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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, it is Friday. Welcome to another edition of

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Speaker 1: the Stardom CIDAM Show for Week three. I am Marcus

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Speaker 1: Grand joined by Michael F. Floria, who writes the Stardom

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Speaker 1: Cidem column and check that out at NFL dot com

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Speaker 1: slash stardom cit. We also have Lakwan Jones, who does

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Speaker 1: not write the Stardom Cidem column, but he's got opinions,

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Speaker 1: and so we bring him in here to talk about

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Speaker 1: his opinions with these sorts of things. But we talk

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Speaker 1: about the guys that you want to have in your

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Speaker 1: lineup and maybe the guys you want to try to avoid.

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Speaker 1: We're at all possible here in week three. Look, man,

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Speaker 1: everybody's hurt, so your choices may vary. You may be

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Speaker 1: forced to start some of these guys. I get it.

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Speaker 1: But we're gonna try and give you advice as best

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Speaker 1: as we can. So, Florida, let's start at the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Who is up and who is down?

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Speaker 2: In week three, we are playing Joe Burrow because he

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Speaker 2: is playing the Washington Commanders. That's the only reason you need,

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Speaker 2: sorry Lakwan here, same reason for Brock Purdy because the

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Speaker 2: Rams defense is just atrocious right now. Baker Mayfield is

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Speaker 2: the QB one and gets a good matchup against the Broncos.

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Speaker 2: Derek Carr is the QB two and has what it

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Speaker 2: could be a shootout against the Eagles, and then I'm

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Speaker 2: still giving Jared Goff another chance to what I think

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Speaker 2: could be a high scoring game there Sis America's team

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Speaker 2: is gonna come for me, but I think you sit

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Speaker 2: Dak Prescott this week against the Ravens. I want no

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Speaker 2: part of Justin Herbert, especially unless I'm in like a

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Speaker 2: two quarterback league or something like that. Matthew Stafford, I

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Speaker 2: just don't want to start without Cup and Pooka there,

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Speaker 2: especially against the Niners. Trevor Lawrence has been pretty bad

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Speaker 2: so far this year, and the Bills secondary has been

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Speaker 2: a lot better than expected.

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Speaker 1: So I was really gonna talk about rock party here,

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Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't want to do that to

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Speaker 1: a quand, so I'm instead I'm gonna I'm gonna ask

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Speaker 1: you about your i'ma ask you about your old Rams

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Speaker 1: quarterback Jared Goff, who has been pretty un good in

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Speaker 1: fantasy the first two weeks of the season. I mean,

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Speaker 1: right now, he is the QB twenty six, one touchdown

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Speaker 1: pass three inter seven. Is he turning back into a pumpkin?

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Speaker 1: And can he reverse that against the Cardinals this week?

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Speaker 2: He can reverse it?

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, this Cardinals defense is good. I

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Speaker 3: just think that Jared Goff is coming into more in

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Speaker 3: his chemistry with Jamison Williams lighting up the perimeter and

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Speaker 3: then a mon ros Saint Brown is getting back into

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Speaker 3: the form that we know who he is. So he's

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Speaker 3: coming off of momentum here with some production on that offense.

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Speaker 3: And I definitely feel as though, you know, Jared Goff,

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Speaker 3: he needs some time to rev up as a Rams fan,

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Speaker 3: like I've kind of seen this go through, what his

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Speaker 3: decision making and all that stuff is fairly early in

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Speaker 3: the season. But it's more so Jared Goff going up

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Speaker 3: with this should be a high scoring matchup. So I

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Speaker 3: like him this week and Florio starts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I just think there's it's hard to

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Speaker 1: get away from any of the main players in that

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Speaker 1: Cardinals Lions game because there's gonna be a lot of points.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw the ball a whole lot to miss out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll see how that goes, though, Florida, I'm gonna ask

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Speaker 1: you to dig a hole deeper with a crowd of

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Speaker 1: people who wear Tony Romo jerseys and jorts. Why exactly

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Speaker 1: we not like Dak Prescott against the Ravens a.

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Speaker 2: Number of different reasons. He has yet to score thirteen

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Speaker 2: fantasy points in the game this season, which is not good.

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Speaker 2: He's not running the ball. The Ravens defense has been

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Speaker 2: really good against the pass as well. They generate pressure

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Speaker 2: at a high rate. They've allowed just two passing touchdowns

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Speaker 2: this year, the same number of interceptions they have. They

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Speaker 2: held the Mahomes to just fifteen fantasy points in Week one,

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Speaker 2: and in their last fourteen games that is nearly a

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Speaker 2: full season of a sample size. One quarterback has reached

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Speaker 2: eighteen against them. So my thinking is, okay, Well, if

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Speaker 2: Prescott hasn't been scoring a lot of points right now

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Speaker 2: and it's a tough matchup, that lowers the floor, and

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Speaker 2: if only one quarterback has got to eighteen against this team,

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Speaker 2: if we're saying the ceiling is around eighteen, I just

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Speaker 2: don't think the risk is worth the reward there.

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Speaker 1: I just do wonder how much of this, though, is

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Speaker 1: like there's only one real target in the offense yea

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Speaker 1: to just Seed Lamb and they're trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: where else to go with the football. That can't really

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Speaker 1: Who do you like? Who do you not like? In

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Speaker 2: I like Jordan Mason because again we're playing forty nine

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Speaker 2: ers against rams. Lawan will like this one a lot more.

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Speaker 2: Brian Robinson Junior, who has beginning all of the volume,

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Speaker 2: even though I will continue to say Austin Eckler has

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Speaker 2: played well enough where he deserves more. If it's going

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Speaker 2: to Robinson, that's who it's going to. The Bengals have

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Speaker 2: struggled against the run. Zach Charboney played ninety six percent

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Speaker 2: of the snaps last week. I don't care who they

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Speaker 2: are playing. If he's getting that much volume, he is

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Speaker 2: in play. And then Xamir White, this is your last chance, buddy.

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Speaker 2: You get the Panthers. You gotta make the most of it.

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Speaker 2: My six Najie Harris against the Chargers because he's just

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Speaker 2: such a floor play and the Chargers have been really

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Speaker 2: good against the run. DeAndre Swift although on Thursday, Marcus,

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Speaker 2: you've been trying to You've kind of been talking me

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Speaker 2: into I have a league where my running backs are

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Speaker 2: atrocious and I am playing Deondre Slift, Javonte Williams against

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Speaker 2: the Bucks, Devin Singletary against the Browns. This just I'm

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Speaker 2: fearful that this will be one of those games where

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Speaker 2: the Giants offense just gets completely ran through by an

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Speaker 2: opposing a strong opposing defense. So the only one and

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Speaker 2: willing to take the shot on his Milik Neighbors and

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Speaker 2: then Jerome Ford. Because we saw last week when the

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Speaker 2: Browns have a lead, it was Deonta Foreman they fed.

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Speaker 2: This feels like a game where the Browns could have

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Speaker 2: a lead. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there are a few names out here that I

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Speaker 1: think you're interesting. But Laqwan, I know you have been

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Speaker 1: a huge Brian Robinson proponent all year long. So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna let you take a pre victory lap. I want

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Speaker 1: you leant you to get fired up about Brian. Please

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Speaker 1: tell us why Brian Robinson is that dude?

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Speaker 3: Have we not seen this dude run? There's times where

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Speaker 3: he gets stuffed into pile and we think he's done

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Speaker 3: and then he just bounces out and he's running for

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Speaker 3: like thirty yards. Like Brian Robinson Junior is an electric talent,

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Speaker 3: a dynamic running back he needs an angry run scepter.

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Speaker 3: By the way, like he runs so strong. He's a

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Speaker 3: strong nose runner. So if he's gonna be getting this

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Speaker 3: type of volume, this type of usage and getting looks

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Speaker 3: in the passing game, man, Brian Robinson Junior is in

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Speaker 3: stored for a huge fantasy season this year.

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Speaker 1: Look, I admit I was on the It's sometime, I

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Speaker 1: was on the Austin Eckler train. I was on the

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Speaker 1: which for a while turned out to be Eckler. He's

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Speaker 1: been getting a little bit of run, but this really

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Speaker 1: is the Brian Robinson show for sure.

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Speaker 3: I'm not taking any lapse on Brian Robinson very early,

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Speaker 3: but I.

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Speaker 1: Though you can.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's getting all.

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Speaker 1: The work through two weeks. Man, through two weeks, you

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Speaker 1: were looking very very right. So we'll give you that

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Speaker 1: for sure. I'm gonna look, I get it. I get

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Speaker 1: while you're saying DeAndre Swift as they sit, because the

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Speaker 1: Bears offense has looked very lost. The offensive line has

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Speaker 1: been an issue for the first couple of weeks of

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Speaker 1: the season. But what if it wasn't or better yet,

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Speaker 1: what if they were playing a run defense that was

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Speaker 1: just so bad that it didn't make a difference. The

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Speaker 1: Colts through two weeks have allowed four hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: but whatever, Nobody else is over four hundred. The Colts

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Speaker 1: on the ground. Fortunately, somehow they've only given up one touchdown,

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Speaker 1: which is sort of amazing when you give up that

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Speaker 1: many rushing yards. And I just I think right now

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Speaker 1: the Bears have to retool some things. They've got to

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Speaker 1: figure out ways to help their young quarterback out, and

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Speaker 1: maybe some of that is to establish the run. And

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Speaker 1: so look, maybe it's not all DeAndre Swift. Maybe we

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Speaker 1: see some more Rashawn Johnson, who has really struggled to

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Speaker 1: get on the field. They've been going with Travis Homer.

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Speaker 1: I don't really understand that, especially because Homer has struggled

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Speaker 1: in pass protection. But I just think they they've got

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Speaker 1: to run the football. And I do like DeAndre Swift

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Speaker 1: as a sleeper this week because he's the guy who's

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Speaker 1: in the lead in the running back position there in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Over to wide receivers, you start some sits for this week.

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Speaker 2: I'm starting Chris Godwin because if it ain't broke, don't

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Speaker 2: fix it. He's the wide receiver one on the year

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Speaker 2: right now. I am starting Jamison Williams and I will

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Speaker 2: victory lap this because a lot of people wrote Jamison

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Speaker 2: Williams off. I was not one of them. Many, No,

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Speaker 2: not just I mean the world wrote him off pretty.

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Speaker 3: Much Fantasy streets.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. And the Cardinals, I mean we've seen that that

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Speaker 2: is a defense that could be picked on a bit.

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Speaker 2: Brandon Ayuk because rams I think this is the week

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Speaker 2: that Ayuk looks like Ayuk again, DK Metcalf and JSN.

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Speaker 2: They did something last week that DK and Lockett have

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Speaker 2: never done. First Seattle Seahawks teammates ever to have ten

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Speaker 2: catches each and over one hundred yards each. They're just

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Speaker 2: that kind of volume cannot be ignored. And George Pickens,

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Speaker 2: this is the week. Last week should have been the

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Speaker 2: week he had thirteen Fantasy points called back due to penalties.

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Speaker 2: That's not happening again. And then my sits These first

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Speaker 2: two are if you can get away like Amari Cooper

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Speaker 2: against the Giants. I have some teams that are banged

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Speaker 2: up where I just simply cannot get away from him.

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Speaker 2: If you're in that position, I get it. My fear, though,

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Speaker 2: is that this is a game where the Browns just

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Speaker 2: run all over the Giants. Michael Pittman Junior against the Bears,

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Speaker 2: because the connection right now between him and Anthony Richardson

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Speaker 2: looks like it is broken. Terry McLaurin. We spoke a

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Speaker 2: lot about him on Wednesday show that he is tethered

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Speaker 2: to the left side, that they are not getting creative

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Speaker 2: with him. They're not using him downfield at all. And

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Speaker 2: because of that, until I see him use different, I

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Speaker 2: think it is okay to sit him. Christian Kirk has

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Speaker 2: twenty nine yards through two games. It is unused even

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Speaker 2: in what should be a advantage for them with Toron

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Speaker 2: Johnson out. I just don't see how you could trust

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Speaker 2: Kirk and the Jack's passing attack right now and then

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Speaker 2: Jayden Reid. I will change my tune if it's Jordan Love,

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Speaker 2: but I still think it's gonna be Milik Willis.

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Speaker 1: You makes me so sad. I'm sorry, it is so sad.

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Speaker 3: Literally, like half my team, I'm looking.

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh, man, these are all the guys that

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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I love this guy in like

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Speaker 1: the fifth round, sixth and wear.

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Speaker 3: Are values though, like I'm okay with the price we

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Speaker 3: paid for these.

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Speaker 2: Guys usually start sit wad. Receivers are hard for me

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Speaker 2: because I'm like, I could convince myself that most receivers

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Speaker 2: could play well. But this past week I had to

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Speaker 2: cut the names down because there's so many guys on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's just the jokes on you if you

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Speaker 1: That's where we are right now. Michael Pittman flora for me.

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Speaker 1: This this isn't a Michael Pittman thing. This isn't Anthony Richardson.

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Speaker 2: Alec Pierce might lead this team in receiving yards. I

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Speaker 1: They can run the ball so well with Jonathan Taylor

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Speaker 3: I think we covered that in the previous shows.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what is it? Like the thirty eight percent of

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Speaker 2: We're bad.

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Speaker 3: It's bad people.

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Speaker 1: I mean, oh no, man, Cliff Kingsbury might need to

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Speaker 1: from our podcast exactly, all right, So we've got tight ends.

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Speaker 1: Who are your starts and sists for this week?

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Speaker 2: Brock Bowers, it's week three. I don't care. He is

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Speaker 2: because the Chiefs have just been eaten alive by tight ends.

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Speaker 2: Look at what Isaiah Likely did. Mike Seki put up

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Speaker 2: Dalton Kinkaid, I think this is the week for him.

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Speaker 2: think we're still trying to figure out which game was

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Speaker 2: considering the tight end position and then the sis. I

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Speaker 1: So Kyle Pits right, we are all on Kyle Pitts.

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Speaker 1: I know that, Lakwan. There are things that are concerning.

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Speaker 3: But he's a really really good player, and I've been

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Speaker 2: That's the thing. There's like eight tight ends that you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: You don't have to spend up to get a tight end.

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Speaker 1: Football Show. In the meantime, for the Kwan Jones, for

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Speaker 1: Michael F. Florio, I am Marcus Grant, enjoy the weekend,

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Speaker 1: Enjoy Week three. May it be a prosperous and healthy

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Speaker 1: to you all next week. Bob help help Bo