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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to the Friday edition of The Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Q and A Show. It's me your man, nam G

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Speaker 1: Marcus Grand joined by Michael f Florio, and over there

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Speaker 1: it's the specialists. The cast of doesn't give yourselves around

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Speaker 1: to applause. You can make some nose. It's fine. That's

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Speaker 1: he was put on this show each and every day.

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Speaker 1: We eight is already under way. We had the Ravens

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Speaker 1: and the Buccaneers last night. We'll dive into that a

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Speaker 1: little bit. But I don't even know where to go

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Speaker 1: with this. I mean, week eight is here. We are

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Speaker 1: on the back half of the Fantasy regular season, so

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's just dive into this, right yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know what your team is at this point,

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Speaker 1: I think, so make the moves if you got it,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know, just just don't quit. I guess

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Speaker 1: that's the only thing I have to say. Even if

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Speaker 1: your team is not going well, don't quit, stick it out,

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Speaker 1: fight through it, and if nothing else, you can wreck

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Speaker 1: somebody else's season and point and laugh at them once

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Speaker 1: you get to the summer. All right. This is a show,

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Speaker 1: of course, that's dedicated to answering the questions that you have,

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Speaker 1: you can send them to us all week long on

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Speaker 1: Twitter at NFL Fantasy will answer as many as we can. Here.

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Speaker 1: The rest of them we will send over to Aaron

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Speaker 1: Tan because he doesn't eat asparagus. Again, this is the deal.

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Speaker 1: week now, because all right, what's good? That's good helping

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Speaker 1: to make good life choices. Peer pressure works sometimes, so

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Speaker 1: hopefully this will help Aaron, you know, get away from

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Speaker 1: just like hot dogs and pizza and French fries. You're delicious,

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Speaker 1: but sometimes you eat green vegetables. None of that. You

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Speaker 1: got cues, We got a's lf G. Let's start though,

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Speaker 1: with that Thursday night football game between the Ravens and

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Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Baltimore gets to win two. Lamar Jackson was

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Speaker 1: your high scorer from the ball game, nearly twenty two

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Speaker 1: Fantasy points there. Kenyan Drake, who did get a lot

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Speaker 1: of work because Gus Edwards was dealing with a meat issue.

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Speaker 1: He had almost seventeen. Isaiah Likely, who stepped in in

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Speaker 1: buck side, Tom Brady another sort of meg game. He

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Speaker 1: salvaged it with a late touchdown just over seven teen

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Speaker 1: points there, Leonard four nets fourteen point it and Mike

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Speaker 1: Evans another huge day receiving, didn't get a touchdown, but

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Speaker 1: he still got you over eighteen fantasy points. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about some of the guys maybe we saw on that

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Speaker 1: board there and the pharaoh is his rule coming to

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Speaker 1: an end? It was just another sort of so so

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Speaker 1: night for Tom Brady. Yeah, I think so. I think

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Speaker 1: we need to reevaluate how we value Tom Brady for

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Speaker 1: fantasy purposes because for basically my entire life for most

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Speaker 1: of you lit watchings like, we don't know a world

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Speaker 1: where Tom Brady isn't one of the bettest quarterbacks in

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Speaker 1: in the NFL and in fantasy football, but he is

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Speaker 1: not one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL and

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Speaker 1: in fantasy football anymore. I mean, it took, like you said,

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Speaker 1: Marcus said, garbage time touchdown and a hold garbage time

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Speaker 1: drive of yards to get him to seventeen fantasy points.

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Speaker 1: He still it's just one game all year with multiple

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Speaker 1: passing touchdowns and I wrote this weekend to start sit

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Speaker 1: about his struggles on the deep ball, and then that

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Speaker 1: was so evident yesterday, like there was one that he

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Speaker 1: underthrew Mike Evans where in the last two years we're

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Speaker 1: talking about that being like a seventy yard touchdown pass

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Speaker 1: just a whole lot of not great stuff for Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady and for fantasy right now. And it's causing fantasy

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Speaker 1: managers who have Brady to really make hard decisions every week,

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Speaker 1: do we start Brady? Is there somebody else either on

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Speaker 1: your roster or on the waiver wire that is a

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Speaker 1: better option, And you know it's you're right, We have

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Speaker 1: not We have not seen this at any point in

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Speaker 1: the last twenty years. Other time comes for us all

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Speaker 1: and it appears he is knocking on Tom Brady's door

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Speaker 1: right now. Isaiah likely was a guy that I'm sure

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Speaker 1: that for folks in dynasty leagues or the people who

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Speaker 1: period of time, Floria, we might have another tight end option,

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Speaker 1: which we need all the tight end options we can get.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah likely looks like a guy who can really step

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Speaker 1: this was very exciting to see last night. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think like he already is going to become

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Speaker 1: I mean, he can easily be the Ravens top target.

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Speaker 1: We saw last night, I mean for shod Bateman was active,

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Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that, but Isaiah likely might be

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Speaker 1: a name you want to remember if Mark Andrews looks

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Speaker 1: like he's going to miss some time. Let's get to

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Speaker 1: some of your questions that you sent us on the

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Speaker 1: Twitter machine at NFL Fantasy. This one from Carter Jones,

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Speaker 1: who wants to know Michael Pittman Jr. Or DeAndre Swift?

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Speaker 1: What say you? I think this became a lot easier

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Speaker 1: once the Colts change their quarterback as well, with it

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Speaker 1: think you go with the very explosive DeAndre Swift. I

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Speaker 1: the word is he is trending toward playing. You see

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Speaker 1: but just there's a lot more knowns with Swift versus

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Speaker 1: the unknowns with the Colts offense and Sam Ellinger. Next question,

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Speaker 1: this one coming from T Baby asking should I start

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Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, Terry McCauley, Aaron or te Higgins. This one, folks,

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Speaker 1: pretty easy to me. It's in your name right there.

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Speaker 1: he's already a wide receiver one in his own right

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Speaker 1: now you're taking away a fellow wide receiver one. It's

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Speaker 1: te Higgins. Yeah, this is an easy call for me

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, and all things being equal, you

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Speaker 1: take the quarterbacks. I will trust Joe Burrow over Trevor

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Speaker 1: Lawrence and over Taylor Heinecky. So it's very much te

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Speaker 1: Higgins here. Next one from Zach Do, I play Eno

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Speaker 1: Benjamin with James Conner coming back. No, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Even if there's a split here, we know that James

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Speaker 1: Connor is not fully going away. Like what might have

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Speaker 1: happened with Eno Benjamin playing well last week is that

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Speaker 1: I'm not even super excited about starting James Conner. I

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Speaker 1: the Vikings. That run defense isn't bad, So I'm worried

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Speaker 1: that one. There one more before the break, This one

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Speaker 1: from Donnie. I have Cooper Cup, Stefon Diggs, and a J.

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Speaker 1: Brown in a PPR league, no question. I just wanted

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Speaker 1: you to comment on how nice that is. Thanks, all right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't be mad at that you have

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Speaker 1: the wide receiver one and two. They are the top

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Speaker 1: two scoring wide receivers, Cup and Digs, and they've both

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Speaker 1: already had their bind So I'm guessing he went up

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're flexing like that a wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: you're You're doing all right, Donnie, So shout out to you.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you are winning your league. Let's talk about some

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Speaker 1: players that probably should get some more hype for the weekend. So, Florio,

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Speaker 1: who do you have IRV Smith Junior, especially because he's

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Speaker 1: a tight end and we always need streamable tight ends

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Speaker 1: and that's exactly what he is. Look, IRV Smith Junior

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Speaker 1: sits season anywhere between like four to six targets per

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Speaker 1: get him is because of the matchup. The Cardinals have

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Speaker 1: allowed the second most fantasy points, the most catches, second

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Speaker 1: they just allowed Jowan Johnson to score two touchdowns go

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Speaker 1: he gets credit for it. I think he's a better

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Speaker 1: of people, myself included liked him as a sleeper, and

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Speaker 1: it hasn't been great, but this does feel like an

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Speaker 1: with d J Moore because it's nice to see him

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Speaker 1: back in our lives. Just about the time you thought

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Speaker 1: you were ready to give up on DJ More, p J.

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Speaker 1: Walker comes in and resurrects him last week against the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is an offense that lost a

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Speaker 1: couple of big time pass catchers and Christian McCaffrey and

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Speaker 1: Robby Anderson, so now it is sort of d J Moore.

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Speaker 1: start again, and the matchup against the Falcons is a

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Speaker 1: very good one. So it's not going to be what

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Speaker 1: you wanted it to be when you drafted DJ More,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna get a lot better than

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Speaker 1: it has been so far, so I'm definitely on board

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Speaker 1: more of your questions at NFL Fantasy. This first one

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Speaker 1: coming from Fernando Oliva, who wants to know is Justin

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Speaker 1: Fields worth picking up considering I have my homes on

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Speaker 1: by this week and Wilson questionable to play that being

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, so is it worth going to get Justin Fields? Yes,

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Speaker 1: in fact, I would probably play Justin Fields over Russell

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