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

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Speaker 2: Wouldn't you agree? You great?

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Speaker 3: Five dollars?

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Speaker 4: This is a role happny tackle hit one man.

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Speaker 1: You're saying that humans need fantasy to make.

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Speaker 2: Life bearable, Humans need fantasy to be human.

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Speaker 3: My goodness, that was good.

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Speaker 2: You guys are prose best, relentless, refusing to give up.

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Speaker 4: All right, hit that horn, Burless.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome again to another edition of the

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Speaker 2: Fantasy Flex Podcast. Right here on the Action Network has

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Speaker 2: been statistician Dane Martinez, Samantha Pravini, and Mike Triplett joining

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Speaker 2: us as power new normal. As we look at what

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Speaker 2: week seven, and I gotta start, guys, where we're almost

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Speaker 2: at the trading deadline of the NFL season, maybe your

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Speaker 2: fantasy season. And while it's not like basketball or baseball

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Speaker 2: or other sports, there is some movement in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people saw Robbie Anderson on

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Speaker 2: the sidelines in Carolina yesterday looking almost like Antonio Brown

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Speaker 2: getting sent home in the second half, and then today

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Speaker 2: we hear he has been traded to the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: Now this is really interesting because Hollywood Brown got banged

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Speaker 2: up in that game against Seattle. We also know DeAndre

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Speaker 2: Hopkins has ended his suspension and he's on the horizon. So, Samantha,

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Speaker 2: I gotta ask you, Kyler Murray is gonna have not one,

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Speaker 2: what do you expect? Because to be honest, DeAndre Hopkins

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Speaker 5: Sure, I think that DeAndre Hopkins, well, at least like

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Speaker 5: last year, I didn't think that he was that much

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Speaker 5: which is why I was concerned about him returning for

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Speaker 5: Marcus Brown's fantasy value. Of course, that's kind of out

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Speaker 5: Zach Ertz at this point. But Robbie, as far as

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Speaker 5: Robbie Anderson is concerned, by the way, as a Panthers.

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Speaker 1: Fan, just watching this whole week, go down.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's like it's painfall, Like we are becoming

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Speaker 5: So with Robbie Anderson, I don't have too too much

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Speaker 2: All right, fair enough to be honest, I have cause

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Speaker 2: Zach Ertz. I want to see how the secondary and

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Speaker 2: one of the things Samantha said was a very different offense.

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Speaker 4: Rondelle Moore has been playing more than ninety percent of

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Speaker 2: But Mike, I got to ask you, Carolina is another

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Speaker 4: But from everything I've been told, they would split the workload.

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Speaker 2: ask about what's going on in New Orleans. Now, there

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Speaker 2: Is there a chance that Andy Dalton just becomes QB

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Speaker 4: I think it's a little in between. Jamis Winston was

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Speaker 4: not quite one hundred percent yet, gotcha, And I think

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Speaker 4: that's what the Saints are waiting for. You know, if

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Okay, another thing I wanted to ask you about, Mike,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's mark Ingram is probably a safer bet than

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Speaker 3: The case has been resolved all of a sudden.

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Speaker 4: The NFL can act now in that case it wouldn't

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Speaker 2: Listen, Tyreek Hill still did work yesterday over an absolutely,

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Speaker 2: What about you, Mike, Any quarterbacks that are on your

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Speaker 4: These days, First of all, since Samantha went next level

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Speaker 4: So how about if you have that first waiver wire priority,

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Speaker 3: Everyone what a drop.

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Speaker 4: You can at least you can at least say, well,

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Speaker 3: For the rest of you.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure if you have the first waiver priority that

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Speaker 3: But now, look the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: get the job done this week. This week it was Mariota,

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Speaker 4: and it was Bailey's Appy, and it was Matt Ryan

434
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Speaker 4: out of nowhere. So the last thing I want to

435
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Speaker 4: do is try to chase the guy who I think

436
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,640
Speaker 4: I can count on for the rest of the year.

437
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:26,120
Speaker 4: Dak Prescott's only seventy eight percent rosters, so that would

438
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Speaker 4: be very exciting.

439
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Speaker 3: Not in any of my league, but I think Mariota.

440
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Speaker 4: The one good thing about Mariota is a he found

441
00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 4: Kyle Pitts finally realized he's allowed to throw to him

442
00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:37,360
Speaker 4: in the end zone. But with Atlanta winning, he might

443
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Speaker 4: actually hold on to that job. I think one of

444
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Speaker 4: the fears with him was that maybe Desmond Ritter is

445
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Speaker 4: lurking around the corner.

446
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Speaker 3: Maybe is a little bit more job security.

447
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,639
Speaker 4: That's one of the few things that make somebody on

448
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Speaker 4: this list stand out.

449
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Speaker 2: No, absolutely, And going back to some of Samantha's ideas,

450
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Speaker 2: I got to tell you, I personally would much rather

451
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Speaker 2: Jimmy G than Matt Ryan. We've made this point before

452
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Speaker 2: that Jimmy G did not have training camp is only

453
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Speaker 2: starting to build, and like Samantha saying, kind of the

454
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Speaker 2: arrow continues to be pointing up the matchup this week

455
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Speaker 2: against Kansas City. You could expect a negative game script

456
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Speaker 2: one where it is again on the arm of Jimmy Garoppolo,

457
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Speaker 2: whereas Matt Ryan is going to be welcoming back Jonathan

458
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Speaker 2: Taylor into the fold. So I could understand if the

459
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Speaker 2: Colts actually go a little bit more run heavy down

460
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Speaker 2: the road. But we will find out. For me, it's

461
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Speaker 2: Jimmy G throwing trying to keep up with Patty Mahomes

462
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Speaker 2: and the Kansas City Chiefs. What about this running back position, Samantha.

463
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Speaker 2: I mean, we've got legitimate guys on by when it

464
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Speaker 2: comes to the running back position. You know, whether it's

465
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Speaker 2: a Dalvin Cook, whether it's a Miles Sanders, whether it's

466
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Speaker 2: now at Darryl Henderson. We've got other reasons we may

467
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,679
Speaker 2: have to replace guys. And we're talking about, you know,

468
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Speaker 2: trade buds for some others. Who are some running backs

469
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Speaker 2: you have on the radar this week?

470
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Speaker 1: Sure, this is a pretty bad week for the running backs.

471
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Speaker 5: I mean in a way good because there were no

472
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Speaker 5: major injuries, no Javons Williams.

473
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Speaker 1: Type of things.

474
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Speaker 5: But Kenyon Drake definitely turned heads. He is only five

475
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Speaker 5: percent rostered, had a fantastic day ten carries for one

476
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Speaker 5: hundred and nineteen yards in a touchdown. This was his

477
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:18,280
Speaker 5: first one hundred rushing yard games since Week ten of

478
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Speaker 5: twenty twenty, currently the RB four and half PPR scoring

479
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,600
Speaker 5: with one game left now. His role was clearly augmented

480
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Speaker 5: in the second half because star running back JK. Dobbins

481
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 5: was held out of the entire second half due to

482
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Speaker 5: this knee discomfort related to the turf at MetLife Stadium.

483
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you.

484
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Speaker 5: Guys remember this, but like a couple of years ago,

485
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 5: a whole bunch of people got injured on this turf

486
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Speaker 5: so San.

487
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Speaker 2: Francisco forty nine, exactly like you unheard on the turf

488
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Speaker 2: at MetLife.

489
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Speaker 5: Right, And I was working for the New York Post

490
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Speaker 5: at the time, and I was like, is there something

491
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 5: going on with this turf. I mean, it didn't translate

492
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Speaker 5: to wins for either New York team, but certainly is

493
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Speaker 5: something to keep an eye on because JK. Dobbins is

494
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Speaker 5: coming back from that torn ACL. I don't think this

495
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 5: was like a major injury, but it could mean like

496
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 5: they think about load management a little bit more so,

497
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Speaker 5: you know, Kenyan Drake could be someone that ends up

498
00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 5: sort of returning value there. They also face Cleveland's defense

499
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 5: next week, who is there just super porous against the run.

500
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Speaker 5: They haven't been able to stop anyone been torched by

501
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:25,640
Speaker 5: Romandre Stevenson everyone like, so I definitely like that matchup.

502
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Speaker 1: He's he would probably be like my top one.

503
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Speaker 5: I mean, Dion Jackson is the one, the hero of

504
00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,040
Speaker 5: the week, if you want to say that. I mean

505
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 5: he was forty forty three percent roster definitely looks brilliant.

506
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,720
Speaker 5: It's like there's no shelf life on him, probably because

507
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 5: Jonathan Taylor seems like he's gonna return. I mean it's

508
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Speaker 5: possible that, you know, because he was so involved in

509
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 5: the passing game and he caught ten targets last last week,

510
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 5: So I mean, maybe because he was so involved in

511
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 5: the passing game, they start to use him as a

512
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Speaker 5: change of paceback. But that's kind of what Naim Hines

513
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,440
Speaker 5: is and I think that Heines is going to return.

514
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 5: He's in the concussion protocol, but it's probably another week

515
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 5: or so. So Deon Jackson is maybe like a flash

516
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 5: in the pan type situation. I mean, it's great if

517
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 5: you if you had him and you started him, and

518
00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,080
Speaker 5: then the rest of the guys, it's it's like a

519
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 5: whole bunch of bums. Dan, I've got Caleb huntleing on

520
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:19,000
Speaker 5: here from the Falcons who split carries with Tyler Lgeer.

521
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,680
Speaker 5: Neither of them were that exciting. We talked about Foreman

522
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Speaker 5: and Hubbard. Jalen Warren is someone I would say keep

523
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Speaker 5: an eye on, even though he.

524
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Speaker 1: Had a very bad game.

525
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Speaker 5: Mike Tomlin did said he did say he wants to

526
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Speaker 5: get Jalen Mooren more involved in the week prior, he

527
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:42,360
Speaker 5: actually out snapped Nagie Harrison. With Najie Harris's sort of

528
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 5: like speckled injury history. I would say definitely Warren might

529
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Speaker 5: be worth an ad, especially in deeper leagues.

530
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm intrigued by that. You know, I think

531
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Speaker 2: I made the point, whether it was last week or previously,

532
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 2: right here on the Fantasy flex rookie running backs, of

533
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 2: which Warren is one, they tea they tend to grow

534
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:05,120
Speaker 2: in touches, in trust, and in production as the season

535
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:08,240
Speaker 2: goes along. You mentioned Warren, but also you know, yesterday

536
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 2: we had a big game out of Breist Hall again,

537
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 2: another nice effort out of Kenneth Walker, the third in Seattle,

538
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 2: we saw Robinson lead the Commanders in touches on Thursday night,

539
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,640
Speaker 2: And so we're now starting to get to the point

540
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 2: where these rookie running backs know the playbook, no pass protection,

541
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,919
Speaker 2: and can also be kind of a fresh body and

542
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,720
Speaker 2: get more and more opportunity. So that Warren call is interesting.

543
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 2: I wonder though, with Drake, I really do wonder if JK.

544
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,639
Speaker 2: Dobbins is going to be healthy or not, because in

545
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Speaker 2: the last couple of games with Dobbins there, Drake took

546
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 2: a definitive back seat. So I do recommend checking on

547
00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:49,720
Speaker 2: the kind of status and the prognostication on JK. Dobbins

548
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 2: before spending fab budget on Kenyan Drake. What about you, Mike,

549
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,119
Speaker 2: what kind of running backs are on your radar? Or

550
00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 2: do you agree with Samantha that these guys are all scrubs.

551
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 4: My best advice is don't waste any of your fab butts.

552
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 4: Okay this week, Look, Drake is interesting, especially if fat

553
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 4: budget's not a consideration, if you just have a high

554
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 4: waiver priority, because he's the hot hand right now and

555
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 4: JK Dobbins. If JK Dobbins does play a lot, he

556
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 4: is not JK Dobbins yet.

557
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 3: He has not looked great recently.

558
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,959
Speaker 4: Gus Edwards is supposed to come back, but he's not

559
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 4: supposed to be one hundred percent for the rest this year.

560
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 4: So there is a chance that Drake could be the

561
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 4: guy with the most pop and they could go with

562
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 4: the hot hand. But it's just it's too crowded to

563
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 4: expect anything major there. It's even more crowded in Atlanta.

564
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,199
Speaker 4: I would not go chasing Caleb Huntley because you know,

565
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 4: just because he got those touches, he's already splitting with

566
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 4: Tyler Algier. And just wait till two more veterans come

567
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 4: back off the injury list, including Cordill Patterson there. So,

568
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,959
Speaker 4: if you're just playing with a roster spot, the idea

569
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 4: of someone like a Jalen Warrener or mark Ingram who

570
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 4: might turn into a lottery ticket is probably a much

571
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 4: better bet, you know.

572
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Speaker 2: And I like something you said there, Mike, Like you

573
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 2: don't have to put a claim in every week. You

574
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 2: know what I mean, you don't like, to be quite honest,

575
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 2: there are some leagues, especially leagues where I'm doing well,

576
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 2: where I purposely, even if there is a decent ad

577
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: out there on the wire, I save my priority, you know,

578
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,880
Speaker 2: especially if I have a good team, because I'm gonna

579
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 2: use that in case one of my guys get injured.

580
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,760
Speaker 2: Then I know that I can kind of pivot with

581
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 2: confidence that I'll get the guy when I really need

582
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 2: him instead of these speculation plays. So I like what

583
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 2: you say there, Mike, in terms of not having to

584
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 2: make a claim or use your budget or priority every

585
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 2: single week. Let's move on though, to the wide receiver

586
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 2: position here on the Fantasy Flex on the Action Network podcast, Samantha,

587
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 2: one of the guys you have is a Steelers wide

588
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 2: receiver up at the top, and I want to ask

589
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 2: you because a week or two ago we talked about Pickens,

590
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 2: another Steelers wide receiver, and I said, I thought that

591
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 2: would be great connected to Kenny Pickett because they were

592
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 2: both working with the twos. Then all of a sudden,

593
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 2: picket gets hurt, Mitch Trabisky cuck and then on key

594
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 2: third down situations it was Trubisky looking for this guy

595
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 2: who you say could be an interesting one on the

596
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 2: waiver wire.

597
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

598
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 5: Chase Claypole obviously was phenomenal. It looked like it was

599
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 5: a very tough matchup on paper against the Bucks, but

600
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 5: he caught all seven of his targets for ninety six

601
00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 5: yards get a touchdown. This was by far his best

602
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 5: game of the year. He is the wide receiver five

603
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 5: and a half PPR heading into Monday Night tied Deontay

604
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 5: Johnson for targets, outshine Johnson in picking. To your point,

605
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 5: I mean, I would be worry of going all in

606
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 5: on Claypool based on one game, though, Like this is

607
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 5: a guy that I'm not totally sold on. I mean,

608
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 5: it is a juicy matchup coming up against the Dolphins,

609
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 5: whose pass defense has been pretty bad. Have allowed the

610
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 5: seventh most fantasy points two wide receivers this year. So

611
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 5: he's kind of like a risk reward type guy. But

612
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 5: like his whole career, he's just been that boom or

613
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 5: bus type guy, Like he has a three touchdown game

614
00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 5: and then you never see him again. So I don't

615
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 5: know if that's what's happening here, but I'm not willing

616
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Speaker 5: to go, you know, half my fab budget for this guy.

617
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 5: Maybe if you want toss a couple of dollars and

618
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 5: you're really lean at the position, But he's not really

619
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 5: my favorite AD. I would say Rondell Moore in the

620
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 5: near term we talked about him would be probably the preferred,

621
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Speaker 5: higher priority AD. He's forty six percent rosters, so he's

622
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 5: out there just over half of the league's He has

623
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 5: definitely been a target.

624
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 1: Hog, like I said, and Brown's.

625
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,360
Speaker 5: Out, so's it looks like a good situation at least

626
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 5: for the next couple weeks. Alec Pierce and Paris Campbell actually.

627
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: Both had good games.

628
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Speaker 5: Now to Mike's point, this could be chasing some points

629
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Speaker 5: here just because you know, there's there wasn't really much

630
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 5: to suggest that Campbell was going to have a good game.

631
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 5: He just kind of came out of nowhere. Pierce, though,

632
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 5: has been trending in the right direction, four straight games

633
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 5: with eight or more Fantasy points in half PPR. So

634
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 5: I mean, I like him as a prospect. I think

635
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 5: he's he's just an exciting type players, a big guy.

636
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 5: So they played, they faced the Titans. We already talked

637
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 5: about that matchup. That'll be a good one. So I

638
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 5: like him there. And then Taekwon Thornton, this was his

639
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 5: second game of his NFL career, caught the touchdown. It

640
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 5: actually was used as a running back a little bit too,

641
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 5: so he did miss the first couple of games of

642
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 5: the year with a fractured clabical. But I don't know

643
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 5: if you guys remember this. He ran an unofficial four

644
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 5: two one at the Combine, which was gonna be like

645
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 5: a combine record. It was later ruled a four point

646
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 5: two eight. But I mean, obviously clearly just a speed demon.

647
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 5: So if the Patriots actually looked pretty good with Bailey

648
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 5: Zaffi unders center, I don't know if this is just

649
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 5: like a reinvigorated offense or whatever. But Taekwon Thornton could

650
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 5: have some deeper league appeal, especially if you play in

651
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 5: any kind of like keeper format. I would really like.

652
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: To roster him there.

653
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, but just like you said, reinvigorated offense could just

654
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 2: be because they were facing the Cleveland Browns defense from

655
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: Andre Stevenson. Remember Than Eckler the week before that I

656
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 2: think ran for like one seventy plus. So we'll see

657
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 2: about that. Hey, Mike, before I have I have a

658
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 2: question for you for inside knowledge, but before we get

659
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 2: into that, any wide receivers that you're intrigued by on

660
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 2: the radar here in the wave wire.

661
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel bad.

662
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,480
Speaker 4: I mentioned last week that I really wanted to like

663
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 4: Alec Pearce, but couldn't trust the Colts offense enough since

664
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 4: they couldn't even get Michael Pittman going. Little did I

665
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 4: know that they were gonna throw for three hundred and

666
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,479
Speaker 4: eighty nine yards and get every receiver going. So so

667
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 4: I agree with Samantha on Rondell More being the one

668
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 4: I would pick up this week. But while Alec Pearson

669
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 4: maybe Wandale Robinson as long term stashes if you don't

670
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 4: need to start someone this week and you want to

671
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 4: keep watching them. I was a little surprised my old

672
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 4: colleague at ESPN, Jordan run On, has seen so many

673
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:48,640
Speaker 4: receivers come.

674
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Speaker 3: And go in New York.

675
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 4: I thought he might pooh poo a hot day for Robinson,

676
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 4: but instead he went out and he said, here's my

677
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 4: fantasy advice. Go get Wandale Robinson, because you know, he

678
00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 4: thinks he's an actual talent that was only held back

679
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 4: from the games he missed and might be a guy

680
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 4: who quickly emerges in this receiving course, so that makes

681
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 4: him kind of kind of interesting. And another one, this

682
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 4: is the absolute boring pick, safe pick, but maybe if

683
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 4: you're in a really deep league. Jay Jones just keeps

684
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 4: being clearly the number two receiver in Jacksonville. I mean

685
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 4: he's getting the touches, he's getting the snaps, he's getting

686
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 4: the targets. So that's a little different than some of

687
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 4: these other places where we're trying to figure out three

688
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 4: and four guys keep taking turns. Jay Jones is always

689
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 4: their their top two guy.

690
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 2: No, that's true. And listen, Jacksonville is going to be

691
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 2: a kind of throwing offense with Trevor Lawrence, Doug Peterson

692
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 2: at the helm, right, and so I can see them

693
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 2: being in some negative game script games as well coming

694
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 2: up looking for is Zay Jones? What I wanted to

695
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 2: ask you, though, Mike. I had this thesis right that

696
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 2: we talked about here, that you know, oh, Kenny Pickett

697
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 2: equals George Pickens because they work together in training camp,

698
00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 2: they practice together with the twos, and then oh, Mitchell Trubisky,

699
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 2: he looks at his familiar target in Chase Claypool. Is

700
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 2: there any merit to that in general? I know it's

701
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 2: a case by case basis, Mike, but is there any

702
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 2: merit to the fact that these guys do build chemistry

703
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 2: with the kind of ones or twos that they practice with,

704
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,839
Speaker 2: and if they get out there on Sundays they look

705
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 2: for the kind of familiar set of hands. Is that plausible?

706
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 2: Do you hear about that? You know, when you're around

707
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 2: in the NFL, that there are guys who get more

708
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 2: familiarity or a better chemistry with certain guys and then

709
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 2: go to it when they get you know, kind of

710
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 2: the chance.

711
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 4: No, I think it's absolutely plausible, and exactly in the

712
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 4: scenario you said, when the second string quarterback has been

713
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 4: working with the second string receivers all summer long. That

714
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 4: was a little different in New Orleans, but Andy Dalton

715
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 4: talked about, you know, feeling you know, Jameis Winston missed

716
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 4: a lot of time this offseason with an ACL injury,

717
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 4: so he said when he got when Andy Dalton got

718
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 4: thrown into the game, he said, I actually got to

719
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 4: work with these guys a lot this offseason and that

720
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 4: made a huge difference in my transition being with with my.

721
00:34:59,000 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 3: First year with the team.

722
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Speaker 4: I think you hear that very often when you see

723
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to think now if that has been

724
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 4: the case with anyone that Bailey's aviy has been going

725
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 4: to in New England. Because what whoever Bailey's abbey is

726
00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 4: throwing to, it's working right now.

727
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Remember the Jets have gone from Joe Flacco

728
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 2: back to Zach Wilson and mister Elijah Moore has not

729
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 2: been targeted as much. And he had something to say

730
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 2: about that, although he tried to couch it in the

731
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 2: context of how he's saying something but still not saying

732
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 2: anything and being a good teammate. I've got one last

733
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 2: wide receiver to throw out there, and it's gonna sound

734
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 2: really really ugly. We talked about guys coming back, DeAndre Hopkins,

735
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 2: for example, on eighty seven percent of rosters. There's a

736
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 2: guy coming back, I believe from IR who's only on

737
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:48,479
Speaker 2: three percent of rosters. And I'm talking about Green Bay

738
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,799
Speaker 2: Packers wide receiver Sammy Watkins. Okay, we see that the

739
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 2: Packers cannot figure out what they want to do at

740
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 2: the wide receiver position. We see that Aaron Rodgers does

741
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 2: not build trust with young wide receivers very quickly. I

742
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,959
Speaker 2: could see a universe where when Sammy Watkins comes back,

743
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,919
Speaker 2: he does all of a sudden become the number two

744
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:14,280
Speaker 2: targeted guy behind Alan Lazard, just because Aaron Rodgers trusts

745
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 2: the veteran to like know where he's going to be

746
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 2: on certain routes. Remember, he got hurt a few weeks ago.

747
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 2: He is slated to return off of injured reserve in

748
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 2: the next week or two as well. So just another

749
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 2: name to throw out there. But with that.

750
00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 5: Injured reserve is like an evergreen statement for Sammy if

751
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 5: he can stay. So if he stay in the field,

752
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 5: I mean, that's one thing, but it's also not week one.

753
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: That's silly, that's only weak that he can he could

754
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: do anything of him.

755
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 4: For those who only listen to the audio version of this,

756
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 4: I can only describe Samantha's face as unconvinced.

757
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 3: While Dane, that's fair, that's fair.

758
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 2: You know who else on Green Bay. Samantha started out

759
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 2: being unconvey but she's gotta be convinced by now as

760
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 2: we go to the tight end position. I am talking

761
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 2: again about a Green Bay Packer, my guy Robert Choppin Tunyans,

762
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 2: who I think led the Packers in targets and receiving

763
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 2: yards in their loss to the j E. T. S Jets,

764
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 2: Jets Jets. I've been talking about him, Samantha for weeks,

765
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 2: and now he's got to be on your list too.

766
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 5: At this point, he has been definitely on my radar.

767
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 5: I'm not a non believer of Tanyan or anything like that.

768
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 5: That that was a crazy.

769
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: Game, I mean it.

770
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 5: I did not expect the Packers to lose to the

771
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 5: Jets and the Giants, and then we're just exactly yeah,

772
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 5: but yeah. Obviously Tonyan was one of two Packers to

773
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 5: have a good day. I mean, lazard from the end

774
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 5: zone but caught ten of twelve targets for ninety yards.

775
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 5: Is the tight end five, So, I mean, he's as

776
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 5: good as you're probably gonna get off of these waiver

777
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 5: wire type guys. We've talked about them being touchdown dependent.

778
00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 5: At least he's got some targets around him right now.

779
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 5: And to your point with Rod not really trusting or

780
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 5: maybe placing a lot of trust in these younger type guys,

781
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 5: he could start leading on Tony and especially in the

782
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 5: red zone. So I like him there, especially if you

783
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 5: have a tight end on buy this week he's forty

784
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 5: two percent rostered.

785
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 2: Any other tight ends that you that you're liking, because again,

786
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 2: we've got guys we have got teams on by you

787
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 2: know that actually are rosterble. I mean Dawson Knox is

788
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,080
Speaker 2: on rosters and he's going to be on a bye

789
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 2: this week. Dallas Goddard is being relied upon from fantasy

790
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,239
Speaker 2: managers and he's going to be on by this week.

791
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 2: Are there any others that you would see as something

792
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: more than a dart throw?

793
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:39,320
Speaker 1: Yeah?

794
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 5: So I think Noah's been interesting. He's been interesting for

795
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,240
Speaker 5: the past couple of weeks. Caught six of seven targets

796
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 5: for forty five yards.

797
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 1: Disley is the.

798
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 5: One that started out with the really hot hand. I mean,

799
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 5: he had three touchdowns of the first four games, and

800
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 5: now he was just held to one catch last week,

801
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 5: So I think of the two, I mean, we kind

802
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 5: of forget about him because he just had some brutal

803
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 5: years in Denver.

804
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,879
Speaker 1: But and we didn't expect much out of him.

805
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,240
Speaker 5: We didn't expect much out of this whole Seahawks offense,

806
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 5: to be clear, it wasn't specific to no a fair

807
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 5: or anything. So he's been pretty surprising. He's only eleven

808
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 5: percent roster, so he's out there in a lot of leagues.

809
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 5: He's got the Chargers, Giants, and Cardinals coming up next,

810
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 5: So I like that. We already talked about MIKESICKI he

811
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 5: could definitely be a bye week streamer. I mean, look,

812
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 5: I had I had a guy. Actually it wasn't even

813
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 5: a bye week. I had Pat Fryermouth as my only

814
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 5: tight end in my sixteen team league.

815
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 1: So he's out and I had to pick.

816
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:39,240
Speaker 5: Up Cameron Bray who got injured during that game. Of course,

817
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 5: I mean that's all that's on the waiver wire. When

818
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 5: you have a bench of ten guys in a sixteen

819
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 5: team league, like I don't carry two tight ends night

820
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 5: in that League, So that kind of stunk. I mean,

821
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 5: Kayda Auten could be in his name if you're in

822
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,719
Speaker 5: a really deep lead to six six percent rostered.

823
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: And then the last guy I'm gonna mention is Hunter Henry.

824
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: He was actually one of.

825
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 5: My sleeper targets and maybe I was just a few

826
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 5: weeks off here, but he's coming off of.

827
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 1: A couple pretty good games.

828
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 5: Week five, he caught four or five targets for fifty

829
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 5: four yards and this week he caught four seven targets

830
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 5: for sixty one yards and a touchdown.

831
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: So with this offense.

832
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 5: Looking a little more reinvigorated, I don't mind picking up

833
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 5: him as a buy week replacement.

834
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 2: Okay, what about you, Mike, any tight ends that are

835
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 2: on your radar? I know Samantha covered a lot of them,

836
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 2: and you know it's kind of the bottom of the

837
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 2: barrel you've been on the Jags offense. Still talking about

838
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,320
Speaker 2: Zay Jones. Evan Ingram has been involved there in Jacksonville

839
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: a little bit as well. But you're giving me that

840
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,439
Speaker 2: uh yeah space yet again.

841
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 4: Well yeah, I mean Evan Ingram is like the standard

842
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 4: you know, well, you know, you know what you're gonna

843
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 4: get out of him. He's having the least vollatile of

844
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 4: all of them. If you want your five points, I

845
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 4: guess or whatever it is, ge get Evan Ingram, although

846
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 4: I will say it's so funny that Samantha mentioned that

847
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 4: I'll brag because this never happens. I found out last

848
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 4: night in the press box, and I see that Dalton

849
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,160
Speaker 4: Schultz is out, and I, for some reason was I'm

850
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 4: prepared for it in my twenty team league, so I

851
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 4: picked up Jake Ferguson and Jake Fish. Maybe the difference

852
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 4: between a win and a loss. So every once in

853
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 4: a while it's better to be lucky than good at this.

854
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 4: But no, Robert Tunyan is the one who actually kind

855
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 4: of interests me because you're talking about quarterbacks who trust guys.

856
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers has spent the whole season having trouble finding

857
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 4: someone he can trust and and I have a feeling

858
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 4: that that could continue because that's a guy he has

859
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 4: depended on in the past, and and maybe maybe maybe

860
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 4: there's something to that you would want to you do

861
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 4: like the the trend you've seen with Hunter Henry, but

862
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 4: also Jonah Smith is starting to ramp back up, and

863
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 4: Tykwon Thornton is back, so I don't know if the

864
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 4: opportunity will still be there for him. It's hard to

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Speaker 4: did agree if if Samantha hadn't mentioned Noah Fan. I

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Speaker 4: do like the uh, the the upswing we're seeing there,

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Speaker 4: But if you're relying on any one of these guys,

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Speaker 5: Look, everyone's in trouble if you don't have trust like

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Speaker 5: Mark Andrews at this point, or like.

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Speaker 2: A zach Ertz or a Taysom Hill for goodness sakes,

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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you this, like honestly, someone listening to

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Speaker 2: this podcast right now in your league, like someone is

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Speaker 2: gonna be forced to like drop Dawson Knox this week

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Speaker 2: because they don't want to, and but they have to

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Speaker 2: go snap them up. If you're hurting at the tight

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Speaker 2: end position. I don't think it'll happen with a Dallas

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Speaker 2: Goddard type, but there are some. It happens with the

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Speaker 2: bye weeks all the time, and we are now firmly

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Speaker 2: in trench into the bye week, so you always want

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Speaker 2: to look at that and see who's coming back off

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Speaker 2: by or get ahead of it and even take the

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Speaker 2: hit for a week knowing you have a definitely viable

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Speaker 2: starter moving forward. Well, that has done it for another

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Speaker 2: edition here of the Fantasy Flex Podcast, Dame Martinez, Samantha Braviti,

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Speaker 2: and Mike Triplett trying to give you everything you need

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Speaker 2: to win your leagues, win that cash. Always remember you

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Speaker 2: could hit Samantha up on the mail bag as well,

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Speaker 2: mail bag at actionnetwork dot com, the best ones out there.

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Speaker 2: She'll respond, maybe on social media or maybe right here

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Speaker 2: on the Fantasy Flex. So hopefully you've got everything you

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Speaker 2: need to hit the waiver wire, get another victory and

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Speaker 2: keep on with that playoff push. And one thing I

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Speaker 2: know is we'll all be back here next week trying

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Speaker 2: to give you some more insights on the Fantasy Flex.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us today. We'll see you next