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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, March nineteenth, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. We're happy to

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Speaker 1: help in past protection.

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Speaker 2: It's me and Ran MG.

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Speaker 1: Marcus Grant, joined by Michael Florio and Lakwan Jones.

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Speaker 2: Happy start of the tournament. Guys.

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Speaker 1: I know it's not fantasy football, but have you march

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Speaker 1: madness to those who who observe I do not.

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Speaker 2: I enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: I won't act like I've watched a lot of college

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Speaker 3: basketball this year. I used to be huge into college basketball,

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Speaker 3: but it doesn't matter right, Like I don't need to

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Speaker 3: know any of the players on the TV for me

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Speaker 3: to enjoy today and tomorrow, Like, do not care.

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Speaker 4: It'd be a great time.

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Speaker 1: I would say the next two weekends this weekend and

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Speaker 1: next weekend are even too, of the greatest weekends in sports,

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Speaker 1: just because there's wall to wall basketball on from like

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Speaker 1: nine am Pacific time until you know, late in the evening.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I feel bad for the poor folks

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Speaker 2: who get.

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Speaker 1: Their prices right preempted or like you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: like you know, my grandmother didn't take a care for

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Speaker 1: it because her soap operas got pushed because of basketball,

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Speaker 1: but for the rest of us, for the rest of us,

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Speaker 1: it is a great time, an absolutely great time.

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Speaker 3: So we are supposed to watch together this weekend. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if you guys are still coming through, but

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Speaker 3: we're supposed to.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I'm pulling up.

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Speaker 2: I'm pulling on it for sure. Yeah or sure, that'll

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Speaker 2: be fun.

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Speaker 1: That'll be fun. It's gonna be a good time, be

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Speaker 1: a good time. So today on the show, gonna have

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Speaker 1: a kind of a different time. Should be a good time. Nonetheless,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk to James Reeber, who does research for

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Speaker 1: the Next Gen Stats team here at the NFL, wrote

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Speaker 1: a couple of articles that maybe on the surface you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't think about as fantasy related articles, but we are

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Speaker 1: trying to find a fantasy spin. He talked about the

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Speaker 1: increase in chip blocks across NFL offenses, also talked about

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Speaker 1: the rise of split safety too high coverages across the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and so we're gonna kind of pick his brand a

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Speaker 1: little bit on how those things could help you when

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Speaker 1: you are sort of picking between players and putting together

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Speaker 1: your fantasy draft lists and what have you. But do

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Speaker 1: you want to start with a little bit of news,

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Speaker 1: and I emphasize a little bit because there's not a

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Speaker 1: lot happening in the NFL, but a story that popped

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Speaker 1: up that Lakwah you texted us about yesterday. Four time

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl wide receiver t Y Hilton has announced his retirement,

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Speaker 1: though which I'm sure comes as news to a lot

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Speaker 1: of people because we haven't seen t Y Hilton in

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Speaker 1: the NFL in a few years.

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Speaker 2: The last time he played was back.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, when he appeared in three games with.

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Speaker 2: The Dallas Cowboys. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Either way, Eugene Marquis Hilton is officially wrapping it up,

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Speaker 1: calling it a career. Yo.

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Speaker 5: Well, you put my main government out there like that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know, I don't know what his mom

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Speaker 2: calls it. If she calls him Eugene or TV she

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Speaker 2: calls me Eugene, probably when he's in trouble time.

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Speaker 1: So I will I will ask the question that I

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Speaker 1: always ask in these situations, Florida.

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Speaker 2: I will start with you in Lakwana. You can follow.

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Speaker 2: Is t Y Hilton a fantasy Hall of Famer?

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Speaker 3: I'm more so wondering where he got this ty name

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Speaker 3: did this come from? I have no idea, I have questions. No,

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Speaker 3: he's not a Fantasy Hall of Famer, he's a he's

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Speaker 3: a Hall of very good. I would say, like I

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Speaker 3: but he'll he will get thrown out there right like

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Speaker 3: he was really good for a big stretch. And in fact,

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Speaker 3: Because there's the one year in twenty seventeen where he

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Speaker 3: reasons why he's not a Fantasy Hall of Famer. Want

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Speaker 3: was it the age cliff because he happened to be

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Speaker 3: But once Luck retired, it was kind of a rap

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Speaker 3: I think that really does hamper his career numbers a bit. Also,

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Speaker 3: he was a player that once that cliff came, it

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Speaker 3: in fantasy and was just electric. So haula very good

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Speaker 2: All right, Lakwan, you agree with that.

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Speaker 5: I second that the Hall of very Good is filled

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Speaker 5: right now with a bunch of players. But like I

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Speaker 5: feel like if Andrew Luck didn't retire, like he could

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Speaker 5: have been in that Hall of Fame fantasy you know room.

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Speaker 5: But because at the end of the day, those two

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Speaker 5: he didn't really find the end so much, but the

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Speaker 5: in Honestly, the surprise, you know, retirement, I think that's

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Speaker 5: what kind of knocked him off his track. To have

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Speaker 5: that ceiling to keep you know, rising. So the hall

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Speaker 5: of very good is filled right now, and that's not

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Speaker 5: a bad thing. But we got some Hall of famers

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Speaker 5: in there that I can't honestly see t Y Hillton

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Speaker 2: Of those guys really for real, for real? Yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: I think I think you guys are right, because it is.

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Speaker 1: You remember the highs. But and so you go back

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Speaker 1: and look, you realize that those that peak was a

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Speaker 5: He was a top five Fantasy wide receiver that year.

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Speaker 5: He put up fourteen hundred yards and that's with little touchdown,

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Speaker 5: so all that production was three yards and catches stuff.

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Speaker 5: But again, the cliff, it came very fast. It was

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Speaker 5: like why he just standing in.

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Speaker 4: Falls down.

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Speaker 2: By the way.

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Speaker 1: To answer your question, Florio, uh, he says that even

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Speaker 1: though his name is Eugene, his my daddy's name is Tyrone.

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Speaker 1: So ever since I was little, everyone has just used

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Speaker 1: the first two letters of that, and.

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Speaker 2: That is how he became t Y Hilton. So there

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Speaker 3: So then instead of being tied, he made it t

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Speaker 3: why why okay, okay?

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Speaker 2: But he does he does have a son. He does

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Speaker 4: Coming, that's why.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he has two sons, Eugene Hilton Junior and Tie Hilton,

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Speaker 1: so he sort of combined all of those things.

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Speaker 3: Uh so, But again he named him Tai, not like, yes,

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Speaker 3: it's a well, I don't know. But one fun fact

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Speaker 3: seven seasons, he had a catch of sixty plus yard

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Speaker 3: always what I'll remember with t Y Hilton. He was

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Speaker 3: one of the very best field stretchers of his era.

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Speaker 3: He had deficiencies, like we said the red zone, not

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Speaker 4: But one of the just the very best field stretchers.

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Speaker 1: Well, that and that he used to absolutely torture the

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Speaker 2: That was just the thing.

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Speaker 1: He did eleven touchdown catches against the Texans in his career.

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Speaker 1: He didn't have more than six against any other team.

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Speaker 1: So he just absolutely just destroyed the Texans.

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Speaker 5: I remember him too throwing seth rollins over to barricade

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Speaker 2: That's pretty random. That's super random.

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Speaker 1: Other piece of news Carson Wentz is returning to the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings on a one year deal. So lakwan, does

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Speaker 1: that mean that nine has officially been eighty six from

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Speaker 1: the Vikings offense?

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Speaker 5: Stop calling this man nine. Stop there's only one nine. Yes,

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Speaker 5: it's eighty six. Get he doesn't call himself nine. Matthew

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Speaker 5: Stafford doesn't call himself nine.

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Speaker 2: Yes we do.

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Speaker 5: Mat I can't say what we I can't say here

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Speaker 5: what we call him. But the RAMS community have a

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Speaker 5: name for nine, and it's not JJ McCarthy. And honestly,

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Speaker 5: it's obviously not nine either.

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Speaker 1: If you can't say it here, it is, you can't

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Speaker 1: say it here, it's not nine.

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Speaker 3: If you pulled football fans who is nine, you're gonna

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Speaker 3: get more JJ McCarthy votes than than Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 1: You just are like, it's just, it's just what's out

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Speaker 2: Now, man, just live with it.

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Speaker 5: Didn't we have this conversation here that these guys need

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Speaker 5: to earn the cool nickname, Like how I stopped calling

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Speaker 5: Trevor mit Lawnes.

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Speaker 2: Now he is t law.

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Speaker 1: People don't call JJ McCarthy nine gets cool. They call

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Speaker 1: him nine to sort of mock him a.

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Speaker 2: Little bit, like it's just like the needle him.

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Speaker 5: Because he thinks he's nine. Yeah, don't use it as

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Speaker 5: a troll. When I think of nine, it is Matthew Stafford.

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Speaker 2: Any question done?

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Speaker 5: Anyway he is, It is cooked, well done in the

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Speaker 5: crock pot. This has been a slow cooking. But he

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Speaker 5: is done. Looking at Carson Wentz back in there, backing

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Speaker 5: up Kyler Murray. He now falls to QB three. I

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Speaker 5: could sense probably a trade is coming, or maybe he

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Speaker 5: just sits behind two veteran quarterbacks and learn and absorb

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Speaker 5: as much as he can. But at the end of

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Speaker 5: the day, I don't think we see JJ McCarthy hit

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Speaker 5: the field unless both of these guys get injured. But again,

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Speaker 5: I feel like we need to stop giving cool nicknames

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Speaker 5: to guys, even though you're trolling. Stop giving nicknames to

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Speaker 5: people who haven't earned these things. Man, Please, we didn't.

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Speaker 2: Give it to them. He gave it to himself.

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Speaker 1: That's why he's getting trolled by like he gave it

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Speaker 1: to himself and now.

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Speaker 2: We're using it and you're going to throwing your back

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Speaker 2: at him. Stop you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Pro football is an attack on the rams man or attack.

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Speaker 5: It's just doing this.

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Speaker 3: No, if you go to Pro Football Reference, which legitimately

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Speaker 3: if someone on the street one time called a person

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Speaker 3: a nickname, it appears on their page. U. J. J.

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Speaker 3: McCarthy's nickname is nine. Matthew Stafford does not have a nickname.

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Speaker 1: Well, does that mean that somebody on the street wants

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Speaker 1: called Tom Brady the Pharaoh?

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Speaker 4: Because it's on there, right, like the Prince who was Promised?

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Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence who said that, Yeah, I don't know, that's

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Speaker 5: a that's a certain Fox Sports analyst who actually knows

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Speaker 5: that nickname. Kyle Brandt said that he's actually the one

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Speaker 5: who created that.

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Speaker 4: Actually, I'm texting her about it. Yeah, the Prince.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk with James Reeber of the Next Gen

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, and very happy to be joined

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Speaker 1: NGS here at the NFL, and wrote an article recently

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Speaker 1: I try to put a fantasy context to it, because

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Speaker 2: So James, appreciate you taking the time. Man. How you

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Speaker 6: I am doing well, man, Thank you so much for

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Speaker 4: Was relevant and we could get something out of it.

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Speaker 6: I didn't even really expect that tight ends would be

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and like you said, we had we didn't have

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Speaker 1: Explain what chip blocks are and how they benefit an offense.

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Speaker 4: No doubt, let's do it.

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Speaker 6: So chip blocks are a trend that has come about,

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Speaker 6: actually seen that since Next Gen started tracking chiplocks, which

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Speaker 4: And I mean six tenths.

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Speaker 6: absolutely everything. It allows them to go through their progressions,

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Speaker 3: So in the article, you talk about how these quarterbacks,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So I'm not going to go out and tell

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Speaker 6: Sometimes it's more the case that a team is forced

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Speaker 4: So you will see that sometimes, and.

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Speaker 6: I'm not going to tell you, you know, we get

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Speaker 5: So you talk about how this has been something that's

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Speaker 6: So there's actually a lot of different contributors to this.

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Speaker 4: These are the guys who are leading this charge.

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Speaker 6: And what happens with guys like that is when they

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Speaker 1: And some of the data showed kind of a split

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Speaker 6: And I think it's just because Kittle loves blocking compared

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Speaker 3: Well, now Clint Kubiak, who designed that offense and was

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I love that you went there, and I honestly

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Speaker 6: So that's pretty cool in itself. Brock Bawers set twenty

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Speaker 6: He caught every single one of his passes off of

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, So I want to talk about an underrated

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Speaker 5: wide receiver room in the NFL. But how much of

442
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Speaker 5: the red zone chip uses translates to touchdown opportunity? And

443
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Speaker 5: is Parkinson somebody fantasy managers should be watching out for.

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Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I think there's a really good possibility of that.

445
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Speaker 6: The one way that we would throw that out is

446
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Speaker 6: if Kenyan City gets drafted by the Rams, but right

447
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Speaker 6: now they now we.

448
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Speaker 5: Don't want that.

449
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Speaker 6: It would well, I mean, Citik is gonna be great

450
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Speaker 6: wherever he goes. But I do think you know, the

451
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Speaker 6: room that the Rams have right now as far as

452
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Speaker 6: tight ends is one of the strongest in the league.

453
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Speaker 6: They would often put three of them out on the

454
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Speaker 6: field at the same time. That's something again that not

455
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Speaker 6: a lot of people are doing. And so you know,

456
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Speaker 6: Parkinson had these certain specific weeks where he was really

457
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Speaker 6: popping off in the fantasy sense, and it's because he

458
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Speaker 6: was really trustworthy as a red zone guy.

459
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Speaker 4: And that was kind of their plan to get him loose.

460
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Speaker 6: We see it with Parkinson, and the other guy we

461
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Speaker 6: really see it with is Jake Ferguson.

462
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Speaker 4: Where they would set the chip in.

463
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Speaker 6: The red zone, they would kind of lose their coverage

464
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Speaker 6: defender as a result of that, and they you know,

465
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Speaker 6: these are big body targets who are great outlet for

466
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Speaker 6: their quarterbacks to hit in that spot. So yeah, I

467
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Speaker 6: think Parkinson and then the other guy worth considering, you

468
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Speaker 6: know for a year two breakout would be Terrence Ferguson,

469
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Speaker 6: but he's not really the chip block type and he's

470
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Speaker 6: not really the same caliber or red zone weapon. So

471
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Speaker 6: we really could be in a spot to watch out

472
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Speaker 6: for Parkinson, you know, kind of taking over some of

473
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Speaker 6: the Tyler Higbee workload and keeping these good vibes going.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned that a lot of times the coaches that'd

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Speaker 1: used that we're teams that didn't have maybe great upfront

476
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Speaker 1: protection for their quarterbacks, or teams with younger quarterbacks or

477
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Speaker 1: guys who just needed extra time to get the ball out.

478
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Speaker 1: It brings me to Kevin Stefanski coming to Atlanta, which

479
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Speaker 1: is sort of a mixed bag of things because you know,

480
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Speaker 1: in terms of their rating, the offensive line was a

481
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Speaker 1: pretty good pass blocking.

482
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Speaker 2: Unit for the Falcon.

483
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Speaker 1: But now you're dealing with a quarterback most likely into

484
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Speaker 1: a tongue of iyaaloa who is sort of has been

485
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Speaker 1: kind of a get the ball out of his hands quickly.

486
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Speaker 1: Maybe try to give him some extra time, especially to

487
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Speaker 1: give you know, to protect him maybe from himself in

488
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Speaker 1: some cases. I where where do you anticipate the Falcons

489
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Speaker 1: sort of landing here? To Stefansky go more with the chip?

490
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Speaker 1: Does he does he do less with it? Because we

491
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Speaker 1: already know Kyle Pitts sort of thrived in that situation,

492
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Speaker 1: and every year we keep pretzeling our logic to try

493
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Speaker 1: and make Kyle Pits a thing.

494
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Speaker 2: I guess I guess I'm asking you to give.

495
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Speaker 1: Me one more reason to to not give up on

496
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Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts.

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Speaker 6: So I if you want me to, you know, kind

498
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Speaker 6: of gass up Kyle Pitts, I think I would not

499
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Speaker 6: to do that. You know, Kyle Pitts is is a

500
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Speaker 6: total like move tight end. He's he's gonna be in

501
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Speaker 6: the slot a lot of the time. And uh so

502
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Speaker 6: with Tua, you know, throwing the ball quick I think

503
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Speaker 6: it's very possible that Stefanski changes up his strategy, especially

504
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Speaker 6: you know he's handing off play calling. He's given it

505
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Speaker 6: to I don't remember the guy's name. I think it's

506
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:15,239
Speaker 6: Tommy Reese or something like that, but yeah, nice. So

507
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 6: it's the guy who was his OC last year, but

508
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 6: it's actually not going to be the play caller in Atlanta.

509
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Speaker 6: And so so for Pitts, I mean, I think we

510
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Speaker 6: could see those guys use him the same way that

511
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Speaker 6: they used Harold fannin, which was really exciting, but that's

512
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Speaker 6: going to be in a move situation. It's going to

513
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Speaker 6: be kind of more outside. And then if they also

514
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 6: have a blocking tight down the field, that guy could

515
00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,480
Speaker 6: potentially be the chip or probably wouldn't get the targets.

516
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Speaker 6: But it also means, you know, there'll be not as

517
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Speaker 6: many guys taking the target shair in that case, it'll

518
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Speaker 6: be you know, basically London Pits Bijon and they're getting

519
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Speaker 6: the entire bulk of the workload. So I mean, if

520
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Speaker 6: you need if you need faith in Pits, it would

521
00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 6: be more of a target share. And also just the

522
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Speaker 6: fact that they love heavy personnel in that former Cleveland

523
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Speaker 6: coaching room.

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Speaker 2: Got it all right, good enough for me.

525
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Speaker 1: Because like a break, come back and we'll talk about

526
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Speaker 1: the chip use of the chip block and what this

527
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Speaker 1: means potentially for fantasy defenses.

528
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 2: They're still in the game despite.

529
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Speaker 1: People trying to maybe move on from talking with James

530
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Speaker 1: Reeber in GS Researcher. That's coming up more next on

531
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Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football podcast, Talking with the Next Gen

532
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Speaker 1: Status Researcher. James Reeber wrote an article about the increased

533
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Speaker 1: use of the chip block across the NFL, and want

534
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Speaker 1: to kind of pivot to talking about defenses because you know,

535
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Speaker 1: you wrote that defenses that got chipped more in a

536
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,119
Speaker 1: lot of cases, gotten more sacks, forced more turnovers. You

537
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Speaker 1: and I were talking before the show that somehow Miles

538
00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 1: Garrett actually got better when he was chipped. Have you

539
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 1: been able to figure out the logic for that so far?

540
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Speaker 6: Yeah, So I was confused by that at first. It

541
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 6: seems counterintuitive, but you know what's really happening is when

542
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 6: you have an incredible pass rusher like Miles Garrett, like

543
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 6: you know Houston has with Daniel Hunter and Will Anderson

544
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 6: on both sides, like Pittsburgh has with t J.

545
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Speaker 4: Watt, all five.

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Speaker 6: Of these teams that you're going to see in the

547
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Speaker 6: top five of chiplock rate are going to have incredible

548
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 6: pass rushers, and those guys are going to get theirs.

549
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 6: Offenses are kind of, you know, scrambling to really help

550
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 6: out on these guys a little bit extra just so

551
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 6: they don't get completely game broken, and so they're going

552
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 6: to end up getting a lot of sacks as it is.

553
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Speaker 4: Miles Garrett.

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Speaker 6: Really do want to focus on him for a second, because,

555
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 6: as everyone knows, he's a freaking nature but somehow he

556
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 6: is even better against chip blocks that one don't know

557
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Speaker 6: if I found a specific explanation.

558
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 4: He just you know, plays like he's possessed.

559
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 6: He goes full god mode when you know someone disrespects

560
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 6: him by throwing extra help or I guess respects him

561
00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 6: really but yeah, so he he got twenty nine pressures

562
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 6: against ship blocks this season. That's ten more than anyone

563
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:22,120
Speaker 6: ever had in another season that we've tracked, and he's

564
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Speaker 6: in second place too.

565
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Speaker 4: He had nineteen in a different season.

566
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Speaker 6: So yeah, definitely just an incredible thing that we're seeing

567
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Speaker 6: out of him. Specifically, Browns were a solid fantasy defense

568
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 6: this year. I figure they're going to continue to be

569
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Speaker 6: a very.

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Speaker 3: Solid option and try to take this information and spin

571
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Speaker 3: it into a fantasy since, in your opinion that you've

572
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Speaker 3: done more studying on this than any.

573
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Speaker 4: Of us have.

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Speaker 3: Do you like, if you were targeting a defense for

575
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Speaker 3: fantasy purposes, are you thinking that having an elite pass

576
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 3: rusher is top? Is it a team that creates a

577
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 3: lot of pressure as a whole? Are you targeting a

578
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 3: weak offensive line? Like, I'm sure it's probably a combination

579
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Speaker 3: of the three. But what do you think the most

580
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 3: important ingredients is when looking to stream a defense.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I can go into all of that a little bit,

582
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Speaker 6: And I mean, you guys are the authorities when it

583
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 6: comes to do you pick one or early or do

584
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 6: you decide to stream? So that's you know, up to

585
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 6: the player themselves as everyone's choice. But if you do

586
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 6: decide to pick early, I love a defense with a

587
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,840
Speaker 6: good pass rusher or ideally with two. I would love

588
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 6: to pick the Texans as my fantasy defense because you know,

589
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 6: you're going to be lining up those two guys on

590
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 6: the edge pretty much every play, and that is going

591
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 6: to make life really hard on everybody on the other

592
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Speaker 6: side of the ball. Like, you know, that's what creates

593
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 6: sacks obviously, but it's also what creates interceptions. Like you know,

594
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 6: when you when you get pressure, that's where a lot

595
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 6: of the turnovers are coming from. And so yeah, I

596
00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 6: think you definitely definitely want to look for an elite

597
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 6: pass rusher from a fantasy perspective a little more than

598
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Speaker 6: you would like an elite linebacker or elite corner or

599
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 6: something like that. And then you know, as far as streaming, yeah,

600
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Speaker 6: if you have let's say, Hutchinson against the Vikings, that's

601
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 6: a great time to stream. The Lions they were a

602
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 6: little bit more streaming tier last year. I think they

603
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 6: could bounce back because there is a lot of talent

604
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Speaker 6: just across that entire room. If they stay healthy, Like

605
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 6: the Lions are a great defensive option, but if they're facing.

606
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Speaker 4: An offense that is going to be.

607
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Speaker 6: Forced to chip or forced to provide extra help, then

608
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Speaker 6: that offense.

609
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Speaker 4: Could have a really rough day.

610
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Speaker 5: So James, even though I'm trying to vote out defenses

611
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Speaker 5: out of my fantasy leagues amongst my friends that just

612
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Speaker 5: keep voting for it, but is there a defense that

613
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Speaker 5: might be poised for a breakdown twenty twenty six based

614
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Speaker 5: on how often their edge rushers are being chipped in

615
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Speaker 5: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I did find a few different options for that.

617
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Speaker 6: The one that kind of stood out, this was a

618
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 6: little bit surprising, is not one that a lot of

619
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 6: people would think about, was the Indianapolis Colts. So they

620
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 6: have young edge rushers led by Layatsu Latsu.

621
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Speaker 4: He faced almost as many trips.

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Speaker 6: As Jared Verse and that was, you know, the second

623
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Speaker 6: most by any player that was a.

624
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Speaker 4: First or second year player. So he's getting tripped a lot.

625
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 6: People respect him, and we see you know, year three

626
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 6: breakouts for a lot of these guys as they get

627
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Speaker 6: accustomed to how to pass rush. And then another thing

628
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Speaker 6: is the Colts have a defensive coordinator that first of

629
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Speaker 6: all is regarded as a really you know, special coach,

630
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Speaker 6: Louayn Rumo. And then also in his second year implementing

631
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Speaker 6: the system, could really get a little more like creative

632
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 6: with his pass rush and you know, start stunning guys

633
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Speaker 6: a little bit more, or start dropping guys into coverage,

634
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 6: you know, disguising his blitzes. So yeah, between all of

635
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 6: that and the fact that lotso could be in line

636
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 6: for a breakout based on his hip rate, that's what

637
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Speaker 6: I would look at like a little more than we

638
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Speaker 6: have in previous years.

639
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Speaker 1: So sort of along with that, right with the you know,

640
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: chip blocks and pressure and all that sort of thing,

641
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: one of the big changes we've seen in recent years

642
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 1: and defenses has been the increased use of too high safeties.

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Speaker 6: Right.

644
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Speaker 1: This was supposedly the thing that helped everybody figure out

645
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: We can debate that at another.

647
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: Time, but you know, for people who maybe you are uninitiated,

648
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: explain sort of what that is, and you know how

649
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: we've seen this change into teams doing that a little

650
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Speaker 1: more defensively.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the concept of too high coverage, it's it's three

652
00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 6: different types of coverage.

653
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 4: It's covered two, cover four, cover six.

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Speaker 6: And it basically just means that both of your safeties

655
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 6: are starting a little closer to the rest of your

656
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 6: defense and then they are both dropping back in opposite

657
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:20,560
Speaker 6: directions into coverage. And so this is very, very truly

658
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 6: a league wide trend. It's happening everywhere. We see on

659
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Speaker 6: this image right here that everyone in the NFL, every

660
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Speaker 6: single defense played split safety coverage at least thirty percent

661
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Speaker 6: of the time this season. Too high and split safety

662
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 6: mean the same thing. By the way, exact same and

663
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:44,719
Speaker 6: so that is pretty cool because it had not been

664
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 6: happening before we had you know, twenty eighteen to twenty twenty,

665
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,719
Speaker 6: there were eight or so defense is a season who

666
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 6: would be under that thirty percent mark. And then it

667
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 6: just started moving up and up and up. And now

668
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 6: everyone has caught onto this thing. Offenses are seeing it

669
00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 6: all the time, and some of the best defenses out

670
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 6: there are really you know, making this an efficient strategy.

671
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 6: The Seahawks were a team that did it very frequently

672
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 6: this year. They used a lot of cover six, which

673
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 6: didn't used to be a popular thing in the past,

674
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 6: but it drove them to a Super Bowl. Chiefs were

675
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,359
Speaker 6: the pioneers, like you said, and you know, that worked

676
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 6: really well for them for a little while, and then

677
00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 6: you know, people did catch on. You start seeing it more,

678
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 6: you develop a little bit of a counter.

679
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 3: And again, just trying to put a fantasy spin on

680
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 3: all you were touching on the Colts and lou Anramo

681
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 3: and I kind of credit him with being the mastermind

682
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 3: behind this. He did it two years in a row

683
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 3: to Josh Mahomes in the playoffs. Shut those guys down.

684
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 3: And then I feel like the rest of.

685
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 4: The league copied him. But how does this apply?

686
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 3: How can we apply.

687
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 4: This into a fantasy since.

688
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:59,920
Speaker 3: Right, like, is it less big plays more like slot

689
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,640
Speaker 3: and possession receivers. Now we're going to get targets, Like,

690
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,279
Speaker 3: how can we take this and kind of apply it

691
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 3: to what we do?

692
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, So, I mean what I would do is I

693
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 6: would look at the specific offensive players who have already

694
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 6: performed the best against this, and we found some really

695
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 6: cool stuff off of that. So, first off, JSN was

696
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 6: just way above everybody else in terms of the production

697
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,759
Speaker 6: against Too High. He ended up with eight hundred and

698
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 6: forty one receiving yards against Too High last season, and

699
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,879
Speaker 6: nobody else had seven hundred, So he was nearly two

700
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 6: hundred yards out in front of the rest of the field.

701
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 6: So people are like, Okay, JSN had this enormous year.

702
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 6: Is it really sustainable, especially with no Kubiak there? We

703
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 6: don't know, But like he is doing something that you know,

704
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 6: the rest of the NFL needs to start doing, which

705
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,360
Speaker 6: is figuring out how to beat this kind of coverage

706
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 6: both underneath and deep. Like you know, Too High is

707
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 6: designed as a thing that will take away that deep

708
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,439
Speaker 6: portion of the field, but if you go to the

709
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 6: middle against Cover two, if you get a one on

710
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,759
Speaker 6: one outside go route against Cover four, Like, there is

711
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 6: a possibility if you're a really talented receiver that you

712
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 6: can make that work and produce off of that. Some

713
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 6: other guys that we saw doing really well against this

714
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 6: who could be in line for breakouts or you know,

715
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 6: continued progression after solid rookie years would be Amika Igbuka

716
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 6: and Tetero McMillan. Both of them were in the top

717
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,479
Speaker 6: fifteen in receiving yards against this coverage. And we're also

718
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 6: taugh or near the top of the list in targets.

719
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 6: So like they clearly have a lot of trust and

720
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 6: you know they those two teams are going to be

721
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 6: trying to make those guys number ones. I think that's

722
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 6: pretty clear from their you know, team building strategy. So

723
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 6: I'm really excited to see how it progresses. With the

724
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 6: entire league playing a lot of too High every game

725
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 6: it gets more valuable.

726
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,479
Speaker 5: So let's go to Pittsburgh. Man, you talk about number ones.

727
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,720
Speaker 5: Now we have two number ones in Pittsburgh with DK

728
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 5: Metcalf and Michael Pittman. In your article you spoke about

729
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 5: how too high data suggests both of these guys could

730
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 5: really be effective in PPR leagues. What is it about

731
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 5: their profile that makes them a fit for what McCarthy

732
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 5: wants to run And is there a case that one

733
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 5: or maybe both of them ends up being undervalued heading

734
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Speaker 5: into twenty twenty six drafts.

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00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, potentially.

736
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Speaker 6: I mean I think especially Pittman could end up undervalued,

737
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,720
Speaker 6: Like he has been a strong PPR guy for a while,

738
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 6: and you know, doesn't necessarily get the shine that he deserves.

739
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 6: He was more the kind of underneath outlet option I

740
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 6: would say against too high, like if he if he

741
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 6: would get a one on one underneath, or like find

742
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 6: a softer zone underneath, I guess would be more of

743
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 6: the idea he was getting. You know, these these easy

744
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 6: you know, slant routes, just over and over fade routes,

745
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 6: whatever you wanted to do. And so you know, he

746
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 6: caught forty balls against that coverage. Last year, d K

747
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 6: did not have quite the same volume, but he was

748
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:40,759
Speaker 6: actually highly efficient when he was targeted. He caught just

749
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 6: over eighty percent of his targets when facing too high,

750
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 6: So like he could be more the intermediate.

751
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 4: Option on the other side of the field.

752
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 6: If it is Aaron Rodgers back, like that's going to

753
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 6: be read one and read two in some order when

754
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:00,920
Speaker 6: he gets this coverage, and so, you know, I think

755
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 6: both of them could be really really productive.

756
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:04,880
Speaker 4: Just off of that.

757
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 6: Another guy we saw be really efficient was Pat Farremouth.

758
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 6: You know, Rogers is a veteran. He knows how to

759
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 6: how to use his guys and you know, break down

760
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 6: whatever he is seeing with the defense opposite him. And

761
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,319
Speaker 6: you know he's been he has worked with McCarthy for

762
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 6: a long long time. So if that's the quarterback they

763
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 6: elect to go with, then it could produce, you know,

764
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 6: really impressive fantasy results.

765
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,760
Speaker 1: It warms my heart to hear you say that Michael

766
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: Pittman may be a little bit undervalued, because I've been

767
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,959
Speaker 1: I've been trying to tell my esteemed co hosts this

768
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 1: for weeks and it's like getting them to eat broccoli

769
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: to get them to admit to this. So I appreciate that,

770
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: but I guess it does sort of lend to the

771
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: fact that the Colts felt like Michael Pittman was expendable

772
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: because they went out and re signed Alec Peerce to

773
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: a pretty sizable deal.

774
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 2: So do we see you know, maybe greater use.

775
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: Obviously we'll see greater usage for for Alec Pearce, But

776
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: is there a way that he can be a guy

777
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: who helps beat some of these split safety coverages. Can

778
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 1: they find a way to kind of make him that

779
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 1: lightning rod in the offense?

780
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 4: Yes? Absolutely?

781
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,919
Speaker 6: Uh so so with Pittman, you know, he talked about

782
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 6: him as broccoli like he Uh.

783
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 4: I did think that was funny. Uh.

784
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 6: You know, he's not gonna get you the deep balls,

785
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 6: He's not going to get you the touchdowns. Alec Pierce

786
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 6: has that splash play capability, and then he is also

787
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 6: like a big body, quick twitch you know, I think

788
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 6: he's six y three and runs a four to four

789
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 6: sub four four or something like that, and so you know,

790
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 6: he is really a do it all receiver and he

791
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 6: has some of the same capabilities as a Jackson Smith

792
00:40:54,040 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 6: and Jigba. Alec Pierce was the number one receiver in

793
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 6: yards per target against too high coverage last season. So

794
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 6: the Colts were like, Okay, we have this guy in

795
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,480
Speaker 6: the building and like, sure, we've been doing a good

796
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 6: job executing the shorter routes to Pittman, but like Alec

797
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 6: Pearce's is dynamic.

798
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 4: He's tearing it up.

799
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 6: Like if we give him more of that work, I

800
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 6: don't see why.

801
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:26,840
Speaker 4: He shouldn't thrive.

802
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,479
Speaker 6: He showed a really complete type of game last year

803
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 6: compared to like the deep ball, lonely thing he had

804
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 6: been doing in previous seasons. So I see no reason

805
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 6: why that couldn't continue to expand and he could become

806
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 6: like a really tough, light type of guy.

807
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,760
Speaker 3: And I know in your article you are excited about

808
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 3: the Arizona Cardinals pass catchers, so I want you to

809
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 3: talk on that. But I'm gonna throw to a two

810
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 3: part at you, right, who do you like more between

811
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 3: Michael Wilson and Marvin Harrison Junior? And you touched on

812
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 3: Brock Bowers earlier. Is Trey McBride your tight end one?

813
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 3: Can Brock give him a run for his money this year?

814
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 4: Oh man? That is a tough question.

815
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna think about that for a second while

816
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 6: I talk about the receivers. So I really liked what

817
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 6: we saw out of Wilson late in the year last year.

818
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 6: And one of the craziest things really that I came

819
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 6: across when I was going through this research was Jacoby

820
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 6: Brissette was tied for the NFL lead in touchdowns against

821
00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 6: split safety coverage last year, Like, who.

822
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 4: Would have thought that?

823
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 6: Not me personally. He threw ten tuddies and five of

824
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:34,880
Speaker 6: them were to Wilson. Wilson was the only guy with

825
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 6: five touchdowns against split safety, which is really really interesting

826
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 6: because this is usually a thing that's played kind of

827
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 6: in the field between the twenties rather than in the

828
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 6: red zone where you're gonna play man. So like the

829
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 6: fact that he was able to get five touchdowns on

830
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 6: mostly like deeper throws, that's really promising, especially.

831
00:42:57,560 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 4: With a guy in.

832
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 6: Mike Lafleur who has been working with Sean McVay, who

833
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 6: is well known to shred this coverage to pieces. Just

834
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 6: with whoever he has on his offense. You know, it's

835
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 6: been Stafford Nikkouah recently, even with the golf and top

836
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 6: you know back in him years ago.

837
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, MVP, absolutely right.

838
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 6: Yeah, So I think, you know, you could take kind

839
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 6: of that blueprint and these are not guys who are

840
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 6: going to go super high up in the draft, but

841
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 6: maybe at the very end, if you're playing two quarterbacks

842
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 6: and you want to go for Brissett, he's probably going

843
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 6: to get numbers even if that team doesn't get wins,

844
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 6: and that also means he's going to be throwing more

845
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 6: so a guy who is near the top of the

846
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 6: board in McBride. Personally, I think I would lean McBride

847
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 6: because he was so far out in front of the

848
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 6: field this year for over bowers. But you know, don't

849
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 6: hold me to that. We could we could change up

850
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 6: on that. They're they're they're a perfect number.

851
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,399
Speaker 4: March nineteenth. That take is written in ink.

852
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 6: Now, stright, I guess, I guess I'm in every league.

853
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 6: I gotta, you know, put a put money in my office.

854
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:19,439
Speaker 6: Uh okay now, but no, I am really excited about

855
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 6: train McBride.

856
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:20,760
Speaker 2: UH.

857
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 6: If you go back to the chiplocks. This is not

858
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 6: going to surprise anyone. But he'd had the most targets,

859
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 6: receptions in yards against or when UH thrown a chiplock,

860
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 6: and then you know it was the same idea against

861
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 6: UH too high coverage. He was the only tight end

862
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 6: in the top ten for UH. Which stat is this,

863
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 6: oh yard's over expected, which is a cool one. That's

864
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 6: a that's a next gen stat that all of you

865
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 6: should check out. It's UH indicative of a lot of

866
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 6: things about a Guesst talent. But uh but you know

867
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 6: also led again in targets, receptions and yards, and you

868
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 6: know when you when you have a guy like that,

869
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 6: you just kind of send it like it's it's really

870
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 6: showing that he's doing it better than everyone else.

871
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 5: We didn't get, is it Michael Wilson mar person, Yes,

872
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 5: I did.

873
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 2: Say, well, we gotta know, no for sure.

874
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 6: I I'm definitely on Wilson pretty strong this year. You know,

875
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,359
Speaker 6: Harrison's been super up and down. I was really in

876
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 6: on him last year. I thought he was going to

877
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 6: figure it out and that's not what we saw, so

878
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 6: especially with this too High data in mind, but also

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Speaker 6: just with how the second half of last year went like, yeah,

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Speaker 6: I would I would say Wilson has kind of taken

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Speaker 6: it over there.

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Speaker 5: Nice, Well, let's pivot to the Patriots. I mean, who

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Speaker 5: will be taken over to production against Too High? I mean,

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Speaker 5: could it be Booty, could it be Dobbs? I mean

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Speaker 5: both were highly efficient on the volume in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 4: Mm hm, that's that's a really good question.

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Speaker 6: So I think the idea is kind of that we

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Speaker 6: need to think about who is taking over for the

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Speaker 6: workload of Stephan.

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Speaker 4: Dicks, and that could be both of them.

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Speaker 6: But I think the reason they went out and gave

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Speaker 6: a really big chunk of money to Romeo Dobbs is

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Speaker 6: because they kind of see him that way. So I

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Speaker 6: could easily foresee this being a career year for him.

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Speaker 6: You know, we saw Drake may being super super accurate

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Speaker 6: last year, just you know, high completion percentage guy, and

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Speaker 6: Dobbs has generally been really really good at getting himself

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Speaker 6: open in zone. So you know, that lends itself to

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Speaker 6: an accurate quarterback who can just hit him in stride

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Speaker 6: and get him going. And so you know, Stefan Diggs,

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Speaker 6: older guy who had a little bit of a fantasy

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Speaker 6: renaissance in the early part of last year. Dobbs seems

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Speaker 6: to fit right into that space.

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Speaker 4: I do love Booty as well.

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Speaker 6: Like, if you're gonna, you know, be looking at either

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Speaker 6: one of them in.

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Speaker 4: A draft, maybe you just go for both.

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Speaker 6: Because if you're talking about what I was saying earlier

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Speaker 6: with who is going to run that outside go and

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Speaker 6: be cover four or something like that.

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Speaker 4: That is k Shan Boody to a tea.

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Speaker 6: We saw it as far as the touchdown production more

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Speaker 6: than just about anyone else last season, and you know

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Speaker 6: so with more volume and more opportunities, that should only

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Speaker 6: continue to rise.

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Speaker 1: Hey well, James, we appreciate the time you had a

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Speaker 1: lot of great work. For everybody who's out there looking

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Speaker 1: for you can go find it at NFL dot com.

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Speaker 1: Look for stuff by the Next Gen Stats team, James,

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Speaker 1: with a few articles up there about the chip blocks.

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Speaker 1: It's called the secret weapon NFL offenses are using to

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Speaker 1: buy qbs an extra half second. Also some of the

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Speaker 1: two high safety work, the coverage that turned the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: into Super Bowl winners and is taking the NFL by storm. James,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate any anything you got working on anything in

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Speaker 1: the pipeline.

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Speaker 2: Maybe folks should keep an eye out.

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Speaker 4: For Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 6: So within the last week or so, we did get

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Speaker 6: another one up on the site. So if you are

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Speaker 6: looking for what next Gen Status believes are the best

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Speaker 6: free agency fits of this recent crop of signings, someone

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Speaker 6: that's going to go really well with the new coachra

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Speaker 6: coordinator that they're working with, or fill a gap that

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Speaker 6: existed for that team, then yeah, definitely check that article out.

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Speaker 4: It is live.

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Speaker 6: These are all on NFL dot com. You can find

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Speaker 6: them under my name or under the Next Gen Stats

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Speaker 6: Analytics team. We're also going to be putting one out

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Speaker 6: on the kind of a draft primer, what we think

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Speaker 6: are ideal fits from a next perspective as we get

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Speaker 6: close to the draft, what could work out.

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Speaker 4: In the first round.

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Speaker 6: I'm not going to say it's like a hardline mock,

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Speaker 6: it's just like some speculation on the subject. And then

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Speaker 6: I would definitely say to follow our Twitter at Next

947
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Speaker 6: Gen Stats. We have new stuff coming out on there

948
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Speaker 6: all the time, some really good insights that you know

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Speaker 6: you can't get elsewhere.

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Speaker 2: So awesome. Sounds great. Sure to check that out.

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Speaker 1: NFL dot com slash nngs one of the easy ways

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Speaker 1: to find that, And as you mentioned, I'll follow the

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Speaker 1: Next Gen Stats Twitter account as well.

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Speaker 2: But that'll do.

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Speaker 1: It for this edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.

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Speaker 1: Stay happy, safe and healthy, do good and live well

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Speaker 1: if you want to tournament everybody, It's that time of

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Speaker 1: year and we will talk to you all again on Tuesday. Wow.