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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly

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Speaker 2: source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and

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Speaker 2: whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now,

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Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Chargion.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi and

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Speaker 1: my co host today, the ailing Matt Harrison.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my knee pit is really Oh that's a throwback

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Speaker 3: right there.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's your showing your age if you get

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Speaker 1: back to the knee pit. We haven't had a knee

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Speaker 1: pit reference on this show. And what do you think,

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Speaker 1: like ten years.

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Speaker 3: It's been a while, but I heard you and uh,

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Speaker 3: Paul Allen and Chad Greenway talking about Dennis Pitta today

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Speaker 3: and it brought me all back to the Todd heat

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Speaker 3: Memorial injury report, all that good times back then.

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Speaker 1: The Todd Heap Memorial injury Report. That's how we started

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Speaker 1: those episodes of Fantasy Football Weekly, back in the day

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Speaker 1: when it was really hard to get injury information. So

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Speaker 1: you're like, the first thing we got to get out

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Speaker 1: of the way is who's healthy and who's not. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's just not times have changed and.

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Speaker 3: We figured out how to work it into the matchups,

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Speaker 3: and yeah, take less time.

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Speaker 1: I think that I think it is better this way

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Speaker 1: that we've that we've done it. But we missed Todd Heap.

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Speaker 1: I was always my intention to get Todd Heap on

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Speaker 1: the show. But and we could probably get him now

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Speaker 1: because what's Todd Heap doing? He'd probably enjoy the opportunity

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Speaker 1: to come on the show, But well, you know what

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Speaker 1: are we going to do with him now?

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Speaker 3: He's probably in a hospital somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Let's hope he's not dead somewhere with all the things

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Speaker 1: that have gone wrong for him. And I hope he'd

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Speaker 1: take it with a sense of humor to know that

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Speaker 1: there was a show out there that named their injury

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Speaker 1: report after Todd Heap.

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Speaker 3: Who knows, he might be really angry about it.

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Speaker 1: Could be, it could be. We're gonna have a ton

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Speaker 1: of fun today, Matt. We're gonna break down the AFC

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Speaker 1: and NFC championship games fantasy football weekly style with letter

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Speaker 1: grades and all the players and see how see who

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Speaker 1: we like, who we don't like, what kind of sleepers

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Speaker 1: we can unveil a lot of ways you can put

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Speaker 1: this to good use DFS betting. In some cases, you

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Speaker 1: may sell fantasy leagues playoff fantasy leagues, so you can

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Speaker 1: change rosters. I'm in one of those. We've got one

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Speaker 1: of them ageeteen leagues dot Com, so there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of different ways you could skin this cat. I want

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Speaker 1: to start with the Eagles Commander's game. That's our first

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Speaker 1: game on Sunday. And I think, if I'm correct about

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Speaker 1: the scheduling on this, I haven't. I haven't looked at

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Speaker 1: it a while, Matt. I think we're going mid afternoon

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Speaker 1: for the first game and then prime time for the

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Speaker 1: second game.

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Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, two pm Central time, so three pm Eastern

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Speaker 3: is the first game.

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Speaker 1: Got you? Got you? And that first game is Commander's Eagles.

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Speaker 1: That is your game, Matt. Let's well, let's take it

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Speaker 1: away and maybe you can start where if you want.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, the a story here for sure on

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Speaker 1: the Commander's side is Jade and Daniels.

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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't we start with him? I mean, he's the

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Speaker 3: top scoring fantasy player in the Fantasy in the playoffs,

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Speaker 3: so far, better than Lamar and Josh Allen and Stroud

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Speaker 3: and Saquon and Derrick Henry, all those guys had two

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Speaker 3: games as well. He's seen this Eagles defense twice before,

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Speaker 3: and Eagles defense that has faced the thirtieth best strength

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Speaker 3: of schedule this year, so maybe not.

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Speaker 1: The toughest matchups.

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Speaker 3: So when they met in Week sixteen, Daniels threw for

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Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty eight yards and five touchdowns, and

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Speaker 3: then he added eighty one yards on the ground on

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Speaker 3: nine carries, and then last week Stafford was Yeah, last

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Speaker 3: week Stafford was able to throw for three twenty four

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Speaker 3: and two in snowy conditions. I don't know if I

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Speaker 3: Seemed like the moment is too big for Jade and Daniels.

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Speaker 3: So I've got an A grade on him, and I

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Speaker 1: Just like fantasy point potential. Yeah, I could.

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Speaker 3: I think the Eagle ranking all of them, he would

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Speaker 1: The Eagles secondary has been great, legitimately great. I could

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Speaker 1: see I could see this being an all or nothing

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Speaker 1: won't be like the moment's too big for Jaden.

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Speaker 3: Dan definitely, because that kid is I think, definitely I

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Speaker 3: shoot for the moon kind of guy. And his favorite

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Speaker 3: target is Terry mclaur and Terry, who's been the top

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Speaker 3: scoring wide receiver in the in the playoffs so far

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Speaker 3: for Fantasy only, Nico Collins has more receptions than Terry

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Speaker 3: in the playoffs, and I have a feeling that McLaurin

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Speaker 3: Collins this week. McLaurin scored in seven of his last

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Speaker 3: But the problem is in Week eleven, McLaurin was almost

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Speaker 3: Philly is number three in the league and fewest yards

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Speaker 3: allowed to perimeter receivers this season. I've got a be

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Speaker 3: on McLaurin, but since it's an offseason show, I can

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Speaker 3: give him a B minus.

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Speaker 1: I think, ah, okay, look, you stepped up, you're sick,

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Speaker 3: All right, I think the sleeper here is Diami Brown,

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Speaker 3: who is actually the Darius Slay slayer, and he's let

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Speaker 3: lock go against Darius Slay in this one. According to

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Speaker 3: Pro Football Focus, in thirty career receiving snaps against Darius Slay,

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Speaker 3: Diami Brown is averaging three point seven yards per route run.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty significant for that snap total. Yeah, and Brown

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Speaker 3: is sneakily tied with McLaurin in receptions during the playoffs

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Speaker 3: with eleven and has more yards than Terry.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Danny Brown is only forty four on DraftKings,

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Speaker 3: and he's kind of a nice contrarian play. I built

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Speaker 3: some internal lineups over at fanball dot Com with with

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Speaker 3: my coworkers there. I switched out McLaurin for Diami Brown

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Speaker 3: and just took the cash discount. I'll throw a C

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Speaker 3: grade on him, but it's probably closer to like a

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Speaker 3: C plus grade for Diami Brown.

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Speaker 1: You're really pushing the envelope, now, Yeah, See that was

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Speaker 1: what I always fear. You do it one time and

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Speaker 1: then the flood gets open.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, see that's what happens.

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Speaker 1: That's well. Now, it's the problem is, you guys can't

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Speaker 1: just take the win. You have to expand it.

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Speaker 3: I have regrets, all right, all right, Uh, the last

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Speaker 3: receiver you might want to start as Zach Ertz. He's

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Speaker 3: so you're looking at roughly one third of your target

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Speaker 3: totals maybe going to zach Ertz in this game. We

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Speaker 3: don't forget, by the way, Yes, absolutely a big revenge

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Speaker 3: game in Philly. Scored in the first game, not in

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Speaker 3: the goal line in that revenge game. I like Ertz.

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Speaker 3: I think he's my second favorite tight end. Play this weekend.

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Speaker 3: He gets a B grade for me. And then I

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Speaker 3: think the Brian Robinson Austin Eckler thing. This is super interesting.

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Speaker 3: Robinson did absolutely nothing in the wild card round versus Tampa,

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Speaker 3: but he was pretty steady last week in the Detroit game,

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Speaker 3: fifteen carries, seventy seven yards, two touchdowns, which was fantastic. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Austin Eckler's finally all the way healthy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, Eckler running Mike, He's healthy. He looks good.

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Speaker 1: Way, Yes, but that's actually by the way. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: He leads running backs in the league in yards after

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: He's basically receiving the ball behind the line of scrimmage

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Speaker 3: and scampering out for about twelve yards every time. It

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Speaker 3: is only meeting with the Eagles. This season, Eckler had

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Speaker 3: eight catches and eighty nine receiving yards. So I think

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Speaker 3: of the weekend, Eckler might see more targets this weekend

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Speaker 1: Wow. That's probably betable somehow somewhere, And you know, I

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Speaker 1: bet the reception side is definitely betable, and I bet

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Speaker 1: it definitely would I bet his odds enormous.

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Speaker 3: I'll give Eckler a B grade here. Robinson gets a

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Speaker 2: Though.

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Speaker 3: The Eagles have only allowed five running back rushing touchdowns

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Speaker 3: it will be more like he did against Tampa, which

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Speaker 3: was not very good in the run game. Switch over

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Speaker 3: to the Eagle side. Saquon Barkley is A. He's an

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Speaker 3: A grade. He's the fantasy Fonsie. He's the fantasy Ardvark.

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Speaker 3: He's the building block of anything you do in playoff Fantasy.

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Speaker 3: You can't even fade him, no, like of the four

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Speaker 3: in one hundred percent of DFS lineups like he should

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Speaker 3: do like you fade him, you're just playing with fire.

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Speaker 3: In two games against Washington, the first one twenty eight

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Speaker 3: Jamior Gibbs and Gibbs could have done whatever he wanted

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Speaker 3: against the Commanders, and yeah, for so for reasons unknown,

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Speaker 3: after averaging seven and a half yards per carry. Gibbs

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Speaker 3: He could have done whatever he wanted and Detroit went

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Speaker 3: away from him. Yeah, in situations, it's crazy. The Commander's

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Speaker 3: defense ranked dead last in the league in average rushing

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Speaker 1: Wow, So there's gonna be some room to work with.

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Speaker 3: There's room to work with, and you're giving Saquon the ball.

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Speaker 3: Thirty touches is in play for Saquon, and if the

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Speaker 1: It's uh, you know, and you may have heard this

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Speaker 1: and listeners may already know it highest over under in

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Speaker 1: the history of Vegas for rushing yards on a players

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Speaker 1: over under. Depending on where you're looking, it's between one

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Speaker 3: Wow. For Barkley, I think it's in play.

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Speaker 1: It is in play, and I you know, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: You can make a case that you should ladder it

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Speaker 3: The last time he faced the Commanders, he got that

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Speaker 3: So not a prolific passer here, and Hurts Week eleven

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Speaker 3: He ran for thirty nine thirty nine yards in a

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Speaker 1: And and you know what, why not? I mean, you know,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So I've got a C grade on Hurts. He's

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Speaker 3: But all it takes is a goal line push push

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Speaker 3: Uh got aj Brown? He has three receptions over two

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Speaker 3: The odds are that it's Brown getting that, and the

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Speaker 3: I got a C grade on Goddard comes in with

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Speaker 1: I still think if he's going to get into that

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Speaker 3: Okay, can I talk into it. He's still like zach

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Speaker 3: So that's all I got On the Eagles and Commanders.

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Speaker 3: My prediction is I think the Commanders pull this off.

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Speaker 1: You're not alone, the betting public is hitting the Commander's

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Speaker 1: The Eagles look like they're good at a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: And the Commanders have overcome a lot to get here,

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Speaker 3: Well, and if you think about the Eagles right now

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Speaker 3: It's possible. Yeah, And it seems like that locker room's

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Speaker 3: it just seems like the Commanders are the team of destiny. Also,

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Speaker 1: If I got to just pick the winner, it would

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Speaker 1: break when we come back. Buffalo at Kansas City. Stay tuned,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchie and Matt Harrison

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Speaker 1: with you. You'll be back next week if you're alive, Matt,

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you.

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Speaker 3: Know, yeah, I'll be next week. We'll talk Super Bowl games,

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Speaker 3: including my prop bet game, which will be live for

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Speaker 1: Mysteriously ways to make an already great Super Bowl even

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Speaker 1: better by adding by gamifying your Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: We love it absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo in Kansas City is the evening game on Sunday Night.

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Speaker 1: Of course, these teams have met regularly in the postseason,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's won four straight regular season matches matchups between these teams,

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Speaker 3: I think everybody's hoping for a repeat of that game.

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Speaker 1: Maybe different outcome. Yes, yeah, you would really think that

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Speaker 3: Not the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: Not the Bills. Not two years ago. When these teams

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Speaker 1: Buffalo led it half and then never gave up the lead,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna start with my favorite Bills player, Khalil Shakir.

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Speaker 1: I loved him in the preseason. He's had a nice season,

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Speaker 1: targeted a career high twelve times in the earlier meeting.

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Speaker 1: The only thing, the only reason I'm giving Khalil Shakir

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Speaker 1: He has just four touchdowns on the season despite eighty

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Speaker 1: Week seventeen, Russell Wilson fifty five rushing yards. So and

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Speaker 1: on the season, the Chiefs saw the fifth most quarterback

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Speaker 1: rushing yards. So I believe this is a really nice

435
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Speaker 1: running game for Josh Allen here through the air, I'm

436
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Speaker 1: less optimistic as usually heard. I've only got the B

437
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Speaker 1: grade on Khalil Shakir and a C grade on Dalton

438
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 1: Kinkaid and bench grades and everybody else. And he's thrown

439
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Speaker 1: exactly and only one touchdown in three straight games against

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, so I don't love him through the air here.

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Speaker 1: Kansas City's coming off an eight sack game, I believe, Yeah,

442
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Speaker 1: eight sack game of c. J. Stroud, which will not

443
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Speaker 1: happen again here. But still, you know, Josh Allen's mobility

444
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Speaker 1: will help make sure that. In fact, he's been sacked

445
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Speaker 1: zero and zero times in his last two games against

446
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, so I think his offensive line will hold

447
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Speaker 1: up just fine here. I've still got the A grade

448
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Speaker 1: on Josh Allen because of the rushing.

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Speaker 3: So no, do you think that people are downplaying how

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Speaker 3: good the Chiefs defense has been this year simply because

451
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Speaker 3: they're sick of the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Well, the attention is always going to be Patrick Mahomes, right,

453
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Speaker 1: But the reason that they won all the games they

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Speaker 1: won sixteen and one in the regular is their defense.

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Speaker 1: The defense was the was way I think way better.

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Speaker 1: Well in that way, was better than their offense was

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Speaker 1: throughout the course of the season, my opinion. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Kansas City side. I've got one A grade for you,

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey, Matt. We got playoff Kelsey last week. Eight targets,

460
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Speaker 1: seven catches, one hundred and seventeen yards, and a touchdown,

461
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Speaker 1: looking nothing like the Travis Kelcey who struggled to put

462
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Speaker 1: up just, you know, really modest scoring through most of

463
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Speaker 1: the year. I think he scored in three games during

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Speaker 1: the regular season. Does that sound right, man?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I think it was. So the Bills shut down Kelsey

467
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Speaker 1: in the week eleven meeting, but what happened was because

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Speaker 1: they were putting so much attention on Kelsey. Noah Gray

469
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Speaker 1: got two touchdowns in that game. And I think they'll

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Speaker 1: play Kelsey more straight up because now they've proved. Chiefs

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Speaker 1: proved they can go to Noah Gray if they need to.

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Speaker 1: So I think they play Kelsey straight up and good

473
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Speaker 1: titands generally have success against the Bills. Sam Laporter recently,

474
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Speaker 1: Hunter Henry recently, Tyler Conklin last week as they likely,

475
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Speaker 1: and Mark Andrews had good games. So I've still got

476
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Speaker 1: the eight ground and Kelsey. But man, as he looks slow, Matt,

477
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Speaker 1: he has lost a step for sure.

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Speaker 3: I think that if you're in the kind of playoff

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Speaker 3: league where you set a lineup every week, and if

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Speaker 3: you're not near the front or your way behind. I

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Speaker 3: think the Noah Gray angle is super interesting here because

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Speaker 3: I think people will just be completely off of him

483
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Speaker 3: because he didn't do anything in the playoff game last week.

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Speaker 3: He's got that track record, and I think that they

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Speaker 3: trust him. I think that he's one of the two

486
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Speaker 3: or three most trustworthy receivers on Kansas City right now,

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Speaker 3: and I like him as a dart throw.

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Speaker 1: So I love that you brought this up, and I'll

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Speaker 1: do use that as my transition. How could Noah Gray

490
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Speaker 1: be like the second most trustworthy receiver? Well, the wide

491
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Speaker 1: receivers for Kansas City last week, only Xavier Worthy caught

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Speaker 1: a pass. All the rest were zero receptions. Unbelievable. Hopkins,

493
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Speaker 1: Brown Smith, Schuster, Watson. They're all low volume, touchdown dependent

494
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Speaker 1: guys who give you virtually nothing if they don't score.

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Speaker 3: If I had to receivers past their prime.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right. In many cases, if I had to pick one,

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Speaker 1: I'd go DeAndre Hopkins and just hope that he can

498
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Speaker 1: like box somebody out at the end zone. But that's

499
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Speaker 1: but they're all on the bench for this one and

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Speaker 1: I and you're right. If it came down to Noah

501
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Speaker 1: Gray or any of those guys. I think I'd be

502
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Speaker 1: perfectly happy going with Noah Gray. Let's use that as

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to talk about Xavior Worthy. This is the

504
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 1: one chief receiver you could actually start. Worthy is an

505
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: interesting guy because he's got the four to two speed

506
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Speaker 1: MATT so he's super super fast, and we want to

507
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 1: think that that speed will unlock deep downfield touchdowns. But

508
00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 1: it doesn't. It hasn't been. He's not getting receptions, he's

509
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: not getting anything downfield. Since week eleven, they totally changed

510
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,440
Speaker 1: the route tree for Worthy and it's all short stuff.

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Speaker 1: Since week eleven, Worthy he's got thirty nine receptions thirty

512
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Speaker 1: six of the thirty nine or from nine yards or less.

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Speaker 3: So he's a short, dink and dunk receiver that they

514
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 3: want to try to set loose with the speed.

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Speaker 1: Huh, that is it? Get this? Since week thirteen, Xavier

516
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: Worthies average distance of target is four yards, that's his

517
00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: average catch is four yards. That's it. And Buffalo allows

518
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,720
Speaker 1: the fourth shortest air yards per target, just six point

519
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:36,520
Speaker 1: nine yards. So for Worthy it's all short stuff, bubble screens, slants,

520
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: stuff like that that they're trying to turn They're hoping

521
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: he'll break into long, long games, but he usually doesn't.

522
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Speaker 1: I've just got the C grade on Xavier Worthy. Also

523
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: speaking of the passing game, Samaj p rid could be

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Speaker 1: a sneaky play now.

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Speaker 3: I heard you talking about your love of Samaj p

526
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Speaker 3: Ryan earlier today.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I liked p Rid in last week did not

528
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Speaker 1: come through, But this isn't even more a hopeful uh moment.

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Speaker 1: The Bills allowed the most running back receptions, the most

530
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Speaker 1: running back receiving yards, and the second most running back

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Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns. Samajp RAN's betting line is over under eight

532
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 1: and a half yards receiving. I like him here. He's

533
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: the designated receiving back for the Bills. I don't know

534
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Speaker 1: what the designation actually is. We say designated a lot,

535
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: but there is no actual designation.

536
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 3: Well, churches, Isaiah Pachecko dead.

537
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Speaker 1: I guess he's dead. I was wrong. I don't have

538
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: my Phonsie sounder on this. I had assumed they were

539
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: saving him up for a big playoff push like last year,

540
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Speaker 1: where they powered through the playoffs largely on the legs

541
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Speaker 1: of Isaiah Pachecko. Nope, that isn't apparently not gonna be

542
00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: the case.

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Speaker 3: He must not be healthy.

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Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt is getting more usage than Pachecko, although it's

545
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: not very reliable usage and he's not running very well.

546
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: But Hunt has scored in three straight games, not counting

547
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Speaker 1: the Week eighteen game which they rest, and he's basically

548
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: paced Pacheco out in short down a distance workload, which

549
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: is shocking to me. Pachecko was always really good and

550
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:18,040
Speaker 1: short down and distance stuff. Buffalo's run defense much improved lately,

551
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,800
Speaker 1: but they've also played some really bad run defense run

552
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: offenses in recent weeks, like Denver and New England and

553
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: the Jets. But still I can get you to a

554
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: C grade on Kareem Hunt, I can't on Pachecko. Pachecko's

555
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: it's just a loss here. Just nine six and five

556
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: rushing attempts the last three weeks for Isaiah Pachecko. It's

557
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: all going the wrong way right now. That leaves us

558
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Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes B grade. I've got an A grade

559
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: on on Travis Kelce and then just like C grades

560
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: on a couple of receiving options. That's there's just not

561
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: a lot of great matchups I like for his receivers. Now,

562
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: Mahomes did get three touchdowns in the Week eleven matchup,

563
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: and the Bill secondary has had some lapses. Andy Reid

564
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: always likes to attack the slot. Every receiver runs from

565
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: the slot in his offense, and he does like to

566
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: pound the slot. And the Bills have got their slot

567
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: cornerback is the worst of their three starting cornerbacks, Taron

568
00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: Johnson not county Week eighteen. Without their starters, the Bills

569
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: have allowed multiple passing touchdowns and eight to the last ten.

570
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Speaker 1: I think Patrick Mahomes is in the two touchdown range

571
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Speaker 1: and that feels like a B grade. Who do you winning?

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00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: Who do you have winning that game?

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Speaker 3: I think the Chiefs win that one too. I did

574
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Speaker 3: see a nice stat from PFF Mahomes eighth highest graded

575
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 3: quarterback against two high coverage looks and the Bills defense

576
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 3: runs the fourth most too high coverage.

577
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Speaker 1: In the NFL. All right, that's another angle for Patrick Mahomes.

578
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: Is he known for playing well in the playoffs? Does

579
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: he have a track record for playing well in the playoffs.

580
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 3: I think he's been in an AFC championship game or two.

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00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he has. I think he has. I

582
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: want only I have. I don't have any any quibble

583
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes with the Chiefs. Other than the fact

584
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: that the commercials are incessant. I Andy Reid and Patrick

585
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,719
Speaker 1: Mahomes are on my TV every game that I watch constantly.

586
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: It's my only quibble.

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00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 3: You don't like fumble Ruskie do.

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00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: I had to go there? Yeah? Sorry, But I'm rooting

589
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 1: for the Bills because the you know, the fan base,

590
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: they've been you know, they've been languishing forever. I would

591
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: like to see a I'd like to see a new

592
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: team get in. I'd like to see just you know,

593
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: give some other teams, you know, reasons to think that

594
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: they can go to the super Bowl. And I hate

595
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: that Josh Allen keeps getting sort of this loser tag

596
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: like he can't he's not good enough to get his

597
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: teams over the hump. I'd like to see him do

598
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: that in the way that Yeah, I mean young Ones

599
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: did and yeah, and Manning did.

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Speaker 3: I think if Josh Allen is to get there, it's

601
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 3: because of him, because they don't really have the weapons

602
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 3: around him, like Stefan Diggs and some of the other

603
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 3: weapons that they've had in the past that are surrounding him.

604
00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 3: And I don't particularly think that the Bills coaching staff

605
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 3: is absolutely outstanding and just knocking the socks off everybody.

606
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 3: So that's where I think Kansas City just has all

607
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 3: of the the advantages here. I think they have a

608
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 3: better defense. I think their coaching staff knows what they're doing,

609
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 3: and I think Mahomes is ready for the moment. And

610
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 3: if Josh Allen does it, it's going to be because

611
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 3: Josh Allen is playing on the planet.

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00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he might be though. I mean this year

613
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Speaker 1: he's been a better quarterback than Patrick Mahomes absolutely, yeah,

614
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Speaker 1: And I want to think that he is going to

615
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: not sing. He doesn't have to single handedly go win

616
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,680
Speaker 1: this game, but he's gonna have a huge part in it. Yeah,

617
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: if only, if only for the narrative, and I think

618
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: it'd be great for Josh. And how about this for

619
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Speaker 1: Bill's fans, They've raised one hundred thousand dollars from Mark

620
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: Andrews charity. Would Eagle fans have ever done this?

621
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Speaker 3: Matt No Bills fans notoriously awesome fans, even though they're

622
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 3: throwing themselves through tables.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,360
Speaker 3: They they've they've always been, uh you know the ones

625
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 3: that have been there, like when the Damar Hamlin thing

626
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 3: came down.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: No, one was pounding the table harder for them than

629
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Speaker 3: those Bills fans, just making sure that everything was going right.

630
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 3: I seem to remember a punter having an issue a

631
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,399
Speaker 3: few years back where the Bills fans were all over

632
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 3: that too.

633
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Speaker 1: They're they're great, didn't they a few years ago? Didn't

634
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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow like beat an opponent for them that got

635
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: the Bills into the playoffs and then they pounded a

636
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: bunch of money at Joe Burrow's charity?

637
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 2: Is that?

638
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 3: Is that?

639
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 1: I think that happened as well, like two three years ago. Listeners,

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00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: listeners will correct me on that.

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00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:55,320
Speaker 3: I believe all right, I've got commanders and chiefs, and

642
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 3: it sounds like you have Bills and Eagles.

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00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got Bill's Eagles, so we're we can't both

644
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: be right here.

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00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 3: No, it'll be an interesting pod next week when we

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00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 3: return to talk about it.

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00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll look forward to that for sure. Thanks for listening, everybody.

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly will be back next week as well.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Matt for stepping up despite a nasty case

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Speaker 1: of whooping cough. Sure we'll go with it, ye whooping cough. Yes,

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Speaker 1: with a little chlamydia sprinkled in God.

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Speaker 3: I hope not.

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Speaker 1: I have a lot of explaining to do. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you, We'll talk to you next week. Everybody. Fantasy

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