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Speaker 1: Wow, what is up? Welcome to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Live Podcast. It to be Your Man, MG

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Speaker 1: Marcus Grand alongside the Fantasy Hall of Famer Michael Fabiano.

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Speaker 1: I have a fantasy viper Grand Barfield and Happy week one.

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Speaker 1: We made it, y'all's here. Man. We survived the long

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Speaker 1: dark night of the preseason and now we have emerged

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Speaker 1: Sort of, we kind of have sort of, yeah, but

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Speaker 1: this weekend was just it's it's insane. I know, we

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Speaker 1: barely survived. Like I was in and like I was,

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Speaker 1: you know, trying to update my rankings and it was

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Speaker 1: it was an interesting uh thing day or two. So

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that. Well, we'll get to that. We

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Speaker 1: we got lots to talk about, because yes, there were

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Speaker 1: there were cut downs over the weekend as all the

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Speaker 1: teams got to fifty three men on their rosters. Uh

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Speaker 1: So there were some surprising names, maybe not some not

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Speaker 1: so surprising names that got let go, but definitely some

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Speaker 1: names that shook things up in fantasy, so we will

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Speaker 1: talk about that. Oh Bay, Happy Labor Day, guys. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's we labor here and here in U in the States,

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Speaker 1: it's labor day for for most people, but where it works,

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Speaker 1: so it's not too bad. I mean, we're just here

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Speaker 1: this morning. No, it's great because I got on the

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Speaker 1: the Lord intended. It took me less than ten minutes

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Speaker 1: And where where did you move to? I am? I

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Speaker 1: I'm elsa gundo. If I walk two blocks south, I'm howthorn.

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Speaker 1: I feel like preparing for like the eventual move in one.

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Speaker 1: Now you're even closer. I am super close, and like

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Speaker 1: yesterday took a picture. Yeah, the stadium, the stag over

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Speaker 1: it's awesome. Yeah, and actually when you drive up close

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Speaker 1: and then just because there's like a really awesome Jamaican

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Speaker 1: So we'll talk about the things that happened in the weekend.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about just kind of a draft season wrap

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Speaker 1: up now that we're at the end of fantasy draft season.

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Speaker 1: Some things we learned, some guys that we love and

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Speaker 1: we don't make some of the same mistakes again. Plus,

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Speaker 1: the season is starting, so I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: you have done your drafts, but there's still guys on

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Speaker 1: the waiver wire. It's never too soon to start making

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Speaker 1: waiver wire moves. So we'll throwout some early preseason, early

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Speaker 1: I should be a pretty full show today. But before

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Speaker 1: and talk to our faithful producer, Senior Edward L. Murphy esquire, Murph,

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Speaker 1: what's up? It is just so wild that it's already

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Speaker 1: weak one. I Like, it was just yesterday like me,

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Speaker 1: today it's gonna be like ninety degrees here football starting.

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Speaker 1: It gets like I watched college football the entire weekend.

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Speaker 1: It's absolutely crazy, Like, dude, snap of fingers. I was

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Speaker 1: So let's do some news. Well, let's start with these

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Speaker 1: here we are, guys. We are a couple of days

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Speaker 1: the belief that Zeke would get something done, that Mel

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Speaker 1: I'm sticking with what I've said all along. I didn't

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Speaker 1: That's where I'm still at. And I mean, listen, I

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Speaker 1: At the same time, you know, I've also been advising

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Speaker 1: I'm taking Zeke at four or five overall. I am

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Speaker 1: still because I mean, Rich Freebar made this good point.

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Speaker 1: I'm very interested to talk about this now. Um, the

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Speaker 1: They've got Darwin Thompson, who became everyone's fantasy darling in

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Speaker 1: that McCoy could quote take a large percentage of the

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Speaker 1: up here. Like the Bills saved six point four million

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't love for them to go ten person.

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Speaker 1: going on. There's so many guys there too. Uh Now

427
00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:32,760
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty much cleared itself up. It is a

428
00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:34,840
Speaker 1: pretty much worked itself out. Tevin Coleman is the one,

429
00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:37,480
Speaker 1: Matt Breed is the two, and we move on. I

430
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,360
Speaker 1: don't know. Coleman will get six snaps, Breed gets week one,

431
00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:44,440
Speaker 1: and Breeda has the opportunity to flip that on its

432
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,960
Speaker 1: head this season. I'm excited about this backfield. The Niners

433
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:51,560
Speaker 1: faced the easiest slate of run defenses started this season too. Yeah,

434
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:54,439
Speaker 1: I mean week one, Tevin Coleman has got to be

435
00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,920
Speaker 1: in your lineup, even if he's flex, no question about that. Yeah.

436
00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,400
Speaker 1: I mean it's just I think we knew that there

437
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,440
Speaker 1: was the potential for there to be some good running

438
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,960
Speaker 1: backs out of this backfield. We just were confused about

439
00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,840
Speaker 1: which ones they were going to be a few months ago.

440
00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:09,560
Speaker 1: But you know, hey, time time clears things up, and

441
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,520
Speaker 1: that offense very conducive to running backs having success. Yeah,

442
00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:15,159
Speaker 1: I mean that's what Kyle Shanahan does. Uh. Last bit

443
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,159
Speaker 1: of news, A couple of first round wide receivers from

444
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,240
Speaker 1: the twenty six teen draft were let go by the

445
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 1: respective teams. Josh Dockson out in Washington, Lakwan Treadwell out

446
00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. The Treadwell one. I think we could all

447
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 1: sort of see coming that really never really never clicked there.

448
00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 1: Dockson maybe a little bit more of a surprise because

449
00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:35,959
Speaker 1: it seems like he was always on the verge of

450
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:40,360
Speaker 1: something and just never quite got there. Um, the Redskins

451
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,520
Speaker 1: went out and got two receivers, though they got Terry McLaurin,

452
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,440
Speaker 1: Kelvin Harmon. I mean, you know, you know you should

453
00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 1: be grabbing late though? Is that Tray Quinn Quinn? I

454
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: know is the name that everybody wants. Yeah, I mean

455
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,679
Speaker 1: obviously Jordan read as long as he can stay healthy,

456
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,080
Speaker 1: but he's coming off a concussion in the preseason. But

457
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,399
Speaker 1: I could see just sort of like the Dolphins, just

458
00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 1: no Redskins being fantasy relevant every single week besides maybe

459
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 1: guys leagues, but that's it. That's about it. So yeah,

460
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:08,800
Speaker 1: between them and the Dolphins, Uh, Fantasy waste land. Things

461
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 1: are bleak in that in that part of the fantasy world.

462
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:27,959
Speaker 1: There you go. That's pretty much everything you need to know. Alright. So,

463
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 1: I know for some of you you are still doing drafts,

464
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,840
Speaker 1: and you'll be doing drafts probably you know who knows

465
00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,680
Speaker 1: all through the week. But for the majority of people,

466
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,680
Speaker 1: they've had their drafts. Draft season is over. We're sort

467
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,879
Speaker 1: of packing things up and getting things ready for the

468
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Speaker 1: actual regular season. So I'll just kind of talk about

469
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Speaker 1: some of the things that we kind of took away

470
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Speaker 1: from this draft season. Um, I had a few questions.

471
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 1: I was kind of pouring through a DPS and looking

472
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: at stuff. Uh, the one thing I took away from

473
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Speaker 1: this or want to know. I know, in the past,

474
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Speaker 1: we sort of used preseason as a measure of of

475
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Speaker 1: who's going to be on the field when, how the

476
00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,960
Speaker 1: touches are going to be distributed. But as we've kind

477
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,200
Speaker 1: of gone along the last couple of years, right, teams

478
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,520
Speaker 1: are using their starters less and less. Uh we know,

479
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 1: the Rams don't play them at all. Um More teams

480
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,040
Speaker 1: are starting to follow that mold. They're starting to kind

481
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: of use the preseason too figure out how they're the

482
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,879
Speaker 1: rest of their rosters wanted to stack up. Can we

483
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,639
Speaker 1: still use the preseason as a measure of trying to

484
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Speaker 1: figure things out, or those days sort of over now

485
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: we can I'll say, I mean the samples are getting

486
00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:33,679
Speaker 1: they got a lot smaller. This year. We saw a

487
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,400
Speaker 1: way fewer teams play their first team. Um, the Chargers

488
00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: basically didn't play Philip Rivers at all. Uh, Drew Brees

489
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,359
Speaker 1: played eight snaps this preseason. I mean it just it

490
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:46,959
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to risk your key starters and just

491
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,640
Speaker 1: these meaningless exhibition games, especially guys that have been around

492
00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: for super long time. I think this trend will continue

493
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 1: to the point where maybe in a few years the

494
00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 1: preseason is almost like worthless for us to project the

495
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,920
Speaker 1: opportunity maybe fewer preseason games in our future. That's also

496
00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: most likely the case. UM, I still think it's super

497
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,600
Speaker 1: valuable just to like see also, like how certain players

498
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 1: are progressing you over here, Like James Washington was freaking

499
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: bad and he and he still didn't move up in

500
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 1: my drafts, Like I got him late in a couple

501
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: of leagues, Like people aren't buying in because they see

502
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:18,920
Speaker 1: Dante mont Crief ahead of him on the debt chart,

503
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 1: Like young players do get better year over year, it's great.

504
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: It's nice to use the preseason as a tool in

505
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: that sense, and also I mean obviously use it for

506
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 1: usage purposes. But like you mentioned, Marcus, I mean it's

507
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: it kind of sucks like we can't really like last

508
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 1: year was a great This is probably one of the

509
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: best examples I can remember a preseason usage rights like

510
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: Cam Newton and Christian mccaffe around the field together literally

511
00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: on every single play for like fift like basically game's

512
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:43,960
Speaker 1: worth of plays, and it was like, oh my god,

513
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey is never going to leave the field this year,

514
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,640
Speaker 1: and he never did. Um, those situations and those types

515
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 1: of play areas where we can significantly project usage of

516
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 1: have definitely gone down. That That's where I see a

517
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 1: lot of value in preseason is you know, seeing which

518
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: players are playing which with players, right, I mean, you

519
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 1: know we're trying to find out, you know, who's who's

520
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,040
Speaker 1: going to be the starting running back in Tampa Bay,

521
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,000
Speaker 1: or you know who's gonna be on the field most

522
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,119
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Like you know, we saw Chris Godwin basically

523
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 1: was on the field every snap that Jamis Winston was

524
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,760
Speaker 1: onder center. I mean, we kind of already knew, but

525
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: that's that's a national indication that we're on the right

526
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:25,359
Speaker 1: path there. So but what will be funny is that, uh,

527
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 1: the I guess besides James Washington, the other like preseason

528
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: hero was Jacoby Myers. And let's see if that translates

529
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: into anything during the regular season, if he actually gets snaps.

530
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see he may or may not. If

531
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: they bring back to Marius Thomas, which has been reported,

532
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: he may not, but we'll see what happens. That my

533
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 1: perceiver group is sort of a mess. It's it's always

534
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: that's sort of a mess. Always. Edelman is the only constant,

535
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: the only constant man speaking to wide receivers. We have

536
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: got to a point where I know, we always look

537
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,280
Speaker 1: at the position and we say it's the right There's

538
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: a lot of there's a lot of guys out there.

539
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: But what I as I started to kind of go

540
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 1: through a dp S again, right, you hit a spot

541
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: kind of in the you know, fifth round, sixth round

542
00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 1: where you're sort of sifting between a lot of guys

543
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,439
Speaker 1: that have almost similar value, Like you may not be

544
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,119
Speaker 1: super excited about him, but they're not necessarily gonna, you know,

545
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: go bust on you. So it just made me wonder,

546
00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,760
Speaker 1: have we reached the point fans, where is the wide

547
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: receiver deep or is it just there's a lot of bodies,

548
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,640
Speaker 1: because I think there's there's sort of a difference there. Yeah,

549
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,160
Speaker 1: I think it's deep. Okay, there, I think there's I mean,

550
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,959
Speaker 1: there's a ton of talent at that position. And I

551
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: was in again. I was in the draft last night

552
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: and I decided to go running back, running back. I

553
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,480
Speaker 1: had done it a couple of times over the course

554
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,159
Speaker 1: of the draft season. Still have three drafts left, and

555
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: you know, I ended up with Robert Woods, Chris Godwin,

556
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: and Kenny Golladay, and like, I'm happy with that. And

557
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 1: I will tell you this. A source of mind, by

558
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: the way, has told me that Cooper Cup, if if

559
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:57,600
Speaker 1: he is, if he is not the wide receiver in

560
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 1: Los Angeles to target on the Rams, he's close to

561
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: Robert Woods, and that Brandon Cook should be third. And

562
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,119
Speaker 1: it's not even a question. Yeah, not even a question.

563
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 1: And he's he's a source who's around the Rams. So

564
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 1: take that for for what it is, but do not

565
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: forget if you have drafts that Cooper Cup is Jared

566
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,679
Speaker 1: Goff's guy, and if he's out there and healthy and

567
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 1: it seems like he is. Do not let Cooper Cup

568
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: fall too far in your draft, Cupper Cooper, sorry yet, Sorry?

569
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 1: Uh No, it's definitely deep. You mentioned, um you started

570
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,399
Speaker 1: a draft with two straight running backs of the weekend.

571
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: I started our Fantasy Live League draft with three straight

572
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: running backs. I went DJ Chub and DeVonta Freeman. My

573
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 1: receivers are still Chris Godwin, Robbie Anderson, Allen Robinson, got Geronimo,

574
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones. Like it's just deep, Like there's just there's

575
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: teams are throwing more, more receivers are seeing more targets.

576
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: It's just it's kind of spreading out the volume. And

577
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: if if there's fourty or fifty guys that you could

578
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: feel comfortable starting on every I mean think about it,

579
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 1: like you know Mike Williams, and you've got D. D. Westbrook,

580
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel D. J. Moore and now we got Josh

581
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: Gordon back. Like there's so much talent at the Bishop

582
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, It's it's crazy, Like I have no problem

583
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: going into a PPR league with Robert Woods and Chris

584
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: god was my top two. I don't have Michael Thomas.

585
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: You know, I don't have Julio, but my running backs

586
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 1: are gonna be pretty stacked. So I'm fine, I'm good there. Yeah, yeah,

587
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,479
Speaker 1: I mean that's sort of how I'm feeling. But I'm

588
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: also sort of like, you know, these are guys that

589
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,520
Speaker 1: that will have some spike weeks and some some just

590
00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,680
Speaker 1: disappearing weeks, and I guess that's sort of the thing

591
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: that we don't, you know, outside of I guess it's

592
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: this way with every position. Right after you get past

593
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: maybe the third round, there's so much more variants, but

594
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: you build around that, right, So if you start your

595
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: league with three running backs in three those three running

596
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: backs are going to be gaining and consistently gaining every

597
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: majority of your points. So if you have these spike

598
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: weeks receivers like you mentioned, Robby Anderson's my number two

599
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: receivers in this league, for example, He's not going to

600
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,400
Speaker 1: always be a consistent, tend to fifteen point guy, but

601
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: he's gonna have some of those spiked weeks. And when

602
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,320
Speaker 1: he has a week that's on the lower end, it's

603
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: fine because I've got three stud running backs that are

604
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: propelling me every single week. This team that I drafted

605
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: last night. I thought of you because this was like

606
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: if you and I drafted a team together. I got Chub,

607
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 1: I've got god when Woods, I've got Miles Sanders, your guy.

608
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: I got Lamar Jackson, Curtis Samuel, Mike Williams. I mean,

609
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: the the one thing I got Eric Ebrown. I'm not

610
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: real thrilled with. But everyone went tight end so quickly

611
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: that I just punted it until the end and I

612
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: grabbed Chris Herndon. Uh, and eventually he'll be my tight

613
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: end one, I believe. Uh. Speaking of the Patriots wide receivers,

614
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: news just broke that Nikkill Harry is going to be

615
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,719
Speaker 1: on I R I R boomerang as our friends at

616
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: around the NFL have coined it. But his his stock went. Yeah,

617
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 1: I loved I loved him coming out of Arizona State,

618
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: but it has not been a good start to his career.

619
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 1: So with three different injuries right now, I think ankle

620
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: hamstring didn't give a hand issue earlier in cancer point. Yeah,

621
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,719
Speaker 1: so he is on the the injured reserve designated to return,

622
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: so we will likely see him again this season, but

623
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,560
Speaker 1: it won't be Mark Kelly Meyer A Marcus Josh Gordon

624
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: just to look on your face. Man, I can't wait, man,

625
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: that's that's hilarious. Um, we talked a little bit about

626
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 1: Zeke and Melvin Gordon. So this is the second year

627
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: though that we've had major holdouts that are extending into

628
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 1: the season. We I don't think we've figured out how

629
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: to deal with these yet. I mean, because I guess

630
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: there's so many variables, there's so many unknowns we go

631
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: into the seat. It's one thing you're talking about to

632
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: hold out who's, you know, kind of a mid round

633
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: guy or whatever, But like we're talking about guys who

634
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: potentially our first round fantasy picks holding out. I don't

635
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: know if we can come up with a plan. I

636
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: just don't know if it's possible. But this is, this

637
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,320
Speaker 1: is becoming a normal thing now. It feels like, I

638
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Speaker 1: don't know, it's an annoyance, is what it is. Give

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Speaker 1: me a headache. There's there's no way to know how

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Speaker 1: to fork unless you're you're literally in line talking with

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Speaker 1: the agents. You know, like you just can't you can't

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Speaker 1: project these things. I wish, I wish there was a way,

643
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Speaker 1: but there's not. Which is the thing that you know,

644
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Speaker 1: we all we all we can do is read the

645
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Speaker 1: tea leaves right, and I know we all get tweets

646
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Speaker 1: about it, people asking you know, what should I do?

647
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: When is he coming back? In? My response has just

648
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Speaker 1: been to be open about like, I don't know. I

649
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Speaker 1: really don't. All I can do is read all the

650
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Speaker 1: same Twitter reports that we all have access to and

651
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Speaker 1: and give you my best guests. And I think anybody

652
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Speaker 1: who who tells you they know for certain is not

653
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Speaker 1: your friend, that is lying to you. So I don't know.

654
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Speaker 1: That's all. Um. Look at guys who kind of moved

655
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Speaker 1: up moved down over draft season? Uh? For you guys,

656
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: there's a guy that you loved more as draft season

657
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Speaker 1: went on, a guy that you loved less as draft

658
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Speaker 1: season went on? Who? Who? Who were some of the

659
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 1: big movers for you? This? This officer Carson For me, Um,

660
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: I moved him up big time. He's a he's a thirteen,

661
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: and I've been trying to get him in my drafts.

662
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: I just feel like Chad Penny is not going to

663
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Speaker 1: put as big of a dent in his touches as

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Speaker 1: it maybe we had projected initially before preseason began. In

665
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: that offense, that's going to run the ball a toime.

666
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: He's really moved up for me. Chris Godwin is, can

667
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Speaker 1: I need to move up for me? I've been all

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00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,479
Speaker 1: in on him since last season, and I think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna have a huge, huge campaign. Lamar Jackson's moved up

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Speaker 1: for me as well. Um, I've got him ahead of

671
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 1: you know, Tom Brady and Ben Roethlisberger in a quarterback

672
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Speaker 1: position in the preseason rankings, and then you know dudes

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Speaker 1: that have fallen. I'm I'm kind of with with you

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Speaker 1: on Damian Williams, Like I love the situation. I love

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Speaker 1: the fact that any Reid's running backs I've always had success.

676
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: He was great last year's small sample size towards the

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Speaker 1: end of the campaign. But I didn't get him in

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Speaker 1: any of my drafts. And I don't know if it

679
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Speaker 1: was subconsciously because I was concerned that he couldn't handle

680
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Speaker 1: uh being a featured back at the NFL level for

681
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: fourteen to sixteen games. I'm not sure, but the fact

682
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Speaker 1: that the Chiefs brought in la Shawn McCoy partially because

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Speaker 1: he's got a relationship with any Reid of course from

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Speaker 1: their time in Philadelphia, but also maybe they feel sort

685
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: of that way too. And Dante Pettis is another guy

686
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Speaker 1: that that I was pretty high on going into camp,

687
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Speaker 1: and I've kind of cooled a little bit on him

688
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: as well, so I don't have any shares of him either,

689
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,520
Speaker 1: just a lot of massive feed there in San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: One of the big ones for me is is Leonard

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Speaker 1: four nett I kind of went into this year expecting

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Speaker 1: for net Um not that not just not to have

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Speaker 1: very much, but his cost is just kind of remained

694
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Speaker 1: in the third round. I mean, he's been a I

695
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Speaker 1: mean he's going to be a bell cow back on

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00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 1: a significantly improved team with his offensive lineback healthy. Um

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Speaker 1: for nett Is is definitely someone who I've I thought

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Speaker 1: I would be out on this year because I figured

699
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Speaker 1: his price would move up at some point, but it

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Speaker 1: just never did. He's just he's just stuck as a

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Speaker 1: third round pick and I've been loving that. Yeah. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, fabs on Chris Carson, like I was

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Speaker 1: really big on him. Uh Yeah. A guy that in

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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks I've started to sort of

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Speaker 1: buy in on has been Carson Wentz at the quarterback spot,

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Speaker 1: just you know, the idea obviously, is that he has

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Speaker 1: to stay healthy, but just remembering how good he is

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Speaker 1: when he has been healthy and been on the field

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00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: and there the Eagles depth on offense is just it's unbelievable.

710
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. Yeah, I mean, they have the best deepest

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Speaker 1: receiver corps, they have the best offensive line, and now

712
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Speaker 1: Miles Sanders offers versatility that he hasn't had Carson Wentz

713
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Speaker 1: is not had in the backfield. In some ways, it

714
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Speaker 1: reminds me of you know, the Saints from five or

715
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Speaker 1: six years ago, where you know, you knew Drew Brees

716
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Speaker 1: was a guy you wanted to have on your roster.

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Speaker 1: The wide receivers were sort of hit or miss because

718
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Speaker 1: you just didn't know whose turn it was going to

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Speaker 1: be each and every week. But it didn't you know that.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't that didn't affect the quarterback at all. So

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Speaker 1: I mean it people, I mean people are sick of

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Speaker 1: dealing with Carson Wentz's injuries. And I think he's now

723
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Speaker 1: gone from like overrated to underrated, back to being overrated

724
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Speaker 1: and now underrated again. Right, he has the QB one upside,

725
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,439
Speaker 1: absolutely like he could finish the season with forty plus

726
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Speaker 1: touchdowns and maybe a few rushing scores and outscore both

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Speaker 1: Mahomes Watson Rodgers like he that is within his range

728
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: of outcomes this year, and he's stayed cheap. And can

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Speaker 1: we agree that, um and I've seen him go a

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Speaker 1: little bit higher in recent drafts, But can we agree

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Speaker 1: that lux retirement sort of boosted him a little bit

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Speaker 1: because he's that one guy that was sort of next

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Speaker 1: in line to potentially be a top five. Fans back

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Speaker 1: him and Cam. I think it was him and and

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Speaker 1: I've kind of valued them pretty similarly. On the flip side,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Andrew Luck. I mean that that really changed

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Speaker 1: how I felt about Marlon Mack. I felt a lot

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Speaker 1: differently about Marlon Mack a few weeks ago. Now that

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Speaker 1: Andrew Luck's not there. Everybody everybody in that often sort

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Speaker 1: of takes a hit, and and Marlon Mack was one

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Speaker 1: for I didn't get lucky on Damien Williams, but I

742
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Speaker 1: definitely got a little bit lucky on Marlon Mack. He

743
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Speaker 1: was never going in arrange where I felt comfortable because

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00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 1: there's so many receivers I liked around his ADP. And

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00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: now it's just like the spiked weeks will be really

746
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Speaker 1: nice but the floor is a little bit scary. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I still feel at the end of the day, he's

748
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Speaker 1: going to end up being the top twenty running back

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Speaker 1: this season if he stays healthy and he gets all

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Speaker 1: the volume. He absolutely it'll be hard for him not

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Speaker 1: to try because just because of the position in the scarcity.

752
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Speaker 1: But yeah, but but it's not as you were buying

753
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Speaker 1: Max because he could potentially finish as the top eight

754
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: running back right because of luck? Because of luck? U uh.

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Speaker 1: Latest update on as the Patriots turn they have resigned

756
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: to Marius Thomas to one year deal. That was not

757
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: a big surprise. We're breaking news. We are breaking news.

758
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 1: Not a big surprise. That was sort of the report

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00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago when he was let go

760
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Speaker 1: that there was a very good chance he could resign

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Speaker 1: with the team. So now it is official. Nikill Harry

762
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Speaker 1: is on injured reserve, the Marius Thomas is back in

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Speaker 1: the fold. Um, you know, I don't know. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how much we think the Marius Thomas has left.

765
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not I'm not super excited about him. Marcus, Josh,

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Speaker 1: it's all about random. This isn't even on my on

767
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: my Rundown. But I don't know if you have the

768
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 1: des Bryant posted that he's out running routes and he's

769
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 1: hoping to be back in the league. Didn't he say

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00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: like two months ago that he was just like just chilling.

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00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: He's like, no, I don't really need to play. Now,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's saying he wants to be

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Speaker 1: back in the league. But he's got October. He's got

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00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: the itch. He's got the itch again. So, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling that, you know, if if he

776
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: signs or if he looks like he's getting back in

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Speaker 1: the league, I'm sure we'll all get plenty of tweets

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00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: asking if if you should pick up Dere's Bryant and Uh,

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Speaker 1: as we sit here on September two, I'm gonna say,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. So there you go, last little bit

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00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: of draft season news. The thing that we want to

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Speaker 1: remember for next year, right when we get we get

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Speaker 1: here this time next year, late August, early September, what

784
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 1: is the thing that we want to hopefully have taken

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00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: away out of this year, uh, and to put into

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00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: practice next year. Graham Like, maybe it's a mistake you

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00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: made at some point, it's something that you sort of

788
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,280
Speaker 1: learned just probably by doing mock drafts and actual drafts.

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00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: Just the thing you want to just store away for

790
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,360
Speaker 1: next season. Yeah, one thing I'm going to try and

791
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 1: do next year is I I typically do a bunch

792
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,040
Speaker 1: of Best Ball drafts just in preparation to get ready

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00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:26,919
Speaker 1: for this season, but also to know like where where

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00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: players are going to be in tune with a dp UM.

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Speaker 1: If I feel strongly about a certain player in like June.

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Speaker 1: If let's take for example, Curtis Samuel is going in

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Speaker 1: the tenth round in June, I I need to be

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00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: way more aggressive in trying to draft that player in

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Speaker 1: every single team because there is an advantage. Sure, you're

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Speaker 1: going to run into situations where Damian Williams loses value

801
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: and you picked him in the second round. That those

802
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: situations suck, but the um, the equity that you can

803
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: gain by drafting earlier, I think is significant. And if

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Speaker 1: you feel very strongly about the players should be not

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00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: should be going three or four rounds higher, I need

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00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: to be a lot more aggressive and trying to get

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Speaker 1: that guy in all of my teams UM earlier in

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Speaker 1: the year. If you're drafting super super early. If you're

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Speaker 1: degenerate like me, this only applies like maybe two percent

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00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: of people. Yeah, for me, it's you have to you

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Speaker 1: have to really take everything that you read with a

812
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: grain of salt. On on social media because fantasy Twitter

813
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: jumps on everything. There's there's under reactions, there's overreactions. Typically

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Speaker 1: there's overreactions with almost every bit of news. And even

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Speaker 1: in so far as hearing reports that Lashawn McCoy is

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Speaker 1: going to be a big part of the bill's offense.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I always bring it back to like when

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Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett was the O C and Buffalo told us

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Speaker 1: all that C. J. Spiller was going to get the

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Speaker 1: front until he throws up. And the only people that

821
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Speaker 1: threw up with the Fantasy owners who drafted him because

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Speaker 1: he was awful. So believe speak right. You always have

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Speaker 1: to take everything that you read and you see with

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Speaker 1: a grain of salt. And I would also suggest people

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00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 1: out there, listen, you're fantasy fan, you know you're NFL fans.

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Speaker 1: We will influence you somewhat. At the end of the day,

827
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Speaker 1: it's got to be your decision on what you do

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Speaker 1: and what you believe. So when Andrew Luck retires, you're

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Speaker 1: smart enough to know. I don't think it affects Tuy

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Speaker 1: that much. I'm not going to move him down too much,

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Speaker 1: or I think it's gonna affect Eric ebron a Ton.

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Speaker 1: We're here, we're useful guides, we have the information, but

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00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, be sure that you're

834
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: very careful, uh, not to swing too far one way

835
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Speaker 1: or the other based on news that may or may

836
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Speaker 1: not actually be relevant. And remember it's your team and

837
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Speaker 1: they're your decisions. You're smart and make the best and

838
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: net most educated decisions out there when you're doing your

839
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 1: rankings and drafting your teams. Uh. My thing is well one.

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Speaker 1: Bob Harris, who was on with us last week, had

841
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: a great bit of a great line to say, yeah,

842
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: and draft, don't draft last year's best team, which is fantastic.

843
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: But the other part of it is, look, I know

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00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,920
Speaker 1: we spend a lot of time looking at you know,

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00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 1: at guy's skill sets, right, and I know everybody it

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Speaker 1: likes looking at sparks scores and and spider charts and

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Speaker 1: all those sorts of things, and they're very fun. Um

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Speaker 1: Athleticism doesn't matter as much as fit, right. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: and I think I really recognized this about a week

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Speaker 1: or so ago. When you know, I'm reading people, especially

851
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Speaker 1: on Twitter, like really pounding the table for how much

852
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: better of a running back Kenyan Drake is than Caitlin Blage.

853
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 1: My response is, Okay, sure he probably is. I'm not

854
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: really gonna fight you on that point. But everything that

855
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: about that backfield says that Dolphins are going to give

856
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: caln Blage plenty of opportunity. Um. And so it doesn't

857
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: matter how much better one guy is than the other

858
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: if he's not going to be on the field and

859
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: getting the ball. And I think that applies across the NFL.

860
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: Sure we can look at guys and say that this

861
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: guy is super talented and super athletic, uh, and and

862
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: he can jump out of the building and this and that,

863
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: But if he's not on the field, and if he's

864
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: not getting targets or touches, it doesn't really matter. Usage

865
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:54,360
Speaker 1: and fit is everything. Uh. Your perceived evaluation of talent

866
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,080
Speaker 1: rarely matters. It rarely matters. The only thing that matters

867
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 1: is who's gonna be on the field, like you mentioned,

868
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: and how they're gonna be how they're going to be

869
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: used when they're on the field. Yeah, no, I mean

870
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: I think I think that's it. So like, you know,

871
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: that's what you should be projected, That's what we should

872
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: all be projecting. It's like, who's gonna get touches? And

873
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 1: then when they're on the field getting those touches, how

874
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: are they going to be used within the context of

875
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: the office. Look, if you had if we had been

876
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: drafting right after the combine, dk Metcalf would have been

877
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: like a second round wide receiver. You know, like we

878
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 1: sat right there. I was. I'm still blown away watching,

879
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: like thinking back watching him run the forty, I mean

880
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: it was like freaking like that actually reminded me of

881
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: another situation to where Fantasy Twitter went all in on

882
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: Kim Butler and he was the greatest thing in the

883
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: world since sliced bread and now what and now yeah,

884
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: he's he's, he's he's Now I'm taking late round dark

885
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:43,360
Speaker 1: Sean Johnson, Right, Uh yeah, you know, go back to

886
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: that that thing in India though, I just remember because

887
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: if you're there, it's it's just very quiet. As everybody's

888
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: running the forty, you don't hear much. But when when

889
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: uh Metcalf's time popped up, you just heard this this

890
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: Murmur just go through the building. It was it was wild.

891
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 1: So hey, So there you go. That's our draft season

892
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: wrap up. Hopefully you are happy with your teams, but

893
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: if not, well that's what the waiver wire is for.

894
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: So that's a perfect segue to our our preseason waiver

895
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: wire here. I you know, there are plenty of guys

896
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:09,880
Speaker 1: that are still out there that didn't get drafted in

897
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: a lot of leagues. If these guys are off the board,

898
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: uh in your league, then uh, sorry for your luck.

899
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: You're playing a league full of smart, speculative people. Um

900
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: so I don't know, try better. Uh, But anyway, our

901
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: our preseason waiver wire, I put a handful of names

902
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: on this. When the first one I said, just Bills, Bills, Bills, Right,

903
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: Frank Gore is still out there. His his role looks

904
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: like it could possibly be increasing with la Shawn McCoy gone,

905
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, John Brown, a couple of guys that I

906
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,720
Speaker 1: have been taking kind of late shots on because especially

907
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley I think is going to be sort of

908
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: a safety blanket for for Josh Allen in that offense.

909
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I know people look at the

910
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: Bills and they don't necessarily get excited about it, but

911
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: I think there's there are reasons to be optimistic about

912
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: the about this offense this year because it's just the

913
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: same conversation we had, like, is where how do we

914
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 1: project the targets? Like outside of John Brown, I mean,

915
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,359
Speaker 1: is Cole Beasley to see five to six targets per

916
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: game or like closer to eight. Um, the Bills don't

917
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 1: really have a tight end. But yeah, it's gonna be

918
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: super annoying when Frank Gore gets another It is it

919
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: just planning on, really just planning on, Like I'm not

920
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 1: even gonna be surprised when it happened. I'm just expecting it. Yeah,

921
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: for me, Marcus, you know, I'm looking at our NFL

922
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: dot com uh AD drop data and Justin Jackson is

923
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,919
Speaker 1: only owned in leagues. Tony Pollard is available in over

924
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: fifty of our leagues, Kalen Bellage is available, and overtly

925
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: you mentioned you guys mentioned Frank Gore. He's another player

926
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: that needs to be owned uh in more fantasy leagues.

927
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: And let's go a little deeper too, because a lot

928
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: of our listeners are in these competitive leagues. You know,

929
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 1: Leonard four Nett I get it. We like him, but

930
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: he's had some off field issues. He's had some injury.

931
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: Rail Armstead is a guy who's going to be on

932
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,560
Speaker 1: the waiver wire and a lot of leagues. Justice Hill.

933
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: If you like to play the game of upside running

934
00:43:56,840 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: backs who could potentially make an impact behind a a

935
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: established veteran, he's in that mix as well. James Washington.

936
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: I see him available in a lot of leagues. Maybe

937
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: not competitive leagues, but I do see him out there.

938
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 1: Geronimo Allison is another guy. I mean, there's players out there.

939
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup. Yeah, there's so many guys out there that

940
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: I wish maybe we should just make our rosters bigger

941
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 1: so I could just eat up all these upside guys

942
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: that are still free agent. If you're in like a

943
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 1: twelve or fourteen team, like any type of deep league.

944
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: Rockwell Armstead is such a nice dash because of four

945
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: Net's injury downside, and he's a clear handcuff their number

946
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:33,400
Speaker 1: three running back, right and now he's defined a zigbo

947
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: who's a U d F A got cut by the Saints.

948
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: He is clearly clearly their number two. Well, you know

949
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: it's funny too, because early on in draft season. I

950
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,799
Speaker 1: was taking rickwell Armstead kind of late. I stopped doing that,

951
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: and I you know, I do kind of like I

952
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 1: keep in the I keep an eye on his name though,

953
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 1: just because what you mentioned Leonard Fournett. His injury history

954
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 1: suggests that he may not be there. Alfab alphab Alfred

955
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: Blue apparently a hard name for me to stay in

956
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: the morning. He was put on I R over the

957
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,760
Speaker 1: weekend two. And then you if you're looking in deeper leagues,

958
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: I mean Dashawn Hamilton's has not been drafted in a

959
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: lot of leagues. Uh. And I get at Sanders is back.

960
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: Hopefully he can sustain through a full season. But I

961
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: mean he's a miracle man right now coming off that

962
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: Keilly is looking the way that he has. Yeah, Miel Sanders, Samuel.

963
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 1: I mean, there's depending on the size of your league obviously,

964
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of talent out there, Uh that

965
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 1: could end up making an impact. And remember, guys, every

966
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: single year it happens, and it's gonna happen again. It

967
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: might happen in week one. We'll see somebody's gonna go down,

968
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna step up, somebody we didn't expect. Alah Philip

969
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: Lindsay last season is going to be a fantasy star

970
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: this season. Many Sanders is the guy I was definitely

971
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: kind of trying to get in a lot of places,

972
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: and I think after that game against the forty niners,

973
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 1: the that got a lot harder to do. I got

974
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 1: a lot harder to do. Uh. Jamison Crowder if you

975
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 1: mentioned him too, That's a name that I've started to

976
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: kind of It looks like he's gonna get a role

977
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: there and especially for the first four weeks in the

978
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: season without Chris Herndon. Yeah. Yeah, So Jamison crowd is

979
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:55,879
Speaker 1: the name I started to get excited about as well.

980
00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm like kind of low key excited about the Jets

981
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: offense this year. Oh, I thought you were low key Like, Oh, Like,

982
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm yeah, I thought you I'm Thor's evil.

983
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, not so much. Derek Carr, which don't touch

984
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 1: him in Week one, horrible matchup, But I mean he's

985
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: available in over of our leagues right now, and I

986
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: get it the quarterback position is deep, but he does

987
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: have a b Tyrrell Josh Jacobs around him. He could

988
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: end up potentially being a guy who could be used

989
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: for me Josh Allen's in our leagues, so uh, you know,

990
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 1: and this is look, some of this is owed to

991
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: the fact that, like, you know, we've spent a year

992
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 1: looking at this stuff, and for a lot of folks,

993
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: you know, they're just checking in sametimes. They're just they're

994
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: just checking in for a lot of folks. So I

995
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: sort of get I understand. So uh yeah, we're ready, right,

996
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: this is it. We're we're ready for the season to start,

997
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,319
Speaker 1: right we are. We'll be back in a couple of

998
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 1: days and we will preview all of Week one. The

999
00:46:56,400 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: season gets going officially on Thursday with the Packers Bayrs,

1000
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about that plus the whole slate of

1001
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: Week one games. We we have made it. We we

1002
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: we got through this together, everybody. Um, you know, it

1003
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 1: took some. It took some Game of Thrones recaps, it

1004
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: took some, took some best Shape of our Lives updates,

1005
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: but but we did it. We made it through the

1006
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: popseason again and we're glad that you are back with

1007
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: us for another fun right. So that's it. We are done.

1008
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Speaker 1: We appreciate it downloading and listening. You know. The drill

1009
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1011
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