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Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, November twenty eighth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's me Your

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Speaker 2: Man MG. Marcus Grant joined by Michael f. Florio, got

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Speaker 2: a fun episode for you today. The fantasy playoffs are

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Speaker 2: just around the corner, so we're talking about the players

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Speaker 2: with the best and worst schedules. Plus mattal Cotta's got

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Speaker 2: to drop by with his top waiver wire targets for

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Speaker 2: the week. Let's start talking though about some of these

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Speaker 2: playoff matchups. We are just a few weeks away from

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Speaker 2: the start of the fantasy playoffs in most leagues. In

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Speaker 2: a lot of league, weeks fifteen through seventeen are the postseason,

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Speaker 2: so that means you got basically two weeks left to

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Speaker 2: kind of get yourself right and get yourself into the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: So if you are sitting on the bubbles, we're looking

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Speaker 2: at a couple of guys, one with a good schedule,

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Speaker 2: one with a bad schedule. Who do you like down

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Speaker 2: the stretch or who do you like? I guess into

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Speaker 2: the playoffs for fantasy.

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Speaker 3: Dak Prescott not only has he been the hottest quarterback

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Speaker 3: walking the planet since week six, he has one game

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Speaker 3: with fewer than twenty four Fantasy points, and he has

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Speaker 3: twenty eight or more in every game but one since

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Speaker 3: Week eight. Like he's been red hot. But look at

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Speaker 3: his fantasy playoff schedule Buffalo, Miami, Detroit. Not only are

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Speaker 3: those three favorable matchups that can beat you can put

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Speaker 3: up passing TAM numbers against them. They all have an

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Speaker 3: offense on the other side that will be able to

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Speaker 3: put up points against the Cowboys even with their stout defense,

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Speaker 3: Like Dak is going to have to throw, going to

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Speaker 3: have to put up numbers because the other side will

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Speaker 3: be putting up numbers. He's an MVP candidate. I don't

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Speaker 3: want to hear who is he beaten. He's gonna beat

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Speaker 3: some of those teams in that stretch and be an

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Speaker 3: MVP candidate and probably win a whole bunch of you

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Speaker 3: fantasy titles during that run.

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Speaker 2: Man, the MVP conversation is such a moving target, but

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Speaker 2: Dak is very much in it. I'm gonna go with

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Speaker 2: the guy in his same division at the running back spot,

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Speaker 2: DeAndre Swift, And it's really frustrating if you have de

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Speaker 2: Andre Swift, because sometimes the Eagles just stop going to him,

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Speaker 2: and then they give him the ball a couple times

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Speaker 2: in a row and he breaks off a couple long runs,

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Speaker 2: or he's a nice catch and run, and you're like,

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Speaker 2: why do they get this guy the ball more? We

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Speaker 2: saw it a little bit yesterday too against the Bills,

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Speaker 2: where he had a couple of really nice plays and

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Speaker 2: really helped move the ball for the Eagles. You look

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Speaker 2: down the stretch fifteen sixteen seventeens, got the Seahawks, the Giants,

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Speaker 2: and the Cardinals. Those are three really peak matchups, and

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Speaker 2: you know, look, I don't know how the Eagles are

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Speaker 2: going to play things that they are going to lock

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Speaker 2: up a playoff spot really soon. If they haven't already.

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Speaker 2: You know, whether or not they have the one seed

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Speaker 2: locked up, that remains to be seen. They've got a

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Speaker 2: tough one with the forty nine ers this week that'll

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Speaker 2: go a long way toward determining that. And even then,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if Nick Sirianni is just going to

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Speaker 2: suddenly sit all of his guys. But dere Swift has

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Speaker 2: a really great opportunity in those final weeks of the

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Speaker 2: fantasy season to make some big plays for you. On

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Speaker 2: the other side, who has a schedule that you're not

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Speaker 4: About James Connor. One.

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Speaker 3: James Connor hasn't been playing good football as of late,

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Speaker 3: and it's not really on him, but him and Kyler

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Speaker 3: mary Bolt returned week ten. Connor has less than nine

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Speaker 3: Fantasy points in all three games. He's not being utilized

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Speaker 3: in the passing game. All the goal on opportunities are

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Speaker 3: going to Kyler or Clayton Tune. But then look at

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Speaker 3: this schedule that he has in the playoffs. The forty

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Speaker 3: nine Ers in week fifteen, the Bears in Week sixteen,

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Speaker 3: and the Eagles are the hardest matchup for a running back.

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Speaker 3: Don't tell the Bills that they kept trying to run

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Speaker 3: up the middle yesterday. The forty nine Ers, I would say,

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Speaker 3: They've allowed the fewest rushing yards to running back since

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Speaker 3: be a player that you bench for the duration of

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Speaker 3: the Fantasy playoffs if you have the option to do so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that stinks because he was so good early

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Speaker 2: in season. He's been such a key part. I think

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Speaker 2: lot of defenses recently. But I'm a little bit scared

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Speaker 2: He's got the Rams, the Giants, and the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 2: I know, we look at the Giants that are like, oh,

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Speaker 2: it's the Giants, But against the past, they've been very good.

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Speaker 2: We know how good the forty nine ers are. The

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Speaker 2: Throw in the fact that Sam Howell has spread the

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Speaker 2: ball around that. Yeah, McLaurin is the number one receiver,

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Speaker 2: at least on paper, but we've seen Johan Dotson get involved.

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Speaker 2: We've seen some Curtis Samuel games. They're getting so many

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Speaker 2: Gibson's gonna catch the football. There's no one place that

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Speaker 2: they're going to go with the ball, and that alone

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Speaker 2: makes it a little bit nervous time. Then you throw

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Speaker 2: in the matchups and I get it, it's hard to

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Speaker 2: get away from Terry mcla but I don't love what

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Speaker 2: the outlook is going to be for him throughout the

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Speaker 2: Fantasy playoffs. Just it seems like a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a scary situation for scary Terry's been frustrating for McLaurin

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like his quarterbacks leading in the league in yards

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Speaker 3: and it's just been an up and down type of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely frustrating as well. Let's get some of the

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Speaker 2: top waiver wire targets for Week thirteen are pal Mattocatus

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Speaker 2: put together his list for the week at quarterback, Derek

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Speaker 2: that's a different story. Russell Wilson, who is playing some

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Speaker 2: really good football right now. Jordan Love who has stepped

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Speaker 2: up his game, Baker Mayfield who has kept Mike Evans

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Speaker 2: afloat as well, running back Chewba Hubbard, Zach Moss, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Zach Moss still hanging around, Keet Mitchell, Ty Chandler. Just

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Speaker 2: to know that both Mitchell and Chandler on a bye

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Speaker 2: this week, but worth stashing Ty J. Spears in Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Ezekiel Elliotts may be worth a stash there in New England,

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Speaker 2: wide receiver Jaden Reed, Curtis Sail, Greg dortch get dorched

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Speaker 2: in Arizona, Jackson Smith and Jigba playing better in Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Hyak Khalil Shakir also in play, Pat Fryer moves

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Speaker 2: welcome in our pal Matt o'cata, who writes the Waiver

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Speaker 2: Wire column. You can find it every week at NFL

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Speaker 2: dot com slash Waiver Wire. One thing I want to

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Speaker 2: correct them before we dive into this. I said that

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Speaker 2: part of the schedule for Terry McLaurin have the Giants,

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Speaker 2: I'm at the Jets as the other New York team.

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Speaker 2: If you're watching the video show, then that was correct

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Speaker 2: so apologies on that one. All right, Matt, let's get

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Speaker 2: into this one because coming up in Week thirteen, it

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Speaker 2: is one last by mcgeddon, which is great just before

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Speaker 2: the fantasy playoffs hit. We've got the Ravens, the Bills,

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Speaker 2: the Bears, the Raiders, the Vikings, and the Giants. Six

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Speaker 2: teams out a lot of key pieces, so a lot

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Speaker 2: of people will need waiver wire help. So let's start

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Speaker 2: a quarterback. Derek Carr has basically been Derek Carr this year,

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Speaker 2: which is to say it's not awful, but it's not great.

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Speaker 2: But in a pinch with six teams on a buy,

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Speaker 2: I would imagine that a lot of folks will need

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Speaker 2: a guy like Derek Carr.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's pretty much the perfect summary. Marcus. He's been

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Speaker 4: a kind of a low ceiling streamer option who's somewhat consistent,

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Speaker 4: we are all in trouble between injuries and buys these days,

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Speaker 4: so I think car is in play. Here's my take.

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Speaker 4: He's hit three hundred plus passing yards in four of

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Speaker 4: his last five games, and he's thrown multiple touchdowns three

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Speaker 4: managed to put those marks together once, and that was

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Speaker 4: in Week eight. Against the Colts and he scored eighteen

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Speaker 4: fantasy points and was a great fantasy option. I think

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Speaker 4: he can do that again in Week thirteen against the Lions.

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Speaker 4: So if you're streaming through this by mcgeddon, I think

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Speaker 4: he's a play. Over their last five games, schroit'z defense

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Speaker 4: has given up twenty three fantasy points per game to QBS,

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Speaker 4: and that includes a four point stinker by Jimmy Garoppolo

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Speaker 4: bringing the numbers down. They all besides Garoppolo hit twenty

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Speaker 4: So I think Carr is absolutely in play. I definitely

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Speaker 4: keep an eye on that because losing his best weapon

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Speaker 4: good matchups down the stretch too. If you need a combo.

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Speaker 3: Stream, yeah, he could help you in the byeweek, But

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Speaker 3: no one's going to get you more hype than Jamis Winston.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you saw him wrapping along to Ludacris on

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Speaker 3: quarterbacks Okada and Russell. Wilson not only getting done with

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Speaker 4: He is. He's also not gonna give you as much

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Speaker 4: hype as Jameis Winston or Luther Chris because he's not

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Speaker 4: that exciting either. But here's the thing. Yes, Wilson has

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Speaker 4: only averaging one hundred and seventy six passing yards per

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Speaker 4: game over that span. But to your point, he has

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Speaker 4: rediscovered his rushing ability in recent weeks. He sit thirty

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Speaker 4: and he scored with his legs on Sunday. And he's

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Speaker 4: also thrown twenty touchdowns on the year, which is the

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Speaker 4: fifth most in the NFL. Pretty surprising. Thank you, Cortland

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Speaker 4: Sutton for a lot of that. I think in the

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Speaker 4: right matchups he can cobble the pieces together and be

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Speaker 4: a fantasy starter. And oh my goodness are the matchups coming.

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Speaker 4: Here are his opponents for the rest of the season

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Speaker 4: and their schedule adjusted rank against quarterback Texans twenty fifth,

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Speaker 4: Chargers thirty second, Lions twenty eighth, Patriots fifth. You can

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Speaker 4: skip that one. And Chargers reminder thirty second again in

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Speaker 4: championship week. Oh my goodness, I think you can play

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Speaker 4: Russell Wilson almost the entirety of the rest of the

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Speaker 4: season with that ground game ability, bring back his floor.

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Speaker 4: I think he's a viable stream.

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, I thought Russ was going to have

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Speaker 2: a kind of a renaissance last season. It didn't happen.

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Speaker 2: I was skeptical this year, so maybe I can just

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Speaker 2: tell myself that I was a little bit early. I

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Speaker 2: was just a year ahead of schedule with Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 2: Time for a break, stick around, We'll be right back.

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Speaker 2: Caroline is a mess, Matt. They fire their head coach

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Speaker 2: who had given up play calling duties and took them back.

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Speaker 2: Now he's gone. You know, who knows what's going to

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Speaker 2: happen with the passing game. Bryce Young is struggling. The

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Speaker 2: offensive line is bad, but they're Shuba Hubbard, who's made

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one hundred percent true. Don't check us. And

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's looked, he has looked really good.

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Speaker 2: It seems like tight ends are the flavor of the

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Speaker 4: Here's the thing. Lamar Jackson completed just eighteen passes for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're always We're always happy to have tight ends

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Speaker 2: that category. Matt Ocatta. You can follow him on Twitter

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Speaker 2: at matt Ocatta. Check out the article at nfl dot

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