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Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, December twenty sixth, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's

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Speaker 1: me and your man, MG. Marcus Grant joined by Michael

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Speaker 1: lef Floria. Got a fun episode for you today. We

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Speaker 1: got our biggest takeaways from week sixteen. Plus we're airing

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Speaker 1: grievances as part of Fantasy Festives and Matt o'cotta's gonna

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Speaker 1: drop byo with this top waiver wire targets for Championship Week.

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Speaker 1: Did you have any merry Christmas, mister Florio, Uh, for.

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Speaker 2: Real life, yes, for fantasy no, it was terrible. But

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Speaker 2: speaking of Christmas, those are new, aren't they They are?

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Speaker 1: I did. I got some new kicks. Shout out to

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Speaker 1: the wife for these nice new pair Jordan's the pad

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Speaker 1: and leather with gold the gold swoosh. Yeah. Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: was a I'm sort of with you. It was a

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Speaker 1: good day overall. Enjoyed it at spend time with the family,

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Speaker 1: ate way too much food, have way too many leftover.

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Speaker 1: Fantasy was sort of a mixed bag, good in one league,

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Speaker 1: not so good an others, And then the night ended

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Speaker 1: with the forty nine ers getting thumped by the Ravens.

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Speaker 1: That was not fun, at least not for me. It

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Speaker 1: was kind of a mixed day, but I'll take it

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Speaker 1: on the whole. Got a lot to talk about on

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Speaker 1: the show because we got our biggest takeaways from week sixteen,

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Speaker 1: our top performers, disappointments, we will have some Waiver Wire

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Speaker 1: targets with Matt Ocotta joining us later, and we got

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Speaker 1: Fantasy fest of Us. Yeah, I know it's a few

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Speaker 1: days late from actual festiv Us, but this is our

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Speaker 1: first show since then, and we're gonna air some grievances

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Speaker 1: about what we saw over the weekend and maybe over

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Speaker 1: the course of the season as well. Of course, we

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Speaker 1: are here with you a little bit later in the

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Speaker 1: normal We normally Doly Monday show, but Monday was Chris,

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Speaker 1: you know the whole deal. Anyway, let's get to some

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Speaker 1: fantasy headlines, because that's normally what we do at this

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Speaker 1: time of the show. Starting in Kansas City, where things

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Speaker 1: don't look great for the Chiefs. They suffer an ugly

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Speaker 1: loss to the Raiders, and then Isaiah Pacheco, their star

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Speaker 1: Four Week seventeen but you've got Isaiah Pachecko in concussion protocol,

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Speaker 1: You've got Jack McKinnon on injured reserve. Is it, cechs z.

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Speaker 3: N it is?

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Speaker 2: If Isaiah Pichecko is out this week, Clyde Edwardsilaire becomes

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Speaker 2: a running back that you one hundred percent should start

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Speaker 2: in the Fantasy Championships this week. The Bengals have struggled

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Speaker 2: against the run and particularly in allowing a lot of

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Speaker 2: explosive runs this season, and the Chiefs, man, like, were

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Speaker 2: you guys out to get Pachecko this week?

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Speaker 3: Is how it comes off?

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Speaker 2: Twice in the same play, his old lineman kicks him

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Speaker 2: and the table collapses. I guess that's kind of an

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Speaker 2: innuendo for how the last like six weeks have been

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Speaker 2: for the chief season. But man, everything went wrong for

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Speaker 2: Isaiah Pachecko this this past week outside of that one

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Speaker 2: really impressive run for.

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Speaker 1: The touchdown, Yeah, it really did. Here's the thing about

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Speaker 1: Ceh is that he really has been very quietly getting

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Speaker 1: a bigger role in this offense. Those couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: when Pachecko was out with an injury, we all thought

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Speaker 1: maybe this is when it goes to be maximum McKinnon,

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Speaker 1: and it never was had the majority of the snaps,

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Speaker 1: he was getting most of the rushing attempts. It was

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Speaker 1: McKinnon getting the targets, but Clyde Edwards Delaiir was getting

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Speaker 1: so even when Pacheco came back, Edward de Laire was

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Speaker 1: the RB two in this offense. Now, if there is

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Speaker 1: no Pacheco and there is no McKinnon, it maybe all

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Speaker 1: Cech all the time in the Chiefs backfield. The question

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Speaker 1: becomes then the Chiefs score points, which is not a

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Speaker 1: thing you're used to saying about a Patrick Mahomes led

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Speaker 1: Chiefs offense. I know my friends who are Raider fans

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Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin says that Mason Rudolph currently on track to

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Speaker 1: be the Steelers starting quarterback this week against the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: Rudolph came out of nowhere and had a huge game

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Speaker 1: this past week against the Bengals. I was out with

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Speaker 1: I guess first question, would you stream Mason Rudolph this week?

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Speaker 3: In two QB leagues?

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Speaker 2: I do think he is in play because I mean,

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Speaker 2: been going for a three peat this week had I

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Speaker 2: I know it was a couple of long touchdown passes

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Speaker 2: to George Pickens, but that is something that is in

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Speaker 2: the realm of possibility with the Steelers. Now, Yes, the

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Speaker 2: floor with Mason Rudolf is probably single digits. So again

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Speaker 2: that's why I think he's best left for two quarterback leagues.

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Speaker 2: But if you're in that format, I think he comes

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Speaker 1: I think he definitely comes into play. I just worry

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Speaker 1: about the variance with Mason Rudolph because there's a wide switch.

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Speaker 1: He'll give you games like you saw on Saturday, and

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Speaker 1: then he'll be awful. And this is a scary time

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Speaker 1: of year for him to suddenly show up and be

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Speaker 1: awful for you in week seventeen. So that's my only

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Speaker 1: concern with starting Mason Rudolph coming up this week against

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Speaker 1: a Seattle pass defense that has been okay at times.

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Speaker 1: their past defense has been. But on the other side,

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Speaker 1: George Pickens went kaboom this past week one hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety five yards. Joel Smith, our excellent researcher, pointed out

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Speaker 1: that I think twenty nine percent of George Pickens' fantasy

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Speaker 1: production this year has come on four plays. Wow, who

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Speaker 1: George thinkots is? So? I mean taking that into account

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Speaker 1: with Mason Reoff at quarterback, how do you feel about

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Speaker 1: you know, Pickens, Deontay Johnson, Pat Farm With any of

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Speaker 2: Offense, the only one I would play is George Pickens

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Speaker 2: because the upside is so high. I understand that the

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Speaker 2: floor is single digits as well, but like Deontay Johnson,

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Speaker 2: needs a touchdown to get double digit fantasy points. Pat

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Speaker 2: Fryarmouth needs a touchdown to get more than five Fantasy points.

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Speaker 2: It feels like And there was an article that came

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Speaker 2: out on Steelers dot Com before this game this week,

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Speaker 2: and that was like, uh, Mason Rudolph has great chemistry

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Speaker 2: with Deontay Johnson. He's gonna go rely on him whenever

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Speaker 2: he needs to two catches for fifteen yards.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a complete swing and miss.

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Speaker 2: The only one I think you could even consider playing

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Speaker 2: is Pickens speak, and that's because of the ceiling.

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Speaker 1: Understand it's very boom or bust. It is very boom

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Speaker 1: starting Pickens just sort of understanding that it could be great.

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Speaker 1: It could be you know, two catches for twenty five yards.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that really is the range of outcomes for

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Speaker 1: a Mason Rudolph George Pickens pairing Deontay Johnson is just

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Speaker 1: he lives in a tiny house, right, The ceiling and

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Speaker 1: the floor very close together, and I think with Mason

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Speaker 1: Rudolph at quarterback, both of those are a little bit

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Speaker 1: lower than they normally would be. Remember back when everybody's like, oh, Mason,

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Speaker 1: Ro's gonna throw James Washington when like the Steelers Heckers,

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Speaker 1: like they were college teammates and they were roommates together

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Speaker 1: and like that note workout at all. Yeah, that didn't

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Speaker 1: work out even a little bit, all right, So that

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Speaker 1: is what we're sort of looking ahead toward. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we'll have more later in the week as we learn

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Speaker 1: more about what the status some of these players are.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, let's take a look back and eat

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Speaker 1: some of our biggest takeaways from Week sixteen. What is

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Speaker 2: The Fantasy semi finals week continues to be the week

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Speaker 2: every single year where weird stuff happens in fantasy football.

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Speaker 2: It used to be Week fifteen, Now it's Week sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Where I don't know about you, Marcus. In most of

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Speaker 2: my leagues, it feels like the top teams all got.

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Speaker 1: Eliminated this week.

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Speaker 2: You look at the leader board this week, Okay, Josh

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Speaker 2: Allen QB one. Then it's Derek Carr and Joe Flacco

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Speaker 2: as top three quarterbacks. Joe Flacco didn't have a team

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Speaker 2: six weeks ago. Look at the wide receivers. You get

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Speaker 2: like George Pickens as a as the number two tight end.

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Speaker 2: It's Chago konkquo. You could have played Jason Sanders like

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Speaker 2: I did in the Fantasy Live league, who routinely puts

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Speaker 2: up single digit Fantasy points and had not top twelve

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Speaker 2: in a game, and he drops twenty two on you,

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Speaker 2: like this week is the week where, and it's always

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Speaker 2: late in the year, so much changes. You could think

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Speaker 2: in week twelve that you have a great team, but

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Speaker 2: you need to keep making moves and stuff because weird

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Speaker 2: stuff is gonna happen, and these players that are on

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Speaker 2: waiver wires and week ten to eleven twelve might win

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Speaker 1: It's sort of like the olden days when Dave Letterman

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Speaker 1: used to do his nightly Top ten. Number two was

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Speaker 1: the fantasy season there the second to last week is

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Speaker 1: always a little bit weirder than the last week, pending

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Speaker 1: the off season. Patrick Mahomes, I'm gonna admit so like

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Speaker 1: I think when I wrote this originally, I was a

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Speaker 1: either way, I think what we've seen of Mahomes in

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs offense is concerning. We're seeing teams sort of

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Speaker 1: down on Travis Kelce, who hasn't scored a touchdown in

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Speaker 1: what feels like a couple of months now, and you're

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Speaker 1: seeing Patrick Mahomes sort of look like a mortal bank there.

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Speaker 1: It didn't help that they're turning the ball over ends

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Speaker 1: looking sloppy, But the Chiefs have really been winning with

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Speaker 1: defense and staying in games with defense, and we've all

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Speaker 1: been kind of waiting for their offense to kick it

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Speaker 1: in the gear and it hasn't happened. And Rashie Rice

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Speaker 1: has been a nice addition to the offense, but he's

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Speaker 1: not really a downfield threat. Where you're not getting anything

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Speaker 1: out of Marquez Valdez scanting that's not really a surprise.

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Speaker 1: Sky Moore is a bus Kadarius Tony is somewhere in

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Speaker 1: outer space. It seems like mentally a lot of times

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Speaker 1: this offense is not what we're used to seeing. And

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Speaker 1: unless the Chiefs go out whether it's in free agency

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Speaker 1: or in the draft, and add some really dynamic pass

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Speaker 1: catchers who can stretch the field, who can be a

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Speaker 1: threat away from the line of scrimmage. Patrick Mahomes is

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Speaker 1: not the slam dunk top three quarterback pick that we've

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Speaker 1: been used to seeing in the last few.

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Speaker 2: Years, and in a year where every quarterback is dropping

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Speaker 2: like flies, he is the QB seven in total points

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Speaker 2: and even lower end points per game because you have

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Speaker 2: guys like Justin Herbert, Kyler, Murray, Justin Fields who missed time,

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Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins. But we're averaging more fantasy points per game

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Speaker 2: than Mahomes. And this is something I put on Twitter,

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Speaker 2: like you're gonna hear a lot of talk about like

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Speaker 2: early round quarterback was a bad mistake. No, it was

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Speaker 2: only bad if you took Mahomes over Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 2: If you took those other two, you are fine and

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Speaker 1: Top performers for Week sixteen, and we're actually all done

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Speaker 1: Jason Sanders, as you mentioned earlier, Florio five field goals,

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Speaker 2: The Raiders should have had another interception on Mahomes too.

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Speaker 1: Like it, but he got away with it at least,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, two hundred and sixty five yards broke Josh Gordon's

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Speaker 1: You can't not play Amari Cooper this week. I don't

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Speaker 1: within one score. But he is doing a lot of

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Speaker 1: his work with the Saints down multiple scores. This is

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Speaker 1: one of those things where they don't ask how, they

435
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Speaker 1: ask how many. And the points have been piling up

436
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Speaker 1: for Derek Carr, regardless of whether they come early or

437
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Speaker 1: come late. Chances are you gonna have to endure a

438
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Speaker 1: really weird interception somewhere in there as well. But then

439
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Speaker 1: he'll do things like sling it down field to at

440
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Speaker 1: Perry or get the ball to Chris Olave. So it's

441
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Speaker 1: not always the easiest watch when you're talking about Derek Carr.

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Speaker 1: But the last two weeks he's actually put up decent

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Speaker 1: numbers and this week has a good matchup. So weirdly,

444
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Speaker 1: Derek Carr and two quarterback leagues very much in play

445
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Speaker 1: against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I still just for the

446
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Speaker 1: fun they want to see Jamis, but I think that

447
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Speaker 1: ship has kind of sailed, you know, right. So those

448
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Speaker 1: are the guys who performed well this past week, and

449
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Speaker 1: now the disappointments. You got to see these disappointments in

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Speaker 1: person this weekend.

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Speaker 2: There is nothing worse than seeing like half of your

452
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Speaker 2: fantasy teams crash and burn live. And that's what happened

453
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Speaker 2: when I went to watch the Bills and Chargers play.

454
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Speaker 2: The two teams of my Big six that won have

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen. The rest have Stefan Diggs, James Cook, Dalton

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Speaker 2: Kincaid and James Cook.

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Speaker 3: I'll even give a.

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Speaker 2: Pass like I wouldn't have survived in some places in

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Speaker 2: Week fourteen or Week fifteen without his big performance. He

460
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Speaker 2: had a bunch of volume. You're still starting James Cook,

461
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Speaker 2: Dalton Kincaid get away from him. Less than two Fantasy

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Speaker 2: points in his last two games combined, less than ten

463
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Speaker 2: in the three games since Dawson Knox has come back,

464
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Speaker 2: and the Big One I have Stefan Diggs as they

465
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Speaker 2: sit this week, less than ten Fantasy points per games

466
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Speaker 2: since Week ten, third year in a row where he

467
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Speaker 2: puts up his worst stats in December. Despite Josh Allen

468
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Speaker 2: putting up his best numbers. The Patriots have been stingy.

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Speaker 2: If you survived get this far with Stefan Diggs, I

470
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Speaker 2: think you could get away from him in championship.

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Speaker 1: So here's one we talked about on Fantasy Live on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday that Cynthia put out there, Puka Nakua or Stefan

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Speaker 1: Diggs pokah No questions asked for me. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: that's where she was going to And I think that's

475
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Speaker 1: the right answer at this point because Stephan Diggs has

476
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Speaker 1: been meh at best for a little while now. Sam

477
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Speaker 1: Laporta a big disappointment. We talked about the tight ends

478
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Speaker 1: that's sort of underwhelmed, and Florio talked about trade McBride.

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Speaker 1: Sam Laporta another one fewer than five points this past

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Speaker 1: week for a guy who's been so good all season long. Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't think you chalked this up to anything other

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Speaker 1: than it just kind of happened to be one of

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Speaker 1: those games, right. He only had three targets. He actually

484
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Speaker 1: caught all three of them, just eighteen yards. It was

485
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Speaker 1: not what you wanted. Hopefully it did not take you

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Speaker 1: out of a championship opportunity. If it did, sorry, I mean,

487
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Speaker 1: I have no control over that, but how lot of

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Speaker 1: you might can go and see none last one for sure? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it just it was a bad game at

490
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Speaker 1: the worst possible time for a lot of fantasy managers.

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Speaker 1: It's just unfortunate. But I still think we're talking about

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Speaker 1: Sam Laporta as one of the top tight ends off

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Speaker 1: the board. Is he a top three tight end next

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Speaker 1: year in terms of draft.

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Speaker 2: He might be the tight end one.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be an interesting discussion.

497
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be him versus Hockinson versus an agent Kelsey.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be really really interesting to talk about

499
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Speaker 1: next year about where Sam Laporta slots at among tight ends.

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Speaker 1: And he's not a first round pick though I think

501
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Speaker 1: I think we can sort of settle on that. But

502
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Speaker 1: where he slots in the hierarchy's gonna be very very interesting. So,

503
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Speaker 1: speaking of disappointments, I got a lot of problems with

504
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Speaker 1: you people. You're gonna hear about it so far a

505
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Festivals. We asked you on Twitter to send us

506
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Speaker 1: your grievances, the guys that you sort of wanted to

507
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Speaker 1: just vent about because they let you down, whether it's

508
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Speaker 1: this week or all season long, and you know we're gonna,

509
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Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna air some grievances right now. So

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Speaker 1: let's go through some of the tweets. This first one

511
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Speaker 1: comes from Michael who says, every time my bench to

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Speaker 1: Gabe Davis, he'd go off for twenty plus every time

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Speaker 1: he was in my lineup, he'd put him a goose egg.

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Speaker 1: This week he was on my bench and doubled up

515
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Speaker 1: both my flexes combined Cortland Sutton and Jalen Warren. That

516
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Speaker 1: sounds about right for Gabe Davis.

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Speaker 2: That is the Gabe Davis experience in a nutshell. I

518
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Speaker 2: will say the one thing looking at his game log,

519
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Speaker 2: the two big games that he's had in the last

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Speaker 2: like six weeks Eagles and Chargers, two great matchups for

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Speaker 2: a wide receivers. So maybe next year we don't draft

522
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Speaker 2: him as the top as a wide receiver. Three, we

523
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Speaker 2: take him over as a bench option and we play

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Speaker 2: him in the good matchup.

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Speaker 1: I think that's sort of what it is. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he is the new poster player for better and best

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Speaker 1: ball because you don't want you don't want to have

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Speaker 1: to put him in your line if you don't want

529
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Speaker 1: to have to guess like Michael did every week, and

530
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Speaker 1: you know most of the time guests wrong. You just

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Speaker 1: want to have him on your roster and then when

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Speaker 1: the games like what happened this weekend happened, you can

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Speaker 1: take advantage of it. So so Gabe Davis, the King

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Speaker 1: of better and best ball, Leandro says Mahomes quote back

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Speaker 1: on track game never came. I actually tweeted something similar

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Speaker 1: over the weekends, just that, like I keep waiting for

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs offense to get right, and the Chiefs offense

538
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Speaker 1: never keeps getting right. I mean, is it over for

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Speaker 1: Mahomes this year? Can it happen in the last next week?

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Speaker 1: I guess it can happen. He has since from Week

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Speaker 1: eight on one game where he topped seventeen Fantasy points.

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Speaker 1: I understand he's been terrible, but you know who's been

543
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Speaker 1: equally terrible the Bengals defense, and that's who he gets

544
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Speaker 1: next week. So we just saw Mason Rudolph torch them.

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Speaker 1: So I wouldn't if you somehow survive Mahomes, I don't

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Speaker 1: think you could give up on him yet. Yeah, I mean,

547
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Speaker 1: it's just been so hard because I think everybody has

548
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Speaker 1: that same fear of I don't want to put him

549
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Speaker 1: on my bench and suddenly he goes off for like

550
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Speaker 1: thirty thirty five points. I don't know that the ceiling

551
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Speaker 1: is that high for him this year, but who knows.

552
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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll say Chad tweets led the league in points,

553
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Speaker 1: still miss the playoffs. I'm not bitter at all, Josh,

554
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Speaker 1: is that your burner? Yeah? Yeah, man, you just got

555
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Speaker 1: to get that thing in your league where you get

556
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Speaker 1: like a bonus or something like that for being the

557
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Speaker 1: league leader in points.

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Speaker 2: My home league does it. First five playoff spots go

559
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Speaker 2: by record. Six is most points that of the five

560
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Speaker 2: of the teams that aren't in the top five in record.

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Speaker 2: I think all leagues should be that way, or play

562
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Speaker 2: like league median each week, because this should never be

563
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Speaker 2: the case where you score the most points and you

564
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Speaker 2: don't make them.

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Speaker 1: You should get you should get something for it, you know,

566
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Speaker 1: like have your league mats throw you a few bucks

567
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: is like a consolation. So in the meantime. Sorry, Yeah,

568
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Speaker 1: This one from Nick who says I should have sold

569
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Speaker 1: high on ETN when I had the chance. If it

570
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Speaker 1: makes you feel any better, and if you're still playing,

571
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Speaker 1: I like et in this week but I get it,

572
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Speaker 1: Like at the start of the year and he was

573
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Speaker 1: doing great. Really since the mid part of the year

574
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Speaker 1: he's been mediocre at best. But I do like his

575
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Speaker 1: opportunity this week against the Carolina Panthers, especially if Trevor

576
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Speaker 1: Lawrence can't play or is less than one hundred percent,

577
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Speaker 1: this potentially could be an et in week.

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Speaker 2: You know the dude in SpongeBob who's in like a

579
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 2: body cast all the time, That is is Trevor Lawrence

580
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 2: right now. I mean, how many injuries is this guy

581
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 2: dealing with? I agree with you, Marcus. I think this

582
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,880
Speaker 2: is going to be a week where they rely heavily

583
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Speaker 2: on Travis Utn.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean again, if you survived it, then

585
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Speaker 1: roll with him for this week. This one from Finn

586
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,800
Speaker 1: at Cahill started Camaro over Breeze Hall and it lost

587
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: to me two leagues. I see the thought process. I do.

588
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 3: I had Kamara in two leagues as well. Those leagues

589
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 3: are no longer.

590
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Speaker 1: Fighting for a championship. There you go, So it makes

591
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Speaker 1: you feel better, Like I get it, Like Kamara is

592
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 1: getting a lot of volume. The Rams defense, it's been

593
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Speaker 1: just Rams defense is so so I can't really put

594
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Speaker 1: my finger on what it is that they do well

595
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Speaker 1: or do terribly. They're just kind of there, but they

596
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Speaker 1: were there enough to shut down Alvin Kamara. Meanwhile, we

597
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 1: talked about Breeze Hall going for forty plus points. Yeah, Finn,

598
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be thinking about this for a long time.

599
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Speaker 1: I have no other words of comfort for you that

600
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Speaker 1: this is just going to weigh on your mind until

601
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Speaker 1: drafts next season. I mean last one from Steven Ms,

602
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, Christian Kirk, somebody. You should stop drafting people

603
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,960
Speaker 1: with Kirk in their names, Nick Chubb and Mark Andrews

604
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: this season, Yeah, man, injury suck. I wish I had

605
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 1: some more, you know, comfort for you.

606
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Speaker 2: In my home league, where I had the most points

607
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Speaker 2: in the best record all year long, I had Christian Kirk,

608
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Speaker 2: I had Michael Pittman, I had Mike Williams and a

609
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 2: compromise Tyreek Hill, and I lost by five.

610
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Speaker 3: So it's you could build the best team.

611
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Speaker 2: That is all you can do when a championship involves

612
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Speaker 2: a lot of luck.

613
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Speaker 1: I have a roster that lost lost Aaron Rodgers, Anthony

614
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Speaker 1: Richardson and Kirk Cousins for the season. Same roster lost

615
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Speaker 1: all three of those quarterbacks. Nothing you can do the

616
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Speaker 1: year sometimes just it just is not working for you.

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Speaker 1: So Steven, best of luck next season. All right, we

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Speaker 1: are not done yet. We're gonna bring in mattal Cott.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk some waiver wire because you probably still

620
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Speaker 1: need to make some moves as we get toward Championship week.

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Speaker 1: We got that to wrap things up here on the

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Football Show. Just because it's Week seventeen doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean you can't be playing the wire out there. Let's

624
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Speaker 1: get some of the tough waiver wire targets for the week.

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Speaker 1: Our pal Mattocad has put together his list for your

626
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Speaker 1: fantasy super Bowl. Some of the quarterback options available. Joe Flacco,

627
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Speaker 1: which wild that he's still available, but I guess not

628
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Speaker 1: as many teams are playing, so I will forgive you

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Speaker 1: Derek Carr, Baker Mayfield, Tyrod Taylor, who may or may

630
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Speaker 1: not be the Giant starting quarterback over Tommy DeVito. Stay

631
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Speaker 1: tuned ir running back. We got Ty Chandler, Clyde Edwards, Elaire,

632
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Speaker 1: Chase Brown, Khalil Herbert, and Zamir White. Keep an eye

633
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Speaker 1: on Josh Jacob's status. He's been banged up some of

634
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Speaker 1: the wide receivers DeMarcus Robinson or should shhed Joshua Palmer,

635
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Speaker 1: kJ Osborne, Mario Pop Douglas and the DJ Chark over

636
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Speaker 1: there taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars this week, and then

637
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Speaker 1: some tight ends Isaiah Likely, Gerald Everett and Juwan Johnson.

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Speaker 1: By the way, speaking of tight ends, we just talked

639
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Speaker 1: in the last segment about TJ. Hawkinson maybe being in

640
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Speaker 1: the running to be a Canada to be the top

641
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Speaker 1: tight end drafted. Well, we got this news coming in

642
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Speaker 1: as we were recording the show that TJ. Hawkinson has

643
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Speaker 1: a torn acl mcl out for the rest of the

644
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Speaker 1: season and likely a good chunk of next season. By

645
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Speaker 1: the way, some tight end white waiver Wire targets before

646
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Speaker 1: I get too far ahead of myself, the Colts, the Raiders,

647
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Speaker 1: the Rams, the Texans, and the Broncos all very much

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Speaker 1: in play for your defensive streaming needs. All right, Joining

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Speaker 1: us now, the man who writes the waiver Wire column

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Speaker 1: every week. It is Matt o'catta. You can check it

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Speaker 1: out at NFL dot com slash waiver Wire. So let's

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Speaker 1: talk through a few of these. Let's start with Derek

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Speaker 1: Carr because I mentioned earlier in the show. He isn't

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Speaker 1: playing exactly good, but the fantasy numbers have been pretty

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Speaker 1: good and the matchup at week seventeen is very good.

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Speaker 1: So even if watching a Derek Carr quarterback game is

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Speaker 1: not always easy on the eyes, Matt, it could be

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Speaker 1: a fantasy boon for a lot of people.

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Speaker 4: It has been a lot easier on the fantasy score

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Speaker 4: line than it has been the eyes lately. And listen,

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Speaker 4: you can say what you want about Derek Carr, and

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Speaker 4: I'm very well aware that most of it won't be

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Speaker 4: that great. But like it or not, he has posted

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Speaker 4: twenty plus fantasy points in two straight games. He had

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Speaker 4: three touchdowns in each of those against the Giants and

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Speaker 4: the Rams. Chris Olave is back and producing. He's got

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Speaker 4: Rashid Shahei downfield, Alvin Kamara underneath. He's got three tight

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Speaker 4: ends to target in the end zone, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: all of them seem capable of catching touchdowns. And even

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Speaker 4: with all of that, you would need a lot of

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Speaker 4: hutzpah and a great matchup to start Carr in Fantasy

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Speaker 4: in the finals, but you mentioned it. The matchup in

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Speaker 4: week seventeen is incredible. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have allowed

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Speaker 4: the most passing yards in the NFL this season. They

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Speaker 4: are number one or number thirty two, depending on how

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Speaker 4: you look at it, two hundred and eighty yards per

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Speaker 4: game through the air on average. I think cars in

678
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Speaker 4: great shape to record his seventh three three hundred yard

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Speaker 4: game of the season. If you've streamed your way here

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Speaker 4: to the finals, I think he's your best bet at

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Speaker 4: the title.

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Speaker 2: And the Giants look their quarterback room is a battle

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Speaker 2: of my heart because we have Tyrov the drought ender

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Speaker 2: for the Bills, and then my guy Tommy Cutlet's over there.

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Speaker 2: But DeVito was replaced by Tyrod Taylor this past week.

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Speaker 2: It injected some life into the Giants. They get a

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Speaker 2: great matchup this week. Do you think you could stream

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Speaker 2: the Giants quarterback regardless of who it is, or do

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Speaker 2: you prefer one over the other.

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Speaker 4: I think it's possible you could stream regardless of who

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Speaker 4: it is, but let's be very clear either way, this

692
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Speaker 4: is a desperation two QB league type of play. This

693
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Speaker 4: is not someone you're rolling in as a top ten

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Speaker 4: quarterback necessarily. I do prefer Tyrod Taylor by a little bit,

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Speaker 4: and it's almost entirely because of the rushing which he

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Speaker 4: has provided many many times over the course of his career.

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Speaker 4: And as of right now, we don't know who's going

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Speaker 4: to be starting. Brian Dables has been noncommittal. Like you said,

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Speaker 4: you know, Tommy Davido replaced at halftime on Christmas, so

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Speaker 4: tough to say what they'll do going forward. Also really

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Speaker 4: tough to see that story end in the middle of

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Speaker 4: Christmas night. Come on, but if Tyrod plays, I would

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Speaker 4: be intrigued in fantasy. In just that second half off

704
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Speaker 4: of the bench, he scored eleven Fantasy points before Hail

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Speaker 4: Mary interception that I don't really count as the clock

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Speaker 4: head zero's and they get the Rams this next week.

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Speaker 4: Derek Carr, who just talked about tag them for twenty

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Speaker 4: five Fantasy points. They've allowed eighteen per game over the

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Speaker 4: last five weeks. Eighteen points. Heck, even sixteen points would

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Speaker 4: be good enough as a two QB stream. So I

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Speaker 4: like either guy, maybe Tyrod a bit more.

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Speaker 1: They're very curious to see who Brian Daboles settles on

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Speaker 1: as their starting quarterback. Meanwhile, over in Minnesota, it looks

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Speaker 1: like it's all over for Alexander Madison, which does that

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Speaker 1: mean that ty Chandler is the Aaron Burr who has

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Speaker 1: assassinated Madison's chances to be the lead running back. And

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Speaker 1: more importantly, would if you pick up ty Chandler, would

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Speaker 1: you start him this week?

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Speaker 4: I would pick up ty Chandler. I would start him

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Speaker 4: this week. I hope he's not assassinating anybody except for

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Speaker 4: your fantasy opponents. Listen, this past Sunday, he played sixty

722
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Speaker 4: five percent of the snaps. Madison played four snaps in total,

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Speaker 4: so it does seem like he has taken full control

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Speaker 4: of this backfield. The reports we heard from the coaching

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Speaker 4: staff also back that up heading into last week, and

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Speaker 4: if you look at the number as a fantasy output

727
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Speaker 4: was not great for Chandler last week, just seven point

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Speaker 4: seven fantasy points, and almost all of those came on

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Speaker 4: a fortunate touchdown run early on. But honestly, I'm not

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Speaker 4: shocked by that stat line. Minnesota expected Lee trailed for

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Speaker 4: the entire game against the Lions and their very good

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Speaker 4: run defense. New Year's Eve, they get the Packers, they

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Speaker 4: are favored at home, and green Bay has allowed the

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Speaker 4: third most rushing yards in the league this season. Back

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Speaker 4: in Week fifteen, Ty Chandler tagged the Bengals for twenty

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Speaker 4: five fantasy points. I think he has that kind of upside,

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Speaker 4: but I'm not projecting it. You also don't need it

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Speaker 4: if you get half that number and be okay in

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Speaker 4: your RB two or flex spot. So I think he's

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Speaker 4: definitely startable and possibly league winnable this week.

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Speaker 2: Completely agree with you on Chandler.

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Speaker 1: There.

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Speaker 2: We spoke about Clyde Edwards Hilaire a bit at the

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Speaker 2: top of the show, but speaking of league winning potential,

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Speaker 2: given the matchup and potentially the opportunity we go full

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Speaker 2: circle and finally get league winning.

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Speaker 4: Ch Yeah, this is probably the number one league winner

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Speaker 4: on the entire waiver wire this week. Every year there's

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Speaker 4: one of these running backs who comes up nearly out

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Speaker 4: of nowhere in wins you a fantasy championship. It looks

751
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Speaker 4: very probable that could be Ceh this week. Jerreck McKinnon

752
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 4: was placed on IR Last week, Isaiah Pacheco took a

753
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Speaker 4: very unfortunate knee to the head, suffered a concussion on Monday,

754
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Speaker 4: pending his status and I'm expecting him, as no doctor

755
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Speaker 4: by any means, to miss Week seventeen. Given the shorter

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Speaker 4: week this Chiefs backfield will be entirely Cech's against the Bengals.

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Speaker 4: Cincinnati has allowed seventeen plus fantasy points to the lead

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Speaker 4: back in four of their last seven games, and two

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Speaker 4: of the other three were against the Steelers, where they

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Speaker 4: allowed twenty four points per game to the duo of

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Speaker 4: Nause and Jalen Warren. So, in other words, they can

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Speaker 4: be beaten on the ground. The one time we've seen

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Speaker 4: Cech get fifteen plus touches so far this season was

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Speaker 4: in Week fifteen against New England, and he had one

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Speaker 4: hundred and one yards and twenty fantasy points in that game.

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Speaker 4: If Pacheco is out, I think Cech is an RB one,

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Speaker 4: could be the RB one and will absolutely win Fantasy

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Speaker 4: championships if you pick him up.

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Speaker 1: Another guy who low key has helped people along throughout

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Speaker 1: the playoffs has been DeMarcus Robinson. I mean, we talk

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Speaker 1: about Cooper Cup and Pooka Nakua. Robinson with a touchdown

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Speaker 1: in four straight games, and I know on some level

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Speaker 1: it maybe feels like chasing the touchdowns, but Matt, he's

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Speaker 1: he's getting targets, he's getting snaps. This has become He's

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Speaker 1: become legitimately the third wide receiver in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 4: I completely agree, and it's also also worth noting sometimes

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00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 4: you get touchdowns in flukey ways, like big downfield plays.

778
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Speaker 4: Other times you get touchdowns because you're being heavily targeted

779
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Speaker 4: in the red zone and end zone, and that's what

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Speaker 4: we're seeing from Robinson. I'm honestly baffled how he is

781
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 4: this available nearly one hundred percent available in NFL dot

782
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Speaker 4: com leaves. It's a touchdown and thirteen plus fantasy points

783
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Speaker 4: in four straight games this past week with two two

784
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Speaker 4: back he logs season highs and catches and yards. And

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Speaker 4: the main thing is Matthew Stafford and the Rams are

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Speaker 4: just so hot right now, which means there is room

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Speaker 4: for Robinson even with Cooper Cup and Poka Nakua both

788
00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,479
Speaker 4: getting theirs. I'm not worried about the return of TWU two.

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Speaker 4: He's simply been too effective and I think has cemented

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Speaker 4: that number three role, like you said, And if you

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Speaker 4: want a roadmap on the fantasy potential for this game

792
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Speaker 4: against the Giants, look back to the Cowboys in Week

793
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Speaker 4: ten when Ceedee Lamb, Brandon Coats, and Michael Gallup each

794
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 4: had fifteen plus fantasy points and combined for eighty seven.

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Speaker 4: That's the kind of upside you have against this team

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Speaker 4: when you have talented receivers the Rams do. I think

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Speaker 4: you can flex Robinson and I might even be doing

798
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Speaker 4: it myself in a championship or two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, with the Rams on a short week last week,

800
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Speaker 2: I bet a lot of people did what I did

801
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Speaker 2: and unfortunately dropped DeMarcus Robinson with two two back. Go

802
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 2: right that wrong and grab him. Now, speaking of that

803
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Speaker 2: Thursday night game, Rashisha, he'd went boom in it.

804
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Speaker 3: We know he is as.

805
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Speaker 2: Boom or bust as they come, but this matchup you

806
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 2: might have another chance to go boom again this week.

807
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: If you're heavily favored in your fantasy championships, I think

809
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Speaker 4: Shaheed is not the guy I'd rather go with, maybe

810
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 4: a guy like Robinson or a few of the other

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Speaker 4: guys in the column. But if you're an underdog or

812
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Speaker 4: you need some upside, I think he's an excellent play.

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Speaker 4: He has scored a touchdown four times this season and

814
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Speaker 4: topped eighteen fantasy points in all four of those games,

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Speaker 4: that included last week against the Rams, and as I

816
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Speaker 4: mentioned with Derek Carr earlier, the Bucks have allowed the

817
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Speaker 4: most passing yards in the NFL this season, They've allowed

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Speaker 4: the fourth most fantasy points to wide receivers as a result,

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Speaker 4: and most importantly, they've allowed forty nine receipts of twenty

820
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Speaker 4: plus yards, which is the most in the league. If

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Speaker 4: there's going to be a week you bet on a

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Speaker 4: big play and hopefully a score from Shaheed, I think

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Speaker 4: this is it. It's not going to feel safe streaming

824
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Speaker 4: him in your fantasy championship because it's not, but it

825
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 4: would be very rewarding if it hits all rights.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about a couple of defenses real quick. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned the rotating door potentially a quarterback for the Giants,

828
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Speaker 1: the Rams defense streaming option maybe to take advantage of

829
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Speaker 1: that this week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they've scored double digit fantasy points just once all season,

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Speaker 4: and it was way back in Week six against the Cardinals.

832
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Speaker 4: So maybe the question is what am I doing here?

833
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Speaker 4: What I'm doing here is sacking the Giants quarterback, because

834
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Speaker 4: holy mackerel, is that easy to do. Whether it's Tyron

835
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Speaker 4: or Tommy DeVito. I think Aaron Donald and company are

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Speaker 4: going to get some sacks. This offensive line has given

837
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Speaker 4: up seventy seven this season. Which is not only the

838
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Speaker 4: most in the league, it's the most in the league

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Speaker 4: by sixteen sacks over number two. I know I said

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Speaker 4: you can stream Taylor against this team earlier, but that's

841
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Speaker 4: primarily because sacks don't count against fantasy points. I think

842
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Speaker 4: that the Broncos or I think the Tyrod or whoever

843
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 4: the quarterback is, can turn in a decent fantasy day

844
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Speaker 4: regardless of what else happens, and the Rams will still

845
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Speaker 4: be startable because of those sacks and have double digit upside.

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Speaker 2: I completely agree with you on the Rams defense this week.

847
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Speaker 2: But the Broncos. They went out this past week disappointed

848
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Speaker 2: a little bit against the Patriots, but they get a

849
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Speaker 2: chance to make it up against the Chargers, who last

850
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Speaker 2: week realized how to hold onto the football but didn't

851
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Speaker 2: score a whole lot of points.

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Speaker 1: I do not.

853
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Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure, Florio, that I am the most disappointed

854
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Speaker 4: person in the Broncos DST in the entirety of the

855
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Speaker 4: planet Earth, because I started them everywhere and they helped

856
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Speaker 4: the Patriots beat the Broncos, and now my draft picks

857
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Speaker 4: for the Patriots are ruined. It was horrific. However, their

858
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 4: offense did them absolutely no favors in that game. It

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Speaker 4: was an ugly, ugly performance all around. I think better

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Speaker 4: days are ahead against the Chargers team that is not

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Speaker 4: good on either side of the ball. I think at

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Speaker 4: home in a must win divisional game for Denver against

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Speaker 4: East and Stick, we see the ship get righted. They

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Speaker 4: are currently five and a half point favorites and the

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Speaker 4: Chargers are projected for around seventeen points. That's all good

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Speaker 4: stuff for fantasy DSTs. They hung fourteen fantasy points on

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Speaker 4: them in their first meeting a few weeks ago, which

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Speaker 4: I think we get another something close to that. Maybe

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Speaker 4: not exactly fourteen, but double digits are in the cards

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Speaker 1: That's right, all right. So we're gonna ride with the

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Speaker 1: matt Ocatta Matt, thank you sir. All right, sir, there

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