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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, December nineteenth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show, where we're down

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Speaker 1: with Costco hot Dogs too man, your man, MG Marcus

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Speaker 1: Grand joined by Michael f.

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Speaker 2: Florio.

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Speaker 3: Here we are. It is week sixteen. I don't know

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Speaker 3: about you.

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Speaker 1: Like we've talked about how fast this season is going,

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Speaker 1: it feels like things have ground to a halt this week?

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Speaker 3: Is it just me?

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, a little bit? Like for me, I feel

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Speaker 2: like every week.

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Speaker 4: Is just like you blink and it's like, oh man,

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Speaker 4: it's Thursday already, Like where did the week go?

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Speaker 2: But yeah, I don't I get. You know what it is.

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Speaker 4: It's the holidays and stuff so on top of because

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Speaker 4: you know it every day in season, every Monday.

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Speaker 2: Is the same, every Tuesday is the same.

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Speaker 4: But now you add in outside factors like holidays still

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Speaker 4: for Disney on ice yea, and there you go.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, everybody else is sitting down watching the doubleheader

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Speaker 1: of the NFL. I will be watching costume characters skate

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Speaker 1: around at Staple Center in downtown Los Angeles, because you know,

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Speaker 1: family and holidays and that's it's not all bad for

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Speaker 1: sure for sure. Anyway, we got our Week sixteen calls,

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Speaker 1: Florio and I will do a club dub or red

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Speaker 1: Flags and the Snorlas. But let's start with a couple

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Speaker 1: of quick fantasy headlines. News out of San Francisco where

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Speaker 1: it hits just keep on coming for the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: They cannot keep a healthy running back for anything. It

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Speaker 1: looks like Isaac Garrindo unlikely to play this week against

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Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, that is the Sunday night football game

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Speaker 1: this week. We talked about this earlier in the week, Florio.

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Speaker 1: It was a game that, on paper when they scheduled

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Speaker 1: it they released the schedule, looked like it was going

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Speaker 1: to be a huge game with two teams you figured

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Speaker 1: would be certainly competing for a playoff spot, maybe even

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Speaker 1: for their division titles, and staid they are both six

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Speaker 1: and eight, so likely, Isaac Garndo, how confident would you

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Speaker 1: be to put Patrick Taylor in a lineup this week?

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Speaker 4: Not insanely confident, but like I have a league where

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Speaker 4: I was texting you about it today. I lost David

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Speaker 4: Montgomery U and then my other flex option was Amari Cooper,

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Speaker 4: who gave a zero last week. So like, I am

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Speaker 4: going back and forth, like do I want to plug

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Speaker 4: in Patrick Taylor over Amari Cooper because I'm playing a miror.

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Speaker 2: Of Doula as my RB two. That's where we're at

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Speaker 2: this week. I'm like, Okay, I have more confidence in

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Speaker 2: a mirror of Doula that I'm starting him.

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Speaker 4: But to me, this kind of is exactly what we

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Speaker 4: broke down last week when we thought it would Isaac

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Speaker 4: Grenda would not be playing like Patrick Taylor. I expect

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Speaker 4: to get the first opportunity probably lead this backfield because

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Speaker 4: he's been there so long and all of that, but

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Speaker 4: it could easily be a hot hand approach and end

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Speaker 4: up being one of the other backs that just looks

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Speaker 4: better and gets more of the work. So there's definitely

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Speaker 4: risk there. The reward, though, is like he could POTENTI

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Speaker 4: the the RB one on a Kyle Shanahan run system

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Speaker 4: in a good matchup.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's sort of what we hope for, right.

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Speaker 1: The whole reason we even bring the names up is

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Speaker 1: because Kyle Shanahan, I guess, even going back to his dad,

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Speaker 3: So maybe that's sort of the hope.

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Speaker 1: But you know, who knows if it's Taylor, maybe israel

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Speaker 1: A Bani Honda slides in there some kind of way,

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Speaker 1: you know. Plus also the fact that the Niner offense

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Speaker 1: has just not been as explosive this year for any

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Speaker 1: number of reasons, even to the point that they're talking

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Speaker 1: about Trent Williams might not play again this season. So

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Speaker 1: that's a big loss on the offensive line for this team.

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Speaker 1: So definitely a calculated risk. I think, certainly I would

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Speaker 1: be more inclined to play him in a daily lineup.

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Speaker 3: I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I can plug him into like

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Speaker 1: would definitely think i'd look elsewhere besides Patrick Taylor and

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Speaker 1: San Francisco. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Michael Pinnocks junior, we talked

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Speaker 1: about him being elevated to the starting job for the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. But a fun fact, he was waiting at

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Speaker 1: Costco for a hot dog when he got the news

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Speaker 1: that he was starting Florida. I don't know if you've

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Speaker 1: ever talked about this on air. We've talked about this,

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Speaker 1: just you know, amongst ourselves. We are all fans of

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Speaker 1: the Costco hot dog here on this show?

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Speaker 3: Huge fan?

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Speaker 4: I mean you get a not only is it like

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Speaker 4: Like if you got that at a baseball stadium that

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Speaker 4: things costing you like fourteen dollars.

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Speaker 2: You get it with a soda for a dollar fifty a.

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Speaker 4: Look, I'm not I'm not too proud to say I

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Speaker 4: haven't had a Costco hot dog in a couple of

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Speaker 4: slices of Costco pizza for dinner here and there, like

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Speaker 4: when you're going shopping at Costco, which, look, I need

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Speaker 4: to prepare myself mentally to do so.

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Speaker 2: That's like the reward for you.

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Speaker 1: After Absolutely no, the Costco hot dog is a legit

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Speaker 1: one of the great bargains in American life, one of

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Speaker 1: the great values in American life. There are two things

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Speaker 1: the hot dogs give you gas, not that kind of

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Speaker 1: gas anyway, it's a whole thing. But the Michael Pinnix

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Speaker 1: NFL quarterbacks, they're just like us. They love Costco hot

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Speaker 2: Do you think he got recognized at Costco?

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Speaker 1: Probably not. I would imagine like Michael Pintix. But that's

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Speaker 1: the thing about NFL players that they're generally pretty anonymous,

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Speaker 1: Like because they wear a helmet, you don't necessarily know

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Speaker 1: what they look like. And you certainly wouldn't think that

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Speaker 1: the starting quarterback first round pick for the Atlanta Falcons

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Speaker 1: would be kicking it at Costco waiting for a hot dog,

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Speaker 1: you know. So, I'm sure he was able to eat

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Speaker 1: his hot dog relative peace, but maybe not anymore if

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Speaker 1: he plays well coming up this week.

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Speaker 4: He said he wasn't hungry once he got that call.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, eat the hot dog.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he pays your round fifty, Like finish the dog man,

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Speaker 1: like go go, not get out for sure. Anyway, let's

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Speaker 1: get to some of our calls for week sixteen. We'll

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Speaker 1: start with Club dub, the non quarterback, who's going to

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Speaker 1: be the top scorer this week?

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Speaker 3: And the winner is.

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Speaker 4: I like your answer better than mine, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: go with Mike Evans here because we keep talking about it, Marcus,

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Speaker 4: like they have. We've reached the time of the year

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Speaker 4: where incentives matter, and I don't think there's a team

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Speaker 4: with more incentive than trying to get Mike Evans to

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Speaker 4: one thousand yards. Like, look, he's undoubtedly the greatest Bucks

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Speaker 4: best player in Bucks history. And this streak means a

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Speaker 4: lot to him and to the team and all of that,

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Speaker 4: and it is a great matchup. The Cowboys have allowed

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Speaker 4: the most passing year since week eleven. Baker Mayfield is

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Speaker 4: playing extremely well. I said yesterday, I don't think he

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Speaker 4: MVP like down ballot votes for how well he has

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Speaker 4: matchup and the volume is going to translate to another big,

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Speaker 4: big day for Mike Evans like it did last week.

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Speaker 2: And look two fifty one, he might get over half

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing is that the matchup is

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Speaker 1: really really good for Evans. I think, you know, we

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Speaker 1: closer to winning the NFC South Right, get the ball

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Speaker 1: I think there are multiple reasons to try and feed

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Speaker 2: Mike Evans Hall of Famer. Right, Like, there's an internet

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Speaker 2: debate and I'm like, why are.

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Speaker 3: We doing this? Web Like why? How?

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how Now Mike Evans the Hall of Famer,

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Speaker 1: Like between the stats and the fact that in his

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Speaker 1: everything about him says hall of Famer without a doubt.

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Speaker 2: Mix a playoffs, yearly, super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Champion, like all of that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's in. He checks all the boxes for me.

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Speaker 1: This week, James Connor checks all the boxes. And I

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Speaker 1: those guys that just I think underrated year after year.

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Speaker 1: Right now he's the RB ten. He's very much in

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Speaker 1: line for another thousand yards season this year. But on

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Speaker 1: and in a year where Kyler Murray has been just

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Speaker 1: can look for James Connor to handle a heavy workload

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Speaker 1: I don't know the game script really comes into play here,

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Speaker 1: a little bit, and you see more James Connor. But

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Speaker 1: even over the course the first three quarters, I think

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Speaker 3: Think he has a huge, huge game this week.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, on the flip side, somebody who is maybe a

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Speaker 4: For you, an entire team and they wear red the

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Speaker 4: Kansas City Chiefs because this story.

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Speaker 2: Look me and you.

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Speaker 4: Were joking a lot about it this week, Like this

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Speaker 4: is what Patrick Mahome does late in the year. He

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Speaker 4: gets hurt, he hurts this ankle and then he ends

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Speaker 4: that adds risk. Add into the fact that he's already

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Speaker 4: been taking quarterback hits at the highest rate of his

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Speaker 4: be hobbled up struggling to run. Pacheco and Hunt are

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Speaker 4: splitting the work so much that it's hard for either

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Speaker 4: one of them to be productive in fantasy because we

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Speaker 4: haven't seen the bursts from Pacheco back yet and Kareem

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Speaker 4: Hunt doesn't have that in his game anymore. DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 4: like kind of needs a touchdown to get thirteen Fantasy points,

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Speaker 4: so I don't think the juice has really worth the

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Speaker 4: squeeze there. Kelsey is the big one, but he hasn't

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Speaker 4: been putting up great numbers as of late. And when

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Speaker 4: they're in the red zone, the touchdown passes team to

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Speaker 4: go to Noah Gray. The short design stuff is going

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Speaker 4: to Xavier Worthy. Now it's crazy. I could make an

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Speaker 2: Word is the chief player that I feel best about

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Speaker 1: That is kind of a wild statement. I mean it,

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Speaker 1: I mean it just is because he's been so inconsistent.

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Speaker 3: They're scary to deal with.

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Speaker 1: But apparently we're gonna have to deal with the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: which is why I don't love Joe Mixon this week.

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Speaker 1: So for all the great things Joe Mixon has done

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Speaker 3: Who is your sleeper for Week sixteen?

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Speaker 4: I said earlier that I have confidence in a mir Abdullah,

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Speaker 4: So I'm going with him here because last week he

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Speaker 4: played more snaps in Alexander Madison after Sincere McCormick was hurt.

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Speaker 4: He had seven targets, scored nineteen fantasy points, and if

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Speaker 4: So. Yeah, I look, the floor isn't all that safe,

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Speaker 2: I think the upside is way higher with that Duela

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, we just have been trying to shoehorn

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Speaker 1: But Ameerdula certainly has a great opportunity. And just to think,

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Speaker 1: it is the matchup. I mean, the Indianapolis Colts have

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Speaker 3: But either way, the matchup is good.

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Speaker 1: Who knows how many opportunities he gets playing on a

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Speaker 4: I ran through my fantasy matchups and I'm like, I

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Speaker 4: don't think I have anyone in Thursday or Saturday's games

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Speaker 4: wat I have. Actually in the Dynasty League where we're

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Speaker 2: So that was a lie, but that's the only one.

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Speaker 4: Like every like tonight, I have so many starts and

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Speaker 2: So I'll be just as invested, but for a different reason.

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Speaker 2: How about you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I have this thing in my head and maybe it

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Speaker 1: Patrick Claybam were talking about this. This Chiefs run started

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Speaker 4: Look, I'm not saying it's gonna happen, but selfishly, if

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Speaker 1: I mean it would be fitting because they are like,

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Speaker 4: I'll take the Bills advancing in any way I could

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Speaker 2: Something like that. Like it wouldn't be it would be

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Speaker 4: The only way they could really do it is if,

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Speaker 4: like I think the realistic way is Denver loses out

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're right, absolutely, And I know it's not

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs would be common.

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Speaker 3: That would that would be that would be very funny.

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Speaker 2: If it can't be the Bills, I want it to

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Speaker 1: Buriously, a bon Nicks somehow getting it done would be

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Speaker 2: For shit. It will never be the Chargers, we know that.

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Speaker 3: No, they would just charge their way out of the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: That's what they would do.

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Speaker 2: Imagine if like the Colts sneak in and they're the

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Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson flexing in the end zone, like running over

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Speaker 3: Probably not gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: Chiefs fans have turned this podcast off five minutes ago.

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Speaker 1: Well, the rest of you can probably turn it off

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Speaker 1: right now, because that'll do it for this edition of

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Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. They happy, save and healthy,

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