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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Monday, September eleventh, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me and

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Speaker 1: your man, MG Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Florio

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Speaker 1: and Florio. Now that we've got a full Sunday under

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Speaker 1: our belts and we are off to Monday, what are

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Speaker 1: you more concerned about? Is it those fantasy teams that

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Speaker 1: maybe didn't live up to expectations, or is it this

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Speaker 1: Bill's Jets game?

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Speaker 2: Bill's Jets game? Easily?

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Speaker 3: Look, there's a whole there's sixteen more weeks tot worry

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Speaker 3: about fantasy wins and losses.

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Speaker 2: Right now. Week one, I'm just trying to enjoy that

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Speaker 2: football is back.

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Speaker 1: We are happy that football is back. We had a

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Speaker 1: game on Thursday night, and we had a slew of

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Speaker 1: games on Sunday. We'll talk about those and kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, trying to dissect what happened over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Lots of things to come on this show. We are

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Speaker 1: having things not to overreact to. From week one. We

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Speaker 1: got some top performers, the biggest disappointments, and we'll play

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Speaker 1: a little bit of real or after what we saw

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Speaker 1: in this first Sunday of the season. But let's get

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Speaker 1: started with some fantasy headlines and a really unfortunate one

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Speaker 1: to begin the day. Ravens running back JK Dobbins suffered

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Speaker 1: a torn achilles in Baltimore's win over the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: The team feared that it was a torn achilles. It

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Speaker 1: has been confirmed via an MRI on Monday morning, so

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Speaker 1: it would appear that JK dobbins season is done, although

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Speaker 1: Florida you saw a tweet from our own Tom Pella

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Speaker 1: Sero saying he may try and hurry back to see

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Speaker 1: if he can come back for the rest of the season,

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Speaker 1: if he can do a six month sort of return

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Speaker 1: a La cam Akers.

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Speaker 3: Seems like a bad idea to me, but hey, I'm

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Speaker 3: not gonna stop him from trying to do it.

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Speaker 2: He's not gonna listen to me.

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Speaker 1: Right, He's definitely not gonna listen to any of us.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is obviously an unfortunate injury for a

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Speaker 1: guy who also suffered a major knee injury not that

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Speaker 1: long ago. You do wonder long term about what this

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Speaker 1: means for his career. It's really an unfortunate situation for JK.

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Speaker 1: Dobbins for the now and for us in Fantasy, I

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Speaker 1: mean yesterday we saw a lot of Justice Hill. Gus

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Speaker 1: Edwards is still there? Is there one guy that you

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Speaker 1: were sort of willing to throw your chips in with

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Speaker 1: for Fantasy for the rest of the season.

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Speaker 3: No, not one that I'm like bullish on, gonna go

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Speaker 3: heavy on, like fab or anything. But I do think

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Speaker 3: they're both names that you should be picking up off

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Speaker 3: the waiver wire this week. If I had to pick,

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Gus Edwards. I know Justice Hill

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Speaker 3: is going to get more love because he had the

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Speaker 3: two touchdowns. He also played a little bit more snaps

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Speaker 3: twenty nine percent to twenty two percent. They both had

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Speaker 3: eight carries. Neither one had a target, but Justice Hill

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Speaker 3: turned his eight carries into nine yards. Gus Edwards was

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Speaker 3: thirty two. I just can't quit Gus Edwards. And I

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Speaker 3: was saying this coming into the year, I know you

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Speaker 3: are as well, Marcus. I was like, I know everyone

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Speaker 3: loves JK. Dobbins, but can I interest you in discount JK.

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Speaker 3: Dobbins ten rounds later and Gus Edwards because when you

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Speaker 3: compare their stats, they're they're almost like the pointing Spider Man.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the only thing is JK. Dobbins a little

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Speaker 3: bit more exploded. Gus Edwards can break big runs, but

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Speaker 3: he's not going to break an eighty yard run or

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Speaker 3: something like that. But I also would not be surprised

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Speaker 3: if we see Melgo he's there.

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Speaker 2: I forgot about that. I keep, I keep.

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Speaker 3: I was talking to some friends yesterday and I was like,

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Speaker 3: Kareem Hunt just feels like a Raven player like that

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Speaker 3: might happen at some point. So I'm in on Gus

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Speaker 3: Edwards the most, but again this is more like tampered expectation.

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Speaker 1: I was drafting Gus Edwards. We talked about this because

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Speaker 1: we liked the ADP for him, and so in those situations,

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Speaker 1: I already feel like I've got, you know, a a

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Speaker 1: to use multiple backs. I think what's really frustrating about

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a combination of Gus Edwards, gonna

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Speaker 1: So I think we've gone from potentially having one back

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Speaker 1: The offense just onate was not great. No against the Texans.

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Speaker 3: And the Texans were the worst run defense in football

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Speaker 3: all of last season. So to me, this is a

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Speaker 2: Would not be starting them next week. I don't have

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Speaker 1: I also wonder, though, if Houston was dead, if that's

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Speaker 1: the Demico Ryans effect now that he's taken over there

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Speaker 1: and what was generally a rough day for the Steelers offense,

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Speaker 1: Deontay Johnson left that game with a hamstring injury. Now,

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Speaker 1: as of us doing this show, we don't know what

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Speaker 1: the update is, how serious it might be. Obviously, George

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Speaker 1: Pickens is already gonna be on the field. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: get snaps, He's going to get targets. Calvin Austen saw

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Speaker 3: It does have me worried, partially because I wasn't very

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Speaker 3: high on the Pittsburgh Steelers offense coming into this year. Look,

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Speaker 3: I wasn't a big picket fan in his draft. I

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Speaker 3: wasn't a picket fan even after his strong preseason. I

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Speaker 3: need to see it on the field first, in real games.

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Speaker 3: That being said, they played the forty nine Ers, who

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Speaker 3: are arguably the best defense in football. But next week

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Speaker 3: they get the Cleveland Browns who just shut down Joe

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Speaker 3: Burrow and the Bengals offense. I'm not Calvin Alson was

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Speaker 3: a player I liked when he was coming into the

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Speaker 3: draft last year, but more for real life purposes than fantasy.

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Speaker 3: I think it's George Pickens or bust kind of if

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Speaker 3: Deontay Johnson misses time. That being said, Alan Robinson led

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Speaker 3: them in every single category as a receiver this week.

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Speaker 3: If he does it again next week, I could be

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Speaker 3: convinced to take a waiver wire fly around.

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Speaker 1: That would be something, right if we get the Alan

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Speaker 1: Alan Robinson resurrection when we least expected it. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, last year Matthew Stafford is the best quarterback

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Speaker 1: would be something somehow. Chinny Pickett is the one who

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Speaker 1: him back to life. We are going to keep our

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Speaker 1: emotions in check, right, because that's what you do. After

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Speaker 1: Week one, allegedly, of course, everybody on Twitter is freaking

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Speaker 1: out because either you know, a guy went off that

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Speaker 1: things went badly. So we've got six things three apiece

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Speaker 1: that we are not overreacting to after Week one. Florida

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Speaker 1: the first one. I don't I'm not surprised to see

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Speaker 1: the first thing that you are not overreacting to from

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Speaker 3: I'm not overreacting to Thursday night's game, and I understand

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Speaker 3: that it is a island game, kickoff game. Everyone was

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Speaker 3: watching Kadarius Tony and Jamior Gibbs. People were treating them

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Speaker 3: like the sky was falling and look, I tweeted it,

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Speaker 3: I was wrong for telling people to start Caadarius Tony.

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Speaker 3: He had his worst game as a pro and a

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Speaker 2: But that being said, he played just twenty six percent

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Speaker 3: In targets, he had a fifty percent target rate, which

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Speaker 3: means half the routes he ran he was targeted on.

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Speaker 3: He had a goal on Carrie if he catches the

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Speaker 3: Tony in a completely different light. I mean you were

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Speaker 3: talking about it before the show. I think he got

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Speaker 3: in his own head. As for Jamiir Gibbs, let your

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Speaker 2: He looked so much better than David Montgomery. He made

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Speaker 3: And Dan Campbell came out after and was like, we

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Speaker 3: work moving forward. He is so explosive and what I

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Speaker 3: loved even more, he was physical the contact balance at

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Speaker 3: the point of contact was insane. I think Jamiir Gibbs

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Speaker 3: still brings league winning upside, and I still think Kadarius

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Speaker 3: Tony is the wide receiver one you want to own

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Speaker 3: to the Sky more so, I'm not overreacting to.

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Speaker 1: Thursday nights seen the Chiefs wide receivers leave a lot

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Speaker 1: to be desired. I don't think we learned much from

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Speaker 1: Week one, and Jamiir Gibbs, I think what I saw

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Speaker 1: still played really, really well. I am not overreacting to

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Speaker 1: slow stars from a couple of top level fantasy quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: We talked about the Ravens and what they did against Houston.

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Speaker 1: It was not a big offensive performance. I think we

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Speaker 2: Light it up and have a lot of fireworks and

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Speaker 1: And afterwards Lamar Jackson himself tweeted, we were rusty as bleep,

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Speaker 1: but we got the win. And I think they understand

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Speaker 1: that they need to be better that they can be better.

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Speaker 1: Probably didn't help that they didn't have Mark Andrews in

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Speaker 1: Week one as well. This offense is going to be

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Speaker 1: okay over the long term. It just was a tough

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Speaker 1: start against a Demico Ryans led defense, and I think

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Speaker 1: give them credit for this year.

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Speaker 2: And then there's Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 1: Joey b went out and got paid just before the

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Speaker 1: start of the regular season and then completely laid a

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Speaker 1: dud against the Cleveland Browns eighty two passing yards.

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Speaker 2: That was it for Joe Burrow. This is a one off.

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Speaker 1: I know that the Browns give the Bengals trouble that look,

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Speaker 1: they were really ready and willing to get after Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow a little bit. It was not a great game.

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Speaker 1: If you drafted Joe Burrow and you started him, obviously

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Speaker 1: you are smarting from what happened on Sunday. But do

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Speaker 1: not panic. Don't start saying the sky is falling. Don't

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Speaker 1: try to put him on the trade block or anything

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Speaker 1: like that. Joe Burrow's going to be fine. Speaking of

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Speaker 1: passing games, there's one that you are not panicked on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not panicking on the Seattle Seahawks passing attack. Yet, look,

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Speaker 3: I understand it looked brutal so much so that Dk

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Speaker 3: Metcalf did just was.

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Speaker 2: Like attacking Rams cornerbacks. Right.

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Speaker 3: It was worse than any game Gino Smith had last season,

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Speaker 3: And I know that could be concerning, but we saw

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Speaker 3: a lot of quarterbacks, bigger names than Gino Smith struggle

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Speaker 3: in Week one. The Rams know this seems very well.

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Speaker 3: Gino Smith last year had won really good game against

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Speaker 2: We are talking about it.

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Speaker 3: I am not giving up on a tight end with

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Speaker 1: Continues to frustrate us and makes me a little bit worried,

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Speaker 3: Ten three top ten picks Kyle Pitts, Drake London, Bijohn Robinson.

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Speaker 2: What are we doing? What are we doing?

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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith, who knows Michael Pittman had a really big

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Speaker 1: Hopefully there are more days like this coming, but I

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Speaker 2: So it was nice if he started.

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Speaker 2: I just don't.

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Speaker 1: Taking a look at the top performers four week one,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones had himself a day, two total touchdowns, one

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Speaker 1: Eleven catches, two hundred and fifteen yards, two touchdowns, forty

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Speaker 1: But man Tua went berserk in Week one.

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Speaker 2: But this is.

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Speaker 3: Something I mean, you spend a lot of time talking

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Speaker 3: Because if Tua stays healthy this year, he could be

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Speaker 3: Because all he's got to do, man is throw the

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 1: Just throw the ball in the direction of Tyreek Hill

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Speaker 1: And that's even before you get into you know, having

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Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill continues to just be Tyreek Hill, Like I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's three wide receivers who have a chance of

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyreek Hill good at football. Also apparently good at

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Speaker 2: He had like I think eighty four of.

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Speaker 3: His yards in the first half, scored a touchdown. And

439
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Speaker 3: what I love, he had multiple long catches in this game.

440
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Speaker 3: So he still doing everything that we loved that he

441
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Speaker 3: could do before the suspension. He's still doing it playing

442
00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,960
Speaker 3: in a better offense with a better quarterback. League winner

443
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Speaker 3: in my opinion, in Calvin Griddley very much has league

444
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Speaker 3: winner potential.

445
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Speaker 1: Now the next thing is can he do this week

446
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Speaker 1: after week with the number of wide receivers they have

447
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Speaker 1: there in Jacksonville. But he seems to be first line

448
00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,040
Speaker 1: for targets in this offense. So if there's anybody who

449
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Speaker 1: can sustain in Jacksonville. On a weekly basis, it's probably

450
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Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley Anthony Richardson. We liked him because of the

451
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Speaker 1: rushing upside, cheat code quarterbacks, and he maybe threw the

452
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Speaker 1: ball a little bit more effectively than we thought he would.

453
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Speaker 1: I know, I said to not overreact to Michael Pittman's

454
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Speaker 1: your receiving day, and I still think for Anthony Richardson

455
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Speaker 1: two twenty three is you know, I think that's gonna

456
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Speaker 1: be a great game for him on a weekly basis.

457
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Speaker 1: But Flourial, he gave us the rushing yards, he gave

458
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Speaker 1: us the rushing touchdowns. That's really all we were sort

459
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Speaker 1: of banking on with him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna take a humble brag here because I

461
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Speaker 2: had him as a start. Last week.

462
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Speaker 3: A lot of people, even who liked Anthony Richardson, was

463
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Speaker 3: saying to take away and see approach on me.

464
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Speaker 2: I listened to the stardhoam centum.

465
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Speaker 3: I heard the shade that rank was thrown at me

466
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Speaker 3: all episode long. But Anthony Richardson, the whole reason I

467
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Speaker 3: like him, and I'm not saying anything other people aren't saying,

468
00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,600
Speaker 3: is because of the rushing upside, but specifically he is

469
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Speaker 3: their goal line runner, and we saw him not only

470
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Speaker 3: get the rushing touchdown, he almost had a second one,

471
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,000
Speaker 3: took a big hit. They pulled him from the game

472
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Speaker 3: because it was late. But he is clearly going to

473
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Speaker 3: be used like Jalen Hurts was in Philly, same coach.

474
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Speaker 3: So I am like, he's a start for me every

475
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Speaker 3: week now moving forward.

476
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Speaker 1: If I had known he was gonna walk into the

477
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Speaker 1: stadium worrying that that green suit with the shorts and the.

478
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Speaker 2: Bow tie, oh you gotta find it.

479
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Speaker 1: You gotta go look up Anthony Richardson's fit walking in

480
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Speaker 1: to State, If I had known he was gonna wear

481
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Speaker 1: that into the stadium, I probably would have said start

482
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Speaker 1: him in all fomats. But either way, he gave us

483
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Speaker 1: what we thought we could get out of him. He

484
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Speaker 1: delivered in that reski. Yeah, yeah, there it is.

485
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Speaker 2: There it is.

486
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Speaker 1: We got what we thought he could deliver, and so

487
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Speaker 1: that gives us reason to be confident.

488
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Speaker 2: In what he can be going forward.

489
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Speaker 3: I did see a video yesterday of Saquon Barkley walking

490
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Speaker 3: in in his outfit, and a giant Span quoted it

491
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Speaker 3: and said we're gonna lose by forty.

492
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Speaker 2: And they lost by forty. He was not wrong.

493
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Speaker 1: Speaking of being disappointed, let's talk about some of the

494
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Speaker 1: guys who maybe hurt our feelings a little bit in

495
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Speaker 1: Fantasy on Sunday. Jalen Hurts near the top of the list.

496
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Speaker 1: There were a lot of quarterbacks that sort of let

497
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Speaker 1: us down. We talked about Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson.

498
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 1: Gino Smith is a disappointment. Jalen Hurts though too. I

499
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Speaker 1: felt like even against New England, even against a good

500
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Speaker 1: New England defense, there are multiple ways for Jalen Hurts

501
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:14,400
Speaker 1: to win in Fantasy twelve and a half points though,

502
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,119
Speaker 1: it just didn't happen. The Eagles got to win, but

503
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,720
Speaker 1: it was not a great game for the Philadelphia offense

504
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Speaker 1: in Week one.

505
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Speaker 3: No, but I'm giving them a pass on this. I

506
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Speaker 3: have a lot of Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown this year.

507
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Speaker 3: So I was watching this game pretty closely, and the

508
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,880
Speaker 3: announcers were talking about how Bill Belichick was throwing schemes

509
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,479
Speaker 3: at then that the announcers had never seen before. So

510
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,000
Speaker 3: it is a tough defense to face. They put all

511
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Speaker 3: of their resources on that defense. So but also like

512
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 3: AJ Brown had a fifty yard catch that they took

513
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Speaker 3: back because he had lost control of the ball.

514
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Speaker 2: It could have been a better day for Jalen Hurts.

515
00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,520
Speaker 3: It it was the fourth quarter that really and normally

516
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Speaker 3: that's when Jalen Hurts, Yes, but that's really what it

517
00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 3: got out. That's when he had the fumble that the

518
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:59,120
Speaker 3: long catch was taken back. Look, they get the vikings.

519
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Speaker 3: You are a hundred percent starting all of your Eagles

520
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 3: next week.

521
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Speaker 1: And you know, it's funny because last year, last couple

522
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Speaker 1: of years, you would see Jalen Hurts going to the

523
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Speaker 1: fourth quarter and maybe he's only got ten or twelve points,

524
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Speaker 1: and then suddenly he rushes for a bunch of yards,

525
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Speaker 1: maybe he gets a couple of rushing touchdowns or two,

526
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Speaker 1: and then you know, next thing you know, Jalen Hurts

527
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,880
Speaker 1: has like twenty five points. That part didn't happen because

528
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: the Eagles had a lead. They clamped down on defense

529
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Speaker 1: and that was sort of how they got the win. Again,

530
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Speaker 1: I'm with you, I'm sort of just shaking this off

531
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Speaker 1: as it's Week one. It was a slow start, a

532
00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 1: better matchup next week. We're we're not punting on Jalen

533
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Speaker 1: Hurts just because he had a rough day. They just

534
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Speaker 1: take a deep breath here because we talked about Kyle

535
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Speaker 1: Pitts and how we're not worried about him yet Drake

536
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Speaker 1: London goes in that same boat though one target zero

537
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter had more catches than Drake London in the game,

538
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Speaker 1: which is a joke that this can't be Arthur Smith man.

539
00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 1: Like I, I know that you don't like us fantasy guys.

540
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Speaker 2: I get it.

541
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Speaker 1: You spent a high first round draft pick on Drake London.

542
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,320
Speaker 1: You did that for a reason. How is it that

543
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: you're not getting him involved. The same thing goes for

544
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts. How are you not getting him involved? This

545
00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,040
Speaker 1: isn't a fantasy thing. This is just helping your football

546
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Speaker 1: team win. I'm I'm I'm speechless for you. I don't

547
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Speaker 1: even know what to say about this, because this is

548
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,240
Speaker 1: year two of this now of him not using guys

549
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 1: that are talented offensive weapons, like what are they doing

550
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: in Atlanta?

551
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Speaker 3: I have no idea, Like you know, we I felt

552
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:34,040
Speaker 3: like we're the anti Arthur smith show all year last year,

553
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,399
Speaker 3: and he got credit towards the end of the year

554
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 3: for benching Marcus Mariota, which made no sense to me

555
00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 3: because it took you entirely too long, but I am

556
00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 3: concerned about Drake London, like peek behind the curtain. I've

557
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 3: already started my starting sit him for next week. I

558
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 3: have him as a sit because one target five, he

559
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 3: was targeted on five percent of the routes he ran.

560
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,719
Speaker 3: That was only lower I'm the only people who were

561
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:00,360
Speaker 3: lower than him were Dallas Goddard, Josh Palmer, Isaiah Likely.

562
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,440
Speaker 3: It's not good, not good at all. So and then

563
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,719
Speaker 3: there's Jared Alexander next week and stuff like that.

564
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:06,280
Speaker 2: I don't know.

565
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,399
Speaker 3: I I know, I'm a big like, don't overreact to

566
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Speaker 3: one week. If this happened in the middle of the season,

567
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 3: we wouldn't feel this way. But one target for Drake London,

568
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Speaker 3: I don't know how you can feel good about it.

569
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: I don't know how you can feel good about that.

570
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Speaker 1: And because mostly because it feels like this is going

571
00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: to be theirm O all year long. That you know

572
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,679
Speaker 1: you're going to see games where London and Pits are

573
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: going to get two targets, three targets, where they aren't

574
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Speaker 1: going to have a lot of catches. You know that

575
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Speaker 1: Arthur Smith wants to run the football, and it just

576
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Speaker 1: it boggles the mind because we sit here and we

577
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: sort of make these analyzes and we make these predictions

578
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: not strictly based on what we want for our teams,

579
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Speaker 1: but because it's what seems like would be the most

580
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Speaker 1: effective use of the personnel you have, And so it

581
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Speaker 1: just it doesn't make any sense then, or see Higgins.

582
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Speaker 1: He also, like Drake London, had zero catches, but he

583
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 1: had it on eight targets. I mean, at least at

584
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Speaker 1: least Joe Burrow was looking in his direction and throwing

585
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: him the football.

586
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 2: They just didn't connect.

587
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,080
Speaker 1: So at least that makes me feel like, Okay, this

588
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:08,920
Speaker 1: just was a bad week. This isn't anything long term

589
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 1: to worry about. This just it just, for whatever reason,

590
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 1: just didn't click on Sunday.

591
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was bad weather. Kudos to the Browns defense.

592
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 3: They dominated. This was Joe Burrow's worst game, as say

593
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 3: pro no questions asked about it, Like every stat he

594
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:25,880
Speaker 3: put up, it's the worst he's ever done in the game.

595
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,920
Speaker 3: But I had to when I was looking over box

596
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 3: scores yesterday, I was like, this has to be an error.

597
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Speaker 2: There's no way t.

598
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:35,360
Speaker 3: Higgins is targeted eight times and did not come down

599
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 3: with a single ball. But now you're watching it you're

600
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,119
Speaker 3: watching it. Yeah, that's on Joe Burrow. That's not on

601
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Speaker 3: T Higgins.

602
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Speaker 2: So to me, there's a huge difference between.

603
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Speaker 3: T Higgins and Drake London. And they both were number

604
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Speaker 3: five ironically, but I like Drake London. I'm scared on

605
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Speaker 3: T Higgins, I'd be going out and trying to.

606
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Speaker 1: Acquire Right now, Te Higgins, I'm not at all worried about. Again,

607
00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,840
Speaker 1: eight targets. That means they're looking in his direction. He's

608
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,360
Speaker 1: getting opportunities. It just, for whatever reason, didn't happen on Sunday,

609
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 1: worried about that. Drake London did very much a different story.

610
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 1: Did you see the Jamar Chase quote after the game

611
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,760
Speaker 1: about how I called them elves and we got beat

612
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: by some elves?

613
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 2: Yeah?

614
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: That was that was hilarious that that was really really funny.

615
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 2: Tied to play a little real or mirage.

616
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: We look back on some of the things that happened

617
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Speaker 1: on Sunday and decide whether or not they can just

618
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: sing themselves.

619
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 2: Let's start with the Las Vegas Raiders.

620
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers, who in sixty games with the New England

621
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: Patriots never had two or more touchdowns in a game.

622
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 2: One game with the Raiders.

623
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Speaker 1: He scores two touchdowns, tim targets, nine catches, eighty one

624
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: yards a pair of touchdowns, did leave the game in

625
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter with a head injury. So real or

626
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 1: mirage what we saw at Jacoby Myers.

627
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,919
Speaker 3: Look, he's not gonna do this every single week, but

628
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,000
Speaker 3: I think the usage is real. It was so annoying

629
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Speaker 3: that watching this game, I was like, does Jacoby does

630
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 3: Jimmy g know that that's not DeVante Adams? But yeah,

631
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Speaker 3: I think part of it was because Theos are very

632
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 3: tough secondary, but like Hunter Renfro was on a milk cart,

633
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 3: and so think I think Jacoby Myers is the clear

634
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:07,520
Speaker 3: cut number two target.

635
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: That's the thing is that Jacoby Myers steps in to

636
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: be the slot guy, and so then you wonder what

637
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,000
Speaker 1: the role for Hunter Renfro is going to be. We

638
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 1: know DeVante Adams is going to get his targets on

639
00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: the outside, so I do think he will have a

640
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: lot of high target games. Yeah, the two touchdown thing,

641
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 1: that's probably a mirage. Tyler Aljier, I mean, as excited

642
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: as we worry about Bijon Robinson and I started to

643
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 1: feel this near the end of the draft season that

644
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,240
Speaker 1: maybe the Beijon hype had gotten a little bit out

645
00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: of control because Tyler Algier was not going to go away.

646
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 1: Fifteen carries, seventy five yards, two touchdowns, also had three

647
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: catches in nineteen yards. Tyler Algier is still very much here.

648
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 1: Is is this real or a mirage?

649
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 2: Unfortunately?

650
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 3: I think it's real, especially because he got all of

651
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 3: the work inside the ten yard line. So he is

652
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 3: the goal line running back for the Falcons right now.

653
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 3: And kudos to you because I had thought he was

654
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 3: someone you want to draft as a bench player in

655
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,479
Speaker 3: case something happened to be but you were like, no, no,

656
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Speaker 3: he's gonna have a role, and he very much so

657
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 3: has a role.

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00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 2: He absolutely has a role in this offense.

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Speaker 1: And look for all our frustrations about how the Falcons

660
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: are using Drake London and Kyle Pitts, well, that benefits

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00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: Tyler Algier. If they're gonna continue running the football the

662
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: way they are, Tyler Algier is going to continue to

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00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: get opportunities. So again, two touchdowns, obviously that doesn't happen

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Speaker 1: every week. But in terms of being on the field

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00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: a lot, getting touches, getting carries, getting targets that I

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00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: don't think is going to change all year long backfield

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00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, Kyron Williams and cam Akers. It was

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00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: Williams who did a lot of work. Fifteen carries, fifty

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00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: two yards, two touchdowns, seventeen point four fantasy points. Cam

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00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 1: Acres not as productive. Just twenty nine rushing yards on

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00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 1: twenty two carries.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is that real? Mirage? It's real. The Ross and

673
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 2: Rachel are very much so real.

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00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,719
Speaker 3: And he played thirty three percent of the snaps and

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00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 3: that twenty two targets. I'm sorry, twenty two carries is

676
00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 3: deceiving because most of them came in the fourth cour

677
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 3: when the Rams were already playing with the lead, and

678
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 3: it felt like McVay was like, I gotta get cam

679
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 3: Akers involved.

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Speaker 2: So the fantasy people.

681
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 3: Are happy twenty two carries for twenty nine yards, Are

682
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 3: you kidding me? And next week they get the forty

683
00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 3: nine ers. I think you sit pick up Williams, but

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00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 3: sit them both.

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Speaker 1: I started to believe that Kyron Williams really was worth

686
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: drafting late near the end of draft season. I was

687
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: very much on cam Akers early, I will totally admit that,

688
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 1: and then as I started to read more and hear more,

689
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: it felt like, Okay, maybe he's going to have less

690
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: of a role. I didn't think it was going to

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00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 1: just completely switch the way it did. By the way,

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00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: Williams ran twenty six routes, same number of routes as

693
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee in this game. He is very much I

694
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: thought he was going to be a part of the

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00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: passing game. That part didn't surprise me. The fact that

696
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: he got as many carries as he did that definitely

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00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: surprised me. And I do think that is going to

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00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: be very real in Los Angeles, say Flowers, I started

699
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: to buy into the hype in August ten targets, nine catches,

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00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 1: seventy eight yards. The Ravens we talked about weren't necessary great,

701
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 1: But does the Flowers real or mirage?

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00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 3: I think this is very real one. Not only was

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00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,840
Speaker 3: he him and Odell were getting way more of the

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00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 3: snaps than Rashad Bateman, but he was the number one

705
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 3: target for this team. And before I have to check

706
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 3: back after the night game, but going into the night game,

707
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 3: of all wide receivers who ran at least twenty routes,

708
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 3: he had the highest target rate in Week one and

709
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 3: that's his first NFL game, And what I love is

710
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 3: the way they were using him, Like they're like, Okay,

711
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 3: this kid is amazing with the ball in his hands.

712
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,320
Speaker 3: If you're watching the video show, you see it there.

713
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,720
Speaker 3: And they're not asking him to win downfield or do

714
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 3: stuff that which he can do, but they're just like, hey,

715
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 3: we're just gonna put the ball in your hands and

716
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 3: let you.

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00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 2: Be ze Flowers and it was amazing. That's it.

718
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: They're just going to let him be athletic, and that

719
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: could be enough, I would say, based on week one,

720
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: and obviously it is an incomplete picture. Based on week one,

721
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,160
Speaker 1: it looks like Rashad Bateman might be the odd man out.

722
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham was on the field heavily, He's a Flowers

723
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: was targeted heavily. It was Bateman who was sort of

724
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: third in the pecking order, So that might be something

725
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: to pay attention to going forward.

726
00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 2: But I do believe in say Flowers.

727
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: Last one Kendrick Bourne eleven targets, six catches, sixty four yards,

728
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, a lot of guys coming out of nowhere

729
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: with two touchdowns in week one, the Patriots passing game

730
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:16,840
Speaker 1: looked decent in Week one.

731
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 2: Kendrick Bourne real mirage this production.

732
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 3: Is a mirage, Like he's not going to be a

733
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 3: top ten wide receiver every single week, but the fact

734
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 3: that he could be their top wide receiver in targets

735
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 3: I think is real. You know, I'm not a huge

736
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 3: Juju fan, and Juju yesterday like he had a big

737
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 3: drop that would have been a first down and he

738
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 3: just kind of like trotted off the field. I'm like,

739
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 3: the body language just looks like he's there to collect

740
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 3: checks right now. Again, it's just one week. It was

741
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 3: against a very tough Eagles defense. But Kendrick Bourne is

742
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 3: someone that we've seen pop occasionally, but he just seems

743
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 3: to get more consistent. I think he could compete to

744
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 3: be their number one wide receiver target. That being said,

745
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 3: not someone that I'm like trying to force into my lineups.

746
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: Not forcing him into the lineup I did. I was

747
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: sort of forced to start him in a league and

748
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: that sort of worked out for me. He ran twice

749
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: as many routes as Juju on Sunday, fifty two routes

750
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: for Born, twenty six for Juju Smith Schuster and I

751
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: know that the knee for Juju might be sort of

752
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: an issue, so maybe that plays into it. But I

753
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: do think Kendrick Bourne is going to be a guy

754
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: they target a lot in this offense. I don't think

755
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: that Mac Jones is going to be as good every

756
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: week as he was on Sunday three hundred and sixteen

757
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: yards in three touchdowns. So a lot of it came

758
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: in the second half when the Patriots were playing catch

759
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: up two.

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00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 2: So that might be some of it.

761
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,280
Speaker 1: But Kendrick Bourne, I think is going to be a

762
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,000
Speaker 1: guy that should be on rosters, even if you're not

763
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: starting him every week. Now, I'll do it for this

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Speaker 1: edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Show. Be sure to

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Speaker 1: listen tomorrow for all of our top waiver wire targets.

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Speaker 1: Plus we're hitting up the fan mail bag to answer

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Speaker 1: all of your questions. Stay happy, safe and healthy, do

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Speaker 1: good and live well, and we'll talk to you again

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