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Speaker 1: Everybody. Chris Harry with you on a new episode of

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Speaker 1: Chargers Weekly. Coming up, Matt Harman of Yahoo Sports joins

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Speaker 1: me for some fantasy football talk. We're gonna dive deep

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Speaker 1: into the fantasy value of several Chargers players and what

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Speaker 1: to expect from Mike Williams in year three. But first

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Speaker 1: ESPN's Eric Williams shares his offseason observations. We'll also discuss

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Speaker 1: some of the top storylines entering training camp. All right now,

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Speaker 1: joined by ESPN's Eric Williams as the NFL winds down

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Speaker 1: for a bit before training camp gets started here at

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Speaker 1: the end of July. Eric just saw you last week

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Speaker 1: at mini camp. How are you, man, I'm doing good.

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Speaker 1: You know, I thought the offseason was good for the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Andy Tak got a lot of work done quietly, and

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Speaker 1: so I think, you know, past Land is probably happy

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Speaker 1: to get the guys a little bit of a breakoff,

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Speaker 1: although he's concerned about them, you know, get out of

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Speaker 1: shape a little bit, but it's good for the players,

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Speaker 1: get rests, get away for a little bit because it's

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Speaker 1: a grind. Wants to get back here in late July.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to start with this because you've covered the

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Speaker 1: team this I think this is gonna be your seventh season.

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Speaker 1: What did you notice during off season workouts that may

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Speaker 1: have been different from past off seasons. It seemed like

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Speaker 1: and the refs. I think, you know, younger guys are

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Speaker 1: some of these teams, Eric, I look at Green Bay

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Speaker 1: those dynamics Flacco and new coaches in Denver. It's nice

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Speaker 1: they know what they have to do coming into offseason workouts,

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Speaker 1: and it's just an opportunity. I think it's a further

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Speaker 1: bill chemistry and maybe even tweaks some things going into

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Speaker 1: And again it gets back to just you know, chemistry

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Speaker 1: I think the things that I'm going to be looking

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Speaker 1: And then just bringing in Hunter Henry to this offense

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Speaker 1: Tyroll made a lot of big plays in critical moments

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Speaker 1: lot easier. All right. On defense, Eric, I see a bolstered,

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Speaker 1: slash camp to preregister today. All right, We've done this

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Speaker 1: during the slower months of the off season before, and

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Speaker 1: I always say it, it's never too early to get

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Speaker 1: a head start on fantasy football. Now, joining me Matt

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Speaker 1: Harmon of Yahoo Sports. He's on the line. He's the

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Speaker 1: creator of reception perception, and he does awesome work for Yaho. Matt.

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Speaker 1: What's up, buddy, Chris. It's so good to be talking

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Speaker 1: to you. You know, we were stopping up a little

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Speaker 1: bit before we started rolling here, and it's really kind

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Speaker 1: of at one good time of the NFL calendar. We're

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Speaker 1: almost almost you know, almost nothing happened. The league always

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Speaker 1: finds a way to make sure that we talk about

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Speaker 1: it at all time. Yeah, which is beautiful. We love it.

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Speaker 1: You know, it keeps it keeps food on the table,

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Speaker 1: so to speak. So I'm enjoying a little bit of

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Speaker 1: break here, but there's always something to discuss, and you know,

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Speaker 1: especially with wide receivers and fantasy and everything coming up,

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Speaker 1: I still have so many pakes burning that I'm ready

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Speaker 1: to get off Art Harmon. For the purposes of today,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to go through the fantasy football chargers and

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Speaker 1: where and when to draft some of these guys. And

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Speaker 1: we'll start at the quarterback position. Philip Rivers. This is

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Speaker 1: a guy who seems to be drafted late and he

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Speaker 1: always delivers around top ten fantasy numbers. What do you

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Speaker 1: see from Philip Rivers in year sixteen. Yeah, Rivers is

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Speaker 1: like the perfect example of why you just kind of

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Speaker 1: have to draft your quarterbacks late at this point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's so easy to get caught up in I mean obviously,

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Speaker 1: like who doesn't want to get excited about Patrick Hollams.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's going in like the third round right

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Speaker 1: now in most casual drafts, and I get it right,

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Speaker 1: and you there's even some real tremendous quarterback value. You know,

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Speaker 1: I was in an analyst draft a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: ago and got Aaron Rodgers very very late. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's just one of those things where you can almost

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Speaker 1: always outweigh your opponent, and the guy like Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: is such a perfect example of this because Rivers is

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Speaker 1: not necessarily going to give you top five feeling every

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Speaker 1: single week, but in shootout potential games, you know, especially

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Speaker 1: with team like the Chiefs and the division that's going

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Speaker 1: to happen. You know, those ceiling weeks are available. It's

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Speaker 1: not going to be a weekly thing. But you know,

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Speaker 1: he's a guy that you can always plug into your

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Speaker 1: starting lineup as a streamer. You know, he might be

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Speaker 1: your number two quarterback if you'd like to do those

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Speaker 1: type of league, like a super flex or a two

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Speaker 1: QB type of situation, and you have just so much

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Speaker 1: security there. You know, personally, watching Philipers, I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's lost anything. I think he's still right up there

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Speaker 1: among you know, one of the few difference making quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. And you know, this offense right now

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Speaker 1: is still stacked with a lot of good players around him. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, I do think that the Chargers are a

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Speaker 1: little bit more of a run leaning team than most

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Speaker 1: NFL teams right now here in twenty nineteen. But at

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Speaker 1: the same time, Rivers is just bankable production every year

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Speaker 1: and you can always get him at a value, which, again,

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Speaker 1: it just goes back to the point if you're drafting

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Speaker 1: in a start one quarterback league, it just doesn't make

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Speaker 1: much sense to spend high equity on a quarterback when

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Speaker 1: they do have just so many replaceable options out there.

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Speaker 1: And the thing about Philip too, harm it is that

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Speaker 1: his running backs they catch the football right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon is one of the best dual threat running

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Speaker 1: backs in the league. Give Austin Eckler, even guys like

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Speaker 1: Justin Jackson and Detrez Knewsom if necessary, they could put

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Speaker 1: up numbers into backfield. But I just look at Keenan

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Speaker 1: Allen and Mike Williams and the return of Hunter Henry.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be weeks where Philip puts up big time numbers.

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Speaker 1: And to your point, it may be best to draft

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Speaker 1: him late, draft another quarterback with starting caliber quality late

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Speaker 1: as well, and just really play the matchups during the

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Speaker 1: season exactly right. And there's just so many guys that

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Speaker 1: you could do that with. I mean, you can easily

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Speaker 1: pair you know, a Philip Rivers with you know, and

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Speaker 1: that one's super inspired by Andy Dalton at this point.

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Speaker 1: But Dalton, right now, we've seen that when he is

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Speaker 1: paired with good surrounding talent and a good coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: that he can be a good fantasy quarterback even if

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Speaker 1: he's not a great NFL. I don't think anybody's gonna

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Speaker 1: argue that he's a great NFL quarterback at this point.

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Speaker 1: You could put to and a guy like Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: with a guy like Josh Allen, who you know, goes

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Speaker 1: off the board after the top fifteen quarterbacks but was

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Speaker 1: the number one fantasy quarterback to fit the last half

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Speaker 1: of the year, the last month of the season last year.

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Speaker 1: How about that's great running, which is wild? Right? Like

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Speaker 1: that just again goes to show you the potential of

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Speaker 1: these guys, especially the guys who run, which Rivers is

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Speaker 1: of course not one of them, but these guys that

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Speaker 1: can run a little bit that you can get late.

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Speaker 1: You can get access to a ceiling that way in

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Speaker 1: a week where you're not gonna want to play Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen against a good defense or something like that, because

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Speaker 1: you could easily got their chuck three picks and not

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Speaker 1: throw a touchdown. Then you go and throw Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: in there for that bank about production. So it does

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Speaker 1: get you a lot of opportunities for a good platoon

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Speaker 1: situation there. Yeah, you look at the preseason rankings QB thirteen,

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Speaker 1: QB fifteen, QB eighteen. So Philip can be had in

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Speaker 1: later rounds and there's gonna be certain weeks where he

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Speaker 1: more than makes up for being drafted as late as

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Speaker 1: he is being drafted. So Melvin Gordon seems to be

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Speaker 1: the first round lock for the are just top five pick,

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Speaker 1: top seven pick. A few players were as good as

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Speaker 1: him to start the year, Harmony. I think he had

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Speaker 1: at least twenty two fantasy points in five of his

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Speaker 1: first six games. That knee injury kind of derailed the

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Speaker 1: second half of his season. But when this guy's healthy,

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Speaker 1: he's as good as anybody, oh no doubt. And like,

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Speaker 1: this is the crazy part about running back this year.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, the last few seasons, we've looked

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Speaker 1: at it as though, you know, it's kind of the

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Speaker 1: position is getting a little weaker. You know, it's a

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Speaker 1: very risky to draft these guys high. And he's still there,

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Speaker 1: by the way, you know that that's all still real.

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Speaker 1: These guys can get hurt. I mean, belvit. Gordon is

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Speaker 1: kind of an example of that. You know, injuries have

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Speaker 1: slowed him down, you know, multiple times in his career,

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Speaker 1: not just the end of last season. So that's something

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Speaker 1: that you have to worry about with Gordon. But he

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Speaker 1: is part of a top group of running backs right

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Speaker 1: now that it's really hard to pass out in this

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Speaker 1: second tier. I think the first four picks are locked

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Speaker 1: for everybody. You know, it's Ezekiel Elliott, it's Saclon Barkley,

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Speaker 1: it's Alvin Kamara, it's Jim McCaffrey. You can throw those

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Speaker 1: guys on almost any order that you want, and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna be okay with it. Who's your number one? I

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Speaker 1: think it's Alvin Kamara, Chris, I think it's Alvin Kamara

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Speaker 1: because I think that number one he's such a special

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Speaker 1: player that I think he has kind of a Bonker's

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Speaker 1: season in his range of outcomes at some point. And

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Speaker 1: like that's totally heuristic. It's it's not like I didn't

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Speaker 1: just give you any hard data when I said that,

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Speaker 1: But when you're passing between these top four picks, that's

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Speaker 1: kind of what you have to do. You have to

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Speaker 1: throw in a little bit of narrative, a little bit

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Speaker 1: of storytelling here. And you know, also if you look

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Speaker 1: at Alvin Kamara, of course mark Ingram is gone. I

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Speaker 1: think that's a big loss for the Saints. In Latavious

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Speaker 1: Murray's a fine back, but he's a downgrade from mark Ingram.

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Speaker 1: So I look at I look at that you know,

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Speaker 1: backfield totally in control of Alvin Kamara. If you look

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Speaker 1: at just the rest of the Saints offense, there's not

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Speaker 1: a ton of great options behind Michael Thomas in the

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Speaker 1: wide receiver group, at least no one that's really proven.

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Speaker 1: You know, they bring in Jared Cook as a tight end,

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Speaker 1: but I think Kamara has you know, a hundred catches

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Speaker 1: in his range of outcomes and still like another thirteen

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Speaker 1: hundred rushing yards on top of that. You know, I

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Speaker 1: think he has the potential to just go absolutely wild,

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Speaker 1: especially as the offense transitions more to a small ball offense,

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Speaker 1: which we saw late last year with Drew Brees. So

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Speaker 1: he's my number one because I think it's it's a

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Speaker 1: ceiling play among all of these guys, Harmon. Does Austin

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Speaker 1: Eckler have value in later rounds? I believe he does.

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Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be certain weeks where he puts

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Speaker 1: up starting quality numbers. You may not know what the

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Speaker 1: matchup is going to dictate, but Austin has certainly proved it.

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Speaker 1: You know, he can catch the ball at the backfield

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Speaker 1: and he's good for a splash play or two during

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Speaker 1: the course of the season. Yeah, I think that was

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Speaker 1: You mentioned it earlier that with both of these running backs,

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Speaker 1: they're involved in the passing game and that's huge for fantasy.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Eckler, to his credit, his average just

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Speaker 1: a ten point three yards per catch and ten point

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Speaker 1: forty yards per catch each of the last two seasons,

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Speaker 1: so he's a stable receiver. I think he's a steady

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Speaker 1: presence in that offense and I don't I don't see

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Speaker 1: him go anywhere. Also, his guards per Terry too was

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Speaker 1: also very stable. And you know, these are metrics that

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Speaker 1: will fluctuate year to year. So maybe this is a

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Speaker 1: year where we see him come back down to earth

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But I think the involvement is still

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Speaker 1: going to be there, you know, and as you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: you're not only gonna be able to predict the weeks

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Speaker 1: for Austin Eckler. I mean it will certainly because going

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Speaker 1: to be involved in a shoot out type games that

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Speaker 1: maybe you know as a hail Mary flex type of play.

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Speaker 1: You throw him out there. But the real value I

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Speaker 1: think for him is, of course, if Gordon goes down again,

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Speaker 1: I think he's going to see a pump an opportunity

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Speaker 1: necessarily think that he can be a feature back like Gordon,

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Speaker 1: but he'll certainly be the leading contender to lead the

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Speaker 1: team and touches at any time Gordon's not playing. And

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Speaker 1: really where I think you like Austin Eckler is in

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Speaker 1: a best ball situation which is coming to Yahoo in

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Speaker 1: the next month or so, we're gonna be launching our

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Speaker 1: best Ball products, which if your listeners are not familiar

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Speaker 1: with bestball, a few other sites have done it before,

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Speaker 1: kind of they're one of the first big major websites

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Speaker 1: to go out there and do a best ball him.

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Speaker 1: It's where you don't pick your starting lineup every week.

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Speaker 1: This raft the team at the beginning of the season

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Speaker 1: and leave it alone, and then you're top scoring lineup

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Speaker 1: every week is the one that gets submitted. Whoever has

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Speaker 1: the most points at the end of the year win.

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Speaker 1: So it's very different, much more low maintenance type of fantasy,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's where you really like Austin Neckler

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Speaker 1: because you don't have to try to guess those weeks

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Speaker 1: that he's gonna pop. But they're going to get credit

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Speaker 1: for them one way or another. All right. Before we

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Speaker 1: move to the receivers, I want you to explain reception perception.

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Speaker 1: You're the creator of it. It's an awesome tool to

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Speaker 1: kind of gauge what these receivers have done in the past.

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Speaker 1: Explained reception perception Harmon. Yes, Reception perception is my baby.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned, I developed it, really unleashed it about

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Speaker 1: five years ago now spent many months trying to perspect

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Speaker 1: the process beforehand. So what I like, I building over

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Speaker 1: an eight team sample for NFL players. I charged every

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Speaker 1: single route that they run in that eightheame sample. How

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Speaker 1: often they run each particular route, how open, how often

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Speaker 1: they get open on each particular route, what type of

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Speaker 1: coverages do they get open against? Most man zone press,

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00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: and really just anything you want to know about a

646
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: wide receiver reception. Receptive is going to try to tell

647
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,959
Speaker 1: you that it's really a tool where not only can

648
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: you see you know, for example, you know a player

649
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: like Tyler Locket is a good example, and that hey,

650
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: if this guy is healthy and he gets the opportunity

651
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: which we saw this past year, he's going to be

652
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: very good because he can run routes like a pro.

653
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: You know, he can get open, he can separate versus

654
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: a variety of coverages. So you can kind of use

655
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: it to identify who's gonna be good before they're good,

656
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: or you can use it as a way to just

657
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: really understand players and where their strengths are. You know,

658
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,040
Speaker 1: there are certain guys who aren't great in the separation metrics,

659
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: but then they are good at separating verse zone coverage

660
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: or recycling through underneath defenses, or they're good at the

661
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: contested catch game. So it's really, in my opinion, it's

662
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: a lay to understand and categorize a position that, within

663
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: itself is so unique. You know, a wide receiver is

664
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:55,959
Speaker 1: not a wide receiver is not a wide receiver. I mean,

665
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: you can even look at the Chargers. Guys Keenan Allen

666
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,719
Speaker 1: and Mike Williams play the game very very differently, and

667
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 1: I think reception perception helps us understand that. Yeah, and

668
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: they compliment each other nicely. And we'll start with Keenan Allen.

669
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:12,240
Speaker 1: The last two seasons have looked very similar. He's played

670
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: in all sixteen regular season games. He's come on late.

671
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: You may want to see the touchdown production up a

672
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: little bit, but in terms of PPR, Keenan Allen's your guy. Yeah,

673
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: I'm Keenan Allen is such a stunt man, and reception

674
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: perception has been in on that from kind of the

675
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: jump of that two thousand and fifteen season where he's

676
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: cleared the ninety third percentile in successfulate verse man coverage.

677
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: He's and actually every single season that I've looked at him,

678
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: whether it was two thousand and fifteen. Of course, the

679
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: injury was in two thousand and sixteen, so I didn't

680
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: chart that sample, But two thousand eventy and two thousand

681
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 1: and eighteen he's consistently cleared that ninety third percentile over

682
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: players charted the last five years in successfulate verset man coverage. So, really,

683
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, if you want to talk ab getting open,

684
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: separating on the inside, separating on the outside, separating in

685
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,719
Speaker 1: the vertical game, the intermediate game, of the short game.

686
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: No matter what you throw at him, Keenan Allen is

687
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 1: one of the best and running around in the NFL.

688
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: You know, clearly releasing from the line of scrim as

689
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,080
Speaker 1: anything you wanted to do. I mean, he is just

690
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 1: an unbelievable player in this regard. I mean he's one

691
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: of the guys that's certainly in reception perception over the

692
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 1: last five years, sets the standard for route running, separation

693
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: and good technique at the position. Matt, would you be

694
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 1: comfortable with Keenan Allen as your wide receiver one in

695
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. This is the beautiful part about the wide

696
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: receiver position this year, because I was talking about that

697
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: second tier of running backs with your velvet goings, your

698
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 1: David Johnson's, your Leveon bells. That it's creating a lot

699
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,359
Speaker 1: of value at the wide receiver position right now. Keenan

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00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: Allen kind of goes around the tail end of that

701
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: wide receiver one range. But it's highly possible, Chris, you know,

702
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: if you want to just the best way to if

703
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: you get a top four pick this year, you can

704
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: take one of those tier one running back and then

705
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: you come back on that two three turn and you're

706
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,440
Speaker 1: able to stack. You know, you forego running back at

707
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:10,760
Speaker 1: that pick and then you're able to stack and AJ

708
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: Green and a Keenan Allen or you know, step digs

709
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: and a Keenan Allen like that is a very possible

710
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: collection of your top two receivers. And that's gonna be

711
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: tough to beat man, especially if you have one of

712
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: those stud running backs like an Alvin Kamara, Christian McCaffrey, whatever.

713
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: So him going around that range in the same vein

714
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: of guys like Adam Deal and AJ Green, that's just

715
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: a lot of value at the wide receiver position this year.

716
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:39,959
Speaker 1: All Right, Harmon, I have to ask you this because

717
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm missing something with Mike Williams.

718
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 1: This year, he had eleven total touchdowns. I think it

719
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: was fourth in the league among wide receivers. Tyrolle Williams

720
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: is now in Oakland, yet I see Mike Williams as

721
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: wide receiver thirty wide receiver twenty seven. What am I

722
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 1: missing here? Because I see more opportunity for Mike Williams.

723
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 1: I see him playing across from Keenan Allen, a big

724
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: guy who is a touchdown magnet and is probably going

725
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,120
Speaker 1: to get more targets in twenty nineteen. Yeah, these are

726
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: always the instant to boots in fantasy, and it kind

727
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: of you have to. This is another situation where you

728
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 1: have to use your imagination a little bit right because

729
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,439
Speaker 1: there's of course almost no way that that he will

730
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: maintain the touchdown per target rate that we saw last year.

731
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: You know, ten touchdowns on sixty six targets is pretty unsustainable. However,

732
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: then you have to ask yourself, is Mike Williams good

733
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: enough to earn a volume bump? You know, I don't

734
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: think there's I don't think there's any way that he

735
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: sees sixty six targets this year. Every guy would take

736
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: the over no matter what. You just have to ask

737
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:48,239
Speaker 1: yourself how many more opportunities can get And I think

738
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry coming back is another big X factor to

739
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: discuss here, especially in the red zone in scoring chances.

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00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 1: I think those guys could dig into each other a

741
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: little bit. But Mike Williams in terms of the type

742
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: of player he is and whether he is good enough

743
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: to command that volume bump, I came away really impressed

744
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: with Mike Williams. You know, more than I one than

745
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: I thought he would, one than I thought I would.

746
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: And look, he's not He's not like Keenan Allen when

747
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,879
Speaker 1: it comes to earning separation. You know, he's a guy

748
00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: that finished below the thirtieth percentile success rate verse man

749
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: and press coverages past year. You know, he's not going

750
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 1: to win a lot of one on one separation battles

751
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 1: with the cornerback. But he has a clear dominant trait.

752
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: You know, he saw a contested catch attempt on a

753
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: third of his sample targets and reception perception and maintain

754
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: an outrageously high eighty four point six percent conversion rate.

755
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: You know, that's top twenty type numbers in that metric

756
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: over the last five years. That's just we know that

757
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,240
Speaker 1: is his dominant trait, and not to mention, he's also

758
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: if he's going to get separation, it's gonna be on

759
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: those vertical post routes. It's a nine route, you know,

760
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,439
Speaker 1: because he is a long strider and he can beat

761
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: defenders in that way. So I think he has enough

762
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,240
Speaker 1: clearly defined strengths to become not just a bit player,

763
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: but a feature player in this Chargers offense. I think,

764
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: you know, at that point, if he's going to be

765
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: a wide receiver three for your fantasy team, you know,

766
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: then I think that's very good value, especially again in

767
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 1: a situation where you can get two secure guys like

768
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: an Aj Green I mean j greenhands and Drews. But

769
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:22,399
Speaker 1: just hypothetically, if he's gonna play all sixteen games, him

770
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: came now and Stefan dig Adam dealing. These guys keep

771
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: stacked early and then you come back a couple rounds

772
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:29,720
Speaker 1: later and you get a guy with a high weekly

773
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: feeling like Mike Williams. I think again, that's gonna make

774
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: this seem pretty tough to be. Yeah. I was just

775
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: talking to Eric Williams from ESPN about this too. The

776
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: Travis Benjamin is healthy now and he didn't play a

777
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: lot in twenty eighteen, just his speed alone, and Travis

778
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: talked about this during offseason workouts. His speed opens up

779
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: the field for guys like Mike Williams, for guys like

780
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry. And it's a nice segue into Hunter because

781
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:59,320
Speaker 1: tight end is an absolute crapshoot. There's guys like Kittle

782
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: and else and Earth's at the top. But Hunter, I mean,

783
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: this is a probably a top five, the top seven

784
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: eight tight end even though he didn't play last year. Yeah,

785
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,360
Speaker 1: I think you have to look at Hunter Henry is

786
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: one of the healing after the top three guys and

787
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, top three guys locked in Travis Kelsey, yes, Jackers, yes,

788
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: George Kittle yes. After that though, it gets very murky,

789
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 1: and then you have to start to defend between like

790
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: and OJ Howard, you know, or a Hunter Henry. Do

791
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 1: you think Evan Ingram takes a step forward in the

792
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: Giants offense? But I definitely look at those tier two guys,

793
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: you know, Oj Howard and Hunter Henry as my favorite there.

794
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,919
Speaker 1: I'm not really in on Eric Ebron when he goes

795
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,280
Speaker 1: in the sixty seventh round. I think people are banking

796
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 1: too much on the opportunity that might be changing this

797
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:55,959
Speaker 1: coming season. But for Hunter Henry, it's hard to find

798
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: that he negatives at this point. You know, he should

799
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: be long since recovered from the injury that took him

800
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: out last year. I think he should be ready to go.

801
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: I think he should be at this point. You know,

802
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 1: maybe who's even more of a future part than than

803
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: Mike Williams in this offense, because that's just how good

804
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: of a player I think it can be. So if

805
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,319
Speaker 1: you want to pay up for a tight end in

806
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: that second tier, Hunter Henry probably right up there with O. J.

807
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: Howard in terms of my favorite options. Again, the sample

808
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: size is small, but his rookie year, I mean, he

809
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: had eight touchdowns. Philip Rivers found that that instant connection

810
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: with Hunter and to have on Mike Williams and Hunter

811
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: Henry on the field at the same time, we haven't

812
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: seen it before, so I think it is worth discussing,

813
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: like who's going to get the Lion's sheriff targets in

814
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: the red zone, Who's going to be in the end

815
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: zone more than the other? That's TBD, but you know,

816
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,479
Speaker 1: I think that also boes well for Philip Rivers. Certain

817
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: weeks because you know that he's got reliable targets on

818
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: the outside. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean it does kind of

819
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: at this point all intersect back to Philip Rivers and

820
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: you know you're right to bring up Travis Benjmin too,

821
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 1: because I think his offense is really good. But at

822
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: the same time, you know it's a little bit top

823
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 1: heavy with Keenan Allen to MIKEA. Williams, Hunter, Henry Melvin

824
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: Gordon as a skill position players, those guys obviously are

825
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: all very good, but I'm interested in those some of

826
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: those ancillary pieces, like who steps up as the number

827
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 1: three receivers, the number four receiver? M is it Austin

828
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: Ekeler just being a key part every single week. So

829
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 1: Charges offens very fascinating. A lot of guys to have

830
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: good debates about it in fantasy. All right, we can

831
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: bloss over kicker special teams, but I'll tell you what

832
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: Chargers have themselves. A kicker. Michael Badgeley. He was money

833
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: last year when he consistently got in the lineup, and

834
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: we just talked about all the scoring opportunities. You know,

835
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,799
Speaker 1: Badge could be a guy that you scoop up in

836
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: the last round of your draft. Yeah, I mean, good

837
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: good luck if you with the kickers situation. Kicks kickers

838
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: in advantasy not my forte. I'm not going to pretend

839
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: to tell you like I like, I know all the

840
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,920
Speaker 1: kicking algorithms that that I've produce everything, But you know,

841
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: it is a situation. Put a lot of time and

842
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: effort into your kicker research. It can be a difference

843
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: maker if you play on a daily fantasy platform that

844
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,040
Speaker 1: makes you use a kicker, or if you your league

845
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 1: is still using kickers, Like, don't totally bloss over the

846
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 1: position and just go with the guy who's name. You know,

847
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 1: Chris is like to bring up a guy like Badly.

848
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 1: People probably don't know about, but you know it is

849
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: in a good offense, and that's really what you're looking for.

850
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: It is the offense gonna be good. Are the scoring

851
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: opportunities to be there? That's what you're gonna want to chase.

852
00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: And I think we both agree that if the Chargers

853
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: are that team. And finally again defense, you kind of

854
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,919
Speaker 1: putting that same category. You're looking for sacks, you're looking

855
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: for interceptions, and you're looking for opportunities for touchdowns. And

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Speaker 1: when I see Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram. When I

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Speaker 1: see Desmond King as a punt returner and what he

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Speaker 1: can do in the secondary opportunist to guys like Derwin

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Speaker 1: James and Casey Hayward. You have the opportunity for sacks, interceptions,

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Speaker 1: and touchdowns. Yeah, and defense definitely matters, and that's like,

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Speaker 1: that could be a big difference makers, especially the guy

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Speaker 1: if you're playing daily fantasy down a place like Yahoo, like,

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Speaker 1: you're not taking down a big tournament if your defense

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Speaker 1: doesn't hit you know, six seven points, like a solid

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Speaker 1: outing and annouting that you're not going to hate from

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Speaker 1: your defense in a regular season long league. That's not

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Speaker 1: what you're looking for when you're playing like a daily

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Speaker 1: fantasy platform. You want to take down a big tournament.

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Speaker 1: You want one of those weeks. Where As you mentioned sacks, interceptions, tournams,

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Speaker 1: a potential defensive touchdown, and the Chargers are certainly one

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Speaker 1: of those units along along with the forty nine ers

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Speaker 1: lad as well too. I mentioned them like if you

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Speaker 1: see a good ascending group of pass rushers, which look

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Speaker 1: I mean Joey Bosa and Melvin Ingram obviously fit. Also

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Speaker 1: the rookie they drafted this year I think could be

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Speaker 1: huge too, because they don't they did where they have

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Speaker 1: those two great exterior rushers. Now they have a potential

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Speaker 1: guy up the middle, you know, and I think that

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Speaker 1: can just increase the disruption. And then you see that

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Speaker 1: they have good pieces in the secondary. I mean Derwin James.

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Speaker 1: They just drafted a good running mate for him this year.

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Speaker 1: They have good cornerbacks obviously. I think that this Chargers

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Speaker 1: defense certainly can be one of those that, hey, when

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Speaker 1: they're going to get a big lead on a bad

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Speaker 1: team this year, which again we like the offense, that

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Speaker 1: should happen, you're gonna want to play them that week

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Speaker 1: in daily fantasy because there will be options as they're

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Speaker 1: playing from ahead for Bosa, Ingram the antillary to just

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Speaker 1: pin their ears back and go after sacks and force

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks into into mistakes. So I could see the Chargers

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Speaker 1: being one of those defenses on a you know, so

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Speaker 1: every so week. You know, basis that they're a team

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Speaker 1: that is very high up there in terms of the

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Speaker 1: weekly defensive ranking, no doubt. Matt harmon Yahoo's Sports met

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Speaker 1: I know we're kind of entering this this dead time

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Speaker 1: of the NFL, But what do you have going on

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Speaker 1: over the next five weeks and actually going into training

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Speaker 1: camp in the preseason dead fans can check out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm headed towards a big vacation, but it still

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Speaker 1: feels like a lot is going on in terms of

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Speaker 1: my workload, which is I don't think that's how it's

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Speaker 1: supposed to feel. I don't know if I know how

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Speaker 1: to vacation right, but nobody does. Nobody does, Matt, not

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Speaker 1: in our business. Not in our business. You know, there's

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Speaker 1: there's never an off day. There's never a day where

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Speaker 1: you could truly turn it off. But I think that

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Speaker 1: right now, Like, if you guys are interested in some

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Speaker 1: of the reception perception content that I mentioned, I have

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00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: already charted out to top fifty receivers for this year.

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Speaker 1: They're all available in the Fantasy Footballer's Ultimate Draft Kit.

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Speaker 1: So while you get great you know, tears and rankings

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Speaker 1: and everything like that for your fantasy leagues from the

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Speaker 1: Ultimate Draft Kit, you also get all this route running

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Speaker 1: information that I mentioned about Key and Al and Mike

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Speaker 1: Williams will be able to check out their profiles, their

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Speaker 1: route charts, all this data on those guys, and you know,

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Speaker 1: if you just go to Reception Perception dot com. There's

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Speaker 1: a link to buy the Ultimate Draft Kit through there.

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Speaker 1: I promise you you will you will find it worth

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Speaker 1: your while. Also doing a podcast year through profiling some

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Speaker 1: of the top rookies heading into this year called Rookie Orientation,

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Speaker 1: where you can subscribe it. Another thing that I promise

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Speaker 1: is very different from all the other podcasts you here

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Speaker 1: out there. Check it out wherever you get your podcast.

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Speaker 1: Awesome stuff, dude, I promise our listeners will get you

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Speaker 1: on before the start of the regular season. Talk a

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Speaker 1: little fantasy football. I always appreciate your time, buddy. Hey, brother,

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Speaker 1: like I said, never off, so you know how to

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Speaker 1: find men? All right, that's gonna do it. My thanks

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Speaker 1: to Matt Harmon and Eric Williams for joining me, and

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Speaker 1: of course thanks to you all for listening now. I

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Speaker 1: know it's the slow time of the year, but we're

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Speaker 1: gonna keep this podcast going throughout the majority of the summer.

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Speaker 1: If you like what you here, we'd love it if

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Speaker 1: you left us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Please help spread the word. Have a great week, and

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Speaker 1: until next time, I'm Chris Hayry.