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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio,

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Speaker 1: your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice

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Speaker 1: and speculation and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop

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Speaker 1: into the show. Now, here's your host, Paul. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, not quite a super Bowl edition one

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Speaker 1: week away. I am Paul Charchy and my co host

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Speaker 1: today Brian Johnson, Today again every day every week. Matt, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Matt and Fish dead dead. We gotta get them back

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Speaker 1: on the show. We missed them. Our brethren and Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Football Weekly, thank you for joining us. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: to get to. Uh today we're thinking about Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowls next week. We're gonna break down the

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Speaker 1: super Bowl next week and all excruciating detail. I still

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Speaker 1: need time to just like decompress from my Bengals stunning.

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Speaker 1: How about that. You must be feeling pretty good. It

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Speaker 1: was even a long three years you and Bengals before others,

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Speaker 1: before it was cool to go Bengals. You deserve this win.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's admittedly a bit of a bit, but

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Speaker 1: I still for the Bengals. But real, congrats to the

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Speaker 1: the long suffering fan base, and I know I'm talking

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Speaker 1: to you akings fans, so you're very sympathetic to that.

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Speaker 1: They'll get there some day. We get there again someday.

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Speaker 1: I should say it wasn't the outcome I expected. I

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Speaker 1: just thought beating Patrick Mahomes and Arrowhead that they might

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Speaker 1: be a year away, that Burrow wouldn't necessarily be up

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Speaker 1: to that. Uh. Patrick Mahomes bombed that second half. And

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Speaker 1: this is good. Honestly, it's good for the NFL because

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Speaker 1: now we've got it's not just Patrick Mahomes. You know,

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Speaker 1: all roads don't go through Patrick Mahomes all the time, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, we've got what seems like it is going

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Speaker 1: to be an epic dog fight in the playoffs for

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Speaker 1: years between Mahomes and Borrow and Josh Allen and then

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Speaker 1: hopefully Justin Herbert kissed there as well, and the Chargers

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Speaker 1: get elevated into this because man, this is some great

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Speaker 1: quarterbacking in the a f C. Now, yeah, the a

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Speaker 1: the opposite. Now, Tom Brady out, Rogers probably out of

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Speaker 1: the conference. You go figure Tennessee, Tennessee is a possibility

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is a possibility. We'll talk about all that. So

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Speaker 1: what are we doing today, Brian were here, We're two

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Speaker 1: minutes into this. We haven't even talked about what we're

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Speaker 1: doing today. Um, we thought it'd be fun to just

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Speaker 1: already work through a week how we think a first

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Speaker 1: round for next year. We'll go and what will be interesting, Brian,

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Speaker 1: is much later in the in the summer, when we're

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Speaker 1: doing this exercise again. We'll go back to February early

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Speaker 1: February and see how much things have changed our first

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Speaker 1: blush look. And there's a lot of variables with us

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Speaker 1: because we don't know where players are gonna land yet.

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Speaker 1: Who's gonna be ware, So you know, there's still a

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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of questions, hopefully in the super

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Speaker 1: Bowl either because there's a couple of couple of guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but hey about that. Best ball season has started. People

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Speaker 1: are drafting already. I am one of them cats already.

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Speaker 1: Do I love it? There's for some people there is

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Speaker 1: no offseason, including the show. We're here every week Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Thank you for joining us. So we're gonna

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Speaker 1: work through our first round of a far too early

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Speaker 1: and I did art we you and I did our

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Speaker 1: own mock drafts people are gonna hear. And then I

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Speaker 1: did some googling to just see how it laid out

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Speaker 1: compared to the competition. And as usual, we differ from

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Speaker 1: many other people that are already that have already done

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Speaker 1: this exercise in some fascinating ways. We'll talk through that

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Speaker 1: a little bit as well. I had the first pick,

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Speaker 1: Brian Yep, and the first pick is this is gonna

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Speaker 1: be the consensus number one pick in virtually every single

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Speaker 1: fantasy scorer, Austin Ekeler, by a margin of almost and

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Speaker 1: he was fifty better then the tenth ranked running back

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Speaker 1: Corridorol Patterson fifty more points. And there's little reason to

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Speaker 1: believe that the Colts offense will be any worse next

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Speaker 1: Wentz was people rag on Wentz way too much. He

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Speaker 1: was he was capable quarterback for most of this season. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's Jimmy Garoppolo. Let's say it's Garoppolo. This team

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Speaker 1: Carson went You look Jonathan Taylor talk because it's too obvious. Alright,

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Speaker 1: taking Austin Ekeler, who's third and fantasy points per game

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Speaker 1: scored on seven of those. That's a great rate success

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Speaker 1: rate receiving wise, seventy catches, six fifty yards, eight receiving touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: don't consider him to be, you know, an injury concern

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Speaker 1: scenarios where Davante Adams remains viable at pick number three,

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Speaker 1: segue too, Gotta I gotta go Cooper Cup. Cooper Cup

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Speaker 1: I'm happy to Stafford. Stafford is still very very viable,

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Speaker 1: The number five player in our far too early first

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Speaker 1: I would take him. His rookie year showed every trade

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Speaker 1: It's still time or it is time for Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 1: the second half of our far too early first round draft.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm fond of saying, Brian. You know

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Speaker 1: who's regretted drafting Travis Kelsey? No, nobody ever. Yeah. He

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Speaker 1: It's the greatest position to need. Kelsey is always super safe.

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Speaker 1: You don't get the crazy highlight plays that Jamar Chase

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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins very likely. I believe to stay in Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: missed tackles generated, and he did it on one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty fewer carries than Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, if he

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Speaker 1: he led like every per touch metric out there for

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Speaker 1: running backs, and if he had gotten a bell cow workload,

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Speaker 1: he would have been RB one. He probably would have.

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Speaker 1: Javonte Williams finished fifth in Pro Football Focuses Proprietary elusiveness rating,

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Speaker 1: which is great for a guy that doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: speed that just the pure speed. But he is a

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Speaker 1: tough tackle. He gives defenders bad angles, he breaks tackles,

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Speaker 1: and he's a better receiver than expected. Fifty one targets

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Speaker 1: for Javonte Williams Bryan, and he caught all but eight

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Speaker 1: of those throws. And I love that he had fifty

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Speaker 1: one targets in a split season. So what happens if

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Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon's go on and he's in his work and

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Speaker 1: his workload goes instead of getting like the workload, what

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Speaker 1: happens to via seventy five percent of the workload? You know? Now?

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Speaker 1: Does those fifty one targets turn into eighty one targets?

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Speaker 1: You know? Now? You know? Now we're in Austin Neckler

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Speaker 1: total touch territory. That's what we hope for. That's the hope, right,

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Speaker 1: it's worth, it's worth somewhat buying low at this point

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Speaker 1: and hopes of that happening. It is concerned Gordon stays,

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Speaker 1: but then obviously things change. It's worth but Williams just yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, I just I love the guys so much,

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to go against my better judgment and take

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Speaker 1: him here. All right, last pick the first first round

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Speaker 1: of our far too early mark draft. What do you think? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: with the twelfth pick, I certainly would have taken Javonte

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Speaker 1: Williams with twelve or thirteen. He's like the perfect guy

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Speaker 1: at the turn or early second. So I'm feeling a

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Speaker 1: little sniped right now. So it's definitely a running back here.

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Speaker 1: There's four or five running back so I don't think

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Speaker 1: to me it would not be a running back. That's

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Speaker 1: just me. All right. Well, I'm gonna go Dalvin Cook.

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Speaker 1: I admittedly don't love it. Um. There's still other good

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Speaker 1: running backs out there, Christian McCaffrey, Alvin Kamara, the notables

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Speaker 1: that didn't land in here in a second, but I'll

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Speaker 1: go Dalvin Cook. Somewhat of a down year. I missed

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Speaker 1: some time with the shoulder injury, but for the most part,

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Speaker 1: his lower body stayed intact. That's what I really care about.

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Speaker 1: Without running back turns twenty seven in August. Uh, so

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Speaker 1: he's still in his prime years. The Vikings offensive line, yeah,

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Speaker 1: not good past year, right, Sure to be addressed in

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Speaker 1: the draft. We've been saying that for ten years, but

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Speaker 1: that they should they should, uh most certainly do that

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Speaker 1: this offseason. Offensive minded head coach Kevin uh I always O'Connell.

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Speaker 1: I always think of Kevin Connolly too. I don't even

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Speaker 1: put that, don't even put that in my head. I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't want to start paying always Okay, I'm sorry.

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

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Speaker 1: he's he's on his way and he's an offensive minded coach. Uh.

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Speaker 1: So Dalvin Cook is who I go with. Again, I

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Speaker 1: don't love it, but I think I think, uh, he

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Speaker 1: has a better year than last year. I think we

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Speaker 1: see more of the numbers if if he stays healthy.

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Speaker 1: Uh still a very good offense he plays for. Again,

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Speaker 1: if they if they can improve that offensive line, his

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Speaker 1: numbers will go right along with it. Do you know

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Speaker 1: he's wearing number four next year, Dalvin Cook? So a

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Speaker 1: little less paint on the jersey. That's not that's gonna

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Speaker 1: knock him time. He's gonna knock make him a little

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Speaker 1: tick faster too. So I like that, all right. So

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Speaker 1: I don't like the single digit numbers on running back.

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Speaker 1: So I hate it. It frustrates me as well. Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the guys who didn't make

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Speaker 1: the first round. I am stunned at how many of

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Speaker 1: the mock drafts I've seen out there already, the other

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Speaker 1: people's early mock drafts that have Christian McCaffrey in the

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Speaker 1: first round. Well, and by the way, like mid first round,

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Speaker 1: like pick five, pick six for Christian McCaffrey. Have we

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Speaker 1: learned nothing? Yeah, I mean when he plays, he's the best.

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Speaker 1: But two straight years now he doesn't play a full year,

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Speaker 1: right and even close to that. And yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: like like you said earlier, you you can win. He

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Speaker 1: could win you your league in the first round if

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Speaker 1: he plays a full season. He hasn't been doing that,

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Speaker 1: But he will lose your league if you take him

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Speaker 1: in the first round and he gets hurt, which he

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Speaker 1: has been. We hope, we hope he doesn't, but he's

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Speaker 1: showing that's what happens. Let's stay with running backs Alvin

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Speaker 1: Kmara not taken in the first round. I did not

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Speaker 1: like that. The Saints team right now as of this recording,

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Speaker 1: are seventy two million dollars over the cap. There is

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Speaker 1: a major blood letting that's going to happen there organization. Yeah,

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00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 1: Peyton bailed because he's a baby and he got out

508
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,159
Speaker 1: now and this whole teams could be set to implode.

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Speaker 1: And I I don't know. And we saw Camara with

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Speaker 1: you know, season with career lows and like yards per carry,

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Speaker 1: just the overall effectiveness was so far down for him.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe you know, maybe the Saints find their

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Speaker 1: way to a good quarterback. Maybe it's not as bad

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Speaker 1: as I think, but based on what's coming, we know

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Speaker 1: there's a ton of change coming and I don't know

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Speaker 1: how that's going to shake out for Alvin Camara right now.

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Speaker 1: In early February, agreed, what do you think on on

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon? Neither of us take took Joe Mixon. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's again like he was kinda I was

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Speaker 1: between Cook and Mixing for the twelve pick um love

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. He's certainly his usage Rade has been high

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Speaker 1: the last four or five years, and Soma J. P

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Speaker 1: Rhyan looks pretty good. I'm saying he's gonna be the

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Speaker 1: starter next year. But I think we see I think

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Speaker 1: they you know, it could a time share, a little

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Speaker 1: more of a time shore than it's been so that

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Speaker 1: that that was my concern with Mixing. And one guy

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Speaker 1: who I think we could see vault into the first round,

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Speaker 1: uh is A J. Brown. If Aaron Rodgers ends up

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Speaker 1: in Tennessee, I'd probably take Brown. As it stands right now,

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Speaker 1: with the first pick in the second round coming back

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Speaker 1: after taking down Let's sorry about the other obvious wide

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Speaker 1: receiver omission that neither of us picked, and I would

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Speaker 1: have gone here at the end of the if I

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Speaker 1: had picked twelve Tyreek Hill. Yeah, are we overreacting to

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Speaker 1: a disappointing November December. He's just he has those good

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Speaker 1: weeks that hurts, and he is just not consistent enough,

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Speaker 1: and when he goes off, he goes off hard. And

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Speaker 1: for two the two years prior to this one, he

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Speaker 1: was very consistent, well mostly consistent, in a in a

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Speaker 1: best ball format. I feel more comfortable to take him

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Speaker 1: in the first round in a standard leagu where I

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00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: gotta set my line up. But yeah, I mean he's

544
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: he's not a Spike Week player, but he's kind of close.

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00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: And those guys are dangerous. I I worried that we're

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Speaker 1: overreacting to, you know what, We're what was ultimately some

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00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: some real troubles for the Kansas City offense for you know,

548
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Speaker 1: about six weeks in November December, when we know, over

549
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Speaker 1: the bulk of his time, Tyreek Hill with Patrick Mahomes

550
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: has been pretty damn good receiver. And I'm worried. I'm

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Speaker 1: worried that I'm overreacting right now, recency bias right now,

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Speaker 1: but we'll see. We got a lot of time to

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Speaker 1: figure it out. Half a year. It's weird to think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna half a year before we're doing this for

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Speaker 1: real again. Half a year. I might be on the

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Speaker 1: clock in the Best Ball Draft right now. So if

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Speaker 1: you want to get out there and draft people, you

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Speaker 1: can do it. It can be done right now. It's

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Speaker 1: never it's never the off season, and that's why we're

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Speaker 1: glad you're joined this um. Tomorrow, next week, excuse me

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Speaker 1: not tomorrow, we will break down Super Bowl and excruciating

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Speaker 1: detail all the from a fantasy standpoint like we always do,

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Speaker 1: letter grades, all that good stuff. So that is all coming.

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Speaker 1: We encourage you to to subscribe and check out next

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Speaker 1: week's show as well. Our last, our last opportunity to

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Speaker 1: break down real football. Should we break down? Sure, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll throw this Pro Bowl tidbit out there

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Speaker 1: because I know they do have contests on DraftKings and

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Speaker 1: it's total total bs. But go with the guys who

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Speaker 1: seem least deserving to be there because the hardest, they

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Speaker 1: tried the hardest and usually get the most playing time too.

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Speaker 1: You don't want the starters, because the starters come out late,

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Speaker 1: Go with early, come out earliest. Go with the quote

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Speaker 1: unquote scrubs. They're not they're all great players of worse.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, go with the lesser name guys, because he

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Speaker 1: usually priced everyone the same in those contests. I'm trying.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying not to play there because it playing Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I like the actually had a pretty good hit years

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Speaker 1: ago using that angle, just going with the guys who

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Speaker 1: you sum gonna come in the third quarter and they

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Speaker 1: played like the whole second half. Yeah, because you know

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Speaker 1: nobody wants, well, Tom Brady is not playing in it,

583
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Speaker 1: but you know you don't want a Tom Brady level

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Speaker 1: care person to blow out their knee in the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's all bad, but that would

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Speaker 1: be worse. It's like, I think Mac Jones is in

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl now, like he's my topic in the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. That's who I would be. Uh, I love it,

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00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: and nobody will have Mac Jones. You know, his ownership

590
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Speaker 1: percent is gonna be like because he didn't throw any

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Speaker 1: touchdowns in the regular season, but nobody's trying to tackle

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Speaker 1: anybody in the Pro Bowl, which is great. I do

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Speaker 1: not play the Pro Bowl for at least like one year. Yeah,

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00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: it was just an honorary mentioned thing. It was. They

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00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,520
Speaker 1: should go back to that. If I was a general

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Speaker 1: manager or an owner, I'm like, you are not playing

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Speaker 1: in this game, Like, I don't care if you don't

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Speaker 1: get paid for it. I will pay you out of

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Speaker 1: my own pocket to ensure not play, not play so

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Speaker 1: you don't get hurt. Although oddly enough, almost nobody does

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Speaker 1: get hurt. I mean, you know, there's been only a

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Speaker 1: couple of cases where there's been significant injury in the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. Do you remember this is back in the nineties. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they would do like a beach flag football. Yeah, Patriots

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Speaker 1: running back Edwards I forget his first name, his name

606
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Speaker 1: and in his career, yeah, playing beach volleyball or beach

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Speaker 1: football or it was like beach flag football or dodgeball

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Speaker 1: or something like that. That happened. But that was that was.

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Speaker 1: It was like twenty five years ago. Times. You are

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Speaker 1: older than we thought. Thanks for joining us. Everybody talking

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