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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, October seventeenth, twenty twenty three. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the NFL Fantasy Football Show that your man MG

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Speaker 1: Marcus Grant joined by Michael f.

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Speaker 2: Florio. We got a fun one today, folks.

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Speaker 1: We are hitting up the fan mail bag to answer

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Speaker 1: some of your biggest questions after week six plus. Our

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Speaker 1: pal Matt o'cotta is gonna drop by with his top

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Speaker 1: waiver wire targets.

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Speaker 2: But let's get to some of your questions cause you.

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Speaker 1: Guys had a few that you sent to us on

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Speaker 1: social media website dot com, So we'll dive into as

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Speaker 1: mini as we can over the next few minutes. This

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Speaker 1: one coming from Houston sports fan who wants to know

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Speaker 1: what's the situation with Calvin Ridley. He's not droppable, but

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Speaker 1: I cannot trust him in my lineup on a week

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Speaker 1: to week basis anymore. So what are we doing with

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Speaker 1: c ridd?

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Speaker 2: I think you just keep starting him?

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Speaker 3: Like I know, yesterday wasn't a great fantasy games led

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Speaker 3: the team with eight targets, and this was in a

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Speaker 3: game where they didn't have to throw the ball a

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Speaker 3: whole bunch because they were up multiple scores throughout like

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Speaker 3: Christian Kirk didn't have a great game either, He just

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Speaker 3: caught the touchdown. I think with both of the Jaguars guys,

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Speaker 3: you got to understand variants is a thing at the

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Speaker 3: wide receiver position.

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Speaker 2: They'll be up weeks, down weeks. But I think he

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Speaker 2: just kind of roll with the two of them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you just kind of have to because they're

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Speaker 1: the guys who are getting most of the targets. And

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Speaker 1: you know, it's really funny because for us frustrating as

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Speaker 1: really is, and I'm not denying that it hasn't been

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Speaker 1: a frustrating experience.

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Speaker 2: He's a top twenty.

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Speaker 1: Five receiver in fantasy right now, so I know it's

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Speaker 1: not what you were hoping for when you drafted him.

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Speaker 1: I think you were probably banking on him being a

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Speaker 1: little bit closer to the top ten.

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Speaker 2: It is what it is.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully he can turn some things around in the second

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Speaker 1: half of the season, because again most of the targets

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Speaker 1: going toward him and Christian Kirk. You gotta believe at

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Speaker 1: some point they're going to break through. But the I

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Speaker 1: understand your frustration one hundred percent. Genzu wants to know

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Speaker 1: is it safe to drop de Mercado after one week,

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Speaker 1: Is it okay to drop Stevens.

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Speaker 2: I think these are two very different questions right here. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: De Mercado, yes, I know he was out there for

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Speaker 3: the passing down stuff, but Josh Jobs doesn't really dump

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Speaker 3: off as much as we were hoping. Stevenson, Why would

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Speaker 3: you drop him now? Like this is his best game

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Speaker 3: in name, he had five catches yesterday. They started throwing

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Speaker 3: him the ball again, and he gets the Bills next week,

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Speaker 3: which I know on paper might look like a tough matchup.

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Speaker 3: The Bills cannot stop the run, like they're given over

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Speaker 3: five yards to carry. I think you roll with Stevenson

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Speaker 3: again next week. Yeah, I think you can definitely say

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Speaker 3: goodbye to de Mercado. You know, keionte Ingram looked like

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Speaker 3: the lead back he got the start, Not that he

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Speaker 3: just don't know that you can really roll with any

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Speaker 3: Cardinals running backs right now. So it's okay to get

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Speaker 3: to get rid of de Mercado. I mean, like Florio said,

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Speaker 3: why now? Like, if anything, maybe try to trade Stevenson.

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Speaker 3: See if somebody will take him off your hands and

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Speaker 3: get something in return for it. But yeah, he played

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Speaker 3: you know, decent all things considered. By the way, the

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Speaker 3: Raiders they are a get right pill for a lot

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Speaker 3: of running backs. Man like aj Dillon went for seventy

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Speaker 3: six at a touchdown against the Raiders. Stevenson has eighty

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Speaker 3: scrimmage yards and a touchdown. So if you got a

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Speaker 3: dial up the Raiders and give.

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Speaker 1: Them a call and let them get on the field. So,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, try to move him. Pablo wants to know,

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Speaker 1: should Jamiir Gibbs owner's abandon ship, I would pulling the shoot.

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Speaker 3: No, Pablo, look, I understand this is just like the

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Speaker 3: Stevenson one. I understand there's been frustrating weeks, But why

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Speaker 3: now we just found out that David Montgomery's dealing with

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Speaker 3: Jamiir Gibbs the ball. No, I'm I'm I'm never gonna

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Speaker 2: Certainly not now.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just so much talent, yeah there, and

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I again I understand, don't say don't think

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Speaker 1: I don't understand, but I don't know that you pull

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Speaker 2: Last one, Lewis wants to know. Should I worry about Pooka? No?

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Speaker 3: No, no, they threw the ball twenty four times yesterday,

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Speaker 3: Cooper Cup and Puka had sixteen of those times. Like

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Speaker 3: it is a two man passing name and if Pooka

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Speaker 2: Look, Cooper Cup is amazing.

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Speaker 3: He is outside of Tyreek Hill, probably the best wide

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Speaker 1: But Poka's going to be just fine. Poka's had one

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Speaker 1: like down game, that's it. Like, why are we worrying

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Speaker 1: about Pooka all of a sudden. No, We're not worried

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Speaker 1: about Pooka. He's fine. Just hold on, keep starting him,

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Speaker 1: It'll get better.

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Speaker 2: Please.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: In case you are worried though.

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Speaker 1: And I want to make some moves, we got the

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Speaker 1: waiver wire coming at matt Ocatta will join us to

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Speaker 1: talk about some guys that you might want to consider

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Speaker 1: adding on your fantasy roster.

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Speaker 2: This week.

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Speaker 1: That's next on the NFL Fantasy Football Show, Let's get

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Speaker 1: some of the top waiver wire targets heading into Week seven.

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Speaker 1: Our pal Matt Ocatta has his list put together for

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Speaker 1: the week. A couple of quarterbacks up top, Sam Howell

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Speaker 1: and Joshua Dobbs. A lot of running backs Chewba Hubbard

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Speaker 1: get more opportunities there in Carolina, especially with Miles Sanders injured,

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Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell, Jordan Mason to watch in San Francisco because

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Speaker 1: of the injury to Christian McCaffrey. Daily double in Chicago

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Speaker 1: with Deontay Foreman and Roshawn Johnson. Meanwhile, Craig Reynolds, they're

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Speaker 1: in Detroit with David Montgomery banged up. Kareem Hunt got

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Speaker 1: a lot of opportunities for Cleveland on Sunday. And there's

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Speaker 1: Damian Williams and Kante Ingram who looked like the top

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Speaker 1: two choices down in Arizona. Then there's Ezekiel Elliott over

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Speaker 1: in New England. Over to the wide receivers. Deontay Johnson

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Speaker 1: looking to get back soon from injured reserve. Check to

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Speaker 1: see if he's still out there on your waiver wire.

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Speaker 1: Wandale Robinson getting more run for the Giants. Josh Downs

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Speaker 1: getting a lot of love in Indianapolis. There's Kendrick Bourn

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Speaker 1: like he's establishing himself in Kansas City. Jackson Smith and

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Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel in Washington is a thing everybody jump in

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Speaker 1: now and the tight ends, Logan Thomas for the Commanders.

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Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson with the Dallas Cowboys. They're on a bye

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Speaker 1: but maybe time to go stash him right now. Cade

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Speaker 1: Concussion protocol, and Michael Mayer is starting to get some

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Speaker 1: work with the Las Vegas Raiders. Time now to bring

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Speaker 1: in the guy who writes our Waiver Wire column every

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Speaker 1: single week. It's Matt Ocatta. You can check it out,

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Speaker 1: of course at NFL dot com, slash Waiver Wire and Okada.

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Speaker 1: This is a big week for waivers because we got

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Speaker 1: six teams on a by the Panthers, the Bengals, the Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: the Texans, the Jets, the Titans all have the week off.

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Speaker 1: Why the league couldn't have just made it four and

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Speaker 1: four instead of going two and six. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's above my pay grade, right, But let's just get

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Speaker 1: going with the quarterback. So Sam Howe, I don't know

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Speaker 1: how he does it. I don't know how he's scoring

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think a nice thing about it

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Speaker 4: He's done it with yards, He's done it with his legs.

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Speaker 4: This last week, he did it with touchdowns through three

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Speaker 4: He's averaged two hundred and seventy six yards in two

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Speaker 4: tds per game since Week four, hit eighteen plus fantasy

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Speaker 4: points in four of his last five. He is the

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Speaker 4: essentially a zero in Week three against the Bills. So

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Speaker 4: if you take that out, he's been great and he's

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Speaker 4: got a pretty relatively fantasy friendly schedule coming up over

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Speaker 4: the next few weeks, including the Giants and the Eagles,

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Speaker 4: who sound scary but aren't bad for fantasy quarterbacks. And

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Speaker 4: he's got a really good receiving corps. As frustrating as

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Speaker 4: their usage might be, it's working out for him. I

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Speaker 4: think he's a viable stream in most matchups and an

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Speaker 3: Completely agree with you there, and yet Matt yesterday two

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Speaker 3: But Hubbard went out and had more Fantasy see points

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Speaker 3: then Miles Sanders has had an all but one game

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Speaker 3: this season. But they're on by next week. But that's

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Speaker 3: not scaring you off. You're saying, still go out and

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Speaker 3: add chew a Hubbard this week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, beggars can't be choosers these days, Florio. We

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Speaker 4: got to get running back somehow, and if it means

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Speaker 4: willing to do it, like you said. Hubbard nineteen carries

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Speaker 4: eighty eight yards this past week, including a touchdown. Both

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Speaker 4: the first five weeks, Hubbard took seventy six percent of

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Speaker 4: Hubbard is a locked and loaded play. If Sanders comes back.

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Speaker 4: At the very worst, Hubbard is a really solid stash

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Speaker 4: handcuff type player. But given the fact that he's been

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Speaker 4: more efficient than Sanders all year, I'm not convinced that

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Speaker 4: these days out of a fantasy a healthy fantasy running back.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, even before the Sanders injury, you could

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Speaker 1: see Hubbard just sort of closing the gap in terms

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Speaker 1: I think that just continues to even after the buye

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Obviously, a healthy Christian McCaffrey is the guy,

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Speaker 1: but he's not completely healthy, at least he wasn't on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: So it's a daily double, either Elijah Mitchell or Jordan Mason.

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Speaker 1: Is there one that you maybe prefer more than the other?

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Speaker 4: There is, And I'm pretty sure daily doubles are supposed

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Speaker 4: to mean extra money for all of us. That's the

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Speaker 4: case here, we would probably right of CMC this this time.

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Speaker 4: I prefer Elijah Mitchell. And it's not cut and dry

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Speaker 4: because Jordan Mason is the bigger back, which means he's

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Speaker 4: more likely to get early down and goal line type work,

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Speaker 4: and he did have more opportunity and snaps and touches

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I look I like Deontay Forman this

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I think this was one hundred percent game script.

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Speaker 4: Uh? I will say a couple tight ends that I like,

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Speaker 4: I think it continues to progress for Rashi he has

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Speaker 1: I will admit that it's becomeing a perverse little game

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Speaker 1: Who knows, but we'll see. But Matt has always appreciated man.

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Speaker 1: Have everybody go check him out at Matt Okata on

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Speaker 1: Twitter and go read the article at NFL dot com

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Speaker 1: slash Waiverbire always appreciated Matt. We will talk to you

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Speaker 2: So meantime for us, that is it. We are done.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you hanging out with the NFL Fantasy Football Show. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: we're previewing the first chunk of the Week seven slate.

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