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Speaker 1: The Around the League Podcast. It's all about that, Mola.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Around the League Podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Greg Rosenthal and I'm joined by a couple of heroes,

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler and Chris Westling. What's happening, Greg, Friday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: A couple of games tonight, had a game last night.

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Speaker 1: We are in the thick of it. I feel good.

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Speaker 1: Mark feels good. We both came in a little late.

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Speaker 1: I was I've been on edge for these last couple

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Speaker 1: of podcasts. Not on edge, but a little. You've needed

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Speaker 1: some coffee. I've needed some coffee, some sleep. Why what

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Speaker 1: going on? Let's skip beyond the surface, underlying, uh, the mood?

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Speaker 1: What's at what's getting to you? What's the issue in

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Speaker 1: your life? Well? I think preseason week three the grind. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's training camp for all of us. We're busy.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on this year, We're hiring someone.

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Speaker 1: There's just there's a lot. And the first week of

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Speaker 1: the preseason everyone's back. Oh yeah, this is great, let's

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Speaker 1: football again. The second week of the preseason. For a second,

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Speaker 1: I convinced myself I actually liked the preseason, and by

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Speaker 1: now I hate it I wanted to end. The preseason

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Speaker 1: is terrible. Bring on the season. I'm done with it.

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Speaker 1: That's what Steelers will do to you. It is done

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Speaker 1: after week three. So we're very close. I mean, forget

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Speaker 1: we're there, but we're gonna be here late tonight. We'll

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Speaker 1: be here late tomorrow and I'll just be happy, you know,

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Speaker 1: to move on to the games. That's what we love,

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Speaker 1: the real stuff. Yeah, I do remember at one point

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Speaker 1: I was married at one point. Um, I still am, textaly,

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen a wife in like weeks, have two

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Speaker 1: children somewhere. That's where we're at. That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So we've got a big show today, a surprise. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do our fantasy football spectacular today. Little change of plans.

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Speaker 1: We wanted to get it out there before a lot

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Speaker 1: of you draft this weekend and early next week. Of course,

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Speaker 1: Chris and I used to work in fantasy at Roodor World,

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Speaker 1: so we know that most popular two weekends of the

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Speaker 1: year for drafts. This weekend and next week. Oh, we're

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Speaker 1: kind of out of luck. If you don't take advantage

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Speaker 1: of it, then right, well, you could always do it

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Speaker 1: a couple of days before the season starts like that

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Speaker 1: last half week and a lot of people draft early,

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Speaker 1: which never made a lot of doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 1: So let's let's get into it. Why don't we do

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Speaker 1: a little bit of news and then we're gonna go

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Speaker 1: through all the fantasy positions quarterback, running back, wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: and tight end and uh with us as always t

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Speaker 1: D what's going on? It's going on? Guys, what do

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Speaker 1: you do this? I'm ready for fantasy seasons? So do

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Speaker 1: you play? Do you even play fantasy? I do? Actually,

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Speaker 1: I'm in the Fantasy Football league with the NFL Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Live producers. I've been in that league for three seasons now,

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Speaker 1: won two titles. That surprises me. Why are we hosting

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Speaker 1: this show because I'm not a fantasy advice guy. Well, chiming, ay,

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Speaker 1: I'm not an advice guy per se. I'm all going

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Speaker 1: for the going, you know, going off the gut. Like

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Live. Guys aren't very good at their jobs. That

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Speaker 1: was my most common you know, piece of wisdom responding

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Speaker 1: to readers and stuff, was go with your gut. Your team.

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Speaker 1: It's not my team. You can't you know, you can

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Speaker 1: complain to me when you pick the guys we like,

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Speaker 1: but I don't really care. I stopped giving advice on

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Speaker 1: Twitter when I realized that every time I would just

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Speaker 1: said go with your gut, Yeah that's fair. Today you

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Speaker 1: will be the first day I give advice on the

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Speaker 1: Fantasy rap. So looking forward to it. First though, we'll

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Speaker 1: do a little bit of news and of course that's

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Speaker 1: that being ludicrous a song. What's your fantasy? Of course

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Speaker 1: for a rollout, of course, we gotta start with the

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, and and we're gonna start with something that

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Speaker 1: happened a few hours before the team flight to Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: up playing in Thursday night's game, which we'll get to

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Speaker 1: in a second. But do you have any big takeaways

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Speaker 1: NFL Media's Marcus Grant won the twitter joke off for

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Speaker 1: That's excellent. Okay, I don't know. I mean, I guess

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Speaker 1: would assume they'll do very little. Why is that? I

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Speaker 1: don't know. It's the Steelers gonna put them in Stop

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Speaker 1: Mark Mark, the Browns fan thinks there's some conspiracy to

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Speaker 1: what March two thousand seventeen, we'll find out. So does

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Speaker 1: this this news changer the Steelers heat for the team

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Speaker 1: been a big supporter for them. Why would that bother me? Well,

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Speaker 1: here's what we because if they're missing what if they're

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Speaker 1: missing their two running backs? They only have one other

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Speaker 1: take until next year, who knows. But when they tried

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Speaker 1: with a Louis Vatton bag. You're out, we don't. We

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Speaker 1: don't pick teams where players are walking around with Louis

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Speaker 1: it wasn't to carry a satchel. It wasn't a Louis

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Speaker 1: UM is run by a Hall of Fame quarterback who

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Speaker 1: you know, endorses Uggs and definitely has some man bag.

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Speaker 1: so they had to play. Any worry about the Steelers offense, Well,

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Speaker 1: they looked horrible, but it's preseason and I feel like

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Speaker 1: They've looked better than I thought they did last season.

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Speaker 1: That's more on my radar than then. You can't not

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Speaker 1: They were a team I really loved going into last year.

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Speaker 1: I'm not as excited about them. But I was thinking

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Speaker 1: and and be a team that could get a buy

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Speaker 1: I can still change my mind. We haven't put things

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Speaker 1: on paper yet. Chip Kelly uh genius. He's a genius.

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Speaker 1: Dan's not here to disparage him. Dan hansis, of course

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Speaker 1: not buying into the Chip Kelly experience. All these articles

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Speaker 1: that you read about Chip Kelly. You know, Chris Brown

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Speaker 1: on Grantline had a great one and Field Yates had

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Speaker 1: thinking like, maybe he really is a genius. Maybe got

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Speaker 1: to me. That's the story of Nick Foles is two

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Speaker 1: thousand thirteen season. Never as impressive when you watched the

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Speaker 1: preseason m v P. Chris, of course, is alluding to

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about on the podcast. Matt mcglogne is

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Speaker 1: my favorite right now for the award because he made

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Speaker 1: the Michael Jordan's shoulder shrug from the NBA Finals after

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Speaker 1: he threw a game winning touchdown in the preseason. That's big.

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Speaker 1: lot of people aren't really talking about this. Larry Fitzgerald

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Speaker 1: played through a pair of hamstrings last year, and nobody

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Speaker 1: really talks about that. I think he bounces back this

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Speaker 1: year and they're gonna find out. And I think they

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Speaker 1: already know this. This myth of Andre Ellington running the

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Speaker 1: ball like five and eight times this season. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: throw the ball all day long. And Ellington helps Palmer

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Speaker 1: because he's such he might be the best receiving running

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Speaker 1: back after Darren Sprowls Andrew Luck. It won't be fun

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Speaker 1: to take this year of fifth rounds pretty free to reasonable.

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Speaker 1: I'm loving Matt Ryan at the two guys that really

436
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Speaker 1: stand out to me would be Matt Ryan at the

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Speaker 1: end of the sixth round as a mid range quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have big numbers this year. And

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Speaker 1: then you mentioned it West Tony Romo. I mean I

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Speaker 1: could sit back and enjoy taking some running backs and

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Speaker 1: wide receivers if if I wasn't feeling the quarterback value,

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Speaker 1: take Romo in the eighth round, get it round ahead

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Speaker 1: of it, and enjoy the touchdowns. Tony Romo is one

444
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Speaker 1: of the most consistently great fantasy quarterbacks of the last decade.

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Speaker 1: I don't see why that's changed. One other thing. And

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Speaker 1: if you are a guy that drafts a quarterback real

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Speaker 1: late and Russell Wilson's Ditton's sitting there, I think you

448
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Speaker 1: can get value on him because they're gonna throw the

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Speaker 1: football more this season. They've already started to do that.

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Speaker 1: You've got Percy Harvin potentially. I never trust him to last,

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Speaker 1: but let's say he does. They've they're changing their offense

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Bucky Brooks wrote a great piece about

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Speaker 1: how they are going to start to expand that passing game,

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Speaker 1: and he gives you stuff on his feet to one name,

455
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Speaker 1: of course, we didn't see on the quarterback rankings, Johnny Manzel.

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Speaker 1: I guess no one's buying into him or Brian Hoyer

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Speaker 1: for them, they're updated well this list only if this

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Speaker 1: list went down to eighty, you would see Brian Harden.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the money position, running back. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: give him. Not in the NFL, not in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: but in fantasy. These are the guys who get taken

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Speaker 1: in the the highest I'm just gonna say the top ten

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Speaker 1: real quick, Lashawn McCoy, Jamal Charles, and Adrian Peterson the

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Speaker 1: big debate. Actually, let's stop right there, because Adrian Peterson

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Speaker 1: not number one. That's crazy. Yeah, let's stop right there

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Speaker 1: because that's the big debate. And I haven't seen a

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Speaker 1: year quite like this in in as long as I

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Speaker 1: can remember, where there's a three way tie almost for

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Speaker 1: different leagues. Usually a consensus does form. Who would you

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Speaker 1: take west Adrian Peterson should be drafted number one every

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Speaker 1: single year? Yeah, until you're until you're the guy that

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Speaker 1: takes the number one and that suddenly goes very badly

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Speaker 1: for you. I would agree, Why would you you know? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not a knock on the other agree. But I

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Speaker 1: had the number two pick last year in the one league.

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Speaker 1: I'm down to one league now, and uh, I took

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Speaker 1: Shady and at the time he was going six or seven.

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Speaker 1: And I love Shady. I mean, I think it's legitimate

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Speaker 1: to draft a guy who had two thousand yards and

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Speaker 1: brings so much more in the passing game than Adrian Peterson.

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Speaker 1: Over Peterson, I wouldn't really argue either way. But along

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Speaker 1: those lines of take the guys who you like watching,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I love watching both the guys of the game,

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Speaker 1: but I love me some shady. I'm fine with that.

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Speaker 1: Take him first. Why not you disagree, it's your team.

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Speaker 1: You should see what you I think you should do.

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Speaker 1: What I'm just saying, I would never anybody but Peterson

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Speaker 1: number one. All right after that, it's Matt Forte. Wow,

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Speaker 1: the highest he's ever been a top five pick. Finally,

490
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Speaker 1: because he's been delivering and there's no competition for him

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Speaker 1: at that position, and he's been delivering consistent numbers. He's

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Speaker 1: a guy who's gotten overlooked too often in the top

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Speaker 1: ten of fantasy drafts because he's not quite as you know,

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Speaker 1: sexy or well. There are a lot of years where

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Speaker 1: Michael Bush was the touchdown vulture too. It's true. But

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Speaker 1: in the end, when you looked at the final stats,

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Speaker 1: Forte would be there, you know, as a top five.

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Speaker 1: UH Fantasy running back. Eddie Lacey's next, Marshawn Lynch still

499
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Speaker 1: going in the top ten, DeMarco Murray seventh. That running

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Speaker 1: back starts off the second round in a lot of drafts,

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Speaker 1: Monty Ball, Giovanni Bernard, and Arian Foster wraps up the

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Speaker 1: top ten. Any any of those names stick outs is

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Speaker 1: going on With Giovanni Bernard it second round four really

504
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Speaker 1: a lot of hype. But Jeremy, Jeremy Hill is going

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Speaker 1: to see the ball. It's basically a cademy back field

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Speaker 1: to some degree. Yeah, hasn't looked great by all account

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Speaker 1: and by all the Bengals tell us what they thought

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Speaker 1: of Giovanni bar when they used the second round pick

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Speaker 1: on Jeremy Hill. Wouldn't you take not? He was not

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Speaker 1: a feature back. He's I love Giovanni Bernard, but he's

511
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Speaker 1: not gonna get the ball times a game. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they've got him two spots higher than Alfred Morris, who

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Speaker 1: I I would take Morris over Bernard five four or

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Speaker 1: five spots behind. Well, if we want to, if we

515
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Speaker 1: can go down the list forever. Down in the office,

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Speaker 1: we talked a little bit. They've got Reggie Bush at

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Speaker 1: number sixteen, four spots get ahead of Frank Gore. To me,

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Speaker 1: that's offensive. I agree, it's very offensive. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: Joyke Bell might lead the team and carries this year.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about Marshawn Lynch in the top ten? Still,

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Speaker 1: am I the only one who doesn't expect him to

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Speaker 1: have nearly as good a fantasy season as he did

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Speaker 1: a year ago, which was already significantly down from the

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Speaker 1: year before. Like as all this offseason talk of out

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Speaker 1: Michael and now Turban, was that just hot air. No

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Speaker 1: one's buying that. I'm buying it. I would be, I would,

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Speaker 1: I would hesitate a little bit. I still think if

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Speaker 1: they need to lean on the guy that's gonna be

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Speaker 1: who it is for them. But Turban looked like a

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Speaker 1: different player to me. He might be the on offense,

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Speaker 1: one of the most improved players from where he was

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Speaker 1: a year ago. And maybe if they get down the

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Speaker 1: stretch and there where we think Seattle will be, it's

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Speaker 1: a smart bet to bench Lynch, not benching, but to

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Speaker 1: rest him for stretches and let Michael and let Turban

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Speaker 1: play more. That's right when you were in your playoffs season.

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Speaker 1: Here's my big picture strategy. When those running backs are

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Speaker 1: coming up, I like DeMarco Murray actually at that spot

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Speaker 1: at the start of the second round for six games.

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Speaker 1: I'm fine with that. I'm gonna take the risk. But

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Speaker 1: instead of taking those running backs like Ball Bernard and

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Speaker 1: I would even throw Lynch in there. You can still

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Speaker 1: take a j Green now, you could still take Dez Bryant,

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Speaker 1: you could take Jordy Nelson or Julio Jones. That's what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing in that spot. I like those guys a lot.

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Speaker 1: When I look at this list, I had the exact

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Speaker 1: same SNAr you as you. I want one of the

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Speaker 1: top five running backs. I would hope to get a

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Speaker 1: top five pick this year. Draft McCoy, Charles Peterson, Forte

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Speaker 1: or Lacey ignore running backs. All these guys getting taken

551
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Speaker 1: in the second and third round. Two big a question marks.

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00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: You go wide receiver second and third round, back to back.

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Speaker 1: I tend to agree other running backs going that early

554
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Speaker 1: that you mentioned that across that our question marks Doug Martin,

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Speaker 1: Levan Bell, Zach Stacy going early in the third round.

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Speaker 1: That's a little bit of a surprise to me. Andre

557
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Speaker 1: Ellington in the middle of the third round. God, I

558
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: love Andrea Ellington, but I don't love him that much.

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Speaker 1: That surprises me. I have to admit I'm coming into

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Speaker 1: this cold. But I think that's that's helpful actually, because

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Speaker 1: somethings stand out. There's there's a weird logic. Why is

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Speaker 1: Andrea Ellington going in the top thirty picks. I think

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Speaker 1: enough people have read the headlines over the year, but

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Speaker 1: they haven't read or seen everything else, and he's been

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Speaker 1: pumped up as much as any player in that division

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Speaker 1: injury waiting to happen. I do, I do like him,

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Speaker 1: but I see a couple of absolute workhorses available in

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Speaker 1: the fourth round, all right, Toby Gerhart and Ryan Matthews. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I like is too low. Yeah, he's very like guys

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Speaker 1: like Reggie Bush are getting taken ahead of Ryan Matthews.

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Speaker 1: I think that's I don't know, if you're looking to

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Speaker 1: even looking at last year, why is Matthews Not because

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Speaker 1: he doesn't catch any passes but heavy offense. A lot

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Speaker 1: of leagues are point per reception. I'm just saying that's

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Speaker 1: the logic against Matthews. But I agree that little fourth

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Speaker 1: round group Gerhart, Gore and Matthews. I would just as

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Speaker 1: well have any of those guys as the runners in

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Speaker 1: the second round. That's the recipe. I guess we're saying,

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Speaker 1: go receiver. Here's how goofy. Ryan Matthews and Frank Gore's

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Speaker 1: rankings are. The guy behind him behind them in a

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Speaker 1: DP is Bishop Sinky, who's third on the Titans depth chart.

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Speaker 1: Another a big product of hype, though maybe for people

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Speaker 1: just catching up, you know, do you do you guys,

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Speaker 1: um try in Zach Stacy as a fantasy guy, I

585
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Speaker 1: would take nobody on that offense. What about Rashad Jennings

586
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Speaker 1: going in the top forty, that's really think Andre Williams

587
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Speaker 1: is going away. And I know that a lot of

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Speaker 1: Giants fans say that Coughlin doesn't play rookies, but he

589
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: always has a tandem Mackfield. I hate that Andre Williams

590
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Speaker 1: is good. I don't like Rashande Jennings there either. I

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Speaker 1: hate it. That's one of my You can't take Rashad

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Speaker 1: Jennings in the first four or five rounds. You gotta

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Speaker 1: get that he's this year's Darryl Richardson. What are you

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Speaker 1: doing drifting Darryl Richardson in your fantasy draft? He's this

595
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 1: year He's not this year's Andre Brown. But at this

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Speaker 1: time a year ago, I made the same rant on

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Speaker 1: on this very fantasy preview podcast saying people are insane

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Speaker 1: taking Andre Bound in the seventh eighth round because you

599
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,240
Speaker 1: gotta bet on talent. You shouldn't bet just on situation.

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Speaker 1: You gotta pick players that are good at football. Like

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Speaker 1: that sounds stupid. But Rishan Jennings, he's okay, which is

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Speaker 1: which brings us to the guy who really stood out

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Speaker 1: to be on this list, Trent Richardson at fifty eight.

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Speaker 1: I I just can't see it because I just don't

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Speaker 1: think he's very good. Well, it's telling that, you know.

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Speaker 1: Last year NFL Networks fantasy commercials featured Trent Richardson with

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Speaker 1: a guy sitting on his shoulders or something. We couldn't

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Speaker 1: have been more of a fantasy centerpiece. No running backs

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00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: fallen farther than Trent Richardson, and I think all of

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Speaker 1: us agree he hasn't fallen far enough on this list.

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Speaker 1: I don't agree with it. Greg and I agree, West

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Speaker 1: does not agree. Yeah, we got it. Mark and I

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00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: are right. I'm not prepared to say he's bad at football.

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Speaker 1: Mark and I were watching some of his rookie season

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Speaker 1: highlights this morning. He was good at football. This is

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Speaker 1: what's happened when I come in a little late, guys

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Speaker 1: just watching t rich highlights. What happens is that we

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Speaker 1: are we are talking and writing about football. I thought

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Speaker 1: that was our job. Your feet up on Mark shift

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00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: was prematurely started, an I think his so his competition

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Speaker 1: for carry is a guy coming off neck surgery who

622
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: never stays healthy. You a mod Bradshaw Vick Ballard's out

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Speaker 1: for the year. They don't have anyone else at running back.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be a high scoring offense. I think they're

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00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 1: gonna use a lot of spread looks, which will help

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00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: him against boxes that will be a lot softer this year.

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Speaker 1: I think there is some potential for Trent Richardson to

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00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: play a little better. Well we saw this morning looking

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Speaker 1: at all his snaps from this preseason, is that when

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Speaker 1: they run the pistol, he had his two best runs

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Speaker 1: where he's where it's a little bit of a different

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00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: formation for them. But where I take up a difference

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Speaker 1: with West a little bit is that, yes, it is

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Speaker 1: absolutely true that the guy they traded the first round

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Speaker 1: pick four in Cleveland was he wasn't the Alabama running back.

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Speaker 1: But he's still had explosiveness, he could catch the ball,

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00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: he had yards after contact. What I see now and

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Speaker 1: what I'm seeing this summer is a shadow of that.

639
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: Forget about him. I think you're chasing good money after

640
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: bad here. That everyone saw him as a top ten

641
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: pick last year, and I think just the name is

642
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: getting people to draft him there. He's not battling a

643
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: mod Brad Schaw. He's battling all those little tippy toes

644
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Speaker 1: that he's making as he's going up again up. He's

645
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: battling maturity issues picking up the offense. We've we've heard

646
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Speaker 1: stuff off the record, um about Richardson and it's on

647
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Speaker 1: the record. Well, he's you know what, He's being drafted

648
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Speaker 1: behind Ben Taton, Chris Johnson. I would take Trent Richardson

649
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Speaker 1: over both of those guys. I don't know about Tate Well,

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00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: let me. Isn't that a set up for a very

651
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: frustrating situation? If you take Trent Richardson and he doesn't

652
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: flip the switch as soon as week one, you're drafting

653
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Speaker 1: him basically at the beginning of the sixth round. So

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Speaker 1: he's your He's not not building yours. I would not

655
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Speaker 1: want to remember who else is at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: the sixth round. Tom Brady and Matt Ryan's late in

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Speaker 1: the round. Tory Smith is the first pick average draft

658
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: position in the sixth round. Jordan Cameron, Verdon Davis. All

659
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: those guys are great at what they do, so at

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Speaker 1: that round, I'm hoping I can still get a little

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Speaker 1: more value. All I'm saying is you can get a

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Speaker 1: three down running back in high scoring offense. Six rounds

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00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: a good place to get it. All right, we gotta

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Speaker 1: move this along. So let's look towards the end of

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Speaker 1: the running back list. Uh anywhere after the seventh round?

666
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Speaker 1: Who are some sleepers? Are undervalued guys. I've found guy

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Speaker 1: in a tenth round and a guy in the thirteenth

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Speaker 1: round that will be on my roster if they are

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Speaker 1: going in here. I I see that no Shan morenos

670
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Speaker 1: in the tenth round? Is that your guy that is

671
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: not my okay mark Ingram if he's gonna keep running

672
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: like Ryan Matthews in August of two thirteen, will be

673
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:35,840
Speaker 1: on my roster. Jonathan Stewart round behind James White. Jonathan Stewart,

674
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 1: that's stupid. Don't draft James White. By the way, draft

675
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: a good football player, like you said, Jonathan Stewart, good

676
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Speaker 1: football player, win healthy. Sure he's an injury risk, but

677
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: in the thirteenth round he could be that. Yeah, that's

678
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: a great Williams write that down to people. Stewart in

679
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: the thirteenth round, the same round that guys like Nile

680
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: Davis and Ronnie Hillman and Lance dunbar are going give

681
00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: me a break, give me some J Stew. J Stew.

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Speaker 1: I think there was a year that I ranked him

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Speaker 1: and D'Angelo Williams twelfth, and I remember going into the

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00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: year because it was the year they were what a

685
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Speaker 1: stupid see. That's why that's why I'm doing this now.

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00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: I got one for you eleventh round. You've already probably

687
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: got your starting backfield. You do like I might put

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00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: you guys would like Garrett Blunt? Why not? The guy

689
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:24,760
Speaker 1: is gonna see more time than we think. That's my prediction.

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Speaker 1: In number two. He's gonna see he's gonna see touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: That's yeah. He he is a good fourth or fifth

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Speaker 1: back because when your guys are on a by, you

693
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: just throw Blunt in there. You hope he basically gets

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00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: a touch that you got about a fifty percent chance

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00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: he scores a touchdown in the weekend. It's not going

696
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: to cause a locker room problem because we know that

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00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: these two running backs their friends. They they spend time

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00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: together off the field. Well, you do want to think

699
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: about the makeup of your fantasy team like that. Blunt

700
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: is definitely a good guy to have at the team party. Um,

701
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: it's just a fun guy to have around in general. Uh,

702
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: you know who I like at the end. It's right

703
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: right along with you, Kerry Robinson, Kyrie. I guess Kyrie Robinson.

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00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 1: I'm not quite buying the the mark Ingram experience. I'm

705
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: also liking Chris Ivory that deep. I know he never

706
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: can stay healthy for long, um, but I think he'd

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00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: be a fun pick late. I think Darren McFadden, for

708
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: the first time in my life, would be an interesting

709
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Speaker 1: fantasy pick in the tenth round. You're not buying mark Ingram,

710
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: but you are buying Darren mcfadd. I like what I've

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Speaker 1: seen out of McFadden in this preseason. Yes, for a

712
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Speaker 1: tenth round pick, but then you'd have to have a

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00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: Raider on your team. I can live with that, alright.

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Speaker 1: I like Wes's theory about we don't pick players that

715
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: are built up essentially of bad players that are going

716
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Speaker 1: to go three. I can guarantee you will not have

717
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: anyone from the Raiders Brown's Bills. You wouldn't take Sammy Watkins.

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Speaker 1: Last guy I'm gonna say that you can't draft is

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Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman in the eighth round. I liked Auntie free

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Speaker 1: That's why is he going that high? That seems totally bizarre.

721
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,799
Speaker 1: What if you're in one of these keeper leagues though,

722
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: are like a dynasty That's not what we're doing it

723
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: for re draft leagues. Essentially, we don't have enough time

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Speaker 1: to get into that. No, and that's what these average

725
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: draft positions are not reflecting, like a dynasty league or

726
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: an auction Give me, give me a break with Why

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00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: am I even on this podcast? What? No, I'm kidding.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I don't even know the ground

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00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: rule valuable information. Yeah, that was great because we've never

730
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,959
Speaker 1: told our listeners what we're talking about, your right ground rules.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to he solved the Reggie Bus

732
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: Reggie Bush puzzle. What he doesn't need to be drafted that? Huh? Yeah,

733
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: well that's that should be obvious to anyone to watch this.

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00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 1: Let's go to receiver. It's a more stable position than

735
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: it's ever been in NFL history, and then in that

736
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: in fantasy football history too, which is why I think

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00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,319
Speaker 1: load up early if you can. Uh. The top ten

738
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: is as big and consistent as I've ever seen. Calvin Johnson,

739
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: de Marius Thomas, as Brian A. J. Green, Brandon Marshall,

740
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Speaker 1: Julio Jones, Jordy Nelson, Antonio Brown, Alison, and Randall cob

741
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Speaker 1: number ten. Anything stick out to you if you're drafting

742
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: early of guys that you would target or stay away from.

743
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: I think you're fine with any of those guys. I

744
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: noticed that they just forget the second round running backs. Seriously,

745
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: did the fantasy group think Demarius Thomas is their guy

746
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 1: this year, that he's better than everyone else? Yeah, that's

747
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: strange to me. I would definitely take Dez Brian over him.

748
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: I would definitely would take jj Green. I would take

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00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: Auston Jeffrey over him, and Jeffrey's down at ninth. He

750
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: would take Alshon Jeffrey over de Marius Tom. I love

751
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,400
Speaker 1: Austin Jeffrey. Y. That's crazy talk. I might be willing

752
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: to go des Broke. Take the guys you like you should.

753
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: Marius Thomas is a number one receiver in Peyton Manning Dolphins,

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00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,960
Speaker 1: and they don't have deck or the ship. They spread

755
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,120
Speaker 1: the ball around and they'll continue to Samarius Thomas does

756
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: the same thing every year, like t that's fair. Alshon

757
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: Jeffrey is a little bit more of a risk, but

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00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: he is a wild talented risk. I think he's just

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00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: as talented as to Marius Thomas, and I think that offense,

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00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: it's gonna be pretty close to the Broncos in terms

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00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: of yards, you know think. So I can't get on

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00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 1: board with all Sean Jeffrey over to Marius Town. I

763
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: also love Jordie Nelson or Julio Jones. I'd rather have

764
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: him than to Marius Town. I wouldn't put Thomas in

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Speaker 1: my top five. I mean, I still put him in

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00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 1: the second round, but I wouldn't put him in my

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00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: top five. Wes Welker looks like he's about one hit

768
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: away from retirement. I don't know if i'd be taking

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00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: him in the fourth round. And then the other guy

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Speaker 1: who's sticks out to me, Emmanuel Sanders, is being drafted

771
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Speaker 1: around the same group is Julian Edelman, Tory Smith, t

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Speaker 1: Y Hilton, and above Marcus Coolston and Mike Wallace. Has

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Speaker 1: anyone seen Emmanuel Sanders play. Sanders seems wildly high, Mike

774
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: Wallace seems wildly low. And I'm not a huge White

775
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: Wallace fan, but if you're taking Emmanuel Sanders over Mike Wallace,

776
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose your fantasy football because you're not a

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00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: very smart persons to do what people just seeing. He's

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Speaker 1: on Denver. For me, the one that I would not

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Speaker 1: I cannot fathom Victor Cruz at number thirteen. I like Cruise.

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Speaker 1: That's another offense we don't and anybody in that Giant's offense,

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Speaker 1: I would never do that. I would flip him with

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Speaker 1: t Y. Hilton's all the way down at number twenty four.

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00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,919
Speaker 1: I think Hilton's only getting better. Yeah, love Hilton. Tory

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00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 1: Smith is way too low to start the sixth round.

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Speaker 1: He could be a third round type of value. Uh.

786
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: Andre Johnson seems too low. I know he's older, but

787
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: guy gets yards every year in the middle of the

788
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: fourth round. I'm loving Andre Johnson. Brandon cooks your boy

789
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: too high. I don't like him in the sixth round.

790
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: I like him any any final guys towards the end

791
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Speaker 1: of the wide receiver you'd pick up if I didn't

792
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: have an embargo on the Giants offense. Ribbon Randall looks

793
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: like a bargain in the ninth round. I like the

794
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: way Dwayne Bow and Keem Nicks are moving this year.

795
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: Those guys in the ninth and tenth round, you might

796
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: be able to get some good two value there. I

797
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: would not ever touch Miles Austin. I would that's pretty deep.

798
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:53,560
Speaker 1: But why he's been on the field a lot and

799
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 1: they can't even find him that he's something's not clicking.

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00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones, that'd be a good guy to take in

801
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: your last round or your draft and a stash him,

802
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,919
Speaker 1: especially if you have an I R spot. He's gonna

803
00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 1: be out for four or five weeks. I'm just saying

804
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: that would be a wasteable roster spect. Why if you

805
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 1: have an I R spot, especially like a number four

806
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: Fantasy I like him as a top six or seven

807
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: round guy if if he's healthy, Nis is a perfect one.

808
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: Bow is too low to people. People over rate when

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00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: guys are gonna miss the first week or two of

810
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: the season. Uh, And that's what's happening with Bow missing

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00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: one game for a suspension. He's still their number one.

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00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 1: Anny Britten, number fifty. Come on, all right, Well that's

813
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Speaker 1: all the time we've got today. We're not gonna get

814
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,720
Speaker 1: to the tight ends. But that's a big time Fantasy preview.

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00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 1: There was probably more knowledge dropped in that Fantasy preview

816
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 1: than the entire season of Fantasy Live. On NFL Network.

817
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: How about that. I'm just kidding. Of course they do

818
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: a great job. Everyone should watch Michael Fabriano and Marcus

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00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: Grant and Adam Adam Rank and the whole crew. They're

820
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: on TV every day and uh you can get all

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00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: the daily low down from them. We'll be back with

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Speaker 1: you on Monday, cappying preseason week number three. We're also

823
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Speaker 1: going to preview the NFC on Wednesday next week. As

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00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:10,840
Speaker 1: we gear up and get ready for the season, it

825
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Speaker 1: is almost here. We love you. We've got to get

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Speaker 1: out of here for Mark Sessler, Chris Westleyne and t D.

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Speaker 1: I'm Greg Rosenthal. We'll talk to you