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Speaker 1: Ond here's Dan Bayer and Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: Welcome in. It is I Want Your Flex, a Thanksgiving

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Speaker 3: week edition.

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Speaker 4: He is Mike Harmon, I'm Dan Byer. Ian Roddy is

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Speaker 4: here as well. We start with the end of Week twelve,

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Speaker 4: which Mike officially marks the two thirds points of our

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Speaker 4: NFL season. Now, there are still some buys to come

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Speaker 4: up in Week fourteen, and once we.

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Speaker 3: Get past those then we are good to go.

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Speaker 4: However, two thirds of the way in of the season,

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Speaker 4: we are now hitting the home stretch, not only for

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Speaker 4: the regular season, but also for fantasy football.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was an interesting start to the game, right,

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Speaker 5: we get the sledgehammer effect of what the Chargers are

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Speaker 5: trying to lay down. Let's get the brothers in the backyard.

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Speaker 5: Let's backyard wrestling and a great drive with the Herber touchdown,

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Speaker 5: and it's like, all right, JK. Dobbins, he's going to

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Speaker 5: have himself a day. Alas he goes out with injury,

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Speaker 5: Gus Edwards can barely fall forward and now we have

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Speaker 5: ourselves a problem. Eventually, the Ravens offense too much. Edwards

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Speaker 5: desperation playoff the bye weeks and injuries, or maybe you

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Speaker 5: listen to this dope, you at least got a touchdown

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Speaker 5: out of the deal. But otherwise, I mean, we watched

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Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson. That forty yard touchdown pass still seems silly

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Speaker 5: to me. You're gonna interfere with a guy for fifteen

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Speaker 5: yards plus, get called for it, and you don't even

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Speaker 5: get a play on the ball, nor do you knock

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Speaker 5: him on his ass stop him from catching a touchdown.

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Speaker 5: Great throw, great play, Bateman two for forty three in

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Speaker 5: I don't know if the referee thought the end zone

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Speaker 5: was equivalent to the Purdue end zone and sidelines from

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Speaker 5: a couple of weeks ago where dude was standing out

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Speaker 3: That was weird.

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Speaker 4: He was pretty definitive in saying that it was incomplete,

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Speaker 4: and I'm like, wait what.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and even then he was still well in

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Speaker 5: had the big would be past interference call that they

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Speaker 5: eventually waved off. And I thought that was a good,

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Speaker 5: good not call, which might have set the Chargers up

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Speaker 5: But Herbert two eighteen nothing through the air, took four sacks,

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Speaker 5: give you something. But you know, a miss and a

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Speaker 5: huge spot against what had been a woeful Ravens defense,

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Speaker 5: from dere Derek Henry, another one hundred and forty yard performance.

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Speaker 5: Even though you didn't find the end zone, you still

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Speaker 5: got some love from him. And then Lamar won seventy

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Speaker 5: seven eight world beating but rushing touchdown and two throwing. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you'll spike all day on a Chargers team because like

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Speaker 5: he was on my cold sores of I don't know

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Speaker 5: what I'm getting because we talked about it, right, Dan,

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Speaker 5: I mean, what are the Chargers right? All statistics say this,

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Speaker 5: but the schedule says this. So rubber meets the road

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Speaker 5: and the Ravens came out put up thirty on them.

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Speaker 4: That's the funny thing is Lamar does end up having

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Speaker 4: a nice Fantasy week because of the touchdowns that he got,

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Speaker 4: but honestly, across the board, it really wasn't great for everyone.

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Speaker 4: Like even if you have Dereck Henry, you're like, but

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Speaker 3: Now I am I believe right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just to be the story of his life.

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Speaker 4: And Justice Hill comes in and eliminates me from our

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Speaker 4: Guillotine League at Fox Sports Radeo, but just as ends

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Speaker 4: up having the one carry and the one touchdown run

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Speaker 5: But that's the curiosity right of the the big you know,

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Speaker 5: was interesting. I mean, like starting to see a little

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Speaker 5: they're pumping in a lot of sound, which is always potential,

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Speaker 5: but it's the idea that you at least our creating

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Speaker 5: for years going back to the soccer stadium and everything

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Speaker 5: it still comes out with a loss, and for fantasy purposes,

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Speaker 5: left a lot of us wanting even as you said, Dan,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is this is a little if I'm holding

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I'm sorry about the Justice Soll thing.

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Speaker 3: That's it's okay. I watched it.

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Speaker 5: I watched it happen in real time because Moncey was

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Speaker 4: Everybody's telling me Moncey's jumping up and down, and it

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Speaker 3: You know. Like I even texted her.

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Speaker 4: I was like no, and She's like yes, I was

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Speaker 3: And I just hope she loses next week. That's all.

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Speaker 2: No, Yeah, let's go.

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Speaker 4: I'm not bitter at all. I'm not childish at all. No,

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Speaker 4: but the the whole Chargers scheme of things. If the

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Speaker 4: Dobbins injury is more significant than maybe we fear, you know,

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Speaker 4: You mentioned Gus Edwards not being much of a filler

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Speaker 4: some serious questions with the Chargers now with the fantasy

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Speaker 5: four to night four for forty seven he had four targets?

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Speaker 5: it's the Cavaliers. You got to put more names up. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 4: No, No, And we'll dive into that coming up here

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Speaker 4: looking at at the grand scheme of things from you know,

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Speaker 4: on your thoughts of Saquon Barkley just since we're talking

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Speaker 4: about SOFI Stadium games at night, sure and where I

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Speaker 4: mean that performance for as great as it was, like

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Speaker 5: What I mean, like kil Barry Sanders effect, Yeah, negative one,

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Speaker 3: I mean, he won me a.

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Speaker 4: I'm not complaining at all. But I mean, heck, he's

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Speaker 4: Nick Sirianni, he and Kellen Moore. It's pretty crazy.

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Speaker 5: Well, in the end of feed the ball into the guys, gut,

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Speaker 5: don't know that they do enough of a job of

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Speaker 5: a guy when something goes bad. Sure, right, this sack, well,

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Speaker 5: the ball too long, not that he spun back into traffic. No,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I was I was more on the Derrick

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Speaker 5: Let guys do their jobs as were and look, Jalen hurts.

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Speaker 4: You're in on the talk, as he said, just you're

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Speaker 5: but let's let's recognize we're great. Is great, and Saquon

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Speaker 4: Well, you know, Dereck Henry has two thousand yards in

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd give it to Lamar, but I at least

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's totally fine. There was this is my last

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Speaker 4: Mike Carmen, I'm Dan Byer. Ian Roddy's the executive producer.

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Speaker 4: So how many teams do legitimately have a shot at

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Speaker 4: winning Super Bowl? Fifty nine? Will whittle that number down?

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Speaker 4: Next here, and I want your flex hit Mike up

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Speaker 4: at Swollen Dome or Mike carmeron on Blue Sky. You

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Speaker 4: or Dan Byer on Blue Sky.

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Speaker 7: How's a bad?

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Speaker 3: I want to know, all right, but you can find

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Speaker 5: Though we know Ian Roddy's taken, is there much motivation

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Speaker 2: Hey, it happens that's the third team.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll about that. That's a whole other story for

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Speaker 4: another day. Let let's dive into this. We're doing a

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Speaker 4: my number is six, Mike. How many do you have?

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Speaker 3: Five? Ian? How many do you have?

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Speaker 6: I only have two. Yeah, I think there's only two

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Speaker 4: All right, let's start out with your two teams to

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Speaker 6: Well, the first one is I feel like it's got

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Speaker 4: Okay, that's that's that's fair enough, Mike. Are those two

434
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,679
Speaker 4: teams on your list of five, because they are on

435
00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:17,880
Speaker 4: my list of six as well.

436
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, so those are my NFC.

437
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, here's my little worry about Detroit right now. Are

438
00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 4: they peaking too soon? Sure, that's just my my only concern.

439
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,160
Speaker 4: And with a lot of football yet to be get

440
00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 4: to be played, they do have stuff to play for.

441
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 3: These games are gonna matter. Things are gonna happen.

442
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 4: They've got to not only do they have to fend

443
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,640
Speaker 4: off the Eagles for the number one overall seed the division,

444
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:48,120
Speaker 4: by no means is a given right now, and there

445
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,879
Speaker 4: could still be a situation where as crazy as it sounds,

446
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:55,159
Speaker 4: and as dominant as they have been, they are two

447
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 4: or three bad weeks away from being a team that's

448
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 4: not going to play any home games during the playoffs.

449
00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:02,919
Speaker 2: The fun looking at our good friends at Tankathon.

450
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 5: The rest of their schedule right worst schedule as in

451
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:12,160
Speaker 5: the hardest schedule Bears doesn't matter, and their easiest opponent

452
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 5: on their schedule of the six left is the forty

453
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:20,440
Speaker 5: nine ers. Oh yeah, there you go in New England second,

454
00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:24,400
Speaker 5: Cleveland third, and this is where it gets fun. Minnesota

455
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:32,680
Speaker 5: is fourth. You've got the Lions, Packers, Cardinals, Falcons, Seahawks,

456
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Speaker 5: and Bears.

457
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 2: Fifth is San Francisco.

458
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:38,880
Speaker 5: Trying to figure out what they are at this morent

459
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 5: They've got three on the tough side, three on the

460
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 5: easy side, and then you've got Detroit and green Bay

461
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,439
Speaker 5: are six and seven in terms of these rankings, with

462
00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,320
Speaker 5: winning percentages for Detroit of five ninety one and green

463
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 5: Bay five seventy six remaining.

464
00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:59,080
Speaker 4: The Lions do have games in hand on green Bay

465
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 4: and Minnesota, but they also have to play those teams

466
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:06,080
Speaker 4: you know, still down the stretch, and so that also

467
00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,680
Speaker 4: adds to their winning percentage and those again, and that's

468
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,680
Speaker 4: the two to three game stretch that I talk about

469
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 4: with the Lions. For as great as things are right now,

470
00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 4: it's not a given. And if you start to falter,

471
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:21,199
Speaker 4: then only do you lose your place on top in

472
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,720
Speaker 4: your momentum, you're losing the division, you're losing home field,

473
00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:27,680
Speaker 4: and next thing you know, you're in a wild card

474
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:31,520
Speaker 4: in a funky bracket. In the NFC, Eagles not as

475
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 4: much because the Commanders lost this past weekend, there still

476
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 4: would be a fight for it. But yeah, I think

477
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,639
Speaker 4: that the Lions. That would be the one thing to

478
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:41,919
Speaker 4: worry me about the Lions.

479
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, I picked the Eagles before the season, so I'm

480
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 5: hopeful that I'm proving to get something right this year.

481
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Speaker 5: Did you have any other NFC teams in your bracket there, Dan, I.

482
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 3: Did, okay? One? Okay, green Bay?

483
00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,679
Speaker 5: You got green Bay? Okay, Yeah, they were in that

484
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 5: next tier. Trying to decide for me between in Minnesota

485
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 5: as how much I believe in them.

486
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 3: You want to know why I put green Bay there?

487
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 4: The reason I put Green Bays Jordan Love has got

488
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 4: an interception problem, but what Josh Jacobs was able to

489
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,480
Speaker 4: do this past week against San Francisco, I think bodes

490
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 4: really well offensively, and Christian Watson just catched the football.

491
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 4: I know Dobbs is dinged up. That hurts. But I

492
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 4: feel like Green Bay is the team that you don't

493
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 4: want to see come to town, and we saw what

494
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,920
Speaker 4: happened last year. They go to Dallas and do the thing.

495
00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:35,280
Speaker 4: I almost think that they would relish that role and

496
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 4: be better suited around at this time. Maybe a couple

497
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:43,399
Speaker 4: of questions on their defense, but they've also had Xavier

498
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 4: McKinney has been one of the best free agent signings

499
00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,760
Speaker 4: in all of football for them, So I'm still putting

500
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,800
Speaker 4: Green Bay in that list of NFC teams.

501
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, the love interception problem problem you allude to is

502
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 5: the one that because it's the same thing I keep

503
00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 5: waiting to happen in Minnesota because I like Minnesota a lot.

504
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 5: But I'm sitting there going, do I really think Sam

505
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,120
Speaker 5: Darnold's getting to the promised Land?

506
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 3: Yeah?

507
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 5: Right, Like it's just that kind of thing, and it's

508
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 5: not I have no animosity towards the man. I just

509
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,480
Speaker 5: look at it going, it's a fun story. And at

510
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 5: this point we're in week thirteen, still hasn't fallen off

511
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 5: the rail. Steady as they go, and you know, if

512
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 5: Addison becomes a more consistent threat, who knows.

513
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've missed Judd.

514
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 4: Right when I started believing in the Vikings, they faltered,

515
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 4: so then I sold my stock and not only keep

516
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,000
Speaker 4: winning games like they did against your Bears this past weekend.

517
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 4: So I just don't think they consistently can consistently do that.

518
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 4: I believe in Jordan Love more than Sam Dark.

519
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,679
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's only so many times you're going to be

520
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 5: able to ebor flu somebody.

521
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,360
Speaker 4: All right, Ian didn't have any AFC teams, Mike, I'm

522
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,560
Speaker 4: guessing that's where your three come from.

523
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got three there. We've got obviously to be

524
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 5: the man. You gotta beat the man in Kansas City.

525
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 5: Until you execute them, they're hanging around to crush you.

526
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 5: I picked the Bills before the season, still alive. I

527
00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 5: had a Buffalo Philadelphia super Bowl and damn it, I

528
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 5: still hold out hope. And then third, I've got the

529
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:14,639
Speaker 5: Ravens and just that defense leaves me with great pause

530
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 5: from time to time. But as long as Roquan Smith's out,

531
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 5: not out for a long period of time, because the

532
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,440
Speaker 5: fact that he missed the Monday night football against the Chargers,

533
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,239
Speaker 5: missed that game leaves me a little concerned that this

534
00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 5: might be a bigger issue because this was a pretty

535
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 5: big spot for both teams, I thought, even with the

536
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,200
Speaker 5: Steelers having lost to the Browns on Thursday Night football.

537
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 5: But you know, he's a guy that's so instrumental. What

538
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 5: do you have one hundred and ten tackles and a

539
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 5: bunch for laws and whatever all of those things. So

540
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 5: his health certainly pair him out, but right now they

541
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 5: would be the third team into that mix. Wondering if,

542
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 5: based on our prior conversation, Henry's good enough to get

543
00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 5: them over.

544
00:26:57,720 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, those are my three.

545
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 4: And do you have any problem even though they weren't

546
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 4: in your top two with any of those teams under

547
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 4: consideration to be added to your your final two.

548
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 6: They're all in consideration because they're they're good teams, you know, So, yeah,

549
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 6: none of them are totally elimited. I just feel like

550
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 6: the fact that there's in my mind, there's such a

551
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 6: big gap between the Lions and the and the Eagles,

552
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 6: and I just.

553
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,360
Speaker 2: Like that he just said blank the AFC.

554
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 6: That's right, Yeah, exactly, But no, we're picking the top

555
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 6: like who I actually think has a legitimate chance, And

556
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 6: I don't think any AFC team has a legitimate chance

557
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 6: of beating either of those teams as things look right now.

558
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 4: So I think when you're Kansas City, you they get

559
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 4: the benefit of the doubt that any game that they're

560
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 4: in you think they can win.

561
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 7: It's true.

562
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 6: I just when you look at each of these different teams,

563
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 6: like Kansas City, like Green Bay, there's just always one

564
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 6: little thing that you can point to, you know, like

565
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,920
Speaker 6: Green Bay, like they don't really have a number one

566
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 6: superstar receiver that you can point to. The Ravens, like

567
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 6: Mike said, the defense is a little concerning. There's just

568
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 6: little things with these teams that you can point to,

569
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 6: whereas with the Lions and Eagles. To me, there's just

570
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 6: no weakness.

571
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will there's a weakness, but it's just not

572
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 4: showing itself fair I would say, yeah, that's the Chief's

573
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 4: biggest margin. The largest margin of victor this year is

574
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 4: thirteen points in a game against the Saints that I

575
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 4: think they may have scored late. Maybe I'm wrong about it,

576
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 4: but their only other double digit win was against San

577
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,879
Speaker 4: Francisco this year. So with all of those wins and

578
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 4: then needing the last second game again, that last second

579
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 4: kick against the Panthers, you know, one of the league's worst,

580
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 4: just as you questioning, you know how things are playing out.

581
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 4: So they beat the Saints comfortably. There wasn't a late

582
00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 4: touchdown to make it thirteen the double check. But I

583
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 4: get the concern about the Chiefs. The reason why I

584
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 4: put the Chiefs in there is actually the reason why

585
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 4: I didn't put the Steelers in is every time I

586
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 4: look at Kansas City and if I were to put

587
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,479
Speaker 4: them up against any of the teams, I think they

588
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 4: could win. I don't think I can do that with Pitch.

589
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 4: I think what they've done so far this year could

590
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 4: warrant it. But I just don't see them going through

591
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 4: this gauntlet of teams in the AFC and being able

592
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:14,000
Speaker 4: to come out unscathed. Like at some point offensively, I

593
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 4: think it's going to catch up with them, and that's

594
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 4: why I was reluctant to put Pittsburgh.

595
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 3: On this list.

596
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, curiosity for me going back to Detroit being one

597
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 5: of the main pieces to it all. You brought up

598
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 5: the idea of peaking to early.

599
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 3: Dan.

600
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 5: The thing for me is we haven't seen them in

601
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 5: a close game in a long time. I mean, we

602
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,520
Speaker 5: had the Houston game. I guess that's the outlier in

603
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 5: the last since their bye week, Right, they beat the

604
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 5: Seahawks forty two twenty nine, go to their bye week,

605
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 5: come out throttle Dallas and roll through Wedn's Dan Campbell

606
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 5: going to Dan Campbell again because we had it with

607
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 5: Baltimore today or I should say Monday night for those listening,

608
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 5: Tuesday Wednesday, whenever is recording obviously after the game when

609
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 5: John Harbaugh went for it on his own six team, right,

610
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 5: no guts, no glory. Okay, they go down and they

611
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 5: score ninety three yard touchdown drive. That was the forty

612
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 5: yard touchdown pass to Bateman. He doesn't get that. The

613
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 5: hell's that game look like? Right again, gutsy crazy. It's

614
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 5: almost like the spirit of Brandon Staley inhabited him for

615
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 5: a moment. Yeah, but you know, it's those kind of things.

616
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 5: And you know that's been the one question of Campbell.

617
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,200
Speaker 5: As great and as much as you may love the

618
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 5: gutsy you know, hey, take no prisoners, bite kneecaps kind

619
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 5: of thing. Last year man, I didn't have any issue

620
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,720
Speaker 5: with it. It's like, that's who you decided you are.

621
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 5: You can be consistent and just execute. And you know

622
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 5: they had the place made if the guy actually catches

623
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 5: the ball. But but you know, wondering if that doesn't

624
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,080
Speaker 5: go asunder again in a big spot against the Green

625
00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 5: Bay or against one of the r other playoff competitors.

626
00:30:58,760 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 2: When it's all said and done.

627
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 4: The Bills are in an interesting spot because they've got

628
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 4: a interesting slew of games with the Niners coming up

629
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 4: and then the Rams and Lions, and then you have

630
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 4: your Patriots Jets Patriots sandwich to end to end the year.

631
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 4: That's some delicious AFC East meat right there. But again

632
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 4: we talked about it. There are four games up on

633
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 4: the Dolphins with the sweep, so basically they're five games

634
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 4: up and you do want bigger fish to fry. They

635
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 4: have a win over Kansas That will win over Kansas City,

636
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 4: which really helps if you can get some help elsewhere

637
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 4: to stay motivated. But if the Bills drop one of

638
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,000
Speaker 4: these three games here and you're sitting there hoping for

639
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 4: Kansas City to end up falling along the way, I

640
00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 4: just don't know what Buffalo's going to have to play

641
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 4: for the final three weeks of the season. Like it's

642
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 4: you know, I just it's it's almost then you're having

643
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 4: a month to figure out a way to stay motivated.

644
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 3: I just wonder how you handle that. It.

645
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 4: Plus, I don't think they're great, Like I don't. I

646
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 4: would if Baltimore played at Buffalo. I would take Baltimore

647
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 4: in that game. And I'm sure it's recency buys and

648
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 4: seeing what they did tonight against the Chargers, but yeah,

649
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 4: I would, And I'll tell you what. I don't know

650
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 4: if I would have put the Texans in this group

651
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Speaker 4: three weeks ago, but they definitely are not there now

652
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Speaker 4: and they not under consideration at all.

653
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Speaker 3: Three weeks ago. I maybe would have thought about it,

654
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Speaker 3: but not in this group.

655
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the old monkey song was I'm a believer. I was.

656
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Speaker 2: I was a disbeliever. I was walking through the other door.

657
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Speaker 5: I always thought the offensive line would come back to

658
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 5: bite them.

659
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was good last year. It's not this year.

660
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Speaker 4: I don't know what the deal is, but.

661
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and as we talked about, right, it's the I'd

662
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Speaker 5: love to sit down with the panel esteam panel of

663
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Speaker 5: former quarterbacks and offensive linemen and just say, all right,

664
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Speaker 5: let's go to the blame pie and decide what percentages

665
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Speaker 5: on Stroud holding the ball too long or the defensive

666
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Speaker 5: line slash running back not chipping or taking care of it.

667
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Speaker 4: Yeah it is, Yeah, he hasn't necessarily looked the same Stroud.

668
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Speaker 4: It has at times. Right, sometimes I think it's pressing

669
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Speaker 4: to do too much. And we've seen that happens in

670
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Speaker 4: young quarterbacks. Maybe a Jordan love thing. But yeah, yeah,

671
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 4: it's just it's not the ingredients aren't there for Houston.

672
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Speaker 3: This year.

673
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Speaker 4: Maybe in the upcoming years, but not there for twenty

674
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Speaker 4: twenty four into twenty twenty five. All right, he is

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Speaker 4: Mike Carmen, that's Ian Roddy. I'm Dan Beyer. Now we're

676
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Speaker 4: going to get to your Week thirteen. Interesting week, by

677
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Speaker 4: the way for the pod. Because of the Thanksgiving Holiday,

678
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Speaker 4: our episode that's going to come out on Wednesday will

679
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Speaker 4: actually be our usual Friday episode with rankings and Mike's

680
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 4: hot plays and cold soares and the whole deal. So

681
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Speaker 4: just two episodes this week just because of the Thanksgiving holiday.

682
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Speaker 4: But hey, then we get to talk about Thanksgiving games.

683
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Speaker 4: Are there any waiver wire pickups from those Turkey games

684
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Speaker 4: coming up on Thursday? Or the Black Friday game between

685
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Speaker 4: the Raiders and Jeeves. We'll talk about a next tier

686
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Speaker 4: and I Want your Flex Welcome back to I Want

687
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Speaker 4: Your Flex hit Mike up at Swollen Dome and Mike

688
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 4: Carmon on Blue Sky. I'm at Dan Byer on Fox

689
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 4: on X and Dan Byer on Blue Skuy. Ian Roddy

690
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 4: is here only on X at Ian Roddy Underscore scoreboard

691
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 4: time Before we get to Mike's waiver Wire pickups, Guys,

692
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Speaker 4: as much as I loved my points of Palooza turning

693
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Speaker 4: out to be the Titans and Dexans. I couldn't have

694
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 4: been more wrong about my survivor pick. I was just saying,

695
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Speaker 4: don't pick the Dolphins. That was the only thing I

696
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 4: was saying. I wasn't saying to pick the Patriots. I

697
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Speaker 4: was just saying, don't pick Miami as your survivor pick

698
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 4: this week. And it failed miserably. My Oasis song some

699
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 4: might say, some might say Anthony Richardson didn't have any talent.

700
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Speaker 4: Those people would be wrong. But I'll tell you what,

701
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Speaker 4: Anthony Richardson also had no touchdowns on Sunday.

702
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Speaker 3: So that was a fail for me. Guys missed out

703
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Speaker 3: on that one.

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Speaker 5: Mixed bag for me. Quarterback position seems to be where

705
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Speaker 5: I've found some great success most of the year. Week twelve,

706
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 5: we had our highlights, for sure. We we pointed out

707
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Speaker 5: some of the the lows along the way, certainly in

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Speaker 5: terms of what we were able to accomplish.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, up there at number two eight in the end zone. Again,

710
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Speaker 3: he was your number one.

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Speaker 2: He just keeps finding the end zone.

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Speaker 3: Yeah he does, he absolutely does.

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Speaker 5: So I'll take those little victories along the way. But yeah,

714
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Speaker 5: I mean, look, we got our touchdown from Gus Edwards

715
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 5: as a ninja, just thinking that we'd have a smash down,

716
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 5: you know, smash situation of those two teams just trying

717
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 5: to beat each other up, brotherly love as it were.

718
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Speaker 5: But yeah, it's just just a weird week once again,

719
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 5: like every week, it would come wringing our hands going wow,

720
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Speaker 5: that played to form. Like you guys were talking about,

721
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Speaker 5: you know, some of your fantasy finishes for this week

722
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 5: and said, like Josh Jacobs was a got three touchdowns

723
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Speaker 5: and a twenty eight point performance.

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Speaker 2: I got that wrong. I'll share that one.

725
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 5: Tony Pollard finishing as the fifth running back. No, didn't

726
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 5: see it. Thought they'd win the game, but didn't think

727
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Speaker 5: it was gonna be him getting it done. Yeah, I

728
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 5: went upset minded and picked. So I think it bled

729
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 5: down to the fantasy realm in terms of some of

730
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Speaker 5: the way things played out.

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Speaker 4: Well, our only saving grace is Ian Roddy streaming defenses here.

732
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Speaker 4: You going, how did your defense is do in week twelve?

733
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Speaker 6: Yes, so we had one that was very good and

734
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 6: one that was it was okay. So I came to

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Speaker 6: you guys with the Bucks and the Commanders as the

736
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Speaker 6: two streaming defenses last week, We'll start with the Commanders,

737
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Speaker 6: who finished with four points.

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Speaker 7: So you know that was okay, not a failure of

739
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Speaker 7: now what.

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Speaker 3: You were hoping though against Cooper Rush.

741
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 7: No, definitely not.

742
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Speaker 6: You know, going up against Cooper Rush, we did not

743
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Speaker 6: expect them to allow thirty four.

744
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 7: Points like they did. That was a little disappointing.

745
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,439
Speaker 6: They did get one sack and a fumble recovery, which

746
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,160
Speaker 6: you know got you to four points, but overall not great.

747
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 6: The Bucks, though, the Bucks defense was really good. They

748
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:05,960
Speaker 6: got you eleven points, so you know, it's not some

749
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,800
Speaker 6: world beating performance, but that's a good performance out of

750
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Speaker 6: a streaming defense. Especially they had four sacks of fumble

751
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 6: recovery and only allowed seven points. So well done to

752
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Speaker 6: the Buccaneers.

753
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Speaker 4: All right, kudos to Ian Rodney on that one. Now

754
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 4: it's time to maybe get some new blood in your lineup,

755
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 4: or because your lineup is full of blood, you need

756
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 4: to clean that up and get some new players. Mike Carmon,

757
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Speaker 4: who your waiver wire pickups heading into Week thirteen?

758
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Speaker 5: Well, last man standing in Las Vegas, even with a

759
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 5: date against the Kansas City Chiefs on Friday. Amre Abdullah

760
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 5: veteran running back, seventeen point performance. Someone's got to touch

761
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 5: the ball, So there you go, and Desmond Ritter can

762
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:52,280
Speaker 5: do a two step right as the last man standing

763
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 5: in that one. So we'll look for Abdullah to get

764
00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 5: us a little bit of run. We know Jeremy McNichols

765
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 5: found is way into our hearts. Gus Edwards nine carries

766
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 5: eleven yards, but we have no idea how hurt Dobbins

767
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 5: is going to be next up the Atlanta Falcons, So

768
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 5: an opportunity there you're looking at. Algier still remains on

769
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 5: the waiver wire list. Again, we'll see if the Chargers

770
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,439
Speaker 5: bounce back after getting run over a little bit by

771
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 5: the Ravens. But the workload split certainly there. And we

772
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 5: saw a little more of Trey Benson rough day for

773
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 5: Connor and Arizona. I mean you watched it, Dan, I

774
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 5: mean against your Seahawks. Did you see that defensive performance coming?

775
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 3: No, and all Arizona did it was just dump it

776
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:39,280
Speaker 3: off to Trey McBride.

777
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's a twenty five point performance for him.

778
00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 3: So yeah, like that was it? Like it was yeah, No,

779
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 3: I did that.

780
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Speaker 5: And then obviously the most confusing what the hell kind

781
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 5: of interception was that from Kyler Murray in recent memory.

782
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 2: He's not nine feet tall.

783
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 3: Man, Hey, I'll take it. I'll take it.

784
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,399
Speaker 5: Obviously, you'll take it. Yeah, coming out of a week

785
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 5: that was your game plan. Good job by you. The continuance.

786
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 5: How about Cooper rush for Thanksgiving Day against the Giants?

787
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 5: They've quit sure, and this was the first time that

788
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,520
Speaker 5: the Cowboys actually showed a sign of life. Is this

789
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 5: one where they just agree to shake hands? And then

790
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 5: Lany Wilson does a full concert instead of playing a

791
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:18,959
Speaker 5: football game.

792
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 3: I don't know, stay for the football after the concert.

793
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 5: There you go, right, So we got that, Derek Carr

794
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,760
Speaker 5: a little bit of a price shot going up against

795
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 5: the Rams. Russell Wilson's still available in about two thirds

796
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,520
Speaker 5: of leagues against Cincinnati, that can't stop three of us

797
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 5: and eight of our friends, like we're playing Thanksgiving Day

798
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 5: football in the backyard. And then Drake may who's been

799
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:47,439
Speaker 5: impressive going up against Indianapolis, a bit of an opportunity

800
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 5: for him as well. If you're looking for help at

801
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 5: wide receiver, this is where it gets a little dice here,

802
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 5: because we're trying to find the proverbial needle in the haystack,

803
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,840
Speaker 5: but we've seen more targets for Noah Brown out of

804
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:05,399
Speaker 5: the Xavier Legette is interesting. Bryce Young started to play

805
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,240
Speaker 5: some pretty good football. Was a loss against New England,

806
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:11,399
Speaker 5: but there seems to be something cooking there. Talk about

807
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 5: the backfield and fighting that one off. Westbrook Akine found

808
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 5: the end zone again again it's.

809
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,800
Speaker 3: Boom or bust. Hey, yeah, I did.

810
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 5: Good for you. Yeah, so you got over on that one.

811
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 5: And then quickly the tight ends we keep seeing a

812
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 5: little more Noah Gray again boom bust potential there, and

813
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 5: then zach Ertz still unowned in nearly half of league's

814
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 5: target counts big enough that he should at least be rostered,

815
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 5: because remember, you got another bikop By apocalypse coming in

816
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 5: week fourteen. No everybody plays this week, but then week

817
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:55,040
Speaker 5: fourteen we get another one of these sixteen buys.

818
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:55,760
Speaker 3: So ridiculous by the National Football League.

819
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:58,840
Speaker 4: Just get these things should be over with by now,

820
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 4: Like there's no point to have buys for the final

821
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 4: you're starting right now, just head into Thanksgiving and be like,

822
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 4: all right, this is our stretchern this is what we're

823
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 4: gonna deal with. But for some reason I mean there, it's.

824
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:16,160
Speaker 5: Well, what would we start week four or week five?

825
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 5: I mean, so team's got a buy right away. Okay,

826
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 5: maybe you have some triage and you stop the bleeding,

827
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 5: But tell me you don't need it week twelve or

828
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,280
Speaker 5: week fourteen, that that's not a decided advantage for some squads.

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00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 4: Again, we had a week eight where there were no

830
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,320
Speaker 4: teams on buye Right, it's back to in the middle

831
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 4: of what you would think would be a great time

832
00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 4: to have buys. I mean, for an eighteen game schedule.

833
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 4: If you wanted to have buys on weeks eight, nine, ten,

834
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Speaker 4: and eleven, have eight teams on bye each week and

835
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 4: get it over with, fine by me.

836
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 3: You know.

837
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,760
Speaker 4: That's that's how I think it should be be more equitable.

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Speaker 2: If anything else, why would those TV windows Dan?

839
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, those TV windows? And now with the more international

840
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 4: games and we're seeing them earlier in the season, you know,

841
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 4: I just yeah, I don't know. That's the NFL. We

842
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 4: figure it out for another day. All right, there's your

843
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 4: waiver wire again. We're going to be back for a

844
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 4: new episode coming up on Wednesday. With all of Mike's

845
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 4: rankings that get you set for again a full sixteen

846
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Speaker 4: game Week thirteen.

847
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Speaker 3: In the National Football League.

848
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 4: A lot of trade deadlines in fantasy leagues if it

849
00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 4: hasn't already come up, Mike, so something that we can

850
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,919
Speaker 4: prepare for as well. Any final thoughts as we wrap

851
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 4: up this podcast.

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00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to this coming week. It's obviously a

853
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 5: mutant when we get the three on Thursday. So when

854
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 5: it comes to injury reports and such, you gotta know

855
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 5: wing in a prayer if you're making those decisions on

856
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 5: your roster. This is one of the toughest weeks of

857
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 5: the year, not only because the trip to fan induced

858
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 5: sleep comas the amount of time you're spending with family

859
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 5: as opposed to a fixed to your phone or computer,

860
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 5: but the bigger thing of just trying to decide, Hey,

861
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,240
Speaker 5: am I starting to go on Thursday because I really

862
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 5: need to start him? Or because I'm sitting down and

863
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 5: I'm trying to entertain myself while watching I don't know, Giants, Cowboys.

864
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 4: I've I've got a quick PSA. It's because I got

865
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 4: to wrap it up. Don't quit on your league. No,

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Speaker 4: don't quit on your league. If you're out of it

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Speaker 4: right now and you have a trade deadline and you're

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Speaker 4: in a keeper league and you get trade for picks,

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Speaker 4: that's all fine and dandy, But just don't put up

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Speaker 4: crappy lineups. At least make them competitive. It's all that

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Speaker 4: anybody asks for in fantasy football. I understand that you

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Speaker 4: know you may want to unload some guys and if

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Speaker 4: things aren't well, maybe you don't have a lot of

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Speaker 4: guys anyway, and you're like, I'll just.

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Speaker 3: Get rid of my good ones.

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Speaker 4: Still try to be competitive and put a reasonable lineup. Look,

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Speaker 4: not even we're not asking you to put an all

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Speaker 4: pro fantasy team together.

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Speaker 3: Just don't quit on the league so it makes it

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Speaker 3: bad for everyone else.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, be the net, be play spoiler. Sure you

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Speaker 5: can still screw over your workmates.

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Speaker 2: Come on now and family members and friends.

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Speaker 6: The USC Trojans this weekend are facing Notre Dame and

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Speaker 6: they're going to try to upset Notre Dame to get

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Speaker 6: them out of the college football playoff hopes. That's what

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Speaker 6: you need to be as a fantasy owner.

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Speaker 2: Here some motivation, that's right.

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Speaker 4: It's the littlest It takes the littlest amount of effort.

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Speaker 4: Just don't quit. That's my PSA for the week.

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Speaker 2: There, you go, just try, all right.

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Speaker 4: Well, we'll be back with a new episode of I

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Speaker 4: Want Your Flex coming up on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: And then yeah, I get you set for those Thanksgiving Day.

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Speaker 4: Games and Black Friday and so much more so for Ian,

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Speaker 4: Roddy and Mike Karmen. I'm Dan Pyre. It's been fun.

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Speaker 4: We'll talk to you again soon here and I Want

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Speaker 4: Your Flex