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Speaker 1: It's Thursday, December twenty first, twenty twenty three. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your man, MG,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Grant with my guy Michael f Florio. Today we

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Speaker 1: are previewing the rest of the Week sixteen slate and

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Speaker 1: we're giving you our fantasy heroes, but first serving up

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Speaker 1: some hot takes. What is your hot take for Week sixteen?

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Speaker 3: Week sixteen in so far right across there where I

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Speaker 3: will be the get right game for Stefan Diggs. I know,

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Speaker 3: since Joe Brady has taken over as OC, he is

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Speaker 3: averaging just ten fantasy points per game. Three of those

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Speaker 3: four games he has not even been a top fifty

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Speaker 3: wide receiver. I don't care. The Chargers are in the

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Speaker 3: top four in yards, touchdowns, and fantasy points allowed to

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Speaker 3: wide receivers. My logic last week with Davante Adams was

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Speaker 3: I could live with it if he gives me a

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Speaker 3: dud in a great matchup. I don't want to live

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Speaker 3: with myself if I sit him. That is exactly how

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Speaker 3: I feel about Stefan Diggs this week. And what is

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Speaker 3: a great matchup? And I think with this being a

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Speaker 3: game where the Bills will probably score a lot of points.

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Speaker 3: They know the chatter going on around Stefon Diggs right now.

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Speaker 3: I think they are going to make it an emphasis

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Speaker 3: to try to get him the ball.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely think they're going to try to get him

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Speaker 1: the ball. Side note, I think.

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Speaker 2: Gabe Davis is a sleeper this week.

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Speaker 1: I think I just think they find ways to get

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Speaker 1: him the ball. I know he's been like our Cardio

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Speaker 1: King of the Week like five times or whatever it

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Speaker 1: is on Fantasy Live. You can't be Cardio King of

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Speaker 1: the Week if you're not running a lot of routes.

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Speaker 1: I think this is the week gave Davis gets some

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Speaker 1: targets as well. My hot take, though that's not my

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Speaker 1: hot take. My hot take for the week is that

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and Tua Tongue of Iloa combined for seven

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes when they face off.

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Speaker 2: You know what, let's get him in spice.

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Speaker 1: This is make it eight, right, Let's just make it

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Speaker 1: even numbers, say eight touchdown passes between Dak and Tua.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be a really fun game between

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Speaker 1: two teams that have winning records. But the big knock

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Speaker 1: on both of them is that they struggle against good teams.

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Speaker 1: So we'll find out whether or not one of these

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Speaker 1: teams is actually good. I'm not really sure, but either way,

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Speaker 1: I do spect a lot of offense between the explosive

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Speaker 1: Dolphins and a cowboy defense, cowboy offense that has been

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Speaker 1: red hot. Forget what happened, you know, last week against

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Speaker 1: the Bills. This is still a very good cowboy offense.

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Speaker 1: So I think both these quarterbacks light it up this week.

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Speaker 1: Diving into the afternoon Sunday games, I guess late games

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Speaker 1: on Sunday if you're on the East Coast. But either way,

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Speaker 1: Jaguars are the Buccaneers matchup of to Florida teams. The Jags,

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Speaker 1: they've been off and on the Buccaneers right now they

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Speaker 1: are the four seed in the NFC. Baker Mayfield, though,

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Speaker 1: has been hot. Are there some quarterbacks? There are definitely

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks you would play over him. But who are some

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Speaker 1: guys that you might be streaming ahead of Baker Mayfield.

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Speaker 3: I would play Baker this week over Jordan Love. I

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Speaker 3: would play him over Russell Wilson, Gardner, Minshew Sam Howe,

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Speaker 3: him versus Kyler Murray. I would play him over Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 3: which might sound crazy to some I even Joe Flacco,

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Speaker 3: so all the streaming options. He is my favorite of

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Speaker 3: all of those guys, But some others, like like Russ,

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Speaker 3: like Kyler, like Love who you probably have been starting

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Speaker 3: some weeks. I think if Baker's out there, or if

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Speaker 3: you have him already, you can go and plug him in.

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Speaker 3: He brings a safe floor most weeks, and lately we've

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Speaker 3: been getting a high ceiling and the Jags secondary has

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Speaker 3: given up a whole bunch of production through the air.

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Speaker 1: All right, honest you this one though. Trevor Lawrence right now,

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Speaker 1: he's in concussion protocol. We'll see if he plays. But

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Speaker 1: if he does, go would you play Trevor? Would you

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Speaker 3: I would play Trevor, But I think if you have

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Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence, just get Baker Mayfield on your roster right

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Speaker 3: now if he's out there, because you don't have to wait.

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Speaker 3: They play in the same game, and then you could

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Speaker 3: take it down to the minute and decide on Trevor Lawrence.

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Speaker 1: I might play Baker over Trevor. Yeah, I don't go

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Speaker 1: back with the Bucks are a good matchup for quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the only thing. So maybe I would.

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Speaker 1: Play Trevor, but Baker right now is probably the top

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Speaker 1: streaming option for quarterbacks this week. Look, he's playing well,

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Speaker 1: right I know he was an easy punch line at

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Speaker 1: the start of the season, We're like, why would you

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Speaker 1: trust Baker Mayfield? But Baker has done some really good

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Speaker 1: things and I think if you're looking for a quarterback

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Speaker 1: to fill in, he's a guy you should really really target.

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Speaker 1: This week Cardinals at the Bears. I thought last week

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Speaker 1: you should get away from James Connor. I said you

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Speaker 1: should sit him, and he ended up having a pretty

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Speaker 1: good game. He's had one of the better running back

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Speaker 1: games against the forty nine Ers this year, another tough

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Speaker 1: matchup on paper, the Bears have been very good against

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Speaker 1: up last week's performance.

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Speaker 3: I think with the way that he's played the last

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Speaker 3: two games, you have to play him. And he had

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Speaker 3: the eighty six yards in the touchdown on the ground

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Speaker 3: against the Niners the game before that against the Steelers

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Speaker 3: one hundred and five and two. The issue is the Bears,

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Speaker 3: as good as they are against the run, struggle against

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Speaker 3: pass catching running backs, and for some reason, James Connor

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Speaker 3: can't get it going in the as this year. They

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Speaker 3: tried three targets to him last week. He caught all

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Speaker 3: three of them for three yards. So I'm hoping maybe

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Speaker 2: But I have.

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Speaker 3: Connor in a league, and my other options are like

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Speaker 3: Jalen Warren and deeper options. I'm playing James Connor over

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Speaker 1: I think I'm playing James Connor now. And I liked

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Speaker 1: him coming into the season. He got off to a

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Speaker 1: him being the workhorse again and volume certainly counts for something,

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Speaker 1: and he really has just been more explosive than I

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Speaker 1: think we anticipated him being this year, So I would

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Speaker 1: give him another shot. I know the matchup again, like

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Speaker 1: I said, not great on paper, but the way Connor

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Speaker 1: is playing, I think he's worth putting in your lineups.

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Speaker 1: This week Cowboys at the Dolphins. This one should be

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of fun. Four twenty five pm Eastern

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Speaker 1: on Fox. This one I imagine is going to be

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Speaker 1: on a lot of teav screens across the country. Who

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Speaker 1: are you not playing in this game?

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Speaker 3: You're playing Dak. I think you're playing to Tua just

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Speaker 3: showed us that he could go off in great matchups

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Speaker 3: even without Tyreek Hill. You're playing Hill if he plays

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Speaker 3: waddle your ceedee lamb. I think Jake Ferguson is in play.

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Speaker 3: I'll get away from the defenses, that's for sure. I've

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Speaker 3: been saying it for a while. The Cowboys defense is

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Speaker 3: they're bullies, man. They beat up on lesser offenses and

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Speaker 3: then when they play the higher on offenses, they struggle

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Speaker 3: to get five Fantasy points. The Dolphins defense have been

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Speaker 3: the best defense the last five weeks. I don't care.

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Speaker 3: Look at who they've played. This is by far their

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Speaker 3: hardest test. Maybe the fringe options like Brandon Cooks you

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Speaker 3: Ferguson and all your regular Cowboys, you're playing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean the guys I'm

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Speaker 1: not playing are like, you know, Michael Gallup and I

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Speaker 1: don't know whoever, they're durham smythe Yeah, get away from

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Speaker 1: you like that. Those are the guys I'm not playing,

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Speaker 1: but if they have been in your lineup throughout the year,

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Speaker 1: I'm not worried about the matchup at this point. I'm

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Speaker 1: believing in these two respective offenses, even you know, just

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Speaker 1: putting aside what happened to the Cowboys last week.

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Speaker 2: I put that aside.

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Speaker 1: I believe in what this offense has been since their

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Speaker 1: bye week, and I'm starting all those pieces.

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Speaker 2: I would start Brandon Cooks this week too.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna see a lot more targets because

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Speaker 1: I expect this game to be very back and forth. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: we got a holiday classic. It's gonna be the Patriots

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Speaker 1: at the Broncos. That is a game you can see

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Speaker 1: at eight fifteen pm Eastern on NFL Network. I know

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Speaker 1: that it's not maybe the sexiest matchup on paper. There

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Speaker 1: are some pieces though, that might be intriguing to fantasy managers.

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Speaker 1: Are you worried about any of the Broncos on that side?

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Speaker 1: On the other side, would you stream Hunter Henry?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I am worried about the Broncos. I know the

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Speaker 3: he'd be like, okay, we could pick on this Patriots defense.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, like I have Russell Wilson as a

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Speaker 3: matchups as of lee and he's still just being been

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Speaker 3: giving us safe floors fifteen sixteen fantasy points. But now

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Speaker 3: he gets the Patriots. Since Week ten, the only quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: to score over sixteen against them is Mitchell Trubisky. They

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Speaker 3: So I had Javonte Williams as a sit this week

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Speaker 3: as well as for Hunter Henry, I do think he's

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Speaker 3: in play as an extreming option because three touchdowns the

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Speaker 3: last two weeks clearly who they look for in the

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Speaker 3: red zone. And then Broncos, you saw what Sam laported

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Speaker 3: it to them. They just get torched by tight ends.

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Speaker 2: Le Broncos has been awful against tight ends all year long.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean Hunter Henry has been great.

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Speaker 1: There's a big asterisk there, right, I mean, when you

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Speaker 1: factor in the relative on goodness of the Patriots offense,

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Speaker 1: I'm not even sure if that's a Fraser sentence that

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Speaker 1: I just put together, but the fact that the Patriots

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Speaker 1: have not been very good, but Hunter Henry getting a

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Speaker 1: lot of opportunities. He's the guy getting the looks, especially

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Speaker 1: when they get down near the end zone. So that

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Speaker 1: combined with the matchup, I'm absolutely starting him. You know,

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Speaker 1: weird thing about Russ Wilson this year because he has

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Speaker 1: not played poorly, right, He's been a lot better than

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Speaker 1: he was last year. And there have been a few

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Speaker 1: times I've tried to make him a sleeper. It just

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Speaker 1: seems like, no matter what the situation, Russ is just

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Speaker 1: kind of hanging out around fifteen to seventeen points.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all year.

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Speaker 1: He lives in a tiny house, right, Like the floor

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Speaker 1: and ceiling are really close together for Russell Wilson, which

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Speaker 1: isn't necessarily great. So I don't think I start him,

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Speaker 1: and maybe I start Courtland Sutton And that's kind of it.

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Speaker 3: And if you're giving me fifteen sixteen points in the

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Speaker 3: game against the like the lines where you gave up

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Speaker 3: five touchdowns and have to throw it could be like

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Speaker 3: a slow pace, like rock fight kind of game between

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Speaker 3: the Broncos and the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it's going to be esthetically pleasing,

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Speaker 1: but it should be worth checking out though, because again

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Speaker 1: there's some fantasy players of note in that game. Gonna

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Speaker 1: step away for a quick break. Stick around for more

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Speaker 1: of the NFL Fantasy Football Show. Over to Monday, it

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Speaker 1: is a Christmas Day tripleheader in the league, starting with

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Speaker 1: the Raiders and the Chiefs. That's at one pm Eastern

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Speaker 3: I still think you have to start Davante Adams. The

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Speaker 1: I just think getting through that gauntlet is going to

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Speaker 3: They need wins, so they keep that foot on the gas. Hopefully,

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Speaker 1: Night Football. It is the Ravens at the forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 1: Both these defenses are very good. Both these offenses are

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Speaker 3: I look, you play Lamar Jackson, nless you have another

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Speaker 3: not allowed double digit Fantasy points to a single defense

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Speaker 2: Look, I'm starting all my forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: You know that goes sort of without saying, so Kittle, Deebo, Iyuk, CMC, Purdy,

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Speaker 1: I think the Ravens keep this close enough that the

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Speaker 1: Edwards in this one, would you start? Would you start

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson or Brock Purty?

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Speaker 3: I was just gonna say we were playing the Baker

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Speaker 3: So my thing with Purty is like, I know the

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Speaker 1: There's just so many places to go with the football.

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Speaker 1: You can't can't defend them all.

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Speaker 3: As someone who's facing Deebo and I think three leagues

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Speaker 3: this week, Please Ravens focusing on him over slot out

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Speaker 1: Whatever, We'll see how that works, but I should be

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Speaker 3: We've spoke about him a lot this week this show,

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Speaker 3: I think Arthur Smith realized, Hey, I kind of hurt

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Speaker 3: using Bijon more. And the thing is, the Colts are

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Speaker 2: I would love it.

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Speaker 1: I would love to see it, and hopefully, yeah, hopefully

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Speaker 2: They have a ton of good matchups.

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Speaker 1: This was one of them before we even knew that

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Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke was going to take over as the starting quarterback.

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Speaker 3: For me, it's a very few teams like the Lions, Bills,

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