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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goals Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back. I'm Dale Lally. He

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Speaker 1: is Matt Williamson. This is the Drive on Steelers Nation

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Speaker 1: Radio and it's time for the Fantasy Football Focus and uh, well,

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Speaker 1: as we do on Tuesdays, here we'll take a look

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Speaker 1: first of all potential streaming defenses. I think there's some

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Speaker 1: good options, some good matchups this week. The Thursday night

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Speaker 1: game Buffalo at New England. Yeah, they're both three or whatever. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Moving on to Sunday slate Steelers at Falcons, Steelers for sure. Yeah, Atlanta, No, No,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know the Steelers are in a powerhouse

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Speaker 1: people that I'm starting at Once again, here you get

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Speaker 1: into this situation where people just look at the numbers

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Speaker 1: as well. You gonna start your defense against the Steelers, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that that's not the last three. They'll

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Speaker 1: give up a couple of sacks, they're not turning the

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Speaker 1: ball over. Uh, they're scoring points. I mean it's not

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Speaker 1: the worst start obviously starting against the Chiefs, but it's

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Speaker 1: not a stream you guys against the Steelers, especially if

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Speaker 1: you're Atlanta and don't have any good players. Yeah, Broncos

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Speaker 1: Ravens Now. The Broncos have been a defense that's you

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Speaker 1: stream and they're very good defense, but they're worn out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're on the field constantly. I might play both those

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Speaker 1: d s. I mean, you always play anyone. I think

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Speaker 1: that might be. That's that game, might be playing the teens,

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Speaker 1: could be. I think i'd play on both. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: got Packers Bears. Wow, streaming a Packers defense this week.

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Speaker 1: Guess it's Trevor Simeon. They're the most disappointing defense in

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Speaker 1: the league and it's not even close. You can't play

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Speaker 1: the Bears defense against anyone. I don't care if it's wrong.

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Speaker 1: Even it's that bad right now, they are really awful.

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Speaker 1: I mean for people don't know Fantacy not. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Mooney just got shut down for the year. To like

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Speaker 1: if Fields plays, maybe, but I don't think he's playing.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he is either if he can't protect him,

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Speaker 1: so he can't play the way you want to play him.

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Speaker 1: So you don't play the gain him by having him

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Speaker 1: out there running the ball fifteen times. At this point,

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Speaker 1: you know he can do it. Jaguars at Lions neither neither. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's neither. Yeah, that could be a sneaky in Detroit,

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Speaker 1: a sneaky high scoring game. Yeah it could be. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like that game for fantasy stuff. Brown's at Texans.

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Speaker 1: Are you streaming the Browns defense this week? Yeah? I

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Speaker 1: have a name of good players. Their stats are terrible.

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Speaker 1: It's awfully good defense. But I'll start anybody against Texas.

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Speaker 1: Does Damian Pierce run for a hundred and fifty yards

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Speaker 1: in this game? He's run for like six yards in

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Speaker 1: the last two weeks. I know he can't do anything

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Speaker 1: because everybody's just loading up to start. You're starting him again? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, if he doesn't do anything this, you gotta

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Speaker 1: shut him down. Yeah. This is why the ebb and

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Speaker 1: flow of of a fantasy football season. You have to

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Speaker 1: pay attention to the recent trends. You can't just go, oh, hey,

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Speaker 1: Damian Pearce is the seventh highest scoring running I mean,

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Speaker 1: guys like Kamara are hard to start right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you probably live and die with them

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Speaker 1: because they got you there. But man, I mean they're

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Speaker 1: they're tough Jets at Vikings. I kind of want to

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Speaker 1: say both, and I kind of want to say neither.

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Speaker 1: I want to say neither. Yeah, I think the Jets

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Speaker 1: d is really good, not in that situation. That's a

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Speaker 1: rough situation. That's a tough place to go play. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I guess neither. Yeah, I mean the Vikes is not

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Speaker 1: too great. I mean, I know it's Mike White, but

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna do what he did the last week.

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Speaker 1: Every week commanders at Giants firing up the commanders easily. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a there's another one. Like s Quan has just

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Speaker 1: been poor guy. It's not his fault. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't think Tomorrow is a bad player. Pierce is a

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Speaker 1: bad player, but situations super important. I mean, first month

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Speaker 1: of the season's you know, look like league winner. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: things change, you know, things change, Um Washington's Yes, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so too. The Titans at the Eagles, that's

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Speaker 1: an interesting matchup. No, on the Titans, I don't think.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess you start the Eagles because

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Speaker 1: you're getting Tanny Hill. But they're not a good run defense.

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Speaker 1: But they're not on a good run defense. That's how

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say. It's problematic, right, Yeah, you know

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Speaker 1: price for DFS, they're not gonna be on our DfES team.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be good defensive And you know, right, Seahawks

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Speaker 1: at Rams Seahawks defense playable this week? Yeah? Absolutely. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if Robinson, cup Stafford or none. That game

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Speaker 1: was painful to watch. And I had the Chiefs. I

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Speaker 1: streamed the Chiefs defense last week and it was like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, not another interception. That's where they're at there. Terrible.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Donald's playing. Yeah, I don't think he plays.

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can play him. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a no. Yeah, they would be in the field all

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Speaker 1: the time. Dolphins at forty forty, Niners have been a

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Speaker 1: must start. Do you start him against that Dolphins offense?

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Speaker 1: There's massive familiarity here with these coaches. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think no one the Dolphins d Yeah, you can't

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Speaker 1: play that. The Niners are like the best d in

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Speaker 1: the league. But you have to think about it. You

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Speaker 1: gotta think about it. They're scary, man. You're got you're

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Speaker 1: coming down to it, and you're you know, six and

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Speaker 1: six right now. I gotta get a win. You gotta

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Speaker 1: squeeze every point you can out of this. Like I'm

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Speaker 1: never dropping the Niners d but I might drop somebody

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Speaker 1: and pick up Washington and just stream. Chiefs at Bengals

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Speaker 1: another one, No one the Chiefs. I'm expecting chase back

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Speaker 1: and you can't start the Bank going to Bengals. No,

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Speaker 1: Chargers at Raiders, can't start either one of those defenses. Yea,

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Speaker 1: Colts at Cowboys, you're gonna start the Cowboys obviously, yes.

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Speaker 1: And they will have sex, Yeah, they will have sex.

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Speaker 1: There will be blood. Get out really quick though. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I didn't love the Steelers fast Worus yesterday, but some

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Speaker 1: of it's kind of like last year with the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Balls comes out so fast. Um. Colts, it's a good

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Speaker 1: group and they've been startable, but I don't think. I

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Speaker 1: don't think I want to start. Yeah, you know, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's Uh they're nick there one cornerback

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Speaker 1: then you get Saints at Buccaneers Box. Yeah, probably not

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Speaker 1: the Saints. The Saints of head Brady's number probably, it's

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Speaker 1: not the worst start I've ever heard. I have to say,

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Speaker 1: And that's that's the Monday night game, so you won't

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Speaker 1: Cam Jordan? I mean, these these guys are kind of

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Speaker 1: isn't scary anymore. No, it's not um, but I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to bucks the Yeah, I mean there aren't as many

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Speaker 1: streaming options. You think there's Byes again this week? Right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this week it's uh, I think it's the last week

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Speaker 1: of byes. Oh where those byes at Cardinals and Panthers

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Speaker 1: two really goods. We're pretty much past the byes world. Well,

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Speaker 1: next week then Indianapolis still has by There's a couple

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Speaker 1: other teams at least, so we're getting into that. Looking

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Speaker 1: at the waiver wire pickups this week. Some injuries at

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Speaker 1: running back out there that make this interesting thing. And

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Speaker 1: Snell and McFarland. Are these fresh the legs, I don't

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Speaker 1: ignore that. I mean, if someone's gonna has nowhere and

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Speaker 1: they can do, and they're gonna get the football. Basically,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be playing an against a bunch of guys

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Speaker 1: who have been in twenty seven car crashes, yeah, right

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Speaker 1: hard to run against right now. Yeah, I mean there's

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Speaker 1: some bad beat up teams. You know, you can win

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Speaker 1: a lot of fantasy games late in the year picking

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Speaker 1: up dudes off the wire. Running back so Ja Michael

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Speaker 1: Hasti is rostered and point eight percent of ESPN leagues.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that one. I want to see

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Speaker 1: that happens this week or not. I mean, he catches balls.

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Speaker 1: That's a nice thing about Hasty. Uh. Pacheco still owned

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Speaker 1: in fifty eight point personally shouldn't be he's Gus Edwards

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Speaker 1: if I do it now. Well, I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: if you have a deep bench, you can do that

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Speaker 1: Gus Edwards just down the forty five percent ownership. He

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Speaker 1: was a lead back to back. Yeah, and it's not

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Speaker 1: a great offense, but he should be. He's a flex Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Kieran Williams nineteen point four percent ownership. That offense is awful,

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Speaker 1: Like I picked him up last year or last week,

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Speaker 1: thrilled to five to start him, but situations not as

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Speaker 1: bad as you think. Zonovan Bam Knight with the Jets,

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Speaker 1: He doesn't play any special teams. Yeah, is he going

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Speaker 1: to be the lead back all of a sudden just

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Speaker 1: because Robinson is going to be the lead back? That's

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Speaker 1: what I mean. Robinson probably just get active and get

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Speaker 1: have to They've Ty Johnson john Yeah. It's too muddy

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Speaker 1: for me. Yeah, that one killed that. That that Michael

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Speaker 1: big game. White. I don't think it's for me. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he fits that bill. I was laying out

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Speaker 1: Lawrence is only a fifty nine point two percent of leagues.

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Speaker 1: He runs and he's good, and yeah, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: your backup quarterbacks, you know, going all in on wild

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Speaker 1: card running back. So that kind of stuff happens because

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff is owned his owner his ownerships down at

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Speaker 1: twenty nine. There at home this week, you're getting home golf.

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Speaker 1: Like in my main league, I picked up Watson three

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Speaker 1: weeks ago, and I'm gonna cut off with all the

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Speaker 1: guys getting benched and stuff. Um yeah and so there.

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Speaker 1: But you can you can easily pick if you're in

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Speaker 1: a quarterback bind, you can can find somebody here. Mike

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Speaker 1: White two point nine percent on the ship. I'm not

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Speaker 1: of the other two guys, for sure. DeShawn Watson's got

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Speaker 1: thirty six percent ownership. You should have went all in.

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Speaker 1: Might be too late for that, well, I mean I'm

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Speaker 1: a sorting them this week. I mean it's a Texas

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariotta's forty two point four percent ownership. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he runs the ball with a big clip. Receivers are

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Speaker 1: bad at wide receiver. Michael Gallup is owned in forty

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Speaker 1: four point four percent of leagues. But I think Beckham

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