Speaker 1: Hello, everybody. Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: Ryan Warmley, joined on this Friday morning by debro and
Speaker 1: by fits. It's Derek Brown and Pat fitz Morris. I'm
Speaker 1: just using their nicknames. Deever, how are you feeling on
Speaker 1: this Friday morning?
Speaker 2: Oh good man, it was a good Thursday night. I
Speaker 2: know a lot of Patriots fans are not happy, but
Speaker 2: I went five and one in betting, so I mean
Speaker 2: there are things to complain about.
Speaker 3: My Wallett is not one of them this morning.
Speaker 1: Fitz, you've watched a lot of vintage Aaron Rodgers in
Speaker 1: your day. Did you feel like we were getting back
Speaker 1: to that last night?
Speaker 4: He looked pretty good. He even looked a little nimble
Speaker 4: on a couple of runs. So that was nice to
Speaker 4: see because I thought he looked kind of a mobile
Speaker 4: in week week one, like maybe this was going to
Speaker 4: be a concern. But no, he did look pretty good.
Speaker 4: So good for Jets fans. They had a rough twenty
Speaker 4: twenty three. They deserve something like this.
Speaker 1: We'll see how long it lasts. Knowing the way Jets
Speaker 1: fans typically have to suffer, it might not last too long,
Speaker 1: but for now, it did look very good here to
Speaker 1: kick off week three. This is our Friday Show four
Speaker 1: Week three. It's our key Question show. We're going to
Speaker 1: be going through our ten biggest questions on the Week
Speaker 1: three slate and trying to answer them and seeing what
Speaker 1: we think and what we expect out of this week
Speaker 1: of fantasy football. Hard to believe it's already Week three,
Speaker 1: it really does. The end season stuff does move very quickly.
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Speaker 1: key questions. Let's check in with Colin Coward and his
Speaker 1: over underpicks in our weekly challenge. Time now for the
Speaker 1: Week three Over Under Challenge, We're chatting with Colin Coward.
Speaker 1: As always, this weekly segment is presented by DraftKings. Colin,
Speaker 1: we went seven out of ten in week one, dropped
Speaker 1: a bit to six out of ten in week two,
Speaker 1: but still a record of thirteen and seven so far
Speaker 1: on the young season. It's actually in the top ten
Speaker 1: percent of all of our participants so far, so we
Speaker 1: are starting off hot for sure. We will try to
Speaker 1: keep to our winning ways here going in Week three.
Speaker 1: As a reminder, our listeners can play along this season
Speaker 1: at fantasypros dot com Slash Challenge. Colin will dive right
Speaker 1: into a few of the players in this week's challenge,
Speaker 1: starting as always with the quarterbacks. Derek Carr stunningly, shockingly,
Speaker 1: jaw droppingly in the top three in quarterback scoring on
Speaker 1: DraftKings so far this season. Clint Kubiak is changing things
Speaker 1: up both statistically and just the vibes for the Saints
Speaker 1: right now twenty two point one fantasy points per game
Speaker 1: on the year. Do you think he continues this against
Speaker 1: Philly or would the Eagles be the defense to finally
Speaker 1: slow this thing down.
Speaker 5: Well, I will say that this is the Shanahan offense
Speaker 5: and it's working throughout the league. I do think they
Speaker 5: cool off a little. I mean, at some point, you know,
Speaker 5: trees don't grow to the sky, as stock market pickers say, like,
Speaker 5: you just don't play this well forever. But I don't
Speaker 5: think it's a mirage. I think they've added speed on
Speaker 5: the perimeter. I think Alvin Kamara is off to a
Speaker 5: great start and has been a great back when used properly.
Speaker 5: This is a coordinator story. Derek Carr is comfortable and protected.
Speaker 5: I think he remains and does anybody really like Philadelphia's
Speaker 5: defense here? They're on a short week. That Atlanta O
Speaker 5: line is really physical. Eagles could be a little bit
Speaker 5: beat up. It's like when you play the Niners, the
Speaker 5: Lions with great o' lions, the Cowboys in their prime
Speaker 5: with great o' lines, you're a little beat up in
Speaker 5: the front seven. I think I think they'll cool off
Speaker 5: a little. I think it's a very very close game
Speaker 5: and lower scoring than we're getting used to with the Saints.
Speaker 5: But I don't think this is a mirage. I think.
Speaker 5: I think between Kamara, the protection and Clint Kubiak, it's
Speaker 5: a real team and a real story.
Speaker 1: You mentioned folks not really believing the Eagles defense. The
Speaker 1: lasting memory we have at the Eagles defense right now
Speaker 1: is that Monday night finish.
Speaker 5: So that last drive was a layup drill for Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 5: I mean it was just seven on seven down the field.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. So we'll see. We'll see if
Speaker 1: the Saints keep this up. Another quarterback we wanted to
Speaker 1: hit on Lamar Jackson at Dallas. He's up at twenty
Speaker 1: three point three fantasy points per game so far on DraftKings,
Speaker 1: a bit down in Week two, but still number two
Speaker 1: across the first two weeks of the season, behind only
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. Actually ISAA Ravens fan personally, I'm a bit
Speaker 1: worried about what Michael Parsons is about to do to
Speaker 1: this offensive line. What do you expect out of Lamar
Speaker 1: in this one?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: They I believe they lead the NFL in yards. They're
Speaker 5: a toe away from beating Kansas City and Arrowhead. This
Speaker 5: is a go either way game. I like Baltimore because
Speaker 5: I like Lamar in big spot if you take out
Speaker 5: the Kansas City Chiefs. He has a nineteen and fourteen
Speaker 5: record against playoff teams in his career. Now that includes
Speaker 5: the Chiefs, so if you take the Chiefs out, it's
Speaker 5: obviously much better. Dak is not good against playoff teams
Speaker 5: in his career, So I like Baltimore in this game.
Speaker 5: I think I'd be a little concerned. It would probably
Speaker 5: be a stay away game for me. I've always had
Speaker 5: this theory that when a talented team at home is humiliated,
Speaker 5: they tend to really play well the next week. That
Speaker 5: was an embarrassing loss for the Cowboys. I think I
Speaker 5: would stay away from Lamar this week. They'll be spots
Speaker 5: throughout the year where he can be better serviced or
Speaker 5: better used. I think i'd stay away this week with Lamar.
Speaker 5: I worry too about Micah Parsons and that defense rising.
Speaker 1: Up a little. Let's get to the running backs. You
Speaker 1: already kind of alluded to him a little when we
Speaker 1: were talking about Derek Carr. Alvin Kamara is in this
Speaker 1: week's challenge as well, obviously, also going up against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: He's up at thirty four and a half Fantasy points
Speaker 1: per game now, obviously a lot of that is carried
Speaker 1: by his ridiculous explosion in Week two, but it's just
Speaker 1: been a very excellent start to the season. He looks
Speaker 1: really good to the eye test in my opinion as well.
Speaker 1: He's number one fantasy running back on DraftKings by a mile,
Speaker 1: nearly ten points per game, higher than anybody else. We
Speaker 1: already talked about Derek Carr. Do you think the running
Speaker 1: game continues against the Eagles?
Speaker 5: No, because I think I will say this is where
Speaker 5: I think the Saints slow down, So the Eagles back end.
Speaker 5: You have to make choices against the Saints, right, you
Speaker 5: have to pick something to stop in Shanahan's offense. And
Speaker 5: I think if I was Philadelphia on a short week,
Speaker 5: I would pick stopping Alvin Kamara. I'd say, let Derek
Speaker 5: Carr be me over the top. I'll take my chances.
Speaker 5: I think Philadelphia's entire game plan is we have got
Speaker 5: to get our arms around Alvin Kamara. We do not
Speaker 5: believe Derek Carr is going to win a shootout against
Speaker 5: us in our pass rush. So again, this is a
Speaker 5: bit of a sell in this spot. I love Alvin,
Speaker 5: but when you play these diverse offenses and they have
Speaker 5: all their pieces. You have to make choices. If you
Speaker 5: were the defensive coordinator for the Eagles. Alvin Kamar is
Speaker 5: a great player. Derek Carr is having a great year,
Speaker 5: but as a okay player. I think Kamara comes back
Speaker 5: down to earth this week. I like the Saints to win,
Speaker 5: but I think the offense comes back down to earth.
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs is another running back in this week's challenge,
Speaker 1: going up against the Titans. Obviously, the Packers, you know,
Speaker 1: pulled out a win despite having Mlik Willis starting at quarterback.
Speaker 1: Did you see anything out of this offense that makes
Speaker 1: you think we're gonna see, you know, anything different from
Speaker 1: Jacobs or is this going to be just another I mean,
Speaker 1: assuming it's Milik Willis. I guess they're still talking about
Speaker 1: as at the time of this recordy Jorian Love maybe playing,
Speaker 1: But do you expect really big usage from Jacobs? Again,
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 5: I see usage, but not production. Tennessee's defense is really good.
Speaker 5: It's a really really good defense. And with Jordan Love playing,
Speaker 5: I believe he practiced this week, They're gonna limit his exposure.
Speaker 5: They're gonna run the football. I don't know if they're
Speaker 5: gonna have a lot of success. So I think Green
Speaker 5: Bay they've got tremendous off remps of weapons. But this
Speaker 5: is a do we play him or not decision? Right,
Speaker 5: And my guess is, if it's Willis playing, they're gonna
Speaker 5: run a lot of Willis. They're not gonna make him
Speaker 5: throw it five times. If Jordan Love plays, they don't
Speaker 5: want to expose him. So my takeaway is, because Tennessee's
Speaker 5: got a real pass rush, you don't want to put
Speaker 5: Jordan Love, who's seventy percent, up against that Tennessee pass rush.
Speaker 5: I think they're gonna give a lot of carries to
Speaker 5: Josh Jacobs. I question how effective he'll be. I see
Speaker 5: I feel like a downer this week. I think offenses,
Speaker 5: I think there's gonna be week threes, four and five
Speaker 5: are a little bit of true serum. I think this
Speaker 5: has been a weird year where we have some surprises.
Speaker 5: I think some of these red hot teams come back
Speaker 5: down to earth. I think Jacobs will get a lot
Speaker 5: of carries. I question the success.
Speaker 1: You've been a bit of a downer, you know, in
Speaker 1: the last couple of games. I'm curiously if we will
Speaker 1: be for this next matchup, James Connor against the Lions.
Speaker 1: I love this Cardinals Lions game. I am so excited
Speaker 1: to watch up. It is my favorite matchup of the week.
Speaker 1: James Connor has over twenty fantasy points per game on
Speaker 1: DraftKings this season. They do project Detroit to be the
Speaker 1: number one rushing defense for Week three. What do you
Speaker 1: think Connor can do against them?
Speaker 5: I think he's going to succeed. I think Marvin Harrison
Speaker 5: having such a good game scares Detroit because McBride's an
Speaker 5: exceptional tight end. So again, when you face Arizona, you
Speaker 5: have to make choices. You're gonna play spy defense with
Speaker 5: Kyler Murray, you may Detroit may roll over coverage with Harrison.
Speaker 5: You have to take McBride seriously, and these weapons aren't
Speaker 5: going away. I think Connor's going to have a very
Speaker 5: big year.
Speaker 1: I think he's an.
Speaker 5: Excellent player, So I think Arizona. I think when you
Speaker 5: have a generationally elusive quarterback, with a top tight end,
Speaker 5: with an emerging star at wide receiver, it's made for
Speaker 5: running backs to have good seasons. I think Connor is
Speaker 5: going to have a pro Bowl level season.
Speaker 1: On the other side, you we'll go to the wide
Speaker 1: receivers here on the other side of this matchup am
Speaker 1: and Ross Saint Brown against the Cardinals. Saint Brown just
Speaker 1: fifteen Fantasy points per game so far this season, outside
Speaker 1: the top twenty, surprisingly from where he was being drafted.
Speaker 1: What do you expect from him on the other side
Speaker 1: of this one.
Speaker 5: I think he has a big game. You're going to
Speaker 5: get into. You're not going to hold down Arizona. Detroit's
Speaker 5: not going to keep Arizona to fourteen points. So Detroit's
Speaker 5: going to have to score. Plus when you're on the
Speaker 5: road against in Arizona, they play pretty well at home.
Speaker 5: Even if you get a lead, you're going to keep
Speaker 5: the foot on the pedal. Also, Ben Johnson has not
Speaker 5: had a couple of great weeks so Detroit. Even though
Speaker 5: Detroit beat the Rams, I think Detroit feels like they've
Speaker 5: played really weak football. I think Detroit's going to come
Speaker 5: in here with their hair on fire a little bit
Speaker 5: and they want to they want to re establish their
Speaker 5: offensive identity. I mean, Hutchison was great last week. That's
Speaker 5: been established. He's now like all world Miles Garrett level, TJ.
Speaker 5: Watt level. I think this is a I think this
Speaker 5: game feels like thirty three thirty I think it's a
Speaker 5: really incredibly entertaining game, and I think most of the
Speaker 5: skilled people in this game are going.
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Speaker 1: biggest questions here for Week three, starting off with Texans
Speaker 1: at Vikings. Despite having a lot of appealing options, the
Speaker 1: only Texan with multiple strong fantasy weeks so far to
Speaker 1: start the year is Nicocollins for Houston's number two option. Debro.
Speaker 1: Will week three against the Vikings be more of a
Speaker 1: Tank Dell week, a Stefan Diggs week, a Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: week if he's healthy. It seems like so far he's not.
Speaker 1: As of the time, we're recording, what do you expect
Speaker 1: for the non Nico Collins guys in this game?
Speaker 3: I mean, we're.
Speaker 2: Seeing Nico outside of him stepping up as the clear
Speaker 2: wide receiver one. I think it's gonna lean more in
Speaker 2: Tank Dell's direction this week. I mean, you look at
Speaker 2: the coverage shells for the Vikings, a lot of two
Speaker 2: high second highest rate in the NFL. Actually, excuse me,
Speaker 2: the highest rate almost seventy nine percent of their snaps,
Speaker 2: and that's lean more in Dell's direction almost seventeen percent
Speaker 2: target share. So I think, looking at just the coverage matchup,
Speaker 2: I do lean in Dell's direction.
Speaker 3: Although I will give a little bit of a nod that.
Speaker 2: Diggs does have a really good corner matchup against Biro Murphy.
Speaker 3: But if I got to pick one, it's dope for me.
Speaker 1: Fits What do you think?
Speaker 4: I feel like I have to defer to deebro on
Speaker 4: the coverage stuff, But I also think with some of
Speaker 4: the stuff that Brian Flores does trying to get pressure
Speaker 4: home against quarterbacks, maybe that means like Diggs has been
Speaker 4: kind of the low a don guy. His average depth
Speaker 4: of target has been pretty short. So maybe if the
Speaker 4: Vikings are successful bringing the pressure. Stroud's looking to release
Speaker 4: the ball a little more quickly, and Diggs is the
Speaker 4: guy and I so I'm not going to play up
Speaker 4: the revenge narrative for Stefan Diggs going against the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 4: But maybe we are due four or a squeaky wheel
Speaker 4: game for Stefan Diggs. Not that he has been complaining
Speaker 4: about his usage thus far, but maybe you maybe you
Speaker 4: grease up that axle before it starts getting squeaky here
Speaker 4: and we see a high target game for Steffan Diggs.
Speaker 4: I don't know that's that's narrative driven, but I do
Speaker 4: think there's gonna be a better, a bigger game for
Speaker 4: Stefan Diggs coming at some point. I know he had
Speaker 4: the two touchdowns in Week one, there wasn't really a
Speaker 4: lot of yardage to bolster it. I think maybe at
Speaker 4: some point soon here we're going to get a big
Speaker 4: Stefan Diggs game, hopefully if you were.
Speaker 1: Do you think the squeaky wheel game could comfort for
Speaker 1: Dell as well? Again, maybe not publicly like complaining, but
Speaker 1: only four catches this season for under forty yards.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just missed out on a big touchdown last week.
Speaker 4: So you know it's coming like that's the thing, especially
Speaker 4: if Nico and Maya Kalpa, Like I faded Nico and
Speaker 4: obviously shouldn't have. I just thought it would be a
Speaker 4: more equal split of targets. But clearly Nico has taken
Speaker 4: the crown as the alpha receiver for the Texans well deserved.
Speaker 4: He's he's a star, So I don't know, the other
Speaker 4: guys are maybe gonna have to be happier with lower
Speaker 4: target chairs like Diggs. Digs average close to ten targets
Speaker 4: a game during his time in Buffalo. That's just not
Speaker 4: gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Here, Deebro, you know, fits kind of alluded to this.
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask, are you, like surprised by how
Speaker 1: much Nico has looked like you now for given the
Speaker 1: other target competition in this offense.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not surprised that he's playing really well.
Speaker 2: I guess if there is any surprising factor of like
Speaker 2: I was in on Nico or Dell in draft season,
Speaker 2: both those guys, depending.
Speaker 3: On you know, where they were going in drafts.
Speaker 2: But I think if anything's been surprising, it's how much
Speaker 2: he's distanced himself from those two.
Speaker 3: And some of this.
Speaker 2: Does kind of go back to the coverage matchups, so
Speaker 2: maybe we see that lean in the other direction, especially
Speaker 2: with Nico. He's been on the injury report this week.
Speaker 2: I know that he's still going to play, but I've
Speaker 2: been a little bit surprised just how big the chasm
Speaker 2: has been.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our next game here, Bears at Colts.
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson's completion percentage through two games is below fifty percent.
Speaker 1: The possibility for a big play is always there, of course,
Speaker 1: but do we have to sit Colts pass catchers mainly
Speaker 1: referring to Michael Pittman until further notice given what the
Speaker 1: passing has looked like specifically fits What do you think
Speaker 1: about that one?
Speaker 4: So I have Pittman ranked wide receiver twenty seven this week,
Speaker 4: And yeah, Richardson is a below average NFL passer at
Speaker 4: this stage of his career, and that's a concern for
Speaker 4: the pass catchers tied to him, especially a guy like
Speaker 4: Pittman who doesn't really make a lot of big players
Speaker 4: or score many touchdowns, so he really needs catch volume
Speaker 4: to prop up his fantasy value. One counterpoint here, though,
Speaker 4: and maybe this is something that can perk up the
Speaker 4: spirits of down trodden Michael Pittman Investors, The Colts defense
Speaker 4: is terrible, Like it is really bad. We are just
Speaker 4: two games. They've given up I think more rushing yards
Speaker 4: over the first two weeks of this season than any
Speaker 4: team in the Super Bowl era since like the oh Man,
Speaker 4: I forget what it was like the Four Chiefs or
Speaker 4: something like that. It's it's been a long time since
Speaker 4: we have seen a run defense get trampled like this.
Speaker 4: And we know they're not really good against outside wide
Speaker 4: receivers either. Like this is a problem. Like the Colts
Speaker 4: defense is really bad. They've given up eight hundred yards
Speaker 4: of offense thirtieth and DVOA against the run, twenty ninth
Speaker 4: against the past. DeForest Buckner far and away their best
Speaker 4: defender on ir with an ankle injury. So yet, the
Speaker 4: good news for Pittman investors, if the Colts are going
Speaker 4: to be playing from behind because of this defense all year,
Speaker 4: that's going to amp up the passing volume like it
Speaker 4: has to. And I don't think that's the way the
Speaker 4: Colts want to play necessarily with Anthony Richardson being this
Speaker 4: dynamic runner and Jonathan Taylor being one of the better
Speaker 4: running backs in the league. But look, the Colts just
Speaker 4: aren't going to find themselves in many positive game scripts
Speaker 4: with this defense.
Speaker 1: Dee Bro, what do you think about the Colts pass
Speaker 1: catchers right now? And obviously Alec Pierce has been a
Speaker 1: pleasant surprise, has been on the back, so he's been good,
Speaker 1: big plays, you know. Pittman has been a disappointment. But again,
Speaker 1: it's hard when you're completing under fifty percent of your
Speaker 1: passes to have multiple effective pass catchers. So what are
Speaker 1: you doing with you know, again, particularly Pittman because he's
Speaker 1: kind of the main guy, would be interested in starting
Speaker 1: in a vacuum.
Speaker 2: I think it's two games, and I think if any
Speaker 2: of the I'm not going to say it's luck because
Speaker 2: Alec Pearce is playing extremely good, But if Michael Pittman
Speaker 2: would have walked away with either one of those stat
Speaker 2: lines over the first two games and not the games
Speaker 2: that he's had, people would feel quite different about it.
Speaker 2: And Pittman's still getting a lot of volume, man, like
Speaker 2: I mean, twenty eight percent targets here, thirty one percent
Speaker 2: first reach here. He hasn't done much with it. But
Speaker 2: I'm still starting Pittman and I'm starting Alec Pierce. I mean,
Speaker 2: just for everybody to keep this reel here. Alec Pierce
Speaker 2: is the wide receiver nine in Fantasy points per game
Speaker 2: right now. So the only pass catchers that I'm not
Speaker 2: starting for the Colts are Josh Downs and Ady Mitchell
Speaker 2: because I think they could cannibalize each other and share
Speaker 2: the slot role, which we've been talking about in the
Speaker 2: waive article the last two weeks. And so I'm still
Speaker 2: firing up Pittman. I'm with Fitzie. We're basically hand holding.
Speaker 2: I got him as wide receiver twenty eight for the week,
Speaker 2: so I get the concerns and the tough matchup, but
Speaker 2: I still think the volume is going to be there.
Speaker 1: But by the way, just because Fits brought it up
Speaker 1: on the run defense, do you think deebro DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: is gonna kind of break out for scout because I
Speaker 1: faded him all draft season I've had I've really had
Speaker 1: no interest in him at his costs, and I know
Speaker 1: the Colts run defense in particular has been absolutely abysmal,
Speaker 1: But I just still don't find myself that excited about Swift.
Speaker 1: Am I like overlooking the matchup in that sense?
Speaker 2: Nope, I think you're spot on. I mean Swift, It's
Speaker 2: not just that he hasn't done anything. His offensive line
Speaker 2: is not doing anything. You want to talk about the
Speaker 2: crooks of all the issues in Chicago right now, And
Speaker 2: we talked about that on this show during the offseason,
Speaker 2: while everybody was staring at all the shiny new toys
Speaker 2: heading to Chicago, we were all talking about like, Okay,
Speaker 2: well the offensive line is still a concern.
Speaker 3: They didn't do anything there. So I'm not in on
Speaker 3: DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 2: I think if DeAndre Swift keeps stinking it up, Khalil
Speaker 2: Herbert is going to make himself known and more present
Speaker 2: in this backfield than he has been in the first
Speaker 2: two weeks. That's gonna happen because he's definitely a much
Speaker 2: better rusher of the football. So no, I'm not in
Speaker 2: on Swift. I don't have a lot of hope there.
Speaker 2: I do think because like the point that Pat brought up,
Speaker 2: if we see anything, I'm not gonna say out.
Speaker 3: Of the weeds emerge this week.
Speaker 2: I think Caleb Williams could have a little bit of
Speaker 2: a bounce back and show some hope or some faith
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 3: Considering the matchup, let's.
Speaker 1: Go to our next question here, this is I'm kind
Speaker 1: of looping in two games together. One of them is
Speaker 1: Giants at Brown's. The other one is Lions at Cardinals.
Speaker 1: He questioned Malik Neighbors and Marvin Harrison Junior both really
Speaker 1: a arrived with huge week twos. You know, Neighbors wasn't
Speaker 1: terrible in week one, but he didn't get the usage
Speaker 1: we liked. Obviously, we know what happened with Marvin Harrison
Speaker 1: Junior in week one. Week two entirely different story. Both
Speaker 1: of them looked like absolute studs. Rovin Harrison Junior basically
Speaker 1: did it all in one quarter, but that one quarter
Speaker 1: was enough to be an elite fantasy performance. Neighbors just
Speaker 1: crushed throughout the game. Which of those two rookie studs
Speaker 1: do you like better? In week three, the Neighbors at
Speaker 1: the Browns or Harrison at home against the Lions. De Bros.
Speaker 3: Start with you here, Marvin Rison Junior.
Speaker 2: I think it's the matchup as well as I mean
Speaker 2: as well as you want to talk about quarterback play.
Speaker 3: Either way, I'm.
Speaker 2: Not saying I'm fading elite Neighbors, but we just got
Speaker 2: to talk. You know, mention what it is. It's an
Speaker 2: uphill battle. I mean, you've got Daniel Jones gonna hold
Speaker 2: him down this week as well as the outside corners
Speaker 2: for Cleveland are good. So for me, it's Marvin Rison Junior.
Speaker 2: And yes, he was absolutely fantastic in week two. I mean,
Speaker 2: good lord man, a thirty eight percent target chare. He
Speaker 2: had almost seventy percent of the freaking area yards. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I've got Marvin Arson Junior right now ranked as a
Speaker 2: wide receiver one. Milik Neighbors I have as wide receiver
Speaker 2: twenty on the week, and I actually think I need
Speaker 2: to probably drop him just a little bit more, probably
Speaker 2: wide receiver twenty four.
Speaker 1: Fit's what do you think about these two rookies for
Speaker 1: this week?
Speaker 4: I'm running counter to Debro and counter to ECR here.
Speaker 4: I've got Milak Neighbors ranked wide receiver sixteen and Marvin
Speaker 4: Harrison ranked wide receiver seventeen. Way below consensus on Marvin.
Speaker 4: And it's not that I don't like Marvin, but thirty
Speaker 4: eight percent target share, Debro, I mean Milik Neighbors sixty
Speaker 4: four percent target share last week.
Speaker 3: We're comparing size here, man, Yeah he is, he is.
Speaker 4: Already that the star attraction in Brian Dables' offense and
Speaker 4: Harrison is great, but is target share is twenty one
Speaker 4: percent for the season. That's fine. You can be a
Speaker 4: star with the target shair between twenty and twenty five percent.
Speaker 4: And I know I'm way below consensus on Harrison was
Speaker 4: last week, and I got burned in the rankings for that.
Speaker 4: I think the difference here is that Harrison is just
Speaker 4: one component in a healthy and robust Arizona Cardinals offense.
Speaker 4: He is the scrambled eggs in a nutritious, well balanced breakfast.
Speaker 4: Malik Neighbors is the breakfast burrito. Like, He's the entire
Speaker 4: breakfast in one delicious package. So like, I just think
Speaker 4: he's more essential to his offense than Harrison is to
Speaker 4: his breakfast.
Speaker 1: Burritos are elite. Oh you're selling me on, Neighbors.
Speaker 3: I'm hungry now, good lord, I'm recording this in the morning.
Speaker 3: I haven't had breakfast.
Speaker 4: Now, I bet gotta you gotta go to Torchi.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, Pat, I got real quickly your
Speaker 2: perfect idea of your perfect breakfast burrito.
Speaker 3: What is in that burrito? I need to know?
Speaker 4: Uh, scrambled eggs, Theresa Pepper's cheese. I'm good with that
Speaker 4: some sort of.
Speaker 3: Pat wins today.
Speaker 1: That one's yes, I've actually got right now in the
Speaker 1: fridge and I will be eating it after we finished
Speaker 1: recording this. My dad makes these amazing like seafood breakfast enchiladas.
Speaker 1: It's got like shrimp and crab meat and eggs and
Speaker 1: bacon and chilada sauce and cheese. And you know, when
Speaker 1: I moved out, he like taught me how to make
Speaker 1: them because they were like my favorite food used to make.
Speaker 1: But whenever you make them, you make like fifteen of
Speaker 1: them and they're huge. So I have them for like
Speaker 1: two weeks. It's just one every morning, and I've got
Speaker 1: a couple left in the fridge currently that I'm very
Speaker 1: excited about as well. Back to the.
Speaker 4: Act Bacon with you had me at bacon with seafood, Man, It's.
Speaker 3: It's like fits and chorizo. That's the one. I want
Speaker 3: to breakfast burritos.
Speaker 1: If I'm doing with breakfast burrito, I keep it simple.
Speaker 1: I'm just baking egg and cheese with some hot sauce
Speaker 1: like and I'm good. I'm a happy camper. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: before we move out this this these two games really
Speaker 1: if Molik neighbors if the Giants are facing a team
Speaker 1: other than the Browns, like a team that is not
Speaker 1: this like scary defense that we're thinking about, would he
Speaker 1: be in the wide receiver one range, because it feels
Speaker 1: like from what we saw last week, like he really
Speaker 1: should be considered generally in that top twelve, which is
Speaker 1: like what we talked about in the draft season. We
Speaker 1: were like, this is the cheapest Milikue Neighbors will ever be.
Speaker 1: He's going to get all the targets. Like it played
Speaker 1: out exactly like our optimistic views predicted it might play out,
Speaker 1: at least in week two. So if he was facing
Speaker 1: like the league average defense, like whoever's sixteenth in the
Speaker 1: league in defense that we think, would he be ranked
Speaker 1: up in that in the top.
Speaker 3: Twelve Debro, Yeah, he would be.
Speaker 2: If it was an average to below average defense, I
Speaker 2: think he the floor is top fifteen and probably put
Speaker 2: respect on his name, probably as as a wide receiver one.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, and Fit's obviously it's not an average defense
Speaker 1: that it's going against. But I just wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of highlight that he has kind of, at least in
Speaker 1: my opinion, earned the right to be ranked higher. This
Speaker 1: is just a particularly tough matchup.
Speaker 4: For sure, and I think both Molikue Neighbors and Marvin
Speaker 4: Harrison Junior are going to be first round Fantasy draft
Speaker 4: picks in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Agree with Thattal, I totally agree as well. We're consensus
Speaker 1: across the board. Let's go to the next game here,
Speaker 1: Packers at Titans. Maybe not the most intriguing matchup, assuming
Speaker 1: it's Milk Willis again. As of right now, I guess
Speaker 1: they're still leaving open up the possibility it could be
Speaker 1: Jordan Love. I'm still kind of operating under the assumption
Speaker 1: it won't be. Maybe that's pessimistic. I just can't see
Speaker 1: how it would be, how that would be smart. But
Speaker 1: I went to highlight this game just basically the insane
Speaker 1: usage we saw from Josh Jacobs in Week two. So
Speaker 1: fitz Oski is the Packers guy. Did we learn anything
Speaker 1: from Milik Willis's first start in Green Bay about how
Speaker 1: to approach the Packers in fantasy? As long as Jordan
Speaker 1: Love is not playing.
Speaker 4: If it is Malik Willis again, I think you have
Speaker 4: to sit all of the Green Bay pass catchers with
Speaker 4: the possible exception of Jaden Reid, just because they are
Speaker 4: fond of manufacturing easy touches for him with little wide
Speaker 4: receiver screens reverses. Reid had two catches for nine yards
Speaker 4: and two rushes for thirty seven yards last week against
Speaker 4: the Cults, Willis only had fourteen pass attempts in that game.
Speaker 4: They're they're trying to hide him, and to his credit,
Speaker 4: he was efficient twelve completions one hundred and twenty two
Speaker 4: yards in a touchdown. But even with the high efficiency,
Speaker 4: the passing output just isn't enough to feed a family.
Speaker 4: So yeah, like, you can't start Christian Watson yet. And
Speaker 4: it's tough because I know some people are going to
Speaker 4: need a show me game from Christian Watson before they're
Speaker 4: comfortable putting him back in the lineup. So they're gonna
Speaker 4: have to wait till Jordan Love has that you know,
Speaker 4: feeds Christian Watson and helps him get that show me game.
Speaker 4: It will be interesting. And I'm with you, Wherma, I
Speaker 4: do think we most likely don't get Jordan Love this week.
Speaker 4: The Packers have been one of the most cautious teams
Speaker 4: in the league about bringing back injured players, and this
Speaker 4: obviously isn't just any injured player, it's their franchise quarterback.
Speaker 4: They have a game against the undefeated Minnesota Vikings in
Speaker 4: Week four that's gonna be a pretty big divisional showdown.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they want to push it.
Speaker 1: Dee Bro, what do you think? And can we expect
Speaker 1: another you know, sixty carr I know as a sixty
Speaker 1: carries but ridiculous usage for Josh Jacobs again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're gonna get twenty five plus carries
Speaker 2: for Jacobs this week. And I'm with I'm with Fitzy
Speaker 2: on this one. The media is pushing this extremely hard.
Speaker 2: Jordan Love is not playing this week. Anybody that's watched
Speaker 2: the practice footage like he's not moving around good enough
Speaker 2: to play quarterback and not only just like to be
Speaker 2: functional on the offense, but to keep himself upright, you know,
Speaker 2: to do what he needs to do to avoid tacklers
Speaker 2: and stuff. So I think Malik Willson is definitely going
Speaker 2: to start. I think it's smoking mirrors and I think
Speaker 2: it's a ton of work for Josh Jacobs. Yet again,
Speaker 2: you could run on the Titans. The strength of that
Speaker 2: defense is their secondary and I think Green Bay is
Speaker 2: going to stay away from it. And I'm pretty much
Speaker 2: with Fitzi here, except I'll I'll push back just.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 2: I'm not starting any Green Bay Packers pass catcher. Like
Speaker 2: to FITs' point, it's not enough passing volume, and you
Speaker 2: want to talk about like only fourteen pass attempts. That
Speaker 2: was a it's a good matchup of the secondary. We
Speaker 2: just talked about how bad the Colts are as a
Speaker 2: past defense. What are they gonna do when it's Tennessee,
Speaker 2: And that past defense is even better than what they
Speaker 2: faced last week the seven attempts eight.
Speaker 3: It's bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's funny because you know, Deebro and I
Speaker 4: kind of spent the off season warning people that Matt
Speaker 4: Lafleur really doesn't like to go to just one workhorse
Speaker 4: running back, and then we get the runout we've had
Speaker 4: with Marshaun Lloyd going on injured reserve and Jordan Love hurt,
Speaker 4: and last week Josh Jacobs thirty two carries the most
Speaker 4: by any Green Bay Packer running back in a single
Speaker 4: game since Ryan Grant in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: That's a stat pole right there, Josh Jacobs going full
Speaker 2: Dereck Henry mode.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean he's Jacob's is somebody that I
Speaker 1: at cost was fading during draft season, and obviously the
Speaker 1: EU signe has just been way more, way, way higher
Speaker 1: than anticipated. Obviously from that stat All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to the next game here, Eagles at Saints. My question
Speaker 1: here is can Philly be the team to finally slow
Speaker 1: down this Saints offense? They have been amazing. They have
Speaker 1: scored every time that Derek Carr has been leading a drive.
Speaker 1: It has been ridiculou They've been averaging over thirty points
Speaker 1: a game in the first half of the games. One
Speaker 1: of those games came against the Panthers, the other didn't.
Speaker 1: Those it wasn't just beating up on Carolina. They looked
Speaker 1: really good for both weeks of this season. Debro, do
Speaker 1: you think the Eagles can be the team to finally
Speaker 1: slow down the Saints? Or is this train going to
Speaker 1: keep rolling?
Speaker 2: Train is keep rolling down the truck baby, and they
Speaker 2: are not slowing them down. I've actually been very disappointed
Speaker 2: in the Philadelphia Eagles pass defense through two games. And
Speaker 2: let's just put the stop for just a second and
Speaker 2: put a little bit more respect on Derek Carr's name.
Speaker 3: He is a QB two in Fantasy.
Speaker 2: QB two in Fantasy he leads the NFL in yards
Speaker 2: per attempt, passer rating CPOE, and fantasy points per dropback
Speaker 2: as bonkers, like, there is no way, shape, form, or fashion.
Speaker 2: And I think it was even a little bit pro
Speaker 2: Derek car towards the end of the draft season and stuff.
Speaker 2: Nobody could have told you this is what was gonna
Speaker 2: happen in the first two weeks. And I don't think
Speaker 2: Philly is gonna be able to stop them at all.
Speaker 2: I mean, so far, the Philly pass defense has allowed
Speaker 2: the seventh highest passing yards per game, seventh highest arts
Speaker 2: per attempt, and oh guess what, they have.
Speaker 3: No pass rush.
Speaker 2: They legit have the seventh lowest pressure rate in the NFL.
Speaker 2: So clean pockets, secondary not playing good. Let's go just
Speaker 2: air it out. Saints put up some points.
Speaker 1: Fitz, what do you think we're gonna get from the
Speaker 1: SANTSU seek another forty burger?
Speaker 4: I don't know about that, but yeah, Echoing Deebro's thoughts
Speaker 4: on the Eagles, I mean, we just saw the Falcon
Speaker 4: zip down field and no time lickety split at the
Speaker 4: end of that game on Monday Night to score the
Speaker 4: game winning touchdown against the Eagles pass defense, Like Quinjon
Speaker 4: Mitchell might end up being a really good ATFL cornerback,
Speaker 4: but he alone was not going to fix a secondary
Speaker 4: just completely melted down over the second half of last season.
Speaker 4: And right now, I mean that the Saints' offense is
Speaker 4: hurtling down the Autubahn at one hundred and seventy miles
Speaker 4: an hour like it debro hit on some of the stats. Yeah,
Speaker 4: eleven point four yards per attempt for Derek Carr, and
Speaker 4: yet he's only averaging what two hundred and twenty one
Speaker 4: point five passing yards a game because he barely has
Speaker 4: to throw. I mean, they're just going up three touchdowns
Speaker 4: on opponents in the first half. Saints are averaging six
Speaker 4: point eight yards per play on offense, cars completion percentage
Speaker 4: seventy six point nine percent, Alvin Kamara fifty or excuse me,
Speaker 4: five point seven yards per carry and already has five touchdowns,
Speaker 4: and Rashid Shiheed averaging a tidy eighteen point eight yards
Speaker 4: per target. Like this offense is just humming kudos to
Speaker 4: Clint Kubiak. We know it's not going to be this
Speaker 4: good all season long, but the Eagles do not look
Speaker 4: like the team that's going to you know, throw up
Speaker 4: the stop sign.
Speaker 2: Them quick quick question, boys, do you think Clint Kubiak
Speaker 2: gets a head coaching job next year?
Speaker 3: Because I do. If this keeps happening, he's gonna get
Speaker 3: some interviews.
Speaker 1: I think he definitely will get interviews. I like that.
Speaker 1: I think that is an absolute lock. The only reason
Speaker 1: I would not say definitively gets like an actual coaching
Speaker 1: job is just because we did see. Like obviously, Ben
Speaker 1: Johnson's been there a couple of years. He decided to
Speaker 1: say Bobby Slowick, didn't you know he interviewed, but then
Speaker 1: didn't get that job right away. So maybe teams are
Speaker 1: like being a little more patient and wanted to see
Speaker 1: it for like one more year out of these young
Speaker 1: hot shot coordinators. That's just speculative though, like I would,
Speaker 1: I would my job would be on the floor if
Speaker 1: he isn't getting multiple interviews at least if this keeps up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's early, but so far this offense looks great.
Speaker 4: We know it's not gonna look this perfect all season long,
Speaker 4: but so far it's just been a.
Speaker 1: Really they're making every game look like Alabama against Wisconsin
Speaker 1: fits Oh oh, my call the police has been a murder.
Speaker 4: I think I think Alabama did better than six point
Speaker 4: eight yards per play against the Baddress last week. But yes,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 1: What do you think do you think Kubiak is getting
Speaker 1: a job after this season?
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 2: I think he's probably gonna. I think he's gonna get
Speaker 2: a lot of interviews. And I think the thing about
Speaker 2: what Slowick and Ben Jonson, both of them, it seemed
Speaker 2: more like situations where they went back to their respective teams,
Speaker 2: like they didn't want to be head coaches just yet.
Speaker 2: So and I think it was both good moves for
Speaker 2: both those coordinators. But I think I Kubiak's gonna do
Speaker 2: interviews and stuff like that. I think he definitely can
Speaker 2: get a job.
Speaker 1: Is there a spot you'd most likely to see him? Oot?
Speaker 2: So just off the time, No, let me see, I
Speaker 2: was gonna say, I think Denver's the low hanging fruit.
Speaker 2: I think that Sean I don't even know if Sean
Speaker 2: Payton makes it through the entire season. Guys, Like, is
Speaker 2: that crazy of me to think that, like Sean Payton
Speaker 2: could get fired in season, like if they continue to
Speaker 2: book is hapless. I mean, it's it's looked rough so far,
Speaker 2: but looking down the other teams, Oh, here's a good one.
Speaker 2: If Chicago continues to stick it up that he can
Speaker 2: he be paired with Caleb Williams next year. I give
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Speaker 1: The other one that I would like would be Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: If this thing continues to go.
Speaker 2: Because Doug Peterson feels like he has no clue what
Speaker 2: he's doing, I.
Speaker 1: Would really agree with that. Seared with with Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and those weapons.
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, question number six, Chargers at Steelers. It
Speaker 1: is an unstoppable force JK. Dobbins against an unimmovable object
Speaker 1: Steelers defense. Who wins, Debro.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be JK. Dobbins. He's gonna win. And Dude,
Speaker 3: I just continue to be.
Speaker 2: Floored by what he's doing right now. I mean, he's
Speaker 2: the RB four in fantasy. That's just crazy, man. And
Speaker 2: it's not just like, Okay, the offensive line is playing
Speaker 2: extremely good for the Chargers. They are first in yards
Speaker 2: before contact right now. But outside of that, I mean,
Speaker 2: Dobbins is near the top in every tackle breaking metric
Speaker 2: you look at. And it's not only those two factors,
Speaker 2: but the Steelers run defense can be had. I mean
Speaker 2: they're giving up the tenth highest miss tackle rate and
Speaker 2: the thirteenth highest success rate to his own runs. And
Speaker 2: Dobbins sixty three percent of his runs have been on
Speaker 2: zone runs this year, so I think it's going to
Speaker 2: be yet another matchup where Dobbins is going to end
Speaker 2: up with ninety plus rushing yards.
Speaker 1: This week, Fitz, we talked about a bit about Dobbins
Speaker 1: on the Thursday show. For the folks who are just
Speaker 1: listening to the Friday show, what do you expect from
Speaker 1: him against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: I'm dialing down expectations a little bit. I mean, he's
Speaker 4: had more than one hundred and thirty rushing yards with
Speaker 4: a touchdown in each of his first two games, but
Speaker 4: he was going against the Raiders and the Panthers, not
Speaker 4: exactly the stiffest competition, much tougher matchup on the road
Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh, and Pittsburgh is tenth in DVOA, I believe
Speaker 4: against the run in their two games so far, they
Speaker 4: held Bejon Robinson the sixty eight rushing yards on eighteen
Speaker 4: carries and Javonte Williams to seventeen yards on eleven carries.
Speaker 4: Granted that the Denver offense is pretty broken right now,
Speaker 4: but it is going to be tough for sledding for JK,
Speaker 4: no question, it's gonna be a fun matchup, because Debro
Speaker 4: said at the Chargers offensive line has been terrific so far.
Speaker 4: Still very possible Dobbins has a good day, fascinating matchup.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to see it. But I am toning
Speaker 4: down expectations a little bit for JK. Dobbins, and I
Speaker 4: know Debro's not gonna like this. I do have DeAndre
Speaker 4: Swift ranked ahead of JK. Dobbins on the matchup. Dude,
Speaker 4: I mean like the Colts can't stop anyone man.
Speaker 2: The Bears can't block anybody, Fitzy, they have.
Speaker 4: A couple of gut The interior of the line has
Speaker 4: been a problem. I still think their tackles are okay,
Speaker 4: at least in the running game, but yeah, they have
Speaker 4: had issues. That's that's bad versus bad upfront the trenches
Speaker 4: in that matchup. But yeah, we'll see this one's good
Speaker 4: versus good. So maybe maybe that's the wrong call by me.
Speaker 1: Whether or not it's correct. I echo Debro's disgust at
Speaker 1: the thought of Swift being ranked ahead of Dobbins. Wrong
Speaker 1: or right, But you know I've mentioned this on Thursday. Fits.
Speaker 1: You know, Dobbins has faced the Steelers three times in
Speaker 1: his career, and the series always are very good on defense,
Speaker 1: so this isn't anything new that they're really good defensively
Speaker 1: this year. In his three games, and you know this
Speaker 1: one was in twenty twenty, the other two were in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. In three games, forty seven attempts three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty six yards. That's almost seven yards per
Speaker 1: attempt and he has a touchdown there. The worst game
Speaker 1: he's had has been seventeen for ninety three. The other
Speaker 1: ones were fifteen four hundred and twenty in a touchdown
Speaker 1: and fifteen four hundred and thirteen. So he has done
Speaker 1: well against the Steelers in the past. He's with a
Speaker 1: different team, it was a couple of years ago. I
Speaker 1: get that, but just highlighting that he has it went
Speaker 1: healthy and he certainly looks healthy at least through two weeks,
Speaker 1: he's been able to do damage against this defense before.
Speaker 1: Where are you ranking him, Deebro? Did you say, what? What?
Speaker 1: Where is he for?
Speaker 2: I've got him at RB sixteen and considering what he's
Speaker 2: been doing, it could be a slight to him.
Speaker 3: But I think like mid to high end RB two.
Speaker 1: And then fits you're down like back at like low
Speaker 1: end RB two right.
Speaker 4: I think high end RB three right now, and maybe
Speaker 4: that's a mistake because they are gonna need to give
Speaker 4: him heavy volume like they have to keep TJ. Watt
Speaker 4: off justin Herbert. Joe Alt has played great so far,
Speaker 4: but TJ. Watt is still gonna be a stern test
Speaker 4: for Joe Alt. So I think they're gonna want to
Speaker 4: run the ball often, and I don't think you need
Speaker 4: to talk Greg Roman into running the ball that way.
Speaker 1: In ECR. He's much closer to fits by the way,
Speaker 1: he's RB twenty three in in halfvpr ECR. So most
Speaker 1: of the industry is a little down again, likely given
Speaker 1: the matchup, let's go to kind of the reverse of this.
Speaker 1: A very stoppable force the Raiders run game versus is
Speaker 1: a very movable object to the Panthers defense. Who loses
Speaker 1: in this one.
Speaker 3: Debro Panthers run defense.
Speaker 2: I think looking at just the matchup, and I know
Speaker 2: it's been bad for Zamir White. I'm not going to
Speaker 2: shy away from then. I told people to draft him
Speaker 2: in the off season and chasing the ballume and stuff.
Speaker 2: Antonio Pierce has still come out and been very adamant
Speaker 2: about getting Zamir White twenty carries. I think that, and
Speaker 2: this has been a Raiders offense that has been extremely
Speaker 2: pass heavy. Didn't see that coming, but I do think
Speaker 2: that they are going to want to run the ball
Speaker 2: in this matchup. And I know Zamir has not been good,
Speaker 2: but this matchup is fantastic. I mean, Carolina Panthers are
Speaker 2: given him the fourth highest rushing success rate and the
Speaker 2: second most rushing yards per game. So if there's ever
Speaker 2: a week to start Samir White, it's Week three. I've
Speaker 2: got him as RB twenty four right now in my ranks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think fits? I mean, we've talked
Speaker 1: a lot about how the Panthers are just kind of
Speaker 1: like an auto start team against them with your running backs.
Speaker 1: But Zamir White has been bad. I mean I've bean
Speaker 1: watching that Ravens game. He was abysmal. So do you
Speaker 1: think that this is kind of his breakout came for
Speaker 1: the managers who invested in him.
Speaker 4: You have to hope because if he does not have
Speaker 4: a decent fantasy day this week, I think we're going
Speaker 4: to see Zamir White dropped in a lot of leagues
Speaker 4: next week. But he's going against a defense that has
Speaker 4: allowed three hundred and ninety nine rushing yards and three
Speaker 4: touchdown runs so far, and they don't have our friend
Speaker 4: Derek Brown at defensive tackle. I know defensive tackle Ashn
Speaker 4: Robinson was banged up for them. Not sure what his
Speaker 4: status is. I think he came back to practice, but
Speaker 4: it's still a bad run defense. And yeah, Antonio Peers
Speaker 4: for whatever reason, the twenty carry mark is a magic
Speaker 4: number for him, and it seems like this is the
Speaker 4: kind of game where the game script's going to be
Speaker 4: favorable with the Raiders at home. You know, if they
Speaker 4: don't win comfortably, they should at least be in a
Speaker 4: close game and be able to run the ball quite
Speaker 4: a bit. So yeah, I mean, as good as that
Speaker 4: passing game has been with DeVante Adams and brock Bauers
Speaker 4: and Gardner Minshew's averaging like over two hundred and sixty
Speaker 4: passing yards a game, this does seem like a game
Speaker 4: where the Raiders are going to want to get the
Speaker 4: running game going.
Speaker 2: To Fitzi's point, Shy tuttle foot injury hasn't practiced one
Speaker 2: of their d tackles, Ashawn Robinson DMP on Wednesday came
Speaker 2: back to a limited session with any issue on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Sameer White is RB twenty four in ECR right now.
Speaker 1: That's actually gotten up a couple of days since the
Speaker 1: start of the week, so he's into back end RB
Speaker 1: two territory according to the experts. Let's go to Dolphins
Speaker 1: at Seahawks. This question is really obvious. How low in
Speaker 1: the rankings are we planning to drop Dolphins players with
Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson at quarterback? Obviously Tua is now on IR
Speaker 1: so he's going to miss a chunk of time possibly
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. They're talking about it like
Speaker 1: it's not going to be the case, but we'll see
Speaker 1: how this thing develops. But with Skyler Thompson there, how
Speaker 1: are we ranking the Dolphins players?
Speaker 2: Debro, I still got eight Chan as an RB one.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't shy away from the volume that
Speaker 2: he got last week.
Speaker 3: There's no way.
Speaker 2: I hope that that type of volume doesn't continue. But
Speaker 2: even twenty touches for devon a Chan, regardless of whoever,
Speaker 2: even if it was me back there playing quarter is
Speaker 2: still very valuable in fantasy. Tyreek Hill, I'm gonna have
Speaker 2: him somewhere as a mid range wide receiver two and
Speaker 2: Jim and Wattle is a low end two to high
Speaker 2: end wide receiver three. I just I don't have any
Speaker 2: faith in Skyer Thompson, and I know that those rankings.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be watching ECR and where they are the
Speaker 2: entire weekend because I want to be very cognizant of that,
Speaker 2: because I understand with both of those players, with Waddle
Speaker 2: and Tyreek, it could take one play, one play and
Speaker 2: they house one screen pass and take it to the house.
Speaker 2: They have that type of upside. I've also seen sky
Speaker 2: or Thompson play football in the NFL and it has
Speaker 2: not been pretty, and I don't think that that changes
Speaker 2: in Seattle. I know where we have questions about how
Speaker 2: good is their defense. I know the run defense is
Speaker 2: not very good. Their secondary is nasty man like Drek
Speaker 2: willand Devon Witherspoon Lake. Those are players you do not
Speaker 2: want to mess with. So I'm a little more tepid.
Speaker 2: I think I'm tipid, although I don't know where Tyreek
Speaker 2: Hill and Wadle are in ECR right now.
Speaker 1: I talked about this with ericson a bit on our
Speaker 1: TikTok Live earlier this week. How if you remember the
Speaker 1: probably the worst defensive game Mike McDonald had in Baltimore
Speaker 1: was against the Dolphins. Now Tua was healthy for that game,
Speaker 1: which is a big difference, but that was early on
Speaker 1: in the season. It was early on in his first
Speaker 1: season as defensive coordinator in Baltimore, and his defense is
Speaker 1: complicated enough that there can be breakdowns, particularly in the
Speaker 1: secondary when they're still trying to gel and kind of
Speaker 1: really learn this thing. It was really the second half
Speaker 1: of year one and all of year two in Baltimore
Speaker 1: that his defense became this elite war machine that nobody
Speaker 1: could score against. Early on it was a different story.
Speaker 1: And then that Dolphins game, of course, I think they
Speaker 1: scored like three or four touchdowns in the fourth quarter alone.
Speaker 1: Like it was a ridiculous one of the most fun
Speaker 1: games of the season, and the Dolphins came out on top.
Speaker 1: So that's in the back of my mind that you know,
Speaker 1: if you're making a list of wide receivers who are
Speaker 1: quarterback proof, Tyrek kill is probably like the first or
Speaker 1: set maybe second at worst name that you're you're listing
Speaker 1: it is Skyler Thompson, though like it's not it's not
Speaker 1: like you're dropping to, you know, a Jacoby Brissett or yeah,
Speaker 1: or even like a Sam Howell. It's it's somebody that
Speaker 1: we have very little even Tyler Huntley. I mean you're
Speaker 1: exactly correct, Like even Tyler Huntley, you would have more
Speaker 1: faith than Scott and you know, no knock on Thompson,
Speaker 1: like I hope he proves is wrong. That would be
Speaker 1: really fun. But I totally get the pessimism. It's hard
Speaker 1: for me to shake the idea of what Tyreek did
Speaker 1: to McDonald's defense in Baltimore. Different. Yeah, you know again,
Speaker 1: it's a different team. I'm not saying that it means
Speaker 1: we're going to see a repeat fits. What are you
Speaker 1: doing with with trying to rank these guys, but both
Speaker 1: Tyreek and Waddell and also a champ.
Speaker 4: First of all, I'm trying to stop my head from
Speaker 4: spinning because we have the play calling battle between Mike
Speaker 4: McDaniel and Mike McDonald's that's gonna get a little complicated
Speaker 4: this week. But so first of all, come on, man,
Speaker 4: Tyler Huntley, like he is totally new to the Dolphins system.
Speaker 4: The one reason I'm kind of holding out hope for
Speaker 4: Tyreek Hill who have wide receiver seven and Jalen Waddle
Speaker 4: who have wide receiver twenty six. I know that's optimistic,
Speaker 4: but like this is Skyler Thompson's third year in Mike
Speaker 4: McDaniel's system, Like he came in the same year Mike
Speaker 4: McDaniel came in. So granted, Mike McDaniel might not be
Speaker 4: using every page of the playbook this week with Skyler Thompson.
Speaker 4: You know, I think he will try to simplify things
Speaker 4: a little bit. But maybe Hill and Waddle don't see
Speaker 4: some of those high value downfield targets we like them seeing.
Speaker 4: But if Skyler Thompson can just hit like slant, you know,
Speaker 4: these are two dudes who can take a slant for
Speaker 4: eighty yards and a touchdown. So I guess that's the
Speaker 4: hope here, that you know, two guys with like elite
Speaker 4: big play speed get the chance to utilize that speed.
Speaker 4: But Debro is right, like this is a tough matchup
Speaker 4: Tarik and Devon Witherspoon, although I think Witherspoon might be
Speaker 4: a little banged up, but I don't think there's any
Speaker 4: doubt he's gonna play.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 4: You just you are pinning your hopes on a big
Speaker 4: play here, and I do think between Hill and Waddle,
Speaker 4: like they're gonna hit at least one or two.
Speaker 1: There's a pretty sizable gap between the two of these
Speaker 1: guys in ECR. I'm you know, there's always a gap
Speaker 1: right like Tyreeky's ring tire, Tarak's wide receiver fourteen Jalen
Speaker 1: Wattle's wide receiver thirty one in ECR. Right now, does
Speaker 1: that feel right to you, Deebro, given the quarterback situation,
Speaker 1: that the gap would be this wide, because you can
Speaker 1: kind of make the case that there's like a fairly
Speaker 1: decent chance for either of them to break a long one,
Speaker 1: like it could be either one, And I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just feels like maybe that shouldn't be as wide
Speaker 1: given the quarterback situation.
Speaker 2: I mean, if we had seen the problem, and I
Speaker 2: think this is where the gap is coming from, we
Speaker 2: haven't seen jam and Wattle, Like we all kind of
Speaker 2: wanted him to bounce back. So far this season, he's
Speaker 2: only gotten an eleven point eight percent target chare, so
Speaker 2: that's fair.
Speaker 1: I mean, he.
Speaker 3: Could still pop off big plays.
Speaker 2: I mean he almost has three point zero yards per
Speaker 2: rount run like he's at two point eight right now,
Speaker 2: so the talent is still there. But the same problems
Speaker 2: we had with Wattle last year where it was like,
Speaker 2: well all of the volume is going to Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 2: what's left over for Wattle. It's happening again in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. That's why I think we're seeing that wide
Speaker 2: discrepancy between the two players when we're both saying, okay,
Speaker 2: both of them have big play upside. It's just the
Speaker 2: volume has not gone to Wattle's direction. And I don't
Speaker 2: know if that changes this week.
Speaker 4: He's never been a high volume guy though, d R.
Speaker 3: I mean, like he he well outside of his rookie
Speaker 3: year where they made him.
Speaker 4: Where he was Jarvis Landery exactly, but he was you know,
Speaker 4: he missed two games last year and still finished with
Speaker 4: a thousand yards. He is a dude who can like
Speaker 4: he's always been hyper efficient, well except for that first
Speaker 4: year with yards per target, yards per route run. And
Speaker 4: granted we can't expect that sort of efficiency with Skyler
Speaker 4: Thompson at quarterback, but I mean, I just like Skyler
Speaker 4: Thompson can throw a spiral, you know, it's not like
Speaker 4: you've got me at quarterback. So like, hopefully Mike McDaniel
Speaker 4: can figure something out, because like that's the only chance
Speaker 4: of winning this game, to get the ball in the
Speaker 4: hands of your speedy playmakers. H Chan, Tyreek Hill, Jalen
Speaker 4: Waddle Did you mention see you?
Speaker 3: I've seen you throw a spirals spirals fitsy.
Speaker 1: You've been quarterback in some of our flag football games
Speaker 1: on team trips Can And we're not.
Speaker 3: Talking about me here. Yeah, No, I can still chuck it.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about me, Fitz, did you mention d move?
Speaker 1: But I can just have Han ranked in his usual spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, run like running back six. I mean what we've
Speaker 4: seen with him in the passing game like that is
Speaker 4: really exciting. I don't want to see him get as
Speaker 4: many carries as he had to to Debro's earlier point,
Speaker 4: like and I think maybe Mike McDaniel was just on
Speaker 4: tilt after the two injury that a Chan was still
Speaker 4: getting carries with like under five minutes left in a
Speaker 4: game they're down by three scores. We don't want to
Speaker 4: see him getting these twenty five carry games, but we
Speaker 4: like seeing these eight target games, you know, like the
Speaker 4: more usage we can get for a Chan in the
Speaker 4: passing game, get him out into space, like that's going
Speaker 4: to benefit the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the next question here. This is again
Speaker 1: going to loop two games together Ravens at Cowboys and
Speaker 1: then going back to Lions at Cardinals. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: the two most surprising names in the top five of
Speaker 1: targets through two weeks of the season are Zay Flowers
Speaker 1: He's number four and Jameson Williams at number five. They
Speaker 1: have twenty one and twenty respectively. Zay has been double
Speaker 1: digits both games. Jameson Williams had eleven in one game
Speaker 1: and nine and the other. Surprising to see those two
Speaker 1: names in the top five, just given you and everything
Speaker 1: we know about them, which of those two do you
Speaker 1: think we'll have the better Week three? Though? Flowers at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys or Jamison Williams at the Cardinals fits.
Speaker 4: Where am I got to give the edge to Jamo?
Speaker 4: Sorry about that? Maybe mildly surprising that Jay Flowers is
Speaker 4: among the target leaders flight out shocking that Jamison william
Speaker 4: is among the target leaders, But like, here's the difference.
Speaker 4: The average depth of target so far for Jamison Williams
Speaker 4: twelve point eight yards Zay Flowers six point seven yards.
Speaker 4: So these are higher value targets for Jamo. Flowers already
Speaker 4: has thirteen catches, which is great, but He's averaging nine
Speaker 4: point eight yards per catch and hasn't popped a big
Speaker 4: one yet. His longest catch is twenty one yards. Jamison
Speaker 4: Williams already has four catches more than twenty yards and
Speaker 4: two catches of forty or more yards. I do think
Speaker 4: Flowers has the higher degree of target certainty, like JMO
Speaker 4: has twenty targets, but Jared Goff is currently leading the
Speaker 4: NFL in pass attempts. I don't know if that keeps
Speaker 4: up all year, and I don't think we can continue
Speaker 4: to count on Jamison Williams having a target share approaching
Speaker 4: twenty five percent when he has i'man Ross Saint Brown
Speaker 4: and Sam Laporte's teammates, like there are gonna be games
Speaker 4: where we don't see more than a handful of Jamison
Speaker 4: Williams targets. But Jamo does have the more favorable matchup,
Speaker 4: probably this week against the Cardinals in a game with
Speaker 4: a Vegas total of fifty one and a half. Flowers
Speaker 4: is going against the Cowboys. Still pretty high total in
Speaker 4: that game forty eight points, but I don't know. They're
Speaker 4: both must starts. But I'm a little more drawn to
Speaker 4: Jamo in this one.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily disagree fits. I will say today's like
Speaker 1: yards per reception, Like, I think that's going to that
Speaker 1: for the first few weeks when there's a small sample
Speaker 1: size that's getting dragged down by the Chiefs game, he
Speaker 1: was more like thirteen yards per catch against the Raiders.
Speaker 1: I think that'll be more in line with how they
Speaker 1: use him in normal, like non Chiefs games. That's not
Speaker 1: to say that he should be you know, over Williams,
Speaker 1: he is an ECR, but they're really close. It's say
Speaker 1: Flowers at wide receiver eighteen and half VPR and James
Speaker 1: Williams at wide receiver twenty. So both guys that are
Speaker 1: clear starts right now. Deebra, what do you think about
Speaker 1: these two and who would you prefer to start in
Speaker 1: week three?
Speaker 2: I think they're both having strong seasons, very very different
Speaker 2: seasons at all the points that fits he outlined and
Speaker 2: to your point where I'm zay, Flowers at did increase
Speaker 2: from six point one to ten point seven a week two,
Speaker 2: so a little bit more not traditional usage, but a
Speaker 2: little bit more just not like three yards and a
Speaker 2: cloud of dust as far as screens and design targets
Speaker 2: and stuff. But for me, it's it's Jamo. I just
Speaker 2: I have been floored by what we have seen and honestly,
Speaker 2: like I don't want to say like happily surprised, but dude,
Speaker 2: this is the Jamison Williams that we all saw as
Speaker 2: a prospect coming out of Alabama.
Speaker 3: This is the Jamison.
Speaker 2: Williams that, if he would have never torn his acl
Speaker 2: was the guy that I thought was going to just
Speaker 2: catch fire and light the league on fire, like as
Speaker 2: soon as he was healthy. That is what we are seeing,
Speaker 2: Like he looks so stinking good, and the matchup leans
Speaker 2: his way. They're using him not only deep, but they're
Speaker 2: using him all over the field. He's getting short area targets,
Speaker 2: intermediate targets, and the deep looks as well. I mean,
Speaker 2: just put this in context, guys. Amongst ninety two qualifying
Speaker 2: wide receivers, Jmo right now sixth in separation and ninth
Speaker 2: in route win rate. Jamo at this point, like I've
Speaker 2: got him as wide receiver seventeen. I don't think it's
Speaker 2: crazy if we get to a point where if golf
Speaker 2: keeps throwing this much on a weekly basis, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if that happens where we're ranking Jamo and
Speaker 2: amanra As both like top thirteen to fourteen options on
Speaker 2: a weekly basis, like that, this is how consolidated this
Speaker 2: offense has been, and how stinking good Jamo has been
Speaker 2: so far he's been awesome.
Speaker 4: Then we're going to be ranking Sam Laporta tight end
Speaker 4: fifteen apparently.
Speaker 2: I mean, dude, it's Jamo has been awesome, like him
Speaker 2: taking or at least did any of us see after
Speaker 2: two weeks any world where we thought Jamison Williams was
Speaker 2: going to be fighting weekly for the lead in targets
Speaker 2: and fighting weekly for the lead in target here with
Speaker 2: Amara Saint Brown and Sam Laporta, I didn't at all,
Speaker 2: and I just to me, I'm just bowing down. Jmo
Speaker 2: has looked so good.
Speaker 1: Jamison Williams is up there near the top of the
Speaker 1: list of guys I have the most fomo of not
Speaker 1: having more of, and I liked him in draft season.
Speaker 1: I was not fading him at all. There was always
Speaker 1: one person in my draft who liked him a little more,
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's all I could like him the second
Speaker 1: most out of twelve guys, but if one person likes
Speaker 1: him more, then I don't get him. So I wish
Speaker 1: I certainly wish I had more the other thing too,
Speaker 1: like in terms of the matchup, and you kind of
Speaker 1: hit on this a bit. Fits like, I'm very worried
Speaker 1: about Michael Parsons and what he's gonna do to the
Speaker 1: Ravens offensive line. And we saw when Chris Jones was
Speaker 1: wreaking havoc in that Chiefs game that it meant a
Speaker 1: lot of these short screens. So I worry that they
Speaker 1: might go back to some of that shorter passing game
Speaker 1: stuff out of fear of Michael Parson's doing what Chris
Speaker 1: Jones did and kind of pointing out I want him
Speaker 1: and you know, moving along the line to go after
Speaker 1: you know, mainly the right guard and Daniel Fole for Baltimore.
Speaker 1: So I am worried about that for the Ravens passing game.
Speaker 2: And to your point, two, Worm, I think this is
Speaker 2: more of a big Mark Andrews game. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 2: gonna call that out over over Zay Flowers this week.
Speaker 2: Considering the matchup.
Speaker 1: Interesting, well, do you think that it could be a
Speaker 1: likely game and like they use Andrews to block more
Speaker 1: like could to help out.
Speaker 3: I mean, to your point, that's that's what we saw likely.
Speaker 2: I mean that was his role, Like he was in
Speaker 2: the flats, he was getting screens, he was getting designed
Speaker 2: stuff in week one didn't happen in week two. This
Speaker 2: could be a game where we see just a lot
Speaker 2: of usage of Andrews unlikely all day.
Speaker 4: I hope, But yeah, that's I do have that same
Speaker 4: fear worm about the route participation for Andrews. When the
Speaker 4: Cowboys are so fearsome off the edge like that, that's
Speaker 4: a little worrisome for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, see how it goes. I think it'll be
Speaker 1: a fun game. These are These are two of my
Speaker 1: favorite games on the slate, Ravens Cowboys and Lions Cardinals.
Speaker 1: I think they're both gonna be really fun ones. Let's
Speaker 1: go to question number ten, Chiefs at Falcons. Fits will
Speaker 1: start with you here. Will any Chiefs running back be
Speaker 1: worth starting in fantasy? With Isaiah Pacheco out, we have
Speaker 1: a bunch of options, Carson Steel, samaj p Ryan, ultimately
Speaker 1: maybe Kareem Hunt or do you think that is injury
Speaker 1: simply means we're gonna get more passing in Kansas City.
Speaker 4: My initial thought was that this could be a really
Speaker 4: messy backfield situation, and I'll repeat something I said on
Speaker 4: one of the shows earlier this week, although I think
Speaker 4: I got the number wrong, and in two of the
Speaker 4: last five seasons, I might have said three earlier. Two
Speaker 4: of the last five, the Chiefs have not had a
Speaker 4: six hundred yard rusher among their running backs, and I
Speaker 4: think there's a good chance that happens again this year.
Speaker 4: With Pacheco out indefinitely, this could be an unpredictable jumble
Speaker 4: with Carson Steel, samaj p Ryan, Clyde Edwards Hilaire who's
Speaker 4: on the non football injured list and eligible to come
Speaker 4: off in Week five, and maybe Kareem Hunt makes an
Speaker 4: appearance at some point. Keyante Ingram is kicking around like
Speaker 4: this could be really messy. That said, I am starting
Speaker 4: to become a little more intrigued by Carson Steel. He's
Speaker 4: a really interesting player. Like Steel reportedly at his UCLA
Speaker 4: Pro Day this year ran a four point seven to
Speaker 4: five in the forty That is that's pretty slow. But
Speaker 4: despite the lack of speed, he did have a fifteen
Speaker 4: hundred yard rushing season for ball State in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: two and finished with like eight hundred plus rushing yards
Speaker 4: for the Bruins last fall. It's possible. Steel has the
Speaker 4: same sort of season for the Chiefs that Matt Asciata
Speaker 4: had for the Vikings back in twenty fourteen after Adrian
Speaker 4: Peterson ripped up his knee in Week one. Like Aseata
Speaker 4: was this big, bruising fullback tailback hybrid, kind of like
Speaker 4: Carson Steele, who just like he was basically all the
Speaker 4: Vikings had. So by def Matt Asciata had eight hundred
Speaker 4: and eighty two yards from scrimmage in ten touchdowns. Like
Speaker 4: and if we get that sort of season from Carson Steel,
Speaker 4: like that makes him a usable fantasy asset. Like I
Speaker 4: do think he's gonna be the best bet for goal
Speaker 4: line work here, and maybe he's the best bet for
Speaker 4: early down carries even when the Chiefs are at midfield
Speaker 4: or in their own territory.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: So, I we talked about this on the Waiver Show.
Speaker 4: I said I'd rather have some ajp RN. I'm reversing
Speaker 4: course on that. I'd rather have Carson Steele.
Speaker 1: Do you brow, what do you think.
Speaker 2: To Fitzi's I love the Asciata callback. I'm sitting here
Speaker 2: pulling up old Acata box scores. Here in that twenty
Speaker 2: fourteen season, he had two three touchdown games and another
Speaker 2: one where he got into the ion zone twice. Good lord,
Speaker 2: that's a fun time. But I'm with FITZI I think
Speaker 2: Carson Steele, you're looking at it as a touchdown dependent
Speaker 2: probably our three this week, and he already got the
Speaker 2: goal line stuff last week. He got thirty eight percent
Speaker 2: of the goal line snaps. Talked about this in the
Speaker 2: Waiver Wire column and or excuse me, the Waiver wiar show,
Speaker 2: and sixty percent of the short yardage snaps. So while
Speaker 2: the stat line might not look sexy for Carson Steel,
Speaker 2: it might be like fourteen to fifteen carries for forty
Speaker 2: five yards. He could get in the box once, maybe twice,
Speaker 2: So I think he's a good flex play just considering
Speaker 2: if he's the goal line back for the Chiefs offense
Speaker 2: has value. So I'm not gonna tell you that he's
Speaker 2: gonna get twenty carries or have eighty or ninety rushing yards.
Speaker 2: But if he gets in the end zone once, he's
Speaker 2: probably a top twenty four back. If he gets in
Speaker 2: there twice, he's in RB one for the week.
Speaker 1: Do you think we're gonna finally see Mahomes? You know,
Speaker 1: on the other side, of this have thirty pass attempts
Speaker 1: in a game. I mean he hasn't been higher than
Speaker 1: twenty eight through two weeks this season.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: I think that the Chiefs are with this injury and stuff.
Speaker 2: I think that they have been very run heavy and
Speaker 2: they've been playing slow. I think we see the Chiefs
Speaker 2: get back to doing what the Chiefs do. I think
Speaker 2: they're going to pick up the pace. I think they're
Speaker 2: going to throw more. I think if really the big
Speaker 2: takeaway for me is I think we are going to
Speaker 2: see Rashi Rice get peppered weekly, and I think we're
Speaker 2: going to see Xavier Worthy's floor raised on a weekly
Speaker 2: basis based off of the injury to Pachecko.
Speaker 1: Do you agree with Effets?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this is just the way the season
Speaker 4: has opened up. Is just like for Rashi Rice investors,
Speaker 4: the best possible scenario Hollywood brown out for the season.
Speaker 4: Pacheco injured, so they're going to replace some of their
Speaker 4: running game with the short passing game, and that's like,
Speaker 4: that's where Rashie Rice has been thriving.
Speaker 1: All Right, we'll get out of there on that. Those
Speaker 1: are our ten biggest questions for Week three. Thank you
Speaker 1: to face, Thank you to Debro, Thank you to Colin
Speaker 1: for joining as he does every Friday. For those guys,
Speaker 1: I'm Ryan Warmley. Thank you for everybody for tuning in
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