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Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly

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Speaker 1: source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back through Fantasy Football Weekly with your host, faithful

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Speaker 1: narrator John mcgeza at the very creative handle on Social

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Speaker 1: John Lagaza, and my body and yours, mister Jake Trowbridge. Jake,

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Speaker 1: feels like a little bit of the quiet before the storm, right,

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Speaker 1: we had so much movement, so much action. The draft happens,

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Speaker 1: the snow globe gets shaken, and I was scrambling doing

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Speaker 1: ranks for moving players. And now this week things are

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Speaker 1: kind of settling. So we'll talk about some news and notes,

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Speaker 1: then some strength of schedule stuff that came out, and

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Speaker 1: everybody was really excited. How are you doing, my friend.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing good.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to weed my way through some of this

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Speaker 3: white noise that happens this time of year. Though this

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Speaker 3: is the lull where you said it, there's not a

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Speaker 3: narrative stuff, the fluff starts to come out that you

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Speaker 3: really gotta do well to sift through. So some of

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Speaker 3: the stuff I know we're going to talk about today

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Speaker 3: is actually impactful, and some of this other stuff out

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Speaker 1: I think the word fluff is really fitting. It's like

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Speaker 1: junk food. You could consume as much of it as

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, a little satisfying as

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Speaker 1: you're getting your rumor on. But then, like you said,

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Speaker 1: is it actionable? And if you act on something that

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Speaker 1: it's not actual, you're only going to hurt yourself. I

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Speaker 1: try and tell myself this every year, whether it's baseball

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Speaker 1: spring training or NFL with these exhibition games, with the preseason, ignore, ignore, ignore,

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Speaker 1: because that's one of my most interesting questions for tried

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Speaker 3: I try to ignore it preseason unless it's something that

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Speaker 3: believe that they trotted out Joe Burrow for an entire

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Speaker 3: preseason game. That must mean something, because otherwise they're just

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Speaker 3: insane to do that. Obviously, that's a silly hypothetical. But otherwise, no,

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Speaker 3: I don't. I know some of these guys are still

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Speaker 3: I just try to, uh, as you said, avoid it

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of these coaches, and bless their hearts,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're taking their job seriously and we want

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Speaker 1: analysts overreact. Did you see this third string back got

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Speaker 3: And it was just really a downtick. For all those

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Speaker 1: John Yeah, you really nailed it. The word for me

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Speaker 1: Rogers had a six air yard per tenth, Like that's

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Speaker 1: DK metcalf eightp. Seventy six. I won't bury the lead

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Speaker 3: I just I don't like either of these guys. I

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Speaker 3: So this whole split not split thing, I don't really care.

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Speaker 1: They never can.

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Speaker 3: So I'm completely fine with whoever gets the split because

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Speaker 1: Kind of a milk toast, kind of cop it out

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Speaker 3: discussion John. That's the guy where I just don't like

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Speaker 2: Anyways.

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Speaker 3: I think he was propped up massively by the games

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Speaker 3: I don't think the quarterback thing is an issue for him.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that the split between the quarterbacks is

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't unless they make If there's the

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Speaker 1: get right back to you, Jake. Hold on, all right,

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Speaker 1: let's pick it back up. I wanted to get into

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Speaker 3: paste last year to this year. What I will say

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Speaker 3: is the strength and schedule stuff, for me is a

433
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Speaker 3: tiebreaker sometimes for some of these very closely valued players,

434
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Speaker 3: especially if you just look at like the first half

435
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,560
Speaker 3: of the year's strength to schedule. I think that's more

436
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,680
Speaker 3: important than the season as a whole, because I just think, again,

437
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 3: there's too much variance, too much injuries happen to be

438
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,959
Speaker 3: able to look at a week fifteen, this is what

439
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 3: we expect to happen in Week fifteen, that's so far

440
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 3: out John, we don't know, Like you said, we don't

441
00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:05,920
Speaker 3: know day to day, week to week most of the time.

442
00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 3: But some of these, you know teams, you go, well,

443
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,720
Speaker 3: they look like they really have an easy strength to schedule,

444
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,440
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, I look at some of these

445
00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:19,200
Speaker 3: and like the Giants, for example, it's like kinda thank

446
00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 3: god that the Giants look like they're going to be

447
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 3: okay in the first half of the of the year

448
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:29,440
Speaker 3: from an offensive perspective, because they're playing without Malik Neighbors

449
00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 3: potentially potentially for a couple of games to open up.

450
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,880
Speaker 3: And I go, okay, they're playing the Cowboys, the Titans,

451
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,800
Speaker 3: the Cardinals, the Commanders in that stretch. They have good

452
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:43,800
Speaker 3: to great offenses that group, and the Giants defense is

453
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 3: presumably bad, So I go, okay, maybe a guy like

454
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Speaker 3: Isaiah Likely, who we've talked about a lot, as like

455
00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 3: a tight end sleeper. It makes me even more confident

456
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:55,240
Speaker 3: to go out and get him. But that's the kind

457
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Speaker 3: of stuff that I get into the weeds with. Not

458
00:22:57,840 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 3: a lot of this matters that much for my view.

459
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Speaker 1: There you go and totally redeem yourself, right, That's exactly

460
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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Now. I had to go looking

461
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: for the Giants. They weren't. I didn't have them listed,

462
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, for d chess. Here I listed the best

463
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 1: five in the bottom five, the Giants leaned in the middle.

464
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: And what you did is my favorite thing is add

465
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 1: nuanced and context of things that need them. And that's

466
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 1: a great pick a team that might kind of fall

467
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Speaker 1: by the wayside, and maybe as long as they're not

468
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 1: facing the most difficult teams you can get out in

469
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Speaker 1: front of picks at me, not say Iffy, but we

470
00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 1: think we're taking a bit of a chance on So

471
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Speaker 1: I actually do like that. Now I want to I

472
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Speaker 1: like to expose my old scars, you know, for the public,

473
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Speaker 1: and but it's pertinent to the conversation and it has

474
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Speaker 1: to do with how unpredictable these things are. I had

475
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Speaker 1: to go back on the year because you know, we

476
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Speaker 1: mentally blocked these things out. So it's twenty twenty three

477
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Speaker 1: and I remember it. I remember very clearly because you

478
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,679
Speaker 1: mentioned Cleveland and all of the best ball bros and

479
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 1: all of the schedule bros were going, you know, nuts

480
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 1: over who is indoors and who is playing who, and

481
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 1: to make sure you needed to make sure to avoid

482
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Speaker 1: the Jets and the Browns. They'd be playing in Super

483
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: Bowl week, Fantasy super Bowl week, and you couldn't possibly

484
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 1: you must avoid this at all costs. That game ended

485
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: thirty seven to twenty and was a fantasy circus. I'm

486
00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,440
Speaker 1: looking at it right now. Flacco went for over three

487
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,680
Speaker 1: hundred and three. It was It was an absolute circus.

488
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 1: And like the game that you needed to win all

489
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 1: of the monies, you know, Trancibion out of Mantzi out

490
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,400
Speaker 1: of Monster Game. It was just nuts. Yeah, Brecee Hall

491
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,919
Speaker 1: went from like one hundred and ninety total yards. He

492
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Speaker 1: had twelve catches and two scores. Just really crazy stuff.

493
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Speaker 1: And I know all these things happened in the vacuum

494
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: and their independent events, but that's really my point is

495
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: I like how you did it. Don't go too crazy,

496
00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 1: look at it, try and discern something without over overreaction,

497
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: and have it just you know, add a layer to

498
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,399
Speaker 1: an already tough decision that I think is just the

499
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,399
Speaker 1: perfect way to do this stuff. Now, how about the

500
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Speaker 1: teams that I mentioned, You know, at the top of

501
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 1: the bottom, so the hardest schedules, and this is by

502
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: win percentage. Last year, what you poked the very obvious

503
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: hole in we don't know a ton about defenses in

504
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 1: particular don't necessarily tend to carry over, which I find

505
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: very weird. In baseball, it's pitching. You would think that works.

506
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:32,080
Speaker 1: I would think defense would be the thing that sticks right.

507
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: It's you're imposing the will of stopping. But it proves

508
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 1: mathematically to not be the case. Chicago Bears are at

509
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Speaker 1: the top and now have a quick note. So Chicago,

510
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:42,639
Speaker 1: I really don't have much. I think they play a

511
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 1: balanced offense. I really wouldn't be too worried. Miami was next.

512
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,720
Speaker 1: I think you have to worry rookie quarterback lack of weapons,

513
00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: but also probably a parenthesise wheels up for Devid h

514
00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: Chan because if they're gonna be playing from negative game scripts,

515
00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: he's gonna catch one hundred and twenty balls. Then third

516
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 1: is Arizona. Hardest schedule for Arizona. I put a green

517
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 1: light for everybody because we saw what a fantasy circus

518
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,040
Speaker 1: the desert turns into when Arizona is behind. So I

519
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 1: think those maybe places where you're saying, oh, maybe we

520
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,959
Speaker 1: do like the Cardinal offense because they're going to be

521
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 1: terrible predictably. So what do you think about that maybe

522
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: do you think I missed anything with the Bears? How

523
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 1: do you digest the toughest schedules? Take it wherever you like?

524
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Speaker 3: Yep, the toughest schedule thing is again more useful in

525
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 3: my opinion, front loaded to look at the front half

526
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,239
Speaker 3: of the season and say, Okay, how hard is this

527
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,160
Speaker 3: thing truly going to be?

528
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 2: And you're not wrong?

529
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,679
Speaker 3: Like there are now you looked at it differently with

530
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 3: like Arizona. For me, I actually went different and I said,

531
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 3: Arizona has a really hard strength of schedule. We know

532
00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,240
Speaker 3: that last year they were passing way more above average

533
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 3: than even the most pass heavy teams because they had

534
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 3: a decimated backfield, They had injuries kind of dealing with

535
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 3: you know, some of these players going out, Marv Harrison Junior, etc.

536
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 3: So when when Jacoby Brissett's passing forty times a game,

537
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 3: you go, well, that's fine for fantasy. So I understand

538
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 3: the playing from behind concept, but I honestly think that

539
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 3: they're just good enough now to where they're not going

540
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 3: to be playing from behind and get you the garbage

541
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,280
Speaker 3: time that you want. So I'm actually staying away from

542
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 3: like Jacoby Brissett certainly is not going to be somebody

543
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 3: that I'm going after. But he's got his others. He's

544
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 3: holding out with a contract thing potentially, and there's some

545
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 3: other beij flags we have to worry about with him.

546
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 3: But it actually gives me pause about drafting Jeremiah Love.

547
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 3: I'd been really high on Jeremiah Love, thinking I know

548
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 3: he's a rookie, but I'll take him in, you know,

549
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 3: the second round and be happy.

550
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 2: I'm kind of scooted off of that just a little

551
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:49,920
Speaker 2: bit with the hard.

552
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 3: Strength of schedule to start, because I don't know that

553
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 3: he's gonna be as dominant as you want and need

554
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,679
Speaker 3: him to be right away. I don't care again, if

555
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,040
Speaker 3: he's gonna get me a bunch of points in week twelve,

556
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 3: Am I gonna be patient enough to hold him and

557
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:04,360
Speaker 3: not want to trade him away before that even happens.

558
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:05,160
Speaker 1: I don't.

559
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 2: I don't think so, So I'm probably gonna not touch

560
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 2: him until round three.

561
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,239
Speaker 1: Now. Yeah, there's a couple of ways to look at that,

562
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 1: and I don't think I don't think you're wrong. I

563
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 1: think it's a it's the rational and very strong counter

564
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 1: to what I'm saying. Right One side of the coin

565
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: is negative game scripts and lots of passing. The other

566
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 1: side of the coin is defense is not so binary.

567
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 1: As you know, facing a good defense means behind points.

568
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: Sometimes facing a good defense, what does it really mean?

569
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,200
Speaker 1: It means lots of disguise pressures, It means safety is

570
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: coming out of the backfield, and it means lots of

571
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: deceptive schematics that are very difficult for rookies to pick

572
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: up on. Right. These are all these are the reasons

573
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: why rookies fail. I've I've been joking about taking all

574
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: these backup veterans because they know where to stand. They

575
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, and people laugh about that, but it's legit

576
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: the truth. You it's something that you were kind of

577
00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: hinting towards with Aaron Rodgers. The second you miss it

578
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: alignment or you miss a rotational call, you know, left split.

579
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: If he wants you over on the right hand side

580
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: to pick up a pressure coming that way and you

581
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: don't get it, your time is short here, Parter. So

582
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: I'm not pushing these guys up, and I just kind

583
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: of cold on the Cardinals. Maybe they'll bad strength to schedule.

584
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: The high strength of schedule in the pants and gets

585
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: you back on Michael Wilson. You could tell I've been

586
00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: trying to target and identify late wideouts that could pop

587
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: because I've been more focused on getting my running backs early.

588
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: So if you could have been drafting and I'm trying

589
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 1: to get the muscle memory going, giving up good advice

590
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: for everyone, but stuff that works, you can't say, well,

591
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: take all the early whiteouts and all the early running backs.

592
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: You can't have both those things. Yeah, it'd be a

593
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: wonderful world if we could, but we can't do that.

594
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: So I've been looking for guys like that. How about

595
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: the flip side now, So off the schedules, I've got Cleveland.

596
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: They're gonna need this need to work out pretty good

597
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: for these duds like Cleveland Orleans, which I like because

598
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: I was kind of high on them. So when I

599
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: see that maybe the soft one, maybe I am acting

600
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: on it. Where a guy like Shuck, I think second

601
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 1: year I'm expecting some growth wouldn't hurt to be facing

602
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: Bay defenses. And the third was Cincinnati. Who I mean,

603
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: if you were wheels up on Cincinnati anyway, you should

604
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: have been. One note I had on Cincinnati that I

605
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 1: found kept popping up was the wide receiver three situation. Right,

606
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,960
Speaker 1: everyone is very high on chasing Higgins, as they should be,

607
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: but like we've seen Yoshivas kind of do some work.

608
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:36,000
Speaker 1: He goes mostly undrafted, and if they're gonna be a

609
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: thirty eight point a week team, again, I think everybody

610
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: could eat. So what do you think about those teams Cleveland,

611
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Cincy or anything else you have to add

612
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: about the weakest schedules.

613
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 3: The Bengals is really interesting, and I think you're right.

614
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 3: I think also the other thing that we see sometimes

615
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 3: with these offenses, when they really get the chance to

616
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 3: dominate their opposition, which could very well happen with Cincinnati

617
00:30:56,840 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 3: especially proven that their defense should theoretically be better after

618
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 3: the investments that they made. Then you do start to

619
00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 3: see towards the end of games some of these other

620
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 3: wide receivers just get more involved. Jamar Chase doesn't have

621
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 3: to go out there in the fourth quarter when they're

622
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 3: up by twenty points and do what he does. He

623
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 3: might want to just save himself, or the coaches rather

624
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 3: would probably want to save him a little bit. So

625
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 3: we even in situations like that, you could get some

626
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 3: garbage time from Yoshivas. I'm also looking now at Chase Brown,

627
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,479
Speaker 3: which is somebody who's maybe just been kind of a

628
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 3: name in the cloud. He's just been kind of this

629
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 3: sure whatever. He seems fine, at least from my perspective.

630
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 3: But now I'm going, well, if they have this easy

631
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 3: of a schedule, I should probably be.

632
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 2: Giving him better shrift.

633
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 3: I should be bumping him up just a little bit

634
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 3: more because they didn't add any real competition for him.

635
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 3: So Chase Brown is somebody who stands out to me

636
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 3: from the Bengals. I also do think, yeah, the Saints

637
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 3: should be fine. I was already heavily invested in Dialer Shuck,

638
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 3: so this was more of a s I have relief

639
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 3: when I saw this, And with the Browns again, I

640
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 3: look at the running back and I say, Okay, Quinn

641
00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 3: Shawn Judkins. I've never been a huge believer, just because

642
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 3: I think his pass catching abilities are capped, his touchdown

643
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 3: scoring opportunities are a little capped. But the strength the

644
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 3: schedule does help that. So he is somebody that I'm

645
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 3: more comfortable drafting in you know, round four, round five,

646
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 3: than I was a month ago.

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Speaker 1: Love every bit of that. That was a really great

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Speaker 1: tease for next week. As we wrap up this edition

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Speaker 1: of the f FW. Jacob, it's the injury stuff because

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Speaker 1: Judkins is another one of those guys. He dissocated his

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Speaker 1: right ankle and fractured his fibula, So next week when

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Speaker 1: you'll be like, maybe we'll do it next week, if

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Speaker 1: not really coming soon all the injury guys during the year,

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Speaker 1: and how to treat him. So from Big John and

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Speaker 1: Cheek and all the lovely people here at f FW,

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Speaker 1: thank you and we'll see you next week. Have a

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Speaker 1: great weekend, everybody. Take care

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Speaker 2: You