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Speaker 1: What is Up? Welcome to another edition of the NFL

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Podcast. It's being your Man m Marks Grant

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Speaker 1: alongside the Fantasy Hall of Famer Michael Fabiano. Graham Barfield

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Speaker 1: is off today, should be back for Friday's show. I

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Speaker 1: know it's not football, but you gotta be floating on

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Speaker 1: cloud right now. Baby. I so I go to bed

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Speaker 1: early because I'm an old man and I can't stay awake.

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Speaker 1: So apparently that whole news broke about Garrett Cole like

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Speaker 1: at like nine o'clock, but I was already in bed

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Speaker 1: and the phone was just charging. Wake up this morning.

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Speaker 1: I got a text from Jerry O'Connell and it just

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Speaker 1: says Cole exclamation point. I'm like, go to Twitter, what happened?

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Speaker 1: Four million dollars nine years? I am over the moon.

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Speaker 1: I gotta have something to be happy about. My fantasy

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Speaker 1: teams are doing really good. My Cowboys suck, and now

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Speaker 1: I got the Yankees getting Garrett Cole. Wedd that kind

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Speaker 1: of sucks. But Eddie, I mean, you know, but listen, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you're in New York. You like the Giants,

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Speaker 1: you know you're your football team is not good. It's

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Speaker 1: a weird time. In New York. You have the sky

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Speaker 1: High the Giants like dealing with potential coaching GM firing,

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Speaker 1: and then you have like the Nicks. Nicks are I

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Speaker 1: think really had an all time low, like you have

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Speaker 1: not to get into hockey. The Rangers are a good

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Speaker 1: young team but still having some bumps and bruises. It's

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Speaker 1: like a it's a very strange time. But I mean Yankees.

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Speaker 1: The thing is like, and I tweeted this a little

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Speaker 1: bit ago, if they I understand their back to the

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Speaker 1: Evil Empire. We haven't won, we haven't won a championship

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Speaker 1: in a decade, And so I get why they did.

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Speaker 1: They had to do and if they didn't do it

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Speaker 1: cash and would have been ridiculed. But part of me

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Speaker 1: does wish that like Cole just went to like the

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Speaker 1: Angels and team listen the sock the socks are gonna

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Speaker 1: sell off parts. Uh, the Astros might get some kind

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Speaker 1: of death penalty. And it's like if the Yankees kept DD,

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Speaker 1: I think they still had a path of the World Series.

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Speaker 1: I would have liked to be cale and just one

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Speaker 1: with the homegrown guys and the lower free just but

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Speaker 1: I get why they did it. I'm I'm rappy with it.

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Speaker 1: But I just some of the smartest people in baseball.

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Speaker 1: I've said that that Gared Cole was was was the

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Speaker 1: biggest free agent in the history major League I mean

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Speaker 1: until until the next biggest three years exactly, but for

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Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, So I mean, I will I will

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Speaker 1: say this, like, because I know the Dodgers were sort

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Speaker 1: of in the running, I don't. I'm not really heartbroken

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Speaker 1: that they didn't necessarily get him. I will say the

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Speaker 1: Yankees sort of still have the same problem that the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers do in the sense that neither one of those

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Speaker 1: teams really manufacturers runs for all the pitching in the world. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Lift and Separate has shown that it doesn't necessarily win

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Speaker 1: World Series titles. Struggle with that, the Yankees to struggle

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Speaker 1: with that. So as a Dodger fan, I'm still I'm

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Speaker 1: still hoping that Anthony Rendon, you still have some pieces that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't disagree at all. I'm saying in

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Speaker 1: terms of team building, to make this more of like

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Speaker 1: a general sports slash NFL, just you do like to

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Speaker 1: win with like the scrappy, homegrown guys, the lesser known guys,

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Speaker 1: But it is what it is. Yeah, it's funny. It's

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Speaker 1: also what I gave Red Sox a heart. Red Sox

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Speaker 1: fans a hard time about because they were always the scrappy,

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Speaker 1: Patriots constantly. Boston's going south in terms of sports. They're

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Speaker 1: two biggest teams. The Red Sox. They gave too much

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Speaker 1: money to Chris Sale that that contract is gonna kill them,

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Speaker 1: uh for the next several years. They're trying to trade

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Speaker 1: David Price from what I hear. And the Patriots, I

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Speaker 1: They're struggling. They're not struggling. They're not gonna lose it

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Speaker 1: didn't say they weren't gonna win the Super Bowl. I said,

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Speaker 1: they're struggling. Thanks, all right, we gotta played to talk about.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to Jeff Ratcliffe. We'll talk about out guys

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Speaker 1: were finishing strong this year and what that means for

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Speaker 1: them potentially next year. Also, uh, kind of an overview

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Speaker 1: of what we think of Week fifteen. I know you

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Speaker 1: guys will get into it a little bit deeper on Friday,

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Speaker 1: Uh and then drop or not? You did hear earlier

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Speaker 1: from our favor foot producer seen're Edward L. Murphy Esquire.

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Speaker 1: So here we go. Let's let's do some news. We'll

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Speaker 1: start in Philadelphia. I'll sean Jeffrey left that Monday night

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Speaker 1: is significant enough that he has done for the year.

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Speaker 1: Um so fabs. I mean, look, Jeffrey's gone. We're not

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Speaker 1: sure about Nelson Aghaloor, but it's not looking too good

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Speaker 1: I joked on Twitter that they're gonna sign the gang

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Speaker 1: know what his status is going to be for Week fifteen.

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Speaker 1: A little bit too soon there, but it brings up

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Speaker 1: an interesting point, right, because you know, the Eagles have

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Speaker 1: at kind of stashed Carson Wentz because we were waiting

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. James Connor and Juju Smith Schuster expected to

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Speaker 1: That trade has made some some pretty and quarterbacks look

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Speaker 1: like a poker tournament. And when you get knocked out

423
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Speaker 1: of a poker tournament, you don't go sit on the

424
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Speaker 1: side and you know, set up some chips and and

425
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Speaker 1: and keep playing. You move on to the next tournament.

426
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Speaker 1: It's okay to lose. It's not a problem with that. Hey,

427
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Speaker 1: we didn't if we didn't know what it was like

428
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Speaker 1: to lose, we wouldn't appreciate winning when we ultimately do. Yeah, No,

429
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Speaker 1: I look, I understand your argument. I just like being

430
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Speaker 1: the guy who occasionally upsets the apple cart, kicks down

431
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Speaker 1: the door, and you know, just just ruins things for

432
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Speaker 1: everybody else. You know, if I can't win, I'm gonna

433
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Speaker 1: make it harder on everybody else. But whatever, to each,

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Speaker 1: to each their own. Um, speaking of I guess teams

435
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Speaker 1: that aren't in playoff contention when it comes to fantasy,

436
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Speaker 1: right that For the people who maybe are looking ahead

437
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Speaker 1: to next year, this is the time of year where

438
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Speaker 1: we start kind of looking at guys performances, and I

439
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 1: know sometimes we all kind of make the mistake of

440
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Speaker 1: looking at how a guy finishes and maybe trying to

441
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Speaker 1: project that into next year and and trying to figure

442
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Speaker 1: that out when you're looking at a guy's draft value,

443
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Speaker 1: And I was looking at some guys who have had

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Speaker 1: some strong finishes in the last few weeks, trying to

445
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Speaker 1: figure out maybe what this means for them next year.

446
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Speaker 1: The guy that that comes to the top of the

447
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Speaker 1: list for me is Todd Gurley. Right and and early

448
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Speaker 1: in the year, Uh, the Rams are very much about

449
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Speaker 1: load management, about trying to save him, about trying to

450
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Speaker 1: keep him healthy for a postseason run. Then all of

451
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,000
Speaker 1: a sudden, Sean McVeigh looks up. Uh, they are very

452
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Speaker 1: much in danger of not making the playoffs. And now

453
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Speaker 1: they've decided to take the wraps off of Todd Gurley.

454
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Speaker 1: He's been a top ten running back over the last month.

455
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Speaker 1: He's scoring eighteen points a game. It seems like when

456
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Speaker 1: we get to next August, are we going to remember

457
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Speaker 1: what happened with Todd Gurley from you know, say the

458
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Speaker 1: start of September until about Thanksgiving, or are we gonna

459
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Speaker 1: look at this last few weeks and say, you know what, Uh,

460
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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh is not gonna make this mistake again. Todd

461
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Speaker 1: Gurley is gonna go back to being a workhorse running back.

462
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Speaker 1: I think we have to remember it. And by the way,

463
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Speaker 1: this rise of Todd Gurley has had an impact on

464
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Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. If you watch this game against the Seahawks,

465
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Speaker 1: they ran twelve personnel to tight end seventy percent of

466
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Speaker 1: the time, and when they go to to twelve personnel,

467
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Speaker 1: the slot receiver comes off the field. So Cooper Cup

468
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:21,000
Speaker 1: owners that's where he was. It wasn't that he's playing boorly,

469
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Speaker 1: it's just because of that tendency. But we can't overlook

470
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Speaker 1: this because we don't want and I mean this is

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Speaker 1: an extreme example. We at least have a track record

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Speaker 1: with Gurley, but we don't want Damian Williams year and

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Speaker 1: year and year. You know, last year, Damian Willis was

474
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Speaker 1: awesome in December, but that was all he ever really

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Speaker 1: had as a pro with Girle, though obviously we know

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Speaker 1: he's got more than that. But we can't overlook the

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Speaker 1: fact that Todd there, that Sean McVeigh loves to spread

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Speaker 1: that offense around and when they're at eleven now it's

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Speaker 1: it's not as conducive to what they've been doing recently

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Speaker 1: for Girle. So I still think he's able to produce

481
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Speaker 1: RB one numbers, but I don't think he's going to

482
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Speaker 1: be one of the first running backs off the board

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Speaker 1: regard to how he finishes. So, Joe Mixon was a

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Speaker 1: guy that in the middle of the season I was

485
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Speaker 1: trying to buy low on in some leagues, and he's

486
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Speaker 1: been great. You look at his numbers. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: seventeen over seventeen Fantasy points over the last six games.

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Speaker 1: He's been averaging, had a huge game last week. He's

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Speaker 1: got the Patriots this week, right, So we had two

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Speaker 1: big running backs who were added off the waiver wire

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Speaker 1: this weekend, raheem boasted uh and DeAndre Washington. If you're

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Speaker 1: staring at Joe Mixon on your roster, he's been great,

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Speaker 1: okay for more than a month now, but he's got

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Speaker 1: the Patriots this week, and their defense is nasty good

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Speaker 1: against running backs in game script could be an issue.

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Speaker 1: Are you fading Joe Mixon for two guys or one

497
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Speaker 1: of two guys that you just picked up this week?

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Speaker 1: I actually am in my wo I love the fact

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Speaker 1: that Mixon performed well despite the fact that you had

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Speaker 1: Ryan Finley under center, the return of the Red Rifle.

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Speaker 1: But still Dixon just kept going and showed how good

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Speaker 1: of a player he is. I mean, hopefully they grow

503
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Speaker 1: in the off season and they really prioritize getting him

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Speaker 1: the football in. But you look at Washington. Jacksonville gives

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Speaker 1: up chunk yardage. So if Jacobs in fact is sidelined

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Speaker 1: as we expect, Washington is a He's a front end

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Speaker 1: r B two and most are. I mean, hey, if

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Speaker 1: it happens two weeks in a row, it's a trend.

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Speaker 1: It's not a fluke. And I think we have to

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Speaker 1: ride that in the Kyle Shanahan revenge game. How dare

511
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Speaker 1: you let me keep the head coach. We'll get to

512
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Speaker 1: but we gotta ride that with most are. So I

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Speaker 1: have them all as RV twos, but Mixing is the

514
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Speaker 1: lowest of those three close, but he's the lowest. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he had a he had a good game against the Rams.

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Speaker 1: I believe that one was that was overseas. I believe

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Speaker 1: he had a really good game against Baltimore and you

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Speaker 1: know the Raiders, you know Pittsburgh he kind of floundered

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Speaker 1: in and the Jets in Cleveland. Last two weeks has

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Speaker 1: been very, very good. You had speaking of Josh Jacobs,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw on Twitter yesterday where

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Speaker 1: Jacobs has said that, like, I guess people are getting

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Speaker 1: on him about being hurt and uh how it's negatively

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Speaker 1: affecting their fantasy football teams. And I respond to that

525
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Speaker 1: and we went back and forth a little bit. That's

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Speaker 1: the one thing that annoys me, maybe more than anything

527
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Speaker 1: else about our about our our our great industry. Uh

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Speaker 1: and this great thing called fantasy football is when stupid,

529
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Speaker 1: moronic people go on Twitter and reach out to players

530
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Speaker 1: who are hurt, this is their livelihood, and complain that

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Speaker 1: they hurt their fantasy football teams. Be in with me

532
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: on that one. I am with you. Stand almost cursed

533
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:35,200
Speaker 1: about it too fast. It is it's what gives fantasy

534
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Speaker 1: a bad name. It's what's still holding a slightly back overall. Remember,

535
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Speaker 1: these guys are doing their job and we're lucky enough

536
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Speaker 1: to be playing a game based on their job. It's

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Speaker 1: not the other way around. They're not here for us.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's on board there, It's it's stupid. Yeah.

539
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Speaker 1: I used to have these conversations with the Angela Williams.

540
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Speaker 1: He hates fantasy football because he says that it basically

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Speaker 1: makes a player and turns him into a robot. Because

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00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: people don't care. They just want points and I'm like, boy,

543
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,000
Speaker 1: I tell you gotta be better about that. Anyways, I

544
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Speaker 1: take rustion. Uh. Last thing uh and this is one

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Speaker 1: that we've sort of had for as food for thought

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Speaker 1: on our pod this week. Just something you know, Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't know there's a wrong answer. Just when we've

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Speaker 1: been kicking around, you have the decision to make you

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Speaker 1: a quarterback this week, Ryan Tannehill, Patrick Mahomes, what are

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Speaker 1: you doing? I know what I'm doing. I know what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing. I can't say that I'm gonna be like

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Speaker 1: Sam Kennison and back to school say it. Well, I'm

553
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Speaker 1: not actually gonna say probably what you want me to say,

554
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Speaker 1: because my rankings currently have Patrick Mahomes of four, Ryan

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Speaker 1: tan Hill at five. I'm a man of my words. Patrick.

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Speaker 1: Did you really draft Patrick Homes in the second round

557
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Speaker 1: to bench him in the in the Fantasy semifinals? Hey man,

558
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Speaker 1: A lot of people do, a lot of people drafted

559
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Speaker 1: Joe Mixing in the second round and he's got the

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Speaker 1: Patriots and I'm benching him. I'm telling you right now,

561
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Speaker 1: maybe I'm gonna be wrong. I I would start tanne

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Speaker 1: Hill over Mahomes this week. Mahomes is awesome. He is

563
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,359
Speaker 1: not right. The matchups bad. He has not been a

564
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: good fantasy quarterback for most of the last month. He's

565
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: had one big game. Tannehill is playing at a higher

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Speaker 1: level right now than Patrick Mahomes. And if you think

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00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 1: I'm crazy, go ahead and hit me up on Twitter.

568
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: I'm right. Tannehill has been playing at a much higher

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Speaker 1: level at the quarterback position than right than than Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes over the last month. It is what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's weird to say it, but it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the match up his bad, though

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Speaker 1: it was bad earlier in the season, but there are

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Speaker 1: top ten matchup for fantasy quarterbacks over the last five weeks,

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Speaker 1: and we saw well Watson had a couple of rushing touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: There was garbage time. So um, but now I get it,

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Speaker 1: I get it. But still you know, it's an NFC

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Speaker 1: West game. I just Mahomes scares me, man, and Tannehill

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Speaker 1: is hot right now, dude. And every single week, you

580
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 1: know you're waiting for the wheels to fall off. You're

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Speaker 1: waiting for the wheels to fall off, and the wheels

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Speaker 1: just get get they keep picking up steam. They keep

583
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 1: going faster and faster and faster, and Houston's defense is terrible.

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Speaker 1: They made true local at Lock look like John Elway.

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Speaker 1: Last week. I was saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: maybe next week he'll come on or whenever you're on

587
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: next and you'd be like, see Fabiano, you're an idiot.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, this this season has going sideways

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Speaker 1: a lot, so I'm gonna, you know, I guess I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go the contrarian. I think I think it's I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's look in the end, by the time the

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Speaker 1: week is over, we will have a definitive answer on

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Speaker 1: what was right or what was wrong. I just think

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00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: it's been an interesting conversation to have and and not

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Speaker 1: about it. It's close, it's close, like I have them

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00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: four and five, it's not like having four and fifteen.

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Speaker 1: So for a lot of folks, that could legitimately be

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Speaker 1: a coin flip. But I'm gonna stick to my rankings

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Speaker 1: on this. When I got my homes a little side

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Speaker 1: wager here, you win, you get some cranberry sauce, homemade homemade,

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Speaker 1: homemade cranberry sauce. You have to make it at home.

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Speaker 1: And I want video of you over the stove cooking

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Speaker 1: that cranberry sauce. I want you to send it to

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Speaker 1: me and uh, you know, wrap it in a nice

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Speaker 1: number seventeen Jersey There titans for Ryan Tannehill to be

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Speaker 1: wonderful Christmas present. Actually, and I will and I will

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Speaker 1: make you mac and cheese, which I make for my

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Speaker 1: kid like three days a week for lunch at school. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'll send you a little bit of that. How about

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Speaker 1: that little cracker barrel? Can we say that on the here? Sure?

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00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: Why not? Okay? Uh, Jeff, were quick? Where are you

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Speaker 1: taking Levion Bell in your fantasy bowling league? Oh man? First? Overall?

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00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: Obviously was was laser tag closed at only because c J.

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00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:32,720
Speaker 1: Anderson is no longer in the league, right because like

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Speaker 1: he's got a couple of three hundreds under his bell.

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Speaker 1: If i'd out c J could he could bowl? That?

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Speaker 1: Dude's a monster man when it comes to uh, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: what folks know where they can find your work out there?

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Speaker 1: Sure over at PFF dot com and on Twitter and

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00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: Instagram at Jeff Rackliffe. Hey appreciate it as always, Jeff,

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Speaker 1: be good, will be in touch. Alright, guys, take care.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Jeff Ratcliffe for his time. Always appreciate chatting

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Speaker 1: with Jeff, even on the things that the three of

624
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: us don't always agree about. Always fun um. So I talked,

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00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:04,680
Speaker 1: We asked them a little bit about guys who were

626
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: finishing strong and maybe what we think about them next year.

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00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: And what kind of brought this up for me was

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Speaker 1: our pal friend of the show, just personal friend and

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Speaker 1: giant within the fantasy community, Bob Harris. Earlier this year

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Speaker 1: we had him on and he talked about, you know,

631
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Speaker 1: don't draft last year's best team. Is go out and

632
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Speaker 1: find the discounts where you can uh see the guys

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Speaker 1: that you maybe, uh you have some potential, and see

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Speaker 1: if you can build a team around those guys. And

635
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: I think sometimes the way we do that is we

636
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: look at guys who maybe aren't who worked great early

637
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: in the season, but maybe who finished strong. Sometimes that

638
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 1: works out for us, sometimes it completely blows up in

639
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: our face. But I picked a handful of guys who

640
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: have had some strong late season runs, and you know,

641
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,240
Speaker 1: I'll get your thoughts, FABS on what you think of

642
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: them for next season. Is it just a case of

643
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: maybe a good schedule, maybe they just got hot or

644
00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: is this like something a little bit deeper with these guys? So, uh,

645
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: start with Jimmy Garoppolo, who we came into this year

646
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: not knowing who exactly he was. I mean, he'd had

647
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: fewer career NFL starts than Baker Mayfield at the beginning

648
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: of the year. The last month, though, he's gotten hot.

649
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 1: He's the QB four over the last four weeks. It

650
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: looks like he's getting comfortable in Mike Shanahan or Kyle

651
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: Shanahan's offense. I mean, is this a case if he's

652
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 1: just kind of gotten on something hot or or is

653
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: it like, is this just the Jimmy Garoppolo that we

654
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 1: always thought he could be coming out of New England. Listen,

655
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: I mean the Saints defense is no joke. I mean

656
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: that just went sideways. That game was ridiculous with all

657
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: the points that were scored there. But I mean Garoppolo

658
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: showed me something you know that he's had. He's had

659
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: some good performances. You know, you kind of forgive him

660
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: the following week in Baltimore the rain and it was

661
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: nasty out there, but he's put up some pretty good numbers.

662
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: I know, some of these teams that he's played haven't

663
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: been all that great. But listen, from a pure football perspective,

664
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: he's winning games and he showed that he can go

665
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 1: into a hostile tear tory against the defense that's pretty

666
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: tough and win a big game going back and forth

667
00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 1: with a future Hall of Famer. So you've got to

668
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: like that. From a fantasy perspective, I'd love to see

669
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: him finish strong. He's got Atlanta this week, then he's

670
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: got the Rams. That's a big one in Week sixteen. Uh,

671
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: you know the always you know, the issue is that

672
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 1: you know, any quarterback who's not named like Lamar Jackson

673
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: or Patrick Mahomes is going to be worth you know,

674
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: more than a later round pick in fantasy. But I mean,

675
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: he's absolutely positively going to be drafted. He won't be

676
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 1: a QB one next year in drafts. He'll certainly be

677
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: a QB two. And you also have to see what

678
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: the Niners at around him too, because I mean that

679
00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel Boy, I'll tell you something right now, that guy.

680
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: He he reminds me of an Kum Bowl and he

681
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: is fun to watch. He is a strong wide receiver.

682
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: He's gonna have a full year under his belt National

683
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: Football League level, he's gonna get better to have Emmanual

684
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: Sanders for an entire season as well, you would think,

685
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: I mean, George Kittle, Yeah, things are looking up. I

686
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: see you smiling. No, I mean look, I mean this

687
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: is a guy that in fantasy Yeah, there were pl

688
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: league where he didn't get drafted at all. But like

689
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: now he's going to be in the conversation next year

690
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: for sure. Uh. Another quarterback who actually he's right behind

691
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: him in the last four weeks, Mitchell Strubisky. Right, Like,

692
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: I know, I look at Trubisky and I'm just like, ah,

693
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 1: like it never excites me, right, And but he's had

694
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: three pretty good games in a row. But then you

695
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: look at who he's playing, right, he had one against

696
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: the Giants, one against the Lions, two against the Lions,

697
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: two against the Lions, that's true, since the two against

698
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: the Lions, one against the Giants, and then last week

699
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: he had thirty two acacomplished how boys who are just

700
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: in a downward spiral right now. And this is sort

701
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: of leading me to believe that this isn't necessarily about Trubisky.

702
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 1: This has just mostly been about the guys lining up

703
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: again exactly. Trubisky is still an average quarterback and he's

704
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: below average and fantasy. And you look at some of

705
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: these defenses that he's played. When he's played the Chargers

706
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: seven points, really good past defense at Philadelphia, their defense

707
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: is really good at the Link six and a half points.

708
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: Then he has the game against Detroit, looks good. Then

709
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: he goes to play the Rams ten points. Okay, the

710
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,680
Speaker 1: Rams defense is pretty damn good. Allen Robinson was locked

711
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: up that week. I mean Giants, Detroit, and Dallas. I

712
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: hate to say it, but those three teams stink alright, Cowboys,

713
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: Sorry Eddie, but there's not any good. The Cowboys are

714
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: awful right now. And I will say this though, if

715
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 1: the Bears are gonna game script him to get some

716
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: of that running that he can do on a weekly basis.

717
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: If if they're if they're gonna actually like call runs

718
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: for him, that's gonna help Mitchell Drobinsky's fantasy value because

719
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: I had posted a stat last year about him in

720
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: that when he had a certain amount of rushing yards

721
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 1: and or a rushing touchdown, he was pretty good. If

722
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: he didn't, he was bad. And if they're gonna let

723
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: him run with the football a little bit. Well, that

724
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: could improve his value certainly, But do I trust Mitchell

725
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: Drobinsky against Green Bay at Lambe Field. Yeah, And that's

726
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: the thing I'm I'm very curious, at least in the

727
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,919
Speaker 1: off season to see, you know, obviously, the hype about

728
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: Matt Maggie when he took over in Chicago was how

729
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: he was an offensive genius and how you know, he

730
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,359
Speaker 1: was supposed to kind of mold Mitchell Robinsky and make

731
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 1: him into a solid quarterback in I just wonder whether

732
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,800
Speaker 1: or not they're going to, you know, take the leash

733
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 1: off of him and let him run a little bit,

734
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: because that really is a big part of where his

735
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: success comes from. I mean, I think we've seen, you know,

736
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: through a couple of years that he's not just a

737
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 1: pocket passer. I know, there's the Twitter narrative slash joke

738
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,080
Speaker 1: that he can't throw left, you know, like if you know,

739
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: people like to point out every time he throws left

740
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: and he just sails one or throws it in the

741
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,479
Speaker 1: ground or whatever. Um. And so I just wonder whether

742
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: or not that's going to be a thing in the

743
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: offseason that Mattnegie and the Bears look at, is how

744
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,959
Speaker 1: do we a few designed runs, a few just times

745
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: where he just gets out of the pocket and he

746
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 1: scrambles to make something happen, because I think that will

747
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: completely open his game up and I think make everything

748
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:44,480
Speaker 1: better for the Bears. Um, Calvin Ridley, you know we

749
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: didn't talk about the fact that he is on I

750
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 1: R now too, that he posted that on Instagram. Uh,

751
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: he's got an abdominal injury. So he's going to miss

752
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. Look. Last year, Uh, he

753
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,760
Speaker 1: was the top twenty five wide receiver as a rookie.

754
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: He actually had more touchdowns than Julio Joe this year

755
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 1: as more touchdowns and earlier, and as we sit here

756
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,680
Speaker 1: right now, he actually has I think but two and

757
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: a half three more Fantasy points in Julio Jones. Obviously,

758
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's not going to end that way

759
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: because Julio still playing and Ridley is on I R.

760
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: But I'm feeling like at this point, Calvin Ridley has

761
00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: done enough in essentially two seasons that we're gonna be

762
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: talking about him as maybe what fourth fifth round pick

763
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: next year. Yeah, I would say a fifth round pick,

764
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 1: no question about that. Um. I mean, dude, listen and

765
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: he's just he's just getting better. Um, he's getting better

766
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: every single season. And he he had he's gonna miss

767
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 1: a few games. He could have gotten to ten touchdowns.

768
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: Who knows, Maybe it's unlikely, Um, but he he was

769
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: the number one wide receiver from a fantasy perspective in

770
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: Atlanta until he had gotten hurt, and especially over his

771
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: last four games. I know Hulio missed one of those games,

772
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: but Ridley was balling out. I mean, I know there

773
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: was some garbage time points, but they still count very

774
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: talented wide receiver. And you know, next season, that Atlanta team,

775
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,439
Speaker 1: you get in there healthy, you know, with Matt Ryan

776
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: and Hooper and Julio and Calvin and really and and

777
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: maybe some other answerer pieces that they could potentially add,

778
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 1: maybe they get a running back. You know that offense

779
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: could be pretty explosive next year. But uh yeah, Calvin

780
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: really was was a real steal this season in drafts.

781
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 1: He was tremendous. He had a bunch of stinkers early,

782
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: but he really turned it on when he needed it

783
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: the most. And you know that injury is very unfortunate. Uh,

784
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: last one here, I mean we talked about Joe Mixon

785
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: and Todd Gurley, who are on my list. We talked

786
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: about them with with Jeff Radcliffe, but Jarvis Landry is

787
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: another one who you know. Obviously, the the marquee name

788
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 1: in the off season was Odell Beckham coming to Cleveland, which,

789
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: by the way, do you think he stays in Cleveland?

790
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: I don't. I mean you're hearing like reports that he's

791
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 1: telling other players, you know, that he wants out, and

792
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: he had tweeted out that you know, that's not true.

793
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: I don't know, but sometimes where they're smoked, there's fire

794
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: that he I was actually hopeful that he would put

795
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 1: up a decent line against the Bengals. Didn't happen, and

796
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: and it just it's not the same dude. I listen,

797
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: man again, I've said this all year. I I just

798
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: yearned for the days of Eli Manning. And you know,

799
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: like because they just they haven't utilized him correctly. Uh,

800
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: the targets haven't been there. Baker Mayfield, although he's been

801
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: under pressure a lot this season, he tends to go

802
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: to the safer option, which has ben Jarvis Landry. And

803
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 1: you know, they do have two really good running backs

804
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: right now in that backfield, and Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt,

805
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: who's catching a ton of balls out of the backfield

806
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: as well. So O b J could end up on

807
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: his way out. We'll see, you know. I think the

808
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 1: Brands are gonna go through another major overhaul this offseason.

809
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 1: I mean, Freddie Kitchens likely it's not going to be back. Um,

810
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, if they do get rid of O'Dell, I

811
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: mean that that changes so many things there. But Jarvis

812
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: Landry is you know where I was actually going with

813
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: this topic here. Um, I feel like he's that guy

814
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: that we always sort of I mean he kind of

815
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: hangs around in the middle rounds and uh, you know,

816
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: maybe you're not always super excited to draft him, but

817
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: I mean he just keeps doing his thing right and

818
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: right now he's a top fifty wide receiver. He's had

819
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: seven straight games with eleven or more Fantasy points. Is

820
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: he going to still hang around in those middle rounds

821
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: or are we gonna get over excited and maybe overdraft him. Yeah.

822
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: I mean it really depends on what they do with O.

823
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:09,800
Speaker 1: B J. To be cut honest with you, but I

824
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: mean Landry is a guy I remember. I mean he

825
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 1: was a top ten wide receiver for one year with

826
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: the Dolphins when he had a career high in touchdown catches,

827
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 1: and I wasn't on the Landry battenwagon, I would have

828
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: been like I tried to fade him in some drafts.

829
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: I ended up with him in a couple of leagues.

830
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 1: I made a trade for him that involved him in

831
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: one of my leagues as well, So, uh sort of

832
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: benefit from that. But I would be lying to you

833
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: if I told you that I thought Jarvis Landry was

834
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 1: gonna be the best fantasy wide receiver in Cleveland. I

835
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: think everyone can agree that everyone was wrong on that one.

836
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: So I think the problem with Jarvis is that he

837
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: doesn't get into the end zone a lot, but he's

838
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,399
Speaker 1: seeing so many targets in the middle of the field

839
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: from Baker Mayfield. As I mentioned before, that he's he's

840
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: getting you. I mean, his floor has been like eleven,

841
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: twelve points and and there's been certain games. He had

842
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 1: that huge game, the revenge game against Miami, one that

843
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 1: just went ballistic. It's nice to start a guy. It's

844
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: it's kind of like Julian Edman, right, It's nice to

845
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: start that guy where you know, you know minimum you're

846
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 1: getting twelve, thirteen, fourteen points from him every single week. Well,

847
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,560
Speaker 1: and Jarvis has sort of turned into that guy. Didn't

848
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 1: see it coming. But that's kind of where all right.

849
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: The matchup this week against Arizona is great. They struggled

850
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 1: against the slot and that could end up being a

851
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: high scoring game there in Arizona. So yeah, uh, it's

852
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,720
Speaker 1: gonna we want to watch that. It's gonna be interesting

853
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,919
Speaker 1: game because you know we I talked about that last week.

854
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: It's it's a battle of Heisman Trophy winners who were

855
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: former college teammates, with Kyler Murray coming behind Baker Mayfield

856
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: there at Oklahoma. Uh. Two defenses that you can give

857
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: up some points too, So this that could be a

858
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,759
Speaker 1: potentially interesting, should be fin fantasy game. Alright, look at

859
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: it just kind of week fifteen from a a you know,

860
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: the ten thousand foot view if you will, I know

861
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: you and Graham will get into it more in depth

862
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: on Friday. But I went through a handful of guys that,

863
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: um on paper seem like, you know, they're very startable,

864
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 1: like you want them in your lineup, but the matchups

865
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: maybe aren't great, um or maybe they are, So I

866
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: called it be brave or beware when it comes to

867
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,760
Speaker 1: starting some of these guys. The first one up Kirk Cousins,

868
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: who uh is it's playing very well. I know people

869
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: sort of like to kind of look down on Kirk

870
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 1: Cousins or whatever, but I mean, the dudes playing some

871
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: good football. He's the QB tin so far this season,

872
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: and he really is good for most weeks, you know,

873
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty points. He's got the Chargers, who I know,

874
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: the Chargers don't really have anything left to play for,

875
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: but defensively they're still pretty tough quarterbacks. I mean, look,

876
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: he's obviously not an automatic start, but I would think

877
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: that there are a lot of people who were probably

878
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 1: on the fence about Kirk. I am one of them.

879
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: I have him in one of my leagues. He's my

880
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 1: QB one. He has been for most of the second

881
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 1: half of the season. And I picked up Jared Goff

882
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: because I gotta think about it. I had picked up

883
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: Brian Fitzpatrick hoping to play him this week, but now

884
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: you know, with DeVante Parker her now Bert Wilson her,

885
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can trust fits magic uh

886
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,919
Speaker 1: throwing Isaiah Ford. So I went out and got golf

887
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: because the Cowboys have been horrible against quarterbacks, and so

888
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: I gotta think about that one that that's one of

889
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: those decisions where I'm gonna be like reaching out to

890
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,240
Speaker 1: Bob Harrison, like what should I do here? Man? Because

891
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: on the fence, Uh, you know there's a couple of

892
00:41:57,280 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: guys you know, like Bob in the industry and be like, hey,

893
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,799
Speaker 1: what do you think about this? Um? I mean he

894
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,839
Speaker 1: only had thirteen last week and we loved him. And

895
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: against Detroit, I mean it was game script. He wasn't terrible. Uh,

896
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: they didn't really need him to throw the football very much.

897
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:11,319
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, the Chargers have been really tough

898
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: on quarterbacks all season long. It's a road game. Um,

899
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 1: if I've got Ryan Tannehill, I'm fading uh Cousins. If

900
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: I've got Kyler, if I've got Garoppolo, maybe, if I

901
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: have Baker, if I have Jamis, I'm fading Cousins. And again,

902
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: my my can undrum is going to be do I

903
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: trust you Jared Goff, a guy that I've been crapping

904
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: out all year long against the Cowboys? Do I play

905
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 1: him over Kirk Cousins? And I have to still make

906
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: that decision. What do you think? Um? See, it's not easy. No,

907
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: it's definitely not easy. I think I think I would

908
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: lean towards cousins. What is the status of Adam feeling?

909
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 1: I guess that's another question. Adam idea, it would be

910
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: really nice to get him back, because then if I

911
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:00,879
Speaker 1: got feeling back, then I'm feeling a little bit better

912
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: about maybe starting Philip Rivers. But I have no idea

913
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: because it seems like there's been times where he's been

914
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: close to returning and then you know, we get the

915
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: rug pulled out from under us and we're like, I

916
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: can't play. I mean, a quick Google search says that

917
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: the Vikings are quote optimistic he will return against the Chargers.

918
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: But I feel like we've heard that. And that's also

919
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: that's also a late afternoon game out here in in Carson,

920
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like I feel like we've heard

921
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: this optimistic yeah or yeah, I gotta look, I gotta

922
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: see what time the Cowboys game is. Is Is that. I

923
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: don't know if that's a later game because it's it's

924
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,080
Speaker 1: you know, two big teams, it is it is an

925
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: afternoon game. Okay, So then so then I can figure

926
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: out who I'm going to start at that point. Probably

927
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,839
Speaker 1: that's what I'll do, um, Matt Ryan who last week

928
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan had twenty points, twenty one points against the

929
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,959
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. That was his first twenty point game

930
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: since weeks six. On paper, the Niner matchup is bad,

931
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: but we talked about earlier, right, no Richard Sherman, no

932
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 1: d Ford. So that pass rush, you know, takes a hit,

933
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: the the secondary takes a bit of a hit. I said,

934
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: I think it could be a high scoring game. I

935
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: know Matt Ryan has scared a lot of people off

936
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: right now, but weirdly enough, this might be a startable

937
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: spot for Matt Ryan. This is like, this is what

938
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: I told people like last week about Garopolo. I wrote

939
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: it and start him to said him, I didn't like

940
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: the matchup for Garoppolo, right because I'm looking at the numbers,

941
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: and but I did say this could go shootout, in

942
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,240
Speaker 1: which case Garoppolo goes off the numbers are suggesting because

943
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: you know, trust the process. Um, this is one of

944
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: those scenarios where it's it's very similar. Whereas that like,

945
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: this game could go bananas, and which case Matt Ryan

946
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: throws the ball over the field. You know, he did

947
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: lose one of his top options there and Ridley, as

948
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: we talked about a little bit earlier on, so that

949
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: could potentially hurt him. He's got Olamida zechias whatever. Yeah,

950
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: I I can't. I I can't play him. I can't

951
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:53,840
Speaker 1: trust him. It's a road game. I can't. I'm not

952
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: gonna trust him. I'm gonna do it. And you know, actually,

953
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: Jeff Racliff brought this up. I don't even think about this,

954
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: the revenge narrative for Kyle Shannon. And you know I

955
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: had overlooked that part. No, right, Yeah, revenge narratives are

956
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: just going out of control, control everywhere. But you know what, though,

957
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: we should go back and look like, how many like

958
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: Jarvis cold Beasley exactly. There's been a bunch of guys

959
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: who're gonna like when nuts'sally gonna do. That's gonna I'm

960
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: making a note. That's gonna be an offseason project. It

961
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: the revenge project. Last week, the charge of running backs

962
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: both just had huge days. I mean, everybody obviously remembers

963
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler. He had thirty one points a hundred yards rushing,

964
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: hundred yards receiving. But I mean, let's not overlook the

965
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: fact that novn Gordon still had nineteen points, right, I

966
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: mean he had to like almost eighty five scrimmage jars,

967
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: had five catches, had a touchdown. I mean, he had

968
00:45:43,960 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: a really nice day fantasy wise. Uh. These are two

969
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: guys that we know get the ball a lot in

970
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: this Charger's offense. That's good. The bad thing is they're

971
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,440
Speaker 1: playing the Vikings this week, who have been very good

972
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: against running backs. They don't even allow a lot of

973
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: receiving yards to running backs. It's not just rushing yards,

974
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: they just don't really let running backs beat them. I

975
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: feel like this is a big decision for a lot

976
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: of people. You know, do you how much faith do

977
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: you have in Melvin Gordon? How much faith do you

978
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: put in Austin Ekeler against a defense that really is

979
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: designed to kind of stop those guys. I'm playing those guys, man,

980
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon. But I mean he's been even when he's

981
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: been mediocre, he's still giving you a double digit points.

982
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: He's back to be in the Melvin Gordon that we

983
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: all know and love over the last few years as

984
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: a as a running back one. I'm playing him and

985
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: Eckler too. I mean Ekeler hunter receiving a hunter rushing

986
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: last week like very Roger Craig slash Marshall Fox esque

987
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: in his stat line, I'm playing him to like I mean,

988
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: I think I think the question this week is do

989
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: you play Mike Williams. That's the one that i'm a

990
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: little bit because the Vikings are terrible against perimeter receivers.

991
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: Uh and and you know we we've seen that, you know,

992
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: basically weekend and week out. So I think he's gonna

993
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:50,399
Speaker 1: be in a lot of line ups because you play

994
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: Mike because so many wide receivers are injured right now

995
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: to people who lost, I'm my cabinets are al Sean

996
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 1: Jeffrey or Marvin Jones. I mean, I think I think

997
00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 1: Mike Williams is gonna end up in a lot of

998
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: lines right there with you. Um this is a big one.

999
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, who has just I mean, he hasn't scored

1000
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: a touchdowns since Week three. He has two touchdowns. He

1001
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: scored them both in the same game that felt like

1002
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 1: a lifetime ago. Um I mentioned on Fantasy Live that

1003
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,919
Speaker 1: the the Saints are throwing the bottle of something. Grhand

1004
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 1: Barfield actually pointed out to the Saints are throwing the

1005
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: ball inside the ten yard line more than they are

1006
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 1: running it. Last year it was the other way around.

1007
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:27,320
Speaker 1: Um and even when they do run it, Tavis Murray's

1008
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 1: getting a lot of those touches. The Colts defense has

1009
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: been pretty good this year. So I know it's hard

1010
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: because you you probably spent the top three or four

1011
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 1: pick on Alvin Kamara. It's hard to sit him at

1012
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: this point in the year. But man, this is just

1013
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 1: not You can't feel comfortable about it. No, you can't,

1014
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: not at all. And he's had two touchdowns all year long.

1015
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: This is guy who had thirty one touchdowns in the

1016
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: first two seasons. But you could have thrown out a

1017
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,800
Speaker 1: lot of stats at me in in the preseason and said,

1018
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:58,399
Speaker 1: and just like wild stats and Alvin Camara scoring only

1019
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: two touchdowns would have been one. I would have said,

1020
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: you're out of your mind, honestly. So we just know

1021
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: what we get projections in from. You know about sourcing

1022
00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: our projections, and in some instances here further side, and

1023
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: every year we go through them and we look at

1024
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: to see the things they just seemed really egregiously bad.

1025
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 1: If they came back to us and said, Alvin Camaro

1026
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: is gonna have two touchdowns. We would have been like,

1027
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: send this back, Yeah, send it back. You may want,

1028
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 1: you may want to see what you want to check

1029
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,800
Speaker 1: that again, Like, yeah, you're right, but I mean he

1030
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: he single handedly knocked me out of the league last week, um,

1031
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: because I mean I think I lost by like five

1032
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: or six points and he had like five six points.

1033
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, all I needed was, you know, thirteen from

1034
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: Camara not asking too much, and he's been a disappointment.

1035
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:39,839
Speaker 1: You know what it is. It's it's what I used

1036
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 1: to call the Craig Bigio conundrum. Um, you know, like

1037
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: when I played Fantasy baseball, It's like it's that thing

1038
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: where you you see a team and they score like

1039
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 1: fifteen runs, but your guys, the dude who's like one

1040
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: for six. That's that's what last week was. Like. The

1041
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: Saints put up all these points, they moved the ball

1042
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: up and down the field, and somehow Alvin Camara gets

1043
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: six points. Yeah I know, yeah exactly. It was. It

1044
00:49:03,080 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: was again one of those situations where you know, if

1045
00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 1: you had told me the same sort of score that

1046
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: many points before the game, I would have been like, oh,

1047
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:13,760
Speaker 1: Camara is gonna go off. Probably happen. Quick update from

1048
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 1: our own Ian Rappaport. Raiders running back Josh Jacobs underwent

1049
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: an m r I on his ailing shoulder after not

1050
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: playing on Sunday, but the scans checked out very positively

1051
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,719
Speaker 1: sourced to say, and Jacobs is expected to return to

1052
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 1: the field this week, barring a setback, should be just

1053
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: a one week absence. So if you spent your waiver

1054
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:36,280
Speaker 1: reclaim on DeAndre Washington, sorry about your luck. Sorry about

1055
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:40,280
Speaker 1: your luck, U. But Josh Jacobs in a huge spot

1056
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: though against the Jaguars this week. So there yep. So

1057
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: that that's that That goes from you know, having DeAndre

1058
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: uh and and being very happy about potentially being able

1059
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: to flex him to I just blew away re claim

1060
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:58,440
Speaker 1: on a guy who I can't play pretty much. So

1061
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: there you go. Uh. Last one for be brave or

1062
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: beware Courtland Sutton, who has you know, had a breakout

1063
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: season this year for the Broncos um is you know,

1064
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: even Withdrew lock Is getting in, getting targets, getting that

1065
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: sort of thing. But the Chiefs have been tough on

1066
00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,839
Speaker 1: on wide receivers that play on the outside. Um, I mean,

1067
00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: are we are we confident enough in Courtland Sutton that

1068
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,359
Speaker 1: we're giving him a run this week. Yeah, dude, He's

1069
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: still in my top twenty and he didn't have a

1070
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: great game last week, but he is. He has overcome

1071
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: so many tough matchups this year. I'm still playing him.

1072
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: I will tell you this though. As good as Drew

1073
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:36,000
Speaker 1: Lock looked last week, I'm expecting major, major regression from

1074
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: him this week. Arrowhead Stadium is one of the loudest

1075
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: arenas excuse me stadiums and in the entire league. He

1076
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 1: is going to be under pressure from that Chiefs front seven.

1077
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: They are still playing for playoff seating. It's a rivalry game,

1078
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,239
Speaker 1: you know, Broncos Chiefs a f C. West. I love

1079
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs defense this week. With that being said, Sutton

1080
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: is still I mean, at worst, you're flexing him that way.

1081
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 1: At best he's probably a wide receiver too, but at

1082
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: worst reflecting him yeah, um yeah, I mean there is

1083
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 1: another guy who his draft stock is willing to go

1084
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 1: through the roof. Oh yeah, do next year? Man? Yeah,

1085
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 1: I mean he he was already sort of like on

1086
00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: that like sleeper breakout list going into twenty nine. But

1087
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna expect him, I would think, uh, you know,

1088
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,320
Speaker 1: as as a fantasy industry to make that next step

1089
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: to being an absolute stud in no doubt. Uh, before

1090
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: get out of here. Just a handful of guys that

1091
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: maybe still on your roster that maybe you shouldn't be

1092
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 1: on your roster anymore. Uh. And you can tell me

1093
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: whether you agree or disagree, or maybe you have some

1094
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 1: more even John Brown, who the last few weeks has

1095
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: not really done much. The schedule isn't great the rest

1096
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 1: of the way for for the Brown or for you

1097
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 1: the Bill's wide receivers. I mean, this week they've got

1098
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Next week they've got the Patriots. I feel

1099
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: like John Brown, media, it's time to to say goodbye

1100
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: if you need to fill your roster somewhere else. Yeah.

1101
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: And and we've sort of said that because when we

1102
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 1: looked at his matchups late in the season and he

1103
00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: was balling, I told people like to sell high on

1104
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:02,359
Speaker 1: him because his match get bad. Pittsburgh's defense is good,

1105
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 1: but they're really good at home. And then I believe

1106
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: they have the Patriots right after that. So I mean, like,

1107
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,040
Speaker 1: at this point, if you want to go out and

1108
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,920
Speaker 1: get a hot free agent, it seems weird to say, right,

1109
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 1: John Brown is not a guy that you can trust

1110
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,359
Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks. And we've only got

1111
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: two left in the fantasy playoffs. Yeah, you know, it's funny.

1112
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: I was thinking around, uh, you know, through our the

1113
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 1: roster percentages and that sort of thing. Sammy Watkins is

1114
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 1: still on a shockingly high number of rosters on NFL.

1115
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 1: I feel that's just like a name thing, Like read

1116
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: the name and they want a part of the Chief's offense.

1117
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: Almost rosters has Sammy Watkins and like literally he had.

1118
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: He had the huge ball game in Week one for

1119
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. Has done nothing since. Yea, he hasn't even scored.

1120
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 1: He hasn't even had a fourteen point game since then.

1121
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: And you don't want him against Denver. You're not gonna

1122
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,399
Speaker 1: play him against the against the Broncos, right, you're gonna

1123
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: play him against the Bears either. So um, yeah, I

1124
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: mean I was. I saw it yesterday and was floored.

1125
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: Guys say this too. You know when you're in the playoffs.

1126
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,239
Speaker 1: I said this, you know over a week ago that

1127
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: you can't have dudes on your team that you're not

1128
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: gonna use. And you look at the schedule. You're not

1129
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: gonna use Sammy Watkins, right, I mean, I'm just saying, like,

1130
00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: I don't like having dead spots on my roster. I

1131
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,359
Speaker 1: would rather go out and look at my opponent's roster

1132
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: and see that he needs a tight end or he

1133
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:27,120
Speaker 1: needs a defense or whatever the case may be, and

1134
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: go out and block him and drop a guy like

1135
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins. I'm not gonna use him. Yeah, I really

1136
00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:33,439
Speaker 1: do think it is just people just want a piece

1137
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs offense. But that was last year and

1138
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 1: for the first half of this year. Having a piece

1139
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs offense right now is not all that

1140
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: great shakes. It's not ye A J. Brown is a

1141
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: better finished receiver by a freaking mile that Sammy Watkins. Right,

1142
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 1: like I said, I saw that yesterday. It was just

1143
00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: just my mouth was hanging open with him. Latavius Murray,

1144
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: who I thought, even after Alvin Kamara would come back

1145
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: from injury, that Murray would still have a role in

1146
00:53:55,960 --> 00:54:00,439
Speaker 1: the offense. Um he obviously hasn't. He's very really getting

1147
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: touches right now, and maybe he's getting touches near the

1148
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: goal line, but it just is not consistent enough I

1149
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: think to keep him on the roster. Uh. Look, if

1150
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: you need running back help. I think there are other

1151
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: options out there. Apparently not DeAndre Washington now, but no,

1152
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: I know, but there are other options out there. I

1153
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,440
Speaker 1: think you can say goodbye to Otavias Murray too. So

1154
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: before we go, you know, we have this uh this

1155
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: podcast listeners league that we had. We we did a

1156
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: little contest there at um uh the yard house there

1157
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: and Murney Delay and our Palatie was there and Eddie's

1158
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: in the league. And Eddie and I are playing each

1159
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,760
Speaker 1: other this week. Um, I think I'm the two seed

1160
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:36,879
Speaker 1: and you are the five Where the five seed? So

1161
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: because I I feel very shameful, I had to wear

1162
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 1: Chicago Bearers jersey this this week because I lost a

1163
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: bet with Seth Rollins because the Cowboys stink. I'm gonna

1164
00:54:48,719 --> 00:54:52,720
Speaker 1: offer this wager up to you, Mr Murphy, because you

1165
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:54,319
Speaker 1: are a fan of the team I hate the most

1166
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:56,879
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, and I am a fan

1167
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:58,399
Speaker 1: of the team you hate the most in the National

1168
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:02,720
Speaker 1: Football So, so why don't we do a little jersey wager.

1169
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: We'll have to pay it off either Monday or Wednesday

1170
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: next week, depending on when the matchup is finalized. If

1171
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:10,720
Speaker 1: I win, you have to wear a Cowboys jersey throughout

1172
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: the entire podcast. Um, and if you win, I gotta

1173
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: wear a Giants jersey throughout the entire show. Doesn't have

1174
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 1: to be a specific player like a player that the

1175
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: or just just the jersey. Like so I wouldn't wear

1176
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,879
Speaker 1: mitche Trobisky, I work lel Mac. I actually didn't feel

1177
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: that bad about it because I like Lil Mack. But right,

1178
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 1: like you should have to wear likes whoever whoever you want,

1179
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: so I can't wear like now, well we have we

1180
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: have a whole bunch of jerseys over in the in

1181
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 1: the right. So so like I don't know who it'll be.

1182
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: I'll pick one out for you, but I feel like

1183
00:55:40,760 --> 00:55:43,439
Speaker 1: you probably don't like I don't know. We'll figure it out,

1184
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 1: but that'll be it. So you know, like Eddie Rocket

1185
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 1: of Jason Witten jersey is one of my favorites, it

1186
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: won't be that would be somebody I'm I'm trying to

1187
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: think of, like maybe Zeke. You hate Zeke, you can't

1188
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 1: like Zack Martin or the other guy. It's fine, don't

1189
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,439
Speaker 1: think they're gonna have that love that he's trying to find,

1190
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 1: Like the loopholes here to make it okay. Probably bemuz.

1191
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:07,879
Speaker 1: I would think it'll be UZQ and then you could

1192
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:09,399
Speaker 1: throw like I don't know. I don't have to wear

1193
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 1: like Eli. I don't know something like that. Man, Right,

1194
00:56:12,800 --> 00:56:15,879
Speaker 1: I'm all for you. Okay, cool, I like I kind

1195
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: of like my squad. I'm feeling pretty good. Let's let's

1196
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 1: have Marcus, although Marcus always goes against me here, I

1197
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to do this. I'm let's

1198
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's go. Uh, well, before we before we

1199
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:29,399
Speaker 1: leave here, I'm gonna bring up the let's chump here.

1200
00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:31,840
Speaker 1: Here you go, Marcus. There's the matchup right there. Okay,

1201
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: you tell me, let's see, well who's gonna win? There

1202
00:56:36,560 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: you go? Huh man, uh the quarterback this week is

1203
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:45,239
Speaker 1: pretty even because uh what ed he's got. So I'm

1204
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: gonna have to change that now because i had Daniel

1205
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: Washington in my line up, So I'm gonna end up

1206
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: having to put in Mike White. Yeah, you put Mike Williams.

1207
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: Probably to put on Mike Williams in or go to

1208
00:56:53,760 --> 00:57:00,399
Speaker 1: the way wire. Um oh man, I so I hes

1209
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: fabs you've got You've got the RB one advantage. I

1210
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,239
Speaker 1: think with Zeke over over leve Bell but I think

1211
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,280
Speaker 1: he's got a slight advantage at RB two with Derrick

1212
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 1: Henry over over Chris Carson's especially especially definitely close, I

1213
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 1: think right now, especially if Adam Felan doesn't play, Eddie's

1214
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 1: got a wide receiver to advantage. You're playing the Chargers. Yeah,

1215
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 1: that's a tough matchup. I got d J Moore against Seattle,

1216
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: and I got Gallada, who's gonna get all the freaking

1217
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: talks against I think is is is an advantage, but

1218
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: I just you know DJ more, I know he's played well.

1219
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: I just don't trust Kyle Allen. I think is my bigger,

1220
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: my bigger issue there. Um, the Travis Kelsey versus J

1221
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: That's is a huge instruction. Although although you know, I

1222
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: mean the matchup is not great for Kelsey. I'm just

1223
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: trying to talk myself and now you are how you

1224
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: You've got the Niners defense, and after week sort of

1225
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 1: I haven't. But again I'm still I'm thinking about I

1226
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:52,160
Speaker 1: still got potentially to make Actually, wait a minute, I

1227
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,560
Speaker 1: have Mostart on my bench, so most Are will go

1228
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: in for DeAndre Washington and all these all these games

1229
00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 1: you can't go against most Are. You can't do that

1230
00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 1: all these are Sunday players to write, there no money

1231
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: and Goddard is actually gonna go in for Hollistair. So okay, yeah,

1232
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: I haven't set my line up yet. This is gonna

1233
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:10,479
Speaker 1: go all the way down to Sunday though. It's gonna

1234
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:12,439
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna come to the end of the day.

1235
00:58:12,640 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun you

1236
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: and I right now. But we're we're we're on cloud nine, man,

1237
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: right now. I got my Yankees gearon. You got your

1238
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: Yankees gearon. We're in cloud nine right now. So we

1239
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 1: can't really be enemies, both of our football garbage. So

1240
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 1: we're fine. So we're gonna have a little fun with this.

1241
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: Uh next week, I will tell you. I will admit

1242
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: to this. When I was a kid, my dad's a

1243
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 1: Giants fan. I did wear a Lawrence Taylor jersey. I

1244
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 1: had a Lawrence Taylor jersey my father bought for me

1245
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: because we went to the Giants Packers. It was the

1246
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: first football game I've ever been to. Lynn Dickey was

1247
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:47,480
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers. You don't even

1248
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: know who it is because you're still just a youngster.

1249
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: You remember who lynd Dicky is okay. He number twelve

1250
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: of used to wear the weird face mask. Um and

1251
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: I did wear a Lawrence Taylor jersey to that game

1252
00:58:59,320 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: just for my ad. But that's the last time I

1253
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: ever wear Giants jersey. Well, you gotta wear but potentially

1254
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: last week, could last time next week, so we'll see,

1255
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: we'll see. All right, that's it. We are done. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to Jeff Radcliffe for his time. As always check him

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Speaker 1: out of Pro Football Focus or on Twitter at Jeff

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Speaker 1: Ratcliffe as well. We appreciate you downloading and listening. You

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Speaker 1: know the drill. Tell two friends to tell two friends,

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Speaker 1: rate review and remember if you lose a shoe at midnight,

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Speaker 1: you're not in a fairy tale. You're just drunk. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you on Friday. Warm. I'm going, I'm going.