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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 speculation and advice.

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Speaker 1: Now along with the guys from fanball dot Com. Here's

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Speaker 1: the host for Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul. Welcome to Fantasy

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Speaker 1: Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi in as just mentioned,

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Speaker 1: my coast today is Scott Fish. Hello, Scott, Hello, how's

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Speaker 1: it going great? Thank you. It's it's kind of weird

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Speaker 1: because we haven't really this feels like the first real

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Speaker 1: off season show, super Bowls over. You know. We up

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Speaker 1: to this point, we've really been doing just sort of

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Speaker 1: shortened versions of the regular season show breaking down all

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Speaker 1: the playoff games. This Fantasy Football Weekly is truly an

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Speaker 1: off season mode. I asked Twitter what should we talk about?

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Speaker 1: And I got I got a lot of good feedback.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people want to talk a lot of

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Speaker 1: people in dynasty leagues and empire leagues, and they are

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Speaker 1: really interested in the off season values of players that

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Speaker 1: are moving around um and trying to find unearthed some

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Speaker 1: some nuggets of players that will have better value next

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Speaker 1: year that you can already identify this year. I want

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Speaker 1: to start at the running back position for the purpose

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Speaker 1: of this podcast. Sounds good, and let's begin by looking

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Speaker 1: at players we think are going to potentially change scenery,

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Speaker 1: either because they're free agents or because think their team's

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Speaker 1: just gotta kind of like David Johnson. So let's uh, well,

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Speaker 1: we can even start with David Johnson if you want to.

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Speaker 1: David Johnson's got a fourteen million dollar contract and he

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Speaker 1: looked brutal last year, demoted most of the season at

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Speaker 1: really running back two levels, sometimes running back three level,

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Speaker 1: and Arizona is going to move on from him. Media

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Speaker 1: reports say he'll be cut. I'm sure that's true. There's

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Speaker 1: no straighting. Can't trade David Johnson. Can't trade a running

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Speaker 1: right now and had a fifteen million dollar year contract,

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Speaker 1: especially unless you're Miami and you decide you just don't

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Speaker 1: like Kenyan Drake in the middle of the season, then

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Speaker 1: you can trade him. Oh yeah, that's another free agent, right,

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Speaker 1: he could be back in Miami. Maybe they just get

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Speaker 1: the pick. They bring back Kenyan Drake and they got

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Speaker 1: the pick for him, which would be brilliant. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about let's talk about Arizona for just a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Longer here for David Johnson. So we mentioned David Johnson,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be gone, Kenyan Drake free agent. I think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna try to resign Kevin Drakee, me too. And

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Speaker 1: as far as David Johnson, I threw a poll on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: do you think he finds a starting job or is

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Speaker 1: he a third down back somewhere? Of the votes, UH

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Speaker 1: say he will find a starting job, which shot. I

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Speaker 1: don't believe that that's true. He's going to have to go,

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Speaker 1: and he might do it. He'll have to go through

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Speaker 1: a major change in body shape. I mean, he clearly

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Speaker 1: let himself go too big. He's too big. That's not

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Speaker 1: his playing weight. What's what's his idea? Pounds? Is it

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Speaker 1: Kansas City? I think you use him? Is it back

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Speaker 1: with Bruce arians Well, you gotta tell me which version

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Speaker 1: of him I'm getting. If I am getting the lean,

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Speaker 1: nimble version from his I don't think here. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you're getting that that that early career David Johnson

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Speaker 1: back he's in. This is gonna surprise people. He's twenty

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Speaker 1: eight years old. That's what was his last good year

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Speaker 1: was what that's going A long way back. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I do not believe that David Johnson, based on

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Speaker 1: what we know right now in February, I don't believe

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be a meaningful fantasy contributor on a regular basis. Ever, again,

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Speaker 1: he will find himself in a position this year where

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Speaker 1: he's gonna battle to be a third down pass catching

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Speaker 1: style back. That might be it from nobody's gonna bring

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Speaker 1: then he would also the fantasy value be super limited

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Speaker 1: because they rotate their backs to such a great degree,

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Speaker 1: you never know what you're going to get. I'm more

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Speaker 1: interested in Kenyan Drake. Let's spend a minute. I think

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Speaker 1: if he stays in Arizona, where does Kenyan Drake, who finished,

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Speaker 1: playing a third of his season in Miami. You want

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Speaker 1: So let's just hypothesize Kenyan Drake stays in Arizona. Where

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Speaker 1: Probably top twelve, top twelve, at so at roughly twelve. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think and I don't think he's a special player.

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Speaker 1: I think you're about right. I think Kenny Drake to me,

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry the most notable of the free agent running backs.

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Speaker 1: You're a free agent could go anywhere. What, by the way,

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Speaker 1: finished his running back three in PPR running back three? Uh,

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Speaker 1: about where Derrick Henry where? How do you feel about

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry with Tennessee we think we know what we

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Speaker 1: kind of like Levy on Bell from last year, if

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Speaker 1: you pay someone that much money, you think you're you're

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Speaker 1: seventies that we've known in fantasy forever. That's the magic number.

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Speaker 1: I I think I think Derrick Henry if it wasn't,

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Speaker 1: I agree that the best scenario for Derrick Henry owners

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Speaker 1: How Benny still had a hundred yard game. Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: It's maybe that maybe that could come through other landing

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Speaker 1: love all their running backs, though, do you think they

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Speaker 1: if if Henry is there, Orry is just not that

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Speaker 1: house Laton games they sho I agree, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: move on. Melvin Gordon is gonna be afraid. We knew

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Speaker 1: get a bunch of work, and Justin Jackson Yep, that's

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Speaker 1: that's the sneaky angle for Dynasty and Empire players. On

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Speaker 1: fascinating angle. Do you think Melvin does Melvin Gordon going

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Speaker 1: in the amount that he's going to get starter money

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Speaker 1: of the ten to eleven apparently teams they need a

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Speaker 1: probably where he's going to be next year. Wherever he lands,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have him outside of my top twelve. All right,

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Speaker 1: that sounds about right. Let's talk about Levy on Bell

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Speaker 1: disappointing season for sure, somebody that went the end of

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Speaker 1: Joe Douglas said that the team would listen to offers

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Speaker 1: he's making fifteen million dollars a year. You know, he'd

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Speaker 1: had the hold out and he found one team dumb

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Speaker 1: enough to give him the big contract. Um, and that

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Speaker 1: general manager, Adam Gates takes control for a while. Now

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Speaker 1: they've got Joe Douglas. There's I don't think beating offers

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Speaker 1: under contract for three more years. Asked Joe about it. Wow,

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Speaker 1: wiping his hands of that whole situation. If nobody else,

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Speaker 1: Jets are a huge candidate. I don't think they go

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Speaker 1: free agency on running back again. They just got bit

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Speaker 1: Paul Charchi and Scott Fish with you. We were just

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Speaker 1: and Todd Gurley might not be good anymore. It's really

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Speaker 1: shows as well. I mentioned DeVonta Freeman. He's got a

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Speaker 1: you think Leonard four Nette has any chance of moving

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Speaker 1: He's got an almost nine million dollar sour No. I

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Speaker 1: there's been a lot of fun. Scott nice job breaking

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Speaker 1: Got another I don't know for sure next week if

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do different stuff throughout the off season. We're

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Speaker 1: still learning as we go. Here. We're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: how Hunter Henry is definitely going to the Patriots, it's

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Speaker 1: Maybe it'll be like that. I don't know, um, but

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