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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Wednesday, October eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me Your Man,

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Speaker 1: MG Marcus Grand joined by Michael F. Florio. On today's show,

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Speaker 1: we are previewing Thursday Night Football and the early Sunday

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Speaker 1: games from week seven. Are you ready for Week seven?

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Speaker 1: Because Week seven doesn't seem like it's going to be fun.

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Speaker 2: You know, Week five and six we were like, these

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Speaker 2: were weird weeks where a lot of stuff that we

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Speaker 2: weren't planning on happened. Week seven at least we know

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Speaker 2: going into it that it's not gonna be great because

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Speaker 2: six teams on buy lots of injuries already. But I

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Speaker 2: think we can help people.

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Speaker 1: Weather the storm. We will start as we normally do,

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Speaker 1: with our fantasy headlines, starting with Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence

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Speaker 1: dealing with a knee injury. Now he is believed to

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Speaker 1: have avoided any sort of major issue, but day today

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Speaker 1: and right now, his status for Thursday Night Football is

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Speaker 1: up in the air. So let's just say, for the

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Speaker 1: sake of argument and for the sake of actually having

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Speaker 1: content on this show, that CJ. Bethard plays this week.

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Speaker 1: What do you feel about the wide receivers and I

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Speaker 1: guess the tight ends and the whole past catching group

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Speaker 1: for Jacksonville.

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Speaker 2: Given the fact that there are six teams on buy

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Speaker 2: and there's a whole lot of injuries right now around

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Speaker 2: the league, you probably are not in a position where

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Speaker 2: you could sit Evan Ingram, Christian Kirk or Calvin Ridley.

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Speaker 2: Maybe if you are, you can go ahead and get

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Speaker 2: away from them. I think what it does is it

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Speaker 2: makes them all just a little bit more boom or bust.

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Speaker 2: I think the upside is still there because they're all

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Speaker 2: big play threats. Especially with Calvin Ridley, I would be

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Speaker 2: most worried with because he's the one that they like

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Speaker 2: to target downfield. But I still think the upside would

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Speaker 2: be high enough where you probably can't get away.

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Speaker 1: I know I have a couple of leagues where I

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Speaker 1: can't get away from Calvin Ridley. I am having to

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Speaker 1: start him because of buys and injuries and the like.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not excited about it. We've kind of seen

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Speaker 1: what CJ. Bether can be and there's very much a

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Speaker 1: cap on what the production potential is and that is

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Speaker 1: going to impact everybody. And I also think it's hard

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Speaker 1: to go a lot deeper. I mean, Ridley and Kirk

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Speaker 1: sort of taking away from each other. Evan Ingram has

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Speaker 1: been very steady, if not spectacular, But everybody I think

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Speaker 1: takes a bump down if it is indeed CJ. Bethard

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Speaker 1: staying in the AFC South Ryan Tannehill has an injured

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Speaker 1: ankle looks like a high ankle spring. The good news

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Speaker 1: he could be out for an extended period of time.

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Speaker 1: The Titans went out and drafted will Levice, but Malik

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Speaker 1: Willis is ahead of him on the depth chart. So

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Speaker 1: assuming Willis is going to be the starter for the

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Speaker 1: foreseeable future, is he worth adding to fantasy rosters?

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Speaker 2: Definitely in two quarterback leagues and one QB formats, I

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Speaker 2: would probably take away and see approach unless you are

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Speaker 2: really really in need of just life at the quarterback position.

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Speaker 2: The thing is the floor is not very high with

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Speaker 2: Malik Willis. We saw that last when he got to start.

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Speaker 1: He did look a lot better. This year.

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Speaker 2: We're hearing reports from preseason and stuff that he is

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Speaker 2: really coming into his own. But the whole thing is

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Speaker 2: the rushing ability. Like even in his limited stamps the

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Speaker 2: other day he ran for seventeen yards on three carries.

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Speaker 2: That is what makes him fantasy relevant.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's sort of I guess in a lot

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Speaker 1: of ways what we were hoping for for Anthony Richardson,

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Speaker 1: having shoulder surgery. That is the upside, I will say

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Speaker 1: selfishly with somebodys with Malik Willis on a dynasty roster,

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Speaker 1: very curious to see what this is going to be.

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Speaker 1: I guess the other thing that sort of works in

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Speaker 1: his favor is this year they have de Andre Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: where last year they did not. They were trying to

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Speaker 1: So at least this year with Willis in there, he's

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Speaker 1: But I'm with you, if it's not a two quarterback league,

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Speaker 1: Malik Willis at this point. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, looks

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Speaker 2: I still think he is purely just a flex option

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Speaker 2: because I'm very scared. Look the Rams that they are

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Speaker 2: saying he is likely the lead back. But they did

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Speaker 2: go out and they signed Darryl Henderson, who just a

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Speaker 2: calendar year ago was their leading rusher at this time

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Speaker 2: in the season last year. He knows this system very well.

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Speaker 2: They brought in Miles Gaskin from Minnesota. That offense is

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Speaker 2: very similar to the Rams. This is giving me flashbacks

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Speaker 2: to I think it was like twenty e eighteen or

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen where Championship Week, Todd Gurley sits out and

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Speaker 2: everyone's like John Kelly, He's the backup and the backup

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Speaker 2: all year. He's the guy to start, and they bring

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Speaker 2: in CJ. Anderson off the street. He gets all the

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Speaker 2: volume and it cost me a Fantasy Championship and probably

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of other people Fantasy championship. So I

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Speaker 2: have trouble trusting Sean McVeigh with running backs.

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Speaker 1: I understand that I will say there's a little warm spot

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Speaker 1: in my heart for Voleo's finest CJ. Anderson being from

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Speaker 1: the same hometown, But no, I do remember that I

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Speaker 1: am going to bang on it being Zach Evans as

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Speaker 1: the lead back. Now, will other guys work in there?

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Speaker 1: Certainly it's very possible. I mean, I think part of

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Speaker 1: Kiley's has some familiarity. I know the offense looks a

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Speaker 1: familiarity with what they're doing there in Los Angeles, and

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Speaker 1: Evans is the guy that I think everybody went out

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Speaker 1: and added. I think he had a change of about

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Speaker 1: thirty three percent in roster percentage on NFL dot Com.

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Speaker 1: That probably went from zero to thirty three is probably

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Speaker 1: what it was. So I would give him a shot

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Speaker 1: let's get going with our look at week seven. We

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Speaker 1: will start it with Thursday Night football, as we always do,

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Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars heading to New Orleans to take on

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Speaker 1: the Saints eight point fifteen pm Eastern Time. You can

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Speaker 1: see that on Prime Video. So we talked about the

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Speaker 1: quarterback situation that could be CJ. Bethard, and we all

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Speaker 1: both agreed that you bumped down the ceiling for guys

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Speaker 1: like Christian Kirk and Calvin Ridley. But of the two,

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Speaker 1: which one do you think scores more Fantasy points this week?

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Christian Kirk because one, he plays

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Speaker 2: in the slot more. And not only do the Saints

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Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence, I think short quicker throws to the slot

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Speaker 2: makes more sense than trying to wait and let Calvin

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Speaker 2: Ridley win downfield. I also looked at where he runs

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Speaker 2: his routes more on the left side out wide that

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Speaker 2: Saints have been pretty stingy this season to receivers that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm going with Kirk, especially if it

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Speaker 1: good Saints defense. I don't expect they're going to give

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Speaker 1: go with Kirk, who has consistently been the better receiver

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Speaker 1: On the other side, Chris o'lave is still captain air yards.

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Speaker 1: The only player with more air yards than him so

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Speaker 1: far this season is aj Brown. It hasn't necessarily translated

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Speaker 1: I'm asking you, can't he get in the end zone?

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Speaker 1: I want to believe I'm going to say yes. You

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Speaker 1: I think that's a big thing. The Jaguars have allowed

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Speaker 2: The only team to allow more is the Commanders. So

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Speaker 1: back in so much like you and like Fox Moulder,

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Speaker 1: I want to believe. Here you go. That's Thursday Night football.

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Speaker 1: It gets us to the Sunday slate of games. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you've heard, but it is by apocalypse

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Speaker 1: this week. The Panthers, the Bengals, the Cowboys, the Texans,

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Speaker 1: the Jets, and the Titans all get the week offs.

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Speaker 1: Who sit back and enjoy the league championship series or

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Speaker 1: I guess football too, if that's what they want to do.

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Speaker 1: So let's start with a game that is a lot

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Speaker 1: more intriguing now that I thought it would be at

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Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. The five and one Detroit

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Speaker 1: and poorly against bad teams. But the question is what

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Speaker 1: do we do with the running backs in this game?

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Speaker 1: Because both sides are kind of messy right now, and

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Speaker 1: both sides, I think for the pass catchers we know

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Speaker 1: who to start on these teams now, So the running

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Speaker 1: backs for the Ravens, I'm just saying, sit all of them,

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Speaker 1: like Gus Edwards and Justice Hill continue to cannibalize from

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Speaker 1: each other, and the Lions have been extremely stingy against

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Speaker 2: But for the Lions, I think Jamior Gibbs, this is

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Speaker 2: We saw them play Week three without Montgomery. Gibbs had

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Speaker 2: did you see that block Reynolds through the other day?

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Speaker 2: That's what wins Dan Campbell over. You know what else

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Speaker 2: wins Dan campbellover using a top twelve pick on a

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Speaker 2: They've allowed the fewest yards by far too wide receivers.

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Speaker 2: The fantasy points have been extremely stingy, but again, volume

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Speaker 2: They should let James Cook because on a per touch basis,

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Speaker 1: The Giants wide receivers have a very good matchup against

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Speaker 1: any Giants receivers. I think Wanda Robinson is in play

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Speaker 1: The Commanders have allowed the most yards, touchdowns, and third

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Speaker 1: where Jalen Hyatt not only excels, but he is the Giants'

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Speaker 1: Marcus. I'm thinking this could be the breakout. I am

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Speaker 1: in deeper leagues I'd consider, But again, go pick up

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hyatt if he's out there on your roster and

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Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of season left to go,

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Speaker 2: I think so, especially with six teams on by Kyle

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Speaker 2: Pitts in the last month has giving you eleven Fantasy

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Speaker 2: points per game or just under it. That's enough to

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Speaker 2: make him a tight end one and he's top fourteen

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Speaker 2: and two straight. Drake London was the wide receiver six

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Speaker 2: And I don't think there's any going back, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: That is definitely what we like. You know, you know, quiets,

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Speaker 1: last three weeks, London and Pitts have combined for about

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Speaker 1: we ask for. We are a simple folk as fantasy types.

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Speaker 1: Just get the ball to your best players, and we

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Speaker 1: be happy, and we're not gonna tweet memes about you.

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Speaker 1: You and the Surrender Cobra. You and Kellen Moore both

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Speaker 1: did this past week. So thank you. Arthur Smith. Please

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Speaker 1: preview the rest of the Week seven matchups.