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Speaker 1: Ye, Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show presented by

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Speaker 1: Draft Kings. Here's your host, Marcus Grant. What is Welcome

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Speaker 1: to another edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Show presented

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Speaker 1: by Draft Kings. It's me your man, MG, Marcus Grant,

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Speaker 1: masking and socially distancing win and where necessary and sort

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Speaker 1: of vibing on the new voice we got. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you just recognized that something a little bit different for

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Speaker 1: this show. So trying to spurst things up here, trying

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Speaker 1: to make ourselves sound bigger than you know, maybe we

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Speaker 1: for you as always on a Friday, we joined by

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Speaker 1: our pal Michael Florida, will go over some of your

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Speaker 1: best values for DFS players for the weekend. Also have

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Speaker 1: a great question that we ask our nerve as we

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Speaker 1: do every single Friday. Plus some big news that came

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Speaker 1: down a pipe on Thursday, so we'll dive into that

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Speaker 1: talk to our faith for producer, Senior Edward L. Murphy

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Speaker 1: s squire m Any any plans for the weekend for you? Well,

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Speaker 1: there's a couple of good college football games. Uh, since

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Speaker 1: I have to put all my my focus on the

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Speaker 1: fighting Irish and uh, and I do enjoy watching other

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Speaker 1: teams to play there because obviously my pro team is

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Speaker 1: not helping me out. Um, so I think, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: just relax. I think we're talking about like last week.

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Speaker 1: How are you know, for those who work in the

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Speaker 1: NFL media, you're Sundays if you are off, you're starting

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Speaker 1: really off because you have to watch all the games

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Speaker 1: and obviously, like we need to keep track of every

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Speaker 1: single guy that's especially an offense for fantasy. So it's like,

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Speaker 1: do you really only have Saturday off? And then that's

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Speaker 1: also consumed by other football So really my plans are

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Speaker 1: football for the next like six seven months. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean that that pretty much? Is it? Like once I

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Speaker 1: always say that you're for for folks who work in

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Speaker 1: NFL media, for football media, I guess summer kind of

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Speaker 1: ends just after the fourth of July, Like everybody still

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Speaker 1: till you know, the start of January. Maybe into February.

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Speaker 1: Our lives are consumed by football, so at least you're

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Speaker 1: finding you're finding some enjoyment out of it. I know,

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Speaker 1: I know the pro game maybe has uh you know,

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Speaker 1: taken a hiatus for you, but at least finding some

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Speaker 1: football enjoyment this year. Yeah, I mean it's uh, it's

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Speaker 1: one of my passions I'll always have. So it's frustrating

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Speaker 1: I mean, like you know, we got you know, George

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Speaker 1: so intriguing to me. So that's just something in me.

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Speaker 1: I know you have it too, or just like football's football,

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Speaker 1: we will always love it and it's okay that it

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Speaker 1: consumes our lives for quite some time. Absolutely so we

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, enjoy the weekend certainly, all right, it is Friday,

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Speaker 1: so we will turn our attention to our pal Michael F.

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Speaker 1: Florida who comes and joins this and uh, Florida, I

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Speaker 1: know you you also grew up not not near SEC country. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Mike does, does this get him back to RB one

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Speaker 1: But after that, Bell still needs to learn the offense.

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Speaker 1: He's clearly trending down like your board says Marcus. But

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Speaker 1: let's let's just turn our touch. What does this mean

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Speaker 1: long term for Clyde Edward Hilary If you have him

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Speaker 1: And lead Bell was awesome with Pittsburgh. You can't take

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Speaker 1: I don't really care who it is. If it's if

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Speaker 1: it's Kyle Allen, if it's you know, if it's Alex Smith,

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Speaker 1: if they bring Mark Ripping out of retirement and have

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Speaker 1: him throw the ball, like I just want somebody that

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Speaker 1: can get the ball in mclaurin's hands and make plays

435
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Speaker 1: with it. But I am going to be paying close

436
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Speaker 1: attention to him this week. I want to see how

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Speaker 1: they're getting him the ball, how effectively they're getting him

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Speaker 1: the ball, and whether or not this is sustainable. I

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Speaker 1: do think, as a side note, that maybe this quarterback change,

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Speaker 1: and especially if it ends up being Alex Smith, could

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Speaker 1: benefit Antonio Gibson if you have a quarterback that's not

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Speaker 1: going to push the ball down field, that is going

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Speaker 1: to kind of dump the ball underneath. I know we've

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Speaker 1: we talked a little bit about Gibson. I feel like

445
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Speaker 1: every other week we sort of mentioned Antonio Gibson here.

446
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Speaker 1: Where where is your confidence level in him? Right now?

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Speaker 1: My dog's trying to get in. She's a big fan

448
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Speaker 1: of Antonio. I I like him. I think he's turning

449
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Speaker 1: up right now. I know last week we saw jading

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Speaker 1: the kissed to come in and see a lot of targets.

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Speaker 1: I'm not anticipating that each week, and again that was

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Speaker 1: with Alex Smith. Um. I think Gibson, you know he

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Speaker 1: has a safe floor each week now because they're using

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Speaker 1: him as the goal line runner. He's still seeing you know,

455
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Speaker 1: three or four targets each week. So I think Gibson

456
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Speaker 1: right now is an RB two that is trending up.

457
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Speaker 1: And if you drafted him, I think you should feel excited.

458
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Speaker 1: It took a little I guess we want instant gratification.

459
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Speaker 1: So the fact that you know it's only six now, right,

460
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Speaker 1: I mean, it hasn't been like a long time. Uh

461
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Speaker 1: So I guess you know we should be excited about it.

462
00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:32,919
Speaker 1: I think because it didn't happen in like week one

463
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Speaker 1: or two, we're like, this is this is bunk whatever.

464
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Speaker 1: Julio Jones is still dealing with that hamstring injury. The

465
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Speaker 1: Falcons did not practice on Thursday because they close their

466
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Speaker 1: facility because of a potential positive COVID test. But they

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Speaker 1: are back open on Friday. But Julio Jones still dealing

468
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Speaker 1: with that nagging hamstring injury, and it looks like it's

469
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Speaker 1: starting to linger. What should we be doing with Julio

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Speaker 1: right now? I think if you have Julio Jones, you're

471
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Speaker 1: just stuck, right, Like, I know they didn't practice yesterday,

472
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Speaker 1: but they said even if they did, Julio would not

473
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Speaker 1: have been out there. I'm not. I don't have high

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Speaker 1: hopes that he's going to suit up and play this week. Uh.

475
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Speaker 1: And I think if you have him, like, what can

476
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Speaker 1: you do right now? If you try to sell him,

477
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Speaker 1: no one is gonna give you anywhere close to full price,

478
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Speaker 1: so you're gonna be just getting fleeced in any trade

479
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Speaker 1: you can make right now. The only way I think

480
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Speaker 1: I go out and trade him and accept that I'm taking,

481
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Speaker 1: you know, a I'm getting less returned than I would

482
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Speaker 1: if he was fully healthy. Is if I'm sitting at

483
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Speaker 1: two and three and I'm or worse and I'm not

484
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Speaker 1: really feeling great about my team right now, and I know,

485
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Speaker 1: like I need things to start to turn around before

486
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Speaker 1: the season is over for me. That's the only way

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Speaker 1: I think I'm looking to trade him. Otherwise, I think

488
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Speaker 1: you're just kind of handcuffed with him right now. That

489
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Speaker 1: is sort of the problem is, you know, because he

490
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Speaker 1: is sort of stuck in limbo, you are sort of

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Speaker 1: stuck in limbo. And I think the worst case scenario

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Speaker 1: I actually would, honestly, if I have Julio Jones, I

493
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Speaker 1: just want the Falcons to tell me right now, is

494
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Speaker 1: he out or not? Don't leave us hanging, because the

495
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Speaker 1: worst thing is they make it a game time decision

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Speaker 1: and then you're really scrambling on Sunday to decide what

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Speaker 1: to do. Or even worse than that, they say he's

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Speaker 1: okay to go, and then he ends up just being

499
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Speaker 1: a decoy because we've seen that a couple of times

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Speaker 1: where he gets on the field and he runs a

501
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Speaker 1: couple of routes, but they aren't really looking in his

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Speaker 1: direction at all. And so you've got Julio Jones in

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Speaker 1: your lineup and you're gonna catch a zero because he's

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Speaker 1: basically just out there getting his steps in more than

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Speaker 1: anything else and not actually being a part of the offense. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well I was. You know what. It feels like a

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Speaker 1: little bit like remember when they drafted Julio Jones and

508
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: Roddy White was still a thing at first, and then

509
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Speaker 1: like the injuries started to pile up, and now it

510
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Speaker 1: feels like Calvin Ridley is like going to continue that

511
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Speaker 1: and take over for Julio Jones, and it just feels

512
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Speaker 1: like the best days of Julio might be behind us.

513
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Speaker 1: It is a tradition unlike any other in Atlantic, just

514
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Speaker 1: the passing of the torch from from one wide receiver

515
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Speaker 1: to the next. Um, Mike Davis has been great since

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey went down, And I know that we had

517
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Speaker 1: a graphic on Fantasy Live, I think either earlier this

518
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Speaker 1: week or last week, basically showing the production and it

519
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Speaker 1: is pretty darn close. When you look at the Fantasy

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Speaker 1: points per game, what Mike Davis is giving you versus

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Speaker 1: what you were getting from Ristian McCaffrey, the comparison is

522
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Speaker 1: is pretty spot on. So it begs the question has

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Speaker 1: Mike Davis done enough to continue getting touches when Christian

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Speaker 1: McCaffrey is finally healthy and back on the field. Marcus,

525
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Speaker 1: I'm really happy that you asked. It's like, when I

526
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Speaker 1: saw this on the rundown today, I got excited because

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Speaker 1: this has been something that I've been wondering now for

528
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Speaker 1: like a week. But I was like, I knew if

529
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Speaker 1: I put it on Twitter, like someone would roast me

530
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Speaker 1: and be like he's still Christian McCaffrey, idiot or something

531
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Speaker 1: like that, and like, I don't know, he's still Christian McCaffrey.

532
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Speaker 1: But to your point, like in his absence, Mike Davis

533
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Speaker 1: is actually averaging more scrimmage yards per game this year

534
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Speaker 1: then McCaffrey has been. The fantasy points are nearly identical.

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Speaker 1: So I think that if you're the Panthers, may you're thinking, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're playing some winning football right now. Why do we

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Speaker 1: want to take Christian McCaffrey coming off the i R

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Speaker 1: and suddenly give him, you know, touches again when we

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Speaker 1: could reduce that back a little bit. We know we

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Speaker 1: have a quality back here and Mike Davis, and we

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Speaker 1: can keep Christian mccaffy McCaffrey healthy and on the field

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Speaker 1: all year. Because we have to remember, like this is

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Speaker 1: a real life football team and they want to protect

544
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Speaker 1: their players and have them healthy and available each week.

545
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Speaker 1: They don't care about our fantasy production. So I think

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Speaker 1: it is actually something to worry about right now. I

547
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: would be very concerned. And I think the factor in

548
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Speaker 1: the fact that it's a high ankle spraining for McCaffrey

549
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: and those things tend to uh take a long time

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Speaker 1: to get back to a hundred percent. They did just

551
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Speaker 1: sign him to a big contract extension, so you're right.

552
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Speaker 1: I think they want to sort of protect their investment

553
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Maybe not rushing back, maybe not give

554
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Speaker 1: him a full workload. And I understand that we are

555
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Speaker 1: a long way removed, and we are a couple of

556
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Speaker 1: regimes removed from the Panthers when they had the the

557
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Speaker 1: Angelo Williams Jonathan Stewart backfield. But I do wonder whether

558
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,280
Speaker 1: we could go back to sort of seeing that split

559
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Speaker 1: in Carolina where you have two guys who are very

560
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Speaker 1: good and very productive and they're both sort of splitting

561
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Speaker 1: those opportunities there, because I just I just have a

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Speaker 1: hard time imagining that. You know, if you are if

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Speaker 1: you're Matt Rule, if you're Joe Brady, you look at

564
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,600
Speaker 1: what you've gotten out of Mike Davis, and you know,

565
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: when McCaffrey's back, you just say, hey, you know, thanks

566
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:25,959
Speaker 1: for your service. We just want you to sit on

567
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: this bench and not be a part of the offense anymore,

568
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Speaker 1: because you know, I just it just doesn't make sense

569
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Speaker 1: if you have two guys that are that the opposing

570
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Speaker 1: defense has to prepare for, that only potentially makes sure

571
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Speaker 1: offense better. So I really do think that if you've

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Speaker 1: got Christian McCaffrey, you should be a little concerned. I've

573
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Speaker 1: seen multiple people, including Adam ranks sort of advocating maybe

574
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Speaker 1: if there's somebody in your league willing to kind of

575
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Speaker 1: give you a king's ransom to trade away McCaffrey, that

576
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:56,160
Speaker 1: maybe this is the time to take it, just because

577
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Speaker 1: there is a chance that this could turn into a

578
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Speaker 1: little bit of a headache that maybe we didn't anticipate.

579
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Speaker 1: And by the way, Florio, if if this does happen,

580
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Speaker 1: I know this is all hypothetical, right, but if McCaffrey

581
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Speaker 1: ends up in a time share, uh, you've got You've

582
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Speaker 1: got se Kwon Barkley who's out for the year. Michael

583
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: Thomas has been battling injuries so far, Davante Adams missed

584
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Speaker 1: a game or two with it like the first round

585
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: of most fantasy draft is falling apart right now because

586
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Speaker 1: of this. Yeah, it feels like like Kimara and Zeke

587
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: are the only two, Like Davin cooks now hurt, like

588
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,119
Speaker 1: c h has Levion Bell there. It feels like if

589
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: you draft a Kmaro or Zeke right now, you should

590
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: should be a little happy because everyone else it's looking

591
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: like a mess. So far. It is falling apart, all right.

592
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Speaker 1: Last big question for the week, the Rams passing game

593
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: it's not really impressive just to look at now. Jared

594
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 1: goff Is has some decent fantasy numbers. You know, Robert Woods,

595
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup have done some decent things, but on the whole,

596
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: it just looks sort of lackluster. I know that you were,

597
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,479
Speaker 1: you know, Tyler Higby had his one big game. Gerald, Ever,

598
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: it's had a big game. How worried should we be

599
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: about this Rams passing game right now? I think you

600
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: should be pretty worried because this is not the same

601
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Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh offense that we've kind of became accustomed to

602
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Speaker 1: in years past. Like Robert Woods, Cooper Cup, and Tyler

603
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: Higbee are all running less routes and seeing less targets

604
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 1: than they were last year. Uh, the Rams are running

605
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 1: the ball fifty two percent of the time. That's the

606
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Speaker 1: second most in the NFL. There decimal points away from

607
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: being the most run heavy team in the league. And

608
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 1: fifty percent this year. Last year was thirty eight percent,

609
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,640
Speaker 1: the year before that it was forty three percent. So

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00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: this is clearly the offense that is prioritizing the run

611
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Speaker 1: more than they ever have before. I think if you

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Speaker 1: have Woods Cupp for Higbie, you need to be worried

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Speaker 1: and in fact, Marcus, you know, I love Tyler Higbee

614
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Speaker 1: coming into the year, but I picked up and am

615
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: starting Irv Smith over him in a league this week.

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Speaker 1: That that speaks volume. And I I wasn't. I didn't

617
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 1: hate Tyler Higbie this year. I just didn't quite know

618
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Speaker 1: where to slot him. And the Rams have done nothing

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Speaker 1: to give me any clarity on that situation through the

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Speaker 1: first few weeks of the season, you know, And it's

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Speaker 1: interesting that you talk about how much they're running the football.

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Speaker 1: That hasn't worked out for us I either in fantasy,

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Speaker 1: because we don't really know which way to go with it, right,

624
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, is it Cam Akers? And you

625
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: know he didn't he was available, He didn't play much

626
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Speaker 1: last week. He might play more this week against the

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Speaker 1: forty niners. Darrell Henderson when we thought he had a

628
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Speaker 1: good matchup barely saw the ball against the Giants, didn't

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Speaker 1: do anything. Then we wouldn't we didn't love his matchup.

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Speaker 1: The next week he ends up with a huge workload

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Speaker 1: and scores two touchdowns. So nothing for us fantasy yse

632
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: seems to be working out with this Rams offense. It

633
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: has been just a nightmare to deal with and I

634
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Speaker 1: think there are reasons for us to sort of be nervous,

635
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Speaker 1: not pushing the panic button, but certainly nervous about the

636
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Speaker 1: way things have gone. If you want more of this

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Speaker 1: kind of goodness, you should be sure to check us

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Speaker 1: out on Sunday mornings for NFL Fantasy Game Day. It's

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Speaker 1: me along with Adam rank Kim. He checks Michael Florio

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Speaker 1: Draft Kings. We've got our picks for the guys that

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Speaker 1: in Week six. So we'll start off quarterback. What are

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Speaker 1: you looking at this week? Florio? I'm going with Ryan Fitzpatrick.

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Speaker 1: He feels a little bit under priced here. He is

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Speaker 1: the QB seven right now. On this season. He has

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Speaker 1: scored twenty one plus fantasy points in four straight games,

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Speaker 1: and the Jets have allowed twenty six or more to

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Speaker 1: both of Josh Allen and Kyler Murray and they really

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Speaker 1: haven't been tested elsewise other than that. So I know

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Speaker 1: they come in ranking middle of the pack and fantasy

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Speaker 1: points allowed to quarterbacks, but I think that fits. He

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Speaker 1: has the chance to really put up a lot more

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Speaker 1: and what is kind of a revenge game for the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins against Adam Gaze. Uh yeah, I guess it kind

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Speaker 1: of is right. It's a chance to get a little

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Speaker 1: get back. I'm gonna go with Kirk Cousins there, and

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Speaker 1: I know we sort of advocated to start him last

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Speaker 1: week against the Seahawks. The results weren't particularly great. He

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Speaker 1: got about fourteen fifteen points, but I'm gonna double down

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Speaker 1: this week because he's got the Falcons on the schedule

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Speaker 1: and I know that you just let go of their

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Speaker 1: head coach Dan Quinn, but they still have a lot

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Speaker 1: of questions to answer on the defensive side of the football.

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Speaker 1: So I think that you can go back and maybe

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit more than Fitzpatrick was, but I

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Speaker 1: think the opportunity is still there for for Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 1: to go and put up a really big passing game,

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Speaker 1: and it's worth kind of getting him in there to

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Speaker 1: maybe go big somewhere else in your lineup. Okay, over

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Speaker 1: to the running back spots. Uh, it's some I thought

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Speaker 1: there's some interesting values this week. Which one did you

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Speaker 1: find the most interesting? I went with David Montgomery. I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty bullish on him right now, like I like him

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Speaker 1: as a dfense value and in season long leagues, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna try and acquire him where I can this week

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Speaker 1: before the game team he's been averaging seven targets per

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Speaker 1: game since Trekohen has gone down, and we saw last

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Speaker 1: week Marcus how much that raises his weekly floor. He

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Speaker 1: didn't have a big yardage game, but the seven catches

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Speaker 1: gave him a week nearly twenty fantasy points. And this

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Speaker 1: week I think he's going to explode against the Panthers.

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Speaker 1: It's just the best matchup for running backs. They're allowing

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Speaker 1: the most fantasy points per game and the most touchdowns

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Speaker 1: two running backs, and that's after they allowed both the

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Speaker 1: most of that last season as well. This is just

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Speaker 1: a defense that you can run all over, and I

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Speaker 1: think this week the Bears are gonna ask a lot

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Speaker 1: of of Montgomery, so they have to ask less out

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Speaker 1: of Nick Foles. The target share for David Montgomery has

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Speaker 1: been the pleasant surprise since Tarik Cohen went down. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go Miles Gascon here because he has been a

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Speaker 1: pleasant surprise in that Miami backfield all season long, to

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Speaker 1: the point that last week Jordan Howard was a healthy

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Speaker 1: scratch did not see the field in that blowout win

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Speaker 1: over the forty Niners. They are getting him the football.

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Speaker 1: They have a great match up with the Jets. He

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Speaker 1: has become sort of the running back of record and

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Speaker 1: in what could be look Rank made the point on

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Live earlier this week, either Fitzpatrick is going to

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Speaker 1: go huge and have six touchdown passes or he's going

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Speaker 1: to you know, implode and have six interceptions. But uh,

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Speaker 1: if he goes the route of the six touchdowns, and

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Speaker 1: that potentially means Miles Gascon could end up seeing a

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Speaker 1: lot of work, mostly throughout the game, but certainly in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarters that try to close this thing out.

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Speaker 1: So I think at fifty for the salary, I think

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Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin is a pretty nice pick alright. So to

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Speaker 1: the wide receivers, A J. Brown finally came back into

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Speaker 1: our lives and that was a good thing to see, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was awesome to see I have a J. Brown

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Speaker 1: in a couple of leagues. I took a safe approach

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Speaker 1: last week with him because he was playing on Tuesday

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Speaker 1: and that game was up in the air, but it

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Speaker 1: was amazing to see. I left that game very happy

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Speaker 1: with what he had. It was like nine targets, he

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Speaker 1: had wide receiver one production, and Ryan Tannehill from the

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Speaker 1: start of that game was clearly looking his way very often.

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Speaker 1: I think a J. Brown, like we were valuing him

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Speaker 1: as almost a wide receiver one in dry ups this year,

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Speaker 1: but now is his Draft Kings price. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's quite caught back up to that yet. So I

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Speaker 1: think he is a good value this week. And I

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Speaker 1: just like the Titans past game offense. Now I've really

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Speaker 1: come around on it. So maybe the only thing better

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Speaker 1: than finding a value is finding a value stack. And

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Speaker 1: I talked about Kirk Cousins at the quarterback spot, so

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Speaker 1: I figured, well, why not go with Justin Jefferson as

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Speaker 1: one of the wide receivers there. I mean, I talked

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Speaker 1: about that Falcons defense. We all sort of know what

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Speaker 1: the situation is and this is still a pretty concentrated

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Speaker 1: passing game. If there's one thing we've learned about Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 1: and basically, he finds two targets and he will funnel

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Speaker 1: most of his throws towards those two guys. And right now,

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Speaker 1: those two guys are clearly Adam Feeling and Justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 1: So I'm going to take a shot and have him

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Speaker 1: slide back in there. I know last week wasn't great,

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Speaker 1: but we'll give him another chance against another pretty bad secondary.

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Speaker 1: I know I just said that that Kirk Cousins funnels

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Speaker 1: his targets through two guys. But when we look at

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Speaker 1: the best values for tight ends, you've got a Minnesota

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Speaker 1: Viking in there. It's it's right now. Just pick on

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons defense, and I like your Vikings picks, Marcus.

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Speaker 1: I also would like Adam Feeling this week, but I

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Speaker 1: like Erv Smith Jr. As well. Last week he saw

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Speaker 1: five targets, four catches for sixty four yards. He ran

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Speaker 1: thirty one routes and played sixty of the snaps, both

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Speaker 1: were season highs. I think he's the better pass catcher

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Speaker 1: of their two tight ends. I think Kyle Rudolph is

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Speaker 1: the better blockers, so I'm hoping that leads to more

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Speaker 1: pass game work. And again pick on the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 1: They're allowing these second most fantasy points per game two

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Speaker 1: tight ends right now, and IRV Smith Jr. Is cheaper

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Speaker 1: than my defense, so it's a really good way of

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Speaker 1: saving money and getting uh getting some high upside exposure there.

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Speaker 1: It's sort of nice to see him actually kind of

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Speaker 1: get into things because we were sort of wondering what

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Speaker 1: was going to happen there. I'm gonna go with Logan

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Speaker 1: or with Ian Thomas. One of the Thomas is Ian

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Speaker 1: Thomas as my tied into the Carolina Panthers. I know

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Speaker 1: the matchup doesn't seem great on paper against the Bears,

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Speaker 1: but if there has been a weak point in that defense,

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Speaker 1: it has been their their work against tied in so

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Speaker 1: far this season. I wonder how difficult it's going to

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Speaker 1: be for Teddy Bridgewater to get the ball to say

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Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson or DJ Moore. But there could be some

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Speaker 1: opportunities sort of in the middle of the field for

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Speaker 1: Ian Thomas to go out and make some plays. I

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Speaker 1: feel like, you know, unless you're really playing one of

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Speaker 1: the top elite tight end. We're we're all just sort

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Speaker 1: of uh trying to pinpoint touchdowns here, and I think

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Speaker 1: Ian Thomas has worked near the end zone could end

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Speaker 1: up being a boost for him. So you mentioned that

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Speaker 1: your defense, uh is slightly more expensive than you're tied end.

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Speaker 1: Which defense are you going with this week? I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go with the Miami Dolphins defense. It's basically just pick

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Speaker 1: on the New York Jets at this point, their their

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Speaker 1: offense there towards to bottom two. It's them and the

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Speaker 1: Giants flip flopping each week for fewest points scored on

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Speaker 1: the year. They don't put up a lot of yards.

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Speaker 1: Sam Donald's up in the air, so there's just Levy

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Speaker 1: on Bell's gone. There's just not a lot to like

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Speaker 1: on this Jets offense. And the Dolphins defense has been

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Speaker 1: playing better like they've been a lot since Week one.

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Speaker 1: I really feel like they've been stepping it up as

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Speaker 1: of late. So I know you could save a little

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Speaker 1: bit of money here and still get a high upside

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Speaker 1: play in the Dolphins defense. Well, you talked about picking

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Speaker 1: on the Jets offense. I guess in some ways we're

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Speaker 1: sort of picking on the Giants offense. As well. That's

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Speaker 1: why I'm going with the Washington football team as my

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Speaker 1: defense this week. Look, the Giants have had some bright spots.

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Speaker 1: I would say that if you are sort of, you know,

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Speaker 1: ranking the two New York teams, I'd say the Giants

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Speaker 1: are ahead of the Jets for whatever that's worth. But

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Speaker 1: the issue still continues to be Daniel Jones just turns

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Speaker 1: the ball over at a horrendous rate. And you know

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Speaker 1: the way to get points in fantasy for your defense

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Speaker 1: sacks and turnovers. And so you're just gonna continue to

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Speaker 1: kind of pick on a guy who has problems with

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Speaker 1: ball security, who's gonna throw interceptions on occasion, and you

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Speaker 1: hope that they sort of, you know, get those picks,

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Speaker 1: get those turnovers, get to the quarterback, get some pressure,

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Speaker 1: and get some sacks. So I'm gonna go with the

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Speaker 1: Washington football team there against against the Giants. So there

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Speaker 1: presented by Panini Trading Cards. You got a couple of

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Speaker 1: cars in this pack that will sort of discuss about

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Speaker 1: maybe their Week six and beyond prospects. So as we

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Speaker 1: dig through, the first one we've got is Deshaun Watson,

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Speaker 1: quarterback of your Houston Texans. People have sort of, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've been wringing their hands about Deshaun Watson this season,

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Speaker 1: but when you look, he is the QB nine right now.

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Speaker 1: He had a pretty good game in the first game

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Speaker 1: without Bill O'Brien as head coach and play caller. Have

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Speaker 1: we overreacted to what we've seen from Deshaun Watson so far? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. And not only have we overreacted, we've

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Speaker 1: overrea acted for all the wrong reasons, right like everything.

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Speaker 1: Whenever you hear about Deshaun Watson, it's, oh, well, it's

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Speaker 1: because DeAndre Hopkins isn't there. Well, not really, Like he's

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Speaker 1: averaging over thirty more passing yards per game this year

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Speaker 1: than last year. His passing touchdown rate is higher this year.

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Speaker 1: Than last year. What he's really down right now is

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Speaker 1: in the rushing aspect, Like his rushing yards per game

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Speaker 1: are down eleven from last year and he has just

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Speaker 1: one rushing touchdown where last year he had seven. So

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Speaker 1: I think that if you're looking at his two seasons

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Speaker 1: and comparing it so far, his numbers, fantasy numbers are

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Speaker 1: down a little bit. It's because of the less rushing yards.

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Speaker 1: I think his passing like you don't have to worry

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Speaker 1: about that. And also he had such a tough schedule

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Speaker 1: to open up the year, the Chiefs, the Ravens, and

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Speaker 1: the Steelers. I don't know if you can get any

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Speaker 1: harder than that. I think that's sort of sort of

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Speaker 1: the key point for me when I was looking at

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Speaker 1: the schedule just has really not done him any favors.

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Speaker 1: And even then he's still put up some pretty decent numbers.

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Speaker 1: He hasn't had one of those just you know, bottom

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00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 1: drops out weeks that's gonna absolutely sink your roster. So

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Speaker 1: I think things are gonna start to open up, the

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Speaker 1: schedule start starts to lighten up a little bit. And

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Speaker 1: I do think that now with no Bill O'Brien, there

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Speaker 1: never really just gonna you know, count on Deshaun Watson

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00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: to be their key playmaker. Just sort of let let

858
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 1: Deshaun cook. Right. That seems to be the phrase of

859
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: the year is just to let blank cook. So I

860
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 1: think it's Deshaun Watson's turn. So I think that we

861
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 1: can sort of maybe pump the brakes a little bit.

862
00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 1: Everything's gonna be fine on Deshaun Watson. You can just relax.

863
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: You can put them in your lineup and and just

864
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: kind of let it roll, all right. So our other

865
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:37,799
Speaker 1: one is Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots. Uh.

866
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: Edelman is not maybe the fantasy stud that he was,

867
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 1: say a few years ago, but now that Kim Newton

868
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: looks like he's going to be back this week for

869
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:52,640
Speaker 1: the Patriots, is Julian Edelman and every week starter? I

870
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: think so. But I don't think it's like last year,

871
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: like you said, Marcus. I think it's more on that,

872
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: like you know, is the wide receiver borderline, wide receiver

873
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: two or three and flex option. But in the three

874
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 1: games with Cam Newton this year, because the ones without Cam,

875
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: I don't think we really have to look at Uh,

876
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: we've seen kind of mixed results. He's finished with four

877
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: points in one of them thirteen and another in twenty six.

878
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: Kind of like a floor, a median, and a ceiling

879
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,240
Speaker 1: game there. But why I like him is Cam Newton

880
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: this year is thrown to the slot on of his

881
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: throws that towards the top in the NFL. And Julian Edelman,

882
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: we all know is one of the best slot receivers

883
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: in the game. Runs nearly seventy of his routes from

884
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: the slot, so it just seems like a good parent

885
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: they're moving forward. I still look at it was kind

886
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 1: of a match up based guy. I think, you know,

887
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: at worst, he's maybe a flex. I think at best

888
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 1: his ceiling is probably a mid to high end wide receiver.

889
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: To um, Yeah, I don't. I don't think this is

890
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: necessarily some sort of Tom Brady missing related drop off.

891
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: I think it's just, hey, look, man, time comes for everybody,

892
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: and at some point this offense is not the same

893
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: juggernaut that it once was, and you know, Julian Edelman

894
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: is sort of going to suffer because of that. I

895
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,319
Speaker 1: don't think I drafted him anywhere this year just because

896
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: I wasn't all that certain. I mean, look, we went

897
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: into the season not even certain who was going to

898
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback. There was still a time when

899
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 1: we thought maybe there's an outside shot that Jared's stadium

900
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: gets the job where that Brian Hoyer slides in there.

901
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,600
Speaker 1: So I think that might have had something to do

902
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: with it. So I'm not ready to make Julian Edelman

903
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: every week starter, but I do think he has some value,

904
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: especially when the matchup is right, and like I said,

905
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 1: I would, I definitely feel more comfortable with him my

906
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: lineup with Cam at quarterback than anybody else that the

907
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Speaker 1: Patriots have back thereda to put under sit. Inspired by

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Speaker 1: to learn more. All right, now it's time for Ask

914
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: a Nerd. We went to our pal Matt o'conna and

915
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: asked about some of the top fantasy seasons ever put

916
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: out by a rookie quarterback. Thanks Marcus, and thanks for

917
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: joining me for another week. Of ask a Nerd. Today,

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Speaker 1: we're breaking down the top five fantasy seasons all time

919
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: by rooky quarterbacks. The number five is a player whose

920
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:15,720
Speaker 1: career ended as quickly as it started. Andrew Luck, first

921
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:19,240
Speaker 1: overall pick, had a rookie record four thousand, three hundred

922
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 1: and seventy four passing yards on his way to two

923
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six fantasy points. Number four on our

924
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: list happened just last season thanks to the dynamic play

925
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: of another number one pick, Kyler Murray, with over thirty

926
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: seven hundred pass yards and five hundred rush yards. Kyler

927
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: logs two hundred eighty five Fantasy points in Dak. Prescott's

928
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,880
Speaker 1: blazing start to twenty was four shadowed back in sixteen,

929
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,280
Speaker 1: when he posted the third best season by a rookie

930
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: QB despite being drafted in the fourth round, lowest on

931
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: our list. Dak had twenty nine touchdowns through the air

932
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: and ground combined, third most by a rookie ever, and

933
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: total two hundred eighty six Fantasy points. Coming in number two.

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Speaker 1: Who is Rookie of the Year winner Robert Griffin the

935
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: third our second QB from the twelve class r G

936
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Speaker 1: three climbed list thanks primarily the eight hundred fifteen rush

937
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: yards and seven rush hedi for a total of three

938
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: hundred seventeen fantasy points. But number one on our list

939
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: was in a whole other stratosphere. Cam Newton scored a

940
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: whopping three hundred seventy fantasy points in thanks to a

941
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: forty seven hundred yards and thirty five touchdowns as a

942
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:29,399
Speaker 1: passer and rusher combined. His fourteen rush tds alone are

943
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: and still remain a quarterback. Right. We'll have to wait

944
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 1: and see if Justin Herbert or Joe Burrow can challenge

945
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: these players, but until then, thanks for hanging out on

946
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: Ask a Nerd and made the fantasy points be with you.

947
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: Nerd got a glow up man, no glasses, no mustache.

948
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: It's it's like, you know, it's like the mail version

949
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: version of like you know, she's all that or something

950
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: like you know, you just throw things around. But as always,

951
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: the information is fantastic. We appreciate Matt jumping in every

952
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,319
Speaker 1: single week with us. So I brought this question up

953
00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: because Justin Herbert has been playing so well while enough

954
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: that he looks like he's going to be the Chargers

955
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: starting quarterback for the rest of the season, So that

956
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: begs the question. I mean, you got Herbert playing well,

957
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow has stepped in and you know, carried carried

958
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: the load as much as possible for the Bengals. Who

959
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 1: do you think has the better long term season outlook?

960
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: Right now? Is it Herbert or is it Burrow? Right now?

961
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,200
Speaker 1: I'm going with justin Herbert. He has scored twenty two

962
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: and more Fantasy points in three of his four starts

963
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: this year. Joe Burrow has scored that number once. Burrows

964
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: putting up a lot of past yards. They're asked him

965
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: to throw a lot, but the touchdowns haven't come, and

966
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: I think his schedule is tougher. Like he failed the

967
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 1: test last week against Baltimore. He still has to play

968
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: that defense again. He still has to play Pittsburgh twice.

969
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:43,439
Speaker 1: So I like both of these rookies. I think they

970
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: are both guys that you can trust most weeks, depending

971
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: on the matchup. But right now, I think if you

972
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 1: have Herbert, you know you might not even need another quarterback,

973
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,800
Speaker 1: Like he could be your guy the rest of the way.

974
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: I didn't think we would get to that point, but

975
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I mean, the way he has played,

976
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 1: he could just be your core back, and now with

977
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,479
Speaker 1: the Chargers on a buy in Week six, there's nothing

978
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,839
Speaker 1: to prevent you from playing him each and every week.

979
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: I think the other thing that works in Herbert's favor

980
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: is just the fact that he has a better defense

981
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 1: behind him. I mean that means the game script will

982
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: be sort of in doubt. That means that the Charges

983
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: can still be two dimensional when they want to be.

984
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow I think, for the most part, is going

985
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: to be forced into having to pass a lot. They're

986
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:26,880
Speaker 1: gonna be playing from behind, They're gonna be playing catchup,

987
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: which means he's also gonna face a lot of defenses

988
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:31,399
Speaker 1: that are just gonna pin their ears back and come

989
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: right after him. So I don't think Herbert is going

990
00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 1: to have those concerns. So I would I would side

991
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:37,799
Speaker 1: with you. I think that he might be the guy

992
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: to have maybe the bigger season fantasy wise as a

993
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: rookie when it's all said and done. The other rookie

994
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:45,800
Speaker 1: quarterback that we're waiting on is to a tang of

995
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: Valoa in Miami. Ryan Fitzpatrick is playing really good football

996
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,200
Speaker 1: right now. Is it possible that we don't see TWA

997
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: at all? This year. I think so. Like Ryan Fitzpatrick

998
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: is balling out right now, the Dolphins defense is improving.

999
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: They looked like a team that really has gone from

1000
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: last year being kind of a team that we would

1001
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: all look to pick on in fantasy and didn't really

1002
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: expect much to ret least being a respectable team. And

1003
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: with the extra playoff spot this season, I think that

1004
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: they can remain in the race. Like I'm expecting them

1005
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,359
Speaker 1: to go out and win this week, that's another game

1006
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 1: that they're gonna can stay in the race and be

1007
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: competitive if we see two. I don't think it's still

1008
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 1: very late in the year when they fall out of it,

1009
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 1: because why right now would you mess with what you

1010
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 1: have going in and take fit see out. I agree,

1011
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: I think there may be a game where to what

1012
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:35,600
Speaker 1: comes in sort of in relief or what have you.

1013
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: Or maybe you're right if if the Dolphins have a

1014
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: collapse late in the season, we see to get on

1015
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: the field just to see what's happening. But everything's going well,

1016
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 1: and let's let's give Brian flors some credit, right, I

1017
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: mean when he took over this team, everybody thought they

1018
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: were in tank mode. It was gonna be awful, and

1019
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: you know they were they were gonna go winless for

1020
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: a season. They won five games last year, which is

1021
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: way more than anybody anticipated. And now this year they're

1022
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: coming out they're looking competitive. I mean, they went to

1023
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: Santa Clara and absolutely smacked to the forty niners last week.

1024
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: This is a good football team and they're playing good football.

1025
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 1: And right now, I don't think there is any real

1026
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,759
Speaker 1: motivation to change your quarterback situation. I mean, I know

1027
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: we would like to see two, and just out of

1028
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: the curiosity a factor of it. Oh, I will say,

1029
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: and I've said this before, for us in fantasy, let's

1030
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: keep rolling with Fitzpatrick because we sort of know what

1031
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: we have there. And I think that consistency is good.

1032
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: It's good for uh, for Davante Parker, it's good for

1033
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: Preston Williams, might seeking everybody in that passing game. So

1034
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 1: I'm totally down. I mean, did you ever imagine that

1035
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: we'd be in Week six and and having this conversation

1036
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 1: about not seeing two. It seems kind of far fetched.

1037
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: I thought that fitz he could play well for fantasy purposes.

1038
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,439
Speaker 1: I did not think that him and the Dolphins would

1039
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: be playing nearly as good football as they are. I

1040
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: will say this though, Dolphins fans, brace yourself a little bit.

1041
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,520
Speaker 1: We've seen this story before, especially in the A See East,

1042
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,960
Speaker 1: where Fitzpatrick has a great stretch, has a team competitive.

1043
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: We saw with the Bills and with the Jets, and

1044
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,520
Speaker 1: he's come up short both times, but enjoying it because

1045
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick is one of just the most fun quarterbacks in

1046
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: the league to watch. Absolutely. I think Mike Kaski said,

1047
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: you know, I love him. He's he's one of my

1048
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: favorite teammates ever, he said, I played with him for

1049
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: fifteen years. If I could, I mean, it's probably I

1050
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: gotta happen because fitz is certainly near the end of

1051
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: his career. But I think it speaks to we think

1052
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: how much how much his teammates enjoy playing with him,

1053
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: and he is he's absolutely a joy to watch. Go

1054
00:49:30,920 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: out there and play in the meantime. For us, that

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00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: is it. We are done. We appreciate you hanging out

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Speaker 1: with the NFL Fantasy Football Show presented by Draft Kings.

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