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Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, December fourteenth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me your man, MG,

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Speaker 2: Marcus Grant with my guy Michael f. Florio. We are

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Speaker 2: previewing the rest of the week fifteen slate and we're

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Speaker 2: giving you our fantasy heroes. But first we're serving up

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Speaker 2: some hot takes. This is where we get a little

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Speaker 2: bit spicy. What is your hot take for the week?

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Speaker 3: Well, going back to that Lions game and how we

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Speaker 3: think they're gonna attack it. I think Dan Campbell's gonna

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Speaker 3: look at it, and I was gonna try to make

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Speaker 3: a Frank Sred hot I put that on everything. I

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Speaker 3: don't know how to make it work. But Gins and

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Speaker 3: Monty twenty plus each, I think, not twenty plus touches,

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Speaker 3: twenty plus fantasy points each. I think they are going

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Speaker 3: to get plenty of volume. They are going to produce

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Speaker 3: in a big way against a team that not only

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Speaker 3: is allowed the most fantasy points to running backs, but

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Speaker 3: they struggle on the ground against them. They struggle against

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Speaker 3: pass catchers, against running backs. Like Marcus said, they've been

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Speaker 3: better against the run, but it is still the weakness

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Speaker 3: of their defense. And if Certan and co. Could limit

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Speaker 3: how golf is able to throw the ball, it probably

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Speaker 3: just means even more running and even more dumb offs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like a lot of gibbs in Montgomery this

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Speaker 2: week for Detroit. On my side, this is crazy, super spicy.

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Speaker 2: Easton Stick, he of the twenty five career passing attempts,

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Speaker 2: will throw his first two career touchdowns against the Las

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Speaker 2: Vegas Raiders. That's right, I'm getting crazy here with Easton Stick.

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Speaker 2: I don't know much about this dude. All I know

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Speaker 2: is I put out a picture of an Easton aluminum

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Speaker 2: bat last week, and I got back several pictures of

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Speaker 2: hockey sticks, which tells you that I'm not really a

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Speaker 2: hockey guy. But look, I just have this weird feeling

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Speaker 2: like nobody's really seen a lot of him. There's not

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Speaker 2: a lot of tape out on him. This scouting report

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Speaker 2: is probably five years old on this guy. And what

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Speaker 2: does he have to lose starting this game for the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: Go out there and rip it. Just let it be loose,

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Speaker 2: Just throw the ball around, especially if Keenan Allen is healthy.

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Speaker 2: Get all your playmakers involved, and it just it feels

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Speaker 2: like one of those games where my Raider fan friends

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Speaker 2: are gonna be texting me like, who the f is

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Speaker 2: this guy? How are we losing the Eastern Stick. I

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Speaker 2: see Josh over there already putting his hands out because

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Speaker 2: he is a Raider fan in the room, knows exactly

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Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. He's nodding his head in agreement.

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Speaker 2: It just has that feel of I can't believe we

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Speaker 2: lost to Easton Stick.

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Speaker 3: Is Easton Stick the best starting quarterback in that game? Ooh?

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Speaker 2: We'll find out a fifteen pm Eastern on Prime Video.

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Speaker 2: Check it out. We'll find out for sure who reigns

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Speaker 2: supreme between Easton Stick and Aidan O'Connell. Diving into the

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Speaker 2: Sunday games here in week fifteen is the fantasy playoffs

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Speaker 2: start across most leagues, Jets and the Dolphins. Jalen Wattle,

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Speaker 2: Raheem Moster, Davon a Chan. Are you nervous about them

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Speaker 2: against this Jets defense?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, very, but I still think you probably like Rahie,

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Speaker 3: Moster is a must start option. He had the two touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: I believe it was the last time they played the Jets.

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Speaker 3: I know he scored it was like five fantasy points

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Speaker 3: halfway through the fourth quarter he had and then he

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Speaker 3: finished with over twenty. Tyreek Hill is obviously as must

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Speaker 3: start as you can ever get. Jalen Wattle I had

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Speaker 3: as a sit the last time they played the Jets,

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Speaker 3: and he went for over one hundred yards. Though a

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Speaker 3: Chan brings too much upside, you'd have to have a

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Speaker 3: really good option, I think to get away from one

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Speaker 3: of yours Dolphins skill position players. Tua is probably the

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Speaker 3: one that's easiest to get away from.

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Speaker 2: I feel better about starting my running backs for Miami

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Speaker 2: than I would my pass catchers here because, as we

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Speaker 2: just talked about, no, Tyreek Hill makes this a completely

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Speaker 2: different passing game, and if he can't go or is limited,

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Speaker 2: that is going to impact what Miami does. But the

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Speaker 2: Jets have been a little bit softer against the so

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Speaker 2: I think where he Moster's still very much in play.

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Speaker 2: Dvon a Chan also still in play. So those guys

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Speaker 2: I feel really really good about. So much of what

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Speaker 2: happens with Tua or Jalen Waddle depends on what happens

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Speaker 2: with Tyreek Hill. It's Hyreek as a go then I

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Speaker 2: feel I think you feel better about those guys. But

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Speaker 2: understanding you know, hey, you might get sauce and that's

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Speaker 2: not gonna be great for your fantasy production. This week

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Speaker 2: Giants at the Saints, which when I type these two

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Speaker 2: whole thing anyway, that's just my own little weirdness. Tommy

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Speaker 2: F Cutlets, is he a streaming option this week against

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Speaker 3: Uh? Deeper? Yeah? Like the Saints there, They're an okay matchup.

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Speaker 3: They don't scare me off of it or anything like that.

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Speaker 3: Crazy stat Since week ten, Tommy Cutlets and Patrick Mahomes

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Speaker 3: have the same amount of Fantasy points score. I don't

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Speaker 3: know what's going on there, but de veto this. I

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Speaker 3: don't know. The Saints aren't the best matchup, but he

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Speaker 3: does have favorable matchups moving forward. So if he continues

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Speaker 3: to play well, then I think we could be talking

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Speaker 3: about him as someone you could trust next week. Potentially.

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Speaker 3: He's also running more like he was their leading rusher

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Speaker 3: last week. That is not getting talked about enough because

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Speaker 3: it is huge for fantasy purposes.

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Speaker 2: It really is huge for fantasy purposes. I don't know

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Speaker 2: that I have the guts to stream Tommy DeVito this week.

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Speaker 2: He's a nice story. At some point, I feel like

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Speaker 2: the ceiling's gonna come crashing down. I mean, this is

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Speaker 2: a guy who didn't have a great college profile, went undrafted.

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Speaker 2: It took injuries to Daniel Jones and Tyrod Taylor to

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Speaker 2: even get him on the field. We didn't know what

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Speaker 2: to expect. He played really great, right, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: take that away from him. I think at some point, though,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna see defensive coordinator's gonna really dig into the

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Speaker 2: tape now that they got a little more film on

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Speaker 2: him and try to figure out where his strengths and

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Speaker 2: weaknesses are. This is not a week that I would

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Speaker 2: want to trust my fantasy playoff life to Tommy DeVito,

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Speaker 2: so I would stay away from him unless you're really

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Speaker 2: really hurting at the position, which look, I've got some

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Speaker 2: teams that are pretty bad. Admittedly those teams aren't in

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Speaker 2: the playoffs, so this is not really an issue for

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Speaker 2: me on those rosters.

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Speaker 3: He gets the Eagles next week. Zach Wilson gainst the Commanders,

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Speaker 3: there's a super flex there's a world where in super

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Speaker 3: flex leagues you're playing.

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Speaker 2: That would be amazing if somebody out there, We'll try

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Speaker 2: to revisit this next week. But if you are out

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Speaker 2: there in a super flex league and you make it

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Speaker 2: to week sixteen, like I want to see somebody's Wilson

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Speaker 2: de Veto lineup, I just do. I got to see it.

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Speaker 2: Texans at the Titans still waiting to see what CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud's availability is going to be as he is in

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Speaker 2: concussion protocol. But how are you navigating this Texans offense

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Speaker 3: I want to wash my hands cleans of this backfield

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Speaker 3: all together, whether Shout plays or not. Last week with Singletary,

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Speaker 3: the week before was Pierce, the week before was Singletary.

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Speaker 3: It could just be a week to week matchup thing

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Speaker 3: how the coaches view it, and we won't know until

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Speaker 3: the game is being played which one is going to

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Speaker 3: get the heavier share, So I want to avoid that.

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Speaker 3: I think if Stroud sits, you get away from your

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Speaker 3: Texans this like Nico Collins is very much so in doubt.

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Speaker 3: We know there's no Tank Dell, so Noah Brown is

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Speaker 3: the top pass catching option here, but without c J. Stroud,

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Speaker 3: I cannot trust him in a fantasy playoff game. Dalton

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Speaker 3: he suits up, because the bar for fantasy tight ends

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Speaker 3: we talk about it all the time, is much lower.

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Speaker 3: If Stroud plays, then I think we could entertain the

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Speaker 3: idea of like getting Noah Brown into your lineup.

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Speaker 2: If Stroud plays, it's Dalton Schultz, it's Noah Brown. And

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Speaker 2: that's kind of it. As much as I love Robert Woods,

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Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm really gonna mess around with

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Speaker 2: Bobby Trees in a playoff situation. He just has not

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Speaker 2: shown an ability to get a lot of the targets

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Speaker 2: so far this year. If there is no CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 2: I'm with you, I'm sort of out on everybody. Maybe

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Speaker 2: I can make a case for Dalton Schultz, But that's

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Speaker 2: really it kind of thing where if this were say

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Speaker 2: Week seven or eight, I would try throwing Noah Brown

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Speaker 2: just wants to take some shots down the field in

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Speaker 2: Week fifteen and knowing this is a gotta have it

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Speaker 2: week for me in fantasy, I don't want to mess

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Speaker 2: around with something like that at all.

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Speaker 3: And that is how your lineup decision making change should

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Speaker 3: change in the fantasy playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean this is it is. It's different

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Speaker 2: between week seven it's mid October versus mid December. That

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Speaker 2: changes a lot of how you're gonna go and put

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Speaker 2: your lineups together. Chiefs at the Patriots. Once upon a time,

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Speaker 2: you know a handful of years ago, this was a

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Speaker 2: marquee game. It would have been Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady.

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Speaker 2: It would have been like a Sunday night football game.

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Speaker 2: And now it's just like a you know, midday Sunday game.

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Speaker 2: But Ezekiel Elliott looked really good last week, getting all

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Speaker 2: of the attempts in the backfield for the Patriots, at

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Speaker 2: least most of them. Does he have that in store

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Speaker 2: four week for the second week in a row. I

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Speaker 2: guess I should say to your point, I think I

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Speaker 2: think it was James Palmer.

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Speaker 3: I could be wrong. I'm sorry if I am who

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Speaker 3: tweeted that this is the first time these two teams

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Speaker 3: where Tom Brady towres.

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Speaker 2: I saw that in the research packet as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, which is insane, like that was in two thousand

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Speaker 3: and eight. But yeah, Ezekiel Elliott, look he's not going

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Speaker 3: to give you what he gave you last week. I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't count on it at least, but he's a mustard option.

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Speaker 3: I think if you blindfolded, what was that movie with

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Speaker 3: Sandra Bullock bird Box? Yeah, if you had a bird

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Speaker 3: box yourself right now, and I told you twenty seven

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Speaker 3: fantasy points ninety one percent of the snaps twenty two

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Speaker 3: carries eight targets, you'd be like, yeah, that's Christian McCaffrey. No, no, No,

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Speaker 3: that was Ezekiel Elliott stat line last week. And what

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Speaker 3: I love is we know that when they're ahead, he

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Speaker 3: is going to get the ball plenty, and he's going

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Speaker 3: to get the ball near the goal line, and when

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Speaker 3: they are trailing, he is still going to remain a

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Speaker 3: part of the pass attack. So I think Zeke volume alone,

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Speaker 3: you have to start him.

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Speaker 2: That game that Zeke had last week, that's more points

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Speaker 2: than Tony Pollard has scored in a single game so

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Speaker 2: far this season.

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Speaker 3: That makes me sad.

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Speaker 2: That is like Ezekiel Elliott has a higher high score

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Speaker 2: than Tony Poller does in twenty twenty three. Look, as

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Speaker 2: long as there's no ramondre Stevenson, it's all go for

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Speaker 2: Zeke because he's getting so much of the volume. The

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Speaker 2: Patriots struggle in the passing game so badly, whether it's

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Speaker 2: Mac Jones, Bailey's Appy, they just don't have any real

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Speaker 2: pass catchers that threaten you even in a bad matchup

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Speaker 2: on paper. I'm gonna trust the volume here, So that's

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Speaker 2: gonna give me enough confidence to start Ezekiel Elliott at

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Speaker 3: I think Lockett for sure is in play last week

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Speaker 2: That right there is exactly the reason I can't trust

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Speaker 3: This one's a little spicy, I think, But give me

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Speaker 3: I know three down weeks people out there are thinking

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Speaker 2: No. I absolutely like him this week, and I think

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