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Speaker 1: Whoa, Hey, everybody, It's Tuesday, December twenty fourth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's to me

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Speaker 1: your man, MG Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Floryio

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Speaker 1: and Lakwan Jones. And it's the day before the day

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Speaker 1: and by that I mean the day before. There are

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Speaker 1: two games on your television set from the NFL on Netflix.

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Speaker 1: Oh and I guess Christmas too, that's also a thing

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Speaker 1: that is happening. Yeah. So this I'm just saying, this

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Speaker 1: is like a new experience. But we had Christmas Day

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Speaker 1: games previously. It's just that Christmas didn't come on a Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: That's the new part, right, I mean we are we

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Speaker 1: prepared because Florio just feels like now that the NFL

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Speaker 1: is doing games on Christmas, like we're not going back.

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Speaker 2: Oh, We're never going back. I mean, look like like

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Speaker 2: you said in the past, I was at a Christmas

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Speaker 2: party a couple years ago. It was on a Monday.

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Speaker 2: All right, there's three games on, that's cool. It was

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Speaker 2: on a weekend. There's games on that's cool. On a Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: like just the one day that football should never be

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Speaker 2: played on. And here we are so yeah, we're we're

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Speaker 2: getting games whether you like it or not. On Sorry, NBA,

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Speaker 2: the NFL is here to stay.

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day used to be for NBA games and like

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Speaker 1: ce tier college football bowl games, right, I mean it

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Speaker 1: was like the the Pooh Line Weed Eater Independence Bowl

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Speaker 1: or something like that was on Christmas Day. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: do you lakwi, is there one game over the other

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Speaker 1: because we're gonna basically dive into the Christmas Day games

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Speaker 1: and Thursday Night football. Is there one of those two

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day games that you are more excited about than

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Speaker 1: the other man.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I want to see the Steelers. I want to

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Speaker 3: see George Pickens back out there lighting it up because honestly,

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Speaker 3: I missed the schisty Black Air Force energy man, like

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Speaker 3: I need it back out there. And I want the

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Speaker 3: Steelers to win. I want them to beat the Chiefs,

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Speaker 3: Like I don't want to see them have this perfect season.

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Speaker 3: They got Hollywood brown back. I don't want to see

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs three piece, So I want them to get

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Speaker 3: a look day of coal on Christmas Day from the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Well, see, in that case, you should actually want the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs to win this week. You want them to be

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Speaker 1: as high and mighty going into the playoffs so that

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Speaker 1: they suffer a monumentus because they're not gonna be unefeated.

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Speaker 1: They've already lost once. You know, we can thank the

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Speaker 1: Bills for that. There's no perfect season, we can we

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Speaker 1: can take the Bills for that. But you know, like

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Speaker 1: have them take a tumble and have it be more

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Speaker 1: painful in the playoffs. That's really what you want. Like, like,

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Speaker 1: if you want to be a hater like you, you

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Speaker 1: got to see them rise before you see them fall,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're gonna get your silky Johnson on

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Speaker 1: this week or this year. So uh, anyway, we are

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Speaker 1: going to dive into the Crew to Christmas Day games.

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Speaker 1: We're also going to dive into Thursday Night Football. We've

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Speaker 1: got some hot starts and some hot takes for you

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Speaker 1: as well. So what let's just get started with the

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Speaker 1: two games on Christmas Day. Both of them can be

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Speaker 1: seen on Netflix. The first one, Chiefs at the Steelers

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Speaker 1: one pm the Eastern time is the kickoff for that one.

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Speaker 1: Talk a little bit on Monday Show about Hollywood Brown

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Speaker 1: and sort of how he fits in to the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: wide receiver room. It's got really crowded over the last

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Speaker 1: few weeks, Florio. But if you had to pick one

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs pass catchers, and we can throw the

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Speaker 1: tight ends in this as well, which one do you

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Speaker 1: like the most against a Steelers defense that has been

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Speaker 1: pretty stingy this year.

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Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy. I think he is underappreciated now. I know

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Speaker 2: earlier in the year he was like the toy that

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Speaker 2: they had that every so often they would break out for,

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Speaker 2: like a run player or something like that. But like,

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Speaker 2: don't look now he led them in routes ran this

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Speaker 2: past week. Last week he had eleven targets, seven catches,

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Speaker 2: sixty five yards and a touchdown. Nearly had a second

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Speaker 2: touchdown but couldn't get his second foot down. That's been

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Speaker 2: an issue for him a little bit. But he's getting volume,

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Speaker 2: and it's not just like downfield plays. It's the exact

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Speaker 2: volume you want for him. It's either like a downfield

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Speaker 2: target or it's a short, quick, like creative touch where

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Speaker 2: he could just do what he's doing here, running with

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Speaker 2: the ball space and using that speed. So look, I

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Speaker 2: don't care how good a defense is. Speed transcends and

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Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy someone that I loved in the draft process,

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Speaker 2: and I'm really excited. As much as I hate that

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Speaker 2: he's a Chief, I'm really excited to watch him moving

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting because I think he's sort

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Speaker 1: of the future. Him and a healthy Rashi Rice. Right

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Speaker 1: when we see Rashi Rice back again in this offense,

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Speaker 1: I think those guys are gonna be the primary options

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Speaker 1: going forward. But I was thinking about it watching that

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Speaker 1: game rewatching that game after Saturday, that you know they've

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Speaker 1: got Worthy and Juju is still there. I know Juju

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Speaker 1: is not a big part of the offense, but he's there.

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, Hollywood Brown is now there. You still have

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Speaker 1: to get the ball to Travis Kelcey, Noah Gray keeps

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Speaker 1: catching touchdowns justin Watson gets the occasional target somewhere in

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Speaker 1: there as well. There's a lot going on, and that's

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Speaker 1: before you talk about, you know what, like guys like

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Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt and Isaiah Pacheco and samaj p Ryan getting

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Speaker 1: the football. There's like so much going on in this

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Speaker 1: Chief's offense right now, it's hard to kind of put

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Speaker 3: For the record that they have now, like you wouldn't

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Speaker 3: think like Rashid Rice is done for the season due

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Speaker 3: to friendly fire. Like you would not think like, how

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Speaker 3: are they doing this? No, seriously, how are they doing this?

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Speaker 1: This has to be magic, devil magic, that's how they're

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Speaker 1: doing devil magic. It is, it is, it is. It

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Speaker 1: is straight up, straight up witchcraft is what this is

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Speaker 1: for sure. Meanwhile, the Steelers are sort of doing it

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Speaker 1: on I don't know, bubble gum and happy thoughts at

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Speaker 1: least offensively, Like defensively they're good. The offense is just

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Speaker 1: good enough. You mentioned George Pickens looks like he's going

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Speaker 1: to be coming back. That's the expectation. He's going to

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Speaker 1: be ready to go for Wednesday. So obviously we all

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Speaker 1: know we like George Pickens, But Lakwan, is there anybody

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Speaker 1: else in that pass catching game that you like? There?

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Speaker 1: For the Steelers this week?

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Speaker 3: Calvin Austin man, he's been trying to like mirror what

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Speaker 3: George Pickens brings to that offense and stretching the field.

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Speaker 3: So you know, Russell Wilson, he's going to take those

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Speaker 3: shots and some of those big catches that he had. Honestly,

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Speaker 3: I'm like, yo, you need to get him the ball

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Speaker 3: even more when George Pickens is there because all the

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Speaker 3: attention is going to be on him, and Calvin Awson's

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Speaker 3: having an amazing season. Man, he's definitely jumping on the

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Speaker 3: bandwagon to being a guy that I will draft next year.

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Speaker 3: He's one of those guys that you can have as

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Speaker 3: your wide receiver four or five and then put him

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Speaker 3: in there occasionally when the matchup is there, especially against

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Speaker 3: a defense that gets cooked on the deep ball. So honestly, man,

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Speaker 3: looking at him going into next year, he's one of

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Speaker 3: those guys I definitely have my radar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Calvin Alson's the guy that I really liked.

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Speaker 1: He especially was getting love when there was no Pickens.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they both can coexist because as

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Speaker 1: much as Russ has done good things in real football,

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Speaker 1: I do think Russell Wilson has been sort of underwhelming

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Speaker 1: in fantasy. So I do think Alvin Austin does have

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Speaker 1: some potential, but I think he also needs to break

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Speaker 1: I don't know that the volume is going to be

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Speaker 1: what you want it to be. Do like Pat Fryarmuth though,

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Speaker 1: just because the Chiefs have been kind of bad, against

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Speaker 1: tight ends pretty much all season long. So that's one

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Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. There. The other game that

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Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens at the Houston Texans. That one set to

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Speaker 1: kickoff at four thirty Eastern, and again it is on Netflix, laclid.

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Speaker 1: I'll start with you on this one. Zay Flowers has

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Speaker 1: been hot. He's had some up he's had some really

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Speaker 1: tough matchup for wide receivers. Can you trust za Flowers

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Speaker 3: I don't know if he could trust because honestly, this

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Speaker 3: Texan secondary is like really under the radar, good man,

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Speaker 3: and they're taking the ball away. But honestly, man, if

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Speaker 3: I'm in the championship and he's got me here those

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Speaker 3: ups and downs, man, I'm gonna put it to bed.

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Speaker 3: This is literally MVP campaign season for Lamar Jackson, so

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Speaker 3: he's going to be playing his best football, and honestly,

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Speaker 3: a Flowers, he's electric. He gets open, he finds the

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Speaker 3: with Lamar Jackson trying to go hard in this MVP campaign,

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Speaker 3: He's going to be able to light it up.

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Speaker 1: Look, I think you like Zay Flowers because he is

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Speaker 1: way Lamar Jackson's throwing the football. It's hard to you know,

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Speaker 1: to to doubt any of those guys there. But you know,

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Speaker 1: every now and then we see the Rashot Bateman resurgence.

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Speaker 1: You know, Mark Andrews is getting his love, especially near

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Speaker 1: the goal line. But I do think, especially in a

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Speaker 1: Lamar's playing so well, and give the shot to Zay

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Speaker 1: been talking about Joe Mixon the last couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: He's got the Ravens. The Ravens against the past have struggled.

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Speaker 1: We've been able to figure out that we can start

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Speaker 1: pass catches against them. Running backs have been a tough

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Speaker 2: It's one of those situations where ideally I don't want to,

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Speaker 2: but you probably have to because, like, are you gonna

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Speaker 2: sit him for like a mirror Abdulah. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: because I get it like last week he did. He struggled,

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Speaker 2: even though he averaged over four yards per carry against

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs, which was pretty impressive. But the one saving

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Speaker 2: grace I think is as elited as the Ravens have

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Speaker 2: been at stopping the run, they have struggled against aass

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Speaker 2: catching running backs, and we know that that is an

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Speaker 2: area where Joe Mixon can contribute, especially now with Angel

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Speaker 2: being done for the year.

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Speaker 1: Tony Scale dissipated me.

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Speaker 4: It's a Nico Collins, Dalton Schultz and then like Robert

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Speaker 4: Woods was third in targets last week, so I wouldn't

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Speaker 4: be surprised if we get a lot more jump offs

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Speaker 4: to Joe Mixon. So again not someone that I'm like, yes,

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Speaker 4: you have to start him, but you'd have to have

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Speaker 4: a pretty good option to get away, just because of

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Speaker 4: the volume that Joe Mixon could see in this one.

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Speaker 1: And that's sort of where I am with Joe Mixon

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Speaker 1: is that it's hard to get away from him. He's

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Speaker 1: been so good for the majority of the season and

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Speaker 1: there really isn't anybody there that you're worried is gonna

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Speaker 1: take a lot of opportunities away from Mixon, so that

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Speaker 1: means he's gonna be in a lot of lineups. It's

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Speaker 1: just that I go into the week maybe with some

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Speaker 1: lowered expectations about where he is. The ceiling gets a

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Speaker 1: little bit lower for me with mixing just because of

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Speaker 1: the matchup on the other side. But in terms of opportunity,

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Speaker 2: Dalton Schultz, who all year I have had as a

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Speaker 1: Pat Fryarmuth is the guy that I'm in on this

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Speaker 1: starting to see Friarmuth get more and more involved. Now,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, thank you Wikipedia, Like I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Football Show, It's time to Drive your Lineup,

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Speaker 1: Who's your hot start for the week?

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Speaker 3: Lakwan Keenan Allen against the Seahawks. Man, honestly, he has

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Speaker 1: Now I'm with you. I think this is another Keenan

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Speaker 2: I know I spoke up Xavier Worthy earlier in the show.

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Speaker 2: I'll take it a step further. I think Xavier Worthy

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Speaker 2: that in Fantasy Championship D hop you can't trust right now.

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Speaker 1: do you see a scenario where you'd feel comfortable with,

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Speaker 1: say Romo Dunes, DJ More, I think you're starting, but

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Speaker 1: Romo Dunes, would you feel comfortable plugging him in anywhere?

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Speaker 3: So funny enough, since week nine, you have Keidananda leading

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Speaker 3: them in targets and yards, then you have you DJ

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Speaker 3: Moore leading them in catches. But the one category where

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Speaker 3: Roma Dunze just has the upside every single week he's

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Speaker 3: leading them in red zone targets since week nine. So

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Speaker 3: you're looking at this basically wide receivers where they should

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Speaker 3: all fuse into one Megatron wide receiver, where you have

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Speaker 3: them having their roles in this offense, and Roma Dunese

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Speaker 3: having that touchdown upside. He makes me like an appealing

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Speaker 3: flex option for me. And honestly, this is going to

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Speaker 3: be a defense. Like I said before, their they're suspects,

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Speaker 3: so he might have some upside the fining end zone

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Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 1: This week. Yeah, look, oh, Duneesa really has been boom

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Speaker 1: or bust, right, Either you get a couple of touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: you get a touchdown or so from him, or you're

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Speaker 1: looking at like six points out of Romo Dunze. So

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Speaker 1: it really has been up or down with him. But

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm with you in the I think Keenan

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Speaker 1: Allen is kind of the guy. If I had to

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Speaker 1: pick a Bears receiver this week, I think there's brighter

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Speaker 1: days for Odonsay. I think he and and Caleb Williams

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Speaker 1: are building something, but I don't know that I trust him,

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Speaker 1: especially not in Championship week. I'm not trusting Romo Doonza.

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Speaker 2: Look a little saving grace for your boy, Marcus and

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Speaker 2: Bears fans. Nine games losses this year without an interception

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Speaker 2: thrown by Caleb Williams, most losses ever without an interception

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Speaker 2: in NFL history.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look there, they're definitely Look there are moments

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Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, this is really painful to watch

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Speaker 1: and it hurts my heart. But there are moments where like, Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is the Caleb we thought we would see. And

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Speaker 1: I think once they start to build, they get a

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Speaker 1: head coach in there and they kind of start to

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Speaker 1: build the program. I think we're going to see that

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Speaker 1: a little more often next year. I don't think that's

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Speaker 1: a hot take, but it is now time for hot takes.

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Speaker 1: As we close out the show, Well, Kawhan, get a

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Speaker 1: little spicy for us.

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Speaker 3: Please listen. This is a he may not be in

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Speaker 3: your starting lineers for your championship.

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Speaker 1: But c J.

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Speaker 3: Strout is going to have the best fantasy performance he's

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Speaker 3: had all season long. He's coming because listen, we saw

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Speaker 3: how emotional he was and how much of a brotherhood

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Speaker 3: this team is. With Tank Dell going down, I think

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Speaker 3: there's opportunity for him to go out there and get

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Speaker 3: a w for his boy, his best friend, his brother,

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Speaker 3: and go out there and get this Ravens defense secondary

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Speaker 3: guessing it's going to Nico, if it's going to Joe Mixon,

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Speaker 3: is a Dalton Schultz, whoever the case may be. And listen,

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Speaker 3: this Ravens defense there a lining the most completions of

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Speaker 3: ten plus yards. So therefore we know how aggressive c. J.

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Speaker 3: Strout can be of going downfield. So I'm expecting some

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Speaker 3: big plays from him and showing up and showing out

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Speaker 3: for championships.

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Speaker 1: I know this is gonna sound really simplistic, but it

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Speaker 1: really is about the offensive line in Houston. If they

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Speaker 1: can give him a clean pocket, give him time. I

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Speaker 1: saw really good things from him last week. It's the

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Speaker 1: problem that the offensive line has struggled. He's been under pressure,

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Speaker 1: and that's when bad things tend to happen again. I

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Speaker 1: know that's a simplest, simplistic view of things, but it

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Speaker 1: also tends to be kind of how the text also effect. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just really how it goes. Florida. What's

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Speaker 1: your hot take for the.

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Speaker 2: Week that that Seattle's water receiver one is going to

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Speaker 2: give you twenty Fantasy points, but it's not the wide

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Speaker 2: receiver you might be thinking of, because their new wide

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Speaker 2: receiver one is Jackson Smith and Jigba, And I don't

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Speaker 2: see how you can really argue this. Right now, he

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Speaker 2: is eight straight games with eleven or more Fantasy points.

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Speaker 2: In that stretch. He is averaging twenty Fantasy points per game.

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Speaker 2: Look at the volume that he is seeing each week.

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Speaker 2: He had twelve targets this past week, twelve targets last week.

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Speaker 2: He has numerous games in this stretch, four of them

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Speaker 2: actually with eleven or more targets. He is the first

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Speaker 2: raid on the majority of plays, like DK is just

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Speaker 2: the big play threat guy on the other side, but

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Speaker 2: JSN is the guy they run the offense through, and

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Speaker 2: the Bears they've struggled against the pass as of late.

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Speaker 2: So I think Jaysn eats and I think he stamps

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Speaker 2: him as a league winner.

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Speaker 1: This year. He has taken Tyler Lockett's whole swag, including

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Speaker 1: usurfing DK metcalf as the wide receiver one they're in

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Speaker 1: Seattle for right. My hot take other side of that

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Speaker 1: same game, that Caleb Williams goes for twenty plus points

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Speaker 1: for the second straight week, call the sort of no stats,

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Speaker 1: just vibes, or maybe mild stats, mostly vibes. Every time

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Speaker 1: Caleb has scored twenty points, he has backed it up

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Speaker 1: with another twenty point game. Right. This would be his

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Speaker 1: sixth twenty point game of the season. They all come

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Speaker 1: back to back, Right, It's like it's like Little Caesars Pizza,

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Speaker 1: you get two for one when it comes to twenty

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Speaker 1: point games for Caleb Williams this season. I think he

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Speaker 1: gets it done against that Seattle's secondary that we've mentioned

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Speaker 1: has been struggling lately, whether it's through Keenan Allen, Romo Dunes, A,

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Speaker 1: DJ Moore, maybe even DeAndre Swift, who knows. I think

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Speaker 1: Caleb William's gonna get it done for fantasy managers in

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Speaker 1: Championship Week and it will be a merry Christmas for all.

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Speaker 1: And that is it. We are done. We appreciate you

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Speaker 1: hanging out with the NFL Fantasy Football show. You know

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Speaker 1: the drill. Tell two friends to tell two friends rate review.

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Speaker 1: And remember he sees you when you're slip keeping. He

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Speaker 1: knows when you're awake. Creepy bastard. Be safe, take care

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Speaker 1: of yourselves, have the merry Christmas, and we will talk

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Speaker 1: to you again real soon.

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