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Speaker 1: Ladies and Julesen.

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Speaker 2: You want experience during your football season, Well, buckle up,

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Speaker 2: sweet cheeks. What's all We've got all the experience in

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Speaker 2: the world. This is I want your flex with Dan

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Speaker 2: Byer and Mike Harmon. Mike and Dan break down everything

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Speaker 2: you need to set your lineups, from position rankings to

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Speaker 2: starts and sits. The guys help you make those hard decisions.

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Speaker 2: And now let's get your flex. Ond here's Dan Bayer

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Speaker 2: and Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: All right, we've reached the finish line of the regular season.

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Speaker 3: Locum in it is. I want your flex. Get Mike

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Speaker 3: at Swollen Doll. You can find our executive producer, Ryan

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Speaker 3: Berschinger at Ryan Berschinger and hit me up at Dan

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Speaker 3: Byer on Fox. I'll admit it, I'd rather have the

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Speaker 3: first week of the preseason than week eighteen. Ano. There's

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Speaker 3: still a lot to play for Mike. But people are betting,

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Speaker 3: people are playing fantasy football. But what a different way

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Speaker 3: to navigate it as opposed to what we've done the

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Speaker 3: first seventeen weeks of this season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, now it's the All right, let's look at injury

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Speaker 4: reports and we read into them more than ever. We

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Speaker 4: try to ascertain who's fighting for milestones. Write big numbers.

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Speaker 4: I wrote down, all right, here's four thousand yards passing,

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Speaker 4: And we've got guys. Right, there's five quarterbacks that can

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Speaker 4: I missed Evan Ingram because I want to include him

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Speaker 4: because if he has a big day, Dan, we're talking milestones.

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Speaker 4: But I don't know all the contract incentives, right, snap counts,

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Speaker 4: You've got eleven teams still mathematically alive. So there's all

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Speaker 4: most folks say, to hell with Week eighteen. I'm going

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Speaker 3: A guy like Puga Nakua has got a few incentives

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Speaker 4: That's what against twenty nine for the all time rookie record.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, get his couple of receptions to break Waddle's mark

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Speaker 3: that you do have to end up weighing. I do

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Speaker 4: But what's great about it, Dan, is that Carson Wentz

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Speaker 3: This, the Wentz versus Donold matchup that we've got in

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Speaker 3: start with the quarterback position. These are Mike Harmon's Week

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Speaker 3: eighteen rankings for the final week of the NFL's regular season. Mike,

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Speaker 3: That obvious line from Justin Fields coming from a guy

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Speaker 4: Forty eight and a half the over under the highest

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Speaker 4: Stones track of that name Rashad White. He's got eighty

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they've been broken. They were my preseason you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm still trying to figure out if my third place

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