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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly

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Speaker 2: source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and

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Speaker 2: whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now,

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Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Jarchian.

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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. A rare solo

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Speaker 1: show for me. Oh, it's gonna be a lot of charge.

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Speaker 1: Hope you can make it through that. I'll do my

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Speaker 1: best to make it worth your while. I guess I'm

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Speaker 1: not entirely alone. I do have a couple of people

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Speaker 1: that are gonna chime in like this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I should do the opposite.

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Speaker 2: Should If every instinct you have is wrong, then the

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Speaker 2: opposite would have to be right.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I will do the opposite. Yes, I will do

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Speaker 3: the opposite.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully by now, longtime listeners, you know how I feel

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Speaker 1: about do the opposite. This goes back twenty years when

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Speaker 1: Seinfeld was relevant on television. I imagine some of you

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Speaker 1: didn't even recognize that as being a Seinfeld clip. That

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Speaker 1: I've been advocating a draft strategy and acquisition strategy for

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Speaker 1: auctions drafts. However, you play that basically says, don't draft

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Speaker 1: runners for at least four rounds and then draft a

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Speaker 1: slew of runners through the middle rounds of your draft.

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Speaker 1: And overall the success rate on this has been very good.

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Speaker 1: And it's taken until really last year, last draft cycle,

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Speaker 1: where I think people are really starting to figure.

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Speaker 3: It out a little bit. And one of the things

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Speaker 3: we talked about in.

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Speaker 1: This show Fantasy Football Weekly, coming out of August's drafts was, Man,

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Speaker 1: people weren't drafted a lot of running backs. In fact,

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Speaker 1: to the first two rounds last year, only nine running

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Speaker 1: backs taken. This was a really sizeable departure, and I

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Speaker 1: think it's just taken a lot of time for people

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Speaker 1: to get burned and burned and burned on highly drafted

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Speaker 1: running backs and seeing the people winning their leagues winning

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Speaker 1: it with other positions drafted early quarterbacks, wide receivers.

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Speaker 3: Tight ends.

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Speaker 1: So I thought, let's spend one episode of Fantasy Football

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Speaker 1: Weekly recapping this year, this past season, twenty twenty three season.

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Speaker 1: Let's begin here the nine running backs that were drafted

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Speaker 1: in the first two rounds. How did they fare? So

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Speaker 1: if you America started drafting fewer running backs, you'd think

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Speaker 1: the hit rate would go up because we're not being

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Speaker 1: so reckless with our picks at running back through those

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Speaker 1: first two rounds. Well, let's take a look and see

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Speaker 1: how those nine running backs that were taken in the

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Speaker 1: first two rounds ended up faring. We begin here Christian McCaffrey.

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Speaker 1: He was the first running back taken and he finished

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Speaker 1: as running back one. McCaffrey worked out great, and he's

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Speaker 1: really gonna be the out here as you're going to see. Then.

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Speaker 1: Austin Eckler was running back too. He finished his running

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Speaker 1: back twenty nine. B Jhon Robinson was running back three

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Speaker 1: last year. He finished his running back fourteen, So not

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Speaker 1: a total disaster, but not what you expected when you

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Speaker 1: took him at running back three.

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Speaker 1: Nick Chubb went next, running back four. Obviously, you know

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Speaker 1: his season ended very early. He finished his running back

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Speaker 1: eighty six. Sakwon Barkley was running back five last year,

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Speaker 1: finished running back eighteen. Tony Pollard was running back six.

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Speaker 1: What an epic disappointment he was, even though he got

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Speaker 1: Finished his running back twenty two. Derrick Henry was drafted

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Speaker 1: as running back seven, finished his running back seven. All right,

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs, we'll talk more about him in

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Speaker 1: a little bit here. Josh Jacobs finished as he was

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Speaker 1: your running back. Eight, he finished his running back twenty five.

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Speaker 1: And the funny thing is he didn't get hurt, and

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Speaker 1: the usage was high, it didn't matter. Najee Harris was

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Speaker 1: He finished his running back twenty four. So in totality,

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Speaker 1: there wasn't a single runner who's finish exceeded his draft position.

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Speaker 1: Two of those nine running backs taken in the top

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Speaker 1: two rounds met his draft position. That was Christian McCaffrey

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Speaker 1: The other seven averaged running back thirty one. So unless

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Speaker 1: you hit on Christian McCaffrey or Derrick Henry, you got

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Speaker 1: So in average, in totality, those nine running backs, even

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Speaker 1: back twenty two. And what's really interesting about this past

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Speaker 1: the Nick Chubb injury. For everybody else, it was just

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Speaker 1: typical running back variants. So where did the top.

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Speaker 3: Ten running backs come from?

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Speaker 1: Well, let's let's look. So here's gonna be the top

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Speaker 1: ten guys by This is assuming full point per reception leagues,

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Speaker 1: which I think most of you are playing in. Now,

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Speaker 1: where did the top ten running backs come from? Well,

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Speaker 1: let's look. The highest scoring running back was Christian McCaffrey.

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Speaker 1: The second highest scoring running back, Raheem mostered round ten.

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Speaker 1: Round twenty one RB four. Travis Etn came from round

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon from round four RB seven. As I mentioned earlier,

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Speaker 1: Bryce Hall, who came from round four. RB nine James

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Speaker 3: Again, eight of the ten came.

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Speaker 1: From lower than their average draft position. On average, the

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Speaker 1: one of the key principles of do the opposite, which

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Speaker 1: has always been turn your attention to running backs and

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Speaker 3: Four in a row and.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy the probable success that you got from non running

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Speaker 3: So let's look at non running backs. So let's dive

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Speaker 1: And as I'm reading this list, im gonna I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: Then Jalen Hurts was taken next, finished his quarterback two,

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Speaker 1: average in the first two rounds of your drafts last year,

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Speaker 1: so it's still way higher than normal. And by and large,

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Speaker 1: these guys helped your team. Jamar Chase, Tyreek Hill, Ceedee

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Speaker 3: These guys helped your.

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey was the only tight end taken. He was

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Speaker 1: And then the wide receivers by and large finished well. Jefferson, Chase, Tyreek, Hill, Diggs,

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Speaker 1: Ceedee lamb aj Brown, DeVante Adams, Cooper Cup we already

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Speaker 1: slight miss, and Jalen Waddle slight miss. But overwhelmingly, these

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Speaker 1: draft position. I'm on Ross Saint Brown better than draft position.

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Speaker 1: So you these players, non running backs, gave you the

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Speaker 3: Do the opposite.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can apply, try to apply some logic

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Speaker 3: Still drafting running backs. I don't care.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be stubborn about it, but I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: smarter than consensus. I'm still gonna draft running backs, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna draft the bust running backs. So you

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Speaker 3: Look at Joe Mixon and.

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry Guides you would have avoided if you were

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Speaker 1: just targeting older runners who might be ready to fall off.

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Speaker 1: Those guys buck the trend and they stayed healthy and

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Speaker 3: Okay, you know, usually.

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Speaker 1: We don't know which running backs are going to fail.

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Speaker 1: We don't know why running backs are going to fail,

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Speaker 1: at the end of their life cycle, which running backs

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Speaker 1: so many reasons running backs can be so much more volatile.

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Speaker 1: So we don't play the odds. You just don't draft

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Speaker 1: you're thinking, No, I can't do that. I'll bet hamstrung

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Speaker 1: Active fantasy owners will work around it. You will find help.

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Speaker 1: You will when run running back goes down, you'll go

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Speaker 1: drafted all these running backs in the middle rounds, or

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Speaker 1: you'll have auctioned for eight percent or ten percent or

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Speaker 1: twelve percent of your cap instead of forty percent of

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Speaker 1: You're gonna have a bunch of eight, ten and twelve

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna be hamstrung.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be okay at the running back position. So

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Speaker 1: there you go a recap of do the opposite from

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three A lot. You know, I've been looking

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Speaker 1: at this for twenty years. Eight or nine out of

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Speaker 1: every ten years, these highly drafted runners just proved to

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Speaker 3: Not every year.

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Speaker 1: There have been a couple of years that we've we've

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Speaker 1: done the analytics on it and it will have gone

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Speaker 1: back and it turned out, Yeah, taking running backs was

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Speaker 1: probably the right thing to do. Wide receivers got hurt

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Speaker 1: or quarterbacks got hurt, which you know they do. That

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Speaker 1: happens to Justin Jefferson got hurt. But overwhelmingly, the safe

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Speaker 1: play with your most valuable picks, the majority of your

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Speaker 1: auction cap, is to put those that those valuable dollars

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Speaker 1: in those valuable draft picks on non running backs, just

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Speaker 1: like it was last year. Thanks for listening, everybody, talk

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