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Speaker 2: Grittings and welcome in wrapping up and exciting, exhilarating week

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Speaker 2: nine in the National Football League. Welcome in as I

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Speaker 2: Flax Sports Radio his coaching debut. So Dan on assignment, cheering,

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Speaker 2: So it's just Ian and I as we look back

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Speaker 2: That is the question that we'll be asked repeatedly in

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Speaker 2: But you're giving the ball to Mahomes there, and then

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Speaker 3: The throw by Sutton and the catch by Knicks were

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Speaker 2: Got to do a hard reset, right, I mean, we're

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Speaker 2: Well, but that's the thing, right, it becomes the you know,

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Speaker 2: the report card. I did have Patrick Mahomes in my

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Speaker 3: Not at all. It does feel like his major explosive

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Speaker 2: But we got Mahomes and the offense where the latter

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what the greats can do. Because me

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Speaker 3: and this is going downs. He's actually getting better if

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Speaker 2: But I think I was encouraged from the game against

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Speaker 2: not yet. I got to see it again, but this

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Speaker 2: Some other big opportunities there up front. Bijon Robinson finished

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Speaker 2: It seemed like fine. And then unfortunately, because you have

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Speaker 3: That's what I mean. It's unfair there.

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Speaker 3: Ian Yeah that they had to come out swinging on

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Speaker 3: You can't backtrack it. This is point.

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Speaker 2: a I watch your flex through the through the season

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Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor available too, right, Right, it wasn't like you

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Speaker 2: were going to one of your secondary tertiary backs, like

434
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Speaker 2: you had full upfront and center. Every bit of your

435
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Speaker 2: weaponry had put up six points.

436
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Speaker 3: Right, I mean, it is worth at least conceding that

437
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:47,359
Speaker 3: they were going against a very good defense in the Vikings.

438
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Speaker 3: But it just goes back to the fact that, like,

439
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,560
Speaker 3: if you were going to bench Richardson, regardless of who

440
00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:54,679
Speaker 3: the defense you were facing, this just had to be

441
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,600
Speaker 3: your best effort, your best foot forward on offense. Just

442
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Speaker 3: show everyone that, like, we can win game with Richardson

443
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Speaker 3: on the bench.

444
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Speaker 2: I mean, because from a roster perspective coming into the

445
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 2: year would have said, all right, giant question mark on Richardson,

446
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 2: but everything else checks out, which is why you bring

447
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 2: in Flacco, but then you're trying to figure out exactly

448
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,199
Speaker 2: where you stand. So if you make this move pushing

449
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 2: richardson to the side and again very green. We all

450
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:25,199
Speaker 2: know the narratives we've been talking, but this effort was

451
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Speaker 2: just next level and probably submarined a lot of fantasy

452
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Speaker 2: leagues this week. And not that I would have expected

453
00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 2: a three hundred and three score performance from Flacco, but

454
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,720
Speaker 2: just everybody tore you down, from Pittman Junior to Downs

455
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 2: to Taylor like all just disappointments and Flacco himself because

456
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 2: the quarterback position, Let's face it, we've been trying to

457
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,920
Speaker 2: find diamonds in the rough week after week because there's

458
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:58,199
Speaker 2: very few consistent options. So another failed there. Now. I

459
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Speaker 2: put also the incomplete Abby in just because we we

460
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 2: got starts and then we didn't get to finish. So

461
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 2: Chris Alave just a brutal, brutal play. He's probably done

462
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Speaker 2: for the year. I don't expect to see him again

463
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 2: at this point. Dennis Allen gets fired, he walks the plank.

464
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 2: Week two seems like a year ago, now, doesn't it.

465
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they were two and oh coming off the the

466
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Speaker 3: dominant way. It was the Panthers and the Cowboys.

467
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 2: Well they beat the hell out of the Cowboys. Right now,

468
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 2: realize they're terrible, but at that point they still had

469
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Speaker 2: all the time.

470
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Speaker 3: It was really impressive. Yeah, which now obviously we can

471
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Speaker 3: see it wasn't as impressive as we thought. But but yeah,

472
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Speaker 3: I feel for a lave man because it's it's not

473
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Speaker 3: just that that injuries have been common for him. It's

474
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Speaker 3: that like head injuries have been caught. But that's the

475
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Speaker 3: greatest one. And yeah, a lot of people have been

476
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Speaker 3: blaming car for that throw. Michael Thomas, former former team

477
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 3: Michael Thomas is beating that. That that fan club or

478
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 3: anti fan club, whatever you want to call it. But yeah,

479
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Speaker 3: that that's a whole situation in itself. But just really

480
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Speaker 3: prayers up for a lot of it.

481
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a tough watch. They say he's doing okay.

482
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,080
Speaker 2: There was some check ins from friend's family.

483
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Speaker 3: Well apparently he was back at the locker room. Like

484
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Speaker 3: by the end of the game. They discharged him from

485
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Speaker 3: the hospital. I guess he wanted to be around when

486
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Speaker 3: they fired Alan or something.

487
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 2: He wanted to go sign off on it or something.

488
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,240
Speaker 2: I get to have a vote, maybe Dallas Ceedee Lamb

489
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,159
Speaker 2: leaves with an injury. Doesn't look like it's gonna be

490
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 2: too serious, but enough to where we've got to monitor it. Now,

491
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott's gonna miss a minimum of a two games,

492
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Speaker 2: so that they're saying might go on ir and the

493
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 2: way the schedule shakes out, we may not see Dak

494
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Speaker 2: Prescott again.

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Speaker 3: Cooper Rush Show, Cooper.

496
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Speaker 2: Rush, and I heard a lot of the cacophony of

497
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 2: voices going, you gotta see what you have in Trey Lance,

498
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 2: Like trade deadline is less than twelve hours or about

499
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Speaker 2: twelve hours from where we're finishing the recording of this podcast,

500
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Speaker 2: Trey Lance doesn't get to show you anything on tape.

501
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,080
Speaker 2: And even so, what are you getting a conditional third

502
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 2: day pick? Even if he played well, what are you

503
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,400
Speaker 2: going to try to shop his preseason efforts? He throw

504
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 2: five picks in a game for crying out loud. So yeah,

505
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Speaker 2: Cooper Rush and whatever it is I mean outside of

506
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 2: C D Lamp, I guess Ferguson becomes a bigger play

507
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 2: tight end position, being as unsteady as it is. But

508
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 2: young quarterbacks, not that Rush hasn't had some experience, but

509
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 2: it's not like they're going to have him chucking the

510
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 2: ball all over the place.

511
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Speaker 3: Those are the safety blanket.

512
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, the tight end back out of the backfield. So

513
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 2: doubtell as a receiver again, I want no part of

514
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,879
Speaker 2: that trio. Mind you. Whether Zeke Elliott's still with the

515
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 2: team by time we finish recording, this is a question.

516
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Speaker 3: Shared situation there.

517
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:53,440
Speaker 2: It's a yeah, odd sent left home for disciplinary reasons,

518
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 2: creating chaos where there already was. So we'll look at

519
00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 2: the As you look at the depth chart for the Cowboy,

520
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 2: it's always the when a new quarterback comes flying back

521
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 2: up and in, it's like, all right, who was he

522
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 2: working with on the second team is kind of where

523
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 2: we want to go to try to find a little

524
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 2: bit of love, particularly as we think maybe about the

525
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 2: waiver wire and those kind of opportunities. And so as

526
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 2: we look at the depth dart for the Cowboys, target

527
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 2: potentials that start flowing in floorne seven with squad Cavante

528
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 2: Turpin like this now becomes the winging up prayer. This

529
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 2: is like the Dollar DraftKings kind of kind of setting.

530
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Speaker 3: Up a team we could like play a game, you know,

531
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Speaker 3: like Cavino and Rech they do like you know, Olympian

532
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 3: or Chipotle worker. We could do, you know, like Cowboys

533
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:50,159
Speaker 3: player or McDonald's worker or something, and just these are

534
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 3: random names. No one's ever heard of.

535
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Speaker 2: Who is this guy? Yeah, so, I mean we know

536
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 2: Tolbert and you know we've seen Turpin a little bit,

537
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 2: Special teams and other but yeah, now you're trying to

538
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 2: find extra bodies, particularly if Lam ends up missing anytime,

539
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 2: so that's potentially huge. So those are some of the

540
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 2: the incompletes on the report card, but also injury situations

541
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 2: to watch you want to check in. I know we

542
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 2: had Berschinger in. But one of the things I think

543
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 2: we'll look at is what we'll get you with the

544
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 2: waiver wire defense, not just a streamer, which we'll do

545
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 2: in our Thursday episode as we preview the week in full,

546
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Speaker 2: but as we get to the waivers, we'll do that.

547
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Speaker 2: Anything from week nine that stood out to you.

548
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 3: The Rams definitely stood out big time against the Seahawks.

549
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,159
Speaker 3: So obviously the Seahawks have been kind of shooting themselves

550
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 3: in the foot a lot, so you know how much

551
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 3: of it is due to that, But they've had some

552
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 3: big performances and they're led by young guys rookies too,

553
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 3: so that's you know, if you're in a dynasty league,

554
00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 3: it could be extra worth picking up for a defense there.

555
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 2: But just on a grander scale, though, take it out

556
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 2: of the defenses for a moment as you watch the

557
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 2: games of Week nine, any any performance that kind of

558
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: raised your eyebrow or maybe from your own fantasy good, bad,

559
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 2: ugly kind of circumstances that you want to highlight coming

560
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 2: out of the week.

561
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Speaker 3: That was As a Jets fan, I was very, very

562
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 3: happy to see Garrett Wilson and DeVante Adams come through

563
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 3: with big games. Obviously, you know, we'll see how sustainable

564
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 3: that is. I've been pretty vocal on this podcast about

565
00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 3: the Jets and how I kind of feel that the

566
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,719
Speaker 3: season's kind of over. We'll see, they're kind of clawing

567
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 3: their way back in, we'll see. But yeah, Garrett Wilson

568
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 3: thirty fantasy points. Was pretty cool to see wide receiver

569
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 3: three on the season right now. I think so. Actually,

570
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:38,479
Speaker 3: even though early in the season it looked like he

571
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 3: wasn't really coming through on that draft position, he has

572
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,719
Speaker 3: since and I wonder if DeVante Adams being there has

573
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 3: actually been a really big benefactor.

574
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Speaker 2: Yeah, even with the down week, jamar Cha is still

575
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 2: number one in PPR leagues, Jefferson sitting at the number

576
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,760
Speaker 2: two spot. Garrett Wilson is less than a point behind

577
00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 2: Jefferson for the two slot. Lamb Drake London. Chris Godwin,

578
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 2: who hasn't played in two weeks, is still at number six,

579
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 2: showing how proficient and effective that connection was, with Baker

580
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 2: Mayfield rounding out the top ten. Terry McLaurin, I'm on

581
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 2: raw same brown, Zay Flowers, and Jaden Reid. Jaden Reid

582
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 2: is number ten amongst wide receivers despite he had a

583
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Speaker 2: thirty three point game go all the way back in

584
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 2: week one, so you got that. He had a twenty

585
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 2: seven point game in week four. Otherwise, you've got three

586
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 2: games under eight, including a three point performance. You've got

587
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 2: a couple of thirteen sixteen point again fourteen, like two

588
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: monster games are enough to make him the number ten

589
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 2: receiver in the game.

590
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Speaker 3: And then I guess someone else to point ou would

591
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 3: be Brock Bowers. I don't know if we've really mentioned

592
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 3: him a ton on this podcast yet, but is he

593
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 3: the best? I mean, yeah, he's the number one, is

594
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 3: number one fantasy as a rookie, which I guess Georgia

595
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 3: fans saw it coming. The rest of us kind of

596
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 3: thought it would be a little a little bit more

597
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 3: gradual of a.

598
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 2: Just a rise that I mean, because you also had

599
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:20,040
Speaker 2: mayor that you were expecting who's been away from the team. Yeah,

600
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 2: so you know, and again not a lot of details,

601
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 2: And I'll be honest, I haven't done a ton of

602
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 2: digging to try to find answers like stuff like that.

603
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 2: When a guy's away from the team.

604
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 3: Kind of feels like you're crossing a line if you do.

605
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 2: Just you know, it's I mean, your curiosity of you.

606
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 2: You would like to know, but I figure we'll get

607
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 2: the answer in due time. Just hope he and all

608
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 2: his are okay. But for Bowers, I mean I thought

609
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:48,400
Speaker 2: he'd be an impact player, not to this level. Yeah right,

610
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 2: I mean you're thinking, all right, top ten, that they'd

611
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: have the dual tight end thing. And I always I'm

612
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 2: reticent ever to really go deep down into that New

613
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 2: England well because of what Air and Hernandez's story became.

614
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 2: But when they were on the field together, you didn't

615
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,000
Speaker 2: really have wide receivers that mattered. It was Hernanda's picker

616
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 2: poison in that regard, and I thought that was going

617
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 2: to be the case with the Raiders with DeVante Adams,

618
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 2: and you know that you'd have enough depth that wide

619
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 2: receiver that might be interesting. YEA, regardless of the fact

620
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 2: that you didn't trust the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's just the way the things have played out

622
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 3: to have played into how well he's been because, like

623
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 3: you said, DeVante Adams is gone, Michael Mayer has been

624
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 3: away from the team, and then and then we kind

625
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 3: of nodded to it earlier. But the fact that young

626
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 3: or more inexperienced quarterbacks tend to, you know, lean on

627
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 3: the tight end position, and Minsh's not young and inexperienced,

628
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 3: but he's you know, he's someone who's gonna want to

629
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 3: lean on his safety blanket.

630
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 2: Morey also doing a good job of, you know, let's

631
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 2: face it, force the ball in and allow him to

632
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 2: make a play. He's big, physical and gets after it.

633
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 2: And you're talking outside of you know, two performances going

634
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 2: back to weeks three and four, he hasn't been outside

635
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 2: of double digits the rest of the year, which at

636
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 2: the tight end position is absolute gold. Number two to

637
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 2: him is George Kittle, who's had his by and missed

638
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 2: a week still number two, number three, twenty points behind.

639
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 3: That is Trey McBride, McBride's third. That's it because he

640
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 3: I might be wrong, but I don't think he has

641
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 3: a receiving touchdown.

642
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 2: He doesn't need.

643
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 3: That is crazy, the third third tight end on the

644
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 3: year without a receiving touchdown. That's really saying.

645
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 2: Tucker Kraft sitting at number four, and the always enigmatic

646
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 2: and curious Kyle Pitts is number five, again showing the

647
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 2: volatility of the position. Because you have the twenty five

648
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Speaker 2: point game in week eight, a fifteen point game in

649
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 2: week five. Otherwise you've got a zero, a five, a

650
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 2: two point point one eleven. There's a couple of other

651
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 2: solid weeks, but really one massive week. It's been enough

652
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 2: to get it. Get him there. Kay Dotton now rising

653
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 2: up as well after his big day in week nine,

654
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 2: he'll he'll be up amongst the leaders here. I think

655
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 2: he's he's behind McBride. I think right now if you

656
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:24,000
Speaker 2: add those points back in Kelsey rising up as well,

657
00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 2: I would say one guy that was a huge disappointment

658
00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 2: this week, as well as the entire squad. I could

659
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 2: do a half hour on the Bears. I'm not gonna,

660
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 2: but I could do about the failures of the Bears.

661
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 2: Cole Comet had no catches. Yeah, no target hurt me

662
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 2: in a few weeks. Well that's how I got sent

663
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 2: home from the guillotines in week eight was the ineffectiveness

664
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: of the Bears offense in what seemed like a solid

665
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 2: spot against the Washington Commanders.

666
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 3: And I know that hurts you fantasy wise and personally

667
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 3: as a Bears fan. So I'm double sorry, Mike.

668
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 2: No, I mean the Bears thing, you know, there was

669
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 2: just myriad problems. Why are you still have all your timeouts?

670
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 2: Why are you running an offensive lineman? Especially when Roshawn

671
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 2: Johnson and later on would score is four to four?

672
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 2: It read, you know, in point blank range, on and

673
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 2: on and on fail. Mary. We've talked about it, and

674
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 2: the hangover of that led to another pathetic effort against Arizona.

675
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 2: So right now a tail spin there. We talked about

676
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 2: the the Raiders and Saints with firings of coaches. Now

677
00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 2: it becomes the all right, what do you expect from

678
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 2: either Nothing? I play Alvin Kamara and that's it. And

679
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 2: in Raiderville we play Bowers and forget about anything else.

680
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 3: Seems like a winning strategy to me, right.

681
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 2: No matter how bad they are, someone's putting up stats

682
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 2: and they're not going to stop those guys altogether.

683
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 3: It's opportunities jinks jinks. And it's also why Kareem Hunt

684
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 3: is good for the Chiefs tonight. I think he had

685
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 3: twenty seven care for like one o three or one

686
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 3: oh four.

687
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 2: Second half chunk yardage early on, not a lot, but

688
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,919
Speaker 2: commit to the run, good things happen. It's like old

689
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 2: school football comes back again. Yay, old people, all right.

690
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 2: Coming up next, we're gonna do the waiver while real quick,

691
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 2: a couple of pickups for week ten as we look

692
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Speaker 2: at the slate. Four bye week teams on the slate

693
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Speaker 2: this week. No Cleveland, no Green Bay, no Raiders, thank you,

694
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 2: and no Seattle Seahawks. We'll do waiver wires coming up here,

695
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 2: including a pick or two on the defensive side from

696
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 2: our guy Ian Roddy. That's next here on I Watch Flex. Hey,

697
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Speaker 2: welcome back, I Watch Flex. Final segment of this episode.

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Speaker 2: As we wrap all things week nine, start looking ahead

699
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Speaker 2: to week ten, it's time for the waiver wire pickups

700
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 2: of the week. Number one, right off the jump, your

701
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 2: guy Aaron Rodgers. Am I banking on them to be

702
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 2: world beaters week after week? Hell no, but opportunity here.

703
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 2: Arizona's a tricky defense week to week. But they did

704
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 2: a good job of handling the Bears. Aaron Rodgers obviously

705
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 2: much more composed with a better plan himself. Not that

706
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 2: Hacket's helping or anybody else there and downing, etc. No,

707
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 2: it's about Aaron Rodgers and what he does in between

708
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 2: the white lines is going to be better than anything

709
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 2: the Bears did. So curiosity here, but own know only

710
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 2: in about fifty percent of leagues. Justin Herbert winging the

711
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 2: ball around a little bit more. You got balance between

712
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 2: the run game and the pass game for the Chargers

713
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,600
Speaker 2: and coming up a big spot against the Tennessee Titans.

714
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 2: Tickets only seventeen bucks e. And if you got Sunday

715
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,799
Speaker 2: afternoon to go hang out, you can go and do

716
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 2: that a little bit. You got Russell Wilson coming out

717
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 2: of the Bibek against Washington, hang a star on it,

718
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,959
Speaker 2: not expecting explosive, but coming out of a buy Maybe

719
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 2: they find to wrinkle something and reinvigorated. George Pickens going

720
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 2: back to week, maybe that builds right. You also so

721
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 2: Naji Harris have his best game, so maybe that offense

722
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 2: has unlocked something. If nothing else, it's worth the defensive

723
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 2: play to stat him on your bench in case the

724
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh offense does show signs of life. He's available in

725
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 2: about eighty percent of leagues running backs. We go to

726
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,280
Speaker 2: the other side of that Pittsburgh running tandem, Jalen Warren

727
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 2: touchcount deflated a little bit by Najie Harris, but still

728
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 2: part of the action. Ray Davis a bit of an

729
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 2: insurance policy with James Cook in Buffalo, but seeing some

730
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 2: touches himself, actually found the end zone against the Dolphins,

731
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 2: So opportunity there. The return imminently of Christian McCaffrey maybe

732
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 2: downplays Guarndo pickup. But again we're talking about a second

733
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 2: half of the season. Is McCaffrey going to be able

734
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 2: to play a full second half? I don't know because

735
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 2: of the Week nine by got dropped. With the imminent

736
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 2: return of McCaffrey, perhaps he's a guy that you speculate

737
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 2: stash the bench might pay some dividends later on. All right,

738
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 2: wide receiver position really quickly as we bang it out.

739
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 2: Johnston going back to the Chargers had the big sixty

740
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,760
Speaker 2: six yard touchdown catch. He's available in about two thirds

741
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 2: of leagues. Parker Washington next man up for the Jaguars.

742
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 2: Desperation makes for strange bedfellows. Elijah Moore in Cleveland. Trusting

743
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 2: the Cleveland offense is something that's very difficult. But you

744
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 2: know Jameis Winston's gonna keep firing, so you can also

745
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 2: check for him on the waiver wire as well. Bye

746
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 2: week again for week ten, but again the stash and

747
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 2: potential plays. And DeMarcus Robinson of the Rams another two

748
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 2: touchdown performance. Health of cup Nikko availability gets thrown out

749
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,760
Speaker 2: week nine, but Robinson five touchdowns in the last four weeks,

750
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 2: so a guy who's a big play threat. And again,

751
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: desperation brings us to the table when we're talking about

752
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 2: ineffective wide receiver positions. And finally, Taysom Hill New Orleans.

753
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 2: We talked about Kamara. Slipped my mind about Taysom Hill.

754
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 2: Maybe he's got to play some quarterback again, but certainly

755
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 2: one of the most effective tight ends coming back off

756
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 2: of the rib injury, inserted himself right back into the mix.

757
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:33,280
Speaker 2: And while everything else was a disappointment, and New Orleans,

758
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,600
Speaker 2: by the fact, that they lost their seventh straight fired

759
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 2: their coach for fantasy purposes. Again, some guys are going

760
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,280
Speaker 2: to create some numbers. They're not walking out with full zeros.

761
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 2: So find the diamond in the rough, particularly at a

762
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 2: rough position at tight end.

763
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 3: If Hill gets in at quarterbacks, that's the biggest cheat

764
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 3: code you can possibly have in fantasy.

765
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 2: Which we've seen in past years. Where you've got the

766
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 2: dual position eligibility, the old fight, not.

767
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,439
Speaker 3: Simply putish is not fair, but there's no easy way

768
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:08,280
Speaker 3: obviously around it for you know, ESPN and Yahoo the companies.

769
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 2: But well, where some of it is, you're right, you've

770
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: got the position eligibility. When it comes to how many

771
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 2: leagues are using dual quarterbacks or the advent of the

772
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 2: superflex that way, it doesn't matter. So you can put

773
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 2: whoever you want there and that's fine. And so maybe

774
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: a little bit of a cheat. I think he's a

775
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,719
Speaker 2: better tight end than he is, Like he was a

776
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 2: cheat when he was a tight end and had quarterback eligibility.

777
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 2: He was outscoring a lot of quarterbacks that way. But

778
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 2: either way, from the defensive side, anything that stood out

779
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 2: for you as we look at the matchups of Week ten.

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking the New York Giants are a good pick

781
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 3: up because they're only five percent rostered. And the biggest

782
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,720
Speaker 3: thing though, is that they're going to Germany to face

783
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 3: the Panthers. The Panthers all season have kind of been

784
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,879
Speaker 3: one of those teams that you want to chase after

785
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 3: for the defenses, especially with Bryce Young under center again again,

786
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 3: you know, he is a former number one overall pick.

787
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,359
Speaker 3: You never know, the ceiling is always high for him.

788
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 3: But he's someone that just has not been able to

789
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 3: put it together yet. And I don't think against a

790
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 3: team like the Giants, who actually have a pretty good defense,

791
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 3: that's something that kind of goes goes unnoticed a lot

792
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 3: of the time because the fact that they're two and seven,

793
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 3: but the Giants defense is pretty good. Dexter Lawrence might

794
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 3: be the best defensive player in the league, and that's

795
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 3: you know, obviously maybe that's hyperbole, but a lot of

796
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 3: people are of that opinion. He's leading the league in

797
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 3: saxony as a nose tackle, So yeah, I.

798
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,280
Speaker 2: Love my wall of mean when it comes to nose tackles.

799
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 2: That's my goal. When when I move into a new space,

800
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 2: I'm going to start assembling autograph jerseys of all the

801
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 2: greatest nose tackles that's NFL history, and he'll be one

802
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,720
Speaker 2: of them. Giants are actually five point favorites in Germany.

803
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 3: There you go, all the more reason to stream their defense,

804
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 3: which again are only five percent rostered right now, So

805
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,280
Speaker 3: put in your claims.

806
00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 2: Solid pick up there no question about it. I and

807
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 2: at Ian Roddy underscore where you find him in the

808
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 2: Twitter verse. Find me over at Swollen Dome. Find our

809
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 2: colleague Dan Bayer at Dan Byer on Fox. Dan will

810
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,399
Speaker 2: be back later on in the week as we get

811
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 2: ready to get into the throes of Week ten. When

812
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 2: you next hear us, we'll be talking about the trade deadline,

813
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 2: the impact deals and ones that didn't happen in the interim.

814
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,359
Speaker 2: Hopefully you had a successful Week nine, you survived your

815
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 2: Kia teen leagues and came away with another victory. Are

816
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 2: a lot of more I'm now talking like I'm clever,

817
00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 2: laying going back to Rocky three and I'm beating up

818
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 2: on Rocky. A lot more football still in the offing.

819
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 2: The first half has certainly given us a lot of

820
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,920
Speaker 2: twists and turns. Can't wait to see what's on the board.

821
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Speaker 2: As we continued the journey. As always, we appreciate you

822
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 2: giving us a few minutes of your time. We know

823
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 2: you have a lot of options in this audio landscape

824
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 2: and giving Ian Dan and myself a few minutes of

825
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 2: your time. Maybe a fist pump, maybe a shaking your

826
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 2: fist because you disagreed with something, or maybe I gave

827
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 2: you some advice that steered you wrong. Either way, blame me.

828
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 2: I got wide shoulders. I can handle it until the

829
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 2: next time. I'm like Garman. Thanks for listening. Guy, watch

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Speaker 2: your flex