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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Chris Harry with you on a training camp

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Speaker 1: edition of Chargers Weekly. A bit later, Matt Harman of

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Speaker 1: Yahoo's Sports gets you fully prepared for your upcoming fantasy

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Speaker 1: football drafts. But first, Good Morning Football's Peter Schreger shares

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Speaker 1: his early preseason observations and tells you why it's a

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Speaker 1: good time to be a Bolts fan. All right, very

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Speaker 1: pleased to welcome on Peter Schreger Good Morning Football and

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports the Chargers Weekly. If Peter, I'm catching you

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Speaker 1: right in the middle of August, Man, I know how

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Speaker 1: busy your schedule is. Thanks for joining me. How you doing,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing awesome. I'm studying all the depth charts. I

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Speaker 1: want to know where Austin Ekeler filks, and I gotta

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Speaker 1: make sure if it's cardl or Gino. I'm all in.

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Speaker 1: Oh let's go, man, Hey, listen, take me through the

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Speaker 1: life of Peter Schreger three weeks before the season. Oprah, Mandy.

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Speaker 1: I know you have a lot going on in the morning,

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Speaker 1: and then you're also doing some games. Yeah. I'm extremely fortunate.

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Speaker 1: NFL Network, which is based in New York City. We

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Speaker 1: air seven to ten am Eastern, and I guess it's

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Speaker 1: four to seven am on the West Coast if you've

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Speaker 1: watched our show. We're trying to be different. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to think we are different. It's myself, Nate Burrows, and

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Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt and Kay Adams, and it's four friends on

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Speaker 1: a TV talking about football, chopping it up in a

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Speaker 1: way that's fun, informative. I think you're learning more things

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Speaker 1: on our show than the other show, and not combative.

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Speaker 1: We don't hate each other and we're not just screaming

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Speaker 1: at each other. So it's very loosey goosey. That's Monday

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Speaker 1: to Friday, and then I do five lines for Fox

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Speaker 1: during the season, so you'll see me on Sunday games.

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Speaker 1: I know we've got a bunch of Chargers games on Fox,

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Speaker 1: but during the preseason I'm doing a little work with

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Speaker 1: the La Rams as well on their broadcast. Where you

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Speaker 1: La Rams in the next couple of weeks. Well, Pete,

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Speaker 1: your eye in Week one of the preseason, just from

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Speaker 1: an NFL perspective, what the thirty two penalties called in

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Speaker 1: the Chargers Cardinals game a lot twenty six accepted. I

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Speaker 1: But what really popped out to five rookie quarterbacks really

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Speaker 1: Darnald and Allan all have in their moments. I didn't

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Speaker 1: five respective cities. Well, I tell you, Peter, the Chargers

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Speaker 1: have to play the Browns, they have to play the Bills.

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Speaker 1: They have played the Cardinals again, they have played the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: because I could say that, and I follow the league

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Speaker 1: coats than anybody. Peter, we get you out of here

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Speaker 1: and Ezekiel Elliot in the first round and then you

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Speaker 1: come back with a Rod Smith, you know, his number

427
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Speaker 1: two on the depth charts. If Zeke goes down, you

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Speaker 1: have just essentially replaced Zeke with the lesser version of him.

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Speaker 1: But on the other hand, if you take Ezekiel Elliot

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Speaker 1: in round one and then you take James Connor at

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Speaker 1: the end of the draft and then Leveon Bell goes down,

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Speaker 1: now you've added and asked at rather than just subtracting

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Speaker 1: something and putting in a lesser version of it. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a higher upside move to

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Speaker 1: take the backup running backs from other teams at the

436
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Speaker 1: end of your draft and try to stash those in

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Speaker 1: the end of the season on the waiver wire. That's

438
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Speaker 1: when I like to handcuff players because you don't need

439
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Speaker 1: that depth anymore because bye weeks are done and whatever.

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing why handcuffing is tough too

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Speaker 1: is because we just don't know who the backups are

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Speaker 1: going to be. You know, people will rattle off and

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Speaker 1: examples from years past when backup running backs have come

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Speaker 1: in and excelled, and I'm a total buyer of that philosophy.

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Speaker 1: That's why I mentioned a drafting backup running backs. But

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Speaker 1: oftentimes we forget, like the guys we thought were going

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Speaker 1: to be the handcuffs didn't end up being the starters.

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Speaker 1: The best example of that is like Jamal Charles when

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Speaker 1: he tours ACL a few years ago. People that season,

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Speaker 1: we're drafting, um, Niles, I can't Niles something. I can't

451
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Speaker 1: remember the guys Nil Davis, Yeah, Nile Davis right right.

452
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Speaker 1: They were drafting him as like the handcuff and it

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Speaker 1: ended up being Chuck Hendrick West and Spencer Ware at

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Speaker 1: the end of the year. So that's just a great example.

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Speaker 1: We just don't know. We assume we know much more

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Speaker 1: than we do with the team. Yeah, great example of

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Speaker 1: that too is when Geis goes down for the Redskins,

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Speaker 1: Is it gonna be p Ryan, is gonna be Rob Kelly?

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Speaker 1: You know, how does Chris Thompson affect all of that?

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Speaker 1: So that's interesting. I think I'm done with handcuffing as well.

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Speaker 1: You were two years early on this, But Harmon, let's

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Speaker 1: move to wide receiver. It's difficult to argue with anybody

463
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Speaker 1: in that first tier that you have ab Odell, Julio Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: Michael Thomas. But you could make the case that Keenan

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Speaker 1: Allen is set up to outproduce a few of those

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Speaker 1: guys in twenty eighteen. I want to say he was

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Speaker 1: the third highest scoring receiver in twenty seventeen without Hunter

468
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Speaker 1: Henry and another year, another healthy year under his belt.

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Speaker 1: I can see Keenan doing big things again in eighteen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: to consecue that whole wide receiver two tier I have

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Speaker 1: or second tier of wide receivers J Green, Keenan Allen,

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Speaker 1: DeVante Adams. I really could see any of them producing

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Speaker 1: like a Tier one player. I just feel a little

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Speaker 1: bit more secure with the volume and offensive efficiency match

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Speaker 1: of the first tier than the second. But those guys

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Speaker 1: are great second round picks. I mean, if you can

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Speaker 1: get aj Green or Keenan Allen towards that two three

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Speaker 1: turn after taking you know, a David Johnson or a

479
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Speaker 1: Levion Belt Todd Gurley at the top of your draft,

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Speaker 1: you set yourself up so well, and Keenan Allen. I

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Speaker 1: agree with you, man. I've been a huge Keenan Allen

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Speaker 1: fan for years and years now, and I think the

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Speaker 1: end of last season we really started to see the

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Speaker 1: Chargers just realize he's this needs to be the engine

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Speaker 1: of the passing game. You know, there are a couple

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Speaker 1: of games towards the middle of the season where he

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Speaker 1: was just kind of almost unusable and fantasy really kind

488
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Speaker 1: of a weak killer. But then the Chargers did seem

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Speaker 1: to I just think the overall you can, you know,

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Speaker 1: kind of totally speak to this more than I could,

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Speaker 1: But I feel like the Chargers offense kind of started

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Speaker 1: to find themselves more from a play calling perspective, both

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Speaker 1: with their usage of Melvin Gordon and also Keenan Allen

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Speaker 1: towards the second half of the year and Hunter Henry

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Speaker 1: as well, who we unfortunately we'll see this year. So

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Speaker 1: with you, I love Keenan Allen as a pick this year.

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Speaker 1: He's super safe from a volume perspective overall on a

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Speaker 1: year end basis, so it's total great locked in wide

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Speaker 1: receiver one to me, hard to believe he's twenty six

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Speaker 1: years old and probably getting better. I mean, his footwork

501
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Speaker 1: has been pretty much unbelievable in training camp, and it's

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Speaker 1: fun just seeing him in Casey Hayward go up gets

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Speaker 1: each other on a day to day basis. But I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you about another Chargers receiver, Mike Williams,

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Speaker 1: because he seems to have made at least one eye

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Speaker 1: catching play, let's say, in training camp each day. He's

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Speaker 1: now fully healthy, and he's going very late in drafts,

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Speaker 1: Matt Oh, for sure, he's a guy that you can pluck,

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Speaker 1: you know. I like taking him at the end of

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Speaker 1: drafts and Bestball leagues, especially because I don't think he's

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Speaker 1: going to be a week tweek producer. But I do

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Speaker 1: think he will offer spike tweeks because they seem pretty

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Speaker 1: intent on making him a big red zone threat, and

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Speaker 1: he certainly could be that guy, you know, with Hunter

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Speaker 1: Henry Down, no real tight end answer on the roster

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Speaker 1: as of this moment. I like Mike Williams there. I

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Speaker 1: think he could take second year leap. I'm also interested

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Speaker 1: in Tyroll Williams too. I don't really know if the

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Speaker 1: team is a tye on Tyroll Williams, as it seems

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Speaker 1: like a lot of people like myself are. I think

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Speaker 1: he's a real good player let the NFL among wide

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Speaker 1: receivers in yards after catch per reception last year. I

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Speaker 1: think he's a guy that's sneaky too. I really think

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Speaker 1: that this could be an awesome eleven personnel team, you know,

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Speaker 1: with Mike Williams as the acts, Tyro Williams as the

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Speaker 1: Z and Keenan Allen is that ze flanker or ze

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Speaker 1: a slot hybrid. Yeah, making all these guys good matchup plays.

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Speaker 1: So Mike Williams is definitely a player I'm you know,

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Speaker 1: a little. He's one of my favorite late round picks.

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Speaker 1: But he's certainly somebody that, along with Tyro Williams, that

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Speaker 1: I'm monitoring absolutely. And you know, he was drafted number

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Speaker 1: seven overall for a reason. We didn't get to see

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Speaker 1: it last year because of just being injured all of

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Speaker 1: last offseason. Having that healthy offseason and just getting a

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Speaker 1: taste of what he could do with Philip Rivers under center.

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Speaker 1: It's been a lot of fun to see in August.

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Speaker 1: He want to see that translate to September obviously. And

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Speaker 1: you know, quarterbacks, you have Rogers, Wilson, Brady and Cam

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Speaker 1: in your top tier. At what point do you actually

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Speaker 1: make a move for one of these guys in your

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Speaker 1: draft because there's so many guys after them. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: usually not getting any of these guys. The only player

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Speaker 1: that I've pulled the trigger on occasionally is Cam Newton.

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Speaker 1: You know if he because he drops in drafts, man,

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Speaker 1: he's pretty cheap considering the season I think he could have.

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Speaker 1: I think that right now. I think he's got four

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Speaker 1: candidates for hundred targets on his team. I don't think

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Speaker 1: all of them are going to get it. So that's

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Speaker 1: why I'm not you know, Christian McCaffrey, DJ More, Devin Funches,

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Speaker 1: Greg Olson. I'm not really necessarily drafting any of those

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Speaker 1: guys that cost, although I've taken Christian McCaffrey more in

552
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Speaker 1: the second round lately, but because I do, I just

553
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Speaker 1: don't think all of those guys are going to get

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Speaker 1: that volume. But they all have a shot at it.

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Speaker 1: And what that means is it's usually thinks for the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's the straw that spurs to drink. And

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Speaker 1: Cam Newton this scenario, if he gets to like that

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Speaker 1: ninth round range, which he sometimes does, eighth round range,

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Speaker 1: I'm okay, think about it there. But usually these other

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Speaker 1: guys I'm waiting on because, as you mentioned, there's just

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Speaker 1: so much late round potential. You know, Marcus Mariota is

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite late round picks because I think

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Speaker 1: his offense could explode this year. Patrick Mahomes, I'm intrigued

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Speaker 1: by Alex Smith and Washington. I think the Redskins have

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Speaker 1: a shot at a top ten offense potentially. This is

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Speaker 1: a nice group of skill position players, a nice offensive

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Speaker 1: line of proven offensive play caller, and Jake Gruden, no

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Speaker 1: matter what you think of him as a head coach,

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Speaker 1: all of these guys are available late in drafts and

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Speaker 1: it's just so so easy to seeing the position. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you even get into my quarterback tier five, you're

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Speaker 1: looking at guys like Jared Goff, Dak Prescott, Mitch for Bisty,

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, Eli Manning. Any of those guys can give

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Speaker 1: you QV one weeks, even if you're not using him

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Speaker 1: on a week to week basis. Harmon, we'll get you

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Speaker 1: out here on this. We all love sleepers, we all

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Speaker 1: love rookies that burst onto the scene. If you could

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Speaker 1: rattle off a few guys at different positions that you're

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Speaker 1: high on entering twenty eighteen, there perhaps not everybody has

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Speaker 1: caught on too. In mid August. Yeah, yeah, I mentioned

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Speaker 1: the Titans earlier with Marcus Mariota. I think they're going

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Speaker 1: to take a big step forward. Kaywan Taylor is probably

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite late round picks right now. I

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Speaker 1: mentioned Bestball League and those ones go like eighteen rounds,

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Speaker 1: and you consistently see Taylor there in the seventeenth, eighteenth round.

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Speaker 1: This guy has been a starter in training camp. You know,

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Speaker 1: Richard Matthews has some weird injury that we don't really

588
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Speaker 1: have clarity on what's going on there. Corey Davis has

589
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Speaker 1: been in and out of practices. It's been Taywan Taylor

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Speaker 1: used as both an ex receiver and a flot guy,

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Speaker 1: you know, for an offense, and I think is gonna

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Speaker 1: be really high paced, you know, move much better than

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Speaker 1: it did under the Mike Malarkey days. Taylor was a

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Speaker 1: guy I charted for reception perception, which is the methodology

595
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Speaker 1: used to evaluate wide receivers. A guy who had a

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Speaker 1: seventy six percent contested catch rate in college. You know

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Speaker 1: that's despite being kind of a smaller receiver. He can

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Speaker 1: win verse tight outside coverage. He's someone I love drafting

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Speaker 1: in the late rounds. I don't think people are on

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Speaker 1: him and as a running back position, you know, I

601
00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: don't necessarily love him as a player, and I like

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Speaker 1: the situation for a guy like Jordan Wilkins. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's somebody I'm rising on. He is a good shot

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Speaker 1: to be the Week one starter in Indianapolis, could lead

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Speaker 1: the team and carries with a guy like Marlon Mack

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Speaker 1: on the shelf right now at the hamstring injury, not

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Speaker 1: he Hines hasn't really picked up momentum, and a wide

608
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Speaker 1: receiver two you mentioned rookies, I'm watching Michael Gallop and Dallas.

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Speaker 1: You know, he had a real nice catch in the

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Speaker 1: Week one of the preseason, but more importantly, he did

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Speaker 1: it with the starters. You know, this is a guy

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Speaker 1: I think that could lead the team in receiving in

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Speaker 1: your one. Kind of like a poor man version of

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Speaker 1: Michael Thomas. Real good route runner, real good contested cash guy.

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Speaker 1: He's someone I'm watching out for. Yeah, the opportunity is

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Speaker 1: there for Gallup, no doubt. Matt, you're the best. We've

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Speaker 1: done this. We did this a bunch of times last year,

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Speaker 1: and I am so happy for your success at YAH

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Speaker 1: who look forward to pavin you on again here throughout

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Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen season. Brother, appreciate it, Chris, thank you

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Speaker 1: for the time and that'll do it. A big thanks

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Speaker 1: to Matt Harman and Peter Schreger for joining me, and

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Speaker 1: of course thanks to you all for listening. Remember find

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Speaker 1: us on Apple Podcasts and why you're there, Please leave

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Speaker 1: a review, help spread the word, and a reminder of

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Speaker 1: the Chargers preseason home opener against the Seattle Seahawks is

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Speaker 1: this Saturday night. Kickoff is at seven pm locally on

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Speaker 1: ABC seven Los Angeles. The game will also re air

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Speaker 1: on NFL Network on Tuesday, August twenty feet at nine

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Speaker 1: pm Pacific. Have a great weekend, enjoy the game, and

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Speaker 1: until next time, I'm Chris Harry.