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Speaker 1: the Lap with the Bunchet help from Lee Mayak and
Speaker 1: one Mike Lingard Mike. Week four gave us a Monday
Speaker 1: night doubleheader, gave us a coaching change in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, and gave us a bunch of points in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, which seems to be the theme
Speaker 1: for the first four weeks in the season. But Week
Speaker 1: four absolutely positively no different. Even on a night where
Speaker 1: offenses weren't necessarily sharp on Monday night football, we still
Speaker 1: got points from teams, right, We still got o our
Speaker 1: big performances. And look, Patrick Mahomes gets credited with two
Speaker 1: touchdowns that were extended handoffs. All right, gadget plays, but
Speaker 1: they all count just the same. We watched Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: move up and down the field. We'll talk about the
Speaker 1: hero of the day. Uh, they're a little known tight
Speaker 1: end who becomes a superstar. No DeVante at like the
Speaker 1: star power was out right, No Cam Newton because of
Speaker 1: COVID in in one game and then you talk about
Speaker 1: the nightcap. Juleo Jones is in and then he's out.
Speaker 1: All the all the stars were on the injury list.
Speaker 1: Some made it, some didn't, some didn't finish and it
Speaker 1: just a crazy week. And the Bill O'Brien thing, I
Speaker 1: could do ninety minutes on that standing on my head.
Speaker 1: But point scolore and once again, penalties are non existence.
Speaker 1: Teams are allowed to have fourteen to twenty play drives
Speaker 1: and we're not seeing the holding calls and other things
Speaker 1: that were used to be setting those those efforts. They
Speaker 1: just keep moving forward. It's kind of fun to watch,
Speaker 1: but frustrating as hell. If you're a former player, I'm
Speaker 1: sure going you know what they used to call hold.
Speaker 1: They gotta play like that. I lost touchdown after touchdown
Speaker 1: and opportunities and you know, blood pressure checks. B O
Speaker 1: B is b y E out of Houston. We will
Speaker 1: get into that, but I do have to say this?
Speaker 1: Someone on this show recommended playing Robert Tonyan on our
Speaker 1: last episode and with the week that I had, I
Speaker 1: know it's sure's heck, wasn't me you on this episode
Speaker 1: or on this podcast in our last episode, episode eight
Speaker 1: leading into into week four with the majority of the
Speaker 1: games outside of the Thursday Night contest, you said get
Speaker 1: Robert Tonyan, and Robert Tonyan came through big time for
Speaker 1: the green Bay Packers. And if you listen to Mike, Uh,
Speaker 1: congratulations to you. But why were you high on Tanyan coming?
Speaker 1: And just for the lack of Green Bay receivers or
Speaker 1: what gave you the Robert Tonyan bug? I think the
Speaker 1: two factors right, receivers hurt the core injury to Lazard
Speaker 1: at Davante Adams being a game time decision. As we know,
Speaker 1: he took his shot at the training staff on Twitter
Speaker 1: on Monday morning uh and quickly deleted said tweet. But
Speaker 1: Tanya had scored back to back weeks for all of
Speaker 1: the attempts down field, and Rogers has pushed the ball
Speaker 1: down field a little more than we have seen the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. The running backs and tight ends
Speaker 1: have been the focal point right. I mean, Davante Adams
Speaker 1: is always gonna grab his fifteen targets when he's on
Speaker 1: the field, but when it comes to the red zone,
Speaker 1: and certainly tonight with the injuries, you've just seen the
Speaker 1: running backs and tight end play a huge role. And
Speaker 1: for Tanyan, could you expect six and three? Hell no,
Speaker 1: this is a guy that at Indiana State Dan they
Speaker 1: couldn't have a pro day because he's the only guy.
Speaker 1: So he went up to Northwestern. It was training with
Speaker 1: the Northwestern guys for on their pro day. I kid
Speaker 1: you on. I was a bunch of Chicago writers had
Speaker 1: written about it at the time, and those articles were
Speaker 1: popping up, and then a bunch of the scribes in
Speaker 1: real time going I just remember looking at him like
Speaker 1: he didn't fit in right, he was just all right,
Speaker 1: what's he doing? Who is this guy? And sure enough
Speaker 1: there he is a star on Monday Night Football? And
Speaker 1: now George his friendship with George Kittle was made mentioned
Speaker 1: on the broadcast as well, and he put up Kiddle
Speaker 1: like numbers in week four. One other point from Monday
Speaker 1: Night and then then we'll move on to to what's
Speaker 1: happening in the National Football League in the loss. We
Speaker 1: know the Patriots obviously Brian Hoyer was atrocious, especially with
Speaker 1: the decision making on the sack at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half, and a lot of stuff, and they
Speaker 1: moved to Jared'stidham. The question is, and it has been
Speaker 1: for the last one of years and in fantasy football,
Speaker 1: is that Patriots backfield Sony Michelle not playing? You know,
Speaker 1: Rex burkehead at the big game a week ago, in
Speaker 1: a week three, but now it's Damian Harris? Is it
Speaker 1: still buyers buyer beware when it comes to Damian Harris
Speaker 1: now with the New England backfield, because as a buyer
Speaker 1: that just not only is the last name, but someone
Speaker 1: who's also looking for a running back in one of
Speaker 1: my fantasy leagues. I still just have buyers beware when
Speaker 1: it comes to New England Patriots. And I'm not necessarily
Speaker 1: buying Damien Harris just yet. No, that's it. Seventeen for
Speaker 1: a hundred owned in thirty one of leagues as of
Speaker 1: now before the next waiver period finishes. But you got
Speaker 1: James White came back right after his absence. Only three
Speaker 1: carries but seven catches out of the backfield, so you
Speaker 1: know he's going to leach off whatever it is eight
Speaker 1: five touches depending on game script and how it's flowing.
Speaker 1: And then Sony Michelle comes back. You look, even tonight,
Speaker 1: Rex Burkheads still had eleven carries, right, They still true
Speaker 1: to the run games. So should he be rostered? Sure,
Speaker 1: if your bench is deeper and you're playing with multiple
Speaker 1: I R and COVID spots and all these other things,
Speaker 1: because this is this year has really changed how people
Speaker 1: are adjusting roster's right, it's not just bench spots. You're
Speaker 1: seeing I L, I R whatever it's designated, depending on
Speaker 1: your service. That you could slide a guy in there
Speaker 1: if he's declared out for a game and go pick
Speaker 1: up someone on waivers, which is former fantasy baseball thing
Speaker 1: now come to football. So if you can roster Harris
Speaker 1: and just play defense and see how it shakes out,
Speaker 1: then cool. But otherwise I'm with you. The New England
Speaker 1: backfields one, I don't want to have a lot of
Speaker 1: person and especially with Cam Newton whenever he does come
Speaker 1: back from the COVID nineteen, there's also another person that's
Speaker 1: taking up the rushing opportunities to goline carries to have
Speaker 1: any value. So as great at a night as Damien
Speaker 1: Harris needs. Even if you're desperate for a running back,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's where you need to go. I
Speaker 1: do love week four in the NFL and Week five
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, and I love it in
Speaker 1: fantasy football because this is the time to get cooking. Now.
Speaker 1: We have a trade deadline in our league. It doesn't
Speaker 1: come up until week twelve of our fantasy season, but Mike,
Speaker 1: I know that there are owners that will want to
Speaker 1: do a trade, their owners after the draft is done,
Speaker 1: that will send out trade proposals like they're just NonStop.
Speaker 1: People love to trade, but for the people who are
Speaker 1: maybe apprehensive in doing so. And I don't mind that.
Speaker 1: I don't like to do trades in the first two
Speaker 1: or three weeks unless absolutely have to or really just
Speaker 1: get a sense that, boy I I really messed up
Speaker 1: this draft. I like to see how the team plays
Speaker 1: out and week four, if you're one in three, you're
Speaker 1: not out of it. And so I just think at
Speaker 1: this point in the season, over these next two or
Speaker 1: three days, try to make a deal. Try to make
Speaker 1: a trade, Try to find out the value if somebody has,
Speaker 1: you know, got a bunch of wide receivers that they're looking,
Speaker 1: you know, to to maybe uh add another running back.
Speaker 1: I'm always high in trying to get running backs more
Speaker 1: so than wide receivers. But look for deals out there.
Speaker 1: This is the absolute prime time to do it before
Speaker 1: a trade deadline, because now you're enough into the season
Speaker 1: to not be married to your draft and it's still
Speaker 1: early enough, I think to get get in on some
Speaker 1: guys that maybe have potential for the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: So I love this time of year in fantasy. No,
Speaker 1: it's it is. It is the best right because now
Speaker 1: you're you're recognizing what teams are right. You come in
Speaker 1: blind to it, and you know the thing we always say, hope,
Speaker 1: I grab it out of Shawshank redemption. Right. They use
Speaker 1: hope in two ways. Hopes the best of things, run
Speaker 1: night and move forward whatever, And then you've got red
Speaker 1: Saying hopes a dangerous thing because you know, you make
Speaker 1: bad decisions sometimes on either either end of the spectrum.
Speaker 1: But you know, after four weeks we know who these
Speaker 1: teams are, at least most of them. I think there's
Speaker 1: still a handful that you put into a bucket going
Speaker 1: I really don't know which way this is gonna go.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, we know Dallas defense is bad. Right,
Speaker 1: nobody's walking through that door. I keep suggesting, at son
Speaker 1: of bum uh, let's get Wade Phillips back in the mix.
Speaker 1: See if he cobblesome magic there. But in terms of
Speaker 1: free agent players, and we see a couple of guys
Speaker 1: that are potentially going to get signed, are they difference makers? No? Right,
Speaker 1: so you know they're going to continue to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: So if you're an Ezekiel Elliott owner, I'm sorry, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a long year for you. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: the ball a ton, right, But you have certain other circumstances. Right,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz gets a big win over San Francisco, they
Speaker 1: still have all their division games to go, and I
Speaker 1: guarantee whoever drafted him in their lead in your league
Speaker 1: hates him hates him right now, even with back to
Speaker 1: back solid efforts. So I mean there's certain players just
Speaker 1: from a schedule watching perspective, you do a little bit
Speaker 1: of the due diligence, Maybe you can get a nice
Speaker 1: by low opportunity, but sitting in standing pat forget about it.
Speaker 1: Your trash someone else may find as gold. And if
Speaker 1: you can build a case for them, get after it,
Speaker 1: practice your sales skills. Yeah, I I you mentioned Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great point because on Fox Sports
Speaker 1: Radio on Sunday in the Red Zones show that I
Speaker 1: do with George Rice Stir five o'clock Eastern time to Pacific,
Speaker 1: just a little plug there, we had Darryl Johnston on
Speaker 1: Moose Johnston and he was on the call of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys Browns game and basically just said that his team
Speaker 1: doesn't run through Zeke anymore and that this team runs
Speaker 1: through Dak Prescott and you know Zeke and people are
Speaker 1: just gonna have to realize that that is the case.
Speaker 1: So if you are at Ezekiel Elliott owner, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying give up on him, Mike, just because of a
Speaker 1: certain value of running backs, but that is a name
Speaker 1: that could probably get you a pretty good haul and
Speaker 1: get you some other maybe running backs that aren't as
Speaker 1: flashy name wise, but could give you similar to maybe
Speaker 1: even better production than what you could get from the
Speaker 1: Cowboys running back. Yeah. I think that there's this is
Speaker 1: one of those opportunities. Right look at the guy in
Speaker 1: your league who's got the handcuff to another back right,
Speaker 1: that maybe is worth a price shot for later on
Speaker 1: in the season, and you can upgrade your receiving cores
Speaker 1: or your quarterback position because the name value and the history. Right,
Speaker 1: just flash the numbers and you'll say, over time it
Speaker 1: will come, will it? I don't know, but again playing
Speaker 1: that same thing as I mentioned with wins, perhaps once
Speaker 1: you get into division that division stinks, uh, you may
Speaker 1: have some opportunities, you know whereby they can get back
Speaker 1: to that script because uh something Jason Smith and I
Speaker 1: talked about quite a bit on our Monday show coming
Speaker 1: out a week four uh seven to eleven Pacific, Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio, the I Heart Radio app series, XM Channel A,
Speaker 1: D three and four D plus affiliates nationwide, and the
Speaker 1: Voice in your head. But one of the things as
Speaker 1: the impressiveness by which, whether you buy or don't, what
Speaker 1: Cleveland's doing their three and one right and their identity
Speaker 1: right now is to run the ball and not let
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield screw it up for Dallas. While you want
Speaker 1: to use the wide receivers you have, and it's a
Speaker 1: great stable add waiver wire guy ind Schultz off your
Speaker 1: fantasy world, it would behoove them to run the football
Speaker 1: again to keep that defense off the damn field seeing
Speaker 1: how terrible they're Do you want to keep playing forty
Speaker 1: five thirty eight games or thirty eight like you were this, No,
Speaker 1: that's not how you want to win or try to
Speaker 1: win football games. So the only way to do that.
Speaker 1: And then even if you do hire a new defensive consultant, uh,
Speaker 1: he can't play the games. So maybe they flipped the
Speaker 1: script a little of how they how they will run
Speaker 1: their offense going forward. But for the short term, you've
Speaker 1: got four four games worth of data to start making
Speaker 1: those trades. I like the way you think. Get out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to swing a deal. Did you just try
Speaker 1: to one up my plug with your plug of the
Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon because you added you
Speaker 1: added the channels where they could hear it. I just
Speaker 1: gave the times to my show, so you kind of
Speaker 1: like you kind of cranked it up a notch. It well,
Speaker 1: but it helps both of us because she can be
Speaker 1: heard out of the same venues for those out of wares.
Speaker 1: We're both Fox Sports radio people. But but it was
Speaker 1: it was a discussion we'd had before the season when
Speaker 1: the Browns had brought back Kareem Hunt, right, and they
Speaker 1: signed him to that deal. Was all right, there's a
Speaker 1: shifting here if they're going to invest that much. Not
Speaker 1: that Nick Chubb's making a ton of money still on
Speaker 1: his rookie deal, but the idea that you now have
Speaker 1: both those backs. Hunt is a great pass receiver, banged
Speaker 1: up right now, but played, and with Chubb going to
Speaker 1: injury list for what six weeks plus, we'll see if
Speaker 1: we can find another guy to step in. But the
Speaker 1: identity gone away from let's winging around just because we
Speaker 1: have name brand receivers and I think Dallas would be
Speaker 1: wise to do the same. So that was just a
Speaker 1: talking point from the show that I thought could gravitate
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Speaker 1: dot org and it will will hit out the Browns
Speaker 1: in a bit. There are a couple of other things
Speaker 1: that just want to get off the list because I
Speaker 1: do want to talk Bill O'Brien, b o b out
Speaker 1: of Houston fired on Monday. On the same day he
Speaker 1: announced that he was going to take over the play calling,
Speaker 1: which is still get You still get to do that,
Speaker 1: which is so awesome. What you know, what always annoyed
Speaker 1: me about Bill O'Brien. You wanna you wanna know what
Speaker 1: annoyed me? And it's not the chin, It's not that,
Speaker 1: It's not the arrogance or how he would answer certain questions.
Speaker 1: What annoyed me about Bill O'Brien was he always wore
Speaker 1: a black Texans hat and their colors were navy, and
Speaker 1: I didn't know, I couldn't find out. Maybe like sometimes
Speaker 1: you do it for a cause you're trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: bring recognition to something. But it always annoyed me that
Speaker 1: he would wear that black cat because there was no
Speaker 1: black in the Texans uniform or color scheme, and it
Speaker 1: just was so annoying because black and navy also just
Speaker 1: don't work. Maybe a different type of Navy, but the
Speaker 1: Navy that the Texans had. So I'm glad I don't
Speaker 1: get to see the black hat again. But I don't
Speaker 1: know how different we're gonna see the Texans with even
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien not being there. I don't know if they'll
Speaker 1: play looser. I don't think that, because honestly, I don't
Speaker 1: think that they were trying to say Bill O'Brien's job.
Speaker 1: Maybe just having him out of the building could free
Speaker 1: stuff up, but I don't even think that that's it.
Speaker 1: I think we're just gonna get more of the same,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately that's not good news for the Houston Texans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Deshaun Watson right now is still a QB
Speaker 1: one for fantasy purposes through the first quarter of the season,
Speaker 1: which is pretty impressive since he doesn't have a damn
Speaker 1: guy to throw to right the on on again, off
Speaker 1: again love affair that fantasy owners and the media have
Speaker 1: with Will Fuller until I see him play a full
Speaker 1: quarter of a season healthy and not a he's on
Speaker 1: the sideline for this series because of a hammy or
Speaker 1: all of these things. Look, I'm sorry the guy gets hurt.
Speaker 1: It's no disrespect to him. It's just reality. It's like that.
Speaker 1: We always talk availability being your best ability, right, Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson's gotten nothing of talent, of consistency. Randall Cobb. They
Speaker 1: paid a king's ransom to come in Johnson and Johnson
Speaker 1: in the backfield. Are you kidding me? No, it's yeah.
Speaker 1: Brendan Cooks three target zero catches against the Vikings. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the Willfuller thing, it's funny because you didn't mention
Speaker 1: him as one of your uh A guy to play at.
Speaker 1: Will Fuller cashed in six catches and eight yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown. But it was also what he popped up
Speaker 1: on the injury list on Thursday. So when when you're
Speaker 1: talking about it was cleared on Friday and taking off
Speaker 1: the injury list. But when you're trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how to fill out your lineup and you have that
Speaker 1: sort of history, yeah, it's right there. There's just there's
Speaker 1: not much in Houston. Here's the sad thing about it
Speaker 1: on a personal level for me, is I picked a
Speaker 1: Shawn Watson to be the m v P, and I
Speaker 1: was considering between three guys Watson, Murray, and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: And I thought that if the Texans had any sort
Speaker 1: of success because of the lack of talent around him.
Speaker 1: Like this is such a backwards uh way of thinking,
Speaker 1: but that Watson would be elevated where you would say, wow,
Speaker 1: look at what Houston has done. They didn't even have
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins anymore, and here they are ten and six
Speaker 1: winning the a f C South. What I should have
Speaker 1: said is they've got nothing around him. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: work out in Houston, because that's what's happened through the
Speaker 1: first four weeks of the season. And now Bill O'Brien
Speaker 1: doesn't have a job. Yeah, I mean, and when we
Speaker 1: when we break it down, right, the schedule makers didn't
Speaker 1: do them any favors. Right, This is the Big ten
Speaker 1: Nebraska equivalent for the national Right, Hey, you want to
Speaker 1: leave Blake here, here's your schedule. Same thing here with
Speaker 1: the with the Texas. Obviously you win the division, your
Speaker 1: schedule is gonna be harder. But they gave them a
Speaker 1: murderers row in the first four weeks, right, Not that
Speaker 1: Minnesota has been world beating to this point, but they
Speaker 1: came in with expectations. Yeah, right, and can still put
Speaker 1: up some points defensively. They still have their issues. But
Speaker 1: for the first four weeks. I don't know. You probably
Speaker 1: go strength the schedule who's had it harder than they have, right,
Speaker 1: But personnel wise, I mean, they certainly don't have the
Speaker 1: horses to get that done either. Uh And and we've
Speaker 1: talked about that that schedule a bunch of times on
Speaker 1: this podcast. And the only issue that I will bring
Speaker 1: up to say that I think is indefensible is there
Speaker 1: was never a game where they play Texans football Like,
Speaker 1: there's never a game where you're like, okay, they've got
Speaker 1: things rolling, maybe a little bit in that Pittsburgh game
Speaker 1: where it's like, okay, this is but they seem to
Speaker 1: be from behind from Kansas City. They seem to be
Speaker 1: playing catch up against the Vikings on Sunday. They were
Speaker 1: never in the game against the Ravens. There was never
Speaker 1: that point where, at any point, and this was a
Speaker 1: team that I thought was gonna win the a f
Speaker 1: C South, that even with that murderer's role, there was
Speaker 1: never a point where they were able to put their
Speaker 1: stamping on anything. And that just tells me that they
Speaker 1: just aren't at the caliber of those teams. Well, we've
Speaker 1: we saw it. Gutted Trader, Bill had made his mark right,
Speaker 1: and even going forward, Miami's got a bunch of their
Speaker 1: picks going forward, so the Cavalry is not walking through
Speaker 1: that door, right. Bill O'Brien had already made his his
Speaker 1: mark as GM. Uh, and it's a disaster. So we'll
Speaker 1: be you'd be curious to see what the next generation is.
Speaker 1: I'm just feeling bad for Deshaun Watson, but by the
Speaker 1: same token, between him, Tunsil and j J. Watt, you've
Speaker 1: got three guys making a ton of cash that's really
Speaker 1: not gonna help you rebuild this roster whomever comes in
Speaker 1: as GM next, you've got Jacksonville coming in next week,
Speaker 1: and then you've got the Titans and Packers, so you
Speaker 1: better get that win against Jacksonville because it could uh,
Speaker 1: it could be getting worse. The rest of the schedule
Speaker 1: does lighten up a little bit where you you do
Speaker 1: have the Lions on your schedule. But point being, well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk. If we talk Texans Lions, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: one heck of a podcast, I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about the two big injuries that
Speaker 1: happened in the National Football League. We're gonna talk Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler first, because this was a guy that was a
Speaker 1: high draft pick and now out four to six weeks.
Speaker 1: Because in the hamstring with the Chargers, how does that
Speaker 1: trickle down in the Bolts back field? What does it
Speaker 1: do for everybody else? Justin Herbert Keenan Allen and those guys.
Speaker 1: But Austin Ekeler not going to be around for Anthony
Speaker 1: Lynn squad. Well, the hardest part is still determining what
Speaker 1: what Anthony Lynn is gonna do with the quarterback position. Right,
Speaker 1: that's a side issue, but it certainly informs a lot
Speaker 1: of the performances that we see in that receiving corps
Speaker 1: because remember Mike Williams hasn't been available either. But for
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler to go down just awful. Uh, Fantasy owners
Speaker 1: really bet him big. I didn't think he'd hold up
Speaker 1: over a full season. Uh, hamstring injury, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: something you can't quite predict, and it's severe enough that
Speaker 1: we're talking missing some games. So Joshua Kelly already on
Speaker 1: about half of fantasy rosters. He'll be a hot waiver
Speaker 1: wire pick up. My guy Justin Jackson from Northwestern gets
Speaker 1: back in the mix some Uh So I would say
Speaker 1: probably sixty forty would be my guests off the jump,
Speaker 1: maybe seventy thirty. Because Jackson had some injury issues coming
Speaker 1: into the year, maybe they don't want to give him
Speaker 1: a huge role. But I think a lot of it
Speaker 1: will be informed by what Anthony Lynn wants to do
Speaker 1: at QB. Right, is he still married to the idea
Speaker 1: that because of the injury to to Rod Taylor, that
Speaker 1: he's got to give him another shot when he's healthy,
Speaker 1: because that's gonna change Keenan Allen value, Hunter Henry's value
Speaker 1: and what that passing game is. Not to mention the
Speaker 1: run game, I think right you'll see a little more
Speaker 1: of a bonus for them because they'll want to run
Speaker 1: the ball and play defense and not necessarily pushed down
Speaker 1: field with to Rod Taylor, whereas justin Herbert, as we
Speaker 1: saw with a couple of beautiful deep strikes. I mean,
Speaker 1: that kid's got an arm and he's not afraid to
Speaker 1: use it and winging around for better or for worse. Right,
Speaker 1: that's gonna that comes back to bite you in the
Speaker 1: ass as a ruggie too. But at least that willingness
Speaker 1: to push down field, I don't know that that's the
Speaker 1: game Anthony Lynn was looking to call, but it's at
Speaker 1: his disposal, so long as Herbert's there. I thought it interesting.
Speaker 1: Bruce Harrians even made a point of saying after the
Speaker 1: game that he spoke with Anthony Land and just basically said,
Speaker 1: you got you gotta you got a kid there with
Speaker 1: with Justin and Herbert making a Patrick Mahomes like throw,
Speaker 1: and then Arians talked about it in the post game.
Speaker 1: So there's I know that Anthony Lynn addressed the issue
Speaker 1: on Monday when he talked with the media. There's you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm Keenan Allen and those guys, I'm in coach's
Speaker 1: office being like, all right, we love to Rod and everything,
Speaker 1: but let's stick with the rook I think more damage
Speaker 1: can be on by allowing to Rod Taylor to come
Speaker 1: back and take the starting job. More damage can be
Speaker 1: done to Justin Herbert than the positive that can be
Speaker 1: gained by starting to Rod Taylor. And that's I think
Speaker 1: what you have to weigh if you're the Chargers in
Speaker 1: their situation. I just I mean, it's without Austin Ekeler there,
Speaker 1: you know, with the with the triple J backfield that
Speaker 1: you basically have now with with the Justin Jackson and
Speaker 1: Joshua Kelly and now Justin Herbert Um. Yeah, the Chargers
Speaker 1: were the perfect team that were, as I said, sixteen
Speaker 1: to twenty points a week, and I think that's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be this the way that it goes out. I
Speaker 1: don't see too many thirty one games like that against
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Well, and let's call it what it is.
Speaker 1: As it stands, they've got a laundry list of injuries
Speaker 1: to key personnel as well. Right, offensive line is really
Speaker 1: banged up, and we look defensively, you've already right bouncing
Speaker 1: missing is ments and then you had what both tackles
Speaker 1: were banged up this week, right, And then defensively, well,
Speaker 1: Derwin James isn't there, uh, and Ingram isn't there. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you're missing a couple of your top playmakers.
Speaker 1: So you're probably gonna be needing to push the ball
Speaker 1: a little more than maybe you would have liked to
Speaker 1: on your script, right, because you're not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to control as many because you don't have the the
Speaker 1: killer safety coming up to stop the run game and
Speaker 1: everything else like Derwin James was able to. So you're
Speaker 1: gonna get yourself probably into more of these shootouts, and
Speaker 1: I don't know that Torod Taylor's equipped to be that
Speaker 1: guy in those spots. I like him, but when the
Speaker 1: strongest thing is you know, he he doesn't turn the
Speaker 1: ball over and he calls a good game under center. Okay,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? Like, if you're down, is he
Speaker 1: the guy to quarterback you're back in. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's the guy to do it right. If your defense
Speaker 1: isn't up to the task and the pass rushers aren't
Speaker 1: getting home and you're down, we atle saw from the
Speaker 1: kid he's gonna keep winging it and you know there
Speaker 1: there's bad habits that can be formed there, but also
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence about being able to play in
Speaker 1: this league. Let's get into the Browns just a little
Speaker 1: bit more than that we did earlier because of the
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb injury. He's now out six weeks expected because
Speaker 1: of the calf strain. You mentioned Kareem Hunt taking over
Speaker 1: the the the rushing load, but it wasn't Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: and it wasn't Kareem Hunt that actually led the team
Speaker 1: in rushing on Sunday. It was de Ernist Johnson. So
Speaker 1: so the the brown still didn't miss it. Beat with
Speaker 1: all of their stars. And I'm not saying I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to make fun of de artist Johnson's effort because
Speaker 1: it was thirteen carries ninety five yards for for Cleveland,
Speaker 1: but without Nick Chubb it seems to be the Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt show. Is the Ernest Johnson a guy that you're
Speaker 1: gonna be looking at the pickup? How do things shape
Speaker 1: out of Cleveland now with Chubb on the bench. Damn right,
Speaker 1: Let's go Dernis Johnson because it's gonna be a workload split.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Kareem Hunt because right now you
Speaker 1: can't expose him, not to say that he won't have
Speaker 1: a game or two where he's in that touch category.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, if if my read on
Speaker 1: this is right of the identity and not wanting Mayfield
Speaker 1: half ass winging it around as he was wont to
Speaker 1: do a year ago, then they stick to this plan.
Speaker 1: And whether Dernis Johnson can do this consistently, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I uh is a pretty pretty strong effort. We take
Speaker 1: it with a grain assault because it's the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: we know how bad UH and sieve like that defense
Speaker 1: can has been. But I think the identity is to
Speaker 1: run the football and control clock, and I mean defensive backfield.
Speaker 1: They haven't been able to get healthy yet, so that's
Speaker 1: that's certainly something to hang a star on, which is
Speaker 1: why Dak Prescott, once they actually started connecting, was able
Speaker 1: to make Hey, the front part of their defense has
Speaker 1: been solid, but the back end struggles. And while that's
Speaker 1: still in effect, keep that defense off the field as
Speaker 1: best you can. Go to the ground game. So I'll
Speaker 1: pick up Johnson and you know he may only be flexworthy.
Speaker 1: And again it's a defensive play. With Nick Chubb down
Speaker 1: six weeks and Kareem Hunt came into the game being
Speaker 1: on the injury list, you know the next man up.
Speaker 1: And this goes back to our handcuffing strategy from before
Speaker 1: the season, right in addition to trade, this is where
Speaker 1: you start looking around to say, all right, which of
Speaker 1: the backups, even if they haven't gotten a ton of
Speaker 1: work yet, are still unowned and do I have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to add them to the my bench because of
Speaker 1: the I L spots being added, so I can play
Speaker 1: defense that way. The Browns, I am, I I am
Speaker 1: not with you, I am about eight with you. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of just like at two o'clock while you're at noon.
Speaker 1: I agreed, like at the start of the season, you
Speaker 1: run the ball with with Chubb and you run the
Speaker 1: ball with Creme hunting that your best way of success,
Speaker 1: and you want to limit Baker Mayfield's mistakes that that
Speaker 1: he can make. I find it interesting and this is
Speaker 1: the best part about what Sunday was was that Kevin
Speaker 1: Stefanski took the pressure off of Baker Mayfield and still
Speaker 1: find a way to get the ball to Odell Beckham Jr.
Speaker 1: Because the force feeding of O. B J. Last season
Speaker 1: is what I think did Baker Mayfield in and even
Speaker 1: at the start of this season because of all of
Speaker 1: the weapons that they do have with Jervis Landry, with
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper, to be able to run a play where
Speaker 1: Jervis Landry throws a touchdown pass too too oh b J.
Speaker 1: To have that sort of thing, to run an end
Speaker 1: around with him, none of that was you know, really Baker.
Speaker 1: You know Baker's doing in that aspect, and so that
Speaker 1: was That's what I thought was brilliant about it was
Speaker 1: they were still able to take the pressure off of
Speaker 1: Baker but still get the ball in Odell Beckham Jr's hands,
Speaker 1: and that is a huge positive sign feeding everybody, making
Speaker 1: them feel a part with Baker not having any pressure.
Speaker 1: So that's a good forward for you. And I mean
Speaker 1: the years we've done the Fantasy Show and myriad you
Speaker 1: know spots on Fox Sports Radio chopping up football. I mean,
Speaker 1: how many quarterbacks have we talked about and the struggles
Speaker 1: of having to force feed a singular receiver right to
Speaker 1: where you get my opic? I mean, look at what
Speaker 1: happened in Detroit all those years with Calvin Johnson, as
Speaker 1: great as he was. Should Matthew Stafford have been looking
Speaker 1: somewhere else? Sure? Should Jake Cutler have been looking somewhere
Speaker 1: more than Brandon Marshall. Yes, not that they had receivers
Speaker 1: anywhere near that talent level, but with the amount of
Speaker 1: attention that the number one was getting, go somewhere else.
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Speaker 1: those guys in terms of locker room and wins and
Speaker 1: losses and everything else. And the media you know, feasted
Speaker 1: on both of them through the years. And we could
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Speaker 1: It's celebrity selections, alright, our celebrity selections four weeks four
Speaker 1: and a guy with a lot of hardware. Some of
Speaker 1: that hardware is a Heisman Trophy, Trophy Wommer winner, former
Speaker 1: first round pick of the New York Giants. College Football
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Ron Dane was our celebrity picker four
Speaker 1: week four. Ron went with Patrick Mahomes Jonathan Taylor. That
Speaker 1: seemed to be a match made in heaven. Both went
Speaker 1: to Wisconsin, both guys from Jersey, and then and then
Speaker 1: he went Julio Jones who had the question mark with
Speaker 1: a hamstring. It was a tough go for Mahomes didn't
Speaker 1: even have the Mahomes like game against the Patriots to
Speaker 1: thirty six two touchdowns and did have twenty eight yards rushing,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor just sixty eight yards on the ground, added
Speaker 1: another eleven receiving, and then you had Julio Jones with
Speaker 1: the four catch thirty two yard performance but had to
Speaker 1: leave against the Green Bay Packers. So it was a
Speaker 1: quiet week for Ron Dane in our standings and right now,
Speaker 1: unfortunately for Ron is in last place at thirty six
Speaker 1: point nine behind a thirty some points, just under thirty
Speaker 1: points behind Josephine Scriber, who remains in first place with
Speaker 1: sixty five point five points. Top performance tough week. Talk
Speaker 1: about the Mahomes touchdowns that in my book, they don't count.
Speaker 1: Those are handoffs. Just because it went in the air
Speaker 1: for point four seconds doesn't count. But the Julio Joe
Speaker 1: One's injury certainly huge. We we talked about Monday Night
Speaker 1: Football before. I'd be remiss if we didn't at least
Speaker 1: mention that Calvin Ridley got shut out right nice play
Speaker 1: by Amos in the in the end zone to keep
Speaker 1: him from at least getting a saver touchdown towards the end.
Speaker 1: Three targets on the first series and then very quiet
Speaker 1: until the end and we'll almost had the touchdown, but
Speaker 1: Ryan was a beat too slow and getting the ball.
Speaker 1: They're allowing Amos to recover. But for Ron Dane, just
Speaker 1: a tough go. The Bears defense did a good job
Speaker 1: of stiffening up in the red zone. You saw a
Speaker 1: lot of Rodrigo blanket ship over and over again. Uh
Speaker 1: in that game. Philip Rivers with some great smack talk
Speaker 1: that's become gift worthy across the world. But for Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor didn't didn't get any of that red zone glory
Speaker 1: that you love. Uh. And again the early exit from
Speaker 1: Julio Jones. That's stuff, man, That that is just a tough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially at a game where they were throwing in a
Speaker 1: budget at the end where you could have picked up something.
Speaker 1: I ordered Ron a point, he has thirty seven point
Speaker 1: nine points, Josephine Scriber still at first, sixty five point five,
Speaker 1: Alicia Sacrimony, Quinn sixty five point four, Jeff Sceario in
Speaker 1: third at sixty point seven, and then you got Ron
Speaker 1: Dane in thirty and fourth with a thirty seven point nine.
Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Ron had a rough week, so did I.
Speaker 1: I almost burnt off my eyebrows grilling on Saturday. Completely
Speaker 1: suffered story just green egg got a little bit too
Speaker 1: hot forgot that the events were all open. Came back,
Speaker 1: it was like eight hundred degrees, closed the vents. It
Speaker 1: immediately dropped the six hundred, tried to burp it, then
Speaker 1: opened it up. Didn't even see the flame. All I
Speaker 1: heard was my bangs like starting to crisp, and yeah,
Speaker 1: the the yeah, it's nothing big, no burns, but just
Speaker 1: just a little off the top courtesy of the Big
Speaker 1: Green Egg. On Saturday, I figured it was kind of
Speaker 1: our last day of summer because it was hot here
Speaker 1: in southern California, you know, went up some ribs on
Speaker 1: the grill, and uh yeah, I got a little out
Speaker 1: of hand. But other than that, and me and other
Speaker 1: than that, and me going three at eleven against the
Speaker 1: spread on picks this week, it was a dandy weekend, Mike,
Speaker 1: It it really was. I can't even I can't even
Speaker 1: do this. We usually do our epic fails, and I
Speaker 1: used and I on our Friday episodes, do to give
Speaker 1: me one reason to start, and give you one reason
Speaker 1: to bench. The two guys that I picked would have
Speaker 1: the same exact amount of points, so I don't even
Speaker 1: know if I wonder lost on them. I said to
Speaker 1: start Tyler Boyd, he had seven catches for ninety yards
Speaker 1: and at a four yard carry. And then I said,
Speaker 1: bench Tyreek Kill. Well, he had four catches for sixty
Speaker 1: four yards and a touchdown against the Patriots. That came
Speaker 1: out to sixteen point four points if you're in a
Speaker 1: PPR league. So I didn't even get that right. So
Speaker 1: that was my week four in a nutshell for you?
Speaker 1: What did you hit out and what did you miss
Speaker 1: or have an epic fail for in week four? Because
Speaker 1: mine was a dandy Let's see, uh, I was slightly
Speaker 1: better against the spread, so my one nine d lose
Speaker 1: my ass challenge. I went eight and eight, So I
Speaker 1: do forty miles this week. That's pretty amazing since there
Speaker 1: were fifteen games, Mike, I don't know how you picked
Speaker 1: so well. No, because I looked at the other sorry,
Speaker 1: so eight and seven, I gave myself the loss on
Speaker 1: the other one, I guess, so like a winning week
Speaker 1: A rarity these days in terms of pick. Sorry, I
Speaker 1: immediately gave myself credit for that sixteenth game, which is
Speaker 1: postponed a week seven. As we know, uh Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: did me nothing. Ever, since he cursed out, Fantasy Owner's
Speaker 1: karma has been against him, so he's been invisible. As
Speaker 1: you go through, I looked at when Matthew Stafford didn't
Speaker 1: give me the monster numbers. I anticipated the cold still
Speaker 1: gave you three scores, though I gave you three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I know the yard iss just weren't there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: as we go through, you know he finished tenth. I
Speaker 1: was expecting better the way I hyped him up, So
Speaker 1: I'll take the l there I had. In terms of positives,
Speaker 1: they were a few and far between. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know what Tanyan that we talked about, but you know
Speaker 1: the I guess David Montgomery not being a factor. It
Speaker 1: wasn't he was. He was not a no go uh
Speaker 1: and nor nor did I think that you'd end up
Speaker 1: with a huge fantasy day from Philip Rivers and he didn't.
Speaker 1: They won, but it certainly wasn't for anything he did.
Speaker 1: They had the touchdown to mo Ali Cox, but beyond that,
Speaker 1: it was again the blanket ship show. I'll just say this,
Speaker 1: I don't care about what you missed. You nailed Tanyan
Speaker 1: on the head. And if anybody listens to this podcast,
Speaker 1: that Trump's everything. That's That's the queen of clubs in
Speaker 1: a game of Shaska if you want beats every card,
Speaker 1: I think Tanyan Trump said, we're gonna leave it at that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to your bears. By the way, in
Speaker 1: a seconds, they played Thursday night football against the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: Will get your look ahead to that, But let's look
Speaker 1: ahead to the immediate future. Waiver wire is out there.
Speaker 1: What are some names people need to target, especially because
Speaker 1: real buys are here, not just Titan Steelers because of COVID,
Speaker 1: but Lions and Packers not playing in Week five? Who
Speaker 1: should we target on the waiver wire heading into this week? Well,
Speaker 1: if you're having trouble at the quarterback position, you've got
Speaker 1: the opportunity of opportunities. Teddy Bridgewater virtually unowned. He's got Atlanta,
Speaker 1: it's on the road. But I don't see Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: suddenly figuring this thing out. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but it's been pretty painful to sit through the twelve
Speaker 1: hours that I've given any time two of my life
Speaker 1: watching Atlanta Falcons football. That's pretty miserable as you go
Speaker 1: out of this game as well, though. I mean, even
Speaker 1: though the Week five by we've got Detroit and Green
Speaker 1: Bay or off, Jamal Williams is only owned right in
Speaker 1: the receiving game, Uh tonight or I should say Monday
Speaker 1: Night football eight carries ten yards? All right, to hang
Speaker 1: a star on that, But I don't think Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: is gonna be the only back they use because if
Speaker 1: they've got aspirations and they should looking at the way
Speaker 1: the division sets up of a long term run, they
Speaker 1: can't be using him thirty times a game. So I
Speaker 1: think Williams right now at owned offers some value to
Speaker 1: you going forward. Uh. You had Zachaeus as well, with
Speaker 1: everybody banged up, eight eight catches, nine targets for eighty
Speaker 1: six yards uh for Atlanta. So while you can say,
Speaker 1: hey it's garbage time, targets are targets. And if Jones
Speaker 1: and is going to be banged up and not available
Speaker 1: to them, certainly, so I want to look for I
Speaker 1: mentioned Dalton Scholtz a little bit earlier. Uh, twenty four
Speaker 1: targets the last three games. He's gone over seventy yards twice,
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns. And again Dallas defense isn't getting
Speaker 1: any better, so they're gonna keep chucking. We already talked
Speaker 1: about the the Chargers situation. Scotty Miller, who we talked
Speaker 1: about to start the season, he went back to the
Speaker 1: waiver wire in a lot of leagues for Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: We'll get into the Thursday night game in a moment,
Speaker 1: but they've got injuries all over the place. Right now.
Speaker 1: You lose O. J. Howard. You're already talking about be
Speaker 1: the availability of Godwin and Evans week to week. Here's
Speaker 1: a steady, set it and forget it ronco product uh
Speaker 1: Tim Patrick and Denver another guy wanted to highlight really
Speaker 1: quick as well, because you're looking at UH six six
Speaker 1: out of seven for touchdowns back to back games. A
Speaker 1: big target for Denver, all the injuries that we know
Speaker 1: of and where we're at with the quarterback situation. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that would have been working with all the
Speaker 1: backups to start things back, and even as disjoining the
Speaker 1: training camp was, that's still a couple of weeks. So
Speaker 1: whenever you get into deeper in your quarterback depth chart,
Speaker 1: you start looking for that guy who has an action
Speaker 1: going back to training camp, going back to preseason, and
Speaker 1: right now Patrick looks like a guy who could be
Speaker 1: that guy. And Jerry Judy, for whatever reason, was still
Speaker 1: unowned in thirty percent of leagues. That doesn't make much
Speaker 1: sense to me. He won't be after this week. Bucketeers
Speaker 1: and Bears will start Week five on Thursday night. Obviously
Speaker 1: we we we hope that we have the schedule as
Speaker 1: it is for Week five. Things could change. Titan situations
Speaker 1: still up in the airs. They take on the Bills
Speaker 1: but let's look ahead to Thursday. It is Buccaneers at Bears.
Speaker 1: You mentioned a bunch of Buccaneers. Don't think that Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin is going to go just because of the short
Speaker 1: week as it is. But who do you guys need
Speaker 1: to play and look out for for Thursday night? Well,
Speaker 1: I think on the Bear side it's outside of Allen Robinson.
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's anybody you truly trust. Right
Speaker 1: you look at the running back position. We talked about
Speaker 1: David Montgomery and the struggles against Indianapolis front seven of
Speaker 1: Tampa on no slouches, and look at Naggi's trying to
Speaker 1: find the needle in the haystack. At this point, you're
Speaker 1: seeing a lot more of cor Darrel Patterson and Gadgetree
Speaker 1: and and trying to be creative. Nick Foles looked like
Speaker 1: he hadn't played quarterback in five years. Watching him play
Speaker 1: with some of you, I think it didn't get help.
Speaker 1: But he wasn't. I mean there were some drops as well,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he wasn't good on Sunday. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: actively leading to charge of Hey, is this where we
Speaker 1: call from Mitch Drabinsky? You know, in halftime? Is this
Speaker 1: where we want the quarterback. Sorry, you know it goes
Speaker 1: both ways, especially with as erratic as he was. But
Speaker 1: Robinson bailed him out, big catch, uh for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: But I can't trust him right. If you're in a
Speaker 1: two QB league, fine, otherwise No. As for the the
Speaker 1: bucks we mentioned, Scottie Miller, I'll take him, especially if
Speaker 1: I'm in a PPR league from the running back position.
Speaker 1: Difficult necessarily to go any higher than a low were
Speaker 1: RB two For Ronald Jones. You saw what the Bears
Speaker 1: were able to do Taylor with just the sixty eight yards,
Speaker 1: So I mean, you might pile up some yardage, but
Speaker 1: I think they stiffen and you're gonna see the red
Speaker 1: zone go awry. And dare I say Brady's outside my
Speaker 1: top twelve as I sit and look at it, you know,
Speaker 1: right coming out a week four, it's a tough, tough play,
Speaker 1: especially with the big guys out. And and the other
Speaker 1: thing about Ronald Jones, I'll just add to this. He
Speaker 1: had six catches for seventeen yards, so that's not even
Speaker 1: three yards of catch, and he had a bunch of
Speaker 1: a couple of drops to dump off, so he's not
Speaker 1: that much of a threat out of the backfield when
Speaker 1: they when they take on the Bears on Thursday. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's four though, Dan, I mean at two yards of
Speaker 1: pop and six catches, six catches along of seven, that's
Speaker 1: what it was for Ronald Jones receiving wise uh for
Speaker 1: that Yeah, his you know, with his status, he'll want
Speaker 1: to check that out. But Jones likely to get the nod. Alright,
Speaker 1: three point good version. Uh. Three things that you need
Speaker 1: to know for these next couple of days before we
Speaker 1: met it again Buccaneers Bears Thursday night. Let's wrap this
Speaker 1: baby up as we get ready for week five. Here
Speaker 1: are my three things. Number one, make a deal, look
Speaker 1: to trade, Try to shake up your team if it
Speaker 1: needs it. If it's sitting there at one and three,
Speaker 1: this is the prime opportunity to do it. Number two,
Speaker 1: don't expect much to change in Houston even though Bill
Speaker 1: O'Brien is out. I don't know if it will provide
Speaker 1: a huge boost that he's out of the building. I
Speaker 1: just think that the Texans right now are just shorthanded,
Speaker 1: even though they're playing against Jacksonville. I just don't see
Speaker 1: a huge boost with Bill O'Brien out of the building
Speaker 1: and number three, don't open a green egg when it's
Speaker 1: six hundred degrees if you want to keep your eyelashes
Speaker 1: and your bangs. That's the three things that you need
Speaker 1: to know in my three point conversion this week. Mike,
Speaker 1: go ahead and wrap up yours alright really quick. We
Speaker 1: we say do it for the kids. We talk a
Speaker 1: lot about young wide receivers breaking through. Targetcounts are big.
Speaker 1: They're not a raid of playing these guys like it
Speaker 1: used to be in your grandfather's or your father's fantasy leagues.
Speaker 1: Start schedule watching right, Get a week ahead on your
Speaker 1: waiver wires because we're getting into the bys and you
Speaker 1: don't want to be competing for players in those stop
Speaker 1: gaps situations. Yes, that means you may want to add
Speaker 1: a defense a week early. Yeah, that's kind of scary.
Speaker 1: It's kind of going off your trade remarks. And and finally,
Speaker 1: the points are gonna keep flying as long as they're
Speaker 1: not calling penalties. We talked about it at the start
Speaker 1: of the show. There's fifty points going up seemingly in
Speaker 1: every game, no matter how poor the teams are, points
Speaker 1: are being scored. There's one or two outliers a week,
Speaker 1: so for fantasy purposes, maximize, look for those bad matchup.
Speaker 1: We now know who those bad defenses are. Get aggressive,
Speaker 1: and if you've got a packer alliance, sit them on
Speaker 1: your bench. They aren't playing in week five, Mike, we'll
Speaker 1: do it again, and we'll do it again in a
Speaker 1: few days and uh yeah, hopefully people cannot listen and
Speaker 1: find out information up the new players that they acquired.
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