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Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, Hey everybody, It's Wednesday, December thirteenth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your man, MG,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Grant joined by Michael f Florio. Coming up, we

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Speaker 1: are previewing Thursday Night Football, the Saturday triple header, and

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Speaker 1: the first half of the Sunday games from week fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Here it is, we played all this time to get

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Speaker 1: to this part of the year. It's playoff time, which, look,

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Speaker 1: I always feel sort of bad because this is when

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Speaker 1: people really really want advice from us, and this is

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Speaker 1: when we're like, we're grinding. Man. We've been through fourteen

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Speaker 1: plus weeks of this, man, and we're just trying to

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Speaker 2: The good thing is, hopefully you don't have a ton

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Speaker 2: of tough line of decisions to make now. Buyser behind us.

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Speaker 2: It's really just injury replacements, and if you have a

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Speaker 2: good team with some good depth, you're you're all right.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, this is a fun time of year. This

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Speaker 2: is where every single play I'm like looking to see

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Speaker 2: if it impacted my fantasy scores, if my opponent has

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Speaker 2: the player or not. So it's a sweat, but it's

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Speaker 2: a fun.

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Speaker 1: One, absolutely a fun sweat, and we got plenty to

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Speaker 1: sweat through this week. Let's start, as we always do

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Speaker 1: around this time, with some fantasy headlines and the big

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Speaker 1: one that broke earlier in the week. Justin Herbert will

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Speaker 1: miss the rest of the season following surgery on his

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Speaker 1: broken finger. So that means Easton Stick, who some people

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Speaker 1: on Twitter have said is not a real person, I

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Speaker 1: can I can vouch that he is. He's an actual,

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Speaker 1: live human being, I believe it. But he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: the quarterback the rest of the way, starting with Thursday

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Speaker 1: night against the Las Vegas Raiders. Keenan Allen has been

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Speaker 1: great all year long. We've been able to lean on him.

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Speaker 1: Can we trust any pass catchers though not named Keenan Allen?

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: I think we need to break the finger off of

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Speaker 2: that justin We.

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Speaker 1: Should break one on both hands, right, just to make

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly to me, it's Keenan Allen and it's Awsin Eckler,

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Speaker 2: and that's about it. The other day Easton Stick threw

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Speaker 2: twenty three passes in relief or twenty four passes. I

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Speaker 2: mean it was in relief of Justin Herbert. Nine of

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Speaker 2: them went to Keenan Allen. Five of them went to

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Speaker 2: Austin Eckler. That's over half the pass attempts right there.

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Speaker 2: And look as crazy as this is, Marcus, am I

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Speaker 2: crazy to think that this could potentially be a good

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Speaker 2: thing for Alsineckler because I am expecting like ten dump

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Speaker 1: I do think that's very much in the realm of possibilities.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to make a case deep down in my

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Speaker 1: we have no idea what Easton Stick is going to be.

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Speaker 1: Like you mentioned, he threw twenty four passes on Sunday

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Speaker 1: against the Broncos. Beyond that, he has one other career

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Speaker 1: It never gets on the field because Justin Herbert plays

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Speaker 1: Maybe he's gonna take some shots down the field, right,

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Speaker 1: Maybe he'll come out with that Will Levis, you know, screw,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw downfield in case Josh Palmer does have

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Speaker 1: some upside. But that is very much just kind of

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Speaker 1: Other news in Minnesota, Justin Jefferson says he will play

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Speaker 1: this week against the Cincinnati Bengals. All week long, they're

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Speaker 1: saying he has a good chance to play. Then earlier

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday morning, he says that he is going to

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Speaker 1: play after he suffered a chest injury last week. First

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Speaker 1: there was no call on the quarterback. But now we

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Speaker 1: know that Nick Mullins is going to be the starter

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Speaker 1: now that we've got Nick Maullins's quarterback, is it time

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Speaker 1: to maybe fade Jordan Addison or can he eat too?

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Speaker 3: I think it is.

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Speaker 2: Time to fade him. And Nick Mullins is a real person.

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Speaker 2: He just doesn't He looks like an AI generated person

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Speaker 2: to me. That's all I'm saying. But Jordan Addison single

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Speaker 2: digits in three straight games. He has not topped eleven

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Speaker 2: Fantasy points since Week eight. Last week, Nick Mullens threw

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Speaker 1: Absolutely it does. You want to know you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: at least a baseline, a quality baseline, from certain players,

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Speaker 1: and right now for Jordan Addison, it seems like the

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Speaker 1: floor is getting a lot lower, especially with Nick Mullens

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Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. Okay, we got a full slate

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Speaker 1: of games this week, starting with Thursday Night Football and

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Speaker 1: AFC West Showdown between the Los Angeles Chargers and the

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Speaker 3: You can see that at.

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Speaker 1: Eight fifteen pm Eastern on Prime Video. The Raiders kind

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Speaker 1: of are who we thought they would be this year.

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Speaker 1: The Chargers definitely a big disappointment this season. Seems as

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Speaker 1: though Brandon Staley is just sort of coaching out the string.

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Speaker 1: We'll wait to see what actually becomes of his future

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Speaker 1: probably in the next weeks or so. But let's talk

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Speaker 1: about the Chargers offense. Because Austin Eckler has been better.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't been what you drafted him to be. I mean,

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Speaker 1: but said it at eighty five scrimming jars more or

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Speaker 1: less for Austin Eckler this week.

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Speaker 2: Or and while you talk about the coaches, it's pretty

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Speaker 2: crazy that the interim here is probably the one with

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Speaker 2: the better chances still being a head coach next year. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I said it a little while ago. I think we're

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Speaker 2: gonna get a ton of dump offs going Austin Eckler's way.

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Speaker 2: The Raiders have been stingier against the run under Antonio

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Speaker 2: still put up numbers against them. And to me, what

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Speaker 2: I loved seeing last week was Eckler as a pass catcher,

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Speaker 2: like he had that one You just saw the one

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Speaker 2: he had just scored a touchdown. It was like a

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Speaker 1: I do think that's gonna be a big part of

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Speaker 3: Now they have been.

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Speaker 1: do think you can start your fantasy running backs against

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Speaker 1: And as we talked about, maybe Easton sticks not pushing

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Speaker 1: So that's going to help Eckler quite a bit. On

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Speaker 1: the other side, for the Raiders, it is Aiden O'Connell.

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Speaker 1: At least we believe it's gonna be Aidan O'Connell. That's

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Speaker 1: you trust this week? With AOC one?

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Speaker 2: Devonte Adams And that is it. Devonte Adams. Even though

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Speaker 2: they did not score a real life point last week,

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Speaker 2: still gave you twelve Fantasy points for a fourth can

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Speaker 2: Fantasy points per game and my whole thing. And I

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Speaker 2: like I can. If I start DeVante Adams in a

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Speaker 2: If I sit DeVante Adams and he goes off and

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Speaker 2: it ends up costing me my season, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: hate myself the entire summer. So yeah, I think you

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Speaker 2: have to play DeVante Adams the rest though, get it

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Speaker 3: I don't know it.

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Speaker 2: To me, it's Adams are boss.

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Speaker 1: I will admit. Hunter Renfro does make an appearance in

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Speaker 1: these Sleepers column this week. He's a deep sleeper. Don't

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Speaker 1: get it twisted. The floor is low, the ceiling well,

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Speaker 1: it's all so low. But I think there's a chance

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Speaker 1: get some more opportunities. But in terms of just who

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Speaker 1: I'm trusting if I need a playoff win. Devonte Adams

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Speaker 1: Aid and o'connwachquarterback. I mean, still got a ton of

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter. Gonna step away for a quick break. Stick

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Speaker 1: around for more of the NFL Fantasy Football Show. On

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Speaker 1: to Saturday. We got a Saturday show out, which of

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Speaker 1: course you can see on NFL Network, a trio of games,

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Speaker 1: and it starts with the Vikings and the Bengals. Jake Browning.

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Speaker 1: Bengals because there was no Joe Burrow. How many quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: and which quarterbacks would they? Would you stream over Jake Browning?

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Speaker 2: This week's look of all the streaming options outside of

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Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford, who I think is elevated past streaming option. Now,

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Speaker 2: I think he's the top option. Like I'm playing him

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Speaker 2: over Baker over Gardner, Minshew over Flacco, Tommy Davidoa. To me,

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Speaker 2: it really comes down to like and this is when

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Speaker 2: it gets hard, Like Kyler Murray has a really tough matchup,

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Speaker 2: tough matchup. Sam How's been up and down. That's where

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Speaker 2: I think he comes. Like, I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: Would you start him over Russ going against the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 2: No, The Lions have allowed a lot of production through

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Speaker 2: the air, and I think that could be a game.

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Speaker 3: Where the Broncos are trailing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I do like Browning as a start this week.

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Speaker 1: You know, Stafford is sort of the number one of

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Speaker 1: all the guys who aren't just your weekly plug and

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Speaker 1: play starters. I think Matthew Stafford is number one, but

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Speaker 1: I think Jake Browning is right behind him. And what

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Speaker 1: I love about Browning is that he's getting so many

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Speaker 1: different people involved. Right, we have the Jamar Chase week.

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Speaker 1: Last week we saw a lot of t Higgins. He

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Speaker 1: is throwing some short throws, getting some dump offs to

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Speaker 1: Chase brown getting Joe Mixon involved. But the fact is

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Speaker 1: he's spreading the ball around, and that is kind of

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Speaker 1: what we'd like to see. So I do like Browning

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Speaker 1: a lot this week as a streamer.

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Speaker 2: I've been thinking about it as since I just said it.

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Speaker 2: I would play him over Trevor Lawrence. I don't think

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Speaker 2: I would do so over Kyler or two.

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Speaker 1: Okay, alright, wow, not over over Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you on the way the Lions approach this game,

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Speaker 3: No, but you're going down with that shit.

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Speaker 1: In the NFC South. Frick London had a huge week

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Speaker 2: I think Jordan Love I'm not gonna take away what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt that you're going back to Mike Evans.

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Speaker 1: edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Show, Stay Happy, Say

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Speaker 1: back tomorrow to preview the rest of the Week fifteen matchups.