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Speaker 1: this time for the Fantasy Football Focus and yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: dig in here for a week fourteen matchups. Hopefully, uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's been more variants that maybe some other years, just

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Speaker 1: eighty or more points. That really hasn't happened this issue.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna let Bosa crush him especially. I think

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