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Speaker 1: Wow, what is up? Welcome to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Live Podcast. Meet your man, nam G Marcus

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Speaker 1: Grant and I have a friend in the studio. Welcome,

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Speaker 1: Cynthia Freeland. It's good to see you here again. It's good.

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Speaker 1: I know you were here when I first got of

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Speaker 1: weren't here during the season. But it's good to have

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Speaker 1: you here in week seven. You know, good to holiday seasons,

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Speaker 1: family time or family exactly exactly. So, yeah, Michael Fabiano

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. I think our man, Edward L. Murphy is

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Speaker 1: back home in New York enjoying the holidays. But behind

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Speaker 1: Good to have you. How are you, guys. I'm a

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Speaker 1: like you probably don't want to hear this. Well, as

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Speaker 1: in and helping out with us. Uh, it is weeks seventeen,

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Speaker 1: so we'll talk a little bit about weeks seventeen for

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Speaker 1: those of you who are still playing, whether it's you know,

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Speaker 1: a season long points league, if you're playing daily, what

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Speaker 1: have you. Will give you some of our picks for

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Speaker 1: my favorite moments from seventeen. And also I have a

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Speaker 1: So I'll tell you everything that's gonna happen in nineteen.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be great. In the meantime, let's do

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Speaker 1: some news, alright, A couple of quick headlines. The Rams

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Speaker 1: mean Cynthia. They don't necessarily need him, I would think

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Speaker 1: the C. J. Anderson Show, though if he doesn't go.

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Speaker 1: Anderson on Monday's podcast, if you want to go back,

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Speaker 1: you can listen to that. He talks about his big

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Speaker 1: Week sixteen against the Cardinals. Steelers running by James Connor

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Speaker 1: for those of you who care to dabble in that

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Speaker 1: The week seventeen best value maybe the guy that isn't

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Speaker 1: Can you run on the rams? Sure? Oh you can't?

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Speaker 1: and injury replacements here, Jeff Wilson has an opportunity. Their

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Speaker 1: for Leonard Fournette has been just a vexing one because

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Speaker 1: Beard's the key that's note to sell for drafting next year.

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Speaker 1: give Rashot Penny the starting job next year. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: for you. Enjoy that. I still say friends don't let

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Speaker 1: Christmas to all. Absolutely, So before I let you go, though,

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Speaker 1: I had a few questions. Just got some general NFL questions,

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Speaker 1: kind of wanted to kind of, you know, get esoteric

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Speaker 1: about my first one. What was your favorite NFL thing

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Speaker 1: a team in particular game, but your favorite NFL thing

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Speaker 1: from this season. I liked how many rookie running backs

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Speaker 1: mean too fantastic matchups there with Nick Chubb has eight

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Speaker 1: teen carriers and back to back game since Hide was traded,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be lowing him RB two. The Kansas City

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Speaker 1: Chiefs obviously aren't great in the run defense, and the

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Speaker 1: Falcons have lost a lot of key players. But yeah, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I don't think this changes much about how we've evaluate

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Speaker 1: their offense for fantasy, just because Hailey has been so predictable.

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Speaker 1: Hugh hasn't really done much of anything in his tenure there,

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Speaker 1: so I can't really say we changed too much. Oh man, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we sort of, I will say we whipped on it.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's get more excited. I mean, it turns

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Speaker 1: out Baker Mayfield maybe one of the guys that were

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Speaker 1: really getting excited about next year. Nick Chubb looked fantastic

436
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Speaker 1: down the stretch. He ends up as the RB fourteen

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Speaker 1: on the season, and uh, we were sort of just

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Speaker 1: like about the whole thing. So, uh yeah, that was

439
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Speaker 1: kind of a I don't say a swinging a miss.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's swinging a fouled off to the left, I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Uh, the next biggest story and maybe one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest stories, not just in fantasy. But in

443
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 1: the NFL all year, the Levion Bell hold out, I

444
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Speaker 1: mean Leve Bell and the Steelers basically called each other's

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Speaker 1: bluff this year. And I don't know that any of

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Speaker 1: us actually saw that coming. And you all season long,

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Speaker 1: no matter how much leave the late his return, we

448
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Speaker 1: all just knew, I mean, we just knew that he

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Speaker 1: eventually had to come back by like week ten, But um,

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Speaker 1: what if he didn't. So the minute that they couldn't

451
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Speaker 1: come to a deal, it was pretty much felt that

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Speaker 1: he would show up the first week of the season

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Speaker 1: exactly as he had in the past. Then he didn't.

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Speaker 1: Then it was maybe he's waiting for the bye week.

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Speaker 1: Then it wasn't the bye week. Now it's maybe it's

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Speaker 1: waiting for the very last day that he can possibly

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Speaker 1: show up, which is November thirteen. So the c b

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Speaker 1: A says that if you want to be eligible to

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Speaker 1: play in any one season, you need to arrive by

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Speaker 1: the Tuesday after the tenth week, so that would be Tuesday, November.

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Speaker 1: And now literally today, I've decided that he really may

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Speaker 1: not ever show up. And this is what's so crazy

463
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Speaker 1: about this, because so many things have been reported that

464
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Speaker 1: actually aren't really correct, and that's just because the c

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Speaker 1: B A is that complicated. But that was a narrative

466
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Speaker 1: that was the storyline earlier in the year that he

467
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 1: needed to be on the active roster for six games

468
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Speaker 1: to accrue a season. He's already accrued enough season. He's

469
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Speaker 1: already got the five years, so that's not the issue.

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Speaker 1: He cannot be tagged with the same tag more than

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Speaker 1: one or he kept meaning the second tag. So he

472
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Speaker 1: was already tagged one time last year, then this year

473
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Speaker 1: he was tagged a second time. If he doesn't show up,

474
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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that he gets the second tag. It

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Speaker 1: means that now he has the third year of the tag.

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Speaker 1: And so there's really the only reason for him to

477
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Speaker 1: show up this year is to a make some money

478
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,040
Speaker 1: and be show that remind everyone that he really is

479
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Speaker 1: this truly utterly dynamic or as his agent said, once

480
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Speaker 1: in a generations, because the numbers that James Connor is

481
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 1: putting up are certainly laying light of that a little bit. Yeah,

482
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,080
Speaker 1: you know, this was one that really shook up the

483
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Speaker 1: world when it came to fantasy, especially for a lot

484
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Speaker 1: of folks who spent a very high draft pick on

485
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Speaker 1: Levian Bell we should thank him because it certainly introduced

486
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Speaker 1: us to James Conner as a real fantasy factor this season.

487
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Speaker 1: And now we could spent a whole offseason spitting out

488
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Speaker 1: hot takes on where Levian Bell might end up and

489
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 1: what it means for the team that he lands with

490
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Speaker 1: and what it means for his fantasy prospects. Oh, it's

491
00:23:31,840 --> 00:23:34,800
Speaker 1: going to be a long and frustrating spring and summer.

492
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Speaker 1: But man, this was one that nobody really saw coming.

493
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: And uh, it had a lot to do with how

494
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Speaker 1: the fantasy season played. Uh. My number one thing from

495
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Speaker 1: the year Josh Gordon getting traded. Now after a strong

496
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Speaker 1: finish to there was a belief that Josh Gordon would

497
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Speaker 1: be fully back in things you know, obviously didn't quite

498
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Speaker 1: work out that way. After nearly being released, Gordon ends

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Speaker 1: up getting traded to the New England Patriots, which led

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Speaker 1: us to probably the most spontaneous moment we've had on

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Speaker 1: the show this year. Not to cut off this segment,

502
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: but Ian rapports some news guys live news here. Uh,

503
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 1: Patriots are getting close to a deal for Brown's Josh

504
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: pardon not official ahead of that way. Why why does

505
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,199
Speaker 1: it always go to the page, Why it always goes

506
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: to the Patriots, always, always, always, always Why this is

507
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,400
Speaker 1: why everyone who doesn't love the Patriots hates them. Why.

508
00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,399
Speaker 1: There there's pros and cons here, but I think the

509
00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,639
Speaker 1: pros far away the cons with this move. If if,

510
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Speaker 1: if it doesn't work out, what do the Patriots lose? Nothing?

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Speaker 1: You're not making me feel better about nothing, dude, But

512
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, but but you're not a Jets fan.

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Speaker 1: You know I'm tired to watch the Patriots way as

514
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Speaker 1: a Plato. I'm not gonna lie to you because like

515
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Speaker 1: I don't have to be I don't have to be

516
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Speaker 1: neutral in this whole thing. I'm tired of watching the

517
00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: Patriots whin. I'm tired of them being smarter than everybody

518
00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 1: in the league. I'm tired of the league letting them

519
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: sales be outsmarted by this team. How how because you

520
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen. They're gonna make this deal and Bill,

521
00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:07,879
Speaker 1: but I was just gonna give them a handful of

522
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: damn magic beans. All right, then give some damn magic beans.

523
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: The Brown's gonna get a ho hell and attend speed

524
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: and Josh damn playoffs, and were to do this again.

525
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 1: I'm tired, I've had enough. Yeah, okay, So things didn't

526
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 1: quiet work out the way we thought they would, obviously

527
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Speaker 1: Josh Gordon having to step away for his mental health issues,

528
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Speaker 1: and certainly wish him the best with that. But man,

529
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Speaker 1: at the moment, it just felt like the Patriots had

530
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Speaker 1: gotten another one over on the rest of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, so I maybe I overreacted a little bit. Dum.

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Speaker 1: Sorry not sorry. Hey, you know we appreciate it listening

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Speaker 1: obviously all teen season, and you know, for those of

534
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: us who are doing this, for those of you who

535
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: love fantasy football, you know that it's pretty much just

536
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: onto the next Now. I I don't I don't put

537
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: this out there because I just don't want people to know.

538
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Speaker 1: But I do have a time machine, and I fast

539
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 1: forwarded twelve months from now. I have seen the future.

540
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 1: I have sat in this very seat in December of

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, and I saw everything that is going to

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00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: happen with the twenty nineteen fantasy season. So for those

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Speaker 1: of you who just wanted to be a surprise, who

544
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 1: don't want any spoilers, uh, you know, you can feel

545
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: free to shut the podcast off now. I wish you

546
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,880
Speaker 1: nothing but happy tidings in the new year, and we'll

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Speaker 1: get ready to to see you uh in twenty nineteen. No,

548
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,160
Speaker 1: no harm, no foul if you want to just check

549
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 1: out right now. But for those of you who want

550
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,399
Speaker 1: to get a leg up on what's going to happen

551
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: with everything else in twenty nineteen, you want to be

552
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: better than your league mates, uh, stick around because I've

553
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:52,400
Speaker 1: got the twenty nineteen fantasy season in sixty seconds. Can't

554
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: give me that drum loop? Alright? The preseason opens with

555
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,159
Speaker 1: the bait over whether Todd Gurley, say Kwon Barkley, or

556
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey should go number one over all. Frank Gore,

557
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: he's an RB four. Patrick Mahomes is still amazing. Baker

558
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: mayfields better than we imagine they'll you occasionally have to

559
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,400
Speaker 1: mute his name on Twitter. Knew will be the first

560
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: receiver taken, and it will be weeks when you wonder

561
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 1: how he didn't go number one overall. Davante Adams will

562
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: catch twenty touchdowns because oh yeah, the real Aaron Rodgers

563
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: is back and he's coming for his QB one crown

564
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,159
Speaker 1: left Bell's back is the first lieutenant of Captain Andrew

565
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: luck the Jaguars defense gets its Mojoe back, and you

566
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 1: end up having to mute the words Jalen Ramsey on Twitter. Hey,

567
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,479
Speaker 1: Frank Gore's an RB three. Now kickers are still a thing.

568
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 1: Justin Tucker in the twelfth and still your strategy. David

569
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: Johnson's back, Larry Fitzgerald is it, Josh Rosen is better.

570
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick throws four touchdowns, but of course the week

571
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Speaker 1: you start him, he throws four interceptions to DeVante Parker.

572
00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 1: Breakout finally happens in Buffalo for the fifth trade year.

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Speaker 1: Your friend took Philip Rivers in the tenth for the

574
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: fifth trade year. She's gonna make the playoffs. The team

575
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,560
Speaker 1: you built in August will look nothing like your December

576
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: playoff team. Instead, it's a late afternoon waiver add in

577
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: Week six team that seals the championship. It's Frank Gore

578
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: in the flex because Frank Gore will never die on

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Speaker 1: tow Uh. Finally, as I wrapped this one up, I

580
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Speaker 1: just I really just kind of want to have a

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Speaker 1: serious moment and just say thank you to so many

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00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: of you out there. And I tweeted this and Thanksgiving,

583
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: but I felt like I wanted to say it here

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00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,439
Speaker 1: on the podcast for all of you who listened. Um,

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00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: those of you who have been listening to this show

586
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 1: for a while, know that this year went through we

587
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: went through a major change, a major lineup change, I

588
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 1: kind of a format change on this show. And uh,

589
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 1: I just wanted to be honest and say that there

590
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: were moments where I don't I didn't know how this

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00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 1: thing was gonna go. I didn't know if it was

592
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: going to be a show worthy of what we had

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Speaker 1: built before here in the past. Uh. And I just

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Speaker 1: want to say thank you to all of you who

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00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: stayed with us, all of you who kept listening, and

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Speaker 1: all of you who you know hit me up on

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Speaker 1: social media, email, text, what have you. I got a

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00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: lot of encouraging words from a lot of you out there,

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00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: some of you I know personally, some of you I

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00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 1: only know basically through Twitter or what have you. But

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00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: I just want to let you guys know that all

602
00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:01,880
Speaker 1: of that encouragement came at a time when I was

603
00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: really unsure about how this thing was gonna go, and

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00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: it was appreciated more than you'll ever know. And so

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00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you to all of you.

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00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate all of you. We certainly couldn't do this

607
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,719
Speaker 1: without all of you. And UH, you know, hey, if

608
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: if we helped you in some way, that's awesome. If

609
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: we entertained you in some way, that is equally awesome.

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Speaker 1: And I just wish all of you the best in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Uh, in fantasy and just in life in general.

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Speaker 1: I certainly appreciate you. I love y'all and look forward

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Speaker 1: to doing this for who knows how much longer. We're

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00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 1: not done yet, so we're gonna keep on going. So

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Speaker 1: that's it. We are done. I appreciate all of you.

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00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: Thanks to Cynthia Freeland for hanging in there, Thanks to

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Speaker 1: Kimp behind the glass as always, and uh, for one

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Speaker 1: last time because we were off on Monday, no New

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve show for us, So for one last time

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Speaker 1: in nineteen, tell two friends to tell two friends rate

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Speaker 1: review and remember we don't need a New Year's resolution

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Speaker 1: if you're already perfect. But see it's twenty nineteen. I

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Speaker 1: am one