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Speaker 1: And now let's get your flex on. Here's Dan Bayer

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Speaker 1: and Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome man, it is I want your Flex hit Mike

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Speaker 2: up at Swallen Dome. You can find me at Dan

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Speaker 2: Byer on Box. The executive producer is Ian Roddy coming

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Speaker 2: up a bit later on the podcast. We are three

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Speaker 2: weeks in and we're starting to hit the stretch of

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Speaker 2: the season where the NFL becomes normal.

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Speaker 3: But there's one thing that we know is not normal. Mike.

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Speaker 2: It's the NFL schedule makers. It's something that you and

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Speaker 2: I love to talk about. Some of the quirks, some

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Speaker 2: of the good things, some of the bad things. I

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Speaker 2: hate to say it, but I mostly find a lot

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Speaker 2: of negatives in how teams are affected when it comes

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Speaker 2: to making out this eighteen week, seventeen game schedule.

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Speaker 4: Well and that's it.

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Speaker 5: Right early on, We've seen some teams that have had

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Speaker 5: to walk many a weary mile or have the curiosities.

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Speaker 5: For me, I look on the back end, because we

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Speaker 5: do this a lot as we set up the fantasy season,

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Speaker 5: Dan of you know, who are you playing down the stretch.

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Speaker 5: What's it looked like those final four or five weeks,

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Speaker 5: and maybe you're drafting or avoiding, you know, in a

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Speaker 5: tiebreaker coin flip kind of situation. I like this guy

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Speaker 5: or that guy, and you look at the schedule, Well,

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Speaker 5: schedule makers are now giving us all these scenarios at

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Speaker 5: the back end where it's all right, we've got division

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Speaker 5: game someone else in between, and then that same division

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Speaker 5: a couple others, you've got just all of your division

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Speaker 5: what Arizona had to do to start the season at

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Speaker 5: Now they get a banged up Rams team and Detroit's

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Speaker 5: offense isn't quite clicking on all cylinders. Although that lift

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Speaker 5: But it's just that curiosity of all right, I get it.

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Speaker 5: You've got a big algorithm, You've got a lot of

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Speaker 5: but some of them just leave you scratching your head. Right,

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Speaker 5: My team, the Bears, for their first six games are

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Speaker 5: But like, okay, those all have to be up front,

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Speaker 5: like is this college and the AFC South is like

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Speaker 5: I'm just curious as to the thought process sometimes or

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you there are some things that are

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Speaker 2: in the podcast. But to Mike's point of what he

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Speaker 2: There's other quirks in the NFL. When we're talking about

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Speaker 2: in Week three that really not only could have fantasy ramifications,

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Speaker 2: how things shape up, specifically in the AFC and specifically

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Speaker 2: in the AFC West. Do you think Jim Harbaugh should

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is I don't think you should have played either.

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Speaker 2: And even Harbaugh saying, I if I see any limb,

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Speaker 3: He's coming out of the game. That's your job as

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Speaker 2: You aren't going to play. We're not gonna we're not

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Speaker 2: I think that they felt and it was a game

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Speaker 5: Hoping that you can steal two games. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 5: you in the AFC. I mean outside of the Bills, Dan,

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Speaker 5: No, right, I mean the Ravens are gonna give let

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Speaker 5: But who's running away and hiding nobody? I mean, the

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Speaker 2: Where I thought Number that's where I think he talked

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Speaker 3: We can get out of here with a win.

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Speaker 2: And it's just it stinks that the injury happened when

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Speaker 2: make it worse. And I think the Chargers made it worse.

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Speaker 2: I think I think they're a really good football team

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Speaker 5: Yeah, now you're in a tough spot, right because you're

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Speaker 5: game suspension pending appeal for Derwyn James. Yes, right, two

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Speaker 2: I think Green Bay played it safe with Jordan Love

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Speaker 2: week goes on. But I think that they looked at

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Speaker 2: the game against the Vikings in week four and said,

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Speaker 2: all right, if we can have a fully healthy Jordan

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Speaker 2: They could have lost that game against Tennessee. Not when

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Speaker 5: I would say, even with Jordan Love, right, you just

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Speaker 5: stole two games. Yep, that you didn't think you were

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Speaker 5: give away a division game quote giveaway, you know what

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Speaker 5: I mean? Because look, Malik Willis has been fantastic. He

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Speaker 5: was great this past week. But it's the idea that,

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Speaker 5: that much better for his longevity of risk reward and

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Speaker 5: everything else. Sorry, we'll take our defense against Sam Darnold

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Speaker 5: At least that's my thought if I'm coaching, because look,

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Speaker 5: we already paid him. Yeah, right, like it's so now,

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Speaker 5: it's all right, he's our guy for the long term.

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Speaker 5: How do we get the best long term because we're

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Speaker 5: playing for January, not for the end of September.

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Speaker 2: It is I want your flex. Hit Mike up at

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Speaker 2: Swallend Home and find me at Dan Byer on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Ian Roddy is our executive producer. Find him at Ian

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Speaker 2: Roddy Underscore. So, Mike Carmen, let's get into some of

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Speaker 2: these scheduling quirks. What was the Bears one again? You

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Speaker 2: had for the over their AFC they play how many

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Speaker 2: AFC teams of the first six.

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Speaker 5: One so they've already played them the first three, right,

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Speaker 5: So Tennessee at Houston, at Indianapolis, and then week six

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Speaker 5: it's Jacksonville in London.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So there's so four out of six.

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Speaker 4: And then they have a bye week.

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Speaker 5: So it's like, I don't want to denigrate the AFC South, right,

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Speaker 5: they're all divisions, they all count just the same. We

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Speaker 5: hug and love them all. Just from a schedule making standpoints. Why,

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Speaker 5: how does this make any sense?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't make any sense, and you

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Speaker 2: know it doesn't make any sense. Also, Mike, for the

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Speaker 2: fact of the Minnesota Vikings and Green Bay Packers are

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Speaker 2: going to be playing a now what pretty important Week

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Speaker 2: four divisional game, considering how things have gone for Minnesota

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Speaker 2: as of late. So to front load your Bears schedule

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Speaker 2: with AFC teams and they have also in that division

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Speaker 2: the Packers and Vikings play. These are these inequities that

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Speaker 2: you were just talking about earlier as well that we

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Speaker 2: see throughout the NFL schedule, and the Seahawks are in

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Speaker 2: the kind of the same boat as your Bears are.

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Speaker 2: Mic they started off with the Broncos, Patriots, and Dolphins.

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Speaker 3: In Week three, Yeah, not everything is.

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Speaker 5: Week eleven, they will play their first divisional game Week eleven,

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Speaker 5: Idea that we want some meaningful games down the stretch,

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Speaker 2: It contradicts completely what the NFL tries to tell us.

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Speaker 2: There's seven or eight games Mike, in that one o'clock

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Speaker 3: No, that's it.

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Speaker 2: You know it's I'll take the Jets. I'll take Ian's

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Speaker 5: No, well, I mean, we're still going to play two

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what, the person that's listening to

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Speaker 5: thing is the same old story. Look at the takeover

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Speaker 5: by the forty Niners. Like the NFL doesn't care. The

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Speaker 5: people who own the stadiums don't care.

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Speaker 4: As long as.

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Speaker 5: There's an ass in a seat that has a credit

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Speaker 5: card that works.

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Speaker 4: Everybody's happy.

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Speaker 5: Yep, right, as long as they don't cause problems to

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Speaker 5: their fellow patrons, their security. Give me my money, cheer

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Speaker 5: for who you want. Make it look good on TV.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 2: I'm good story, that's it. I yeah, And we knew

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Speaker 2: it was going to be forty nine ers takeover. I

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Speaker 2: feel that the LA fan Mason, the Rams and the Chargers,

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Speaker 2: you know, like it's low hanging fruit. You'd be surprised

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Speaker 2: at what stadiums you go into and the amount of

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Speaker 2: opposing fans that are actually in those places.

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Speaker 5: No, And in the end, Dan, if I've got season

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Speaker 5: tickets for my squad, and I know I can sell

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Speaker 5: one or two games and pay for my year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, why would I not do that? Correct? Right?

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Speaker 4: I mean I love the game day experience.

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Speaker 5: One of the big consternation, you know, and sticking points

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Speaker 5: of the job that we do, is sometimes we don't

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Speaker 5: get to get out.

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Speaker 4: Right. I work in the evenings Monday through Friday.

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Speaker 5: So getting the opportunity to just go over to Dodger

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Speaker 5: Stadium or insert other concert or sports venue here isn't

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Speaker 5: there on the weekends. Gotta watch games because we've got

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Speaker 5: to be ready to do this. And I'm not lamenting it,

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Speaker 5: just saying that, you know, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 5: if I've got season tickets, all right, I paid for whatever,

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Speaker 5: the nine games for the football package, right, assume my

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Speaker 5: one preseason game. Yeah, I don't know that I want

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Speaker 5: to go nine times. Well, sure, right, And maybe I do.

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Speaker 5: And I hope that you know, the fervor that fandom

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Speaker 5: is there. But if say the Raiders are coming to

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Speaker 5: Los Angeles and I can get someone to pay for

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Speaker 5: four of my games, do I run the risk that

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Speaker 5: maybe they're a bad actor. Sure, and maybe there's something

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Speaker 5: that comes to it, and you know, with all the

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Speaker 5: metrics they have now that maybe I put my tickets

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Speaker 5: in bad standing by selling them off. But the reality is,

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Speaker 5: you know, you're trying to make it the best experience

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Speaker 5: and the most cost effective as well, so takeovers happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna make one final point, like, if you own

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Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinal season tickets, you now have three home games.

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Speaker 3: In your first four weeks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of want to breather to be honest, like,

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Speaker 2: do you want to be there for the first three

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Speaker 2: You know, it's not the first three Sundays, but three

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Speaker 2: out of the first four Sundays. It's nice to go,

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Speaker 2: all right, we got one weekend, or hey it's a

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Speaker 2: back to back week, but when you have it three

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Speaker 2: straight weekends and you're obligated with those tickets, maybe you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: well we're not going to go three straight weekends, so

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Speaker 2: because we've got this going on, or we missed this

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Speaker 2: last week because of the game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, another schedule.

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Speaker 5: I gotta tell you, I half want to be in

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Speaker 5: Arizona back to back weeks. Ian Dan Week nine, Chicago

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Speaker 5: Week ten, Jets, and then they have a bye week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, then they're at Seattle. So

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Speaker 3: I'm a part of the equation.

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Speaker 5: The week well think about it though, I mean, you

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Speaker 5: got the Chargers week seven at home, week eight, at Miami,

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Speaker 5: week nine and ten, Chicago and New York week eleven, bye,

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Speaker 5: and then they're at Seattle.

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Speaker 3: Uh crazy road trip. Let's go nex road trip?

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Speaker 2: All right there, it is schedule one oh one. Hopefully

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Speaker 2: we have a passing grade. So for Mike, carmen Ian,

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Speaker 2: Roddy and myself, Dan Bayer join us for our next episode.

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Speaker 3: Will we get you set for week four?

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Speaker 2: Mike's got his top five rankings, top plays, Coultars and

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Speaker 2: Ninjas and the whole shebang. We're gonna get you set

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Speaker 2: for some winning fantasy football. We will talk to you

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Speaker 2: next time right here, and I want your plays.

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