4: I like Arizona and agree with the high scoring potential.

1122
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, San Antonio, their secondary really seems to

1123
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 4: be a liability, and I think this will be only

1124
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:47,919
Speaker 4: the second team to face them that can really take

1125
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 4: advantage of that whenever they want. So yeah, I love Walford, Ross,

1126
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 4: Stacks and Dfs as well.

1127
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, that's Walfart's the quarterback I would pick

1128
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 3: this week. If I'm picking him, it's Walford's my number

1129
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 3: one and then Ross those are but that I feel

1130
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 3: like that's very chalky. But whatever.

1131
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,680
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, let's let's get into a little bit of

1132
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 2: fantasy talk there. So Cynthia, you said, and let's think

1133
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 2: I think schalkiness is fine. Let's think a little bit

1134
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,959
Speaker 2: more for kind of like cash games. Walford you said,

1135
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 2: is a quarterback you really like? Ross, is someone you're

1136
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 2: interested in? Any other players who kind of catch your

1137
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 2: eye from like just more of like a solid standpoint.

1138
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 2: People you feel like have a high floor decent for

1139
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 2: cash games.

1140
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 3: Okay, so high floor guys. I mean, look Trent Richardson,

1141
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 3: just because of his red zone volume, you're always gonna

1142
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 3: at least consider him in that situation. Again, he's not

1143
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,280
Speaker 3: my favorite because I don't like safe. I like not safe.

1144
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 3: So I think you could potentially look Guano could be

1145
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 3: a nice pick for Salt Lake. He's it looks like

1146
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 3: Bunge and know or whatever. Buano. We had a lot

1147
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 3: of help learning how to say that because of the

1148
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:50,360
Speaker 3: I think the volume will be there for him. And

1149
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:52,720
Speaker 3: I also think you want to like look for the fleet.

1150
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 3: I think you're taking Escobar. I think that's a safe,

1151
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 3: tight end pick for this week as well.

1152
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 2: Okay, and Ian, what about you?

1153
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, looking at some of these running backs because there's

1154
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 4: a bunch of price changes compared to last week. So

1155
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 4: out of the eight starting running backs, four of them

1156
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 4: saw their salary increase by at least one thousand dollars.

1157
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 4: So just chasing those price hikes it really isn't a

1158
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,359
Speaker 4: great way to find the value. So I'm looking at

1159
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 4: Zach Stacy, who's salary only went up by one hundred.

1160
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:20,439
Speaker 4: You know, we talked about some Sherman batingess, so maybe

1161
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 4: ease off on him. But Trent Richardson minus three hundred

1162
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 4: dollars from last week, I mean, we think the volume

1163
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 4: is still going to be there, so she he was

1164
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 4: undervalued even last week compared to what his workload is.

1165
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 5: So I like that.

1166
00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 4: Deanis Johnson minus five hundred dollars compared to last week.

1167
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 4: I mean debian Smith had kind of worked out in

1168
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 4: his favor at the game flow, but Johnson still seems

1169
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,240
Speaker 4: to be the starter there, so we get a discount

1170
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 4: for that.

1171
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 3: And then Denis Johnson. I'm yes, Johnson, yes, especially, And

1172
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 3: the last guy was just as ridiculous.

1173
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 4: Takwan Gardner's price dropped by one four hundred dollars. I mean,

1174
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 4: I think if you pay attention to the snap counts,

1175
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 4: we already knew him and Watson were in a committee.

1176
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 4: It was just Gardner had such a huge Week three

1177
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 4: and now he had a bad week four or so

1178
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 4: we should get less ownership as well. People, I think

1179
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 4: just look at the last week and you know, put

1180
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 4: too much behind that, so the volume should still be there.

1181
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 5: I'm not I'm just sent that.

1182
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 4: I don't think Bishop Sankey is going to come in

1183
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 4: and necessarily steal too many snaps.

1184
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 5: So not yet, not yet, that's fair.

1185
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 2: Come on, people, get on the sak tank. Okay, guaranteed

1186
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 2: prize pools. Any players, Synthia you think might have kind

1187
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 2: of an undervalued opportunity to have a big performance.

1188
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 3: Quentin Patton could be an interesting one in Birmingham just

1189
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 3: because like he's been injured and whatever. They're going to

1190
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:33,239
Speaker 3: need to figure out their past defense if they want

1191
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 3: to win this game, so or their past offense rather

1192
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 3: if they want to win this game, So that could be.

1193
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,320
Speaker 3: That's one that's I think maybe a bit full disclosure.

1194
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 3: I'm I'm not allowed to look at that, so I'm

1195
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,759
Speaker 3: just saying who I think might be undervalued in general? Right,

1196
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 3: So I think that's a good one. I think that

1197
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,919
Speaker 3: if you want to be a bit risky. I think

1198
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 3: you could go this could be the week that you're Mettenberger,

1199
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 3: like you're you know, like this could be the Mettenberger

1200
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 3: kind of breakout situation. It's a good opportunity for him

1201
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 3: in this one. So that's my like, you know, throw

1202
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 3: caution to the wind for that one. Like that one's risky.

1203
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 3: But I think he's kind of an interesting pick as well.

1204
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 3: And I do think that if you want to like

1205
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,720
Speaker 3: get in on something good for like balancing some safe

1206
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 3: I think Kenneth Farrow does have a lot of value too.

1207
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 3: But again I'm not sure where he falls in the

1208
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 3: you know, in the chain of how much you're going

1209
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 3: to need to give up for him.

1210
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'll just say Sherman Baty also I'm imagining

1211
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,480
Speaker 2: is in that in that category.

1212
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,399
Speaker 3: I mean I've said his name like fifty times. Now

1213
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 3: he better do something because I'm going hard.

1214
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:35,839
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right?

1215
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 2: Ian for GPPs, who's caught your eye?

1216
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 4: Yeah, A couple of guys you can look at so

1217
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 4: you can spend up for a kind of Pharaoh type

1218
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 4: person or Rashad Ross, Richard Mulaney. If he does play,

1219
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,359
Speaker 4: he's at three K keep an eye on him. If

1220
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 4: Oliver's out. You have a Bolagnon I I don't have

1221
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:52,399
Speaker 4: his name right either, but.

1222
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 2: We are now like one of the five people in

1223
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 2: the world who can pronounce his name right correct exactly.

1224
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 3: Welcome to the club.

1225
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 4: He's yeah, he's definitely a better bet for volume. I

1226
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 4: lean towards him for cash games. But Threll Nubi had

1227
00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,439
Speaker 4: only three point three k. I mean that's he's gonna

1228
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 4: let you get up to Sean Ross type guy. And

1229
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 4: then finally a couple of wide receivers I found that

1230
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,880
Speaker 4: seem to be in starting sets but are still pretty cheap.

1231
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 4: Definitely goes along with the Mettenburger call. But Dantes Bird,

1232
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 4: pick Howard for Birmingham, Ladai and Washington, and we got

1233
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,759
Speaker 4: Brian Brown and finally the morn A Pierce. And now

1234
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 4: all these people played at least seventy percent of their

1235
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 4: snaps last week and they're all coming in at five

1236
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 4: K or less. So good guys to fill out the

1237
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:37,719
Speaker 4: lineup again so we can get up and get more

1238
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 4: of the guaranteed volume out wide receiver and running back.

1239
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 2: All right, Cynthia, what are you working on right now

1240
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 2: for NFL Networks?

1241
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 3: I got an article coming out I got to write it.

1242
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's very narvousing about wide receivers. And

1243
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 3: then we have free agency frenzy all week. So I'll

1244
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 3: fly back from Alliance and then we do right into

1245
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 3: free agency and we'll figure out where everyone's going. I

1246
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 3: want to hear your early call Antonio Brown, curious where

1247
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 3: you think he's going. And then we'll go right into

1248
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 3: paths to the draft, So profiling all of these these

1249
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 3: rookies or as soon to be rookies. And the combine

1250
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 3: was awesome. So it was good. It was really good.

1251
00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no opinion on where Antonio Brown is going.

1252
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 2: It was enough for me to say last year that

1253
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,399
Speaker 2: I thought he was falling off a cliff. I think

1254
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,680
Speaker 2: I've said basically everything I need to say about Antonio Brown.

1255
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 5: Come on, come on alone.

1256
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 2: But really, I have no idea. I have absolutely no idea.

1257
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 2: There's so much noise out there that it just it

1258
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 2: seems like you could really be almost any team I

1259
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,399
Speaker 2: don't know, I mean, Ian or Cynthia. Just to turn

1260
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 2: this back on here, I mean, do you have any

1261
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 2: sort of lean on like anything you've heard where he

1262
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 2: really might be going. I mean, like you hear like

1263
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,239
Speaker 2: five seven different names of teams out there.

1264
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 3: Well, I know, I mean it's more like process of elimination.

1265
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 3: Like I do know where he's not going, like I

1266
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:54,319
Speaker 3: have I have more of a handle on that than

1267
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 3: than I do and where he's going. But I think, like, honestly,

1268
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:58,799
Speaker 3: the one that makes the most sense to me is

1269
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,759
Speaker 3: the Raiders because of they need to make a splash,

1270
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 3: they have a bunch of money. It just that's the

1271
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 3: one logically for me. It's not an insight. It's not

1272
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 3: I'm not reporting this, it's not whatever. You know, It's

1273
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 3: like that's the one where if I were guessing, that's

1274
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 3: where I would guess.

1275
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they have the they have the draft capital

1276
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,319
Speaker 2: to make the trade if they actually are willing to

1277
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 2: give up a first rounder.

1278
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 3: Which like some many people with the draft capital do it.

1279
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 3: They couldn't pay him once he got there, right, Like

1280
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 3: that's the other like, yeah, that's the other problem, right,

1281
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 3: Like you could maybe have a high draft pick, but

1282
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 3: you need to actually be able to like move over

1283
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 3: or like you know, to be able to afford him

1284
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,440
Speaker 3: whether or not you know, you can get the you know,

1285
00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 3: the first round pick or whatever for him.

1286
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 2: So yeah, uh, Ian, any thoughts from you on where

1287
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 2: he might be going.

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Speaker 4: Uh, I want to say San Francisco, but I'd have

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Speaker 4: to look at their salary cap. I mean, I think

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Speaker 4: that might be one of those situations where I'm just

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Speaker 4: imagining them with Jimmy g George Kittle down the middle

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Speaker 4: Marqui's Goblin clearing out some space. It sounds so good

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Speaker 4: in my mind, but I'm not sure if for t

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Speaker 4: realistic got into my head.

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Speaker 5: How about this, he stays in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: You know, a lot of people are on, are hot on,

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Speaker 3: like a lot of people are on that they have

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Speaker 3: so much dead space getting rid of him. So it's

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Speaker 3: like the dead cap numbers like insane, right, Like he

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Speaker 3: only counts one million, Like they only save one million

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Speaker 3: getting rid of him because he's got so much dead

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Speaker 3: Like it's crazy, it's crazy. Like look, I'm not anti,

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Speaker 3: I just think it's I think it'd be weird, you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like we made up, We're good,

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Speaker 3: no problem, let's get.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it is weird for a team that is

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Speaker 2: extensibly still in a compete now mode, still in a

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Speaker 2: super Bowl window, to trade away a guy of his

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Speaker 2: caliber for basically no reason, like the reason of getting

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Speaker 2: him off the team where you're just hoping it's additioned

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Speaker 2: by subtraction, and where you're still eating that much of

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Speaker 2: his salary. It just it seems almost unfathomable to where,

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Speaker 2: like I think there is an underappreciated chance that he

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Speaker 2: actually just does end up staying with the Steelers. And actually,

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Speaker 2: while we're talking about this, Rental World has just reported

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Speaker 2: that Steelers were giving teams a Friday deadline for the

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Speaker 2: Antonio Brown trade, Which that's just my be posturing, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, who knows. Ian. Our week five AAF rankings

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Speaker 2: are on the site. What other Alliance content do you

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Speaker 2: have planned this week?

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Speaker 4: Ultimate Guy will be out later this afternoon along with

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Speaker 4: our Fanball DFS guide.

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Speaker 5: Check those out. I'll update the Ultimate.

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Speaker 4: Guy up until Saturday with the latest injuries and all

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Speaker 4: that stuff. Always kind of pain the finniest injury reports

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Speaker 4: during the week, but we can usually get a pretty

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Speaker 4: good grasp on it by Friday, so keep an eye

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Speaker 4: on for those people.

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Speaker 2: All Right, that's going to do it for this episode

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Speaker 2: of the Action Network NFL podcast. Please rate interview the

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Speaker 2: show on iTunes. Thank you to Cynthia for being on

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Speaker 2: the show. You can follow her on Twitter at c Freeland.

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Speaker 2: You can follow Ian in the Action Network app at

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Speaker 2: iHeart It's also use the app to get real time

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Speaker 2: odds and track your pets for free. For Cynthia and Ian,

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Speaker 2: I'm Matthew Freeman Mattethew Oracle. See you get next episode.