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Speaker 1: Wow, everybody, it is Tuesday, June eighteen, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, where we prefer

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Speaker 1: not to stay away from Football's.

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Speaker 2: Be your Man, NAMG Marcus Grant, joined by Michael f.

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Speaker 1: Florio and LaQuan Jones and uh fellows.

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Speaker 2: First of all, welcome back, Lakwan. How was your father's day?

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Speaker 2: Oh it was great.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 4: Got to hang out with the kids. The White made

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Speaker 4: my favorite breakfast, you know, like very nice and great stuff.

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Speaker 4: And uh, Floria, you're a dog dad. So how is

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Speaker 4: your your weekend with Cali? It was you worry with Cali?

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Speaker 2: Were you No? We were.

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Speaker 3: We got back Saturday, so uh, Nikola got me a

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Speaker 3: card from a dog.

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Speaker 2: That was very cool.

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Speaker 3: That so, yeah, that was fun.

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Speaker 2: How was yours? It was great. I took my kid

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Speaker 2: to his first Dodger game this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Uh you know, they lost, but he ate half his

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Speaker 1: body weight in popcorn and ice cream memory for your

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Speaker 1: cherish forever. He doesn't care that the Dodgers lot has

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Speaker 1: zero cares about it. You got to do the wave

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Speaker 1: and seeing take me out to the ball game. It

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Speaker 1: was a very like that's the whole experience. He did

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Speaker 1: he got the whole experience. We got a big show today,

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Speaker 1: though we have a special guest. It is the one

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Speaker 1: and only Judy Battista. You see her across the network,

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Speaker 1: one of the great reporters here at NFL Media.

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Speaker 2: Judy, thank you so much for coming on. How are you.

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Speaker 5: It's my pleasure. I'm good sort of enjoying the off season,

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Speaker 5: but it's not really the off season. It never really stops.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly it is.

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Speaker 1: It is year round of twenty four to seven, and

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Speaker 1: so that was the reason we wanted to get you

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Speaker 1: on to come and talk about some of the goings on,

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Speaker 1: especially up in the Northeast kind of where you are

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Speaker 1: talking about the Jets, the Giants, the Patriots a little bit.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like when we're starting, if we're talking.

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Speaker 1: About the New York teams, everything begins with Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: whether it is a story or not.

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Speaker 2: He's always sort of in the center of things.

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Speaker 1: I know Robert Sala has said the absence was excused,

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Speaker 1: that everything is okay, but it always seems to be

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Speaker 1: a story with him.

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Speaker 2: Will it.

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Speaker 1: Jets ultimately regrets getting into bed with Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 2: If things sort of continue this way.

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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, let's just be clear it was

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Speaker 5: an unexcused absence, which is that's sort of what's set

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Speaker 5: off the flair, right like for Robert Solid to come

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Speaker 5: out and volunteer, Like this is an unexcused absence. You're like, Okay,

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Speaker 5: that's unusual for the franchise quarterback anyway, Well, they regret

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Speaker 5: getting in bed with Aaron Rodgers. I mean no, not

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Speaker 5: if they win games. No, because all of the other stuff,

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Speaker 5: the headlines, right, like all of that, the podcast that whatever, Like,

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Speaker 5: none of that matters once he's on the football field

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Speaker 5: and if he is healthy, which is obviously the big one.

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Speaker 5: But if he's healthy, if they can keep him upright,

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Speaker 5: I mean, he changes everything about that franchise, even last

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Speaker 5: the spring, like he just changed everything about everything in

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Speaker 5: but like the marketing people were excited, right, like, just

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Speaker 5: changes everything. So no, they will not regret get in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, his Week one entrance was the coolest moment in

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Speaker 5: Seriously, Yes, yeah, I mean and then what happened right

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Speaker 5: wrenching things you've ever seen, Like it was just terrible,

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Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean, look, I mean looking at this offseason, Judy,

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Speaker 5: Yes? I do. Now, again, everything is predicated on his health, right,

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Speaker 5: he was way ahead of schedule even at the end

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Speaker 5: So if we assume that he is at least mostly healthy,

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Speaker 5: you don't even need peak Aaron Rodgers to be a

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Speaker 5: Mike Williams, who's coming off his own injury. They drafted

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Speaker 5: Malachi Corley, who is known as the Yak King, which

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Speaker 5: is awesome, an amazing name. All of that to compliment

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Speaker 5: No matter who the quarterback is, Breece Hall is not

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Speaker 5: out of the gate, which was not the case last year.

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Speaker 5: So I do think they've done. The pieces are in place.

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Speaker 5: And then they got Hassan Redick from the Eagles. We

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Speaker 5: for there to be improvement for the Jets, the defense

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Speaker 5: is really good. Okay, so let's set that aside. For

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Speaker 5: there to be offensive improvement for the Jets, do you

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Speaker 5: don't even need to have MVP level Aaron Rodgers from

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Speaker 5: a few years ago in Green Bay. You need like

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Speaker 3: And you mentioned Malachi Corley, the self proclaimed jack King.

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Speaker 3: I'm wondering how he's looked in the limited time that

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Speaker 3: think we could see him play in like three wids

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Speaker 3: like Alan Mazartis's competition. Can he push out Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 5: Well, Allenlizard did not look great last year. Now part

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Speaker 5: of that, obviously is that you know Aaron Rodgers was

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Speaker 5: But Alan Lazard certainly did not look great. They are

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Speaker 2: A comfortable I know they brought in Tyrod Taylor.

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Speaker 1: Are they comfortable with their backup quarterback situation in the

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they feel a lot better about it.

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Speaker 5: Don't forget. I want to say this in defense of

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Speaker 5: So they feel a lot better. I mean, tyrod Taylor

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Speaker 5: holding the fort. You're not You're probably not winning the

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Speaker 5: much much better about their backup situation.

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Speaker 1: And you talk about winning the super Bowl with what

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Speaker 1: what would be a measure of success for this Jets team?

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Speaker 1: Is it super Bowl or bust? Is it just we

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Speaker 5: Year, well, they I mean the minimum is they have

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Speaker 5: The defense is really good, So I mean, this this

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Speaker 5: But I would say they need to certainly make the

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Speaker 1: Well, gonna be interesting, for sure, because the Jets are

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Speaker 1: always interesting. Always be good, be bad, just be interesting.

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Speaker 1: The Jets always seem to fill that last part for sure.

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Speaker 1: Take a quick break, come back with more Judy Batista.

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Speaker 1: They'll talk some Giants football just a bit here, on

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Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Got Judy Batista here from NFL Media, one.

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Speaker 1: Of our fabulous reporters here and talking some Jets, some

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Speaker 1: Giants moving over to Big Blue right now. Daniel Jones

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Speaker 1: is back, had a couple of years ago, had his

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Speaker 1: had just signed him too, a big deal. They bring

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Speaker 1: in Drew Locke. Does this mean there's signaling some sort

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Speaker 1: of buyer's remorse with this or is this just sort

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Speaker 1: of some insurance in case things go sideways with Jones again?

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Speaker 5: I think the latter. I think it's insurance. Daniel Jones.

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Speaker 5: They have been adamant that he is the starter assuming

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Speaker 5: Obviously that is predicated on him staying healthy and on

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Speaker 5: Ball's first season, and the offense looked pretty good, right,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, I think everybody would like to see write

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Speaker 5: It's I think we're going to see a lot of shuffling.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you speak about guys stepping up who's

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Speaker 5: I guess we'll see what happens. Certainly, I would expect

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Speaker 1: We will definitely see what happens with Big Blue. Want

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Speaker 1: first come back and finish up with Judy Batista here

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Speaker 1: Bautista here, and want to dive into the Patriots, because

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Speaker 5: and like, do you risk demoralizing him? Right? Are you

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Speaker 5: going to you know, ding his confidence? You would hope not.

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Speaker 5: He's going to be the franchise quarterback. He's the number

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Speaker 5: three overall pick. You would hope that he's prepared for,

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Speaker 5: I think that's a philosophical discussion that's going to have

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Speaker 5: he is better off just going out there and suffering

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Speaker 5: the lumps right now? And he would certainly suffer lumps

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Speaker 5: in that first part of the schedule. Those are some

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Speaker 5: really good defenses that they would face, you know, or

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Speaker 5: sort of observe Jacoby Prissett for sett you know, take

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Speaker 5: him in. As you said, my the schedule gets a

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Speaker 6: So I want to ask you about the backfre Ramandre

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Speaker 5: Yeah. I think Ramandre Stevens, first of all, he has

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Speaker 5: made it clear he wants to be the guy, the

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Speaker 5: more than more than an even split. I think he's

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Speaker 5: to be a pretty run heavy offense, again, especially if

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Speaker 5: you put Drake May in there. They don't have I

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Speaker 5: mean this has been We've said this for how many

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Speaker 5: years now. They don't have many dynamic receivers. I mean,

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Speaker 5: they don't have dynamic pass catching weapons. So I would

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Speaker 5: expect that Alex Van Pelt is going to spend a

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Speaker 5: to protect especially rookie quarterback, I would expect a lot

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Speaker 1: Well you sort of sort of answered this a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but I'll ask it anyway. I mean, you mentioned that

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Speaker 1: the pass catchers. I mean, so what are the expectations.

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Speaker 1: They spent the second round pick on Jalen Polk, they

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Speaker 1: spent the fourth round pick on Javon Baker. Is there

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Speaker 1: an expectation these guys can come in and be playmakers

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Speaker 5: Yes? But again I mean, and this is not as

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Speaker 5: slight at them, but like you know that for them

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Speaker 5: to be playmakers, the quarterback has to be a playmaker

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Speaker 5: to get them the ball. And so if you're you know,

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Speaker 5: can the rookie quarterback do that right out of the gate,

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Speaker 5: if you're putting Drake May out there, you know, it's

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Speaker 5: all got to work. In concerts, Kendrick Bourne would be

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Speaker 5: the number one receiver again if he's healthy. But this

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Speaker 5: is I mean, this has been a conversation since Tom

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Speaker 5: Brady was still in Foxborough. Then they just don't have

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Speaker 5: the guy. Like we just had this conversation about the Giants, right,

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Speaker 5: they finally have a you know, an alpha dog receiver

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Speaker 5: to help a quarterback out the Patriot to really have

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Speaker 5: that and that's another piece of like, who's there to

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Speaker 5: help Drake May if you're putting him in there? So

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Speaker 5: can the rookies contribute? Yes, they can certainly contribute. Can

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Speaker 5: they make a big splash? I don't know about that,

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Speaker 5: because you need the quarterback to help you make a

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Speaker 3: And Judy, before we let you go, I do have

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Speaker 3: to ask you, uh, do you now believe in the

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Speaker 3: power of Grimace?

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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. First of all, First of all, I

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Speaker 5: love Grimace because I loved milkshakes anyway, So let's just

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Speaker 5: start there. So always was a fan of Remiss. But

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Speaker 5: obviously I mean Grimas is going to win us the

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Speaker 5: World Series.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Mets fans with optimism.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: It's great. It's awesome. Judy, this was awesome stuff as well.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you hanging out with us and giving us

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Speaker 1: some insight on some of these teams.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 1: We were saying before the show there is no real

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Speaker 1: off season, but enjoy what little off season they're.

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Speaker 2: Pretends to be.

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Speaker 5: Great to be with you guys, Thank you, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, thanks that you know it. Teasa go check her

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Speaker 1: out of course. Across all the NFL media platforms for

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Speaker 1: us that'll do it. That I'll wrap up this edition

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Speaker 1: of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast that we're back with

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Speaker 1: you later on in the week. In the meantime, stay happy,

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Speaker 1: safe and healthy, do good and live well. Enjoy the week, everybody.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again real soon