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Speaker 1: What's all, We've got all the experience in the world.

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Speaker 1: This is I Want your Flex with Dan Bayer and

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. Mike and Dan break down everything you need

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Speaker 1: to set your lineups, from position rankings.

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Speaker 2: To starts and sits. The guys help you make those

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Speaker 1: Ond. Here's Dan Bayer and Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: A happy New Year to you and a happy birthday

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Speaker 3: to Ian. Roddy it is I want your Flex. He's

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Speaker 3: Mike Harmon. I'm Dan Byer. Ian is celebrating his birthday

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Speaker 3: today on the second day of January and twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 3: So Mike and I have got you covered for the

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Speaker 3: next couple of minutes to talk about Week eighteen from

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Speaker 3: the National Football League.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully they didn't. Nobody forgot his birthday, right, because

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Speaker 2: that happens in those early January and late December things.

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Speaker 2: gift to him, hopefully another big streaming defense, maybe a

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Speaker 3: So I am a January sixteenth birthday, and my birthday

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Speaker 3: I'm wondering what the exact day is in January where

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough. My brother celebrates a birthday on the

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Speaker 3: Well, let's waste no more time. Ian have a happy birthday.

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Speaker 3: We can't wait to get you back on the pod

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Speaker 3: where we'll be asking him these pressing questions. But there

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Speaker 3: who's not gonna play. Mike Carton's gonna take his best

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Speaker 3: Some mean little, some mean a lot. Mike, Let's get

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Speaker 3: into your top five quarterbacks for Week eighteen.

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Speaker 2: Gamble, gamble, gamble. Let's go Drake May going up against Miami.

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Speaker 2: They still have some things to play for twenty plus

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Speaker 2: Some of the usual suspects, Pooka Nakoua. Ever since all

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the JSN dilemma is it Obviously maybe hasn't been

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Speaker 2: the post DK metcalf Era you want to do fifteen

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Speaker 2: on DK metcalf No, me neither. But all of that

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Speaker 3: I think now Week eighteen it's funky. You can always

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Speaker 3: find Mike at Swollendom. You can find me at Dan

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Speaker 3: Bayer on Fox. This is just gonna be a two

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Speaker 3: We make it three, but we're gonna put Mike's Hot plays,

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Speaker 3: and I want your flex. All right, let's get to

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Speaker 3: That probably would have been tougher to take than just

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Speaker 3: the Jaguars, and you mentioned the enormous points spread in

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Speaker 3: that game, still with something to play for. They also

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Speaker 3: play for. It's why Travis Etn and Trevor Lawrence are

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Speaker 3: a part of Mike's top five at his positions. So

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Speaker 3: I like the Jaguars in this situation for a survivor pick,

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Speaker 3: and with the Patriots and Broncos playing later on, there

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Speaker 3: why not go with the Falcons. It just seems like

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Speaker 3: a very Falcons esque thing to do. For as good

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Speaker 3: the year, to win this game, to beat the Rams,

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Speaker 3: and then to beat their rival. I know it's a

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Speaker 3: short week, but give me Atlanta in this in a

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Speaker 3: game where there are a three and a half point favorite,

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Speaker 3: so those would be my survivor picks and my points

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Speaker 3: at Palooza. Isn't that same game. I think we could

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Speaker 3: have a fun one in Atlanta. I know there's no

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Speaker 3: Chris o'lave, but why not let Tyler Shook throw it around?

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Speaker 3: Why not let be Jean Robinson run up and down

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Speaker 3: the field. I could go with Dallas and the Giants

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Speaker 3: and Mike. As you pointed out, it's nearing fifty. Your

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Speaker 3: matchup with the Lions Bears and Lions could have some points,

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Speaker 2: I love it. It's a little deeper cut. We're talked

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Speaker 2: what's next. As Panics comes back from the injury, Tyler

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Speaker 2: Shuck trying to say, hey, I should be the guy.

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Speaker 2: So that game's got a lot of interest to it.

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Speaker 2: Taysom Hill says goodbye or something like Arion did that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but seven games with an over under

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Speaker 2: trying to scrape the barrel. And if this was a

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Speaker 2: video podcast, and maybe for twenty twenty six, that's what

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Speaker 2: we do. We add it so we could literally have

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Speaker 2: Ian throwing darts at a board for a week. T

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Speaker 2: here's my streaming defense. It's Washington against Tanner mckeeth. No,

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: They that may happen. That may happen. All right, let's

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Speaker 3: wrap this up. Just a programming note. From here on out,

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Speaker 3: we give you one episode a week, so through the

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Speaker 3: a couple of posts super Bowl editions as well. We'll

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Speaker 3: do our top sixty draft as we always do, and

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Speaker 3: that then we'll put a bow on I want your Flex.

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Speaker 3: But just because the regular season is over doesn't mean

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Speaker 3: that our work is as will be with you throughout

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Speaker 3: the playoffs, recapping and looking at the matchups and doing

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Speaker 3: so much more so. A happy birthday to Ian Roddy

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Speaker 3: who's not here, And for Mike Harmon, I'm Dan Byer.

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Speaker 3: We always appreciate you listening and can't wait to talk

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Speaker 3: to you next time here on Iowa.

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Speaker 2: You're Flex