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Speaker 1: The most valuable commodity I know of this information.

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you agree? Would you agree one of five dollars?

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Speaker 3: This is a road up having a tackle chip one.

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Speaker 2: You're saying that humans need fantasy to make life bearable.

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Speaker 2: Humans need fantasy to be human.

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Speaker 3: My goodness, that's good.

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Speaker 2: You guys are prone, bests, relentless, refusing to give up.

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Speaker 3: All right, hit that horn, burbless there.

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Speaker 2: Hello, and welcome to the Fantasy Flex Podcast. I am

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Speaker 2: your host, Samantha BRAVITTI and I am joined as always.

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Speaker 2: If I do want to know me Mike Triplet, longtime

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Speaker 2: Saints feet reporter who you can find on the Twitter

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Speaker 2: machine at Mike Triplet. Mike, Oh my goodness, well what

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Speaker 2: a whirldwins the NFC syle comes to an unceremonious close

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Speaker 2: because my Carolina Panthers could not hold off the I

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Speaker 1: So the Saints win was sort of in.

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Speaker 3: Vain today everything about the end of South was nuts.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how many Mike Evans managers who missed the

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Speaker 3: playoffs because of Mike Evans. Not to mention Dj Moore managers,

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Speaker 3: but Mike Evans managers. They've got to they've got to

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Speaker 3: be just beside themselves. He did that. He did that

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Speaker 3: after helping nobody for like the last eight weeks.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I know, it's absolute pain, I have to tell you.

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Speaker 2: So I know no one cares about my fantasy team,

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Speaker 2: and we're recording this at Sunday night that I believe

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Speaker 2: the Steelers and Raymonds are still going right now.

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Speaker 1: Would an awesome game there.

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Speaker 2: But I have been on an emotional roller coaster all

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Speaker 2: day because early on I just took this crazy, crazy

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Speaker 1: He was already congratulating me in the group trap.

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Speaker 2: But I feel like he jinxed me because then I

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Speaker 2: So I just like I'm now recouping. I'm still projected

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Speaker 1: Going on Monday night. So it's I hate being on

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Speaker 2: So what I think I'm gonna do is like an

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, it's it's it's one of those things that

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Speaker 3: You said you said it was the week of the

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Speaker 3: backup quarterback. It was the week of the third string quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Skyler Thompson absolutely could start next week. Sam Ellinger absolutely

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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of that Titans game, I mean, am I crazy

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Speaker 2: you know, Treylon Burks and Bobert Woods ended up having

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Speaker 2: They did eck out that win over the Raiders. Since

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Speaker 2: So if you need a guy, he would be the

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Speaker 3: And the forty nine ers I don't want to. I'm

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Speaker 2: two pick up here. We talked about Jarrett Stidham. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, how can you not consider Stidham. Sam

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Speaker 1: Definitely.

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Speaker 2: In terms of the running back position, I didn't find

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Speaker 3: We've mentioned Kenneth Gainwell a number of times. He didn't

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Speaker 1: They are one name. One name.

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Speaker 2: I feel like one of those could at least sneak

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Speaker 2: Jacoby Myers was injured in that game. In Thornton copp Oh,

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Speaker 2: it's good point three of seven targets for sixty yards

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Speaker 2: it's not the best matchup there. But talk to us

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, a Taykwan Thornton could be a

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Speaker 1: For what I was just saying, definitely for dynasty.

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Speaker 3: Well, Rashi yahid fits all all that mold and more.

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Speaker 3: And luckily I did bring him up so I don't

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Speaker 3: Now they're going to spend all next year developing him

436
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Speaker 3: as a receiver. Absolutely a guy to sneak on to

437
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Speaker 3: your dynasty roster if nobody was paying attention in deeper

438
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Speaker 3: dynasty leagues. And we mentioned Traylon Burks for that reason,

439
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Speaker 3: I think I would trust him a little more than

440
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Speaker 3: Robert Woods because of the upside. It's so hard to

441
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Speaker 3: trust anyone in that Titans offense at all, but having

442
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Speaker 3: a quarterback they can get to the receivers makes Traylon

443
00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 3: Burks interesting again. On the flip side, though, I like

444
00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 3: Isaiah Hodgins a little more than Richie James. They both

445
00:21:57,920 --> 00:22:02,760
Speaker 3: came through this week. But the Giants actually, I think

446
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,119
Speaker 3: don't have to try next week. Now. I don't know

447
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,440
Speaker 3: that you rest Richie James or Isaiah Hodgens or Darius Layton,

448
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,440
Speaker 3: but I think they're locked into the sixth seed in

449
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,080
Speaker 3: the NFC if I'm doing my math right, So ironically enough,

450
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,680
Speaker 3: they could be resting their starters in a must win

451
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Speaker 3: game for the Eagles.

452
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Speaker 2: That is pretty hilarious. Though I feel like they'll probably

453
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Speaker 2: still try to stay competitive because it's like intra divisional

454
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Speaker 2: and whatever. But yeah, in terms of Rashid Shahid, I

455
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 2: mean Week eighteen matchup versus the Panthers at home. Panthers

456
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 2: ranked twenty sixth in past cvo I have allowed the

457
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,440
Speaker 2: eighth most Fantasy points two wide receivers this year, and

458
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Speaker 2: Jase Horn is hurt, so it's almost worse than the

459
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Speaker 2: numbers even suggest, So I think that that'll be a

460
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Speaker 2: really good matchup for Shaheed and in Alave to that point,

461
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Speaker 2: any of the other guys. I mean, there's definitely a

462
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Speaker 2: number guys that did go off this week, like Shy Smith.

463
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Speaker 2: That feels like probably more of a flash in the

464
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Speaker 2: pan type thing. Van Jefferson is probably the wide receiver

465
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Speaker 2: one for the Rams, but that is not an attractive

466
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Speaker 2: sort of situation. We got a Cadarius Tony sighting this week,

467
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Speaker 2: so that's cool. A t Y Hilton sighting, that's that's

468
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Speaker 2: also exciting. None of those guys, though, am I Mia,

469
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Speaker 2: am I excited about versus you know, any of the

470
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Speaker 2: other guys we mentioned.

471
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Speaker 3: So I did not even put any of them on

472
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Speaker 3: my list at all, except for you know, kJ Osbourne

473
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Speaker 3: has snuck on here enough times and he's done it

474
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Speaker 3: now out the last three weeks. I think that that

475
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Speaker 3: if you're if you're trying to decide who who to

476
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Speaker 3: believe of this week's stat lines, I believe him slightly

477
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Speaker 3: more than the others.

478
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 2: Fair enough, all right, onto everyone's favorite position at the

479
00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 2: tight end position. Uh. We've got a lot of stuff

480
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Speaker 2: going on with the Saints. Taysom Hill fourteen rushes for

481
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Speaker 2: forty six yards in a touchdown, caught a pass, finally

482
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 2: caught a pass for nine yards, and completed two passes

483
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 2: for twenty four yards. He's fifty three percent rostered. His

484
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,200
Speaker 2: rostership actually went down week over week. Which I think

485
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 2: is interesting. But Juan Johnson also involved, caught five of

486
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,439
Speaker 2: a team high seven targets for sixty two yards, And

487
00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 2: like I said, they faced that weak Panthers defense that

488
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 2: have allowed just a ton of points to pass catchers.

489
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Speaker 1: And they're even worse. You know, they're made a lot

490
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Speaker 1: worse by not having j. C. Horn.

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Speaker 2: That's a big loss for them. So in terms of

492
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 2: other guys, I like Trey McBride of the Cardinals. Obviously,

493
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 2: zach Ertz has been out for a long time now.

494
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,919
Speaker 2: He cast seven of ten targets for seventy eight yards

495
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Speaker 2: in a touchdown in the cardinals twenty to nineteen heartbreaking

496
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Speaker 2: loss to the Falcons. Not that that game mattered much,

497
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Speaker 2: but I like, I mean, I get invested in close games,

498
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 2: of course, but he led the team in targets, tied

499
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Speaker 2: with Greg George. There was no DeAndre Hopkins for this game.

500
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Speaker 2: I don't see necessarily a reason that they would force

501
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Speaker 2: DeAndre Hopkins out for Week eighteen against the forty nine ers,

502
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Speaker 2: who rink fifth in past. THEVOA have allowed the fifth

503
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Speaker 2: views fantasy points to tight ends this year, but he

504
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 2: does fall into that category. Like you said, of guys,

505
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 2: to keep on our radar for maybe twenty twenty three

506
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 2: and Dynasty or Keeper formats. Albert okuwebanam, Greg Dulcich is

507
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Speaker 2: on IR and now finally albert O comes back. We

508
00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 2: talked about him for a while at the beginning of

509
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Speaker 2: the season because he was just a hot name. He

510
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Speaker 2: was drafted as a borderline top twelve tight ends, so

511
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Speaker 2: I think it is kind of crazy that he just

512
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 2: like faded into obscurity for a really long time. Now

513
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,240
Speaker 2: he's back, caught three or six targets for forty five

514
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 2: yards in touchdown. I mean, Russ looked better in that game.

515
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Speaker 2: So who knows what we're going to get what version

516
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Speaker 2: of Russ we're going to get in Week eighteen against

517
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:40,080
Speaker 2: the Chargers. But Alberto definitely another name that he's still

518
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,200
Speaker 2: young and to keep an eye on for Dynasty formats.

519
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 2: Don't know if I mean, it seems like Greg Dulcic

520
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,399
Speaker 2: would have would have a handle on that job, but

521
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 2: never know, with like young tight ends, anything could change.

522
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 2: It kind of feels like they need a few years

523
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,200
Speaker 2: to get like acclimated to the league, so certainly could

524
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Speaker 2: still be a star in the making. And then the

525
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,719
Speaker 2: last name that I will mention who I believe it was.

526
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Speaker 2: Sean kerner On convinced me this morning who advocated for

527
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Speaker 2: Tyler Conkland. So good call there, because everyone just looks

528
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 2: better with Mike White Conklin. Yeah, Conklin caught six of

529
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 2: six targets for eighty yards. You get the Dolphins next week,

530
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,679
Speaker 2: who ranked twenty fifth in past DVUA have allowed the

531
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Speaker 2: third most fantasy points two tight ends, So Tyler Conklin

532
00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 2: would definitely be on my list if I am tightened me.

533
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,800
Speaker 2: So tell us of these guys who you like, and

534
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 2: talk to us about these Saints guys.

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I have here in my notes.

536
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Speaker 3: Make sure and t Samantha up on Albert Oh in

537
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Speaker 3: case you didn't bring him up on your own, because

538
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Speaker 3: I think it was our first show together when when

539
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 3: you said you spent the off season learning how to

540
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Speaker 3: pronounce his last name, you finally had an opportunity.

541
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Speaker 1: Yeah, any exactly. I just had to flex that right here,

542
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Speaker 1: So it's very important.

543
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

544
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Speaker 3: I like Conkland too. I like how you wrote that

545
00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 3: everyone looks better with Mike White, even Ty Johnson. We

546
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 3: maybe we should have mentioned him with the running backs

547
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 3: pass catching running back the running backs patches.

548
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,439
Speaker 2: In New York when Mike White is when Mike and

549
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 2: Good call on Zonovan I or Bam Knight whatever he

550
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 2: goes by. Because you did say that he was a

551
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 2: flash in the pan type guy last week and he

552
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 2: did disappoint this week.

553
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean it's so tough for him splitting

554
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,479
Speaker 3: time with with Michael Carter. Army hasn't helped either one

555
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,679
Speaker 3: of them, frankly for fantasy too much. But yeah, I'll

556
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 3: keep talking about the Saint Saens. Well, the reason Taysom

557
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 3: Hill was dropped in so many leagues is because everybody

558
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 3: probably picked him up when they went to play in

559
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 3: you know, the Ice Bowl in Cleveland last week, when

560
00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 3: all of us thought Taysom Hill was gonna get twenty

561
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 3: five carries and that's all they were going to do

562
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,239
Speaker 3: was maybe even start him at quarterback and play him

563
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 3: the whole game, And shockingly, the Saints didn't, and they

564
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,360
Speaker 3: had to spend the entire week answering questions about why

565
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,240
Speaker 3: did you not use Taysom Hill more in that game?

566
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 3: Because when they finally did, they ended up winning because

567
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 3: of it. Well, this week, they you know, they figured

568
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 3: it out Taysom Hill in this game, even though it

569
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 3: was beautiful weather, started with I think four carries on

570
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,600
Speaker 3: the opening drive finished the game out for them when

571
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 3: they were protecting a lead. Tied his career high with

572
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 3: fourteen carries. It took all season, but the Saint Ship

573
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 3: finally figured out more Taysoum is a smart running Now.

574
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 3: Look the thing with him every week is true, they

575
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 3: have to the game script has to allow for fourteen

576
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 3: Taysom Hill carries, but maybe against Carolina it will. Juwan

577
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 3: Johnson we also said, look, he's the same Juwan Johnson

578
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 3: you liked two weeks ago. Ignore what happened in Cleveland

579
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 3: because they weren't throwing the ball in that game. He

580
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 3: comes back and he gets was it five catches on

581
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 3: seven targets today? And the only problem with him now

582
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 3: two weeks in a row. He has some pretty ugly

583
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 3: drops and missed opportunities, but he's earned a lot of

584
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 3: trust and that's not going to take him off the field.

585
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 3: One other name I do want to add, though, speaking

586
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 3: of people who came back to life. If Josh Dobbs

587
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 3: is a quarterback and the passing offense is back in

588
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,000
Speaker 3: ten see, then Chigo con quote is back as a

589
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 3: young tight end that I really like. He was doing

590
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 3: great things until Ryan Dannehill got hurt.

591
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 2: Definitely a name that we should have on our radar

592
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 2: for longer term purposes too. But yes, the tight end

593
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 2: position has been quite the headache this year. I've been

594
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 2: calling it this game of Russian roulette every single week

595
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 2: that if you don't have Travis Kelce it's been tough.

596
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 2: I got the question, I kid you not of should

597
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 2: I start Shane Zilstra.

598
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: Or Mark Andrews this week?

599
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,880
Speaker 2: So I mean, obviously I went a certain way, but

600
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 2: you have to understand that that is where the tight

601
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 2: end position is this season. And look it's not Zilstra

602
00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 2: this week, it's Brock right. So, like I said, I

603
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,040
Speaker 2: was just earlier on the radio talking about the tight

604
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,959
Speaker 2: end position and someone said, yeah, we should just do

605
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 2: like a tight end by committee thing, and I was like,

606
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 2: that's kind of genius, because you know, at least for

607
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 2: the for the Lions situation, that would have been advantageous

608
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 2: for two weeks in a row.

609
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 3: But earlier twenty three prediction, what is Travis Kelsey's average

610
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 3: draft position in twenty twenty three? Will people forget will

611
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 3: people forget and go back to thinking he's old and fair.

612
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so.

613
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 2: I think people are gonna remember how painful it was

614
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 2: to set lineups every single week.

615
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Speaker 1: So, uh, I think I'm gonna go with nine and

616
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Speaker 1: a half.

617
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Speaker 3: I'll take I'll take the under. We remember this. Interesting.

618
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,600
Speaker 3: We're going to Kelsey next year.

619
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Speaker 1: Nice? Nice, Well, I believe before.

620
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Speaker 3: No one trusts Mark Andrews or Kyle Pittser's like no

621
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Speaker 3: one to like everyone who wants to take a tight

622
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 3: end early, he's gonna he's the only one.

623
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: No, totally.

624
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 2: There's really no clear too at this point, at least

625
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 2: there was this like I was just was talking about

626
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 2: this like there was no tier of like it always

627
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 2: felt like it was Travis Kelcey.

628
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Speaker 1: But then like a group of guys and there was

629
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Speaker 1: no one.

630
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Speaker 2: I mean, Kyle Pitt's obviously injured, but then Darren Waller

631
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 2: was injured for a lot of a lot of the

632
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Speaker 2: season as well.

633
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Speaker 1: It's just it's it's been brutal.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe you are right there, but that will

635
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Speaker 2: do it for this week's episode of The Fantasy Fox

636
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Speaker 2: Witch is our last episode of the year.

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Speaker 1: Of the season.

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Speaker 2: Rather, I want to thank all of our loyal listeners

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Speaker 2: out there. Hopefully you guys enjoyed the episodes and hopefully

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Speaker 2: we helped you with your fantasy dilemmas and maybe we

641
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Speaker 2: will be back sometime soon. Mike, please remind everyone one

642
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Speaker 2: last time where they can find your work.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you can find my Saints coverage at New Orleans

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Speaker 2: We'll definitely give him a follow there. Thank you to

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Speaker 2: everyone for joining once again. Happy New Year, and fingers

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