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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Wednesday, November one, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your man, MG,

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Speaker 2: Marcus Grant, joined by Michael f. Florio. We're previewing Thursday

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Speaker 2: Night football and the early Sunday games from week nine.

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Speaker 2: Let's just dive in and get started with those fantasy

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Speaker 2: headlines and the news that everybody's talking about. Out of

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas. The Raiders have fired head coach Josh McDaniels.

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Speaker 2: They have fired general manager David Ziggler. They have also

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Speaker 2: relieved all offensive coordinator Mike Lombardi of their duties. On

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Speaker 2: top of that, they have sort of fired or at

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Speaker 2: least demoted to their starting quarterback. Jimmy Garoppolo has been benched.

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Speaker 2: Rookie Aid and O'Connell will be the starter moving forward.

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Speaker 2: So a lot of change happening Las Vegas. Let's just

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Speaker 2: get down to what we care about though. Does this

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Speaker 2: mean we can hashtag free Devonte Adams now? And you know,

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Speaker 2: maybe even Jacoby Myers.

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Speaker 3: I definitely feel really good about Davonte Adams. In the

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Speaker 3: one game with Aiden O'Connell, he threw to Devonte thirteen times.

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Speaker 3: He didn't throw to Jacoby a whole lot, but that

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Speaker 3: was just one game. I think we could get both

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Speaker 3: of those guys going. They also threw the ball eleven

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Speaker 3: times to Josh Jacobs in that game. From this stat

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Speaker 3: blew my mind. Devonte Adams and Josh Jacobs are now

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Speaker 3: are bottom three, Jacobs's last amongst all running backs and

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Speaker 3: Fantasy points over expectation. Yeah, it can't get any worse

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Speaker 3: than it's been so far, with Jimmy g who just

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Speaker 3: head coach again.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, our own Bridget Condon asked Josh

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Speaker 2: Jacobs how to get the offense going there, in his

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Speaker 2: response with I don't know. That's not my job. Maybe

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Speaker 2: now it should be. I mean, it couldn't be any

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Speaker 2: worse than the way things were going there in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: I do think we're going to see a lot of

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Speaker 2: The whole team just seems like they were sort of

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Speaker 2: at the end of their rope with what was going

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure yet that Aidan O'Connell can support multiple

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Speaker 2: pass catchers in this offense. Which also means that all

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Speaker 2: of our hopes for Michael Mayer are sort of put

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Speaker 2: on hold for the time being, because I definitely don't

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Speaker 2: think they get far enough down the pecking order for

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Speaker 2: Michael Mayer to get a lot of targets there. But

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Speaker 2: hopefully this means a change is coming in Las Vegas

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Speaker 2: different people in the front office, different people on the headset.

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Speaker 2: Former NFL linebacker Antonio Pierce will be the one to

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Speaker 2: take over as the interim head coach. Another quarterback change,

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Speaker 2: this one down in Atlanta, where our old friend Arthur

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Speaker 2: Smith has made the announcement that Taylor Heinike will get

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Speaker 2: the start going against the Vikings coming up this week.

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Speaker 2: Desmond Ritter will serve as the backup. It's a thing

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Speaker 2: that you and I and a lot of people have

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Speaker 2: been asking for, certainly in fantasy football for a while,

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Speaker 2: because Desmond Ridder just wasn't getting it done. Now, I

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Speaker 2: don't think anybody's going out there and starting Taylor Heineke

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Speaker 2: and their fantasy teams, and if you do, thoughts and

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Speaker 2: prayers to you. But the biggest question are we back

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Speaker 2: on the Kyle Pitts bandwagon. We are back like we

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Speaker 3: The reason is this is a good thing for fantasy purposes,

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Speaker 3: like is it a great thing for the Falcons. No,

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Speaker 3: but Taylor Heineke is more aggressive. We saw last week

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Speaker 3: he came in. He threw the ball four times. Three

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Speaker 3: of the passes he completed, we're all longer than any

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Speaker 3: first half on the year. I know it's a small

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Speaker 3: Plus he's just the mentality, the gunslinger mentality. Maybe he's

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Speaker 3: not a gunslinger in physical ability, but in his head

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Speaker 3: And I think that's a good thing for Pitts, for

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Speaker 2: We had a chance this morning just in passing to

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Speaker 2: talk with our coworker and former NFL receiver Steve Smith,

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Speaker 2: and that was one of the things he said about

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Speaker 2: this doesn't necessarily boost the Falcons forward in actual football,

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Speaker 2: see if this is good news for Kyle Pitts. We'll

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Speaker 2: for the pass catchers that we have wanted to get involved. Now,

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Speaker 2: I guess the next step is for Arthur Smith to

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Speaker 2: Pruitt and Cordero Patterson. Arthur, and it's your move, Now

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Speaker 2: play your good players. That's all we're asking you to do.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to the TNF game preview. Shall we the

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Speaker 2: Titans at the Steelers. You can see that at eight

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Speaker 2: fifteen pm Eastern on Prime Video. Maybe not the most

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Speaker 2: exciting fantasy matchup, but there are some things of intrigue.

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Speaker 2: Will Levis gonna get the start again this week for

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Speaker 2: the Titans after coming out and throwing four touchdowns in

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Speaker 2: will make any more modest, more or less for Will

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna choose to believe here and say more. And

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Speaker 3: I wrote about Will Levis in the Stardum cinematicle as

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Speaker 2: I will say I'm gonna say more, but I will

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Speaker 2: On the other side, Deontae Johnson. We came into this

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Speaker 2: it hasn't happened yet. Deontay Johnson still has the same

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Speaker 3: Nope? Look, it's I want him to. I have him

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Speaker 2: As we sit and recorded this show, it has been

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Speaker 2: you know, preserve judgment on that, but Kenny Pickett should

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Speaker 2: Deontay Johnson gets targets. Look, I know there's nothing analytical

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Speaker 2: Sunday slate of games. Got four teams on a bye

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Speaker 2: they will lace them up this week. That's a game

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Speaker 2: you can see on NFL Network and streaming on NFL Plus.

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Speaker 2: It kicks off at nine to thirty am Eastern, That

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Speaker 2: So get your coffee early and your bagels and all

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Speaker 2: So besides the defenses, anyone in this game that you

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The beautiful part about the Dolphins is their offense

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Speaker 3: Isaiah Pacheco. I think Jeric McKinnon is a little bit

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you really do. I would also say, look,

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Speaker 2: now that's going to have a big game. So this

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Speaker 2: this week the wheel lends on Marquez Valdez TX Scantling.

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Speaker 2: So I think MVS, who frequently has been the cardio

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think you're right. I think the reason

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Speaker 2: To start him. I had DK metcalf as one of

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Speaker 3: Dame Yeah and Lamar Man and talking on MVP love,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even think Tyreek's getting that love

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Speaker 3: It depends on options with Kyler Murray. Like in our

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Speaker 3: I think Trade McBride is in play just because tight

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Speaker 2: I think I really think they're gonna throw Clayton Tune

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Speaker 3: We're gonna get de Mercado forty rushing attempts yep for

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Speaker 2: So that that is what I think about. That that'll

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Speaker 2: do it for this edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Show.

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Speaker 2: Stay happy, safe and healthy, do good, and live well.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow to preview the rest of the

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Speaker 2: Week nine matchups.