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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Goal Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I am Dale Ally, he is Matt Williamson,

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Speaker 1: and this is the drive on Steelers Nation Radio. This

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Speaker 1: is time for the Fantasy Football Focus and met our

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Speaker 1: Our little lineup last night paid off for us. There

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Speaker 1: were yeah, when I say hudred d and thirty thousand

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Speaker 1: people in our contest. Yeah, we finished ten in like

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Speaker 1: ten thousand, two hundred, so we won. We won six

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Speaker 1: dollars on our three dollar investment. The winner. There were

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Speaker 1: ten winners of that contest who finished the first overall. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we finished eight points behind them. Yeah, said pretty and

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Speaker 1: they won seventy and the three dollar investment. We were

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Speaker 1: that close. One one little rosters week probably would have

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Speaker 1: got us there. Yeah, but maybe a lot of goods

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Speaker 1: helped us. Dobbs helped us, played well, We had some.

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Speaker 1: Even the running back that we threw in there from

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Speaker 1: us Askins was fine. Yeah, the m v P or

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Speaker 1: whatever was. Yeah. Schultz is in the captain's chair was

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Speaker 1: the winner. He had like thirty eight and a half

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Speaker 1: points in the captains ship. So that would be where

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Speaker 1: you get it at. Okay, So it's time for us

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Speaker 1: to do our DFS lineup for the Sunday Monday slate.

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Speaker 1: And we went over these numbers earlier in the week.

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Speaker 1: We're doing a five dollar double up here and not

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Speaker 1: getting too crazy. Uh, looking at those defenses, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks I'd like to bet against. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: So going from the bottom here, we remember we went

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Speaker 1: over these earlier in the week. You had the Saints

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Speaker 1: at the Broncos, at the Packers at the Raiders at hundred,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals at the Rams, at the Panthers a you

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Speaker 1: got the Bills at hundred, the Texans, the Patriots at

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Speaker 1: twenty hundred, Steelers at hundred, the Vikings at the Falcons

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Speaker 1: at undred. You got the Jets a hundred, the Bears dty,

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Speaker 1: Niners at hundred. Paying for the Niners doesn't sound that bad.

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Speaker 1: It's not even paying up them. It's not that expensive.

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Speaker 1: That's the middle of the road for for a defense.

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Speaker 1: Is a dominating and be facing a backup quarterback. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I kind of like that. I was going to just

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Speaker 1: plugged it in. Yeah, I figured that Niners would be

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Speaker 1: the best defense in the league. Why wouldn't you put

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Speaker 1: them in week efter a week they're going to give

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Speaker 1: you the gift. You take the gift. Yeah, Niners should

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Speaker 1: control of football. I mean yeah, yeah, tight end Kelsey

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Speaker 1: is eighty one hundred, George Kittle was fifty nine hundred,

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Speaker 1: t J. Hawkinson fifty four hundred, Mark Andrews is fifty

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Speaker 1: two hundred, Dallas hundred. Did he do anything last weekend?

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Speaker 1: I get a lot of targets. Let me see, he

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Speaker 1: had three targets for three catches sixty seven yards, so

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Speaker 1: he caught all three of us. So I mean not

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Speaker 1: Baddard and Hawk is kind of interesting. Tyler Higbee hundred

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Speaker 1: Do you chase the points there? It seems a little

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Speaker 1: pricey for an average athlete. Cole Commet possibly, Evan Ingram

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Speaker 1: Dawson Knocks forty two hundred, and Jokut one hundred, doll

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Speaker 1: Sitch four thousand, Friarmouth. He's been good to us over

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Speaker 1: the years. He has, he has been he should be higher,

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Speaker 1: how much saying he should be in goddard Land, we

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Speaker 1: just plug it in. Yeah, I mean, I was going

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Speaker 1: to suggest paying up for Goddard or Hawk. The last

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Speaker 1: game against the Ravens he had he had he only

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Speaker 1: had three for thirty three, but he had touchdown. Well,

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Speaker 1: the keys he's playing back to, playing heavy dose of

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Speaker 1: snaps the Ravens. The Ravens have allowed six touchdowns, still

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Speaker 1: posing tight ends. What are they rank against tight ends?

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Speaker 1: They are ten? But yeah, right, no, I'm fine environment.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand why he's that cheap. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's just like that again, that's a he should be

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Speaker 1: like Evan Ingram higbie Land. Yeah, that allows us to

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Speaker 1: it leads us in average of sixty almost sixty two

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Speaker 1: dress for the rest of our lineup, which is great quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I think a tight end one and the D one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Mahomes is, Josh Allen is eight four hurts is three

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Speaker 1: D question. Justin Fields is seventy hundred. Detroit is thirty

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Speaker 1: second against opposing quarterbacks this year. I wonder what they

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Speaker 1: give up on the ground of quarterbacks. But well, he

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Speaker 1: had forty three, forty three points against him the first time.

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Speaker 1: That's not worthy. Joe Burrow is seventy lamar question Justin

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Speaker 1: They were right next to each other, but it's still

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Speaker 1: bad call. Trevor Lawrence d Tom Brady. Brady is still

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Speaker 1: way too expensive. Uh. Aaron Rodgers is six thousand, Minnesota's

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. I think they're gonna win golf is fifty

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Speaker 1: six hundred. You get home golf against a terrible defense.

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Speaker 1: You're you don't have a hard time convincing me not

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Speaker 1: to do. Let's just plug it. Yea. They need to

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Speaker 1: win a play for the Chicago will score enough to

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Speaker 1: keep them involved. Yeah, it's in the dome. Yeah, absolutely

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Speaker 1: that that is actually under budgets. Now we can really spend.

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Speaker 1: Mccaffre is nine thousand. Would you consider it knowing that

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Speaker 1: the Raiders are the last in the league allowing reception

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Speaker 1: reception he catch twenty passes. Brock Birdy could be let's

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Speaker 1: think about it. Yeah, in nine thousand's a lot, but

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Speaker 1: it's a lot. He's questionably have the money. Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: finished whole game though. Ye. Barkley is eight thousand. He

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Speaker 1: looks great. He's back to producing a big way. Jacobs

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Speaker 1: Josh Jacob sent hundred, Nick Chubb seventy three hundred, James Conner,

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixing, dred that area is jumping out at me.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Jones seventy one hundred, Dalvin Cook seven thousand. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't look quite the same to me. David Montgomery Kamara

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Speaker 1: at Kenneth Walker at hundred, cam Acres at six hundred

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Speaker 1: against that Chargers defense. Jerick McKinnon six thousand. His prices

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Speaker 1: Miles Sanders is a J. Dillon eight hundred, Devons Singletary

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Speaker 1: fifty hundred, Nag Harris fifty seven hundred, J. K. Dobbins

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Speaker 1: fifty seven hundred, Foreman seven hundred, Isaiah Pacheco's fifty six hundred,

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Speaker 1: Damien Harris fifty hundred, Leonard four net Is fifty six hundred.

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Speaker 1: He's still the passing down. He catches like eight passes

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Speaker 1: every game, that's all they do. Then he could get

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Speaker 1: a plunge. Uh Lottavious Murray is fifty five hundred, speaking

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Speaker 1: which he catches passing Raheem Mostert hundred, Dion Jackson fifty

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Speaker 1: Air fifty three hundred. I'd plug him right in. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's clear he's the one, the one against

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Speaker 1: a very disinterested and bad card against opposing running backs. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what's wrong with this picture? Brian Robinson's against the Browns.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Gibson's gonna play. I'd put him into

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Speaker 1: and McCaffrey. We can make McCaffrey the flex where we

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Speaker 1: can just put thecaffrey in and then go Robinson either way. However,

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Speaker 1: we're under budget on every player so far. Um some

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Speaker 1: kind of like Acres too, but I'm not sure the

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Speaker 1: trust factor is great. Let's see I put Robinson and

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Speaker 1: let's see what we like at wide receiver, and then

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Speaker 1: we can either go Acres or McCaffrey at the Flex's

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Speaker 1: a big gap between those two. Obviously you can get

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Speaker 1: you know, like who's the Jefferson embarrassed the Packers in

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Speaker 1: week one. He's superstar, yeah, Tyreek Hill at, Davante Adams

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Speaker 1: und maybe interested in Waddle, Jamar Chase, Stephon digs at

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Speaker 1: it's been quiet. A J. Brown at Aman raw St

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Speaker 1: Brown at Yeah. DeAndre Hopkins is seventy seven hundred, Jalen

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Speaker 1: Waddle seventy hundred. Te Higgins is seventy three hundred. Pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Davante Smith is A J. Brown questionable. Yes, that could

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Speaker 1: Allen has gotten so many targets and pepper, but targets.

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Speaker 1: Metcalf Is st. Chris Goblin hundred, Mike Williams sixty hundred,

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Speaker 1: Tyler Locke at sixty six. Question well, Mike Evans, thank you?

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Speaker 1: Why is he still sixty? Brady's overpriced too. Jerry Judy

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Speaker 1: is six hundred, Brandon Aouk sixty three hundred, Michael Pittman

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Speaker 1: Kirk six thousand, Um, you can get him. Marie Cooper

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Speaker 1: deep o. Samuel coming back a six thousand. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of intriguing. D J Morris fifty seven hundred, juju Is

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Speaker 1: fifty six hundred, Marquise Brown hundred. I forget who you

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Speaker 1: said it was pretty expensive. Higgins was alluring. Didn't get

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Speaker 1: Deante Johnson. He's been over at five catches and like

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Speaker 1: last like it shouldn't bet he's down there because he's

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Speaker 1: not scoring touchdowns, So you think that's going to be

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Speaker 1: a full Sea Like, I don't get it. Pickens is

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Speaker 1: fifty one hundred. By the way, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: much of that game I want, though. You can get

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Speaker 1: Za Jones at five thousand, Drake London at I really

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Speaker 1: like London and Keenan Allen. Those guys have been get

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Speaker 1: like target share lately. London, let's see's see if you'll

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Speaker 1: be cheap he's Keenan Allen is seven thousand. That still

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Speaker 1: leaves us with an average of seventy six hundred to

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Speaker 1: spend on two guys. Who's your favorite out of the

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Speaker 1: studs like McCaffrey, Jefferson. I feel like Jefferson, they're going

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Speaker 1: to have to play the full game because we know

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Speaker 1: all their games are closed, whereas San Francisco could be

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Speaker 1: said to everybody in the second that absolutely could happen.

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Speaker 1: What would what we got left if we plugged Jefferson in?

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Speaker 1: That would leave us then see your favorite of the top.

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Speaker 1: That would leave us with fifty seven hundred to spend.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that gets us acres, but it would

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Speaker 1: go something. It would get us something nicer. Let's see

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Speaker 1: Naji Harris at fifty gives us that whole run of

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Speaker 1: running backs. Naji Harris at fifty seven hundred, JK Dobbins,

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Speaker 1: Devanta Foreman, DJ Moore, Juju Pachecko, Damian Harris, Leonard Fournett

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Speaker 1: at fifty four, night your favorite. I don't hate that

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Speaker 1: he's gonna catch again. He had nine catches last week,

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Speaker 1: all right, along with ninety rushing yards and a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: He's taking four net over Dobbins and Nausey. I think yes,

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Speaker 1: because of the catches. They may have the same, they

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Speaker 1: may have the same ninety total yards, but he's gonna

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Speaker 1: get there a lot differently, and he might get the touchdown,

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Speaker 1: gets touched down, we win. I'm fine with four net. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean his last. Let me just call his game

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Speaker 1: longer his last. I don't think he's good, but it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter since week ten and he missed a game.

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Speaker 1: Two games. Actually, twenty five point two points last week

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Speaker 1: against Arizona, almost all through the air. Uh. He had

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Speaker 1: nine catches for ninety yards on ten targets. The week

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Speaker 1: before that he had four catches for thirty yards, six

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Speaker 1: catches for thirty three yards, six catches for thirty two.

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Speaker 1: He's getting ten points just on what he does through

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Speaker 1: the air because Brady gets out his hands so fast. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and it's to him. Yeah. But prot man, he's too cheap,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's a nice You look at that up.

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Speaker 1: We have a couple of bucks left over, but we

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Speaker 1: got a hundred. There wasn't anything that we were torn on.

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Speaker 1: This guy too expensive, No, I mean you look at Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you get Jared Goff at quarterback at fifty six hundred,

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Speaker 1: Tyler al g Are at fifties three hundred. We just

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Speaker 1: said four net tore them up, right, okay. Uh, Brian

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Speaker 1: Robinson at hundred against that Brown's run defense, yuck. Drake

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Speaker 1: London at dred he's gonna get ten targets. Keenan Allen

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Speaker 1: at seven thousand, he's gonna get ten targets justin the

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Speaker 1: nice thing about Keenan Allen two is he plays in

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Speaker 1: the slot. M hm, he's not seeing Mike Williams is

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Speaker 1: they moved. Yeah, they'll be fine with that. Justin Jefferson

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Speaker 1: at Pat Friar, Muthtred Leonard four hundred and the forty

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Speaker 1: Niners defense. That is a winner. I like it. That

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