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Speaker 1: What is Welcome to another episode of the NFL Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Live Podcast. It's me you may and Marcus grant him

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Speaker 1: G and uh, let's see to do today? We have

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Speaker 1: we are closer to regular football. Last week, we did

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Speaker 1: this last Thursday and we had the Hall of Fame game.

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Speaker 1: Now we have a full slate of NFL preseason games

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Speaker 1: to talk about before we get into that and plenty more.

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Speaker 1: I want to say, what's up to producer Christina behind

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Speaker 1: the glass. What's going on? Christina? I'm good, are doing well.

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Speaker 1: He's staying out of the heat. It's been crazy. Yes, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I haven't done any You know they used to mock

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Speaker 1: a lot of weathers talking. I haven't. I haven't done

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Speaker 1: nearly as much. But it's been hot and it's been humid,

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Speaker 1: it's always We have another guest hanging out in the

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Speaker 1: we hopefully we'll have him on a few more times

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Speaker 1: before the season is out. It is the guy you

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Speaker 1: know you love the Fantasy Hall of Famer Michael Fabiano. Fast, dude,

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Speaker 1: what's up man? How you doing a while? It has

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Speaker 1: been a while. How was your summer? It went by

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Speaker 1: real fast, and our summers go by even faster because

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Speaker 1: our summers actually don't come to a conclusion because once

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Speaker 1: August hits, it's still summer for everybody else, but for us,

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Speaker 1: it's time to grind. I tell people all the time,

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Speaker 1: the NFL summers like six weeks long. Yep, that's about it.

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Speaker 1: We get from like, you know, the start of June

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Speaker 1: Like for for everybody else, fourth of July is like,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, summer's going on. For me, I think the

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Speaker 1: fourth of July and I'm like, it's almost over. I

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Speaker 1: I'm done. Pretty much. That's pretty much. So, yeah, NFL

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Speaker 1: summer is over, but that means we have actual football.

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Speaker 1: We will talk to Brandon Maryanne Lee, who writes and

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Speaker 1: and hosts an a variety of outlets. We'll get her

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Speaker 1: thoughts on some bounce back candidates, plus some quarterback values

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Speaker 1: that you might want a little bit later on in

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Speaker 1: your draft. Of course, we will have some tweets, have

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Speaker 1: plenty of things going on in this show, but as always,

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Speaker 1: let's start with some news, all right, We'll start here

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles with the Chargers. Philip Rivers says, Virgil

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Speaker 1: Green is quote getting a feel for the Chargers offense. Now,

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Speaker 1: Virgil Green, a few years ago, it was supposed to

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Speaker 1: be this big breakout candidate with the Denver Broncos. That

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Speaker 1: never quite happened. In fact, seven seasons, just seventy one catches,

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Speaker 1: eight hundred seven yards and four touchdowns. He's always been

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Speaker 1: kind of buried behind somebody else on whatever depth chart

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Speaker 1: he's on. But with the Chargers, Hunter Henry is out

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Speaker 1: for this season. Doesn't look like Antonio Gates is coming back.

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Speaker 1: So fas I know tight end, you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: position you can generally wait on unless you want to

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Speaker 1: Gronk or a Kelsey or somebody like that. Is Virgil Green.

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Speaker 1: If there's nobody else there, is he worth a look?

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Speaker 1: Or is it you know, is there somebody else in

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Speaker 1: that there's there's no one on that roster at tight

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Speaker 1: end I want. And Virgil Green is someone who has

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Speaker 1: never seen more than thirty seven targets in a single season.

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Speaker 1: He's more of a blocker, not as much of a

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Speaker 1: pass catcher, and I would fade that position from a

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Speaker 1: will now go to Mike Williams, who to me is

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Speaker 1: I've been keeping an eye on Mike Williams because obviously

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Speaker 1: And I just I think Mike Williams has some kind

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Speaker 1: of some deep deep sleeper potential, sleeper potential, doubt that

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Speaker 1: that's an offense that's gonna put up points. You know.

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, to me, is one of the more underrated

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Speaker 1: Rivers is sitting there in the fourteenth round. That's a

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Speaker 1: And it does stink that that Henry is out for

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Speaker 1: Jones saying Martavis Bryant is not picking up Jon Gruden's playbook.

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Speaker 1: Gruden earlier said about Briant, he's got to get out

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Speaker 1: there and he's got to play better. Now. There have

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Speaker 1: been some more recent reports than maybe you know, they

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Speaker 1: But can you can you really trust Martvis Bryant at

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Speaker 1: this point. At this point, he's not worth more than

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Speaker 1: and I think a lot of us, including myself, we're

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Speaker 1: He made a couple of catches while a member of

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Speaker 1: Martavis Bryant now is someone that we're not talking about

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Speaker 1: as a potential draft bargain. I think number one, because

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Speaker 1: They add Jordy Nelson. Uh You've also got, of course,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to trust him, especially when he's coming into

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Speaker 1: and it looks like Gruden has to try and motivate him.

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. But you mentioned Jordy Nelson,

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Speaker 1: Nelson's got like two games, right, the huge game against

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Speaker 1: But between Cooper and and Jordy Nelson, who didn't look

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Speaker 1: Raider offense from a fantasy perspective. This ye had no

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Speaker 1: that that puts it into a big pile of question marks.

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Speaker 1: But Cooper I'm seeing in drafts. I'm seeing him move

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Speaker 1: gravitated more to Cooper because he's still young, he's still

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Speaker 1: Hasn't scored a lot of touchdowns, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: expect him to improve over last year. How could he

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Speaker 1: not because last year was an abject disaster and he

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Speaker 1: two years, Michael Crabtree was the better fantasy receiver in

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Speaker 1: Oakland and Crabs didn't have a great season either based

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Speaker 1: on his previous seasons. Right, Uh So, it's I just

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Speaker 1: I don't know. The Raiders offense just scares me. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm avoiding Raiders wearing and I really am. Well,

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Speaker 1: how about Eddie Paniero? You want him? No, I do not.

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Speaker 1: I do not. Um. DeVante Freeman says he expects to

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Speaker 1: Freeman's draft status. His his his his draft position is

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Speaker 1: He'll be a second round guy generally had a lot

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Speaker 1: of leagues. But the helmet rule, obviously, we saw a

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Speaker 1: but certain guys have certain running styles that could lend

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about this too hard. Do you think down

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Speaker 1: at certain positions. No, I don't think so. I think.

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Speaker 1: that first game. Did you you follow Twitter? Like it

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Speaker 1: seems like everyone was on that and everybody talking about

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Speaker 1: how bad it is, how how it's going to affect

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Speaker 1: I think it's minimal, but it is certainly notable that

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Speaker 1: I mean I think I think what we saw last week,

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Speaker 1: that's not really a surprise, but he should be back

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Speaker 1: in and expected to practice after the preseason game. So right,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's another guy who I guess if you

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Speaker 1: And uh you wrote recently, actually just yesterday about some

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck, who we have all been. We've been waiting

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Speaker 1: for two years for the return of Andrew Luck. And

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Speaker 1: you know, I will say personally, I have gone from

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Speaker 1: you know, frustration to skepticism every time the Colts gave

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Speaker 1: us a report to Now I'm starting to buy in,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm starting to believe, like this is real, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: please tell me I'm not gonna get my heart broken

467
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Speaker 1: this year. Well, I mean I might. You can't predict

468
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Speaker 1: injuries typically, but he's looked good so far. And and

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Speaker 1: let's not forget Andrew Luck in his last three full season.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy who's who's you know,

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Speaker 1: been a top two or three quarterback ice. He's a playmaker.

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Speaker 1: And he's in an offense with t Y Hilton with

473
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Speaker 1: some additions in uh Ryan Grant of course, and and

474
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Speaker 1: Dion Kane, who's really drawn rave reviews at Colts camp.

475
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Speaker 1: There's some weapons there. There's some young weapons there. And

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Speaker 1: if you want to build your strategy around waiting on

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Speaker 1: a quarterback Andrew Luck, if you've got the gumption, if

478
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Speaker 1: you're a guy who's who's out there and willing to

479
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Speaker 1: take a gamble on a player, he could end up

480
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Speaker 1: being one of the bigger steals in fantasy football drafts

481
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Speaker 1: because a lot of us out there say, what have

482
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Speaker 1: you done for me lately? Last year? Clearly he didn't

483
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Speaker 1: play this year. Is so far, so good, and I'm

484
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Speaker 1: surprised as ADP hasn't started to rise a little bit.

485
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Speaker 1: Maybe after a few preseason games at will, but at

486
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Speaker 1: this point he's still going in the double digit rounds.

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Speaker 1: And this is a guy, Listen, He's not a little

488
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Speaker 1: older guy. This is a This is a player who

489
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Speaker 1: has been consistent. He's been solid. From a fantasy perspective,

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Speaker 1: he's been an elite player. You could have put him

491
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Speaker 1: up there right with Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers and

492
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Speaker 1: Drew Brees just a few seasons ago. If things continue

493
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Speaker 1: to go well for Andrew Luck in camp and in

494
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Speaker 1: there you season, this kid's value is going to start

495
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Speaker 1: rising right now. If you're drafting, he's someone I'm targeting

496
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Speaker 1: late because that could end up being a pot of gold.

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Speaker 1: I would say, if you are interested in targeting Andrew Luck,

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Speaker 1: have your draft sooner rather than later, because if he

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Speaker 1: goes out, if he goes out and he balls in

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Speaker 1: any of these preseason games, that ADP is going to

501
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Speaker 1: shoot up. So if you want, if you want Andrew Luck,

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Speaker 1: if you want Andrew look at a value draft price,

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Speaker 1: schedule your draft like right now, you know, because otherwise

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Speaker 1: I said I if he plays well, Uh, then you're

505
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Speaker 1: gonna have to pay a little bit more to get

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Speaker 1: him on your roster. I feel a part of it.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned t Y Hilton, you mentioned you know,

508
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Speaker 1: Dion Kane and Ryan Grants as the receivers there. How

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Speaker 1: much how much does it if you know, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not wishing this, if something goes sideways and we end

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Speaker 1: up seeing Jacoby Brissett, how much does that impact the

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Speaker 1: draft value of those pass catchers there. Well, if you

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Speaker 1: listen to Jim Mercy, he wouldn't trade a first round

514
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Speaker 1: pick for Jacoby Persett's right, That's right. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that I would agree with that. This is a guy

516
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Speaker 1: who also you know, traded for Trent Richardson. But that's

517
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Speaker 1: neither here nor there, so it greatly affects it. Look

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Speaker 1: at t Y Hilton's production last year. Uh, he was

519
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Speaker 1: still targeted, but those targets were clearly not that. Those

520
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Speaker 1: weren't positive targets a lot of the times. Let's put

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Speaker 1: it that way. They will be positive targets when Andrew

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Speaker 1: LuxS during them the football. You've also got Eric E. Brunning.

523
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Speaker 1: That makes in Jack Doyle as well. Andrew Lux addition

524
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Speaker 1: to this team on the field is going to increase

525
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Speaker 1: the value of every player in that offense. And I'm

526
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Speaker 1: talking about running backs all the way down to tight ends.

527
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Speaker 1: If he suddenly has some sort of setback, you're gonna

528
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Speaker 1: end up seeing guys drop in terms of their ADP,

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Speaker 1: including t Y Hilton, who right now is coming off

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Speaker 1: the board as a wide receiver too. And that has

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Speaker 1: everything to do with Andrew lux return and the positive

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Speaker 1: reports that we've seen about the quarterbacks so far in

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Speaker 1: the preseason and in camp. I feel like everything I

534
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Speaker 1: have written or said about a Cults player this offseason

535
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Speaker 1: has been prefaced with so I'm starting to like discard

536
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Speaker 1: that part of it and just kind of I'm operating

537
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Speaker 1: on right there with that he's healthy. Uh. In San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: Marquis Goodwin. You know, I've been saying that the forty

539
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Speaker 1: Niners are every fantasy analysts favorite sleeper offense and not

540
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Speaker 1: even know if that's the case anymore. I think everybody's

541
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Speaker 1: just you know, on board with the forty Niners with

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Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan and Jimmy Garoppolo. But Marky's Goodwin, who finished

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Speaker 1: the season finished last season strong, partially because pr Garson

544
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Speaker 1: was was out with an injury. But I feel like

545
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Speaker 1: this is a guy that we talked about wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: Even with the love that we're giving him as as

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Speaker 1: a player on the rise, I think he still deserves

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Speaker 1: more love just because of what he can do potentially

549
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Speaker 1: in this offense. Yeah, and he's a potential value and

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Speaker 1: I see that in the ADP data right now. He's

551
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Speaker 1: someone that you can get at a pretty decent price.

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Speaker 1: The report that he gained with Garoppolo in the second

553
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Speaker 1: half of last year can't be overlooked. And if you

554
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Speaker 1: read reports right now coming out of Niners camp, that

555
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Speaker 1: rapport is there and it continues to get stronger. I've

556
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Speaker 1: even been in drafts where garsone is being picked behind

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Speaker 1: uh Mark, he's Goodwin, And Goodwin is a player that

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Speaker 1: he is a speecher. He can absolutely stretch defenses, he

559
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Speaker 1: can take the top off of defense. He's a best

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Speaker 1: ball stud potentially based on his skill setting based on

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Speaker 1: the offense that that's surrounding him. So Goodwin is someone

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Speaker 1: that I'm certainly going to be targeting as well. You're

563
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Speaker 1: seeing a lot of positive reports out of camps on

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Speaker 1: wide receivers at this point, we mentioned Dion Kane Mark

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Speaker 1: He's Goodwin is another one. Chris Godwin is another one.

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Speaker 1: Keelan Cole is another one as well. So all players

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Speaker 1: to keep in mind in the later rounds. Yeah. Absolutely,

568
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Speaker 1: And you missed pr Garcelan briefly. I mean he was

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570
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Speaker 1: had to miss the last half of the season, So

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Speaker 1: you know, he's another one. I just wonder, are we

572
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Speaker 1: are we hyping Jimmy Garoppolo too much? I don't know, man,

573
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Speaker 1: what five and oh last year in his five starts

574
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Speaker 1: he was the QB ten six enough you count the

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Speaker 1: coin flip against the Raiders for the trash, So heck.

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Speaker 1: The one thing about the NFL, I say it every

577
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Speaker 1: single year. It's only it's only predictable in its unpredictability.

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Speaker 1: So we look at what's going on during camp. We

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Speaker 1: look at the talent they brought and they bring into

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Speaker 1: Jerick McKinnon. They've got Marquis good when Peter Garson coming back,

581
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Speaker 1: Trent Taylor there as well, George Kittle, who's got upside

582
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Speaker 1: and showed some potential at the end of last season.

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo is a huge improvement over the quarterbacks that the

584
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Speaker 1: Nineers were throwing out there even last season in seasons past.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's gonna be Tom Brady. I guess

586
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Speaker 1: maybe he thinks Brady. I don't know. I'm not saying

587
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be Tom Brady. But this kid seems to

588
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Speaker 1: have that it factor in quarterback, has that it factor.

589
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Speaker 1: You've sort of got that that situation where it's a

590
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Speaker 1: domino effect and and the wide receivers played better, they

591
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Speaker 1: score more fantasy points, the running game is better. So Garoppolo,

592
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Speaker 1: he is a He is a big part of what

593
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Speaker 1: could potentially be a very good offense from a fantasy

594
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Speaker 1: perspective in San Francisco. I would tell you that Jimmy

595
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Speaker 1: Garoppolo is already a star in the Bay Area. And

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Speaker 1: when you figured the you know, the Golden State Warriors

597
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Speaker 1: have Steph Curry and Kevin Durant for Jimmy Garoppol will

598
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Speaker 1: be a huge star up there. Says that they already

599
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Speaker 1: love now they have Boogie Cousins. I mean, team is

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Speaker 1: ridiculous up there. I'm not going to apologize. I suffered

601
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Speaker 1: through a lot of ter What about what about RUNTFC Right,

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Speaker 1: you had that you had. I mean I would tell

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Speaker 1: you after they traded uh Tim Hardaway to the Warriors

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Speaker 1: or to the Miami Heat, I wouldn't take my Tim.

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Speaker 1: I was just like a sophomore in college. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: take my poster down for like a full year. My roommate.

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Speaker 1: My roommate had to almost have an intervention with me

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Speaker 1: to get me to take the poster down because I

609
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Speaker 1: was so heartbroken. So yeah, um up to Seattle. Chris

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Speaker 1: Carson is getting some love. And now you know, after

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Speaker 1: the draft, after the draft, I think we all assumed, well,

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Speaker 1: the Seahawks traded up to get Rashad Penny. They got

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Speaker 1: him at the end of the first round. That means

614
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Speaker 1: he's the starter, right, like absolutely positively has to be.

615
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Speaker 1: But Chris Carson is just hanging around and he's getting

616
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Speaker 1: rave reviews from Pete Carroll no less, and you know

617
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Speaker 1: there's even talk that maybe he could be the starter

618
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Speaker 1: in week one, and his draft price versus pennies is incredible,

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Speaker 1: Like this is the guy, at least for right now.

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Speaker 1: It seems like if you're targeting a Seattle back, maybe

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Speaker 1: it's Chris Carson. Our lives can't be easy, can't they

622
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Speaker 1: can ever be easy. You figure the Seahawks take a

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Speaker 1: guy in the first round who wasn't projected to be

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Speaker 1: a first round pick. They love him. They said that

625
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Speaker 1: they would have picked him even if they hadn't traded

626
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Speaker 1: down in the first round. I don't know if I

627
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Speaker 1: believe that or not. But Chris Carson, he flashed a

628
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Speaker 1: little bit last season. We didn't see a huge sample

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Speaker 1: size of this kid, but everything that I've seen and

630
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Speaker 1: read and been told, he's not going away. And Rashade

631
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Speaker 1: Penny is someone who never really was asked to catch

632
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Speaker 1: the ball out of the backfield at San Diego State,

633
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: wasn't asked to pass protect a whole lot at San

634
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Speaker 1: Diego State. They still drafted him with the intention of

635
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Speaker 1: him being a three down back. But with that being said,

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Speaker 1: a committee situation is certainly possible in Seattle. I've started

637
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Speaker 1: to see Penny's a DP drop a little bit. Clearly

638
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Speaker 1: Carson's is moving on up, but Penny has the more upside.

639
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Speaker 1: Penny is the guy they invested more in. So I'm

640
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: still drafting Rishade Penny between this this duo, but I

641
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 1: would not be surprised that this is a committee situation.

642
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: If Chris Carson continues to play as well as he

643
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: has in camp. The one thing about Chris Carson and

644
00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: and I don't remember who pointed it out on Twitter,

645
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: but but it is worth worth discussing that because we've

646
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: we've two. A person said, you know, Chris Carson was

647
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: the best of the Seattle running backs last year, which

648
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: is true, although that bar wasn't very high. You go

649
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 1: back when you look at his game long, he wasn't great.

650
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: There was one it was one pretty good game. You

651
00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: had the game against the forty niners. Uh, he had

652
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: twenty carries for ninety three yards, never scored a touchdown

653
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: last year. The other games thirty nine yards, thirty four yards,

654
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: forty two yards. So like, I mean, I feel like

655
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: when we say Chris Carson was the best of the

656
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: Seattle running backs, like we're grading on a serious We're

657
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: talking about j D. Mckissic, and Mike Davis and and

658
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 1: and a washed up Eddie Lacey. I mean, Thomas Rawls

659
00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,480
Speaker 1: was banged up. So yeah, you're right, And and you

660
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 1: make a great point. And as I mentioned, I said,

661
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: he flashed a little bit last season, but it wasn't

662
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,800
Speaker 1: like this guy came out and it was gangbusters. He

663
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: was the best of a mediocre bunch. Now, I don't

664
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: know what that says to me about what Penny is

665
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: or isn't doing camp right now, but the fact of

666
00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: the matter is, I mean, you mentioned it. Pete Carroll

667
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: said that Chris Carson is the star of the of

668
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: the off season. This guy has really worked hard to

669
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Speaker 1: potentially be the starter in Seattle. A committee situation is

670
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: not out of the realm of possibility. It's not what

671
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,080
Speaker 1: we had hoped for when you saw the Seahawks draft

672
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 1: Penny in the first round, But this is a situation

673
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: A monitor clearly throughout the preseason. One more name to

674
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: talk about and you can read the rest of fabs

675
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: list at NFL dot com slash Fabiano. But John Ross,

676
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,719
Speaker 1: who Yeah, he burst onto the scene at the Combine.

677
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,440
Speaker 1: He sets the record for the fastest forty time ever,

678
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: although he may or may not have won himself a

679
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: private island, I don't know. But then during the season

680
00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 1: he just vanished. He was injured. He had the one touch,

681
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: it was a carry, he fumbled. Yeah, that was it.

682
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: That was the last time we saw John Ross. But

683
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: apparently he has worked himself out in the off season.

684
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's b s O h L.

685
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's in the best shape of

686
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: his life or not. But what ever he did, it

687
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,959
Speaker 1: was good enough for the Bengals to trade Brandon LaFell away,

688
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: So that means the door is open for this kid

689
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: to come in and make plays. And it seems like

690
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: right now the reviews are kind of positive. Is that

691
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: Is that tempting you to at least consider him late

692
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: in drafts? Right now, it's tempting me to consider him.

693
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: But I'm not certainly uh so excited that I'm going

694
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: to try and and overdraft for this kid. And if

695
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: you look at the trend of of wide receivers who

696
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: are drafted highly outside of that one year with the

697
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,479
Speaker 1: class when you had Obi j and Mike Evans, I mean,

698
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: there hasn't been a whole lot to talk about. You

699
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: know that there have been a couple of outliers, but overall,

700
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position has not done well, uh in

701
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: terms of the guys who were were predicted to put

702
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: up great numbers of the first name that comes to mind,

703
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: of course, is the Kuan Treadwell in Minnesota, who has

704
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: done absolutely nothing for the Vikings, But Ross is someone

705
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: to me, I don't know if he's a one dimensional

706
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,959
Speaker 1: wide receiver or not. He's a guy who's got the speed.

707
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: He looks like the number two guy right now in Cincinnati. Now,

708
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: with that being said, I don't know how affected that

709
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: offense is going to be. Overall. The offensive line should

710
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: be better. They should be better than they were last year,

711
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: because last year they were they were quite dreadful. But

712
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: he's certainly someone that you're keeping an eye on. And and

713
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: and now is sort of the the whole emphasis of

714
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: this column. Some of these guys you know. Maybe some

715
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: of these guys you don't, but they're worth checking out

716
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: in terms of what they're doing in camp, what reports

717
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: were getting on them, and what they're doing in the preseason.

718
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: And Ross is certainly on that list. Now you talk

719
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,959
Speaker 1: about some of these these receivers in the last few

720
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: years who've been drafted in the first round. I'll just

721
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: go through through some of the names of them, even

722
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: just last year. Last year, Corey Davis, who you know

723
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: had his injury issues, Mike Williams, who was the injured

724
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: John Ross. You go back to twenties sixteen, and it's

725
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: Corey Coleman who just got traded, will will Fuller who's

726
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: been hurt, Josh Dockson who has been up and down.

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00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: Uh La, Kwan Treadwell who you mentioned u uh, MARII

728
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: Cooper right now probably the best of that group, I guess,

729
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,200
Speaker 1: Kevin White, DeVante par Parker, Nelson Agler who had a

730
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,719
Speaker 1: good season last year, Brashot Harriman, Philip Dorset. It's just

731
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: it's not good. It's not good. It's not good. It's

732
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: not good. I mean, I'm going so you like that

733
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: was the good year, right where yet? Yeah, Sammy Watkins.

734
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: Uh but Mike Evans, Odell Beckham, Brandon Cooks, um your

735
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 1: Kelvin Benjamin's been up and down. So I mean that

736
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 1: that was the big year. But since then, wide receivers

737
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: drafted in the first round have been a general disappointment,

738
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,399
Speaker 1: no question. Um, that's why maybe you only saw two

739
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,839
Speaker 1: of them, this passion d J. Moore. D J. Moore,

740
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 1: who I know is getting a lot of love in Carolina.

741
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 1: And Calvin Ridley, who you know, I'm I'm reserving judgment

742
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: on there. Yeah, I just I don't know how he

743
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: quite fits in that offense. So again, check it out

744
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash Fabiano because camp players on ours,

745
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: I assume you'll be maybe writing a camp players who

746
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: are on the decline. Perhaps I can potentially do that.

747
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: That's uh, that's certainly in the mix. There's gonna be

748
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 1: some more columns that I write based on the preseason

749
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 1: and based on what we're hearing from camp. So there's

750
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: also some good notes in this column to uh talk

751
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 1: to some guys who are close to teams. Joe Shadow

752
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: with Miami Dolphins talk to our Ian Rappaport about the

753
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns backfield situation. So definitely keep an eye on

754
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 1: that because those little nuggets that you hear, whether it's

755
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: from me, uh, from sources that I have, from Marcus

756
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: whoever it might be, sometimes those can really unearth some

757
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: deep sleepers in your fantasy football drafts. And I think

758
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: guys like Keelan Cole, for example, who's really looks good

759
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:24,799
Speaker 1: in camp for the Jaguars, is a potential example of that.

760
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: Mike Asiki to the tight end for the Miami Dolphins.

761
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: Past protection has been an issue, but who do they

762
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: have right now? I know he's buried on the depth

763
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: chart right now, but preseason depth charts are really meaningless

764
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: at this point, so he's another player to keep an

765
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,480
Speaker 1: eye on. Also, I think you should call up Ian

766
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: Rappaport and ask him if his heart is okay after

767
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: that giant burger? Do you see the burger thing he

768
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: ate yesterday? Wait, he ate that whole He don't know

769
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 1: if he had the whole thing. That thing was bigger

770
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: than him. I know, I don't know if he ate

771
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: the whole thing, but I did see him attempt to

772
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: pick it up and try to take a bite, and

773
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: like I felt like he had to like unhinge his

774
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 1: jaw like shaggy and trying to get that thing in there.

775
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: But I do like to watch that kind of thing though,

776
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: Like may versus food, it's like a guilty pleasure. I

777
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: want to watch a dude try and eat a whole

778
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 1: lot of food without being sick. And and I certainly

779
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,239
Speaker 1: watched that. And Rappaport is not a big dude. I

780
00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: can't see him eating a burger that big. But if

781
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 1: he did, more power to him. Jeez, I mean, nothing

782
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: weighs almost as much as his gigantic Some of the

783
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: food that they're coming out right now at baseball stadiums

784
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: and football. I mean really well, see, I feel like

785
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: baseball had kind of had the market on this, and

786
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: but now I guess you know, football is like, hey,

787
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: we can't be the only We can't let baseball be

788
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,800
Speaker 1: the only sport that's trying to kill its fan. So

789
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: so we gotta get in on these. These meals need

790
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,320
Speaker 1: to come with like, you know, the side of peto

791
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,800
Speaker 1: bismol or something, or at least a surgeon general's warning.

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00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,640
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Speaker 1: So John Ross mentioned one of those guys we're looking

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00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 1: for a bounce back this year. We'll go to the

812
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 1: phones and talk to somebody who has a list of

813
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 1: some other potential bounce backs. We are joined now by

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Speaker 1: Brandon Maryann Lee. You'd find her on Twitter at Brandon

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Speaker 1: her f f. She is a host on Sirious x

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00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: him Fantasy. She is an analyst for Fantasy, Alarm and

817
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: The Athletic. Also a writer at CBS Sports Line and

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00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 1: Brandon I forgetting anything but Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Change?

819
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: Is there anything else? Any other title? I need to

820
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: be adding here to to your your laundry the things?

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00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: Uh No, I think I think you're pretty good with those,

822
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: So but you can find everything again at Twitter on

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00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: Twitter at Brandon her f f B. It's kin cool. Well,

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00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 1: what actually start with? You just recently ended. You had

825
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,919
Speaker 1: your own podcast, her fantasy football podcast that you did

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00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: with your sisters, and you just I know, you guys

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00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: just recently ended that after five years. But what what

828
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: was that? Like? How much fun was that to be

829
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: able to do a fantasy football podcast with family? Oh?

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00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: It was amazing, And I mean a lot of people

831
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: don't understand. It's it's really more the boring stuff is

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00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 1: why we're not doing it. And in terms of the

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00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,359
Speaker 1: actual fantasy analysis is through in the show and everything else.

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00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: You know, we also had our show and students like

835
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 1: some fantasy sports radio. Uh, that was fantastic, but it

836
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:47,439
Speaker 1: was the uh, let's say business part of it doing

837
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: the newsletter, is having a website, doing all of those

838
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 1: other things that are pretty crazy. Uh that that was

839
00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 1: the kind of one of us after five years. But

840
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: it is really great to be able to listen. I

841
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: mean we show the same gene pool. Really, I mean

842
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: we would agree on things, but we don't. And so

843
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 1: that's just how fun this game is. It just doesn't matter.

844
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 1: It's just it's everyone's individual and everyone brings something different

845
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: to the table and that's really cool. Yeah. Absolutely, it

846
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: seems like it would have been a lot of fun

847
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: to do, but you are still staying busy with plenty

848
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 1: of other things. And you recently wrote about ten bounce

849
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: back candidates to target in so why did it kind

850
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: of get your thoughts on a few of them? The

851
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: first one Eli Manning, right, And and as I've looked

852
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 1: at the Giants offense more and more, I'm starting to

853
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: kind of come around and get excited about this group.

854
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: Eli to me is kind of the wild card. You know,

855
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: there have been concerns about his arm strength, the fact

856
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: that he still throws a lot of picks. Uh, you know,

857
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: sell me on why I shouldn't be worried about Eli

858
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 1: Manning this year. Oh, you should absolutely be worried. I

859
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: don't want to act like that, not what you should do,

860
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: but I think that there is an argument in fact

861
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,640
Speaker 1: that his a DP is so so low, and when

862
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,439
Speaker 1: you consider the vibe that Derek Carr has had zero

863
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: seasons of over four thousand passing yards and has never

864
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,839
Speaker 1: scored a rushing touchdown in his entire career, and those

865
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: guys are going ahead of Eli Manning, who has always

866
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: weapons and by the way, they surround him with weapons

867
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: because they genuinely believe that he can take them to

868
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: another championship. Now do I agree with that? Not necessarily.

869
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: Whose weapons are at least going to help out from

870
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: a fantasy perspective, and we've seen him do it before,

871
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: and as far as I'm concerned, I think that that

872
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: is something you have to consider when you can get

873
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: the guy before your care You mentioned the rushing touches

874
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,879
Speaker 1: as you were saying that I wouldn't looked up Eli

875
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: Manning's rushing touchdowns because I was kind of curious, and

876
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: I will say that six is far more than I

877
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: would have given him credit for over the course of

878
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: his careers, right, I know, listen, obviously he can't even pivot,

879
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: which is my you know, and when the defenders coming

880
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: he collapsed at It's bizarre, But man, those weapons are

881
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 1: legit it and I am really excited about Odell coming back.

882
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: I think that we don't talk enough about how great

883
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: he is. You know, it's you know, recency bias or

884
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: what have you. But he's a fantastic athlete. Evan Ingram

885
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: just even his rookie season proved a ton so the

886
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: Shepherd proved that he can step into the role. I

887
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: think they just have too many weapons to ignore, and

888
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: his ADP is just irrationally low considering we know he

889
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: can do it, really do it. Maybe maybe not, but

890
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: man they've set him up to succeed. Yeah, I mean,

891
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: I think you talked about recency biases, and I think

892
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: I think that has a lot to do with why

893
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: Manning's ADP is where it is. And you know, the

894
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,919
Speaker 1: last we remember of Eli Manning was him irrationally being

895
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: benched for Geno Smith to end his starting streak and

896
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,359
Speaker 1: then coming back the very next week. So I feel

897
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: like that that's the last we saw of him, and

898
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: so that that's the thing that that sticks with everybody,

899
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: fair or not, I think that's just what it is.

900
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 1: Um Over to Joe Mixon there in Cincinnati and and

901
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: coming out of college when he was in that draft

902
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: class a couple of years ago, I felt like he was,

903
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: by are the most talented running back in that draft class,

904
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: but he ended up in an offense that was sort

905
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: of kind of oatmeal, um behind an offensive line that

906
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: wasn't particularly great. And then it turned out that Joe

907
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: Bernard started getting more work and it started cutting into

908
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: his workload. Uh. You honestly feel like this is a

909
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 1: new year, and and there's some new changes that that

910
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: make Joe Mixing worth a second look this year. Well,

911
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 1: one of the things that I started addressed in this article,

912
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: and one of the things that actually her fantasy couple

913
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: was known for, is that we were the original Joe

914
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 1: Mixon haters from the get go. We were like, do

915
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: not draft this guy in the fourth round, do not

916
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 1: do this. This is this is irrational. And the reasons

917
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 1: why he's kind of fixed or the team is fixed

918
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: a little bit. So one was that he showed up

919
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 1: at camp heavy, twenty pounds heavier than what he was

920
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,479
Speaker 1: playing in college. And it wasn't really reported that much,

921
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: but when you watched him play, you could see that

922
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,919
Speaker 1: he just did not have the same birth. It wasn't

923
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: even closed. Also, he was known for patients. He was

924
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: a loving on bell type. So he's the guy that

925
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,720
Speaker 1: sits back there, waits for the whole and then can

926
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,320
Speaker 1: make some magic happen. Well, he's playing for the Bengals.

927
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,720
Speaker 1: That whole is not coming, so it's not gonna happen

928
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: for him. So he would just sit back there. And

929
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: when you watch the tape too, you see him just

930
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:16,719
Speaker 1: sitting there and then all of a sudden, you get

931
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: hit behind the line of scrimage and now he's lost

932
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: five yards. So anything he did the play before that

933
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: has not been negated. And he would send me gifts

934
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: because I was the original hater, being like no, but

935
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,439
Speaker 1: he looks he looks amazing here, but sometimes he's gives

936
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: for a negative yardage like okay, he looks like he's

937
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: literally got you negative one fantasy point on that play.

938
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: So I think that there's a possibility he can break

939
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: through because it did make some improvements on the offensive line.

940
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 1: He has cut down on the weight. He's realized that

941
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: his athleticism is not going to carry him all the

942
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: way like it did before. He's in the NFL. Now

943
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work. Everybody's athletic, it's a joke. So

944
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: I think he's learned his lesson and maybe that's what

945
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: he needed, was a good humbling. Yeah, I think. I

946
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,680
Speaker 1: think that is a big thing. You know, the guys

947
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: who are super talented, who I won't say coast on

948
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: talent alone, but certainly are are talented enough to outclass

949
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: their competition at the college level, there is that that

950
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: rude awakening. Uh, you know when you get to the

951
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 1: NFL and suddenly, you know, every everybody was a first

952
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: team you know, all conference or whatever. You know, like

953
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: all these guys were stars at some level. So you know,

954
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see and you mentioned the the offensive

955
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: line changes there and the upgrade there. That has to

956
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 1: be a big deal with this group. Although I ask

957
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: any any worries that that Geo Bernard maybe comes in

958
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:33,240
Speaker 1: and and vultures some some opportunities away from him. Yeah,

959
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I think if Joe Mixon falter is in

960
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: any way in terms of work ethic and UM drive.

961
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: Let's be honest here, by every single metrics, Giovanni Bernard

962
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: was better than him last year. There was not one

963
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: metric where Joe Mixon was better. So he has to

964
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: prove himself. Because Jovannnard's only twenty six years old. I know,

965
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: it feels like he's been in the NFL like the twenties,

966
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:01,000
Speaker 1: but he's only six years old, so it's not like

967
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: they can't use him. I do think he will get

968
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: some um playing time if anything, to just keep Mixon motivated.

969
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 1: To be entirely frank, but I'm not exceedingly word. I

970
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: think this team does want to commit to mix it,

971
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: and they did for all in terms and purposes. They

972
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,000
Speaker 1: did commit to him. He just didn't do anything with

973
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: the touches that was. It was all on him if

974
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: you look back. He did get opportunities. He just couldn't

975
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: make it happen. And then when Gio did, he did

976
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: make it happen. But Geo was a veteran. You already

977
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: knew that they had a bad offensive line, so he

978
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: already adapted. I just think that there was a lot

979
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,840
Speaker 1: of learning that happened for John Mixon. So I do

980
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: think he takes a big step forward one morning, anyone

981
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,839
Speaker 1: to get to ask you by for the bounce backs.

982
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:45,240
Speaker 1: The Sean Jackson and I thought when he signed with Tampa,

983
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,200
Speaker 1: I was over the moon. You know. I was one

984
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:49,320
Speaker 1: of the people who were hyping the Bucks offense and

985
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,359
Speaker 1: it was going to be the big sleeper, breakout fantasy offense. Uh,

986
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 1: and it didn't happen. I mean, somehow, as fast as

987
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: the Sean Jackson is, Jameis Winston just couldn't nicked with him.

988
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: At some point I started joking we should have sent

989
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,280
Speaker 1: Jamis to Iraq because he could have overthrown Saddam Hussein.

990
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: I mean that's how bad it was in that offense

991
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: last year. Is is is there something about the Jacks

992
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,400
Speaker 1: or how how do you think they've worked out the

993
00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: kinks so that the things we thought would happen last

994
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: year maybe we start to see him this year. Well,

995
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,400
Speaker 1: I mentioned in the article, like Greg Ahmen of the

996
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Times said that uh coach cut Um he

997
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: actually made an entire tape of Deshan Jackson being in

998
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: the right place so that the offense couldn't give them ball,

999
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: but an entire, like you know, movie of Deshan Jackson

1000
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: still having the skills. And that's what inspires me is

1001
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 1: that everybody knows what the problem is and they're working

1002
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: to fix it. So if it is going to get fixed,

1003
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: it this is this is the moment. But it wasn't

1004
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: because of Deshan Jackson himself, because we have to kind

1005
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: of look at when when some doesn't produce one year

1006
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: out of their career, is it because they can't do

1007
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: it anymore? Or were there other circumstances? And that's why

1008
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: I always say that I put um fantasy stats and

1009
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: everything in context. Without context, we just can't know. And

1010
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: really the decline was all based off of Jameis Winston

1011
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: Christ from James Winston. He he suspended, so that's not good.

1012
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: But be uh, he is highly inaccurate and only looks

1013
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,279
Speaker 1: at his first three, which is Mike Evans, and then

1014
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: Mike Evans catches the ball and then sits down. I mean,

1015
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: God love Mike Evans, but yards after the catch are

1016
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: less than your Heightually, that doesn't make any sense like that.

1017
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,920
Speaker 1: That means they're not even falling forward. So something is

1018
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,839
Speaker 1: going a myth. So they're going to have to diversify

1019
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: to be able to make themselves dynamic. And I do

1020
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,399
Speaker 1: think what they're gonna do is they're gonna they're gonna

1021
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: take this to Sean Jackson tape and they're going to

1022
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: have to figure out how to get the ball in

1023
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,280
Speaker 1: his hands. And the great news is Sean Jackson's the opposite.

1024
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: He's great after the catch. He's great on these big plays,

1025
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: so he doesn't need as much volume as other people

1026
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: to get to that thousand yard category of of wide receivers.

1027
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: He's done it numerous times in his career. You know,

1028
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: it was just two years ago, you know, he had

1029
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: caught fifty six passes for a thousand and five yards

1030
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: and four touchdowns. And that's when he was with another

1031
00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: guy also with a thousand yards, Pierre Garcon, and then

1032
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: another guy, Jamison Crowder, who actolutely led the team in touchdowns.

1033
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: They had three main guys and he still got over

1034
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:33,839
Speaker 1: a thousand yards. So I have to believe that they're

1035
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: gonna right this wrong at least in some way this season,

1036
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: and I'm wishing for the best. So you still, then,

1037
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 1: do you believe that Mike Evans, de Sean Jackson, and

1038
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 1: now Chris Godwin can all potentially eat in this offense? No?

1039
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Chris Godwin is going to be

1040
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: highly overdrafted in fantasy leagues. I like Chris Godwin. I

1041
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: just think he's going to be definitely the number three

1042
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: guy by a long shot because he just you know,

1043
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: I think I still think just On Jackson has that

1044
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: big play upside that that they need. Um god Wins

1045
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a security blanket. But you

1046
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:08,759
Speaker 1: know what, actually, if you believe it or not, in

1047
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:12,359
Speaker 1: standard PPR late like full point, Adam Humphrey has got

1048
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: a lot of work. Someone's going to have to go

1049
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 1: in there and take away those touches, right, I mean,

1050
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: come on, that's That's that's where I think some of

1051
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: the god when we're going to come from, because I

1052
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,320
Speaker 1: just can't believe that they're going to continue during Humphreys

1053
00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,919
Speaker 1: and spots that heavily. They're going to have to mix

1054
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: some guys in there and then mix it up a

1055
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 1: little bit. So, um, that's where I think that's going

1056
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 1: to come from. So I guess I. I also say

1057
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 1: Chris Cosin's gonna be fine, but I do think the

1058
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: Sean Jackson is still on the team. Talking to Brandon,

1059
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 1: Mary Ann Lee, you can hear her on Serious x

1060
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: M Fantasy and read her a number of number of

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Speaker 1: different places across the internet. Uh. You also wrote about

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Speaker 1: waiting on quarterbacks, which is sort of the you know,

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Speaker 1: it is the mantra of many fantasy analysts, and you

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Speaker 1: had a few names there, one of which Jared Goff.

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00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: And obviously last year he took the huge leap forward.

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Speaker 1: So many p both fairly are unfairly kind of wrote

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Speaker 1: him off after an awful rookie year, but took a

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Speaker 1: step forward with with Sean McVeigh. How much higher do

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Speaker 1: you think his ceiling is in this offense? Well, I

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Speaker 1: think that he is the ultimate streamer he is. It

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Speaker 1: was amazing. If you go back and you look at

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Speaker 1: the team number. Sean McVeigh is an incredibly good coach,

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Speaker 1: and like the Belichick, what he does is that he

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Speaker 1: plays uh against that team. He doesn't just say, oh,

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Speaker 1: this is what my team does. He says, Oh, this

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00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: team is bad against the run, so I'm just going

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Speaker 1: to ride the Todd Gurley train all day. Oh this

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Speaker 1: team is bad against the past, so I'm going to

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Speaker 1: have Golf just take the reins and throw it to

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Speaker 1: all of these gazillion of receivers we have out here.

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Speaker 1: And it was like clockwork. So if you're gonna wait,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna how one of these guys are gonna

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Speaker 1: plug in and play and have a couple of guys

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Speaker 1: that are late, I just think Golf is the perfect

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Speaker 1: perfect guy for that because if you go back and

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Speaker 1: look at the game logs, is incredibly clear what are

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Speaker 1: going to do and and he would say, well, maybe

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00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work because the defenses are going to

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00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: know that. Well, not necessarily, because if they're just bad

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00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:08,919
Speaker 1: at that particular skill set, that's bad. If that skill set,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I mean that used to be the

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00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,359
Speaker 1: whole mantra. Right, you just you you do it if

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00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: you're better than the other people at doing that thing,

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00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: and that's what they're doing, and it's from a coaching perspective,

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00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: so it's kind of genius. You know, Listen, does he

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00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: have to be better? He was already one of the

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00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 1: top guys last year. He's not getting drafted like it? Yeah,

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00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: I mean he's a guy, you know, he was kind

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00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: of a fringe QB one. I think I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think as a streamer, I can definitely see it.

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Speaker 1: I'm afraid that he's a guy who will get overdrafted

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00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 1: this year based on obviously seeing what he did last year.

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00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: And we always have this belief, I think as analysts

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00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: that for the most part, that that you have to

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00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: keep getting better, right, Like he got better in a

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00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: second year, and now he's got another year with Sean

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00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: mcvas who's going to get even better. And I think

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00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: that's kind of a fallacy of what we do in

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Speaker 1: analysis wise. But I do think I think is a streamer,

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Speaker 1: I think I think you're right on track. Um and

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00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 1: Sam Bradford obviously he's in Arizona. Now they've got David Johnson,

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Speaker 1: They've got Larry Fitzgerald, They're trying out a lot of

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00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: other new receivers there. My big question is one, you know,

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Speaker 1: can you stay healthy? And to Josh Rosen, I mean,

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00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: those are the things about Sam Bradford that that frightened me.

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Speaker 1: Your thoughts, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah absolutely, So for me,

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00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: he is your Week one must play against Washington later

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00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,400
Speaker 1: in the season. Dicey, that's actually how I end it.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's why we have waivers and trades. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: But when Sam Bradford's on the field, from the fantasy perspective,

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Speaker 1: he produces. He's also incredibly accurate. And the team is

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00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:41,920
Speaker 1: building a playbook right now as we speak that will

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Speaker 1: work for both Sam Bradford and Josh Rosen because they're

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00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: very similar quarterbacks. So we're not having some sort of

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Speaker 1: weird thing where like, for instance, in Baltimore, if it's

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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco or Lamar Jackson, those are two different skill

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00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: sets and completely different playbooks. They're necessary, right whereas this

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Speaker 1: is seamless. This is no big deal. I think they're

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Speaker 1: going to start with Bradford. I think he's going to

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00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: be just a solid play and you don't need to

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00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: draft him until the pick before your kicker. Even if

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Speaker 1: you're in like a twenty eight round league, it's unbelieving

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00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: he's not even drafted being drafted anywhere. But if you're

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00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:15,839
Speaker 1: playing DFS or if you're playing in Bestball and you're

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00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: wanting to wait on quarterback and you're like, you know what,

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00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just do this like pairing of these two dudes.

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00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:22,359
Speaker 1: At the end, I think they're still going to get

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Speaker 1: quite a few fantasy points because, believe it or not,

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00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: David Johnson only has six fewer receiving yards then Davante

1140
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: Adams had in seventeen when he was a top wide receiver.

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00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: That's not even including rushing yards. So they're gonna have

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Speaker 1: receivers named David Johnson even. I just feel like they're

1143
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,239
Speaker 1: going to be fantasy points to be had there. It's

1144
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: just confusing because of Josh Rosen. But I think that

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00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: from a strategy perspective, if you're looking for some dart

1146
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: throw upside kind of crazy guy, I think no one's

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00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 1: talking about him because of Josh Rosen. I think, especially

1148
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,720
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, that could be a mistake.

1149
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 1: Interesting to keep an eye as one's think a QB situation.

1150
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: I think Alliss will be watching, but brand for I

1151
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: let you go. I always like to ask for my guests.

1152
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,640
Speaker 1: They're there pickup pop the the thing in pop culture

1153
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: that they are really digging right now that they feel

1154
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:14,920
Speaker 1: like everybody else needs to check out. Oh, everybody needs

1155
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: to check out. Huh. I actually just got caught up

1156
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: on the Crown and I'm really disturbed that they're changing

1157
00:54:22,640 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 1: actors on us. And I know I'm not really like

1158
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:29,440
Speaker 1: an Anglican trial or whatever. I just think it's a

1159
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 1: little weird. And I wonder if that's the future of television,

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00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,879
Speaker 1: that these like epic stories now become you know, oh,

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00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: these actors play it for a couple of years, then

1162
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,279
Speaker 1: these actors for a couple of years, and people age

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00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:41,399
Speaker 1: that way. I wonder if this is going to become

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00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 1: a trend. Also, what is up with popular movie for

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00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: the Oscar category? That's not right. I don't I don't know, Like,

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Speaker 1: how do they determine what winds best popular pictures? I

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00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: don't understand. Is it the one that makes the most

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00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: money is I don't Is is it the Rotten Tomatoes

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Speaker 1: Award the one that gets the best rating on Rotten Tomato.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how that's going to work. Yeah, Like,

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Speaker 1: what does popular even mean? And in an era where

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Speaker 1: everyone's streaming it at home being on Netflix, do we care?

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00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: I actually use the oscars because I'm my one. Even

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Speaker 1: I live here in the movie capital of the world

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. I don't necessarily see all of the

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Speaker 1: Oscar movies. I tend to watch the Oscars as a

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Speaker 1: way to figure out what movies I should go see next.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if but I feel like if

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00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: it's a popular movie, I probably would have already seen it.

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Speaker 1: So that's not going to help me a whole lot. No,

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00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,839
Speaker 1: I agree, it's not helpful at all. And but maybe

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Speaker 1: the part of the movies should be considered for actual

1183
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: work at an actual Oscar, right, like maybe the best

1184
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,560
Speaker 1: picture Oscar? Who does? And then, by the way, your

1185
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 1: thing about changing actors into TV show, I'm still mad

1186
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,399
Speaker 1: about the second Aunt viv On on The Fresh Prince

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00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: of bel Air. So I understand that I read a

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00:55:52,719 --> 00:55:54,839
Speaker 1: big article about that, just like a couple of months ago,

1189
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 1: very random, but about how it was such a drama

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00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,040
Speaker 1: and that it's still like a point of contention and

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00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:02,799
Speaker 1: it's really really dramatic. Yeah, I mean I think I

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00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 1: think the big arguments of our time are, you know,

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Speaker 1: pulp or no pulp, crunchy or creamy first on VIV,

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00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:11,239
Speaker 1: second on VIV. I mean I think those are those

1195
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: are the big things that we need to figure out

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00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: to bring us together as a society. So well tell you,

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Speaker 1: I know it's weird. That is weird. Brandon, Brandon maryann Ley.

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Speaker 1: You find her all over the Internet, but mostly find

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Speaker 1: her on Twitter at Brandon her f f B. Great stuff,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming on, appreciate it, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Brandon Mary Ann Lee for her time. You

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00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: can check her out on a host of different outlets,

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00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: but I definitely check out her work. But as we

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00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,839
Speaker 1: get ready to wrap this up, first a tweets from

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Speaker 1: Martin Baker and Facts. You can jump in on this

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00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: with me too, says uh. I got mocked for picking

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00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 1: up Brandon Cooks as a second round draft pick. In

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Speaker 1: your opinion, is that too soon? I'm a Patriots fan,

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00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 1: so I've seen what he's capable of, and I believe

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00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:53,840
Speaker 1: he's going to thrive with the Rams. But his second

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00:56:53,960 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: round two earlies from one of our our friends across

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Speaker 1: the pond in the in the UK. Yeah, that's that's

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00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: far too for me. I wouldn't have Cooks coming off

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00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,760
Speaker 1: the board until probably the fifth or sixth round, depending

1215
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: on the size of the league. Again, heck, I could

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00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: be wrong here, but there's a lot of mouths to feed.

1217
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: Jared Goff seems to have a great rapport going on

1218
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 1: with Robert Woods and clearly with Cooper Cup as well.

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00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: You've got an electric running back who's going to catch

1220
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:18,800
Speaker 1: the ball out of the backfield there as well. And

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00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: you know from people I've talked to that are that

1222
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: are close to the Rams and and really keeping an

1223
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: eye on Rams Camp, Jared Goff doesn't care who he's throwing.

1224
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:28,200
Speaker 1: The football team marks the guy's open, he's gonna throw

1225
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 1: it too, as long as you catch it. I just

1226
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: think there's just the target shore really concerns me with

1227
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks. With that being said, it's your fantasy football

1228
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: team drafted as you wish. That's my thing. I mean, yeah,

1229
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't reach for him in the second round,

1230
00:57:40,840 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 1: but you have to make picks that you can feel conference.

1231
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: Did you feel confident about that you can live with

1232
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 1: if you have a team that you believe in uh,

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00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: you know, go for it and in the end, Look,

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00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,920
Speaker 1: the draft is certainly a big part of winning in

1235
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 1: fantasy football, but the draft alone does not win or

1236
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: you or lose you a league. He's not gonna make trades,

1237
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 1: hit the waiver wire, do something. So what happens if

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00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: you drafted let's see David Johnson in the first round

1239
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: last year, and then Mike Evans was your second round pick,

1240
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 1: then you might be in trouble, but typically you're right.

1241
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: But typically you are You're gonna be right. As we

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Speaker 1: wrap this up, doing that drum loop please, This one

1243
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: comes from Cheese, and McFeeley says, hey, m gee, thank

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00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,560
Speaker 1: you so much for speaking the truth to the people

1245
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 1: about poopiny scoop. I was hoping in the future you

1246
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: could also use gerts get get Get, Get, Get, Got

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00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: get gerg get get get, which I find to be equally,

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00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 1: if not more powerful. Cheese, I agree with you, and

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00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:31,680
Speaker 1: I think it's also fair to keep in mind that

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00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:35,600
Speaker 1: the team goes skirr up pop pop, kaka stop pop

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00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: and broom poom poom. I have spoken. That was impressive.

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Speaker 1: You like that anyway? Thanks to impressive? Thank you Thanks

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00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: to Brandon Mary Annley for stopping by as we wrap

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Speaker 1: this one up. Thanks also to Michael Papiani for sitting

1255
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: in as always for producer Christine. I enjoy the football

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00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: games over the weekend. Always remember DPR still sucks. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you on Monday. Coco the Bat, Cokow and all

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Speaker 1: the