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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Monday, December fourth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me and

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Speaker 1: your man MG Marcus Grant joined by Michael f Florio.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on the show today, we got the latest

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Speaker 1: news from a week full of injuries. What do you

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Speaker 1: do if you lost Tank Dell or Ramandre Stevenson. We'll

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Speaker 1: let you know. Plus we're also breaking down some of

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Speaker 1: the top performers and biggest disappointments of the week. It

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Speaker 1: is the end of week thirteen. We've got Monday night

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Speaker 1: until to come. But man, we got a busy, busy

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Speaker 1: show today. I know we like to chit chat and

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Speaker 1: have pleasantries, but let's just dive into it because we

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Speaker 1: got biggest takeaways from the week. We got top performers

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Speaker 1: and disappointments. But we will start as we always do

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Speaker 1: with our fantasy headlines. And another week and another big

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Speaker 1: unfortunate injury. This time it's rookie wide receiver Tank Dell

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Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans. He suffered a fractured fibula in

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Speaker 1: Houston's win over the Denver Broncos. Nico Collins went out

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Speaker 1: had a huge day without Dell, there. Look, there's no

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Speaker 1: chance you're going to find Collins on your waiver wire.

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Speaker 1: If you do, can I get an invite to your league?

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Speaker 1: So the question becomes, do we pivot to Robert Woods,

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Speaker 1: is there another Texans receiver? Or do we just look

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Speaker 1: outside of Houston altogether for help.

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Speaker 2: I think the best answer is probably outside of Houston.

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Speaker 2: But to me, Noah Brown is the one that I

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Speaker 2: am most interested in. He I know he gave you

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Speaker 2: zero Fantasy points, so did Robert Woods this past week.

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Speaker 2: But Brown had more routes, he played more snaps than

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Speaker 2: Robert Woods. It was also John Metchi three targets, but

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Speaker 2: he was splitting as that third wide receiver there with

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Speaker 2: Robert Woods. So he's a deeper name as is Robert Woods.

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Speaker 2: But if I'm picking up anyone here, it's Noah Brown.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the round probably is the answer here.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted, for old time sakes to bring Bobby

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Speaker 1: Trees back into our lives, but I know Brown is

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Speaker 1: going to be the answer there. More than likely you

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Speaker 1: may have to mix and match for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the season because you're not going to find anybody who

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Speaker 1: was giving you Tank Dell's level of production. So an

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Speaker 1: unfortunate injury at a key time, but for both fantasy

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Speaker 1: and for the Houston Texans, who are still very much

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Speaker 1: in the mix for a playoff spot, especially with their

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Speaker 1: win over the Broncos, so wish him a speedy recovery.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully he's back out there on the field next year.

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Speaker 1: For the rest of us, it is time to adapt

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Speaker 1: and try to move forward into the rest of the season.

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Speaker 2: Not to get far into it, but Tank is my

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Speaker 2: size and I say that all the time. Maybe don't

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Speaker 2: make him a lead blocker on a goal line cap

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Speaker 2: that's you know, like.

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Speaker 1: You don't have your small wide receiver in the scrum

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Speaker 1: where a lot of big bodies are falling to the ground.

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Speaker 2: It would not go well for me.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you that just a thought. Derek Carr has

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Speaker 1: to leave. The loss for the Saints and their loss

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Speaker 1: to the Lions, I should say another week where Carr

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Speaker 1: just got beat up physically, maybe even emotionally too. The

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Speaker 1: Saints fans teams have had enough of Derek Carr. He's

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Speaker 1: in concussion protocol shoulder and back injuries after taking a

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Speaker 1: wicked hit from Bruce Irvin, and we'll see whether or

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Speaker 1: not he's able to return. Jameis Winston came in and

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Speaker 1: finished the game for New Orleans.

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Speaker 3: You look at their.

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Speaker 1: Schedule in the Fantasy playoffs and it's not a terrible one.

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Speaker 1: I know that nobody was really excited about playing Derek

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Speaker 1: Carr in fantasy. They've got the Giants, the Rams, and

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Speaker 1: the Bucks in the Fantasy playoffs. Would you consider at

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Speaker 1: some point maybe streaming Jameis Winston.

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Speaker 2: Schedule is good, like you said, and I am a

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Speaker 2: huge Jamis stan I was clamoring for him to get

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Speaker 2: on the field, but look, I never want to see injury,

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Speaker 2: but I really wanted to see Jameis Winston play. That

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Speaker 2: being said, I think Jamis is better for the Sames

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Speaker 2: pass catchers than his own fantasy profile, Like he's gonna

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Speaker 2: throw those deep yolo balls to chrys Olave to Rashid

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Speaker 2: Shaheed when he's active or at Perry. I think that

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Speaker 2: it just means more downfield targets, higher percentage of putting

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Speaker 2: I can run a whole bunch. I would have to

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Speaker 1: Yesterday for me kind of felt like a monkey's past

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Speaker 1: So I'm sort of with you. I mean, part of

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Speaker 1: me is like that would be fun to roll with Jamis,

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Speaker 1: say in week seventeen or something like that. It's also

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Speaker 1: But as you mentioned, I do like it for Olave,

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Speaker 1: I do like it for Shaheed. I mean, he threw

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Speaker 1: that weird cross field touchdown pass to at Perry a

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Speaker 1: we want from Jamis Weston, which, by the way, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you saw. I think Michael Thomas he

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Speaker 1: deleted his account or at least make it privy. Really,

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Speaker 1: he was tweeting a lot of things during the game

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Speaker 1: in the Saints offense. And I don't know that can't

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Speaker 1: guard Mike exists in the Twitter's.

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Speaker 2: Field, just can't guard Mike, And it did not come

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he shut it down because he tweeted

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Speaker 1: some things that probably should have been left in the

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Speaker 1: drafts and Twitter saw them and the next thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: can't guard Mike no longer exists on the social media platform.

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Speaker 1: So all right, Moving over to Pittsburgh, Mike Tomlin confirms

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Speaker 1: can He Pickett underwent ankle surgery on Monday morning. He

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Speaker 1: suffered that injury on Sunday in the loss to the Cardinals.

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Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport says, the hope for the team is that

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Speaker 1: they don't have to put Pickett on IR, that he

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Speaker 1: is back for Week eighteen. In the meantime, it's Mitchell Palooza.

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Speaker 1: Trubisky is back in our lives. So how much do

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Speaker 1: we downgrade guys like Deontay Johnson, George Pickens. I guess

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Speaker 1: even Pat Fryarmouth now that truth Biscuit is starting.

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Speaker 2: I don't think you have to downgrade them a whole

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Speaker 2: bunch because we were already downgrading them with Kenny Pickett

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Speaker 2: like this, this is worse for the Pittsburgh Steelers, But

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Speaker 2: how much worse could it get?

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Speaker 1: Like?

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Speaker 2: Right, I mean, yeah, they had that one game where

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Speaker 2: they topped four hundred yards and scored sixteen points. Great,

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Speaker 2: this week they were losing down multiple scores before Kenny

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Speaker 2: Pickett got hurt. But I did go through the game

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Speaker 2: book and pull up how much Mitchell Trubisky targeted everyone.

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Speaker 2: Deontay Johnson three targets, Friar Mood three targets, now she

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Speaker 2: Harris three targets, Alan Robinson three targets, Picket won, Warren one,

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Speaker 2: them ball out and terrible for everyone. That is a

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Speaker 1: I here's the difference, or I guess lack of difference

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Speaker 1: is that they're really I don't think is a huge

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Speaker 1: drop off from Kenny Pickett to Mitch Trubisky, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: and shoulders better than Mitch Trubisky. So maybe there really

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Speaker 1: isn't much of a drop off. But as you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: if if Trubisky's gonna spread the ball around like that,

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Speaker 1: then it's gonna be a really tough jow to try

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Speaker 1: to figure anybody out. I think you're still starting Deonta.

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Speaker 1: I think you're still starting Pickings. You're definitely starting Friarmouth

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Speaker 2: Now would you start him this week? On a short week?

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Speaker 2: They might not even get to practice much with Trubisky?

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Speaker 2: And then this is a game where the team the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like the Chargers, man, I think I would still

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Speaker 1: start them. I think some of it is some of

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know that it was all the

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Speaker 3: So I still think I roll with them. Just understanding

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Speaker 3: the ceilings lower for all of those guys.

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Speaker 1: One quick note about Derrick Henry. Actually, yeah, what going

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Speaker 1: Mike Rabel came out on Monday morning and said that

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Speaker 1: Henry is not in the concussion protocol that he had

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Speaker 1: to work out. He felt fine. They will monitor him

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Speaker 1: through the week. The Titans play on Monday night. By

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Speaker 1: for Henry to get healthy. We will monitor that and

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Speaker 1: Patriots and the Steelers on Thursday Night Football and some

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Speaker 1: worrying news for the Patriots. Rom Andre Stevenson left the

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Speaker 1: just run the wildcat to Romandre Stevenson, just feed him touches,

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Speaker 1: asking for Romadre Stevenson to the ball. We've been saying

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Speaker 1: it's Stevenson seasons and for a while now does this

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Speaker 1: mean it's Zeke season. I'm trying to figure out a

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Speaker 1: cleper way to work that in, but I couldn't.

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Speaker 2: I think it is like in this game alone, Zeke

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Speaker 2: played over seventy percent of the snap, seventeen carries, five targets.

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Speaker 2: Like that sort of volume I think keeps him in play.

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Speaker 2: The Steelers have him been great against the running backs,

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Speaker 2: and again I worry about how many I don't worry.

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Speaker 2: I don't think the Steelers are going to like light

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Speaker 2: up the scoreboards. So it'll be a game where Zeke

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Speaker 2: could either get carries and if they're trailing, they'll just

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Speaker 2: dump the ball off to him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I think he's in play this week because of volume.

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Speaker 1: I think volume is sort of the key, and I

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Speaker 1: keep trying to sort of shoehorn him into some lineups.

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Speaker 1: I mean, in some deeper leagues that I'm in, I

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Speaker 1: keep trying to shoehorn him in and it's never great.

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Speaker 1: And I think I realized that early in the season

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Speaker 1: when they played the Cowboys and they didn't load him

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Speaker 1: up with touches then, like in a revenge game situation,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna load up Zeke. That let me know

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Speaker 1: that it's not gonna happen for him.

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Speaker 2: They're so lucky in the league this week because of byes.

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Speaker 2: I needed to I have Ramandre and I just needed

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Speaker 2: another flex so I threw in Zeke and it kind

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Speaker 2: of worked out because it's better than just taking the

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Speaker 2: two points.

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Speaker 1: That Stevenson's right exactly, So keep an eye on that.

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Speaker 1: We'll find out a little bit more obviously as the

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Speaker 1: coming up on the NFL Fantasy Football Show. Top performers

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Speaker 1: I think Florio's mentions are still hearing about that. One

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Speaker 1: We talked about Tank Dell and his unfortunate season ending injury,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's just so high right now. The

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Speaker 1: finds the end zone. He's getting targets, he's catching the football,

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Speaker 1: and chances are if you drafted him, you were able

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Speaker 1: to get him at a severe discount because of that

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Speaker 1: suspension to start the season. He really has become one

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Speaker 1: of the bigger values across fantasy football this year.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I have a lot of teams were the

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Speaker 2: first couple of weeks it looked rough at the running

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Speaker 2: back spot. But then he's come on and has been

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Speaker 2: a top like top five maybe even better since he's

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Speaker 2: been back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's uh, he's been outstanding since since he's come

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Speaker 1: back from that suspension. Meanwhile, Sam Laporta's Iowa Hawkeyes did

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Speaker 1: not score a point at all in the Big Ten

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Speaker 1: championship game against Michigan. Sam laport By himself had more

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Speaker 1: points his than his alma maters this week.

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Speaker 2: Sam Laporta this season has more fantasy points than every

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Speaker 2: tight end but TJ. Hockinson and Travis Kelce. That's how

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Speaker 2: good he has been. One hundred and forty yards, nine

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Speaker 2: catches in a touchdown this week, second rookie tight end

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Speaker 2: ever with one forty and a touchdown in a game.

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Speaker 2: Travis Kelce is the only other tight end to do

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Speaker 2: that this season. He has tied for the league lead

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Speaker 2: amongst tight ends in touchdowns. I know I've been giving

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Speaker 2: a lot of love to Dalton kincaid and Trey McBride

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Speaker 2: as of late, but Sam laport was my first love

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Speaker 2: this season and I have a lot of fantasy teams

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Speaker 2: with him, and it has been awesome.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I like Sam Laporta. I will admit

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Speaker 1: that I had him as a late pick. He's like,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, this is a sleeper tight end. I didn't

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Speaker 1: think we'd be talking about him as literally an elite

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Speaker 1: level tight end in year one. My last one here

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Speaker 1: is Mike Evans. And this is a combination apology and

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Speaker 1: appreciation for Mike Evans. I said before the season that

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Speaker 1: his run of thousand yard seasons was going to end

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Speaker 1: this year. I mean, how could it not right? He

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Speaker 1: had Baker Mayfield as the quarterback, they were losing Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: There was no chance that Mike Evans was going to

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Speaker 1: continue to be a one thousand yard receiver. And yet

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Speaker 1: here we are, Mike Evans has gone over one thousand yards.

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Speaker 1: Yet again, every season of his career, Mike Evans has

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Speaker 1: been over one thousand yards. Call it ten straight years

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Speaker 1: that he has done this, continues to be outstanding, top

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Speaker 1: of his game. You've said it before, Florio. He loses

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, he gets even better because because Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: just gonna you know f it, Mike is down there

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Speaker 1: some and it has really worked out in a big way.

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Speaker 1: So I apologize for doubting you, and I'm gonna remember

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Speaker 1: this my Storelessuayna memory banks. So next year, I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna be the person fading Mike Evans when it comes

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Speaker 1: to fantasy drafts.

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Speaker 2: I made that same mistake as you. One thing that

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Speaker 2: I don't think was a mistake was being high on

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Speaker 2: Austin Eckler coming into this year. But man, it has

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Speaker 2: not worked out three straight games in single digit fantasy

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Speaker 2: points six season low four point seven this past week,

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Speaker 2: and I dove into his numbers a bit. This year,

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Speaker 2: just five percent of his runs have gone for ten

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Speaker 2: or more yards. It was eleven percent last year. His speed,

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Speaker 2: his average speed and his top speed are both lower

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Speaker 2: than what it was last year. Twenty four percent target rate.

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Speaker 2: It was thirty two percent last year. His YAK on

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Speaker 2: a per catch basis is down. The touchdowns are down.

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Speaker 2: That's not his fault. That's because his offense isn't moving.

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Speaker 2: The ball isn't giving him the opportunities to score. You know,

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Speaker 2: twenty touchdowns a year right now. But with the speed

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Speaker 2: down and everything else down, I have big questions if

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Speaker 2: Austin Eckler is healthy or if this ankle is still

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Speaker 2: completely hampering him in his performance right now, but for

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Speaker 2: fantasy purposes, like he has a really good schedule the

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Speaker 2: rest of the way. He gets the Broncos this week,

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Speaker 2: which is the best matchup for a running back, and

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Speaker 2: sees double digit carries and six or more targets pretty

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Speaker 2: much on a weekly basis. I think you're just handcuffed here.

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Speaker 2: I know it stinks what you're getting out of Austin Eckler,

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Speaker 2: but given the schedule and the volume, I don't see

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Speaker 2: how you sit him either.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing is that you're sort of tied to

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Speaker 1: him at this point right because, I mean, one trade

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Speaker 1: deadline has passed in most leagues, so you can't really

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Speaker 1: trade him.

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Speaker 3: You're certainly not gott to put him back out on

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Speaker 3: the waiver Wiran.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned, the opportunities that he gets are generally

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Speaker 1: so numerous that you can't really get away from him.

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Speaker 1: Even as poorly as he ran the ball yesterday, he

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Speaker 1: had fourteen carries. The target numbers are down a little

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Speaker 1: bit over where they have been in the past. That's

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Speaker 1: a little bit worrisome, but you just sort of have

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Speaker 1: to keep plugging him in, I guess and hoping that

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Speaker 1: it gets better, because chances are you don't have another

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Speaker 1: running back that has the ceiling that Austin Eckler does.

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Speaker 3: That's the frustrating part for me.

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Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin huge this appointment because he had the same

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Speaker 1: number of catches as all of us sitting in this

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Speaker 1: room right now. But it also sort of goes to

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Speaker 1: show that the Washington offense is really hard to figure

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Speaker 1: Sam Howe is among the league leaders in passing, did

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Speaker 1: not have a great day on Sunday, but is among

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Speaker 1: the league leaders in passing. But the ball is going

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Speaker 1: so many places, right, I mean, McLaurin gets his most weeks,

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Speaker 1: but there's Jehan Dottson, There's Curtis, Samuel Logan, Thomas is

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Speaker 1: getting targets. They'll get Brian Robinson in there by the way,

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Speaker 1: he did leave the game with an injury. We'll keep

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Speaker 1: an eye on that. Brian Robinson, Antonio Gibson. So many

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Speaker 1: places to go with the football, but it really is

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Speaker 1: hard to sort of figure out what's going on. And

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Speaker 1: I think it was Dwayne McFarland over fantasy. I've pointed

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Speaker 1: out the fact that you know, if you would have

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Speaker 1: told somebody that Sam Howe was going to be the

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Speaker 1: league leader in passing and throwing for three hundred yards

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Speaker 1: a game. You would love Terry McLaurin, except McLaurin has

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Speaker 1: his lowest yards per game total receiving as he has

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Speaker 1: in his career, So there's just no telling what to

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Speaker 1: do with this offense.

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Speaker 2: I got a lot of tweets about this because it's

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Speaker 2: no surprise Scary Tearry. I'm a big Scary Tarry fan

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Speaker 2: and have been advocating a lot for him, But I

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Speaker 2: think we've reached a point where he's just kind of

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Speaker 2: a boom or bust wade receiver three and not someone

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Speaker 2: that you need to start each week.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's rough that I'll do it for this

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Speaker 1: edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Show, be sure to

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Speaker 1: listen tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: We're answering your questions.

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Speaker 1: Plus mattal Cotta is gonna drop by with his top

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Speaker 1: Waiver Wire targets of the week. Stay happy, safe and healthy,

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Speaker 1: do good, and live well. We'll talk to you again

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Speaker 1: real soon