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Speaker 1: Your tunes about Drive on Home of the Black and

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Speaker 1: Goal Steelers Nation Radio. Ye, welcome back to the Drive.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly here with Matt Williamson. Matt, let's do

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Speaker 1: a little fantasy football focusing. It's been a while one

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Speaker 1: thing I wanted to talk about, and you're gonna hear

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Speaker 1: this a lot if you're new to fantasy football, even

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Speaker 1: if you're not. UM. I saw a little argument about

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Speaker 1: this on Twitter which made me think of it. Over

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Speaker 1: the weekend. John Paulson, who writes for four for four

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Speaker 1: dot com UM used to right. I used to right

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Speaker 1: for them, as did you. From me to uh was

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Speaker 1: talking about the zero running back strategy. It's not for me,

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Speaker 1: but it's interesting. He said. It should be changed to

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Speaker 1: the hero running back strategy, where you just draft one

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Speaker 1: great one and then punt on that and you're just

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Speaker 1: hoping you hit something James Robinson from last year. It's

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Speaker 1: really there's a lot of hope involved with the strategy.

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Speaker 1: Like a couple of things before I forget a buzzword

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Speaker 1: I keep hearing in the fancy community. Now too, is

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Speaker 1: the running back dead zone. I don't you've heard this

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Speaker 1: yet either, but like rounds three through five. People have

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Speaker 1: done a lot of offseason studies that the hit rate

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Speaker 1: is bad, you know, like they they're saying, either go

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Speaker 1: running back, running back, or avoid that neighborhood, because there's

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Speaker 1: there always a question with those dudes. Stay out of

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Speaker 1: that neighborhood. It's a sweet spot unless you go I'm

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Speaker 1: running back, running back, running back. I'm not a believer

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Speaker 1: in the running back dead zone. I still think you

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Speaker 1: still and happy with it. You know, we've we've talked

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Speaker 1: about this and that you start looking at that round. Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's say round three, so from twenty four to thirty

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Speaker 1: six will be round three most twelve team drafts. So

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Speaker 1: I'm looking here at ESPN's PPR rankings, and it's the

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Speaker 1: top running backs. You're looking at Clyde Edwards, Hilaire problem

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Speaker 1: with that, and especially pr JK. Dobbins at nine, Josh

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Speaker 1: Jacobs at thirty uh, and then the next guy there,

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Speaker 1: well that's Chris Carson at thirty eight. So that's the

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Speaker 1: range that you're talking about. I'd be more than happy.

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Speaker 1: Oh there. I don't know if I if I had

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Speaker 1: gone running back running back in the first two rounds

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Speaker 1: and then take one of those guys two to three hit.

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Speaker 1: We're all three of them hit. Why wouldn't all three

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Speaker 1: of them hit? I can play if I have a

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Speaker 1: flex spot in my league, I can always use that guy.

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Speaker 1: You're stealing one more running back away from taking one

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Speaker 1: away from now you're we're seeing somebody to go zero

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Speaker 1: running back. Yeah. Yeah, so back to zero running back thing.

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Speaker 1: I'm not I have not seen enough of this running

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Speaker 1: back dead zone thing. And the studies are let's go

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Speaker 1: over the last five years running backs drafted from round

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Speaker 1: three to five, are they worth the investment? A lot

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Speaker 1: of people saying no, Well, that's not gonna determin me

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Speaker 1: one bit. I could. I could probably look at receivers

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Speaker 1: and say the same thing. There's some receivers. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: drafted some in those in that area last year and

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Speaker 1: they did not work out. Yeah, that's a good point.

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Speaker 1: And for people do understand with zero runback is it's

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Speaker 1: not really zero like you said. Most people are gonna

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Speaker 1: take a first round running back where they'll take one. Really,

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Speaker 1: they'll take one at some point in those first three

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Speaker 1: rounds that they plan on starting every week, and then

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Speaker 1: you're on a constant search for a second running back

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Speaker 1: starter throughout the year. And in a way you can

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Speaker 1: kind of stream them. You can pick guys up every

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Speaker 1: time somebody gets hurt, your first first guy, spending money

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Speaker 1: on it with the idea of I probably one of

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Speaker 1: the top six quarterbacks and or one of the top

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Speaker 1: four or five tight ends. I'm gonna have really good receivers,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe the best group receivers in the league.

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Speaker 1: My point totals every week can get away with being

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Speaker 1: really short at one starter and probably picks nine through fifteen.

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Speaker 1: You're taking back up running backs, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: Guys that might hit and you're basically hoping for an

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Speaker 1: injury outside your team type of everybody's gonna be ticked

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Speaker 1: off at you. You took every hand cuff. You took

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Speaker 1: everybody's handcuff. Maybe you have a j. Dillon or you

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Speaker 1: know someone like that, Alexander Madison or and it's called

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Speaker 1: Frank Pollard, Pollard and Dallas, guys like that that if

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Speaker 1: a really good player who was drafted well ahead gets hurt,

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Speaker 1: or if you happen to find it James Robinson in

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Speaker 1: week one off the waiver wire. The system works pretty well,

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Speaker 1: you know, but things that hurt you are then you

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Speaker 1: don't have any depth at your other positions, because you

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Speaker 1: have more backs on your roster than you like and

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Speaker 1: they're not necessarily good play. So it's not really zero

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Speaker 1: running back. It is one and a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: crappy running backs, you know. I mean that position changes

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Speaker 1: so much with injuries and stuff that you're hoping to

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Speaker 1: be one of those guys that you hit the you know,

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Speaker 1: the lottery and that it can work. But everything has

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Speaker 1: to fall right for you, like you had like this

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Speaker 1: first your first week of the season could be awful

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Speaker 1: because for a while, yeah, and if nobody gets hurt,

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Speaker 1: or if you don't have you have good guys on

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Speaker 1: the bench going off, yeah, or if if you don't

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Speaker 1: have the right guy, you didn't get the right handcuff

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Speaker 1: somebody beat you to it or whatever it may be.

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Speaker 1: You're kind of hoping, You're kind of right. I think

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Speaker 1: everyone knows my thought. I'm a heavy running back early

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Speaker 1: and just plug those guys in. But that can hurt you.

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Speaker 1: I mean, my first two picks last year were mixed

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Speaker 1: traded him for Kiddle because I thought I was so

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Speaker 1: loaded it was running back I got one game out

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Speaker 1: of Kiddle, and I didn't do well last year. That's

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Speaker 1: always part of the the You know, when you pull

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Speaker 1: the trigger on a tri aid like that, UM, one

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Speaker 1: thing you can't get caught up and is where you

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Speaker 1: drafted the guy. I throw all that out the window.

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Speaker 1: Once they're once you're on your roster, they're just they're

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Speaker 1: just cow. Can you make your team better? And if

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Speaker 1: it comes down to I'm really weak at tight end

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Speaker 1: and I've got this start running right, Yeah, And I

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Speaker 1: wasn't um, but injuries happen at that position. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think the logic is okay, if I'm drafting

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Speaker 1: Davante Adams or Tyree Hill, he probably won't have a

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Speaker 1: mixing type first round, or Barkley or McCaffrey year. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of them last year. Where better chance that

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Speaker 1: I'll get my return on my investment on it. I

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Speaker 1: get it. But I don't mind starting eight round receivers, right.

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Speaker 1: You know where you're drafting backup long shot running backs

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Speaker 1: and nobody ever says zero quarterback or zero wide receiver. No, right,

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Speaker 1: like so many of them. I can if I can start,

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Speaker 1: if you have that flex option in your league and

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Speaker 1: you can start three running backs use bell cows and

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Speaker 1: you have three studs who all if you get three

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Speaker 1: guys who average twenty touches per game, right, that's that's

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Speaker 1: the goal. I want three of those guys because there's

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Speaker 1: only about eight of them in the league. That might

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Speaker 1: even be eighteen of them. I mean maybe no, but

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Speaker 1: there they are consistent every week fantasy running backs, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like Alvin Kamara wouldn't necessarily, Yeah, they're gonna get the

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Speaker 1: same number of We're gonna get you the same points

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Speaker 1: as a running back who does touching a game because

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Speaker 1: they catch so many passes. So that's what makes McCaffrey

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Speaker 1: so right, Let's say there's fifteen to eighteen every week

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Speaker 1: starting running backs, and then that probably drops off by

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Speaker 1: three or four by injuries as the season goes on.

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Speaker 1: If you have two, you're in really good shape. If

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Speaker 1: you have three, you probably win the league because your floor.

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Speaker 1: Like people forget this, I mean, my whole job at

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Speaker 1: week three is to beat your team. I don't care

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Speaker 1: if I'm the highest scoring team in the league, and

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Speaker 1: I'll have a really high floor if I have three

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Speaker 1: backs it are consistent producers. They're getting twenty touches a game.

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Speaker 1: I can count on getting it points out of them

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Speaker 1: every week, and then a minute, if I get sixty

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Speaker 1: points out, I'm gonna get zero for my quarterback. Right,

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Speaker 1: I might get trouble a tight end. But even if

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Speaker 1: I have Sean Jackson Joey Galloway like receivers, one of

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Speaker 1: those hits to home run, I went a leak. Yeah

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I think running backs give you

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Speaker 1: the floor. Yeah, Jero RB is risky. I've never tried it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think because if you take you take that zero,

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Speaker 1: or let's say you get five points out of your

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Speaker 1: his Where am I making it up? Were you making that?

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Speaker 1: You better have really good receivers. You better have like

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Speaker 1: Tyree Hill and Davante Adams on your roster. Make that

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Speaker 1: work out, scoring your opponent quarterback by ten points, throw

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Speaker 1: for four and five touchdowns that week. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I just think running backs. I know they're volatile for

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Speaker 1: keeping them healthy, but they're not volatile for who's going

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Speaker 1: to touch the ball. Nase's gonna touch the ball. Mixing

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Speaker 1: of those, give me three of those guys, and then

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Speaker 1: I get a James Robinson on the waiver wire, now

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Speaker 1: because Robinson is getting touches a game, right, because there

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Speaker 1: will be the whole logic behind zero RB, as I

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Speaker 1: call it, is some players will manufacture themselves into twenty

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Speaker 1: more darts and my opponents, I hope I hit one

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Speaker 1: thing is if you were mixing McCaffrey, Barkley, whoever last

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Speaker 1: You're starting two bad dudes for a long time hoping

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Speaker 1: it one year and man, I was you just scrambling

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Speaker 1: the whole season like trying trying to figure out Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm okay. I'm playing against McCaffrey this week and he's

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Speaker 1: gonna put up twenty five points minimum. How am I

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Speaker 1: matching that? How am imagine that? Yeah? Exactly? And if

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Speaker 1: you happen to find another, they always have value. Like

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Speaker 1: it's you kind of mentioned this before, like, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: can trade Mahomes or Lamar, but how many teams in

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Speaker 1: my league are asking for a quarterback? How many teams

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Speaker 1: in the league are begging for another receiver? Like few?

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you pick them up really hard a

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Speaker 1: receiver to be begging somebody? But everyone will always take

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Speaker 1: draft collect running backs like their gold. Yeah right right right?

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Speaker 1: You know, like kind of worked out. But I used

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Speaker 1: I took three running backs right away because I was

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Speaker 1: really high on them. That didn't work out super swell either.

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Speaker 1: back depth. Well, I had too many rookies last year.

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Speaker 1: Typically that works out okay last year, but last year

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Speaker 1: right away, but when Fields takes over and say week six,

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Speaker 1: he could have I mean, Jalen Hurts last year, in

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Speaker 1: the second half of the season was one of the

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Speaker 1: high scoring quarterbacks in the league. Exactly. I was about

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Speaker 1: to say I would rather have Fields than Hursts Hurts

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Speaker 1: if I knew they were both starting, even though I've

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Speaker 1: never seen the guy play before. Yeah, he's one, without question.

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Speaker 1: I guess Lance could fall in that category. Just looking

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Speaker 1: here down the list, I think Donald might fall into

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Speaker 1: that a little bit this year. Better weapons, Jamis Jamis

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Speaker 1: has I don't don't need to go away, Yeah I don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because I mean they did it last year a lot

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Speaker 1: to the last few years with with Drew Brees. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Brees gets him down the field and here here comes

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Speaker 1: Taysom Hill inside of ten like it just kills you. Um,

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Speaker 1: Fields is a good one. I don't know if Zack

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Speaker 1: Wilson can hit enough. I talked about Drew lock La

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Speaker 1: next year. He's good for fantasy. I still think there's

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Speaker 1: some some potential there for him to be that guy.

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Speaker 1: If he wins the starting he's gonna run. Some leagues

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Speaker 1: don't kill you for interceptions either. Um, it's not bad.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is better in fantasy than he is the

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Speaker 1: real world too. Yeah, yeah, he's a guy. I don't

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Speaker 1: love them at all, but they had a lot of

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Speaker 1: design runs for him before he got hurt. He's got

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Speaker 1: weapons and they they're they're behind a lot probably, I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're just behind a lot. There is a group there though,

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Speaker 1: the Bends and Cousins and Ryan's and Brady's and that

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Speaker 1: don't run. That are kind of established and they're better

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Speaker 1: than people think. Like Kirk Cousins you can win games

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Speaker 1: with and he's never gonna hit hit you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. He's not gonna be a top five quarterback,

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Speaker 1: and you've got Burrow could quarterback taken? I guess Burrows

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Speaker 1: twelfth on that list. It could be maybe he gives

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Speaker 1: you two dred yards rushing. They're losing a ton, they

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Speaker 1: got receivers. Yeah, it's it's always interesting question. One other

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Speaker 1: guy to keep on. I'm sorry Carson Wentz is ranked.

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Speaker 1: He's better for fans. I'm still not getting off that bus.

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Speaker 1: Like he's aggressive. If he's my number two quarterback, he's

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Speaker 1: got okay weapons, um, a change of scenery could do

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Speaker 1: him good. But this move, like, where do you think

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Speaker 1: he's going in draft? Well? Round? I bet you could

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Speaker 1: go fields Donald Wentz ten, eleven, twelve When this is

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Speaker 1: gonna be the starter? Right? Donald two? I can live with.

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Speaker 1: Those two. All have high upside. Fields might take me

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Speaker 1: a while until he gets on the field, But so

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Speaker 1: you go right past those two the second he does,

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Speaker 1: that might be the move. They're all in new homes

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Speaker 1: and there's will be a lot of quarterbacks already picked

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Speaker 1: before those guys are gone. Matt Ryan's gonna be gone

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Speaker 1: by then, So what take up? You know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Staffords will be gone. Give me those three and just

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Speaker 1: see where we're at. Yeah, I think that's one way

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Speaker 1: strategy we're talking about. Yeah, you know, take three quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: not to sometimes you only take one. The other thing

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Speaker 1: you do when when you take three quarterbacks like that

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Speaker 1: those guys, then you're eating at the depth in the league.

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Speaker 1: Waiver wire is bad, right, right, right? And somebody has

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Speaker 1: a quarterback injury. Well, okay, I got Carson Wentz. Here's

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Speaker 1: you know one of these guys that I can trade.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you that in a receiver for a number

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Speaker 1: two receiver. You know. Yeah, that's not bad. And in

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Speaker 1: the prices they're cheap, they're cheap. Yeah, I'm taking these guys,

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Speaker 1: you know, rounds ten through fifteen, and then I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: flip them for a guy that you took in the

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Speaker 1: third round. And you could start Sam Donald. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean week one, Your Week one's ugly at the quarterback

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Speaker 1: position for you. I mean you're probably going went says

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Speaker 1: a better matchup than Darnald. I'll start them. See what happens,

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Speaker 1: and he may be terrible, you know, but I mean

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Speaker 1: someone's gonna you can always trade who they playing in

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Speaker 1: Week one? Are they playing Texans or I don't know, right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a good divisions to play against. I

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Speaker 1: kind of like that strategy. I bet I could probably

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Speaker 1: come with five names, Fields, Lands, Darnald Wentz, We Derek

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Speaker 1: Carr wouldn't hurt you. You know, I'm thinking about the

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Speaker 1: home run. How much Mark never be a home run? No,

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Speaker 1: but he's gives you that baseline that you can start

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Speaker 1: in week one and not be you know, and maybe

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Speaker 1: you take that approach, give me car Fields and Lands,

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Speaker 1: and you just hope that one of the rookies steps

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Speaker 1: up and takes a job. Cam Newton is one of

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Speaker 1: those guys too. If he's the guy there, he's not

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Speaker 1: gonna throw six touchdowns again or whatever. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: it's I think it's an interesting way. Like I don't

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Speaker 1: want Tom Brady, I don't I don't want Ryan. I

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Speaker 1: don't want Brady. I don't want these guys that don't

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Speaker 1: run then I don't want I don't want. I mean

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Speaker 1: they have to throw. They have to throw for five

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Speaker 1: thousand yards and in forty touchdowns to make up for

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Speaker 1: what these guys that throw for three thousand and run

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Speaker 1: for five get you. It's bad And like Brady was

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Speaker 1: really good last year. Is he gonna throw for that

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Speaker 1: many touchdowns this year? Probably? No, I probably know. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's a great supporting cast. It not running is

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Speaker 1: is crucial. It's almost like running backs don't catch passes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it makes things, makes things really difficult. Like you get

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Speaker 1: if you're ceiling on those guys. Okay, so he gets

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Speaker 1: you three hundred yards and throwst for two touchdowns and

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Speaker 1: that's you know, twenty points. That's not you're playing Lamar

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Speaker 1: that wee can hen you know, throws for two hundred

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Speaker 1: but runs for a hundred and rushes for a couple.

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Speaker 1: Like some of those guys are really game script dependent too.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if Tampa's beaten up on Carolina twenty to

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Speaker 1: nothing at the half, how much is Tom gonna throw

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Speaker 1: in the second half? You know, I mean or Ben

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Speaker 1: has a big lead, or you know, you need Atlanta

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Speaker 1: to be losing by thirty at a half for Ryan

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Speaker 1: to keep chucking it. You know, that's kind of like

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Speaker 1: running backs don't catch passes. Like Chubb and Henry are

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Speaker 1: great when there's seven point favorites, right and they're just

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Speaker 1: some smothering people. But if they're coming from behind, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then now you're in trouble right right, things don't

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Speaker 1: go with the plan, which rarely they do in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It's hard, it is, but that is willing to do

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Speaker 1: it for this show. So that was our fantasy football focus. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Former partner Matt Williamson for Jacob rect here on site,

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Lolly. We thank you for listening to this

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Speaker 1: edition of the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio