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Speaker 2: You're saying that humans need fantasy to make life.

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Speaker 1: Bearable, Humans need fantasy to be human. My goodness that.

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Speaker 2: I suppose the best, relentless, refusing to give up.

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Speaker 1: All right, hit that horn very less there, Hello, and welcome.

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Speaker 2: To the Fantasy Flex podcast, a sented by Pisis. I'm

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Speaker 2: your host, Samtha Uvidi.

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Speaker 3: On today's episode of twenty one questions, I am so

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Speaker 3: happy to be joined by the one and only Andy

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Speaker 3: barrens analyst, personality, thought leader at Duthy Fantasy.

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Speaker 2: You can find on Twitter at Andy Barren's Welcome to

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Speaker 2: the Fantasy Flex and Andy, how was your Week six?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: It was pretty good. It was pretty good in part

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Speaker 3: Did you end up watching the end of it or

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Speaker 2: Us fair enough.

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Speaker 3: How did your fantasy weeks go? How many leagues are

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Speaker 2: Totally understand.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this Tampa game definitely feels like it's like a

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Speaker 3: The next guy we're going to talk about is Chris Godwin.

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Speaker 1: where even in a even in a very high yield

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Speaker 1: offense like this, and that's and that's going to go

436
00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,040
Speaker 1: on all season two, right because they you know, the

437
00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:41,840
Speaker 1: friendly defense is within the division. Nobody's really completely put

438
00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:43,960
Speaker 1: the brakes on them yet. Like it's just a great team.

439
00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,879
Speaker 1: Godwin's a great player and he's going to have a

440
00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 1: handful of spike weeks, but we it would be fair

441
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Speaker 1: to say that we can't think of any of these

442
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Speaker 1: guys Brown included, as players who are going to fall

443
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Speaker 1: into that like you know Stefan Diggs situation last year

444
00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:02,120
Speaker 1: where just every week is eight catches and or a touchdown.

445
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,560
Speaker 1: Like it's not going to be like that. God One

446
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 1: had a quiet week, but he caught every target. You know,

447
00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:10,040
Speaker 1: he's still one of the absolute best at his position,

448
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,199
Speaker 1: and it at least he's not mired in like the

449
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson situation, right, like where the volume is always

450
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 1: going to be low and all we can hope for

451
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Speaker 1: is a touchdown. I mean, I just feel like Godwin

452
00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:24,920
Speaker 1: is gonna have. He's got three weeks ahead of him

453
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,000
Speaker 1: in which he in which he gives us twenty plus

454
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Speaker 1: Fantasy points. Maybe maybe it's more than that, So I'm

455
00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:32,199
Speaker 1: not particularly worried. Like you can be disappointed that he

456
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 1: wasn't the you know, they spun the wheel and it

457
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,399
Speaker 1: didn't land on on Godwin last week, but you can't

458
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,480
Speaker 1: feel bad about rostering and moving forward.

459
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you do have to start him every

460
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Speaker 3: week just because of the upside. But here you are

461
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Speaker 3: segueing us into the next guy. It's like you have

462
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Speaker 3: the script in front of you.

463
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Speaker 2: Klan. Robinson yet to score.

464
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Speaker 3: Double digit Fantasy points once this year, has fewer targets,

465
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Speaker 3: receptions and receiving yards event Darnell Mooney, are we totally

466
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,880
Speaker 3: out on a rob rest of season? Is he in

467
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,359
Speaker 3: your burn book? And you can tell me as a

468
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Speaker 3: fan and as.

469
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Speaker 1: An analyst, I feel like you have. You've managed to

470
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Speaker 1: book the one guest who wouldn't say that he's that

471
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,320
Speaker 1: he's in the book. I like, I still think of

472
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Speaker 1: Alan Robinson as a as like a real life top twelve,

473
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Speaker 1: top fifteen receiver. I've certainly seen no indication that he's

474
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 1: slipping right, Like he's not. He's not necessarily a guy

475
00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 1: who who wins by you know, he doesn't win through

476
00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:34,000
Speaker 1: sheer speed or anything like that. He's not Tyreek Hill.

477
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,120
Speaker 1: He's just an absolute master of his craft in terms

478
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 1: of both route running and utilizing leverage against defensive backs.

479
00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:45,160
Speaker 1: Like anytime he's single covered, he's open and the ball

480
00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 1: should be in the air. I do think it's reasonable

481
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Speaker 1: to worry that with a player like Fields, who's going

482
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Speaker 1: to take some time to come along, and like Fields

483
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Speaker 1: is adjusting from like what it looks like when a

484
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Speaker 1: receiver is open at Ohio State to what it looks

485
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Speaker 1: like when a receiver is open in the NFL. Those

486
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 1: are just really different things. Like at Ohio State sometimes

487
00:23:04,320 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 1: there's not a defensive back in the camera frame, and

488
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: in the NFL there's usually a guy who's like a

489
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: step away right and that's open, and he's got to

490
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Speaker 1: adjust to that. Fields has made some nice throws to Robinson.

491
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: Robinson has had a couple of notable drops this year,

492
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,919
Speaker 1: which is really unfortunate. But we don't really like you

493
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 1: don't really think of drops as something that are super

494
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:27,560
Speaker 1: repeatable for a great player, but dropped passes within the

495
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,520
Speaker 1: context of an offense that only wants to put the

496
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Speaker 1: ball near twenty to twenty five times as kind of

497
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Speaker 1: a killer. So that's the worry with him. But I

498
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:37,439
Speaker 1: but I don't think he's you know, Darneld Mooney has

499
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: caught a couple of touchdowns and he was wide open

500
00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:42,879
Speaker 1: for a touchdown on Sunday. But they're seeing they're seeing

501
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:46,400
Speaker 1: basically the same volume. I want to say that Robinson

502
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,199
Speaker 1: had more receiving yards against Green Bay, not that not

503
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,800
Speaker 1: that either one of them had had a huge receiving day,

504
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm kind of in the same spot with

505
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: him that I am with Fields, where like, if the

506
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: if the game, if the game plan doesn't shift in

507
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: a in a major way, a profound way against Tampa,

508
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:04,800
Speaker 1: then I gotta kind of throw my hands in the

509
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: air and finally take the l on Robinson and just say, well,

510
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: it's not going to happen, because this is the one

511
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 1: game that just screams, screams, you got to throw the

512
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Speaker 1: ball forty times. And if they don't, and if I'm

513
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 1: looking at the box score after the Tampa game and

514
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,800
Speaker 1: they've again thrown the ball twenty four times and Khalil

515
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,680
Speaker 1: Herbert has rushed twenty two times for forty four yards

516
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Speaker 1: or something like that. Like then I'll be like, Okay,

517
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: we're done here. I guess he's a drop. But I'm like,

518
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,480
Speaker 1: at this point, I still just believe in the talent.

519
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree.

520
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Speaker 3: I do hope there is still I still have hope

521
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Speaker 3: that there is an Alan Robinson breakout game.

522
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Speaker 2: Upcoming.

523
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Speaker 3: I feel like it's it's more that the Bears are

524
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 3: in my burn book right now and not Alan.

525
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Speaker 1: That I totally understand.

526
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So the final guy we're going to talk about

527
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 2: is Robert Tuyan. So he was the guy that was

528
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Speaker 2: drafted top twelve.

529
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Speaker 3: Scored two or fewer points though in five of six

530
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Speaker 3: games this year. On one hand, we like having exposure

531
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Speaker 3: in high scoring offenses and like having guys that are

532
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 3: catching passes from Aaron Rodgers. But on the other hand,

533
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Speaker 3: he doesn't have more than three catches all year. Is

534
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Speaker 3: he droppable to you and totally in your bird book?

535
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. I would confidently say that he's a

536
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,639
Speaker 1: that he's a potential drop, and that doesn't mean that

537
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 1: he's not going to have like a three catch, you know,

538
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,679
Speaker 1: thirty five yard one touchdown game or even several of

539
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: them coming up at some point. But the I mean,

540
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 1: this volume is too low, right, Like, the volume is

541
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:35,280
Speaker 1: way too low. We've already seen other tight ends basically

542
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: emerge as the Robert Tunyans of twenty twenty one. You know,

543
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Speaker 1: like hopefully, hopefully you got on Dawson, Knox, Schultz at

544
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: any number of guys right that are kind of filling

545
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Speaker 1: the role in elite offenses that Tunyan did last year.

546
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Speaker 1: We're just not going to get a fifty touchdown season

547
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,000
Speaker 1: out of Aaron Rodgers. It's not headed that way, right,

548
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: And that that is kind of what propped up Tanyan's

549
00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,000
Speaker 1: value last year. I mean, he had so many touchdowns,

550
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,239
Speaker 1: where like you have so many difficult choices to make

551
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: when you face the Packers passing game, and defenses would

552
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,439
Speaker 1: just you know, they lost him and he had like

553
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 1: walk in easy scores. It's just not happening this time around.

554
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:18,359
Speaker 1: And I get like Rodgers is great, and of course

555
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: Rogers can go off for four or five passing touchdowns

556
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Speaker 1: in any given week, but so far this year, you know,

557
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: it looks more like the I guess I would say

558
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 1: like the twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen version of Aaron

559
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,400
Speaker 1: Rodgers where he's still brilliant and he's still a step

560
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 1: ahead of everybody, and he can still put the ball

561
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Speaker 1: wherever he wants to, but he's not, you know, just

562
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,639
Speaker 1: nuclear mode, where he like every time they get at

563
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,199
Speaker 1: the one yard line, the ball's going in the air,

564
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Speaker 1: and he wants to finish the season with forty eight

565
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 1: fifty touchdown passes and he's just assaulting teams like that,

566
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Speaker 1: like it's been two touchdowns a week, which is great.

567
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,680
Speaker 1: He's a wonderful player. He never gives the ball away,

568
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: but at two touchdowns a week, I don't think he

569
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Speaker 1: can support Robert Tunyan.

570
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Speaker 2: I agree.

571
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Speaker 3: He was definitely a guy that I was fading, and

572
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 3: he is now in my burn book. So I'll do

573
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Speaker 3: it for this segment. Next up here on the Fantasy Flex,

574
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Speaker 3: it's our elite entry segment where I am going to

575
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 3: dive into the Prize Picks app to build some entries.

576
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 2: I'm going to identify some markets.

577
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 3: I like, you build your own price for centuries and

578
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 3: all of us have a little fun and make some money.

579
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 3: So today I'm going to look at four week seven

580
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 3: quarterback plays on Price Picks can you believe it is

581
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 3: already Week seven? It is going to be a buy

582
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 3: Nato by the way for fantasy. But let us just

583
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:34,960
Speaker 3: jump in to look at some of the guys that

584
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,399
Speaker 3: are playing this week. So the first play I like

585
00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 3: is justin fields over two hundred ten and a half

586
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 3: passing yards on the road in Tampa Bay.

587
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,920
Speaker 2: This would be a career high for justin Fields.

588
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 3: But if it's going to have in poor fields, it's

589
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 3: gotta be this game. The Bucks past defense is super

590
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,199
Speaker 3: super banged up and has given up a ton of

591
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 3: yards and points.

592
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 2: They rake the sixth worst in the NFL in yards

593
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 2: per game.

594
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 3: And if the Bears are smart, which okay, I'm not

595
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 3: sure if they are, but if they're smart, they were

596
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:06,479
Speaker 3: going to abandon the run and chuck it like forty

597
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 3: plus times.

598
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,879
Speaker 2: I think that that is the only way that they're going.

599
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:14,040
Speaker 3: To stay within like two touchdowns of the Buccaneers. And

600
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 3: you know, we've seen coaches like Bill Belichick, and I'm

601
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 3: certainly not comparing Bill Belichick and Matt Naggie, but I've seen.

602
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 2: Other coaches have success when.

603
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:25,640
Speaker 3: Or at least a little bit of a success when

604
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,639
Speaker 3: they just completely abented the run. So I'm hoping to

605
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 3: see Justin Fields sort of air it out, if only

606
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 3: for my shares in Alan Robinson and Darnell Mooney. But yes,

607
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 3: I love him to go over two hundred and ten

608
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 3: and a half passing yards just based.

609
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,040
Speaker 2: On matches alone.

610
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,719
Speaker 3: The next one I like is MATC Jones under two

611
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 3: hundred and forty and a half passing yards at home

612
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 3: versus the Jets.

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00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 2: So we hit the mac Jones under last week. We

614
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 2: actually hit well, there's.

615
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 3: One game still pending right now as I'm recording this,

616
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,880
Speaker 3: but we hit two so far, so.

617
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 2: Let's just keep it rolling. So we hit the under

618
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 2: last week. The Jets have not done too too much

619
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: right this year. They are on a one game plain streak.

620
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 3: But they have managed to keep their games, mostly losses,

621
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 3: low scoring. These two teams did meet first earlier in

622
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 3: the year. The game ended twenty five, a six in

623
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 3: favor of the Patriots, and I could honestly say this.

624
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 2: Being another thirty point game, both of these offenses haven't

625
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 2: shown tons of life.

626
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 3: I know the Patriots kind of put up a number

627
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 3: of points last week against the Cowboys. I mean that

628
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 3: was an overtime game, but certainly didn't look die exciting.

629
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,840
Speaker 3: Jones passed for just one hundred and eighty six yards

630
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 3: in the team's last meeting with zero touchdowns, and he

631
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 3: has only passed for two at least two hundred and.

632
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 2: Forty yards three times this year.

633
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 3: So I think there's a good chance at this game

634
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 3: is just really low scoring and maybe means a little

635
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 3: bit more on the run and he goes under there.

636
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 3: I also Zack Wilson on the other side of the

637
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 3: ball to hit the under. His over under for passing

638
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 3: yards is two hundred twenty five. This is the second time,

639
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 3: like I said, that these teams have met. The first

640
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 3: time was an absolute nightmare for Zack Wilson.

641
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:15,960
Speaker 2: I don't know if you remember that game.

642
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 3: Bill Belichick, who is just like rookie quarterback kryptonite, completely

643
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 3: shut down Wilson and held him to two hundred and

644
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 3: ten yards zero touchdowns. Wilson also made the Pats defense

645
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 3: look like the eighty five Bears with foreign interceptions. I

646
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 3: expect this to be another difficult day for the rookie

647
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: in Foxborough, so I like him to go under the

648
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 3: two hundred twenty five and a half. And then finally,

649
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 3: I like James both Winston to go over two hundred

650
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 3: fifteen and a half passing yards on the road in

651
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 3: Seattle after starting slow from a passing volumes Like from

652
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 3: a passing volume standpoint, sorry, he's definitely turned it around

653
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Speaker 3: of late. It's a far cry from like, you know,

654
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Speaker 3: the fifty passing attempt three hundred passing yard games that

655
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Speaker 3: we were used to seeing in twenty nineteen from Jamis.

656
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 3: But he would have hit the over in this number

657
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 3: in each of the last two games that he played.

658
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 3: He's going to be well rested coming off with the

659
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 3: Saints Week six five. By the way, he looked like

660
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 3: he had some great chemistry with Marquez Callaway, who was

661
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 3: kind of like the preseason phenom.

662
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 2: I think he should be able to rack up.

663
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 3: A decent amount of yardage against Seattle's Swiss Cheese secondary.

664
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Speaker 3: Say that five times past went which is giving up

665
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Speaker 3: the fifth most passing yards per game at two hundred

666
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Speaker 3: ninety two point three, which is one spot worse than

667
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668
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Speaker 2: So they have been absolutely terrible against the pass.

669
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Speaker 3: I like him to go over all right, So that

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673
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676
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Speaker 3: All right, let's just keep it moving here on twenty

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Speaker 3: one questions. Our next segment is called a full send

692
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 3: or that's cap, which is sort of the opposite of

693
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Speaker 3: the last one. I'm going to give you five players

694
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 3: whose values are on the rise, and.

695
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 2: I want to know, are you sending it on this

696
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 2: player or is that CAP?

697
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,000
Speaker 3: So I'm not going to like patronize or anything, but

698
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 3: send is a it's like a ski term when you're

699
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 3: like jumping off a cliff. You're like, oh, I'm going

700
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 3: full send. I'm gonna throw a backflip or like whatever.

701
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: I'm see.

702
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: Glad you clarified that I'm not a winter sports person.

703
00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: You could not you could not get me to fall

704
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: down a mountain on sticks. It's just not going to happen.

705
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 2: Totally fair, It's totally fair.

706
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 3: So yeah, and then CAP obviously is like that's crap,

707
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 3: it's not a real thing.

708
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 2: So anyway, our first player is a Kirk Cousins.

709
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 3: What I don't get is he has struggled in some

710
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 3: easier matchups see Week five versus Detroit, but then shows

711
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 3: up against Carolina and throws for three hundred and seventy

712
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 3: three yards, three touchdowns and zero interceptions. Are you going

713
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 3: full send on Cousins as a viable QB one streamer?

714
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 3: And like if you have him as a manager, like

715
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 3: would you advise managers to hang on to him through

716
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 3: his Week seven by.

717
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: So that's a That's an interesting point about the about

718
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: the bye week ahead, by the way, with all these

719
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: like it's the Chargers, it's the Bills, it's the Vikings,

720
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: it's the Steelers. Who am I leaving out Dallas Jacksonville?

721
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: Like it's all these good players, all these good quarterbacks.

722
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: There's there's actually going to be like a handful of

723
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 1: leagues where you know, I think Kirk Cousins is probably

724
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,520
Speaker 1: eighty percent roster at seventy five percent rostered at Yahoo,

725
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: but like people are going to drop him because it's

726
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: such a difficult week. I'm full send on him, and

727
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: like he obviously has had his issues over the years,

728
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: but he's tied to such good receivers and he is

729
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 1: playing so well right now, and there's I'm sure at

730
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: some point we're going to get the random, you know,

731
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: Kirk Trapp game where he coughs up a dud again

732
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: in a matchup that seems perfect like that that's happened

733
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: throughout his career. But his best games are are all

734
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: going to be like three hundred and thirty five yards

735
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: and three touchdowns. I feel high degree of confidence in

736
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. They're also it's not you know this isn't

737
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: a dominant defense, and so there have been points in

738
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: the past where it really feels like the Vikings, if

739
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: they could, would would just throw the ball twenty two

740
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: times and they'd lean on Dalvin Cook and a good defense.

741
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: And I just don't think that's the identity of this team.

742
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:51,520
Speaker 1: Like I think the identity of this team is that,

743
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, feeling is still great, and Justin Jefferson is

744
00:34:55,160 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: an ascending star, and Kirk Cousins is a veteran who

745
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:05,680
Speaker 1: is just at that perfect point of experience and you know,

746
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 1: like he's seen everything there is to see. He still

747
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: has all the physical tools that he's ever had, and

748
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 1: he's probably going to deliver one of his best seasons

749
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:16,759
Speaker 1: as long as he stays healthy. So any given a week,

750
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: any given opponent, three thirty five, three fifty and three

751
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: touchdowns is definitely on the table for Kirk. So I'm in,

752
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: I'm holding them.

753
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 2: That is great to know.

754
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 3: kJ Osborne popped off on my bench, so at least

755
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:34,399
Speaker 3: I have him. Yeah, certainly interesting to see how he

756
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 3: performs in like different matchups, because like I said, he

757
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 3: definitely will put up like a really bad game against

758
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:42,760
Speaker 3: a bad defense.

759
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 2: And it's pretty head scratching.

760
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 3: But anyway, the next govern to talk about another Bear

761
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 3: is Darnell Mooney.

762
00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:51,439
Speaker 2: So as mentioned before, he's got more.

763
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 3: He's doing better than Alan Robinson in pretty much every category,

764
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 3: though their volume is very similar, and he will finish

765
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 3: as a top twenty four receiver for the second.

766
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 2: Time this year.

767
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,800
Speaker 3: For this week, are we going full send on Mooney

768
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,240
Speaker 3: as the wide receiver one in this offense?

769
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 2: And is he a viable starter for fantasy? Because he

770
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 2: is I don't want to say widely available, but he's

771
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 2: under fifty percent.

772
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: So you know what's he's weirdly available. And I write

773
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: the pickups column for for Yahoo each week and I

774
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: almost left him out because I didn't even check his

775
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,840
Speaker 1: roster percentage because why would he be Why would he

776
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: only be rostered in forty four percent of leagues? It

777
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,880
Speaker 1: seems strange. That's obviously going to change because there's like

778
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,760
Speaker 1: a dozen you know, wide receiver ones and wide receiver

779
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 1: twos on by this week, so he's gonna get scooped

780
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: up everywhere. I'm just I'm not with the people who

781
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 1: are suggesting that he is the Bears clear wide receiver one.

782
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: That's just that's not in the target totals he's he's had,

783
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: He's made some wonderful plays, Like everybody had him as

784
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: a sleeper coming into this year because he was like

785
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 1: his his time speed just absolutely translated to the field.

786
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: Last year, Bears couldn't really make it happen for him

787
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 1: because you know, they just the line couldn't block for

788
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: any of these deep routes that he was running. But

789
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: he was smoking guys all year, like he was obviously

790
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: great last season and it's and it's come to fruition

791
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,839
Speaker 1: a little bit this year. We're seeing more of it.

792
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:21,000
Speaker 1: But his his targets aren't fundamentally different from Robinson's. Robinson

793
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: is still highly skilled, like Mooney's gonna have a bunch

794
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: of good weeks though, Like the one nice thing I

795
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: guess we could say about the Bears passing game is

796
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 1: that it's not it's not like they're throwing the ball to,

797
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 1: you know, nine different guys. Most of the targets are

798
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,319
Speaker 1: still being funneled to like a running back and these

799
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: two receivers and so, but we're also sort of talking

800
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 1: about like which guy is going to score the Bears

801
00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: loan offensive touchdown. That's that's what we're that's what we're

802
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: getting into. So yeah, and and you know, it's obviously

803
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: that's been Mooney more often than it's been Robinson, I guess,

804
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: but I you know, to Mooney's credit, I think he's

805
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: put himself in the converse, like Robinson is moving one

806
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: way and Mooney is moving the other. Right, Like, I

807
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: get it, But I feel like they've just kind of

808
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: arrived at the same place. It's like it's not like

809
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: week in week out, I'm just expecting Mooney to outproduce

810
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 1: Robinson because again, the volume is super similar.

811
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:15,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree.

812
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 3: I really have a lot of hope for him because,

813
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 3: as you mentioned, he was a very popular sleeper, one

814
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 3: of the sleepers that I talked.

815
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 2: About a lot, and I have him on a lot

816
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 2: of benches.

817
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 3: So hopefully he does see a little bit more volume

818
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,880
Speaker 3: moving forward if this passing offense can kind of get

819
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 3: it going. All right, the next guy we're going to

820
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 3: talk about, it's Darryl Williams. Why is who is the

821
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 3: best Cheeps running back? And why is it Darryl Williams?

822
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: Right now?

823
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 2: I just I don't understand it.

824
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 3: He showed up and this week RB five and half

825
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 3: PPR with one game to play twenty four touches for

826
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 3: eighty nine all purpose yards and two touchdowns, while Jerrick

827
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 3: McKinnon saw.

828
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 2: Four touches for fifteen yards.

829
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 3: I know this is recentcy bias and cech is on ir,

830
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 3: but are we going full scent on Williams even once

831
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 3: sch comes back.

832
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's that's the real question. We've the Chiefs

833
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: have already shown us that they are. They are somewhat

834
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,880
Speaker 1: less than satisfied with ch right because they I mean,

835
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: they're the guys who invited Le'Veon Bell into the building

836
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: last year. That didn't need to happen. And I think

837
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: Edwards Zilaire is fine, and I think he's gonna He

838
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: hasn't become quite the back that I thought he would

839
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: coming into the league. Like I was super excited about

840
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: that draft pick, both because of system and player. I mean,

841
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: he does have back to back hundred yard games this season.

842
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: It's not like he was playing poorly. But I yeah, yeah, yeah,

843
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: I feel like Darryl Williams is going to be if not,

844
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: if not fifty percent of the backfield work, it's going

845
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: to be he's certainly going to occupy I would think

846
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: the share that they had intended to give bell a

847
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: year ago, right, And I don't know.

848
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 3: What that is.

849
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's I don't know if that's

850
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: forty percent. I don't know if it's forty five. I don't

851
00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:00,439
Speaker 1: if it's fifty. But he's good, and he's he's good

852
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: in goal to go situations as well, which is you know,

853
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: not that touchdown scoring is some super predictable thing. But

854
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: obviously we've seen C. H. Stonewall at the goal line

855
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 1: a handful of times and Williams is just really good

856
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: and decisive there. And he's he's a he's a strong,

857
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,799
Speaker 1: decisive runner. I don't think he's exceptional necessarily, but it's

858
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: not like I think Edwards Hilaire is exceptional in any

859
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 1: particular area. There's at some point we're going to see

860
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: h Really, I would hope emerge as a I mean,

861
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: I just think I think there's another level that he

862
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,919
Speaker 1: can reach as a pass catcher that that I thought

863
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,640
Speaker 1: he was ready to I thought he was ready to

864
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: go as a rookie, Like I thought that was going

865
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: to happen as a rookie. It didn't happen. I still

866
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: think he's got a level of go there. I feel

867
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: like I and Williams can be really not they can

868
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: compliment each other really well. But but yeah, I guess

869
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: I'm if not full send, i'm partial send on if

870
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: that's that's probably not a skeiy term. I don't know,

871
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 1: probably probably don't want a partial send. You've probably introduced

872
00:40:59,200 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 1: the partial sense.

873
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I get it.

874
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: I think I think I think this value is going

875
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: to is going to hold not you know, he's not

876
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: going to be two touchdown twenty touch Darryl Williams, but

877
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: as a pretty bankable flex where he's going to give

878
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: you ten to twelve touches, I think that's very much

879
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: in play.

880
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if I'm there yet that I

881
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,720
Speaker 3: think he's gonna necessarily be like a viable fantasy asset

882
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 3: rest of season. But I think he's going to be

883
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 3: getting enough volume that it's going to make a headache

884
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,120
Speaker 3: for SECH managers. So I think that's kind of really

885
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 3: the takeaway from this. And I would be very concerned

886
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 3: if I had Cech and my roster at this point.

887
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 3: So another guy that had a great game, we already

888
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 3: kind of talked about him, Leonard Fournette, stole the show

889
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 3: with twenty two carries for eighty one yards, two touchdowns,

890
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 3: call all six targets for forty six yards, telling more

891
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 3: receiving yards than Chris.

892
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 2: Godwin and Mikevans. I'm still a little salty about that.

893
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 3: But I want to keep fading him, given Bruce arians

894
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 3: mercurial nature with running backs, but it's getting to the

895
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 3: point that I, like, I can't do it anymore. So

896
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 3: are you going full send on Fournette rest of season

897
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 3: as a high end RB two, low end RB one

898
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 3: rest of season or is it.

899
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 1: Kind of cap Yeah? No, I think I am. I

900
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,160
Speaker 1: think I am going full time because this is this

901
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:13,919
Speaker 1: is you know, this is consecutive weeks. Now, this isn't

902
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000
Speaker 1: This isn't the situation we had last year where we

903
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: were we were just like a week behind, constantly right.

904
00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:21,359
Speaker 1: We were guessing wrong all the time. Just as soon

905
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,760
Speaker 1: as we thought it was, you know, Leonard Fournett's backfield,

906
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones would get a start and take the first

907
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:29,479
Speaker 1: three series or whatever. And Jones has just been sort

908
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 1: of a supporting, you know, cameo role player lately, and

909
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: that's been good. I kind of hoped coming into the

910
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 1: season that they would that they would use Fournette's just

911
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: incredible playoff performance as a as a catapult to just

912
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: sort of make him the main guy. Because obviously, if

913
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: one guy falls into eighty percent of the touches in

914
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: this backfield, that guy's a star. And right now, that's Fornett,

915
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: and you know he's not He's not going to be

916
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:58,439
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to be a player because

917
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: it's a touchdown or two each week. It's not going

918
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,280
Speaker 1: to go like that because the I mean, the passing

919
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: game is definitely their strength. And I don't want to

920
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: I don't want to oversell him as some sort of

921
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 1: rare and special talent. He's good. He's certainly good enough

922
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: to occupy the lead role in this job. And man,

923
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 1: the lead role in the Tampa backfield is a big deal.

924
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: That's a that's an offense that's going to end up

925
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: averaging thirty to thirty five points a game, and so

926
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 1: we want that. And he's just done nothing to lose

927
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: his grip on that. And I you know, it sure

928
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: looks like Jeo Bernard is going to be a rotational

929
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: guy and Ronald Jones is going to be a rotational guy.

930
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: And for that's going to take all the work he

931
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:35,760
Speaker 1: can handle.

932
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 2: I just know the moment that I start trusting and

933
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:44,399
Speaker 2: there he's going. It's the Ronald Jones game. So uh no,

934
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 2: I do.

935
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 3: I do hope that he is the playoff Lenny is

936
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 3: what we're going to see from now on. All Right,

937
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,760
Speaker 3: the last guy we're going to talk about is Mike Sicky.

938
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 3: It has been quite a roller coaster of a season.

939
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 3: He looked borderline droppable after two weeks Bagel Die one,

940
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 3: then it had to street fourteen point fantasy games and

941
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 3: half TPR struggled in week five in a positive matchup,

942
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 3: but then had a monster eight catch one hundred and

943
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,760
Speaker 3: fifteen yard game and week six will likely finish.

944
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 2: It's the top three tight end. I get it. The

945
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 2: position's a nightmare, Like there is.

946
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:20,440
Speaker 3: No other way to put it, But like, are we

947
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 3: trusting him?

948
00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:23,720
Speaker 2: Are we going full send them him moving forward?

949
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: It seems wrong to go full send, So no, I

950
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,919
Speaker 1: am one of the there. I do have a league

951
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 1: in which I dropped Kasiki after after I think week two.

952
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,880
Speaker 1: I'm not regretting it because it was for Dawson Knox

953
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: and that's been That's worked out fine. So I feel

954
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: pretty good about that. I did. Yeah, I wasn't chasing

955
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: after like Max Williams or anything like that. So it

956
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: went fine. It went fine. But I also just feel

957
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: like part of this is, you know, Parker out, fuller out.

958
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: You know, it's not the receiving core that they expected

959
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: to have, so a lot of stuff was going to

960
00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: tight ends. On the other hand, off times when when

961
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: when Tua is looking deep, it doesn't go well, Like

962
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: he just he just missed a bunch of throws. I mean,

963
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: it's great to see him back hit a decent enough

964
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: fantasy day, but he really threw some ugly balls. Kissecki

965
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:17,439
Speaker 1: is also someone who preps on preps on so much

966
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,240
Speaker 1: this year last year, I mean, there were still moments

967
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: where like well thrown passes were hitting him in the

968
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 1: face and falling into the ground right Like he's not

969
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 1: He's not perfect, and so I just don't feel like

970
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 1: week to week he's going to be particularly consistent. I

971
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: also don't feel like this is the sort of offense, like,

972
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: you know, I don't like to I shouldn't compare him

973
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: to Dawson Knox in any way, but like the Bills

974
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: are just going to put thirty five on Anybody, and

975
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: it's been a I mean I almost swore there. I

976
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: don't know if I can swear on the show, but

977
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:46,399
Speaker 1: like it's been, it's been. It's been quite a it's

978
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: been quite a season for Miami, and they're just going

979
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: to have a whole bunch of other games in which

980
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: they you know, it's like the bear situation, where like

981
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: there's going to be a bunch of matchups where you're

982
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: just hoping that whoever whichever dolphin you start, you're getting

983
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: their loan offensive touchdown. And I mean, that's just not

984
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,759
Speaker 1: going to go to sicky very often. So is he

985
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 1: somebody who's probably going to finish as like the tight

986
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: end eleven or nine or something like that, And we'll

987
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: look at the year end fantasy ranks and say, oh, well,

988
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: this is he was a top tit he was a

989
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,720
Speaker 1: tight end one, but he's not playing that way necessarily. Also,

990
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: he also had one of my like low key favorite

991
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: highlights of the week where he tried to hurdle a

992
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: guy and only got like, I don't know, two and

993
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 1: a half feet off the ground and basically just jumped

994
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: into his arms. It was one of my favorite things

995
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:29,799
Speaker 1: that I that I saw. I mean, I love it

996
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,120
Speaker 1: when hurdles go wrong. I love it when they go

997
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 1: horribly wrong, and I love it when they just and

998
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: in a hilarious visual like that.

999
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is hilarious.

1000
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 3: As often as the Chiefs and Builds were going to

1001
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 3: put up like forty points, I think that same frequent

1002
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 3: like that, same probability is there for the Dolphins to

1003
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 3: put up.

1004
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 2: Like thirteen points.

1005
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, you're totally right that this offense is

1006
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 3: more concerning than necessarily sinky as a player.

1007
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 2: All right, any we have eight.

1008
00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 3: More rapid fire questions, So let's just get this all done.

1009
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 3: Name one player you just can't quit or always find

1010
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 3: yourself making excuses for.

1011
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 2: So for me, that is Joe Mixon as the player,

1012
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:06,880
Speaker 2: not the person.

1013
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 3: But he's just like the guy that I'm always like,

1014
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 3: it's Nixon season. I can't move on from him, and

1015
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 3: you know what, whatever he's doing well right now, so

1016
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 3: I'll just keep rolling with it.

1017
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, after all that I've said about Alan Robinson,

1018
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 1: I would be an absolute fraud here if I didn't

1019
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: say Alan Robinson, because I've already made I don't know

1020
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: ten excuses for him so far so I feel like

1021
00:47:31,120 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: I've already I've already painted myself into a corner there.

1022
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: I do just want to say that, like, I agree

1023
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: with everything you said on mixin, and Mixon is one

1024
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: of those guys where even when, even when he didn't

1025
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: look like the most efficient runner a handful of years ago,

1026
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 1: the way I've always liked to put it is that

1027
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: it seemed like a staple of Cincinnati's offense for a

1028
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,280
Speaker 1: couple of years. There was just to put Joe Mixon

1029
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: in impossible situations well behind the line of scrimmage and

1030
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: see if he could wriggle hist two or three yards

1031
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: and he would and and like just a just a

1032
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 1: miracle worker sometimes with like just bad numbers behind the

1033
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. He's he's really good, Like he's really good.

1034
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: He's in't that he's in that upper just as a

1035
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 1: pure rushing talent. I feel like Joe Mixon prime Joe Mixon.

1036
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: He's been you know, he's been dinged obviously a little

1037
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 1: bit lately, but Joe Mixon at his best is in

1038
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: that upper tier of just pure rushers. And so I yeah,

1039
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: he's he's a guy that I I you know, I

1040
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: always seem to go back to. But obviously I have

1041
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: to say in here because I've now made nineteen excuses

1042
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: for him.

1043
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 2: I feel so vindicated. So you're now my favorite person

1044
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 2: predict when the Bears will win their next Super Bowl.

1045
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no. I actually I've had.

1046
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 3: A lot of Bears fans too on this podcast, maybe

1047
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 3: like three already, and it's it's been interesting range of responses,

1048
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 3: so I'd like to hear yeah.

1049
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: But you know, I I just feel like they're they're

1050
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: such a transformation ahead, both in the division and with

1051
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 1: that team. It's almost certainly not going to be with

1052
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: Pace and Nagy in key roles decision making roles with

1053
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: the team, right, So I feel like we have to

1054
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: get to a new regime. I feel like Aaron Rodgers

1055
00:49:18,120 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 1: needs to leave the division, which, hey, that may happen

1056
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: as soon as next year, like that's on the tables.

1057
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,760
Speaker 1: As a Bears fan, I'm probably looking forward to Aaron

1058
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: Rodgers moving on to his next team more than I'm

1059
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: looking forward to almost anything, so that needs to happen

1060
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:35,399
Speaker 1: as well. I also kind of feel like the lines

1061
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: are gonna be a little frisky in the division. They

1062
00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: have been so far, but that's a separate concern. So

1063
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: I feel like we need to get to a new

1064
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: coaching staff and somebody else needs to rebuild the roster,

1065
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 1: and it probably all happens without Allen Robinson. So this

1066
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: is all a way of saying that I don't think

1067
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: it can happen in the next three years. So maybe

1068
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: we're talking, But I do feel like Justin Fields can

1069
00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: be part of it. I think he's got a huge

1070
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: arm I think he has like he's clear elite traits,

1071
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: and once you find a quarterback like that, you've got

1072
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: to do everything you can to create a great developmental

1073
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 1: environment form You've got to make him happy at all costs.

1074
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,200
Speaker 1: You've got to put a receiving corp around him, in

1075
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: an offensive line ahead of him and all that stuff,

1076
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 1: And like if they do that, then then I guess

1077
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,720
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe the year is twenty twenty six,

1078
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven, something like that, Like it's totally in play.

1079
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer in Justin Field's long term.

1080
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:26,279
Speaker 2: Love to see it.

1081
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 3: I definitely had a number of Bears friends, say twenty

1082
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 3: twenty three, so they are very very all in on

1083
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 3: Fields and all in on him making that leap very quickly,

1084
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 3: So hopefully we see that overhaul of Naggie and Pace

1085
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 3: sooner rather than later.

1086
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 2: All Right, I don't actually know.

1087
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 3: Damien Williams's status right now, but assuming he plays next week,

1088
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 3: and I don't know if that's a fair assumption, who

1089
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 3: has more points in Fantasy him or Khalil Herber.

1090
00:50:58,200 --> 00:50:59,919
Speaker 1: It's a yeah, it's a good question, and it could

1091
00:50:59,960 --> 00:51:02,480
Speaker 1: be one of those one of those situations where the

1092
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: right answer is you don't want to play either one

1093
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: of them. I do think Williams is the better receiver.

1094
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:13,720
Speaker 1: I think he has a real gift for creating throwing

1095
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: lanes for his quarterback. I don't know that that's going

1096
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: to matter a ton with justin fields ultimately, but I

1097
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: do feel like he's a better receiver. Khalil Herbert's been

1098
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: very impressive, but it's a it's just a killer matchup

1099
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: against Tampa. And again, not to belabor that point, but like,

1100
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:30,440
Speaker 1: if the Bears don't go into this thing thinking that

1101
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 1: they have to throw the ball forty times, I don't.

1102
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: I don't know what they've scouted, Like, you're just not

1103
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: going to be able to plow into the Tampa defensive

1104
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,959
Speaker 1: front and you know, and pile up points and yards.

1105
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,760
Speaker 1: It's just not going to happen. So if Williams plays,

1106
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: I would say I'm going to have him ranked a

1107
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: little bit higher.

1108
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 3: Their enough, I mean, Khalil Herbert definitely saved one of

1109
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 3: my teams this week. But you will make things a

1110
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 3: little muddier once Williams returns.

1111
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 2: Was jug Flacco ever elite? Yes or no?

1112
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:05,280
Speaker 1: For for six games? Five games? Six games at the

1113
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 1: most critical time in a real life in a season. Yeah,

1114
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: he played out of his mind.

1115
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 2: He was.

1116
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: He was phenomenal, and he beat great defenses, and he

1117
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: beat dynasties and then whatever deal he made with the

1118
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: devil expired and then he was show fucked. But like

1119
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: for a month and a half, I mean, and hey,

1120
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: he did it again. Like, if you're only going to

1121
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 1: have like a month and a half out of your

1122
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 1: career where you are a master of your craft in

1123
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: the NFL, man do it as a quarterback in December

1124
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: and January he was phenomenal.

1125
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 3: Absolutely, will any Bears player finish at the top five

1126
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 3: in their respected position for Fantasy.

1127
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 1: If anyone does it, it's going to be Santos. It's not.

1128
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: It's off the table for David Montgomery the injury. Now

1129
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: it's clearly not going to happen for Justin Fields because

1130
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: he's he's given up too much ground to the to

1131
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,399
Speaker 1: the rest of the league, and uh, there's there's no

1132
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: path for for Robinson and Mooney at this point. If

1133
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: I've been thinking that if Robinson can even get to

1134
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 1: like nine hundred or one thousand receiving yards, like say

1135
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: that everything gets a little bit better in the second

1136
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: half and Robinson has some games. Man, if Alan Robinson

1137
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: has like a thousand receiving yard season given this team context,

1138
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: that is like, send him straight to Canton. It's over.

1139
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 1: Like he'll have He'll have had a thousand yards with

1140
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: portals and Trubisky and Fowles and rookie Justin I mean,

1141
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 1: just an incredible, incredible run. But he's got a lot

1142
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: of work.

1143
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 2: To do here. You are making more excuses for Alan Robins.

1144
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.

1145
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 2: Now, who should manageer his top webrad be this week?

1146
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: Man, it's so it's so contextual, especial especially this week

1147
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: because again it's it's just such a it's such a

1148
00:53:57,040 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: nightmare out there. So maybe may I'll just go position

1149
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: by position I feel like a lot of people are

1150
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: going to be ten and I'm going to use the

1151
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: threshold that I always do for the pickups columns, which is, uh,

1152
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, which is like fifty percent rostered under fifty

1153
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: percent rostered. So obviously if you're in a league line here,

1154
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 1: so yeah, yeah, there's a handful of leagues where like,

1155
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,720
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like Michael Carter is like fifty

1156
00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: two fifty three percent you rostered at Yahoo right now.

1157
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 1: He would obviously be a better ad than a lot

1158
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: of the other people that we wrote about. And this

1159
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,280
Speaker 1: is all, you know, like we're doing this on Monday afternoon,

1160
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,759
Speaker 1: so I don't I don't know what like Antonio Gibson's

1161
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 1: status is going to be, but he obviously spent a

1162
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,479
Speaker 1: lot of time on the sideline with the with the

1163
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: recurring shin issue, so that could change things that could

1164
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: make me feel like Jad McKissick, and to a lesser degree,

1165
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,520
Speaker 1: perhaps Patterson, who was a great just a phenomenally productive

1166
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: college runner that they could really bump to the top

1167
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: of the list. Ramondre Stevenson is an interesting spec I'm

1168
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,600
Speaker 1: giving you like fifteen names when you ask for one.

1169
00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: That's terrible ramondre Stevenson is an interesting name, but I

1170
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: don't I don't think he's going to creep to the

1171
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 1: top of that backfield hierarchy anytime soon, so it's probably, Yeah,

1172
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:09,719
Speaker 1: that's a boring answer, but it's probably. It's probably meckissic

1173
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 1: for me. At running back, it's close, like other people

1174
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,240
Speaker 1: are going to prioritize Deerness Johnson, which I get because

1175
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 1: Hunt is out and Chubb is probably out, but they

1176
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:22,399
Speaker 1: you know, it's a Thursday game, and I don't think

1177
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: he's a particularly special player. And Felton's going to get

1178
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: looks too, So like that's just a minefield, like running

1179
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: back is a minefield. At receiver, if they're available, I

1180
00:55:31,040 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: would take either one of the Cardinals guys right like

1181
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 1: AJ Green and Christian Kirk are both like forty five

1182
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,840
Speaker 1: percent rostered right now. But that also feels like cheating

1183
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,200
Speaker 1: because they're gone in virtually all of my leagues. I

1184
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 1: don't know where these leagues are where, Like Cardinals receivers

1185
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: are just sitting out there for you. Mooney is right

1186
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: behind them. Also around forty four percent among guys who

1187
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: are widely available. The one name that I just keep

1188
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: pounding the table for is Tim Patrick, and he's not.

1189
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:01,759
Speaker 1: You know, like Tim Patrick doesn't give us like the

1190
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: three touchdown, one hundred and fifty yard game. If he

1191
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:07,799
Speaker 1: ever did, then he would be rostered everywhere. But what

1192
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 1: he does do, Like a lot of fantasy managers claim

1193
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: that they really value consistency, and yet they leave this

1194
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: guy out there. He's he has eighty receiving yards or

1195
00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: a touchdown in five of six games this season. Like,

1196
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: he is very steadily a double digit point producer, and

1197
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: that's going to matter a lot as we as we

1198
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 1: get into these like especially these super messy bye weeks.

1199
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 1: So I like Patrick a whole lot at receiver. I

1200
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: just think he's a guy you can plug and plan

1201
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: and basically always kind of on wide receiver three numbers. Man.

1202
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 2: I love Patrick. He's been a guy since last season.

1203
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 3: I've been I've just perennially put in my waiver columns

1204
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 3: and I was on a Fantasy Pros live stream with

1205
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 3: Dan Harris. And our silly theory is that if he

1206
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:53,439
Speaker 3: had a more exciting name, he sounds like an accountant.

1207
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 3: Like with Tim Patt, we were like, if we gave

1208
00:56:56,719 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 3: him a name to Brickishaw Ferguson or something promstered in

1209
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 3: every league. So that is my Tim Patrick's story. Give

1210
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:08,279
Speaker 3: me one player who you think is primed for a

1211
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:09,959
Speaker 3: big fantasy season next year.

1212
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: Oh, that's a good question. It's easy to pick one

1213
00:57:14,239 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks. Like the Niners got to move on

1214
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:19,640
Speaker 1: to Trey Lance at some point, and we've already seen.

1215
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: We've already seen that they're willing to let him run

1216
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: the ball like fifteen times in a game, which is

1217
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:27,440
Speaker 1: really something that only you know, like like literally Lamar

1218
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 1: Jackson and like Bobby Douglas are the only two guys

1219
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: that have done that over the last fifty years. Like

1220
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 1: quarterbacks just don't run the ball that often. So Trey

1221
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 1: Lance is probably the guy if you're you know, you're

1222
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: your dynasty manager. Maybe you're a one win team right now,

1223
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:45,959
Speaker 1: two win team, and you're not feeling too good about

1224
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: your about your chances. I really like, I really like

1225
00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 1: Trey Lance as as somebody who's gonna pop next year

1226
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: for us. I guess I throw overshad Bateman in there too.

1227
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: I'm a big believer. I realized that he had a

1228
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: pass bounce off his chest that became an interception in

1229
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: his first game back this year. But I just think

1230
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 1: he has a skill set that compliments everybody else in

1231
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:10,240
Speaker 1: that Raven's receiving corps, and he's like a It's like

1232
00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: they have a Rashad Bateman shaped hole in their receiving

1233
00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:15,439
Speaker 1: cores and they have the perfect guy to fill it now.

1234
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: So I think by the by the back half of

1235
00:58:18,280 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: the season, he's going to have some really good He's

1236
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 1: gonna have some really good weeks, and I think he's

1237
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: got a real chance to be, if not that team's

1238
00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: wide receiver one like kind of a one A with

1239
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:29,479
Speaker 1: Brown next year. I think he's really exciting too.

1240
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,920
Speaker 3: I love that I have all the faith in Trey Lance,

1241
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 3: so hopefully his kind of lackluster performances for Fantasy didn't

1242
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 3: deter to too many managers. Two more questions, how many

1243
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 3: attempts would it take you to make an extra point?

1244
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: Oh? Wow? Also also a good question. And I've tried it.

1245
00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 3: Okay, I have never tried it, so like if I

1246
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,200
Speaker 3: had to answer that, I'd probably say like one hundred.

1247
00:58:56,320 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, I've I've gone out and tried it,

1248
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: and I can I can make it in a not

1249
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: in like a you know, wow, soaring through the uprights

1250
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: kind of way. But I can make it in a

1251
00:59:07,560 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: in a dooink off the crossbar or you know, like

1252
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: how is how did it come off of his foot

1253
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: spinning that way? How would that?

1254
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 3: You know?

1255
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: Like I can, I can make it that way like

1256
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: one out of like ten times, right, and it'll no

1257
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:26,439
Speaker 1: a little better than that. But but like maybe it's

1258
00:59:26,440 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 1: like one out of six, one out of seven something

1259
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: like that. Like I was, I was kicking them through.

1260
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 1: It looked horrible, and they would all. The other thing

1261
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: is they would probably all get blocked right, Like, I'm

1262
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 1: sure I was beeking it too low. I was doing

1263
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:40,320
Speaker 1: a million things wrong. I was taking you know, too

1264
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: many steps all of that. So in an actual game

1265
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: with actual people trying to block it, is that what

1266
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: we're saying?

1267
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 3: Oh no, just no, because that that's almost just not

1268
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 3: fair under.

1269
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: Under game conditions. I think I couldn't do it. I would.

1270
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: I would mess that up like just nobody in my way.

1271
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: Yeah I could. I could. I could do it ten

1272
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:03,520
Speaker 1: or twelve percent of the time. It's way harder than

1273
01:00:03,560 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 1: it looks.

1274
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 3: Oh I bet I in Hey, the line drive counts,

1275
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 3: so it doesn't need to look it that is way

1276
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 3: more impressive than me. Finally, if you had one cardinal

1277
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 3: role to share with someone just getting into fantasy this year,

1278
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 3: what would it be.

1279
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: Oh Man, that's a good question, and I guess it

1280
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: would say. I guess I would say, if it's somebody

1281
01:00:23,840 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 1: who's just getting into fantasy, you want to make sure

1282
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 1: that you you want to make sure they have fun

1283
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:31,600
Speaker 1: with it, right Like, So you want to you want

1284
01:00:31,640 --> 01:00:34,400
Speaker 1: everybody else who's in the like, have a notion for

1285
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 1: who these other people are that you're getting in the

1286
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 1: league with, right like. You want it to be like

1287
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: kind of a fun social network because all of my

1288
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 1: favorite leagues are that they're they're good friends, and I've

1289
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,760
Speaker 1: cultivated friendships over the years with people in the league.

1290
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: So you want to you want to have that kind

1291
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 1: of vibe because over time, I'm sure you would agree

1292
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: almost anybody who plays fantasy would agree. It just makes

1293
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: us so much better informed as sports fans. Like I'm

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Speaker 1: such a more knowledgeable thing. Even if I didn't go

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Speaker 1: into like writing fantasy and talking fantasy, I would just

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Speaker 1: I mean, the expansion of your own sports knowledge from

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Speaker 1: playing fantasy is just so great. Like, I want people

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Speaker 1: to stick with it. So like, you know, find a

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Speaker 1: group that you know you're gonna have fun with because

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Speaker 1: you're not going to be you know, you're not going

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Speaker 1: to be dominant every season. You're gonna make draft mistakes.

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Speaker 1: You know, guys are going to get hurt. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: draft could you know, people drafted Dak Prescott last year

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Speaker 1: and it was great process and he got hurt and

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Speaker 1: like then they and then they lost their leg Like

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Speaker 1: you're not You're just not always going to win, but

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Speaker 1: you've got to be in a group in which you're

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Speaker 1: you're really going to have fun and you really want

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Speaker 1: to engage with people.

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of more people on Twitter, analysts

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Speaker 3: whatever need to remember that because it's not like the

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Speaker 3: echo chamber, the negativity that we get on Twitter, Like

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Speaker 3: that's not how most people are experiencing fantasy.

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Speaker 2: And it should be fun.

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Speaker 3: And I know there's lots of money, you know, all

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Speaker 3: that stuff is legit, but it fun should come first

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Speaker 3: because it is a game.

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Speaker 1: So well that stuff is like two percent of the

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Speaker 1: fantasy world too. Like most fantasy leagues, like the you know,

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Speaker 1: the great majority, the overwhelming majority of fantasy leagues and

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Speaker 1: fantasy players number one, they're not they're not following experts

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, right Like, for the most part Twitter Fantasy,

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Speaker 1: we're all just talking to ourselves and there's pretty a

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Speaker 1: handful of players that are that are listening. But you know,

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Speaker 1: the great majority of fantasy leagues, they're not checking in

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Speaker 1: five times a day. They're they're casual players who just

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Speaker 1: like interacting with each.

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Speaker 2: Other hard agree.

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Speaker 3: All right, That will do it for this round of

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Speaker 3: twenty one questions with our esteemed guest, Andy barrens Andy,

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Speaker 3: I can't thank you enough for joining me during this

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Speaker 3: insanely busy time.

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Speaker 2: Please tell everyone where they can find you this NFL season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, please? It was super fun. It was this is great.

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Speaker 1: This is a really good time. I'm on Twitter, I'm

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Speaker 1: just at Andy Barron's and they can always find me

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Speaker 1: at Yahoo Fantasy where where there's a good chance they

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Speaker 1: have a league or two so they might see me already.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 3: Well, I love the Sunday Show and everything, and keep

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Speaker 3: doing great work. As a reminder, Sean Kerner and Chris

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Speaker 3: Raybonner here on the Fantasy Plex every Monday, Wednesday and

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Speaker 3: Friday giving you guys. I'll the DFS Waiver Wire and

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Speaker 3: ranking skinfo to help you dominate your fantasy leagues. I

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Speaker 3: will be back this Thursday and every Thursday from now

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Speaker 3: on with my mail Bag episodes, speaking to which you

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Speaker 3: should email mail Bag questions to Mailbag at actionnetwork dot com.

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Speaker 3: Thanks again for listening. Please rate and review our show

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Speaker 3: on Apple Podcasts, download us wherever you like to listen,

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Speaker 3: and we will see you next time on the Fantasy Plex. Percentify,

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Speaker 3: Pride Tis peace out y'all