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Speaker 1: It's a Friday Championship edition of the Fantasy Football Podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm Marcus Grant.

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Speaker 1: I'll be joined by Adam Rank and Michael f Florio.

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Speaker 1: We'll get you ready for all the week seventeen games,

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Speaker 1: including Saturday's big Texans Chargers matchup at SOFI Stadium, plus

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Speaker 1: Next Gen Kin breaks down the Steelers running backs, and

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Speaker 1: who is our twenty twenty five Fantasy Player of the Year,

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Speaker 1: Pooka jt CMC somebody else. Stay tuned. The podcast starts now.

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, everybody, Welcome to another edition of NFL Fantasy Live.

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Speaker 1: I'm Marcus Grant, That's Adam Rank, That's Michael f Florio. Florido,

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Speaker 1: Happy Boxing Day if you celebrate that sort of thing.

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Speaker 3: I don't, but I do celebrate the Knicks winning on

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Speaker 3: Christmas Day every year. My favorite tradition and Stranger Things

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Speaker 3: is out now too, So it's gonna be a fun

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Speaker 3: week of here in my house.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of Premier League games today. Arsenal doesn't

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Speaker 4: play till Saturday, so that it's a stress free day.

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Speaker 5: But then tomorrow the big match comes.

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Speaker 1: Top of the table, the Gunners having a good season

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Speaker 1: so far this year. Meanwhile, back to the American pitch

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Speaker 1: in the American football way of life. We got plenty

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Speaker 1: of action this weekend, especially starting on Saturday. The playoff

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Speaker 1: picture is coming into focus on NFL Network, CJ Shroud

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Speaker 1: and the Texans take on Justin Herbert and the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: It's NFL Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Watch December twenty seventh at four point thirty pm Eastern

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Speaker 1: for tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: Everything you want. Everything you play this game for, the

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Speaker 6: reason why you suit up. Everything is in front of us.

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Speaker 6: Keep attacking it the right way, take it care every

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Speaker 6: single day, operating the best you can operate every single day.

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Speaker 2: That's all is on your mind.

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Speaker 6: Dominate that day, Dominate your job one day at a time,

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Speaker 6: all right, and we will be who we gotta be.

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Speaker 7: Also worked two and zero with given the major holiday

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Speaker 7: day off. We gave Thanksgiving off this year in the

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Speaker 7: middle of the week, same strategy. So it is my

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Speaker 7: esteem to associate. Derwin James would say, how's he say

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Speaker 7: it if it ain't broke, don't fix it?

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Speaker 1: How does he say it if it ain't broke? Don't

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Speaker 1: fix it. Yeah, man, that's a pretty common phrase. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna start it with that Texas Chargers game on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: It should be an interesting one, which, as we mentioned,

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Speaker 1: you can see here on NFL Network Florida. What are

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Speaker 1: you paying attention to in that game?

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Speaker 3: Look, that wasn't Jim's best work, but he does have

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Speaker 3: my favorite quote of the season when he said Justin

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Speaker 3: Herbert took a.

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Speaker 8: Hit that would have killed a lesser man.

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Speaker 3: And speaking of Justin Herbert, I think he's a set

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Speaker 3: this week against Houston. I know he went out and

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Speaker 3: balled out last week, but that came against the Cowboys,

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Speaker 3: the best possible fantasy matchup for a quarterback. Now he

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Speaker 3: gets the other Texans team, the Texans, and they are

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Speaker 3: the worst possible matchup for a quarterback in fantasy and

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Speaker 3: they very much so can take advantage of the Chargers

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Speaker 3: offensive line issues. We know they get after the quarterback

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Speaker 3: at a high rate. And despite what he did last week,

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Speaker 3: don't overlook that in the five games prior to that,

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Speaker 3: he scored less than fifteen Fantasy points. So the floor

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Speaker 2: I could probably say CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud, but it's the holidays and I'm being polite, so

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Speaker 2: Stroud in this one.

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Speaker 1: Fewer than thirteen fantasy points in four of his last

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Speaker 1: The position this season, second fewest touchdown passes allowed, third

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Speaker 1: The other Saturday contest takes us to lambeau Field or

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Speaker 5: I don't know what John Harbaugh was doing.

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Speaker 4: However, when you look at this Packers defense, they were

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Speaker 3: So Jordan Love's been up in the air of this week.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna say that we start Josh Allen this week,

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Speaker 5: and I'm sorry, Kendll.

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Speaker 4: I know that I am the number one Josh Allen

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Speaker 5: I've got I've got a lot of questions.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if people are freaking out, but this

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Speaker 4: me and they're like, what do we do with Josh Allen?

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Speaker 4: Like, Josh Allen is a great history against the Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 2: I think this is pretty I.

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Speaker 4: Understand it's a championship game. You want to be extra sure.

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Speaker 4: Do not overthink this. Make sure you are starting. Josh Allen.

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Speaker 2: Josh Allen's been too good to get away from them.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what the matchup says.

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Speaker 1: Of course, Christmas Day was on Thursday. We had a

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Speaker 1: So that was the good side of things. But not

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, Kendall tried to do me a

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Speaker 4: So I apologize to you Kendall and George Pickens. Though

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Speaker 4: you know what, when you look at all those numbers

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Speaker 4: had nine points. I'm like, you know what, it feels

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Speaker 5: I think there's other areas.

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Speaker 4: I can make up for the ground that I've lost.

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Speaker 4: But you know what could have been worse, and thankfully

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Speaker 8: I didn't feel good at all as someone who had George.

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Speaker 9: I was like, Dak, stop staring him down, throw him

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Speaker 9: the ball, But what do ceedee Lamb Courtland Sutton Justin Jefferson,

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Speaker 8: They all gave you single digits.

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Speaker 3: In fact, four of the six qbs who played yesterday

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Speaker 3: If you played anyone else, you are hugely disappointed. You're

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Speaker 3: sitting there like, why does Netflix need two football games

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Speaker 3: on Christmas? They already had stranger things like, look, I

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Speaker 3: love watching football, but on a short week in championship week,

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Speaker 3: maybe we don't need to do this every year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's really good. We don't get paid by

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Speaker 4: these people. But okay, I always say more football please.

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Speaker 1: What was fun for me is having the two running

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Speaker 1: Gibbs and Javonte Williams on the same team in my championships.

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Speaker 2: That's great.

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Speaker 1: But for me, this is a reminder to that small

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Speaker 1: Because what we saw this past week was kind of

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Speaker 5: Your neighbor just wanders in. It's eating off the table.

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Speaker 4: I would feel comfortable start Walker against the Panthers. He

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Speaker 1: Matchup in the AFC North with the Steelers and the

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Speaker 3: Shout out to Harold Fannon Junior first and foremost, but

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Gangwell carried multiple of my teams down the late

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Speaker 1: Caleb Williams and Brock Purty face off this week on

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Speaker 1: Back to the game previews, and it is a Sunshine

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Speaker 1: stage showdown between the Buccaneers and the Dolphins and Florida.

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Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield started hot lately, not so much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, once we all started putting him in the MVP conversation,

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Speaker 1: So the Dolphins started Quinn viewers last week and he

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Speaker 4: they have the second most rushing yards in the NFL

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Speaker 4: this year in San Francisco. For as great as they've

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Speaker 4: played ever since Fred Warner went out, they have struggled

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Speaker 4: ats stopping the run. There are few, if any teams

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Speaker 4: that give up more yardage on the ground than the

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Speaker 4: forty nine Ers. So DeAndre Swift and Kyle mcanunguy are

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Speaker 4: both in play for a championship week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm flexing Kyle mcnung guy in a championship myself,

444
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Speaker 3: And in that same lineup, I am starting Brock Purdy

445
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Speaker 3: because Purdy and the forty nine Ers the last couple

446
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Speaker 3: of weeks have been the healthiest they have really been

447
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Speaker 3: all year, and to no surprise, he top twenty six

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Speaker 3: Fantasy points in each of his last two with eight

449
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Speaker 3: touchdown passes in those games, and the Bears they've allowed

450
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Speaker 3: the fifth most touchdown passes this season. I know George

451
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Speaker 3: Kittle is up in the air, but Juwan Jennings is

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Speaker 3: there see them. See there's a lot of different ways

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Speaker 3: they could win through the air, And given what the

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Speaker 3: forty nine Ers defense has been, I think this has

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Speaker 3: a chance to be a high scoring, back and forth

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Speaker 3: kind of game. So yeah, I'm starting brock perty and

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Speaker 3: I think a lot.

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Speaker 8: Of you should as well.

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Speaker 1: Thinks it's gonna be a sneaky high scoring game between

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Speaker 1: these two teams coming up this weekend. But as we

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Speaker 1: take a little bit more of a look at his

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Speaker 1: time now for the season, presented by caesar Sports Book

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Speaker 1: and according to Caesars Sports Book, here are the most

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Speaker 1: likely players to score the first touchdown during this week's

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night showdown between the Bears and the forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey no surprise, at the top of the list,

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Speaker 1: followed by DeAndre Swift. Of course, George Kittle, as Florio mentioned,

468
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Speaker 1: still uncertain for the game. Followed by Khamanunguy and Colston

469
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Speaker 1: Lovelin rounding out the top five. So of that group

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Speaker 1: or maybe somebody not listed there, Floria, who do you

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Speaker 1: think finds the end zone first?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been taking some deeper shots as of late here,

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Speaker 3: but I really like that number next to CMC. So

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Speaker 3: I'm going to go with Christian McCaffrey because he has

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Speaker 3: eight touchdowns, eight in his last five games, and he

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Speaker 3: leads the NFL in games with a touchdown this season

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Speaker 3: at eleven, plus he could do it on the ground,

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Speaker 3: he might be their top target, especially in the red zone.

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Speaker 8: Of George Kittle does not suit up this week against

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Speaker 8: a team that has.

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Speaker 3: Allowed a lot of touchdowns, I think there's gonna be

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Speaker 3: a lot of points scored in this game, and CMC

483
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Speaker 3: certainly gonna get his good share of them.

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Speaker 1: So a little bit later in the show, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do our fantasy MVP, But for now, I'm going to

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Speaker 1: take a look at some of the biggest flops of

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Speaker 1: the fantasy season. Lamar Jackson, who was drafted as the

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Speaker 1: QB two, has been banged up this year. He's currently

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Speaker 1: the QB nineteen. Isaiah Pacheco drafted is the RB twenty four.

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Speaker 1: He is RB fifty one Brian Thomas Junior, a significant

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Speaker 1: standing from where he was taken in drafts, and Evan

492
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Speaker 1: Ingram thought he'd be the joker. Apparently the joke was

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Speaker 1: on us. He's currently the tight end twenty nine. So

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Speaker 1: I guess me to a little call me crazy. But

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Speaker 1: as we bring back an old favorite segment on this

496
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Speaker 1: show talking about some guys that underperformed this year that

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Speaker 1: maybe we feel a little bit better about heading into

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. So, Florio, who do you think returns

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Speaker 1: to glory next year?

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Speaker 3: This might not be the craziest call, but I'm going

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Speaker 3: with my guy Jaden Daniels here, who It's just been

502
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Speaker 3: a lost season for him, right like, he missed time

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Speaker 3: due to a knees, brain, a hamstring strain, and then

504
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Speaker 3: a left elbow dislocation. None of those are injuries that

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Speaker 3: I worry about hampering him next season. And just to

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Speaker 3: remind you how good he is, he hit the second

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Speaker 3: most Fantasy points ever by a rookie quarterback, arguably the

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Speaker 3: greatest rookie quarterback season in real life terms, and this year,

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Speaker 3: in games that he finished, there wasn't many of them,

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Speaker 3: but he averaged twenty.

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Speaker 8: Fantasy points per game, which is exactly what he did

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Speaker 8: last season. And because he missed time, I think.

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Speaker 3: You get a discount on him come draft season next year.

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Speaker 3: So I will be drafting a whole bunch of jad

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Speaker 3: and Daniels, and I think you should as well.

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Speaker 4: Right, all right, call me crazy, but Ashton Jent is

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Speaker 4: going to live up to his fantasy potential next season.

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Speaker 4: Not that he was a flop necessarily this year. He

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Speaker 4: did finish as the running back thirteen, but a lot

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Speaker 4: of people were drafting him in the first round.

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Speaker 5: You were drafting him.

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Speaker 4: As perhaps the running back five, the running back six

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Speaker 4: somewhere there. Obviously, there's going to be a lot of

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Speaker 4: questions with what happens with this Las Vegas Raiders organization.

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Speaker 4: We don't know if Pete Carroll is going to return

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Speaker 4: for another season. We don't know who the quarterback is

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Speaker 4: going to be. There is a big matchup this weekend

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Speaker 4: between them and the Giants for potentially the number one

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Speaker 4: overall pick. There are a lot of questions to be

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Speaker 4: answered with the Las Vegas Raiders over the next couple

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Speaker 4: of months. But one of the things that I can

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Speaker 4: be certain of is that whomever the coach is next year,

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Speaker 4: they are going to make Ashton Genty the focal point

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Speaker 4: of this offense. If they go out there and invest

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Speaker 4: in this offensive line, Ashton Genty could be one of

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Speaker 4: those guys who surprises a lot of people, especially since

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Speaker 4: so many folks were burned this year by him. They

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Speaker 4: might avoid him, but I'm going all in on Ashton

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Speaker 4: Genty next season.

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Speaker 1: Call me crazy, maybe it's not that crazy, but Justin

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Speaker 1: Jefferson is going to rebound. He's just way too talented

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Speaker 1: and even in a season that has been pretty disappointing

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Speaker 1: to say the least, still.

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Speaker 2: A chance for him to get a thousand yards receiving

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Speaker 2: this year.

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Speaker 1: Look, the biggest thing for the Vikings this offseason is

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Speaker 1: going to be to figure out the quarterback situation. Is

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Speaker 1: it JJ McCarthy, is it somebody else? But either way,

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Speaker 1: whoever the signal caller is next year, I expect the

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Speaker 1: priority is going to be to get number eighteen involved

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Speaker 1: as much as possible. And yeah, maybe you do get

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a discount, maybe he comes off

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Speaker 1: the board in the second round instead of top of

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Speaker 1: the first. But either way, Justin Jefferson too good to

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Speaker 1: be this bad again next year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then at tight end you could call me crazy.

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Speaker 3: But Colson Lovelin, Look, he was banged up to start

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Speaker 3: the year. The Bears were clearly easing him in because

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Speaker 3: of that. We saw him playing behind Cole Comet early on,

560
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Speaker 3: but as of late, he has been ascending, averaging twelve

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Speaker 3: Fantasy points per game since Week nine. So the handpicked

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Speaker 3: first draft pick by Ben Johnson, he has shown he

563
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Speaker 3: could play at a high level. I think this season

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Speaker 3: they will draw more plays around him and he explodes

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Speaker 3: next year. But I think he's going to be a

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Speaker 3: popular breakout pick, so unlike the other guys, I don't

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Speaker 3: think you get a discount on him next year.

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Speaker 2: We weren't wrong on Colston Lovelin, we were just early.

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Speaker 3: That is Mile Williams his third of the year trufendus

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Speaker 3: over the shoulder catch game on in Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: That's a little taste of what we saw all year.

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Speaker 2: It was for brilliant NFL Fantasy Live.

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Speaker 4: Drake may firmly in the conversation for NFL MVP, But Michael,

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Speaker 4: you say it's the defense this week that we need

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Speaker 4: to be looking at.

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Speaker 3: For yeah, because they get the Jets and it's all

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Speaker 3: about matchups when playing defenses. The Jets have allowed the

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Speaker 3: fourth most fantasy points per game two opposing defenses, and

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Speaker 3: they've taken sacks at the second highest rate this season.

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Speaker 8: But things have been.

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Speaker 3: Worse since Brady Cook has taken over. The Saints scored

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Speaker 3: nineteen against them last week. The Jacks had ten the

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Speaker 3: week before. It's not every week where I'm like there's

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Speaker 3: a moustar defense. But the Patriots, yeah, they feel pretty much.

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Speaker 8: Starty this week.

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Speaker 4: Bill Belichick once quipped on to Cincinnati, and I will

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Speaker 4: get myself to Cincinnati by saying start Joe Burrow against

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Speaker 4: the Cardinals. He's at least nineteen fantasy points in three

589
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Speaker 4: of four. The Arizona Cardinals have allowed fifteen touchdown passes

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Speaker 4: in the last six weeks. That is the most in

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Speaker 4: the NFL. They have no takeaways in three out of

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Speaker 4: their last four games. So I know a lot of

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Speaker 4: you have asked a question about Joe Burrow. I am

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Speaker 4: here to say that you start him. And earlier in

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Speaker 4: the show, I was talking about Ashton Genty for next year. Michael,

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Speaker 4: what do we do with Ashton Genty? This week against

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Speaker 4: the Giants.

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Speaker 3: Well, I do think he has a big year next year.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's quite done this season. He has

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Speaker 3: a fantastic matchup against the Giants, who willow the most

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Speaker 3: yards per carry, yards before contact, and we know batt

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Speaker 3: has been an issue for genty in this offensive line.

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Speaker 3: They also allow explosive runs at the highest rate. So

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Speaker 3: I think he's going to see a lot of volume

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Speaker 3: against a defense that gives up a lot of big plays.

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Speaker 8: He just might win you at each hYP after all.

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Speaker 4: Moving on to Saints at Titans, A lot of sleepers

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Speaker 4: in this one, but when I'm looking at particularly Taja Spears,

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Speaker 4: who leads the team in reception since Week six, he's

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Speaker 4: at at least ten touches and two out of his

611
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Speaker 4: last three games, he has the eighth most receiving yards

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Speaker 4: amongst running backs since Week six, and the Saints have

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Speaker 4: allowed the most this excuse me, the six most yards

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Speaker 4: per game to running backs this season, which means both

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Speaker 4: running backs are probably in play. All right, now it

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Speaker 4: is time to take a look at the year that

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Speaker 4: was with a minute with Marcus.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Adam, and so we have come to the end.

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Speaker 1: It's the end of waiver picks and trade requests. It's

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Speaker 1: the end of scouting, target shares and snap counts. It's

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Speaker 1: the end of sleepers and busts and chasing upside. It's

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Speaker 1: the end of setting lineups because it's the end of

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Speaker 1: fantasy football season. But endings also come with beginnings. So

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Speaker 1: as we turn the page, it's time to look ahead.

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Speaker 1: It's time for combines and draft guides. It's time for

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Speaker 1: mock drafts and ADPs. It's time for draft boards and

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Speaker 1: risers and fallers. Mostly, it's a time for rebirth and renewal,

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Speaker 1: the rebirth of hope, the renewal of belief, believing that

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Speaker 1: next year will finally be your year, Believing that the

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Speaker 1: next draft will be the best draft, because the joy

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Speaker 1: of fantasy football is that success is always around the corner,

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Speaker 1: that things will get brighter, that tomorrow the sun will

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Speaker 1: come out. You're only a sleeper away, So don't stop studying,

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Speaker 1: don't stop drafting, don't stop believing. Hey man, let's get

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Speaker 1: after it next year. This has been a minute with Marcus.

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Speaker 4: Let's get ready, well, last time take it to the rank.

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Speaker 4: All right, thank you so much, Marcus one final time

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Speaker 4: here for taking to the rank coming in and over

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Speaker 4: a sixty percent clip this season, and I gotta.

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Speaker 5: Pulling it out number one.

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Speaker 4: First of all, I wanted to go with one about

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Speaker 4: bow Nicks, and when I did the homework on Tuesday,

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Speaker 4: I had a bow Knicks note in there. Kendall backed

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Speaker 4: me up on this, didn't I say bo Nicks more

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Speaker 4: than fourteen and a half Russian's right?

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Speaker 10: It was there, But obviously we had to pivot because

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Speaker 10: that game was yesterday.

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Speaker 8: We do take it to the rank today.

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Speaker 5: Thanks pivot, Pivot, pivot. We are gonna pivot.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Kendall and I tried this with Derek Stevens one time.

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Speaker 5: Didn't work.

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Speaker 4: There are all right, Let's go to Arizona at Cincinnati.

657
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Speaker 4: Jacoby Pressent has win one of the most consistent quarterbacks

658
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Speaker 4: in the NFL since he taken over as this starter

659
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Speaker 4: of the Cincinnati Bengals. He's had at least two touchdowns

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Speaker 4: in eight games since becoming the curder there in Week six,

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Speaker 4: the Bengals have allowed the second most passing touchdowns this season.

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Speaker 4: So I will say it on quite some authority, Jacoby

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Speaker 4: Brissett has more than one and a half touchdowns this season,

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Speaker 4: and you.

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Speaker 2: Could take it for the rank earlier.

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Speaker 4: Rud Oh, All right, let's go on to Carolina. Well

667
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Speaker 4: in Seattle, Bryce Young has been playing some pretty good football.

668
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Speaker 4: We saw at the end of last year after he replaced,

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Speaker 4: after he got replaced by Andy Dalton, he came back

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Speaker 4: in playing pretty well. It's got the Carolina Panthers in

671
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Speaker 4: position to win the NFC South. Now he's got a

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Speaker 4: tough matchup against the Seattle Seahawks. As great as the

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Speaker 4: Seahawks defense has been this season, they actually make quarterbacks

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Speaker 4: throw the ball a ton because teams are losing at

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Speaker 4: the end of the game, they're throwing the ball to

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Speaker 4: play catch up. So here, I'm gonna say that Bryce

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Speaker 4: Young attempts more than thirty and a half passes against

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Speaker 4: this Teahawks team, and you're gonna take her to the rank,

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Speaker 4: to the rank?

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Speaker 2: What go on?

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Speaker 5: It right out here?

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Speaker 2: Finally, one of.

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Speaker 4: The places where we have absolutely crossed this year. It's

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Speaker 4: predicting players who are gonna have touchdowns. Fourteen out of

685
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Speaker 4: fifteen weeks, we have correctly identified a player who is

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Speaker 4: gonna score.

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Speaker 2: So this week, let's.

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Speaker 5: Talk about Darren Waller.

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Speaker 4: Darren Waller, when he came back to the NFL, people

690
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Speaker 4: were making fun of his wrap albums or all that stuff.

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Speaker 4: But one of the things that we need to realize,

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Speaker 4: Mike McDaniels offense features the tight ends. It's one of

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Speaker 4: the reasons why John hus Smith was so good last year.

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Speaker 5: So it shouldn't have.

695
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Speaker 4: Been a shock that Darren Waller has come out there

696
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Speaker 4: and also made a lot of noise from the tight

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Speaker 4: end position.

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Speaker 2: So this week, going up.

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Speaker 5: Against the Timpa Bay Buccaneers, who.

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Speaker 4: Have allowed a six receiving touchdowns to tight ends since

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Speaker 4: Week ten, I say that Darren Waller gets into the

702
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Speaker 4: end zone, he'll be carrying a football and having account

703
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Speaker 4: at six points and you can take it to the

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Speaker 4: rank through to the rig and there it is.

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Speaker 5: Take it to the rank for this season is done

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Speaker 5: for the year.

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Speaker 4: But go ahead and catch me onto the insiders twice

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Speaker 4: a week starting on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: All right, and then let me time here's some fantasy fuego.

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Speaker 1: Here are some of the hottest breakout Fantasy Stars.

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Speaker 2: In twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: Drake May who's in in the conversation for real NFL MVP,

713
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Speaker 1: follow with Chase Brown, George Pickings, Jake Ferguson, all having

714
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Speaker 1: fantastic seasons, but it is time to look ahead one

715
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Speaker 1: last time for us to get a little bit of

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Speaker 1: fantasy zen, to get our fantasy chakras aligned with our

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Speaker 1: own fantasy guru, Michael left Florio. What do you have

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Speaker 1: for us this week?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone, except for

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Speaker 3: the man who thinks that the holidays are all about

721
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Speaker 3: just breaking out your credit card.

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Speaker 8: But just like the man, Sean Payton charges taxes.

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Speaker 3: That's right, his rookies have to pay that tax and

724
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Speaker 3: that's what happened to RJ.

725
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Speaker 5: Harvey early on.

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Speaker 3: But since their bye week he has averaged nineteen Fantasy

727
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 3: points per game. And his running backs Peytons are extremely

728
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Speaker 3: valuable in fantasy because no offense targets them in the

729
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Speaker 3: passing game more than that groovy coach Sean Payton. So

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Speaker 3: we haven't seen a running back handle the majority of

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Speaker 3: ground passing and goal on work since Alvin Camara.

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Speaker 8: But that is what I think the explosive RJ.

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Speaker 3: Harvey can become, so he continues his late season breakout

734
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Speaker 3: and returns top two, not peace two round value. But

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Speaker 3: just keep that between us, because so that he goes

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Speaker 3: a little bit cheaper next year.

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Speaker 8: And then go with the flow this summer.

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Speaker 3: Woh going on and we go from Duval, from Denver

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Speaker 3: to Duval. We're the only player in the NFL who

740
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Speaker 3: could make me jealous of his hair because everyone was

741
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,839
Speaker 3: coming for his luscious locks, and now he's hot, they

742
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Speaker 3: all want him. That's right, Sir, William Trevor mid Lawrence,

743
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Speaker 3: who after this week shall be forever known as League

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Speaker 3: Winner Lawrence.

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Speaker 8: The QB one. In the Fantasy Playoffs, he is shown

746
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Speaker 8: to have.

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Speaker 3: A totally groovy floor and ceiling. He clearly has something

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00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 3: cooking up right now with Liam Cohen, and I know

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Speaker 3: you care about Week seventeen.

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Speaker 8: He is going to win you a championship. Go and

751
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Speaker 8: start him.

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Speaker 3: But whether you are like me and you got hair

753
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 3: like this, or you're like Rank, you can live the

754
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 3: long haired, don't care life this week and this summer

755
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Speaker 3: by simply trusting Trevor and going with the flow.

756
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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.

757
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: We come back time from the Big Fantasy Award of

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00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,840
Speaker 1: the City, Jason Who will be the most valuable player?

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00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 10: Is it?

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00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,760
Speaker 1: Josh Allen said, Jonathan Taylor, isn't somebody else stick.

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00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 2: Around if we hand out some hardware?

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Speaker 1: When we return, get ready for kickoff with Rich Eisen

763
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: and the crew will break down all the fallout from

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Speaker 1: the Christmas and Saturday games. New England Patriots died in Hunter,

765
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: Henry shares why he's confident in quarterback Drake May. Plus,

766
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Speaker 1: the Bears and forty nine Ers face off as both

767
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: teams look to keep their hopes for the number one

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Speaker 1: seed alive. All that and more Sunday at nine a

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Speaker 1: at Eastern. Speaking of the Bears, a piece of injury news,

770
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Speaker 1: rome O Doonza is out again Sunday. The Bears wide

771
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Speaker 1: I will miss his fourth straight game as the stress

772
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: fracture in his foot still hasn't fully healed. So all

773
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Speaker 1: week all we've been doing our fantasy awards. We wrap

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Speaker 1: it up with the big one, the MVP for the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five fantasy season. We each have a nominee,

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Speaker 1: starting with our friend the Kimmy Chucks.

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Speaker 2: Kimmy, who are you.

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Speaker 11: Nominating Fantasy MVP for this season? Is none other than

779
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 11: Josh Allen. The fantasy quarterback number one finish should be

780
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 11: absolutely no surprise since he had not won not two

781
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Speaker 11: but three different games this season with over thirty seven

782
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Speaker 11: fantasy points, making the most by any quarterback in the

783
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Speaker 11: Super Bowl era. But as if those thirty seven plus

784
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 11: fantasy point games seem like just pie in the sky coincidences,

785
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 11: he quietly also had eight other games with over twenty

786
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 11: three fantasy points while being tied for leading of the

787
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Speaker 11: league with the most total offensive touchdowns this season. Josh Allen,

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Speaker 11: you may be a regular season MVP, but you're also

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Speaker 11: a fantasy MVP for the twenty twenty five season.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Jimmy all Right, Floria, who are you nominating?

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Speaker 3: Look, I don't think any player means more to their

792
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 3: team in real life than Josh Allen, But for fantasy,

793
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 3: I'm going with Trey McBride, who has scored eighty three

794
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 3: point four more fantasy points than any other tight end

795
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:12,839
Speaker 3: this season. The next biggest positional gap is at running back,

796
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 3: where CMC has thirty more fantasy points then the RB two,

797
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,520
Speaker 3: So no player in fantasy gives a bigger advantage than

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Speaker 3: Trey McBride. Especially since he wasn't even the first Titan

799
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Speaker 3: drafted this summer, even though I.

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Speaker 8: Was saying all year he should be. But yeah, I

801
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 8: think Trey McBride MVP for Fantasy this season.

802
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,479
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go with Puka Nakula, who has scored three

803
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 4: hundred thirty three and a third points to be the

804
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Speaker 4: wide receiver, won five games with at least twenty seven

805
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 4: Fantasy points, leads the NFL and receptions this season, averaging

806
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Speaker 4: close to one hundred.

807
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Speaker 5: And fourteen yards per game.

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Speaker 4: And when you think about all the wide receivers who

809
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 4: were drafted ahead of him, we're talking about guys like

810
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,160
Speaker 4: Jamar Tase, Justin Jefferson, many others. A lot of you

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Speaker 4: wanted to fade Pooka and Akua during the summer. I

812
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 4: told you not to, and it is paid off in

813
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 4: a big way.

814
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Speaker 2: In the division.

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Speaker 1: And mine is Christian McCaffrey, who early in draft season

816
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Speaker 1: I was seeing him go in the mid to late

817
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Speaker 1: second round. People were completely off of CMC. But with

818
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Speaker 1: all the injuries in San Francisco, at some point Kyle

819
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Speaker 1: Shanahan just decided to build the whole plane.

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00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 2: Out of McCaffrey. Touches.

821
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Speaker 1: The top score in all of fantasy football, has scored

822
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: a touchdown in eleven of fifteen games, is on pace

823
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 1: for over four hundred and twenty touches this season, and

824
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Speaker 1: probably will be in the conversation as a top three

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Speaker 1: pick for.

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Speaker 2: It next year. So those are our nominees.

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Speaker 1: We put it to you all out there for a vote,

828
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Speaker 1: and the winner of the twenty twenty five Fantasy MVP.

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Speaker 2: Award is Pookna come buy a nose.

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Speaker 1: Just edging out Christian McCaffrey. We okay with that rank, Now,

831
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Speaker 1: I'm good with it.

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Speaker 4: I sincerely thought it'd be CMC, but I think both

833
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 4: of them are good, both of them worthy choices.

834
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Speaker 1: But all right, all right, So Christian McCaffrey just getting

835
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Speaker 1: edged out by Pooka Nikoua, but apparently belongs in the

836
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Speaker 1: NFC West. All right, Time now for your questions, because

837
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: it is still championship week. Time for a little bit

838
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: of championship chatter. So we go to you and we'll

839
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Speaker 1: go around the horn here, Florida'll start with you. Are

840
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: we starting DeAndre Swift of the Bears or Michael Carter

841
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: of the Cardinals. Championship is on the line.

842
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, Championships on the line for everyone this week.

843
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 8: I like both, but I'm gonna go with DeAndre Swift

844
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 8: there in a good matchup.

845
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: All right, Ranked, this one is for you, Michael Wilson

846
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 1: or Teterroll McMillan because the targets and technically easier matchup,

847
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: McMillan seems like the better choice.

848
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 4: You know, I think a lot of our job is

849
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 4: just reinforcing what you already want to do. You are

850
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 4: showing me you want to go with Ted McMillan. Don't

851
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 4: second guess yourself. Both of them are great options. Similarly,

852
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 4: I would also go with McMillan as well.

853
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: All right, follow your good on that one. Go with

854
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: Teterroll McMillan. And which quarterback for this this week? For

855
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: the title game? Purty, Brissette or Baker all have great matchups.

856
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna go with Jacoby Brissett in a

857
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:57,880
Speaker 1: game that I think could be a score fest. It's

858
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 1: either Brisett or Perty to me, I'm gonna lean with

859
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette.

860
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 2: All right.

861
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: Before we wrap things up, time for some fantasy New

862
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 1: Year's knowledge. Consider these are fantasy football resolutions for next season,

863
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: and Floria, what do you have?

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00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 2: Sorry?

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00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 8: Nerds. The elite running backs are worth it. I'm drafting

866
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 8: them next, somewhere in the first round.

867
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 4: All right, Rick, don't let people bully you out of

868
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 4: play picking the players that you want. People didn't want

869
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 4: me to pick CMC this year.

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00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 5: I did. I'm glad I didn't listen.

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00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 2: All Right.

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00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: I was saying this, Embrace chaos, Embrace kickers. I like

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Speaker 1: that randomness in there that shouldn't just be solving for X.

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Speaker 1: It's not a Matthew equation. Let's go out and have

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Speaker 1: some fun with that one. Thanks for tuning in to

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Speaker 1: the Fantasy Live edition of the Fantasy Football podcast. Me

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Speaker 1: Florio n LQ will be back in your feet on

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