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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up Straight Fire, fam, It's me Jason McIntyre,

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Friday, August the thirtieth, Folks, it is

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Speaker 2: a glorious Friday. We have a tremendous friggin podcast. I'm

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Speaker 2: so fired up about it. Although I do have to

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Speaker 2: watch my language now that someboddies are listening with their

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Speaker 2: kids as they drive around, and yeah, I gotta dow

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Speaker 2: back some of the f bombs and curse words. Gotta

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Speaker 2: keep it PG sometimes ladies and gentlemen. But I'm so

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Speaker 2: fired up about today's podcast. First, we have to talk

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Speaker 2: about all the news that happened last night, Colorado surviving

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Speaker 2: North Dakota State and Brandon I You finally getting his

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Speaker 2: deal done. But first I've got to tell you about

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Speaker 2: our guests. His name is Matthew Berry. You may be

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Speaker 2: familiar with his work. He is the foremost fantasy expert.

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Speaker 2: He's been doing this forever. He's got his own shop.

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Speaker 2: He was at ESPN Matthew Berry is. He's great and

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of drafts for this weekend. I

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Speaker 2: have like four drafts in the next five days. I

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Speaker 2: think I'm very excited and it's it's a great time

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Speaker 2: and you guys are gonna love with Matthew Berry has

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Speaker 2: to say. I disagree with him a little on CD Lamb.

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Speaker 2: I don't think Cede Lamb is the second best fantasy guy.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's the wide receiver one. But you know,

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Speaker 2: Barry's been doing this for a long time, so he

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Speaker 2: informs you what a guillotine league is. I've never done it,

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Speaker 2: but it sounds cool. So I think you're gonna like that.

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Speaker 2: But let's quickly get started. Since we had the interview

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Speaker 2: with Sean Keeler, who went toe to toe with Dian Sanders,

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Speaker 2: we must talk about Colorado surviving North Dakota State thirty one,

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Speaker 2: twenty six. I had back to school night for my kids,

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Speaker 2: so I missed most of this game, but I was

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Speaker 2: tracking it on my phone. Yes, you can do that.

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Speaker 2: I just remember when Brad Powers came on the College

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Speaker 2: Football Gambler Guy and he's like, listen under Colorado wins.

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Speaker 2: So I took it. Here's the interesting thing. Colorado did

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Speaker 2: not look great at all. Got to survive. Okay, they

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Speaker 2: rang up five hundred four yards offense eight point eight

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Speaker 2: yards per play. Shador Sanders had like four hundred fifty

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Speaker 2: yards passing Travis hundred and three touchdowns. Like this is what

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Speaker 2: you expect from Colorado, Colorado. But this was again North

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Speaker 2: Dakota State, and they could barely put them away. Now

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Speaker 2: they were up eleven with like four minutes left. Color

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Speaker 2: North Dakota State scored went for two, didn't get it,

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Speaker 2: and they had like a hail Mary at the end

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Speaker 2: that was futile. Here's just a small thing that I noticed.

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Speaker 2: North Dakota State yards per play six point five. They

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Speaker 2: were dashing Colorado up and down the field. They had

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Speaker 2: this settle for some field goals. That's not how you

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Speaker 2: take down you know, a team that's better than you.

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Speaker 2: In favor by nine and a half, Colorado did not

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Speaker 2: sniff the cover and they ran. They ran all over them,

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Speaker 2: They passed all over them. They had one hundred fifty

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Speaker 2: seven yards rushing, They had two hundred and ninety two

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Speaker 2: yards passing, eleven point two yards per tempt. If you

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Speaker 2: watch this game and your takeaway was, hey, nice win

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Speaker 2: in Colorado, you're missing the big picture. This is just

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Speaker 2: this Colorad team. I think they're gonna lose to Nebraska.

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Speaker 2: I as soon as I see the line for that,

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Speaker 2: I will be on Nebraska. I think Nebraska is going

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Speaker 2: to be the side. I'm not a big believer in

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Speaker 2: of you guys are feeling like, oh, Jason, you just

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Speaker 2: but got the win, and that's really all that matters.

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Speaker 2: Next up is Brandon Nyuk. Now this one is fascinating

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Speaker 2: only because on the surface you see the headline and

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Speaker 2: nobody reads anything really anymore. Right, So you see, oh,

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Speaker 2: Brandon Ayuk four years, one hundred and twenty mil awesome,

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Speaker 2: seventy six million guaranteed. Great, he's in camp.

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Speaker 2: Here's where it gets interesting. The forty nine ers are

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Speaker 2: so pissed still at Ayuk that this is what Adam

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Speaker 2: Schefter said. And now this is coming directly from the Niners, right,

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Speaker 2: and they're upset with him, and this was like what

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty million dollar extension for Brandon Nyuk has

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Speaker 2: been on the table since August twelfth, what that's almost

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Speaker 2: three weeks. Ayuk had been sitting on this deal, refusing, refusing,

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Speaker 2: basically said, hey, we're gonna start finding you if you

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Speaker 2: though that's from reporters now. Ayuk's agent pushed back and said,

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Speaker 2: that's factually inaccurate, but the check still cashes, okay, as

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Speaker 2: if to say, like, hey man, you know this to

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Speaker 2: me is not a good sign for Ben and Ayuk. Okay,

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Speaker 2: he's a really good player. We know that he's talented.

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Speaker 2: I just when it's been all about the money for

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Speaker 2: six months and then the deal's been on the table

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Speaker 2: for over two and a half weeks, and you are like, eh,

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Speaker 2: what is it. You don't want to practice, Like what's

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Speaker 2: the deal? Why are you acting like this? And I

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Speaker 2: get that. You know, I'm not in a contract squabble

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Speaker 2: with Fox. But you know, my deal's up here within

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Speaker 2: the year, less than a year, and it's like, we'll

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Speaker 2: see how things go. But like if I'm keeping it

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Speaker 2: one hundred percent, like guys like this. This is a

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Speaker 2: Niners team that was on the cusp of the Super

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Speaker 2: unhappy wide receiver. It ain't the injuries, right, Trent Williams

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Speaker 2: me is a sign I you didn't want to practice.

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Speaker 2: And when they said listen, so you guys know how

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Speaker 2: the fines work. If you're not showing up and you're

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Speaker 2: under contract, they can find you. But most teams will

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Speaker 2: just wave the fines right. They'll just say, okay, well

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Speaker 2: this is the deal. That's my guess. It will then

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Speaker 2: and now it's not official. I'm sure nobody's gonna confirm that.

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Speaker 2: But the Niners have clearly had enough and they said, listen,

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Speaker 2: we're willing to wave the fines. But this deal has

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Speaker 2: I ain't getting fined fifty thousand dollars. Wave those fines.

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Speaker 2: Almost sign the deal. Dude, you just got seventy six

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Speaker 3: Is gonna be like, well, Jay, it's it's in California

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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna look at you and kind of shake

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Speaker 3: my head, like, Okay, he got forty million dollars.

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Speaker 2: He got forty million dollars for signing the contract after Texas,

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Speaker 2: and I'm sure the agent will take a little fine

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Speaker 2: knock it down to thirty five million. Oh no, thirty

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Speaker 2: five minutes. Like I'm just I'm stunned. This the brand

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Speaker 2: now you can think, I know it's settled, and you

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Speaker 2: he scores touchdowns whatever. It's just not a great vibe

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Speaker 2: when it was all I want the money, I want

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Speaker 2: the money. I want the money. I want the money.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to practice. I want to go. You know,

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Speaker 2: like you could have signed this two weeks ago, got

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Speaker 2: He made it all about himself. I just don't love that. Anyways.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to our guest to help you with your

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Speaker 2: fantasy drafts this weekend, Matthew Berry of EDBC, and he

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Speaker 2: owns a ton of fantasy businesses. Totally crushing it. Enjoyed

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Speaker 1: he knows everything when it comes to sports. I know

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Speaker 3: Let's just say I know a guy who knows a

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Speaker 2: All right, let's welcome into straight fire. A guy, you know,

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Speaker 2: the most busy man in August in all of sports,

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Speaker 2: because he is the fantasy og, the fantasy guru. He's

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Speaker 2: gonna help you win his leagues. Matthew Berry, Matthew has

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Speaker 2: a goaling my guy.

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Speaker 4: Jason always gonna talk to you. Brother, I'm gonna I'm good,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the most busy man in fantasy sports. And it's

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Speaker 2: not because he has CD Lambs, the top wide receiver

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Speaker 2: gotta ask, really, CD Lamb wide receiver one. I'm a

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Speaker 4: You really Why Why would you be surprised?

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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I get it. They don't have a

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Speaker 2: He should be fine. But if I'm a defense I

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Speaker 2: of the game. And after that, like nobody else scares

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Speaker 2: me on that offense, I let Brandon Cooks eat Zeke Elliott.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but what's different about that from last year? I

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Speaker 4: They did that last year and it just it just

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Speaker 4: and the Dolphins are brutal in December and January when

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Speaker 4: you're trying to fight for a fantasy A championship, like

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Speaker 4: you know, and to it has been terrible. So they're

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Speaker 4: they're bad in cold weather, you know. Then you can

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Speaker 4: talk about you talk about Jamar Chase. We expect Jamar

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Speaker 4: Chase out there in Week one, right, but like there's

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Speaker 4: still some contract issues. He's been holding out. Everything that

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Speaker 4: And it's not like anyone all the people that you

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Speaker 2: And interesting, you have Nico Collins right behind Drake London.

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Speaker 4: I think they're all gonna eat. I think I don't

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Speaker 4: I don't like Ramandre Stevenson at cost. He's the he's

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Speaker 4: But part of my concern is over the last two years,

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Speaker 2: Another piece of news that came through this week Sean McVeigh,

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Speaker 2: in casey, but they just signed Juju, who I don't

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Speaker 2: think it's going to overlap. Juju's more of an underneath guy.

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Speaker 2: But Xavier Worthy, would you say he's going to have

429
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Speaker 2: possibly a nice season.

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Speaker 4: I like Jay, I like Xavier Worthy. I think there's

431
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Speaker 4: a lot of great rookies obviously. I mean, look, the

432
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Speaker 4: the obvious name is Marvin Harrison Junior, and then you

433
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Speaker 4: mentioned Molik Neighbors. Milik Nighbors I think is gonna have

434
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,560
Speaker 4: a monster year. Uh so those guys, but yeah, I

435
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Speaker 4: mean I think, uh, there's a bunch of interesting names

436
00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,120
Speaker 4: as rookie wide receivers. This is an unbelievable rookie wide

437
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Speaker 4: receiver class. So you already mentioned Xavier Worthy. I think

438
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:20,120
Speaker 4: he's really interesting. With the Chargers, Lad McConkie, who's gonna

439
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Speaker 4: be the slot guy? I think McConkie is is very interesting.

440
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Speaker 4: Brian Thomas Junior again, going back to the preseason utilization

441
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,280
Speaker 4: report on Fantasy life dot Com that I mentioned, Brian

442
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Speaker 4: Thomas Junior is playing one hundred percent of the snaps

443
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Speaker 4: with the starters and Trevor Lawrence, Wow, he's gonna be

444
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,200
Speaker 4: VTJ and Gabe Davids are gonna be the outside Christian

445
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Speaker 4: Kirk is gonna be the slot Ingram's the tight end

446
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Speaker 4: that's gonna be the Jaguars offense. Uh, you know this

447
00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,399
Speaker 4: season and again, the Jaguars are a pass first offense.

448
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Speaker 4: Doug Peterson, former quarterback, former Andy Reid disciple, he is

449
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Speaker 4: going to be a pass first guy. I like Trevor

450
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Speaker 4: Lawrence to have a bounce back this year. So I

451
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Speaker 4: think I think Brian Thomas Junior is really interesting. Uh,

452
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Speaker 4: this one's this one's a deep cut Jason. But look,

453
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Speaker 4: I don't know what it's gonna happen, but I'm telling you,

454
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Speaker 4: at some point this year, Luke McCaffrey's gonna be a thing.

455
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Speaker 4: Luke McCaffrey. Well, I'm not only I'm a Washington fan,

456
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Speaker 4: but also, by the way, what Luke McCaffrey does well

457
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Speaker 4: is what Jayden Daniels does well in terms of in

458
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Speaker 4: terms of uh you know, going deep, winning balls, uh,

459
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Speaker 4: you know, winning some contested balls. He's also good as

460
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Speaker 4: a slot guy. Like I'm telling you, Luke McAffrey is

461
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Speaker 4: a converted quarterback, but they really like him in Washington.

462
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Speaker 4: It's gonna take him little while to get up to speed.

463
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Speaker 4: But I'm just this is I said this, I'll say,

464
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you this much, and you go back, you

465
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Speaker 4: watch the tape. In the first preseason week last year,

466
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Speaker 4: I made a whole big deal of this on my

467
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Speaker 4: show on Fantasy Football Happy Hour, which is my podcast

468
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Speaker 4: they do for NBC Sports, and I said, I don't

469
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Speaker 4: know what's gonna happen this year, guys, but at some

470
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Speaker 4: point this year, Tank Dell is gonna be a thing.

471
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Speaker 4: Tank del was like, you know, and people are like, really,

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Speaker 4: Tank Dally's small. What every you know? He's a late

473
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Speaker 4: round pick. I've said, I'm telling you at some point

474
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Speaker 4: that this year Tank Dell is gonna be a thing.

475
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Speaker 4: And sure enough, obviously last year Tank Dell was a thing.

476
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Speaker 4: I'm just telling you at some point this year, Luke

477
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Speaker 4: McCaffrey's gonna be a thing.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you about an auction league in a sect.

483
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Speaker 2: But I did get invited to a guillotine league, and

484
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Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know what that is, and

485
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,000
Speaker 2: the guy explained it to me, and I was like, listen,

486
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Speaker 2: I got too much shit, you know, with gambling and fantasy. Like,

487
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I can't get up to speed on this,

488
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Speaker 2: but it seems like when I I did, maybe I

489
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Speaker 2: should revisit because you're hotter? Is it? They're fun?

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Speaker 4: No, it's unbelievably fun. I will tell you why you

491
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Speaker 4: should do it, because I know you, Jason. You and

492
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Speaker 4: I have been friends for a long long time. You're

493
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Speaker 4: a guy that likes action. You're a guy that likes

494
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Speaker 4: you guys. You like that, you like action, you like

495
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Speaker 4: feeling that intensity. So here's what a guillotine league is.

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Speaker 4: And this is for all your listeners that don't know either.

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Speaker 4: You have a league like normal, right, everyone does a

498
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Speaker 4: draft like normal. Here's the twist. You don't play head

499
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Speaker 4: to head. You just start a lineup like normal. But

500
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Speaker 4: you're not playing head to head. You're just sort of

501
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Speaker 4: starting your lineup. At the end of the week, the

502
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Speaker 4: team with the lowest score in the league gets cut.

503
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:27,400
Speaker 4: Forever they're out of the league. There's season, there's seasons over,

504
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Speaker 4: they're done, and obviously you just keep doing that and

505
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 4: to only into until only one team remains. Here's the

506
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Speaker 4: other twist, all the players on the team that got

507
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Speaker 4: chopped go back into the free agent pool. So now

508
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,239
Speaker 4: I mean you think about it like think about your

509
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Speaker 4: typical fantasy league. Every team has stars on it, Every

510
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Speaker 4: team has players that you would want to roster, And

511
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 4: so every single week, instead of like sifting through like

512
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Speaker 4: you know, some slot receiver that got five targets and

513
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 4: hoping maybe he pops a little bit more, or some

514
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Speaker 4: backup running back that you're gonna stash, hoping the guy

515
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Speaker 4: in front of him gets injured, every week, you're bidding

516
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Speaker 4: on starters. Every week you're like, it'll be Week six

517
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 4: and you're like, oh, Patrick Mahomes and Christian McCaffrey on

518
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 4: the waiver wire, like it's insane. The other thing that's

519
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,160
Speaker 4: really fun about it is just you know, you can

520
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Speaker 4: start a league whenever. If you're like, oh, that sounds fun,

521
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Speaker 4: I'd love to do it, but whatever, the season starts

522
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 4: in less than a week, I don't have time to

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Speaker 4: get my guys together. It's doesn't It doesn't matter because

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Speaker 4: because you don't play head to head, you can start

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Speaker 4: a league whenever you want in the season. You just

526
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Speaker 4: need to have one more team in the league than

527
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Speaker 4: weeks left in the season. So if there's a four

528
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Speaker 4: weeks left in the season, you can start a five

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Speaker 4: person lead. That sounds fun, what I mean Like, so yeah,

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Speaker 4: just do it whenever. And like I'm telling you, it's

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Speaker 4: an intense sweat like you've never had. Like you sit

532
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Speaker 4: there and you're like whatever you're you know, it's week

533
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Speaker 4: five and you had one guy in to buy, another

534
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 4: guy leaves the game early due to a hamstring, one

535
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Speaker 4: of your stars just underperforms, and then you find yourself

536
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Speaker 4: and you're like, oh my god, Like if Josh Jacobs

537
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 4: doesn't or touched on them on a night, I'm dead.

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00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 4: Like it's a sweat like you've never had before when

539
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 4: you every single week your season's on the line, and

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00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 4: it's one of those things that you're like, ah, all

541
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 4: I gotta do is just not finished last. It's easier

542
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 4: than you think, but it isn't. I mean again, like

543
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Speaker 4: you've ever done a survivor.

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Speaker 2: Pool work, Yeah, so.

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00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,880
Speaker 4: You ever have to do. It's similar to that where

546
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Speaker 4: you're like, oh, I'll have to do is pick one

547
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 4: NFL team to win. That's easy, and then you get

548
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 4: into it and you're like, oh, you start thinking about

549
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,880
Speaker 4: it and going back and forth, and you know, your

550
00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 4: mind plays chicksy the in anyway, It's intense and really

551
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 4: really fun. I've played it for the last three years.

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Speaker 4: Everyone that I've ever introduced it to, anyone that have

553
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,440
Speaker 4: ever introduced the league two or the idea of the

554
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 4: league plays it and it's just like the rest fantasy

555
00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 4: is dead to me. This is the only way to

556
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 4: play fantasy. It's like it's it's so it's so fun

557
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:49,960
Speaker 4: and addicting and intense, and.

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Speaker 2: I might have to night. You got me wanted to

559
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Speaker 2: fire one up real quick on an auction league, So.

560
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Speaker 4: Eighteen leagues dot com you can take. There's a site

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Speaker 4: that it does leagues com.

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Speaker 2: Okay, auction league. I've been in the league an auction

563
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 2: for three years. I have not won yet, which makes

564
00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 2: me upset because I usually like to every three years

565
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:07,679
Speaker 2: I can win. I feel like I'm good enough to

566
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,119
Speaker 2: win a fantasy title, but the auction leagues kind of

567
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 2: have me all mixed up. What's your best strategy for

568
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 2: an auction back.

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Speaker 4: I have some really good strategies here. So a couple

570
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 4: of things. First off, I think that one thing that

571
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 4: gets really missed a lot in auction league, strategy is

572
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 4: budget and budget maintenance, right, because values come out all

573
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 4: the time. So what's your in your auction league? What's

574
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:33,919
Speaker 4: your budget?

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00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 2: I think it's two hundred, yeah.

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00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 4: Two hundred okay, So here's what I would do. I

577
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 4: want you to take that. This is very simple exercise,

578
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 4: but it's important on your take out a piece of

579
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 4: paper and write down all the positions you need to fill.

580
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 4: So you know it's quarterback, two running backs, two wide receivers,

581
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 4: a flex, a tight end, six bench, whatever it is, right,

582
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,840
Speaker 4: Maybe you play two flexes. I don't know. Is it

583
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 4: a super flex league, whatever it is, right, you write

584
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 4: that down, and then, using your your budget of two

585
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:07,479
Speaker 4: hundred dollars, I want you to write just kind of

586
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 4: by each position a number that you'd want to spend

587
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 4: in that position. Like you're like, okay, you know what,

588
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 4: I want to spend forty bucks on my RB one.

589
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,960
Speaker 4: I'm making up numbers here. I'm gonna spend fifty bucks

590
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 4: on my RB one. I'm gonna spend thirty five on

591
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 4: my RB two. I really wanted to lead tight end

592
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 4: this year, so I'm gonna go thirty on tight End one.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go cheap at quarterback. So I'll put you know,

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00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 4: fifteen bucks at by quarterback position. I want, you know,

595
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 4: I'll get some lower tier guys, the wide receivers and

596
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 4: twenty five bucks eat, you know whatever. I'm making it up, right, Yeah,

597
00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 4: but you sort of budget it out that way, and

598
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 4: I want, you know, five dollars a bench spot or whatever,

599
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 4: and so that way you can just sort of see, Okay,

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00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 4: here's how I want to distribute my budget. Okay, now

601
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 4: then you do two other things. First off, obviously you

602
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 4: need auction values. And I'll give another plug. But honestly,

603
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 4: at fantasylife dot com, all the guys we do projections

604
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 4: and we have a we have a tool that's amazing

605
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 4: that you just all you have to do is plug

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00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 4: in your all your settings. You know, like it's a

607
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,920
Speaker 4: two hundred cap, it's PPR, but it's tied in premium

608
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,720
Speaker 4: and blah blah blah, and it will spit out auction

609
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 4: values for you. Okay, so you do that. But wherever

610
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 4: you get your auction values, okay, you've got it. And

611
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 4: then you're going through the auction and uh, let's say

612
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 4: I'm making it up, but let's say you decide you

613
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 4: want fifty bucks on RB one and we don't have

614
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 4: to check out, right, Okay, Breese Hall comes out, and

615
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:29,640
Speaker 4: maybe Breeze Hall is like one of the first guys

616
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Speaker 4: that comes out, and people are a little scared and

617
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Speaker 4: they're holding their money, and all of a sudden, you're like,

618
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:37,240
Speaker 4: you're able to get Breese Hal for like forty four dollars. Again,

619
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Speaker 4: I'm making stuff up here. Okay, you're great. Say you're

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Speaker 4: right in Breeze Hall and you just scratch out that

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Speaker 4: fifty and you put forty four, and now you know

622
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Speaker 4: that you've got six extra dollars to play with. Maybe

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Speaker 4: add six dollars to running back too, maybe you know,

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Speaker 4: maybe you're like, I went cheap on quarterback, but you

625
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,479
Speaker 4: know what, now I've got six. Now I'm gonna, you know,

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Speaker 4: go up a tier at quarterback and I'm gonna add

627
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,600
Speaker 4: six bucks to my quarterback budget. Whatever it is. Or

628
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Speaker 4: you really want Breeze Hall, you get into a bidding war,

629
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Speaker 4: turns out you end up acquiring for like fifty five dollars.

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00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 4: All right, So now you're like, okay, now I've got

631
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Speaker 4: to let me where am I losing five dollars? From

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Speaker 4: you look at your sheet and just during the auction.

633
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 4: It's just it's a very easy way to sort of

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Speaker 4: visualize your budget management as all the prices come out.

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Speaker 4: The other thing that I like to do in an auction.

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Speaker 4: So that's just a very simple way, but I think

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Speaker 4: that will help you construct a good team. And too

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Speaker 4: often in auctions, people pay too much or pay too little,

639
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Speaker 4: and they find themselves at the end of the at

640
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Speaker 4: the end of an auction either either you know, missing

641
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 4: out on a bunch of good bargains because they've spent

642
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 4: too much money, or they find themselves with way too

643
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 4: much money at the end and they're they're you know,

644
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, they're spending thirty five dollars on

645
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Speaker 4: Devin Singletary and you're like, you know, what's going on?

646
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Speaker 2: Hot I had both of those right man.

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Speaker 4: So that that's just a very simple exercise that I

648
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Speaker 4: think will also help you visualize how you want to

649
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Speaker 4: how you want to construct your roster given the budget constraints.

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Speaker 4: And then the other thing that I like to do,

651
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 4: I think too often in auction formats, what people are

652
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 4: like Breezese Hall's an obvious name, but let's just use

653
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 4: that for example, people are like, Oh, I really like

654
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 4: Breee Hall, So you know what I'm gonna do. I'm

655
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 4: not gonna. I'm not gonna mention Breese Hall. I'm not gonna.

656
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 4: I really want you to give you somebody else like

657
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 4: Trey McBride. I love Trey McBride. This year. I'm not

658
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 4: gonna hold off on trainmkbride. I'm not gonna I'm not

659
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 4: gonna throw him out this year because I'm gonna save

660
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Speaker 4: my money to get Trey McBride. And then what happens

661
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 4: is is that so you wait three, four or five

662
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 4: rounds and all of a sudden, Don Kincaid, Mark andrews Uh,

663
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,240
Speaker 4: Sam Laporte, they all go and maybe each day each

664
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 4: go for a buck or two less and then whatever

665
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 4: you've waited on it. And then let's say you've called

666
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 4: it again. I'm making up a number thirty five dollars

667
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 4: for Train McBride this year. Okay, you throw out Trey McBride. Well,

668
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 4: turns out three other people have been waiting on Trey

669
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Speaker 4: McBride and suddenly it gets crazy and there's some insane

670
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, now it's up to like

671
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Speaker 4: forty eight dollars, and you're like, I can't pay forty

672
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 4: eight dollars for Trey McBride because my sheet here says

673
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 4: thirty five basically my scoring. And now you're completely screwed

674
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 4: because like you bypassed all these other elite tight ends

675
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,800
Speaker 4: and now you don't have Trey McBride, and now you've

676
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 4: got thirty five dollars that you don't know what to

677
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 4: do with because that's what you budgeted and there's no

678
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 4: other tight end on your sheet. We're twenty dollars. So

679
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 4: I'm a big believer in and now all of a sudden,

680
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 4: you've got a pivot, right fun So what I like

681
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 4: to do is if there's a player or a couple

682
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 4: of players that I want, I throw them out immediately,

683
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 4: like if I'm like like again, because I want to

684
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 4: know two things. First Off, it's not like Trey McBride

685
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 4: is a sleeper, Like we're not talking about a buck

686
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 4: at the end kind of guys, like you could get

687
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 4: Luke McCaffrey for a buck at the end if you

688
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 4: want it. I'm talking about I'm talking about whatever the

689
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 4: priest hauls of the world. It's not a secret. And

690
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 4: so I would rather if I'm going into an auction

691
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Speaker 4: saying I really want Breese Hall and I really want

692
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 4: them for fifty dollars, I'd rather throw them as soon

693
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 4: as I get a chance to nominate a player, because

694
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 4: things one of two things happens. Either I get them

695
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 4: for fifty dollars or less and I'm like, okay, great,

696
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 4: I'm on plan, or he goes for way more money

697
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 4: than I want to spend, and now I can pivot,

698
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 4: and now I know. I want to know as soon

699
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 4: as possible if if I need to pivot my plan

700
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 4: or if I'm on track right and so way too

701
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 4: often in an auction what happens is that players just

702
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 4: they wait, they try to hold onto stuff, and then

703
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 4: there's one guy left that has, you know whatever, Well,

704
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 4: why are you betting on traineming Bride? You have dogon

705
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 4: k Yeah, man, but I've got all this money and

706
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 4: I don't know what to spend it on it. You're

707
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 4: just like you're a sight all right, Well so you're

708
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 4: finishing eighth, but you just FD my team, and like,

709
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 4: so I just I'm a big believer in just throwing

710
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Speaker 4: out the guy you want versus throwing out a lot

711
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Speaker 4: of people. Yeah, and other people are like, I'm just

712
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 4: gonna throw out somebody. I don't want to try to

713
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 4: get money off the table, and I just I don't know.

714
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Speaker 4: I just that's not a strategy that I think ultimately

715
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 4: works in the long term, because every player is going

716
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 4: to come out, and if you have players that you want,

717
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 4: you want to know whether you're in or out out

718
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 4: of them earlier rather than later, so you have more

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Speaker 4: time to adjust as the draft goes on.

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Speaker 2: All right, Matthew Berry fantasy legend, whether it's players, leagues,

721
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Speaker 2: He's the guy obviously go to all of his websites

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Speaker 2: with fantasy say all your websites, the best stuff, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, fantasylife dot com, unbelievable. And then obviously all

724
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Speaker 4: my stuff that I do with rotorworld dot com, my podcast,

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Speaker 4: Fantasy Football Happy Hour Sunday mornings during the NFL season,

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Speaker 4: time on the NFL, on NBC YouTube channel, and Peacock

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Speaker 4: And of course you can catch me on Sunday nights

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Speaker 4: just before the game on Football Night in America before

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Speaker 4: the Sunday Football game on NBC Sports Big.

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Speaker 2: The guy works hard. Thanks a lot, Matthew, I know

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Speaker 2: you're busy. Have a great football season and go win

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Speaker 2: a couple leagues, will you.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna try, Jason. Thanks Ben,