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Speaker 2: Our number two of the Drive here on a Monday,

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Speaker 2: as we roll along into our around the League segment

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Speaker 2: here and Matt some significant developments here around the future

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Speaker 2: of Trey Hendrickson and the Cincinnati Bengals. I think that

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Speaker 2: this has fallen a little bit under the radar of

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Speaker 2: conversation lately, mainly because I think Michael Parsons is dominating

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Speaker 2: in that realm, and there's been some movement around contract

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Speaker 2: extensions and some stuff like that for some other guys,

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Speaker 2: but obviously all pro led the league in sacks last year.

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Speaker 2: Hendrickson big deal for him and for the Bengals, this

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Speaker 2: kind of stalemate that they've seemingly had well. According to

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Speaker 2: Jordan Schultz, the Bengals have restarted talks with Trey Hendrickson

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Speaker 2: on a new deal. His understanding is the two sides

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Speaker 2: have been exploring a more unique avenue to get something

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Speaker 2: done for twenty twenty five, giving Hendrickson more money this

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Speaker 2: season while still letting his contract expire after the year.

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Speaker 2: There's more work none, wow, but there's cautious optimism.

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Speaker 3: Okay, interesting I didn't hear that. I just heard that

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Speaker 3: they had opened up talks again. Now, I guess that's

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Speaker 3: an interesting way of talking through it. Is, Hey, maybe

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Speaker 3: we're not going to give you the long term extension

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Speaker 3: that you want, but we'll give you a nice chunk.

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Speaker 3: Let's try to win it now you could presumably hit

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Speaker 3: the market. Is that what they were saying?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, we'll letting his contract expire after this year.

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Speaker 3: And I would think if you're him, you put like

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Speaker 3: a no franchise tag clause in there too, because I

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Speaker 3: don't want to go through this all again in next summer,

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Speaker 3: you know, like if you then go franchise me again

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Speaker 3: and I still don't get what I want. So, by

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Speaker 3: the way that that sounds from Jordan Schultz is Okay,

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Speaker 3: give me a big chunk now, probably most of it guaranteed.

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Speaker 3: It's not like you're gonna get cut in week ten anyway.

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Speaker 3: If you're Trey Hendrickson. So I get a big chunk,

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Speaker 3: I play out and then I actually become a free agent.

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Speaker 2: Where I'm still in kind of the age.

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Speaker 3: Yeah right right, Maybe end up with twelve sacks not

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Speaker 3: eighteen or whatever he had. Whatever, you have a good year,

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Speaker 3: as I would imagine he does. He does every year,

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Speaker 3: highly marketable, would make a ton on the open market.

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Speaker 3: But what I don't get is the Bengals would get

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Speaker 3: nothing for it, though, right, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: Like I mean, I guess it's a good message to

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Speaker 3: the team. We think we go win the Super bowls year.

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Speaker 3: This is a big piece of it. If it means

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Speaker 3: we don't get a second and third round pick for him,

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Speaker 3: so be it. Let's try to win, and I guess

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Speaker 3: I get something in the comp game a year later

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Speaker 3: if he leaves. But still, okay, I mean, I'm open

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Speaker 3: to that. I always, I always have a hard time

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Speaker 3: commenting when the news is okay, they're going to go

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Speaker 3: talk again. But this one sounds like they're at least

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Speaker 3: going to take a different approach.

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Speaker 2: You know, Yes, that that's interesting. That is interesting because

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Speaker 2: maybe there is some of that, like, hey, if you

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Speaker 2: could just give me the guarantees that I want for

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Speaker 2: this year, we can amicably part our ways.

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Speaker 3: And him, I'd love to be a free agent. He's

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Speaker 3: gonna make, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, especially like you said, if he goes out and

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Speaker 2: has twelve sacks, fourteen even you know, fourteen fifteen sacks

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Speaker 2: like he would. He would be nicely compensated on the

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Speaker 2: open lie like I.

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Speaker 3: Don't think he's worth the Watt or Garrett deal at

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Speaker 3: his age and he's not quite as good. Yes, but

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Speaker 3: he might get it a year from now because five

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Speaker 2: Totally, totally and kind of sticking with some breaking news

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Speaker 2: around the league as well too, Matt. This happened earlier today.

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Speaker 2: The commanders and Terry McLaurin his holding finally over three

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Speaker 2: year contract extension worth over ninety six million dollars. As scary,

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Speaker 2: Terry gets the payday he's been looking for for the

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Speaker 3: Can't say I'm shocked. I mean, even when it got

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Speaker 3: Jayden Daniels is. I still want my my Woodie. I

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Speaker 3: We're a final fourteen last year, even though they are older.

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Speaker 3: I think you have to keep your core dudes, which

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Speaker 3: he still is. It sounds like he made a little

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Speaker 3: less than DK metcalf, you know, but I haven't seen

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Speaker 3: the exact contract. Stuff, But I mean just.

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Speaker 2: Per year, per year, little bit.

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Speaker 3: I think he's like ninth or tenth a MONTHST receiver

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Speaker 3: Jamar Chase has won Metcalf's like six or seven, yes,

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Speaker 3: draft classes at me. He is two years younger, two

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Speaker 3: years important. But I probably I had a better year.

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Speaker 3: He had a better twenty twenty four of the Metcalf did,

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Speaker 3: so I thought that would be comparable, and it is.

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Speaker 3: It's a good move for the for Washington.

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Speaker 2: Since twenty twenty, Matt, there are four wide receivers that

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's just consistency and he is not in the

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Speaker 2: And I think for jayde and Daniels too, there was

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Speaker 2: get this done with my guy here. I'm not going

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Speaker 3: It's kind of a Burrowchase situation too, Like if you're

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Speaker 3: going to reward your court, you know, you're all in

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Speaker 3: It's not good for Mojo.

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Speaker 2: Exactly right, exactly right, Matt. I wanted to get your

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Speaker 2: thoughts on this news as well too. Across the Commonwealth,

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Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Eagles, always busy man releasing their sixth round

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Speaker 2: draft pick at quarterback and Kyle McCord. No, did they Okay,

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Speaker 2: they did already have three the three quarterbacks they're gonna keep, they'

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Speaker 2: gonna be Jalen Hurts, Tanner McKee and Sam Howell. Okay,

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Speaker 2: but this is you know, this is a guy who

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Speaker 2: Now he got as well too, And so Kyle McCord,

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Speaker 3: I think Syracuse kid I liked him a lot too

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Speaker 3: I would assume McCord's gonna end up on it.

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Speaker 2: But no, no, just I thought that that was interesting

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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot to talk about here. So

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize this until after the trade. McKee injured

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Speaker 3: I bet he's like a Ryan Fitzpatrick that plays for

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Speaker 3: like eight teams in twelve years. He's already be on

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Speaker 3: don't want to stardom, but you can. And I always

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Speaker 3: give the Eagles a ton of credit. There's such a

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Speaker 3: making moves a quarterback always always. I mean the trade

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Speaker 3: it's just if we get our hit. I assume what

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Speaker 3: I mean, and this goes back to Wentz, who actually

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Speaker 2: Injured his knee out in LA.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then they use a second round pick on Hurts.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they're you're never really safe there. They're always

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Speaker 3: looking for the next guy. Couldn'tmckee be so good that

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Speaker 3: if we can get those traits out of them. Chances

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Speaker 3: are you can't because the other organizations didn't either. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: let's just keep trying and if one out of five

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Speaker 3: Wyn't you give anything up?

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Speaker 2: I think it was was it twenty nineteen when they

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Speaker 2: drafted Hurts? I want to say, does that sound right

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Speaker 3: It's the Burrough draft? Okay, it was like Burrow to

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Speaker 3: Herbert Love and Hurts. That's a really good draft.

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Speaker 2: That's right. I remember, because, like you said, that was

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Speaker 2: I think a year removed from Carson Wentz being a LEGITIMV.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, right right. It was a second round pick,

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Speaker 2: It was a little odd. Yeah, And you know, this

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Speaker 2: doing there. And I remember, and you just like getting

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Speaker 2: just like turn that off all the thame, you know,

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Speaker 2: Like my social media still has Eagles stuff in it

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Speaker 2: And Howie Roseman one of the things that he said

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Speaker 2: people doing what we do for a living, like mocking.

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Speaker 2: People were making like funny photoshops Matt of like Carson

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think a lot of people are drafting this week,

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Speaker 2: We are getting to uh, I mean, I think we

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Speaker 3: It's this upcoming weekend is really your last chance, of course,

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Speaker 2: Yesh, Absolutely, a lot of people have fantasy draft parties

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's probably gonna dominate a lot of our conversation.

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Speaker 2: well too. Is Obviously you are very versed in fantasy football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you want to break down my quarterback list year, got.

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Speaker 2: Your quarterback list here, and I am you know, I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, before we get started, I mean fantasies and these

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Speaker 2: Correct, and you'll see that with somebody that Matt has

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Speaker 3: So the top four standalone, they're they're tier one. They're

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Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, they're going early in drafts right now, like

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Speaker 3: They run like crazy, they produce touchdowns like crazy. I

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Speaker 2: I think that that makes a lot of sense, and

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Speaker 2: Number five, you have Joe Burrow.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, And I think again, like you said, most

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Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes at six.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't quarterback sneak it ever. You know, he's one

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Speaker 3: All these lists Sando's quarterback tiers, et cetera, Atlan and

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Speaker 2: Oh and now you're not talking fantasy, You're talking about

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Speaker 3: Agree. And I bet he knows this too, And he

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Speaker 2: And then this is where this gets hair interesting.

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Speaker 3: And I don't ever draft this at neighborhood, like I'm

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Speaker 2: This next day, you got Justin Field's number seven.

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Speaker 3: I think there's one two quarterbacks in NFL history that

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Speaker 2: It's probably like Lamar, and it's Lamar.

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Speaker 3: And maybe Vickers. You know it's somebody else that's an

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about this in Jets week, but I've been

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Speaker 3: like a service academy how much they run the ball. Yes,

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00:21:22,119 --> 00:21:24,359
Speaker 3: and that's what it comes down to, Like if he

434
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,600
Speaker 3: only throws for one hundred and eighty yards in a touchdown,

435
00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:29,760
Speaker 3: but he runs for sixty, he's gonna be a top

436
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 3: six or seven quarterback that week. It's just how the

437
00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 3: scoring system goes, and why would they not run him.

438
00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:38,679
Speaker 2: Number eight on your list is a guy who I

439
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 2: think you'll be proud of me. Was one of my

440
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 2: great coups of my latest fantasy draft, Kyler Murray Nice

441
00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:46,920
Speaker 2: who I got fifteen round draft. I got him in

442
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:47,879
Speaker 2: like the twelfth round.

443
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 3: I think if people have soured on him, you know,

444
00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,840
Speaker 3: and he's not quite the player he's lived up to be. Again,

445
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,919
Speaker 3: this is the neighborhood. It gets a little foggy for me.

446
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,800
Speaker 3: Maybe you can make arguments for other dudes. This next

447
00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 3: name is my guy. We'll get to him in a minute,

448
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,880
Speaker 3: but he's ranked much lower by everybody else. But it's

449
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 3: also because this neighborhood to me is a little weak,

450
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,920
Speaker 3: you know, in terms of like mid to low end

451
00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 3: true starting fantasy quarterbacks.

452
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 2: And there's a lot of question marks around like Drake

453
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:16,119
Speaker 2: May and Bo Nicks, right, all these dudes, even a

454
00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:18,000
Speaker 2: Justin Field's in a brand new system.

455
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,320
Speaker 3: I mean, he could get benched. I mean it's possible.

456
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 3: I mean they could have a terrible season. Who knows,

457
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,640
Speaker 3: But Kyler's possible to he could rush for six hundred

458
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 3: and throw for four thousand. Yeah, you know, I mean

459
00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:32,320
Speaker 3: that's just a combination that the few have.

460
00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:34,639
Speaker 2: I think you're right. I think he's one of the

461
00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 2: more underrated quarterbacks on most people's lists. I like that

462
00:22:37,359 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 2: you have him at number eight. At number nine, you

463
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 2: have your crush, Drake May.

464
00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 3: That is my crush. And I hope my league mates

465
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,679
Speaker 3: aren't listening. But there's a really good chance he'll be

466
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 3: my quarterback if I wait, because he's going as like

467
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 3: the fifteenth quarterback in ADP.

468
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:53,840
Speaker 2: You'll probably get him the last rounderew, you can.

469
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,200
Speaker 3: Get him real late. I don't feel super confident about it, Like,

470
00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 3: if my buddies take him, so be it. I'm not

471
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 3: going to cry. But they didn't design any rushes for

472
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,239
Speaker 3: him last year, and he still ended up with a

473
00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,440
Speaker 3: lot of rushing yards, but they were all scrambles. Now

474
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:12,320
Speaker 3: they're definitely going to design rushing yards for the guy totally.

475
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 3: They've way better weapons, and frankly, I just think he's

476
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 3: going to be a great player. I mean, Stieler fans

477
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 3: are going to hate this, but I think he's like

478
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:22,240
Speaker 3: the next great AFC quarterback to cause problems for the Steelers.

479
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 2: A lot of those. Yeah, there are. We will see

480
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 2: him up at uh up in Foxboro week.

481
00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 3: Three, Yeah, Yeah, yeah.

482
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Speaker 2: Number ten on your list, Bo Nicks, He's He's one

483
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,280
Speaker 2: that I think could really solidify himself as one of

484
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 2: the better fantasy football quarterbacks this year with his skill

485
00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 2: set and with kind of the system that he's going

486
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 2: to play in Quarterback Friendly. He runs a lot.

487
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean may and Knicks run a lot more

488
00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 3: than you think people think. Yeah they do, they absolutely do.

489
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 2: And number eleven on your list, I think kind of

490
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 2: similar ish conversation with Baker Mayfield. He was one of

491
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 2: the first ones that raised my eyes. Not anything crazy,

492
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 2: but like I've seen Peep, I've seen a lot of people,

493
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 2: people that do this for a living, to have him

494
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 2: as highest seven or eight on their quarterback run.

495
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,879
Speaker 3: And I understand that he's not like you have him

496
00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 3: at seventeen, but I probably won't end up with them though. Yeah, yeah,

497
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 3: I mean he's my eleventh. And again, I'm probably not

498
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 3: shopping for quarterbacks in that neighborhood. I would wait. But

499
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 3: their offense is great and he's got big time weapons,

500
00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:21,879
Speaker 3: seems to have really found himself as a player and

501
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:27,800
Speaker 3: runs enough. You know twelve Jordan Love, like when we

502
00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:31,480
Speaker 3: did I think you and I went over Sando's quarterback tiers. Yes,

503
00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 3: he's one of the guys I think is him. He's

504
00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 3: one of my votes to jump a.

505
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 2: Tear vertical mobility.

506
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. He played it injured a lot

507
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,399
Speaker 3: last year. I think his career is just really on

508
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 3: the rise. And first round receiver doesn't hurt, you.

509
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 2: Know, quarterback friendly coach and system as well too.

510
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, very especially This next guy.

511
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,360
Speaker 2: Is Quartereen is one that raised my eyebrows a little bit.

512
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,040
Speaker 2: It's a RISKJ McCarthy.

513
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:55,600
Speaker 3: It's a risk.

514
00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,240
Speaker 2: Is that because you believe in him or you just

515
00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 2: believing so much in that offense and what's around him?

516
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 3: The latter, I mean what Donald ended up being like

517
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,719
Speaker 3: the sixth or seventh best fantasy quarterback last year, and

518
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,439
Speaker 3: this guy runs more than Donald. He might not be

519
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,400
Speaker 3: as good. I don't know. Well, you haven't seen him.

520
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 3: They're super high on him. His situation is awesome. You

521
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 3: can get him cheat, you know.

522
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 2: And I'll give you kind of a couple of these

523
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 2: and a bunch here next to if you want to

524
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:27,400
Speaker 2: fifteen Brock Party sixteen, Caleb Williams seventeen, Trevor Lawrence eighteen.

525
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:28,879
Speaker 3: Justin Herbert yep, and you skip.

526
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 2: Dak actually sorry, I did. Yes, Dak at fourteen.

527
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,960
Speaker 3: I'm gonna touch on Dak super quick because he doesn't

528
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,480
Speaker 3: run as much as you think. But he's kind of

529
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 3: the Miller lite version of Joe Burrow. Like I think

530
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 3: Pickens is gonna have a big year. I think Clam's

531
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 3: gonna have a big year. And I think they're gonna

532
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 3: throw a ton in Dallas, and I mean the touchdowns

533
00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 3: could follow. Those other guys have a lot of uncertainty too.

534
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,879
Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot of Caleb Williams could go

535
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 3: a lot of different directions, Trevor Lawrence could go a

536
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 3: lot of different directions. I don't dislike that neighborhood. But

537
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 3: then you get into like Herbert strouda they just don't run.

538
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 3: Is that it's just it's a problem, you know. I

539
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 3: mean Herbert runs a little, but they're all really good players.

540
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 3: Herbert Stroud goff to Stafford down the list a little

541
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 3: bit too. Like these guys throw a fair amount of touchdowns,

542
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:23,880
Speaker 3: but they're just not real fantasy friendly. They just don't

543
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 3: run nearly enough.

544
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 2: Yes, Like, for example, you've got Geno Smith and Matt

545
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 2: Stafford twenty five and twenty six, right, I know, you

546
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: would pick both of those guys to win you a

547
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 2: game over JJ McCarthy.

548
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 3: But the ore fields are right, of course, right.

549
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,639
Speaker 2: Right, that's not the exercise.

550
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,640
Speaker 3: That's not the exercise here, you know. And then there's

551
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 3: a couple of dudes that are kind of lumped together there,

552
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 3: Bryce Young cam Ward and Pennix. That Young ran a

553
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,919
Speaker 3: lot last year when they started to get comforted, yea

554
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 3: more than the stretch. I don't know that cam Ward

555
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 3: can have a Jayden Daniels rookie year, but they're probably

556
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:58,440
Speaker 3: gonna be losing a lot, which is good for him

557
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 3: and throwing. He's got all to playmaker ability. And Pennix too,

558
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 3: is another one that'll whip it around a ton, you know,

559
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 3: like if you're gonna take a shot of somebody that

560
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 3: could go high. Yeah, they might have big years fantasy wise.

561
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 2: Absolutely. And then like I said, twenty five twenty six,

562
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 2: you've got Geno Matthew Stafford down into Anthony Richardson, Sam

563
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 2: Darnold at twenty eight, and then finally Aaron Rodgers at

564
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 2: twenty nine, Russell Wilson at thirty.

565
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we go through These Steelers aren't gonna be

566
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 3: reflected particularly well for fantasy in any list. I mean,

567
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 3: DK is clearly the first Steeler that comes off the

568
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 3: board in any fantasy draft. But the Steelers are not

569
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,239
Speaker 3: super fantasy friendly. You know, who's gonna get the carries well?

570
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,400
Speaker 2: In particular when you're kind of predicated on your defense.

571
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 2: That doesn't help either.

572
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 3: And the John new trade is awful for fantasy. Who

573
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 3: kills Friar Muth and John Who? Some of these dudes

574
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 3: like Russell Wilson I have right below Rogers. I don't

575
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,199
Speaker 3: know if he even plays the whole year. You know,

576
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 3: like Dart looks really good. Dart's gonna run more. You know,

577
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 3: Wilson's not gonna run much anymore. Hey, I hope Rogers

578
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 3: throws forty touchdowns, and he might throw a lot more

579
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 3: than we've seen around here, but he's gonna give you

580
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 3: zero on the ground. Yeah, that's him. And Stafford just

581
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 3: don't run at all. The one name just to throw

582
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 3: out there that people are like, why are you even

583
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 3: bringing up Richardson? And Dale? And I used to fight

584
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 3: about Richardson all the time because it it doesn't matter

585
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 3: if he's good or bad. But I know he's not

586
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 3: even the starter in Indie right now. Jones is the starter,

587
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 3: and I probably should move Jones up. But I mean,

588
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 3: you probably aren't drafting any of those dudes.

589
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 2: But for your sake, you're not drafting any of those guys.

590
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 3: But if Richardson gets the start, like if it's announced

591
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 3: they're zero to three and you're to go to Richardson

592
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 3: and in week four he's feels, I mean he's seven

593
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 3: on the list. He's six on the list because he

594
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 3: runs so much. Yeah, his fantasy points like per snap

595
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 3: are hurts and Allen level. Even if he doesn't complete

596
00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 3: any passes. I mean, it doesn't eve matter if he's

597
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 3: good at the game.

598
00:28:57,200 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 2: Last question I have for you, I think you do.

599
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 2: You just said a few minutes ago, Sam Darnoald was

600
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: like the eighth is that right? Eighth or ninth? Highest

601
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 2: last years?

602
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 3: Maybe even a little higher.

603
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 2: You've got a twenty eighth this year. That's obviously a

604
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 2: major drop off. It is talent is different in that

605
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 2: Minnesota offense than Seattle. But the what's the reasoning for

606
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,959
Speaker 2: behind like a twenty twenty one spot drop for Sam Donald.

607
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be very honest and we'll do this with

608
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,000
Speaker 3: all these positions, but it's more obvious with quarterback that

609
00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 3: once you get out of the guys that aren't getting

610
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 3: drafted in fantasy, I'm not spending a lot of time drafting. Sure,

611
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 3: should he be thirty or should he be twenty six?

612
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 3: You know, like either way, he's gonna be a free

613
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 3: agent on your waiver wire and nobody's gonna draft him anyway.

614
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 3: So I could easily make the argument that he should

615
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 3: be twenty four and not twenty eighth or whatever, because

616
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 3: I mean he's with some dudes that aren't getting drafted,

617
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 3: you know, like it's kind of like the who's the

618
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 3: twenty fifth tight end versus twenty seventh tight end? Sure,

619
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 3: that's different than the twenty fifth receiver versus you know,

620
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 3: those guys are all getting drafted. So part of it's

621
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,239
Speaker 3: because I just don't care about that that area. And

622
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 3: he's going to be a free agent if I choose

623
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 3: to pick him up after my guy gets hurt. Fine,

624
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 3: But I think they're gonna run the ball a ton

625
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 3: in Seattle, you know, Like I have Kenneth Walker really

626
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,960
Speaker 3: high on the list of running backs, and I don't

627
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 3: think Darnold's gonna run all that much, you know, so

628
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 3: he's bound to go backwards. He doesn't have Justin Jefferson anymore,

629
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 3: you know, but he might be an okay backup for fantasy.

630
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 3: I'm not down on him.

631
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think that was just you know,

632
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 2: I just raised me, Yeah, praise my brows there a

633
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 2: little bit.

634
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 3: But he's definitely in competition for who's going to go

635
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 3: down most Fantasy points per game, who's going to decrease

636
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 3: the most from last year, you know, I certainly, yeah,

637
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 3: so no doubt. Usage is just way different.

638
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 2: So if you had your perfect ideal scenario for quarterbacks,

639
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,280
Speaker 2: you would draft Drake May in one of the last

640
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: couple rounds.

641
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like he'll probably get after like the first eleven.

642
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 2: Or twelve guyo.

643
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I'd quickly follow him up with like

644
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 3: Dak or Lawrence and hopefully be stacked everywhere else. You know,

645
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 3: he's the key. So I'm sure somebody from my league's listening.

646
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 3: But doesn't matter. Like I'm picking eleventh in this league

647
00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 3: that I've been buddies with forever. Sure, so at eleven,

648
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Speaker 3: I'm not willing to take any of those top four.

649
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Speaker 3: That's too early. And then around the corner I'll pick

650
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Speaker 3: at fourteen. I'm not willing to take any of them

651
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Speaker 3: in the top fourteen. I mean, but I know there's

652
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Speaker 3: almost no chance that they come back to me in

653
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Speaker 3: the late third.

654
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's the kind of risk that you have. That's

655
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Speaker 2: the balance.

656
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Speaker 3: You're right. So I'm not telling people not to drink,

657
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 3: not to go big on quarterback, but we're like, where

658
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Speaker 3: I'm picking, I almost have no choice, you know, Like

659
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to overdraft Allen or Lamar with the

660
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Speaker 3: eleventh overall pick, and I'm not gonna have a chance

661
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Speaker 3: to get him in the third. But I would have

662
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Speaker 3: no problem taking one of those big dogs early. And

663
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Speaker 3: that's usually not my style. So when you said your

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Speaker 3: perfect quarterback draft, if I'm picking like seven and Allen's

665
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Speaker 3: there in the second round, but well, strongly consider that. Yeah, yeah,

666
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Speaker 3: I get that.

667
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Speaker 2: So much of this depends on where you're picking from.

668
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Speaker 2: And we'll obviously massage that a little bit when we

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Speaker 2: get into some of our mock scenarios later in the week.

670
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Speaker 2: I've got a scenario, fantasy football scenario that I want

671
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Speaker 2: to run past you that I faced on the other

672
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Speaker 2: side a what would you do for Matt Williamson as

673
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Speaker 2: it relates to fantasy football do that to kind of

674
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Speaker 2: keep some fantasy conversation going and close this thing down.

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Speaker 2: On the other side, wey Sheeler. Matt Williamson is the

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Speaker 2: Final segment today of the Drive here on a Monday,

680
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Speaker 2: as we obviously anxiously anticipate the initial fifty three man

681
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Speaker 2: roster tomorrow. We will have that for you by the

682
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Speaker 2: time we go on air. But to get us out

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Speaker 2: of here today, Matt, a fantasy football scenario for you.

684
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Speaker 2: I guess I could say that this is a mock scenario,

685
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 2: which I pretty much this one too. But this is

686
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Speaker 2: a scenario that I found myself faced with last week.

687
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Speaker 2: Twelve team draft. Yes, okay, which is always important to note.

688
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Speaker 2: I think the amount of teams in the league.

689
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Speaker 3: You guys playing ten and eight and it's kindergarten, right.

690
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Speaker 2: Twelve team draft. I had the fourth pick off the board, obviously,

691
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Speaker 2: are I believe it went Saquon, Bijon Jamar.

692
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Speaker 3: Okay, they're usually the top three in some order.

693
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Speaker 2: Yes, I know. It was the running backs first and say,

694
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Speaker 2: I do. Yeah, it was Saquon, then Bijon, then Jamar

695
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Speaker 2: and those were going into it. I said to myself

696
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Speaker 2: picking fourth, and this is this Legit happened to me

697
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Speaker 2: last week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like, if any of those three are available,

700
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Speaker 2: that's who I'm taking it. Four. If one of my

701
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Speaker 2: buddies messes up and lets me get those three at four, yeah,

702
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Speaker 2: then I was faced with the fourth pick. I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what I did and who I selected, but I

704
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Speaker 2: would like to know how you would have gone there.

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Speaker 3: Shouldn't you want me to go first?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, So I tell you what I did. I

707
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Speaker 2: want to know what your thought process would have been

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Speaker 2: in ultimately, what decision you think you would have made.

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Speaker 3: I think there's four names to consider there. I mean

710
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Speaker 3: the two receivers, Jefferson or Lamb, and most people seem

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Speaker 3: to have Lamb over Jefferson. I don't feel strong either

712
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Speaker 3: way about that, to be honest with you. I mean,

713
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Speaker 3: Jefferson is just so hard to bet against because he's

714
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Speaker 3: incredible and but and I do think Pickings will hurt

715
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Speaker 3: Lamb slightly. But you know, back to that conversation, I

716
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Speaker 3: think they throw the ball a ton so if you

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Speaker 3: have Lamb over Jefferson, fine, If you Jefferson over Lamb, fine,

718
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Speaker 3: I won't fight you. There're two and three. To me,

719
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Speaker 3: Chase is clearly one. And then what's your level of

720
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Speaker 3: rolling the dice running.

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Speaker 2: Back exactly right, because you're gonna have to wait a

722
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Speaker 2: long time to that to that you know that that

723
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Speaker 2: pick snakes back.

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Speaker 3: To well that too, right, So I think the other

725
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Speaker 3: two names are jamieer Gibbs and Christian McCaffrey. Now people

726
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Speaker 3: are probably like, I'm not wasting that pick on McCaffrey.

727
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Speaker 3: He gets hurt all the time. Well, he's perfectly fine

728
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Speaker 3: now he I don't know if they went back to

729
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Speaker 3: Jim Brown days, but in the Super Bowl era, he's

730
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Speaker 3: the best fantasy running back period, per game, Fantasy points

731
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Speaker 3: per game, It's like him and Ladanian Tomlinson are number one.

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Speaker 3: I mean there, he is the best. And the Niners

733
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Speaker 3: played the easy schedule in the league. They got a

734
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Speaker 3: lot of receivers that are banged up. Him and Kittle,

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Speaker 3: We're going to get the ball a ton and if

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Speaker 3: you can live with man that level of risk that, hey,

737
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Speaker 3: I know he's missed a lot of time in the

738
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Speaker 3: last couple of years, he could.

739
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Speaker 2: Be the number one guy. He usually is.

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Speaker 3: He scores like every game. He's a Niner. And I

741
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Speaker 3: also think Gibbs is awesome. I just think he's just

742
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Speaker 3: phenomenal player. They both catch a ton of passes. When

743
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Speaker 3: we talk running backs later in the week, that's almost

744
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:10,760
Speaker 3: like running or quarterback running that you better catch passes.

745
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Speaker 3: Like that's why Derek Henry is not in this conversation yet.

746
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Speaker 3: So those are the four names. I probably would go Gibbs,

747
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Speaker 3: but I can't fight you on any of the four.

748
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Speaker 3: Did you go any of the four?

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Speaker 2: I went Justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, that's super safe to me.

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Speaker 2: My logic behind it was and Gibbs. Funny enough, was

752
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Speaker 2: that it was between Gibbs and Justin Jefferson. I kind

753
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Speaker 2: of CD I thought, you know, for a brief second,

754
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Speaker 2: but my logic was Pickkets is going to get a

755
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Speaker 2: lot of targets and kind of comparing him to Justin Jefferson.

756
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Speaker 2: I know it's only three games, but I know Jefferson

757
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Speaker 2: is going to play three games without where he's going

758
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Speaker 2: to be the star of the show. And then Gibbs.

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Speaker 2: I had him on my fantasy team last year he

760
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Speaker 2: was dynamited. But my only thing was just a lot

761
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Speaker 2: of change to that offense, in that offensive line. Yeah,

762
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:02,719
Speaker 2: and of course the David Montgomery factor as well too,

763
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Speaker 2: So I just that's what led me to take in

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Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of the there's a lot of really

766
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Speaker 3: really good fantasy analysts out there, and I'll quote them

767
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Speaker 3: and I steal stats off them, and there's I mean,

768
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Speaker 3: the fantasy community really overlaps with NFL and Dale and

769
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 3: I talk about that all the time. Matt stats, a

770
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 3: lot of it comes from fantasy, ye know, right.

771
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Speaker 2: Because that numbers are what matter.

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Speaker 3: Usage and all that stuff. So there's kind of mixed

773
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Speaker 3: feelings on Gibbs. Some people think, well, the Lions aren't

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Speaker 3: going to be quite as good. They've had a lot

775
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Speaker 3: of changes. They're gonna have to rely on their better

776
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Speaker 3: back more as opposed to the closer. You know, Gibbs

777
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Speaker 3: might get more snaps than he has in the past

778
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Speaker 3: because they're not winning by ten late in the game

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Speaker 3: in Montgomery sealing the deal. Maybe they're actually losing once

780
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Speaker 3: in a while and they gotta throw and Gibbs is

781
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:55,280
Speaker 3: out there fine. But there's also people who think well,

782
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Speaker 3: I loved his usage with the last coordinator. I just

783
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Speaker 3: don't know what the new coordinator's gonna say. You know,

784
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 3: he might be like, I mean, there's still the same

785
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Speaker 3: head coach. It's going to be a governor or regulator

786
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Speaker 3: on that. We're not gonna use them like he's Earl

787
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 3: Campbell obviously, but you just don't know. And the old

788
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 3: line's not as good and as the things you mentioned.

789
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Speaker 3: You know, as for Jefferson, he averages more receiving yards

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Speaker 3: per game than anyone in history.

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Speaker 2: It's insane.

792
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Speaker 3: And his quarterbacks haven't been awesome through his career either.

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Speaker 3: I have no reason to think he won't again or

794
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Speaker 3: won't compete for most yardage for sure.

795
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Speaker 2: Five years in the league, over a thousand yards every season.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that's safe as you could be with WI.

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Speaker 3: You're the fifth pick, fourth, fourth, okay, Like.

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Speaker 2: And that was kind of part of it for me too,

799
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Speaker 2: was like, you can't blow you the fourth overall pick,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like you got it. Like

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Speaker 2: Whereas I think there might be a little bit high

802
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Speaker 2: of a ceiling with Jamior Gibbs, maybe even a little

803
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Speaker 2: bit higher of a ceiling with Ceedee Lamb depending on

804
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Speaker 2: how much Dallas is gonna rock the ball around. But

805
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Speaker 2: I was like, I got to get somebody that I

806
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,479
Speaker 2: know for sixteen seventeen games, is gonna give me something

807
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Speaker 2: every week.

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Speaker 3: That's justin Dale and I talked about this a lot too,

809
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:06,760
Speaker 3: like I'm very fine with a leadoff double in first round,

810
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 3: you know, like I don't.

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Speaker 2: Have, but I know I need a leadoff double.

812
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,240
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I don't need to swing for the fence

813
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:16,240
Speaker 3: on McCaffrey and maybe strike out because I do believe

814
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 3: that maybe you can't. I don't know that you can

815
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Speaker 3: win your league with your first round pick because everyone's

816
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 3: going to get somebody good, but you could definitely lose it.

817
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Speaker 3: There's no doubt if you happen to take McCaffrey first

818
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 3: overall last year and then he never played anywhere in

819
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Speaker 3: your season.

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Speaker 2: Season, is you are such one foot in the grave already?

821
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'm cool with playing safe in the early rounds, and.

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Speaker 2: It worked out well for me because I ended up

823
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Speaker 2: in the second and third rounds getting Bucky Irving and

824
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Speaker 2: Omari and Hampton. And feel pretty good about my running

825
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 2: backs as well too.

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Speaker 3: When we talked running backs, I'm pretty high on both.

827
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Speaker 2: Yep, and that's where that's where I was going with

828
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Speaker 2: that for you. But yeah, and so that was the

829
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Speaker 2: that was the mock scenario I had for you. That's yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think I've told you this before, but I I

831
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Speaker 2: used to play in fifty different fantasy foot and dynasty

832
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 2: leagues and daily fantasy football, and I would do a

833
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 2: college football fantasy league with some of my buddies as

834
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 2: well too. I'm in two leagues now, that's it fantasy football.

835
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,720
Speaker 2: They're both year to year ones with all my buddies

836
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 2: from high school. This was the twentieth year that we've

837
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Speaker 2: had this league.

838
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 3: I think ours was probably close to thirty and we

839
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 3: started like nineteen ninety.

840
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I started in two thousand and four, two thousand

841
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 2: and five, whatever. This is our twentieth anniversary. And then

842
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 2: I do one with my family as well too school

843
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 2: and that draft we have coming up Thursday night of

844
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 2: this week, so I'll be interested to do some mock

845
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 2: stuff with you on Wednesday and Thursday.

846
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 3: I'm in six dynasty leagues, but those are that all

847
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 3: the all the action happens in the offseason. I mean,

848
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 3: those are all rookie drafts. So all those everything's in

849
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,760
Speaker 3: the book, and then I'll do two drafts this weekend

850
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 3: that are just redraft fun family type you know, like yeah,

851
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 3: with your buddies type leagues, and that's all I mean.

852
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 3: I'm not in an insane amount.

853
00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 2: I do do one with my buddies, do one with

854
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 2: my family. They both have decent buy ins, enough that

855
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 2: I have to actually care about it and really pays.

856
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 3: My problem is, like a couple of my podcasts, we've

857
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 3: done things like all right, we're going to have the

858
00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 3: Peacock and Williamson League, and then by like week.

859
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 2: Three, I'm like, there's no money in all this money.

860
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 3: I've become a really bad owner. Don't do anything right.

861
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 2: If you don't have that care to dangle in front

862
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 2: of me.

863
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 3: I'm just too busy. I can't just pick up side

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Speaker 3: fun things to do during the summer during the.

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Speaker 2: Season happens to be the busiest time of the year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, case, getting my lineup in. I'm not talking trades

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Speaker 3: with you, know, I just time.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm with you. Good stuff tomorrow, plenty

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Speaker 2: of fifty three man and plenty more fantasy football conversation

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Speaker 2: as the week rolls along. Good stuff though, Today Matt

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Speaker 2: enjoyed it, and we'll do it again tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Sounds like a plan.

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Speaker 2: As always, you know where to find us. I'm West

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Speaker 2: Shooler for Matt Williamson. Take care everybody, and we will

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Speaker 2: talk to you tomorrow and your twenty four to seven

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Speaker 2: home of the Black and Gold. It's Steelers Nation Radio

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