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Speaker 1: Ladies, Jules, you want experience during your football season, We'll

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Speaker 1: the world. This is I want your flex with Dan

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Speaker 1: Bayer and Mike Harmon. Mike and Dan break down everything

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Speaker 1: you need to set your lineups, from position rankings to

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Speaker 1: starts and sits. The guys help you make those hard decisions.

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

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Speaker 1: and Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in Fox Sports Radios, Fox Sports Sunday Live

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Speaker 2: fromth tire rack dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios, Mike Carmen,

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Speaker 2: Dan Byer with you coming up in about fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into the big trade. Yes, we talked to

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Speaker 2: AFC North. We'll go back to the Great White North

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Speaker 2: as well, and we'll get a little bit of the

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Speaker 2: mistake by the Lake, all the different euphemisms we can

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Speaker 2: have for Cleveland as they make a deal to bring

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Speaker 2: in a wide receiver. Does it mean that they're loading

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Speaker 2: up for their embattled quarterback or does that mean that

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Speaker 2: another wide receiver is gone? Or can both be true?

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Speaker 2: We'll see. But we're talking fantasy impact of upcoming free

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Speaker 2: agency here, Dan, as we continue on the show this morning,

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Speaker 2: and it's exciting time of year. We've already done. The

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Speaker 2: iWatch of Flex podcast is up and going. We did

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Speaker 2: the season finale, which we always do a five round mock.

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Speaker 2: Now it's guessing where guys are gonna go. Usually we

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Speaker 2: inject a couple of college guys just because you know,

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Speaker 2: you got to inject a couple of college guys saying, hey,

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Speaker 2: they're gonna make a splash. You can find out who

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Speaker 2: those college players were and how the sixty picks went

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Speaker 2: down with Ryan Bursche or Dan and myself. The iWatch

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Speaker 2: of Flex podcast wherever you download your audio, download it,

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Speaker 2: rate it, comment, send us notes at Dan Byron Fox

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Speaker 2: at Swowodome will integrate those as we get to the

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Speaker 2: next iteration of things. But you know, one of the

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Speaker 2: things that we try to do is place where guys

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Speaker 2: are going to go and looking for immediate impact. And

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Speaker 2: again the nod to Chris Jones in his five years

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Speaker 2: ninety five. We always talk about quarterbacks and finding a

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Speaker 2: guy who can get to a quarterback. Good job by him.

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Speaker 2: Some of the advanced metrics are just ridiculous in terms

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Speaker 2: of double teams and his effectiveness. It's basically him, Aaron

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Speaker 2: Donald and the rest of the world. But when we

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Speaker 2: look at free agency coming up, you know you normally

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Speaker 2: we start with wide receivers who can go to a

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Speaker 2: new place and really make an impact. And I just

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Speaker 2: shrug in terms of the guys that are true free agents. Now,

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Speaker 2: Deontay Johnson may get traded, sure, Michael Gallup has been

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Speaker 2: given permission to seek a trade.

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Speaker 1: Whatever.

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Speaker 2: Maybe there's a guy that finds himself in another situation

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Speaker 2: that way. We'll again, we'll get to Judy coming up

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Speaker 2: at the top of the hour. But the actual free

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Speaker 2: agents are secondary and tertiary guys like okay, yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: they're Jags. So we start looking at running backs and

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Speaker 2: the quarterback carousel in particular, and that's where it gets

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Speaker 3: I looked at the running back scenario, and it's it's

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Speaker 3: when you look at the names, like it is a

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Speaker 3: who's who. Well, the wide receivers are more of a

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Speaker 3: to running backs in the National Football League. And what

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Speaker 3: I found surprising was I thought, Mike that it's Saquon Barkley,

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Speaker 3: because there could be an opportunity where Saquon Barkley returns

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Speaker 3: I just kind of assume this is Barkley the domino

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Speaker 3: But if you fight Austin Eckler in the right situation,

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Speaker 3: It would be such an indictment of what the Chargers

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Speaker 2: So that's the curiosity, right and taking it to the

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Speaker 2: then it was a mixed bag in terms of their performance.

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Speaker 2: They may have hit some level. Right, if you think

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Speaker 2: a thousand yards still means what it used to mean,

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Speaker 2: carry the ball enough to get there. But you're looking

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Speaker 3: Yes, and there's going to be very like, there's the

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Speaker 2: You're just committing to running the football.

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Speaker 3: let's bring everybody back. And while Jacobs performed admirably, there

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Speaker 2: And then obviously the quarterback position. We talked a lot

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Speaker 3: Right, Yes, has to run it back. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 3: I think Baker's back. Tannehill is an interesting one and

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Speaker 2: There you go, well, we'll we'll circle back to Ryan

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Speaker 2: Tannehill as we go, because he's the unnamed guy and

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Speaker 2: all of this stuff so interesting that you brought him

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Speaker 2: up running back drop everything else. He's Dan on Mike.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next, Jerry Jaredy traded essentially for a bucket

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Speaker 2: of balls. What's it all mean in Cleveland? Coming up

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Speaker 2: next year on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: It's a large bucket, Mike,