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

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome back to the Drive. I'm

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Speaker 1: Dale Alway here with Matt Williamson, and it is time

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Speaker 1: for the Fantasy Football Focus. And as we do here

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Speaker 1: at the end of the week every week, we pick

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Speaker 1: our DFS line up here. Uh this on DraftKings. We're

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Speaker 1: doing a five dollar single entry double up here, so

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Speaker 1: we can win ten dollars big time, just doubling your money.

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Speaker 1: This is actually the way to go. You want to

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Speaker 1: do single entries. Uh, that way somebody can't just jump

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Speaker 1: in there with twenty lineups and get lucky and dominate

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Speaker 1: the whole thing. Um. So, as we always do, we're

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Speaker 1: just picking Sunday and Monday games this week from those

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Speaker 1: from that slated games. Uh. Looking here at the defenses,

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Speaker 1: the Bills are the number one defense. Patriots are number

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Speaker 1: two at forty one hundred, The Bengals are four thousand,

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins are thirty eight hundred against Chicago. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Packers against Detroit a thirty seven hundred, The Vikings against

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Speaker 1: Washington or thirty five hundred. Um, you got the Chargers

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Speaker 1: against at lant at thirty four hundred. No, thank you.

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Speaker 1: The Rams against the Buccaneers is thirty three hundred, The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs against the Titans Titans is thirty three hundred's it's

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Speaker 1: not bad. Especially the Raiders against Jacksonville's two hundred. I

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Speaker 1: don't like that game. The Jaguars on the other side

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Speaker 1: of that are thirty one hundred. You know who should

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Speaker 1: be higher on that one? Baltimore at New Orleans is yeah.

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Speaker 1: The Buccaneers against the Rams is three thousand. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know who should be hiring that one either. The Rams

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Speaker 1: are thirty second in allowing they can't block anybody. I

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Speaker 1: mean they're worse in the ELTs and Texans. Yeah, the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals are hundred, the Falcons are hundred, the Colts are Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I might rather take the Colts than the Patriots at

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Speaker 1: the prices. Yeah right. The Saints are hundred coming off

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Speaker 1: a shutout defensive playing the Lions at home against the

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Speaker 1: Packers or hundred the Bears against Miami Seattle, the Commanders

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Speaker 1: against Minnesota, the Panthers against the Bengals d I kind

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Speaker 1: of like that. I think we go cheap on these, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because then you're gonna need to save some money because

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Speaker 1: there's the Titans are two hundred. The Jets are two thousand. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: not known thanks negative points. Um, A couple stood out

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Speaker 1: the case Tampa Tampa to me at three thousand. It's

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Speaker 1: just against that line in their own building that's way

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Speaker 1: too low. Yeah, I'm fine with that. We played them

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago and they only got us

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Speaker 1: one point. But I think their secondary is getting healthy too. Yeah. Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's look at tight end as we always do. Look

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Speaker 1: at those single positions first, and Travis Kelsey seventy hundred,

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Speaker 1: Mark Andrews seven thousand, We don't know if he's playing.

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Speaker 1: Zach Ertz is fifty one hundred. He's good, seats thirty

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Speaker 1: second against opposing tight end, they are awful safeties and

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Speaker 1: linebackers aren't. Taysom Hill is five thousand. Taysom Hill is

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Speaker 1: the fourth highest tight end this week. Really. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know there's a lot of guys off, but Darren Waller

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Speaker 1: is what's his health though, I don't know. Gerald Everett hundred,

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Speaker 1: the Falcons or twenty nine. He might be all they

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Speaker 1: have this way. Williams no, Alan, that's not bad at all. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Hockinson hundred. I assume they play on using him a

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Speaker 1: lot but he got the Washington there's number one against

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Speaker 1: the tight ends. Surprisingly enough, Kyle Pitts against the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: That might be cheap enough for me to consider it.

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Speaker 1: He did have a week last week that's like as

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Speaker 1: many targets as he had like the previous month. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna run a time, of course, but he's still really talented.

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Speaker 1: Mike get Sicky against Chicago's four thousand. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: trust his usage. Bob Tonyant, that's your guy. Tyler Higbee

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Speaker 1: against the Buccaneers thirty seven hundred. The Buccaneers are twenty

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Speaker 1: eight against opposing tight ends. There's a lot of talk

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Speaker 1: that Higbee is going to have to block a lot more. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that's why that reflects that, because

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Speaker 1: that seems too cheap for him. Hayden Hurst thirty, not bad,

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Speaker 1: that's not bad. Dawson Knox thirty. I don't like that.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah Likely. It's a complete dart throw thirty four hundred.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the Saints are a number two against opposing

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Speaker 1: tight ends. Okay, so interesting. That's a Friarmouth note. Evan

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Speaker 1: Ingram thirty. That's not bad. It's a part of that offense.

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Speaker 1: And and Vegas is thirty against opposing tight ends this year.

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Speaker 1: I don't mind that one bit. Yeah, Tyler Conklin interesting,

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Speaker 1: They threw to him like crazy last week. Cadet in

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Speaker 1: he gets used, Uh Cole comment is three thousand. Hunter

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Speaker 1: Henry Well, dis Lee, uh Johnson from New Orleans are

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Speaker 1: all three thousand, who are a couple. We like their

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Speaker 1: Ingram Ingram for sure thirty three hundred. I don't like

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Speaker 1: he was pricey but for Gerald Everett, but he would

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Speaker 1: be their number one target this week. I kind of

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Speaker 1: really like Ingram there. I mean that really opened some

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Speaker 1: doors for you to spend up some spots. Now you

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Speaker 1: can average sixty two hundred. That's your other might depending

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Speaker 1: on what you wanted. So let's take a look at

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Speaker 1: those quarterbacks. Josh Allen is eight hundred six homes Lamar

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Speaker 1: is seventy d in the road on the road against

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Speaker 1: New Orleans without Andrews and I don't love that. Patrick Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: I'd s wrongly consider it. Kyler Murray is seventy four hundred.

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Speaker 1: I would rather ma homes for the buck. Justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: Dred with no receivers, you can't trust it to us.

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Speaker 1: I mean he produces. Yeah, Joe Burrow is sixty d

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Speaker 1: you trust that. How about Kirk Cousins at store that's

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Speaker 1: not bad, It's not bad at all. Can send the equation.

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Speaker 1: Brady is six thousand, Aaron Rodgers fifty hundred against a

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Speaker 1: bad against a bad defense. Rogers against that defense last

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Speaker 1: year eight grand oh easily. Yeah. How about this Geno

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Speaker 1: Smith at Yeah. Andy Dalton is fifty seven hundred against

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Speaker 1: that Ravens defense that they don't don't defend the past

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Speaker 1: Room Stafford is hundred. Jared Goff is not at home

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Speaker 1: against an overrated defense? Is good weapons? Derek Carr is

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Speaker 1: fifty four hundred, which is the same price as Taylor Heineke. Wow,

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Speaker 1: I think you'd spend up on some of these guys. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota is he's better than that. I mean he

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Speaker 1: runs a lot justin fields is d He's like a

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Speaker 1: top eight guys. He's been number five fantasy quarterback over

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Speaker 1: the last point. Uh, you can get p J. Walker

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Speaker 1: und Trevor Lawrence against the Raiders defense is the Raiders

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Speaker 1: are thirty one against opposing quarterbacks. Yeah, they're struggling. I

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Speaker 1: mean they're a weapon short and he's not playing well,

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Speaker 1: and I kind of like fields or homes. Where do

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Speaker 1: you want to put him? Let's put fields in there

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Speaker 1: right now and see if if doing that gets us

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Speaker 1: like Tyreke and might have I mean that really now,

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Speaker 1: Now you can average Dred the rest of the way,

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Speaker 1: which is big, which is huge. Um. In fact, you

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Speaker 1: want to look at wide receiver before we look at

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Speaker 1: running back. Let's do that. Do it that way because

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Speaker 1: you might be able to get two of these guys.

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Speaker 1: I like it. Cooper cup is he's but you can

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Speaker 1: get Jefferson, Yeah, Tyreek is eight. Who would you rather

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Speaker 1: have those two? The Bears are actually number three against

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Speaker 1: the Posy. Everybody runs on them, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins will. Uh Stefan Diggs is you could do

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Speaker 1: a stack of Tyreek killing stuff on Diggs. It's sixteen nine.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't crush our budget. Like those are the number

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Speaker 1: one and two wide receiver scores this year, I mean

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Speaker 1: by far. Yeah, you can get Dvante Adams at eight

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Speaker 1: one hundred, DeAndre Hopkins at Yeah, he's peppered. Uh, Jalen

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Speaker 1: Waddle is pretty strong, Yeah, Tee Higgins at seventy three.

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Speaker 1: D I wish I saw more of him in that

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Speaker 1: last game, you know, to pay that kind of money

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Speaker 1: for him. Mike Evans, I don't like this week, but

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Speaker 1: he's seventy two hundred. He's going to get a lot. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we'll get a lot. Yeah. I'd rather pay for Godwin though,

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Speaker 1: if he's cheaper, right, I would take Goblin. I just

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Speaker 1: think he's going to see a lot of red zone action. No,

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Speaker 1: I think Evans is gonna see a lot of gave yeah, Gave.

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Speaker 1: Davis is sixty nine hundred, Michael Pittman hundred, Aman Ross St.

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Speaker 1: Brown is sixty hundred. That's too cheap. That's like right

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Speaker 1: on budget two right, Yeah, that's right there. Metcalfe is

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Speaker 1: six hundred, that's right on budget. Chris A. Lava right

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Speaker 1: on budget. Tyler Boyd is sixty d again, right on

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Speaker 1: our budget. He does well when you know, chases out Gobwin.

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Speaker 1: Is we just plug that in now? Yeah? I kind

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Speaker 1: of like St. Brown at the price too. So if

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Speaker 1: we did that St. Brown now, we could now we

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Speaker 1: could afford one of us. Let's look at the running

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Speaker 1: backs now, receiver, so you can get a hundred that

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Speaker 1: might be actually be worth it. This week, he didn't

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Speaker 1: get a million touches this week and targets and target

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Speaker 1: I mean he should be number one. Yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: think it'd be like Henry or Cook. I couldn't think

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Speaker 1: it would be number one, but he might. He might

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Speaker 1: catch ten passes this week too. Uh. Derrick Henry is

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Speaker 1: five hundred, Dalvin Cook is seventy eight hundred, Taylor seventies

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Speaker 1: seven hundred. Wish we knew health. Aaron Jones seventy four hundred. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: much more than all those guys. Josh Jacobs is seventy

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Speaker 1: three hundred. I'm sure they get back to him and

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars against the posing run. Alvin Kamara is pretty good.

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Speaker 1: You could do a stack of Aklar and Kamara. We

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Speaker 1: see what that looks like. I mean, they're gonna catch

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Speaker 1: a lot of passes between the two of them. Maybe

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Speaker 1: that still leaves us forty. Uh, we have hundred remaining

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Speaker 1: then for a wide receiver in a flex. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: see what that gets us in the receiver. Were ain't

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Speaker 1: cheap receivers? Well, I bet we can find one that

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Speaker 1: that let's start. I'm gonna start. I'm gonna start for

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Speaker 1: five thousand downs, so five thousand of Sulio Jones here

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Speaker 1: and Alan Robinson. No Ellen Robinson. I'm talking myself into

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Speaker 1: because I have to play him, so I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: send him good vibes. But I think coming off of

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Speaker 1: is Devin do uvern. That's interesting out we know Bateman's

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Speaker 1: out there twenty fifth against opposing her. Yeah. Receivers Uh,

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Speaker 1: Claypool is forty hundred. Carrett Wilson is he's the one

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Speaker 1: now Yea, Darnell Mooney is they're gonna have to throw

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Speaker 1: Josh Reynolds hundred, Darius tony hundred, Money renfro is fort hundred.

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Speaker 1: What's the story with him? I don't know. I don't know. MATC. Collins,

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Speaker 1: Nicole Harman. There was one you said like three or

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Speaker 1: four ago that I thought was an easy Alec Piercest, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Marquees Valdes, Scantling ist d m hm uh Carter DeAndre

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Speaker 1: Carter is forty three hundred. I don't trust him. Corey

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Speaker 1: Davis forty three hundred, Elijah Moore forty three hundred. That's

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Speaker 1: the one I was thinking of. Was Wilson for the Jets? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: More doesn't play anymore, doesn't play. Paris Campbell is he

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Speaker 1: does play, he does play put Garret Wilson And where

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Speaker 1: would that leave us? Zay Jones is forty one ingram

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Speaker 1: I know, um this is interesting too. Uh. DeMarcus Robinson

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Speaker 1: he plays now, he's like he got eight targets last week.

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Speaker 1: Say he got picked up like crazy in those deep leagues.

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Speaker 1: I mane which I get. I mean, let's see what

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Speaker 1: happened I put him in? And what what's that bias

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Speaker 1: that gets us? That leads us with Like if DeMarcus

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Speaker 1: Robinson catches at forty one hundred, if he catches three balls,

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Speaker 1: I would say four forty eight, that's fine, that's worth

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Speaker 1: it because it allows us and to spend fifty hundred

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Speaker 1: at the at the flex position, which gets us. Christian

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Speaker 1: Kirk nice, Michael Carter pretty nice, Antonio Gibson interesting, Tyler Algier.

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Speaker 1: I think Paterson is coming back? Yeah, Jacoby Myers, where

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Speaker 1: is Patterson on? Here? Must be a hundred we just

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Speaker 1: nice bye week.