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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from my Heart Radio,

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Speaker 1: your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation,

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Speaker 1: and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now,

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Speaker 1: here's your host. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am

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Speaker 1: pul charge In. My co host is Brian Johnson. Welcome back.

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Speaker 1: We missed you last week. I missed you as well,

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Speaker 1: and the listeners, I'm sure they've missed me even more,

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Speaker 1: very much. So. There's a lot of sadness, bags of

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Speaker 1: it all over the place here. Yes, on my kitchen. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I'm flattered. Yeah you should be. Um. Yeah, people care,

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Speaker 1: they love you, and and because you give better advice

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Speaker 1: than than than than I do as a general rule,

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Speaker 1: and this Matt Scott combined of course. Yeah, not even closed.

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Speaker 1: That's why we haven't. We haven't heard from them in

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Speaker 1: so long. Today's topic is the flip side of the

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Speaker 1: topic we had before the Super Bowl. The week before

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, we talked about some of the positive

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Speaker 1: developments you may have missed in December. This week we

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Speaker 1: are doing some of the negative things you may have

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Speaker 1: missed that developed in December. And again the premise here

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Speaker 1: is it's December. You may have been knocked out of

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Speaker 1: your fantasy leagues and not paying attention. You may have

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Speaker 1: had holidays not paying attention. It might have been that

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Speaker 1: some of the developments that we think are really notable,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about let's I'll let you go first, give

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Speaker 1: give listeners a negative development they may have missed in December.

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Speaker 1: It's the very very early stages of this development. But

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Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, the future is arc for Zeke. He's on

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Speaker 1: the major downswing. And I don't think it was just

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Speaker 1: an off year for Zeke, who, per Pro Football Focused,

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Speaker 1: very bad year for Zeke, as we all know, and

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Speaker 1: there's some viable excuses there. The Cowboys ravaged by injuries,

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Speaker 1: really there's an excuse that Zeke had a down year.

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Speaker 1: And the problem is Pollard played pretty well Circumstan. Last year,

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Speaker 1: for both last year. They both did well. This year.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned how Zeke struggled, so you'd assume Pollard's numbers

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Speaker 1: plummeted right, exactly the same as last year. Point seven

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Speaker 1: same problems. And I mean the moral of this story

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Speaker 1: week show is going to be a first round mock

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Speaker 1: draft by Brian and I. And so we've been looking

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Speaker 1: at where the early um, the early average draft position

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Speaker 1: But so Pollard is legit, we all know. But they

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Speaker 1: But in redraft, just do not touch this Cowboys backfield

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Speaker 1: next year. This year, I should say, the next negative

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Speaker 1: how far the stock on Michael Thomas has plummeted a

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Speaker 1: if you don't own them, go after him. Part. That's

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Speaker 1: a mid February edition. It is negative in Minnesota, Weding

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