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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show presented by Draft Kings.

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Speaker 1: Here's your host, Marcus Grant or what is up? Welcome

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Speaker 1: to another edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Show presented

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Speaker 1: by Draft Kings. It's me your man, MG, Marcus Grant,

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Speaker 1: still masking and socially distancing when and where necessary, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to another Friday show. We have begun week ten.

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Speaker 1: We will talk about it though in full with our

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Speaker 1: own Michael f Florio. That means we will talk about

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Speaker 1: some of the best value draft picks that we expect

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Speaker 1: for this week for those of you playing daily fantasy football.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to our resident nerd Matt Okada, who, by

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Speaker 1: the way, I did an excellent guest turn sitting in

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Speaker 1: for Adam Rank on Wednesday. Will also look at the

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Speaker 1: Thursday night football game between the Colts and the Titans

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Speaker 1: and interesting questions coming out of that when we got that,

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Speaker 1: and plenty more to talk about on today's show. But

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Speaker 1: as we always do at this time, we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: our faithful producer Seeor Edward L. Murphy. Esquire and Murphy

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Speaker 1: we were talking before the show about the Mandalorian and

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Speaker 1: this has been I know we're two episodes into the season,

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Speaker 1: but it has reminded me why it literally is probably

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Speaker 1: one of the best shows on TV right now without

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Speaker 1: a doubt. Um. You know, you have the child slash

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Speaker 1: babyhood of whatever you wanna call him, is like one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest stars in TV. Um, and you're still

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Speaker 1: trying to see, like what is the purpose of that character?

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Speaker 1: And then yeah, I mean it's just really really well

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Speaker 1: whether it's the directing or the creators of the show,

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Speaker 1: John Favreau obviously mainly, but the second episode definitely a

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Speaker 1: bridge episode. I'm interested to see and what they're gonna

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Speaker 1: do with that uh storyline. But it's it's so good.

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Speaker 1: And the thing that stinks, like we were talking before,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I want to binge it all

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Speaker 1: nothing with my life and just in the couch and

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Speaker 1: watching it. That that's how good it is. But they

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Speaker 1: want to make us wait and talk about it, which

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Speaker 1: is which is cool. We are in the golden age

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Speaker 1: of TV. I believe. So it's just another excellent show.

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Speaker 1: You know. At our disposal, I will say that, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the whole Star Wars universe, I feel like they

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Speaker 1: have done a better job recently of telling stories outside

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Speaker 1: Skywalker saga forever and it was fine, Like we all

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Speaker 1: loved it. But I feel like recently between uh, the

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Speaker 1: in the absolutely and like I was mentioned to you,

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Speaker 1: they do like behind the scenes stuff after the show

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Speaker 1: and you could watch it and like, and the people

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Speaker 1: who create the show where so into Star Wars and

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Speaker 1: the Star Wars universe, and like I love that, and

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Speaker 1: people who are basically nerds at their craft and they

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Speaker 1: love every single story and like, yeah, like we're all

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Speaker 1: used to like the Luke Skywalker storyline, but there's so

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Speaker 1: many extra things out there that they're now bringing into

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Speaker 1: Mandalorian and uh, and it's it's awesome because there's more

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Speaker 1: it's great to see all the different aspects they bring

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Speaker 1: in because, like I said, it's it's an exciting show.

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Speaker 1: the characters. I really can't ask for much more. Absolutely

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Speaker 1: so looking forward to that. It has become my Friday

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Speaker 1: All right, let's turn our attentionnado our pal Michael f Floria,

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Speaker 1: who joins us every Friday to talk fantasy football and

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Speaker 1: kind of go through the week as it is. Are

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Speaker 1: you watching The Mandalorian? I should ask are you watching it?

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Speaker 1: I haven't started it yet. It's on like, I haven't

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Speaker 1: one of us. Now, all right, let's look back at

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Speaker 1: up being one sided. When it was all said and done,

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Speaker 1: the Colts ran off to a thirty four seventeen win

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Speaker 1: fantasy perspective. Some of the top scores from last night. Now,

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Speaker 1: Heem Hines obviously the big star of the night, a

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Speaker 1: Nihim Hind. Mike Clay of ESPN UH posted last night

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Speaker 1: with Nahem Hynes In Fantasy officially on board in the

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Speaker 1: he is the Colts running back that I am most

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Speaker 1: But just look at his game log right like week

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Speaker 1: when they touchdown this year, and each of those three

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Speaker 1: pal Matt Harmon refers to as a costco player, right

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Speaker 1: He scores in bulk. All his points come in bulk,

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Speaker 1: leads me to the next obvious question. It was another

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Speaker 1: poor night for Jonathan Taylor, just about thirty five thirty

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Speaker 1: at this point? Maybe I wouldn't like I have Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Taylor in a few leagues and I him. I think

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Speaker 1: I don't see how I can start him right now.

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Speaker 1: been the exact opposite, Like he's getting out played by

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Speaker 1: Naheem Hans and Jordan Wilkins. And right now, Frank Reich

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Speaker 1: he's going to change it. In fact, he's saying the

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Speaker 1: exact opposite. He's saying, I love having three running backs.

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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't. And I get it from a real life perspective, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But for fantasy it is an absolute nightmare. And Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Taylor sadly has been the least productive of the three.

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Speaker 1: And part of it, i'd you did this out last

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Speaker 1: night markets right, Like a lot of us want to

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Speaker 1: blame the usage. That's why Jonathan Taylor is not a

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Speaker 1: good fantasy as said, Oh, the hot hand approach is

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Speaker 1: the hot hand. Ye I think you're You're right, and

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Speaker 1: just say, hey, why don't you just give him the

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Speaker 1: ball more? But part of it is basically what you said.

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Speaker 1: He's not playing well. So if you're Frank Reich, why

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Speaker 1: would you keep banging your head against that wall and

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Speaker 1: giving the ball to a guy who's not productive when

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Speaker 1: you have other guys who are playing well right now?

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Speaker 1: And like we said, it looks like at least for

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Speaker 1: the last two or three weeks now, he Hines has

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Speaker 1: been the best back in that offense. Jordan Wilkins has

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Speaker 1: he's certainly worthy of some more opportunities. I would saying

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Speaker 1: putting him and I was sort of like you or

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Speaker 1: I looked at that matchup against the Packers next week,

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Speaker 1: and thought maybe I could do this that that worry

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Speaker 1: Kareem hunt for Jonathan Taylor, and I could not hit

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Speaker 1: a safe floor. And I think if they ever cut

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Speaker 1: him loose. The upside is a lot higher. I do

429
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,239
Speaker 1: like the floor, and I get where you're coming from

430
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:06,919
Speaker 1: with the state of running backs, especially this week. Um,

431
00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the guys on a by right,

432
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,680
Speaker 1: you got Clyde Edwards, de Laire, Levian Bell on a by,

433
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:15,240
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, Todd Gurley, all those guys are off. So

434
00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:18,120
Speaker 1: people are going to be in need of running backs

435
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:21,320
Speaker 1: this week, so you know, and now David Johnson looks

436
00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,439
Speaker 1: like he may not play depending on on his status

437
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,119
Speaker 1: in the concussion protocol this week, so you're going to

438
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,359
Speaker 1: need running backs. And for that reason, DeAndre Swift is

439
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,480
Speaker 1: going to be a guy that is going to be

440
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 1: plugged into a lot of lineups. I just I just

441
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,680
Speaker 1: am so frustrated with watching every single week and seeing

442
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 1: him do things with the football in his hands, and

443
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: then you look up and Adrian Peterson is still playing.

444
00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,440
Speaker 1: Of the snaps or last week we saw Carrie on

445
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 1: Johnson starting to get back into the act and it

446
00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:53,200
Speaker 1: turning into a three headed monster. It is, I fear

447
00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,640
Speaker 1: sort of turning into what we have seen in Indianapolis,

448
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Speaker 1: what we have seen in Baltimore. Uh, and that is frustrating.

449
00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:03,640
Speaker 1: Win at least in this case. Look, I I get

450
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Speaker 1: it an Indy, right, Jonathan Taylor's not being the guy

451
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 1: that you thought he would be, So you're gonna get

452
00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 1: some other guys in there. Uh. In Baltimore, they just

453
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Speaker 1: like to run the football and they just want to

454
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Speaker 1: try to diversify as much as possible. In Detroit, I

455
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,399
Speaker 1: don't get it because you have a guy who I

456
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 1: think has been heading shoulders above everybody else you have.

457
00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:22,959
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, you keep taking your thirty five year

458
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,800
Speaker 1: old running back and running him into the back of

459
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Speaker 1: your offensive line. That's one that I don't understand at all. Um. Okay,

460
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Speaker 1: in Tampa last week, we talked about what's gonna happen

461
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Speaker 1: with Antonio Brown stepping into the lineup, how he's gonna

462
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 1: fit in with Chris Godwin and Mike Evans, and we said,

463
00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,480
Speaker 1: maybe this is a wait and see week against the Saints,

464
00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 1: Let's figure out how things go. Uh. And then the

465
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,879
Speaker 1: Bucks got punched in the mouth repeatedly. And I feel

466
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,440
Speaker 1: like last week last week was not a true indication

467
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 1: of what this offense can do because they sort of

468
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: had to abandon their game plan pretty early in this one.

469
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Speaker 1: Now this week and the Panthers, who have been pretty

470
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Speaker 1: tough against the posing passing games. Do you think we're

471
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: gonna get a better idea of the Bucks wide receiver

472
00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:11,480
Speaker 1: group this week? My fear is that their usage looks

473
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Speaker 1: similar to last week's usage, where it was Godwins six targets,

474
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: Evans six targets, Ground six targets, and a B five targets.

475
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: And that is just a fantasy nightmare because six five,

476
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 1: six targets for a player like like Evans and Godwin

477
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,040
Speaker 1: that were drafted to be wide receiver ones is just

478
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 1: not getting the job done. But I think this week

479
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Speaker 1: I have Antonio Brown ranked ahead of Mike Evans. I

480
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Speaker 1: actually feel better about Antonio Brown going forward then Mike Evans.

481
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Speaker 1: Like Antonio Brown las especially this week because last week

482
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Speaker 1: Antonio Brown was their deep threat, like he led them

483
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Speaker 1: in air yards, He led them in targets of twenty

484
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Speaker 1: plus air yards, and the Panthers this year have allowed

485
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 1: these second most receptions of twenty plus air yards, so

486
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking he has a better chance of converting those

487
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Speaker 1: deep shots. And if you're talking about someone getting five

488
00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 1: six targets, you either need a long completion or a

489
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,639
Speaker 1: touchdown to really justify having that guy in your fantasy lineup.

490
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Speaker 1: This is we don't talk about wide receiver committees, but

491
00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: this is probably turning into a wide receiver committee right now.

492
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,479
Speaker 1: I still sort of put my chips with Chris Godwin

493
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Speaker 1: a little bit because I still think he's the top receiver.

494
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: I do agree that that A. B is probably going

495
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,159
Speaker 1: to finish ahead of Mike Evans this week because Evans,

496
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,560
Speaker 1: he's um. If there's such a thing as a goal

497
00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,680
Speaker 1: line receiver, that's what Mike Evans has become this year.

498
00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 1: Right He's the guy that they like throwing it to

499
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 1: when they're down near the end zone, and so that

500
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: touchdown upside has sort of kept him afloat because between

501
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Speaker 1: the twenties, you just have not gotten much production out

502
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Speaker 1: of him. I do think that they are still going

503
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: to make a considered effort to kind of get Antonio

504
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Speaker 1: Brown comfortable in this offense. Uh, you know, Bronk has

505
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,360
Speaker 1: you know, has sort of come to life in terms

506
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Speaker 1: of targets. Last week, he didn't do much production wise,

507
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,960
Speaker 1: but then again that nobody did in Tampa. So they're

508
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,440
Speaker 1: just to become a lot of people that you have

509
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,239
Speaker 1: to spread the football too, and again, this is one

510
00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: of those things that's great for real football, it is

511
00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,680
Speaker 1: maddening for fantasy football because we like certainty, We like

512
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:19,440
Speaker 1: narrow passing games. We like those focused opportunities where we

513
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Speaker 1: know there's gonna be a guy or two guys that

514
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Speaker 1: get eight to ten targets a week, and that just

515
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Speaker 1: might not be the case with this passing game, with

516
00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 1: all the guys that they have to throw too. We

517
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,280
Speaker 1: haven't even mentioned the fact that they still throw the

518
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: football to Leonard four Net and Ronald Jones occasionally, so

519
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: so some of those targets are still coming out of

520
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Speaker 1: that that pool as well. So it it's just gonna

521
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: be frustrating. And I think at some point you just

522
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Speaker 1: sort of you pick a guy, you plant your flag,

523
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Speaker 1: and you roll with them, and you see how things

524
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Speaker 1: are gonna turn out, because at some point the wheel

525
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: is gonna land on them. Um, you just might not

526
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,119
Speaker 1: be able to figure out when Quarterback talk in the

527
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Speaker 1: a f C West, kind of an interesting matchup between

528
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: the Broncos and the Raiders with two quarterbacks that don't

529
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: necessarily get a ton of love but have been playing

530
00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:12,160
Speaker 1: pretty well right now. Drew Lock versus Derek Carr who

531
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Speaker 1: would you pick between the two of them? This week?

532
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: I have them back to back in my rankings, but

533
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Speaker 1: I have Derek Carr just ahead. And kudos to you, Marcus.

534
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Speaker 1: You were the first person that I heard at least

535
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Speaker 1: talking up Drew Lock, not even for the matchup against

536
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Speaker 1: the Falcons, but you were talking about weeks ago, like, hey,

537
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Speaker 1: this guy is a favorable schedule, and I think once

538
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Speaker 1: again this week he is a good streaming option. The

539
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Speaker 1: only reason I will go with Derek Carr is because

540
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: I think he's a little bit safer. Drew Lock the

541
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Speaker 1: last two weeks has been awesome, but before that he

542
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: was not someone you can really rely on for fantasy

543
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Speaker 1: and last week the first half I was nervous. I

544
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 1: was like, oh man, Drew Lock is gonna flop here,

545
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Speaker 1: But then he was down three scores and had to throw,

546
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Speaker 1: had to run and really put up a nice day.

547
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Speaker 1: But here I like Derek Carr has just been consistent.

548
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Speaker 1: As you see their two plus passing touchdowns and sick

549
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Speaker 1: to his last seven, he's getting a little bit more

550
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Speaker 1: involved running the football. So I have them both as

551
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: high end QB two's, but if I have to pick one,

552
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,359
Speaker 1: I'm going Car. I'm gonna go with with Derek Car

553
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: here as well, and I think part of it is

554
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: just at some point we we got to give him

555
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: his props because he's very quietly been playing well this year.

556
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: Uh you know he has. He has made something out

557
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: of Nelson Aglore, or maybe Nelson Aglore has made something

558
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 1: out of Derek Car I don't know. Maybe it's a partnership.

559
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: I don't know, but for whatever reason, both these guys

560
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: are playing really good football right now. The other part

561
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 1: of it is, as much as I have been a

562
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: champion for Drew Lock, it has been a little nerve

563
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: racking to sort of watch him because even in the

564
00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: games he's played well, those points haven't really shown up

565
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,920
Speaker 1: until the fourth quarter. And that's a hard way to

566
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Speaker 1: live on a regular basis. I will say this, if

567
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Speaker 1: you are going the Drew Lock streaming route, this might

568
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,120
Speaker 1: be your last week to sort of get in because

569
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: the schedule gets tougher for the next few weeks. After this.

570
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: They've got Miami who has been locking down on quarterbacks

571
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: no pun intended there, the Saints, the Chiefs, the Panthers,

572
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 1: the Bills. So for the next few weeks things get

573
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 1: a little bit tougher for Drew Lock. So if you

574
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Speaker 1: have him on your roster and you're thinking about streaming

575
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 1: a quarterback, this might be the last week to get

576
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: in because other than after that then things get a

577
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: little bit more difficult. But between the two of them,

578
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give Derek carry slight edge. You hear that

579
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Speaker 1: Raider fans, Raider fans who have been in my mentions

580
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 1: for when I don't pick them to win on in

581
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: a given week, I've heard it's funny. This is a

582
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,440
Speaker 1: completely different aside. I I I've been lucky enough to

583
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: do sort of the weekly game picks on NFL dot Com.

584
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: I know, I think Daniel Jeremiah and Adam Rank and

585
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: Cynthia Freeland and several other people are all involved. There

586
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,800
Speaker 1: are people out there who honestly are tracking my picks

587
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: more closely than I am, because I hear about it

588
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 1: when I when I picked the same team to lose

589
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 1: several weeks in a row, people will screenshot them and

590
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: come back at me, and I'm like, bro, I don't

591
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 1: even remember when I picked two weeks ago. But good

592
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,200
Speaker 1: for you, so uh for all your Raider fans who

593
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 1: assaulted at me for not picking the Raiders enough, I'm

594
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,479
Speaker 1: picking Derek Carr this week, so there, leave me alone.

595
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: Um more quarterback talk. Lamar Jackson has notoriously been sunder

596
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: sort of underperforming this year in Baltimore. But look the Patriots,

597
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 1: that defense, we keep saying, it's not the same group

598
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:21,240
Speaker 1: that it was. They struggled to contain Joe Flacco last week.

599
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 1: So is this a bounceback opportunity for Lamar Jackson here? Yeah,

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00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,000
Speaker 1: I have no idea where Joe Flacco came from me,

601
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 1: Like he looked like his old Ravens Joe Flacco. But

602
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: I still the Patriots on the year is still allowing

603
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: the third fewest fantasy points to quarterbacks. I I think

604
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: it's a week where like, if you have Lamar, you're

605
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: probably still starting him because I like him more than

606
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: the waiver wire options. But I don't feel great about Lamar,

607
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 1: Like he's barely a top twelve quarterback for me this week.

608
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: And part of it is is the matchup, but most

609
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: of it is just the way Lamar is playing right now.

610
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Speaker 1: Like he's not running nearly as much as he did

611
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:04,080
Speaker 1: last year. He's averaging less than sixty yard rushing yards

612
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: per game, and I know for a quarterback over fifty

613
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: rushing yards is still really good. Not when you drafted

614
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: someone who was rushing for eighty rushing yards last year

615
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 1: and you were expecting similar results. And that's not just

616
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Speaker 1: the only place. Like he's throwing twenty less passing yards

617
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: per game. He had thirty six passing touchdowns last year.

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00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: He is just twelve right now this offense, and last

619
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: week their offense looked more broken than ever. So I

620
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: don't know, I mean two weeks ago before the buy,

621
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Speaker 1: So I don't know how you really feel great about

622
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 1: Lamar this week. I'm trying to make myself feel great

623
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Speaker 1: about Lamar Um. It is the passing part of it

624
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: that has has sort of be fuddled me because the

625
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: talk in the off season and my belief coming into

626
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: this season was that they wanted to try to throw

627
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: the football more and it just hasn't worked out. The

628
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:52,680
Speaker 1: connection with Marcus Brown has not has not worked out.

629
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Speaker 1: Mark Andrews has been sort of inconsistent. We'll talk about

630
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 1: him a little bit later on UH in this show

631
00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: as well. It just has not worked out throwing the football.

632
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: And then, as you mentioned, the rushing yards have not

633
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:06,120
Speaker 1: been there, and nobody expected that he was going to

634
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: set another rushing record after having twelve hundred yards last year,

635
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,200
Speaker 1: but you did expect that he would still get you

636
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: a little bit more than what we have seen from

637
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: him this season. We're still waiting for a he's had

638
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: one hundred yard game. We're still hoping that maybe there's

639
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: another one in the offing. It just it just hasn't happened.

640
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: But I'm sort of banking on the fact that, look,

641
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: the Patriots couldn't get pressure on Joe Flacco and he

642
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: stood back there and threw three touchdown passes. He put

643
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Speaker 1: up twenty fantasy points last week, So that if Flacco

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Speaker 1: can do that against the Patriots, that I would expect

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Speaker 1: as much or more against Lamar Jackson's. That's sort of

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Speaker 1: what I'm banking on. Uh, we'll see, we'll see if

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Speaker 1: it happens. I think at this point, though you're you know,

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Speaker 1: you drafted Lamar Jackson high. I won't say you're forced

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Speaker 1: to start him, because that's never going to be the case.

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Speaker 1: But I do think that you're looking around at your

651
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Speaker 1: options and you're wondering if there's a better one, and

652
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Speaker 1: and you might be hard pressed to find one. Certainly

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Speaker 1: on waiver wire this week. I generally avoid doing two

654
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Speaker 1: questions about the same team, but the Ravens were on

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Speaker 1: my mind this week, especially with talk that mark Ingram

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Speaker 1: might be back in the lineup. I know earlier in

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Speaker 1: the week he practiced. On Thursday, he did not, so

658
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: we're still sort of trying to figure out what his

659
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: situation is. But if it goes back to that three

660
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Speaker 1: headed running attack, do you take any of these guys

661
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 1: or do you just stay away in general? I would

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00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: stay away in general if mark Ingram is healthy. If

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Speaker 1: he's not, I think these two guys are then flex

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Speaker 1: options because they still take away from one another. But

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Speaker 1: we saw it for weeks when when Ingram was healthy.

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Speaker 1: When they have all three backs, they're going to use

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Speaker 1: all three backs, and each of them plays around a

668
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Speaker 1: third of the snaps each week. One we'll get a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a higher amount, like you know, Liket maybe,

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Speaker 1: but it just it varies week to week and they

671
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Speaker 1: all get single digit carries like yeah, j K. Dobbins,

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Speaker 1: he may get the targets, but targets from Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: too running back or like two per game, so that

674
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Speaker 1: you can't rely on those the goal line work lately

675
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Speaker 1: has been going to Gus Edwards. But when they were

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Speaker 1: all healthy, we saw Mark Ingram involved, we saw Dobbin's

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Speaker 1: getting some So it is just a complete nightmare right now.

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Speaker 1: And who would have thought that, right like after last

679
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: season and how good this running game was with Lamar

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Speaker 1: and Ingram and even Gus Edwards, Like I would have thought,

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Speaker 1: maybe J. K. Dobbins doesn't get involved because Ingram is

682
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: playing really well. But I never would have guessed that,

683
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Speaker 1: like you wouldn't be able to start really anyone on

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Speaker 1: Baltimore besides Lamar Jackson. It's it's one of those things.

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Speaker 1: And obviously we aren't at the practices. We we don't

686
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Speaker 1: see what goes on there. We're not in the meeting rooms.

687
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: And the bottom line is the Ravens are six and two,

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Speaker 1: and they're still, you know, very much in the hunt,

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Speaker 1: uh you know to be. They're still a Super Bowl

690
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Speaker 1: contender without a doubt. Um. You do wonder though, for

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Speaker 1: those running backs how much of their their struggle to

692
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: produce is from the fact that they are rotating so continually.

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Speaker 1: And I remember looking at their usage rates after week

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Speaker 1: five or six something like that, and it was split

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Speaker 1: almost almost completely evenly. I mean it was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: thirty four, thirty three, thirty three or something like that.

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00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: I mean in terms of their their usage rates. And

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Speaker 1: I mean it's sort of impressive that they could split

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Speaker 1: the opportunities quite so evenly between the three of them.

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Speaker 1: But you do wonder that even if it's just a

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Speaker 1: two headed attack, you still have the chance to get

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Speaker 1: more into the flow of the game and more into

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Speaker 1: the rhythm. Uh. And maybe that has something to do

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Speaker 1: with why these guys have not been as productive as

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Speaker 1: we would like them to be. But again, if you're

706
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Speaker 1: John Harbaugh, uh, you don't have a lot of motivation

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Speaker 1: to change because your team is winning your six and

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00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: two and the offense has been good enough. Uh. This

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Speaker 1: is just us sort of crying and complaining from our

710
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: own selfish purposes here, uh, wishing that we could just

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Speaker 1: sort of pick a guy, because that would be nice.

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Speaker 1: That would be a so so much better for everything

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Speaker 1: we want to do. Uh. Speaking of picking things you

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Speaker 1: should pick. Watching us on NFL Fantasy Game Day on

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Speaker 1: you know that Michael Florio is. They're answering your questions

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Speaker 1: for about the first forty five minutes of the show.

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Speaker 1: So if you got last minute lineup decisions you need

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Speaker 1: help with, jump on. Ask the questions and Floria will

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Speaker 1: can in the comment section below. Time for Best Value

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Speaker 1: presented by Draft Kings the time of the week where

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Speaker 1: we dig through the Draft Kings salaries and try to

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Speaker 1: figure out who could give you the most bang for

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Speaker 1: your buck there. So we'll start at the quarterback spot.

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Speaker 1: Who is on your radar this week? Florio Marcus, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna steal a line from you. It may be low

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Speaker 1: hanging fruit, but it tastes just as good in its

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Speaker 1: less work. Right, So, if I'm coming to Jared Goff

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Speaker 1: against the Seattle Seahawks here and it's all about the matchup.

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Speaker 1: Seattle allows the most fantasy points, the most passing yard

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Speaker 1: and the most rushing touchdowns. I know We don't think

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Speaker 1: of Golf as a runner, but we did see him

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00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: seek a rushing touchdown earlier this year, so maybe he

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Speaker 1: can do that. And what I like even more is

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Speaker 1: just the consistency of how many points they allow. There's

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Speaker 1: been two quarterbacks all year who failed to score twenty

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Speaker 1: points against Seattle. One is Kirk Cousins, which I can't explain,

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00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: and one was Jimmy g when he left early due

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Speaker 1: to injury, and Nick Mullin scored eighteen in relief that game.

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Speaker 1: So it's just right now, start quarterbacks against Seattle. Kirk Cousins,

747
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: which I can't explain, is as good a description as

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Speaker 1: any I think i've heard. I'm gonna go to a

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Speaker 1: tongue of Voloa, who you know, looked really good last

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Speaker 1: week against the Cardinals and has a very favorable matchup

751
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,919
Speaker 1: this week against the Chargers. Uh. It is apparent why

752
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: the Dolphins wanted him and why they put him in

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00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: when they did. And I know we sort of asked

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00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 1: a question a couple of weeks ago why they would

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00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,759
Speaker 1: make the change from Ryan Fitzpatrick, but I think we've

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Speaker 1: seen it the last couple of weeks. On top of that,

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00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: this Charger secondary. I mean, losing Derwin James was a

758
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: big blow to this group, and I think you see

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00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,399
Speaker 1: that bear out through the season. So I would take

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Speaker 1: my shot with to H and see what the young

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00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: guy can do against that Charger defense. Running back, which

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Speaker 1: if there's ever a week to find value at running back,

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Speaker 1: this might be it. Where are you going? I went

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00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 1: a little bit higher, but I'm going with Antonio Gibson.

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Speaker 1: I really like Gibson this week. I think he can

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Speaker 1: be a top ten, maybe even top five running back

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00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: because the Detroit lines are allowing the most fantasy points

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Speaker 1: per game two uh running backs. And I know the

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Speaker 1: fear is j. D. Mckissi because he's been awesome and

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Speaker 1: getting a lot of passing game work. And I like

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Speaker 1: mckissic too. But my hope here is that with the

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Speaker 1: Lions offense being as banged up as it is, no

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Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay, it's looking like potentially no t J. Hockenson,

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Speaker 1: that if the Washington football team can rely on their

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Speaker 1: defense and running game in the second half, it could

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Speaker 1: lead to a lot of Antonio Gibson. I like Gibson,

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Speaker 1: especially because he's getting a lot of the work down

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Speaker 1: near the goal line, which is key. I gonna go though,

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Speaker 1: with his teammate j D. Mackissic, and you mentioned that

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Speaker 1: you sort of like as well. So while Gibson's getting

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Speaker 1: the goal line work, Machissic is getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: passing work. And it's weird to think, but he's second

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Speaker 1: on the team and targets receptions and receiving yards. I mean, there's,

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Speaker 1: mind you, a huge gap between j D mckissic and

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Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, but he's still getting those opportunities, so he's

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00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: out there on the field. I like both of these

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Speaker 1: Washington backs against a Detroit team that has given up

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Speaker 1: the most total touchdowns to running backs this year. I

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00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:32,439
Speaker 1: think it's tied on the ground and five through the air.

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Speaker 1: So whichever way you're getting down near the end zone,

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00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 1: there's a pretty good chance that you're running backs will

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Speaker 1: have a chance to score against the Lions. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: Machissic is one is making a little bit more of

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Speaker 1: a long shot than Gibson, but I think has a

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Speaker 1: chance still to produce this week. Over to wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: I I love your wide receiver pick for this week,

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00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 1: by the way, thank you. I'm going with Brandon Cooks,

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Speaker 1: and I was a huge Will Fuller supporter coming into

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Speaker 1: the year, and I still am. I have Will Fuller

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Speaker 1: in a lot of leagues. He's been awesome, but he

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's taking away some of the shine

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00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: from Brandon Cooks, because Brandon Cooks is just going out

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00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: and balling each and every week. In the last four games,

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00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 1: he's at least nine targets in every single one of them.

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00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: He has scored thirty, thirteen, and seventeen Fantasy points in

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00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,279
Speaker 1: that stretch. He has a touchdown in three of the

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Speaker 1: last four. And the Browns are really good matchup for

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Speaker 1: wide receivers. They've allowed the fifth most points to wide

809
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 1: receivers this year. And if David Johnson's out, maybe we

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Speaker 1: get a little bit more Deshaun Watson throwing the ball.

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Speaker 1: I'm going out with John Brown here in this one.

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00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: And I know that the passing game for the Bills

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00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: has been sort of sporadic, and it's certainly kind of

814
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: bounced back a little bit last week. And I know

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Speaker 1: that when they do throw the ball, it tends to

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00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 1: be Stefan Biggs. But I think Brown is set for

817
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: a big blow up game this week for the Buffalo Bills.

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00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: I mean, like he was a nice piece last year

819
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: in this offense. He hasn't quite duplicated that level of

820
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: production this year. Part of it because he just has

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00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: not been completely healthy, but the Card does have given

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Speaker 1: up some yards through the air, and we saw that

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Speaker 1: last week against the Dolphins. We saw Preston Williams having

824
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: a really nice game before unfortunately he was injured, and

825
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Speaker 1: even after he went out, Davante Parker still caught a

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Speaker 1: few passes from to us. So I think there's a

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Speaker 1: chance for both of the Bill's wide receivers to get

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Speaker 1: involved in this one. And Brown just happens to be

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Speaker 1: the better value of the guy's past catching the ball

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Speaker 1: in that offense. Uh, tight ends, which we all need

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Speaker 1: tight end help, So please, where where are we going

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Speaker 1: for value tight ends this week? Yeah? I went a

833
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Speaker 1: little bit higher because tight end it drives up real fast,

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Speaker 1: So I'm going Evan Ingram here. And what I just

835
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Speaker 1: love about him is the volume he gets right now

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Speaker 1: each and every week, Like in his last three games

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Speaker 1: he's twenty nine targets. That's nine, ten and ten, so

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00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 1: it's consistent, big time volume. And in that stretch he

839
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,760
Speaker 1: scored double digit Fantasy points in each game. His points

840
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: continued to climb, and I know last time he played

841
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: the Eagles, we on this podcast markets we're talking about

842
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: how much he disappointed he only had he at ten

843
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: point nine f s points, but he had a lot

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00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: more opportunity to do more with it. He had that

845
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 1: big long drop that if he catches that, his day

846
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: looks so much better in that game, and he caught

847
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: that ball last week. So I'm just feeling good about

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00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,719
Speaker 1: Evan Inghram going forward. Right now. I'm feeling good about

849
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram for the rest of the season. I mean,

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00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: hopefully he can kind of cut out some of the drops,

851
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: but the schedule opens up nicely for him. I'm gonna

852
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Speaker 1: Eric Ebron here because the matchup against the Bengals is

853
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,279
Speaker 1: a good one. Uh. They give up the second most

854
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 1: Fantasy points per game to the tied end position. Uh. Look,

855
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: the the past catchers have been sort of hard to figure.

856
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: It's nice to see Juju sort of come back. I mean,

857
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool has been okay. Deonce Johnson has been okay. Uh.

858
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: You haven't had a ton of blow up games recently

859
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: from this group, But I do think Ebron has an

860
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: opportunity to get a few targets here. And look, unless

861
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: you have Travis Kelsey and he's on a by this week,

862
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 1: you're sort of hoping that you're tied in finds the

863
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: end zone in order to be successful in any given week.

864
00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: And I think Eric Ebron has that opportunity again Cincinnati

865
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: to find his way into the painted area. So I'm

866
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: willing to sort of throw a dart at him at

867
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,880
Speaker 1: the tight end spot. Uh, defenses, we are sort of

868
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: of one mind when it comes to defenses this week. Uh,

869
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: tell me why you picked the defense we picked. I'm

870
00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: guessing we had similar approaches. We were like, oh, the

871
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: Jets are on by, Okay, who are the Giants playing?

872
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 1: That is the defense I'm going to go with. I mean,

873
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is just has been having a lot of

874
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: issues holding onto the ball. The Giants are turning the

875
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: ball over a bunch. They give up a lot of

876
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:34,480
Speaker 1: sacks too, and they don't score a lot of points either,

877
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 1: the second fewest points only the Jets are scoring fewer

878
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: than them right now, So I know it's still it's

879
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: not the deepest of dive at defense. But if I'm

880
00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: building a DFS lineup this week, I'm getting the Eagles

881
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: in Well, Daniel Jones didn't turn the ball over for

882
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,279
Speaker 1: the first time all season last week. I am hard

883
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,279
Speaker 1: pressed to believe that he's going to make that two

884
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 1: in a row. So that's part of the reason I'm

885
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: going with the Eagles defense. Um. You know that the

886
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: Giants have just been very friendly to opposing fantasy defenses.

887
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,879
Speaker 1: And you know, in a week where I didn't think

888
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: there were a lot of great values defensively, uh, for

889
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: for daily Fantasy, I felt I thought that this was

890
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 1: one of the best ones. Uh. And I've been suggesting

891
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: for the last couple of weeks that this is a

892
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: chance to stream the Eagles defense. I don't want to

893
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 1: say I was alone. I know there were other people

894
00:43:19,719 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: saying it as well, but I definitely advocated that there

895
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:23,880
Speaker 1: this was the time to go out pick up the

896
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: Eagles defense, streamed them because they had some really favorable

897
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: matchups coming up and this was one of them. So

898
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 1: there you go. That was the best value presented by

899
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,360
Speaker 1: Draft Kings. It's time for Best of the Pack presented

900
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: by Panini Trading Cards. If you've been watching the show

901
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: all year, you know that this is when we pick

902
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:41,959
Speaker 1: out a pack of Panini trading cards, and we picked

903
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: three of them and we talked about some of the

904
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: best ones in the pack. So let's start off that

905
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: tight end which has been a buggaboo all year long,

906
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews. And it's funny. I went and looked, and

907
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: he was coming into week ten was the tight end

908
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,360
Speaker 1: eight and it was sort of amazing to me that

909
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: he was that high. And I went and looked. And

910
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,439
Speaker 1: when he has been good, he has been very good.

911
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: He's had three games of seventeen or more points. The

912
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: rest of them have been six or fewer. I mean,

913
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: it is is all or nothing with him this week

914
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: against the Patriots. How much do you trust Mark Andrews.

915
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: I for the first time all year, Marcus, do not

916
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: have Mark Andrews as a top twelve tight end. It's

917
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: gotten that bad. Like to your your point is everything

918
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: I was gonna say about him, like when he does

919
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,399
Speaker 1: show out, he's been good, but there's just been way

920
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: more duds than there have been those big performances. And

921
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 1: what worries me is in the last three weeks, which

922
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:45,280
Speaker 1: all six points are fewer, Like you said, four targets,

923
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: six targets five targets. He has one game with more

924
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: than six targets in his last five games played. This

925
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: this offense, it's not Mark Andrews either. It's the Lamar

926
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: part of the passing. It's just this whole offense in general.

927
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: It's not clicking right now. The Patriots have been stingy

928
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: against tight ends. If you're starting him, I think you're

929
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: hoping that the Mark Andrews shows up. He had fifty

930
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:10,439
Speaker 1: eight receiving yards in Week one. Fifty eight receiving yards

931
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. We were all like, hey, all right,

932
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews, He's still one of the elite tight ends

933
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: in fantasy football. That fifty eight yards is his high

934
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: for the season. He has not hit sixty receiving yards

935
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:24,439
Speaker 1: yet in a game. And at this point, yeah, I'm

936
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: I'm sort of out on it. I mean, he has

937
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: become sort of like any number of other tight ends

938
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,359
Speaker 1: that unless he finds his way into the end zone,

939
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: there's just not enough there to give you consistent quality production.

940
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: And you know, we talked about kind of avoiding the

941
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: Cults passing game. I mean we're at a point where

942
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: I think you probably avoid the Ravens passing game too,

943
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:47,399
Speaker 1: because there's just nobody there that you can have any

944
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: real belief in on any given week. All right, next

945
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 1: up it is Ronald Jones of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

946
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: and uh, look his his lot in life has sort

947
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: of gone in circles. Right. He was in a committee,

948
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: then Fournette got hurt and he was the man. Then

949
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,440
Speaker 1: Fournett comes back, and uh he's back at a committee again.

950
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:11,239
Speaker 1: Do you consider him still to be the RB one

951
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: in Tampa right now? I do not. I think that

952
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,399
Speaker 1: Leonard four Nette is the RB one. I have Leonard

953
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,359
Speaker 1: Fournett ranked higher. I'm excited to play Leonard Fournette this week,

954
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: not so much Ronald Jones. I still have him pretty

955
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: high because of the matchup and they give up the

956
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 1: Panthers give up a lot of points on the ground.

957
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,720
Speaker 1: But since Fournette has been back and healthy, he's playing

958
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,720
Speaker 1: two thirds of the snaps. Jones is playing thirty percent.

959
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 1: He's getting a lot of the targets six targets per

960
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: game for nets averaging there, Jones is just down to three.

961
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,879
Speaker 1: They're splitting a lot of the groundwork. And to take

962
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: it a step further, markets like, let's look at everything

963
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians has done, Nuts said, because I know he

964
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: keeps saying it's Ronald Jones job. He inherited Ronald Jones

965
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: and did not really use him as the lead back

966
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: last year, instead was getting darry Ogan Bawally and Peyton

967
00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: Barber into the mix. And then this year, in a

968
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,359
Speaker 1: year they clearly went all in, they drafted Keyshawn Vaughn

969
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: in the third round, They signed Leonard Fournette before the season,

970
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 1: and when he has Leonard Fournette available, he uses Leonard

971
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: Fournette over Ronald Jones. So Bruce Arians can say he

972
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: loves Ronald Jones all he wants. His actions clearly painted

973
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: different picture. I hate that you're right, I really do.

974
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: I hate that you're right about this because I want

975
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: I wanted so bad for rod Jo, you know, And

976
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: there was a guy stretch. There's a stretch of like

977
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: a month in there where I felt like I was right,

978
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: Like I came into this year kind of like as one.

979
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: I said this before I said this in August. Right,

980
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: there was no more polarizing player in fantasy football than

981
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones. Right, If you wanted to start a fight

982
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: amongst fantasy analysts, you would just say Ronald Jones and

983
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 1: walk out of the room and just let them fight

984
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: amongst themselves. And so for like a month, I was

985
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: feeling really good about it. And you're right, everything, everything

986
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,320
Speaker 1: that the Bucks have done, all of their actions, suggests

987
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: that they don't necessarily love Rod Joe that way. Um

988
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: that they're going to give everybody else sort of a

989
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: chance to come in and take that job from him.

990
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,920
Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's frustrating because right now as

991
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,759
Speaker 1: we sit here and talk, Ronald Jones is a top

992
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: fifth team fantasy back, but everybody else is still gonna

993
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: get opportunities. The other weird part about this is that

994
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 1: if after the first three years of Leonard Fournett's career,

995
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 1: you would have come to me and told me that

996
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,959
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette would go somewhere and become a team's pass

997
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,840
Speaker 1: catching back. I would have laughed in your face, like,

998
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: but this is where we are. He goes to Tampa

999
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: when he had he catches seventy balls last year in Jacksonville.

1000
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: He goes to Tampa this year and he is the

1001
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: guy that they throw the football too out of the backfield.

1002
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: New James White is weird, man. It absolutely is weird. Um,

1003
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: all right, last one, Uh, it's a J. Brown who

1004
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:48,560
Speaker 1: played last night and I did not have a great

1005
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:50,920
Speaker 1: night last night. Just one catch for twenty one yards

1006
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: and that was kind of it dropped the past. That

1007
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: might have been a touchdown down the sidelines early in

1008
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: that game, but just not much to show for it.

1009
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,439
Speaker 1: But on the whole, it has been a very good

1010
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: and productive year for a J. Brown. So let's kind

1011
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: of spin it forward a little bit, just projecting to

1012
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 1: next year's drafts. How high would you consider drafting him? Yeah,

1013
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 1: as someone who has a J. Brown in my league

1014
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:17,240
Speaker 1: of record, watching him play last night and having multiple

1015
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: opportunities to real in that ball and not able to

1016
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: do it, it hurt. But as someone who has a J. Brown,

1017
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:27,359
Speaker 1: I think his production has has been great. Like I'm

1018
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: not going to complain about it at all, but he's

1019
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 1: volume isn't quite And that was my concern with Brown

1020
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:35,759
Speaker 1: coming into the year. He does not have a game

1021
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,840
Speaker 1: with double digit targets this year. Corey Davis has multiple

1022
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:41,720
Speaker 1: of those, so like, it's not like that, it's because

1023
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: they're just running the ball the whole time like Brown

1024
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,720
Speaker 1: is doing, giving you the most out of the limited

1025
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: production he's been seeing, but it's just this offense. They

1026
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: spread the ball out, they love to run the ball,

1027
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: And I think third round is where I would be

1028
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,359
Speaker 1: comfortable taking him, preferably earlier. Third round, because that's where

1029
00:49:57,480 --> 00:50:00,600
Speaker 1: I think, like those borderline wide receiver why really start

1030
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: to go. And I think that is the range that

1031
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: I have him in. But I will say I fully expect,

1032
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: because the fantasy community loves this guy. I fully expect

1033
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: for him to get a lot of hype and potentially

1034
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: go in the second round. Nation that's what I think

1035
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: is gonna end up happening. I think you're right. I

1036
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 1: think I think we'd all feel better with him in

1037
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,000
Speaker 1: the third round. But I do think the hype is

1038
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: going to sort of push him up a little bit.

1039
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:23,320
Speaker 1: What is different this year versus last year, and you

1040
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: sort of talked about it, is Corey Davis playing well,

1041
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: John new Smith sort of playing well as well. I mean,

1042
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 1: last year, the Titans didn't have a ton of consistent

1043
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 1: options to go to in the passing game, So I

1044
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: think that's part of the reason, uh A J. Brown

1045
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,239
Speaker 1: got as many opportunities as he did. But even then,

1046
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: I think one of the things people loved about him

1047
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: was the fact that he was incredibly efficient on a

1048
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:50,240
Speaker 1: relatively few number of targets compared to some other guys.

1049
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: That we're scoring the same amount of Fantasy points as

1050
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 1: he was. And maybe that should have been sort of

1051
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,360
Speaker 1: a warning side for some of us too, that that

1052
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: really high rate of efficial and he was going to

1053
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 1: be hard to duplicate. So he's been good. Um, I

1054
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: don't know that he has quite been the guy that

1055
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: he was last year, but I don't think, you know,

1056
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna just suddenly chick him to

1057
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: the curb. But you're right. You know, we talk about

1058
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: this now, we say third round now, uh, and then

1059
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 1: we get to like June and everybody's like super hyped

1060
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: about A. J. Brown again, and that that a DP

1061
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: starts going through the roof. So, um, consider this our

1062
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: opportunity to our our efforts to tamp that down a

1063
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: little bit and hope you get some kind of draft value,

1064
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: uh J. Brown before you get to next August. All right,

1065
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: that was best of the path presented by Panini Trading Cards.

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Speaker 1: All right, and it's time for my favorite segment of

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Speaker 1: the week. It is asked a Nerd, and again shout

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Speaker 1: out to Matt Okata who sat in on Wednesday did

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Speaker 1: a great job holding it down in place of Adam Rank,

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Speaker 1: but that we have been doing a series of the

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Speaker 1: best positional single game performances since the year two thousand

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Speaker 1: and was just round it all out. We asked Matt

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Speaker 1: Ocotta this week about the best single game tight end

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Speaker 1: fantasy performances since the year two thousand. What you got, Matt,

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Speaker 1: Thanks Marcus, and welcome back to ask a Nerd. After

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Speaker 1: our QB segment last week, Kyler Murray put up thirty

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Speaker 1: eight Fantasy points, so I'd say the streak of success continues,

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Speaker 1: and this week we are tackling the one position we're

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Speaker 1: all desperate for help at. Here are the top five

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Speaker 1: single game performances by a tight end this millennium. At

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Speaker 1: number five, we have the fresh memory of George Kittle

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00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: in Week four this season, Kittle had fifteen catches for

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Speaker 1: a hundred and eighty three yards and a touchdown to

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00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: finish with forty point one Fantasy points, mostly in good

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Speaker 1: old garbage time. It's a very similar story at number four,

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Speaker 1: where Zach Ertz racked at forty point five Fantasy points.

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Speaker 1: On fourteen catches and a hundred forty five yards with

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Speaker 1: two scores. In Week ten, another garbage time Eagles game

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Speaker 1: only reversed. No time end list would be complete without

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Speaker 1: the gronk, and he spikes his way to numbers three

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00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: on our list by spiking three touchdowns in week Growing

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00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: had nine catches for a hundred forty nine yards in

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Speaker 1: that game against the Bears, but it was that trio

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Speaker 1: scores that pushed him up to forty one point nine

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Speaker 1: fantasy points and on to our list. For number two,

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Speaker 1: we take a trip back in time to another tight

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Speaker 1: end with a three t D game. Antonio Gates scored

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Speaker 1: forty two point five Fantasy points in week two thousand

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Speaker 1: five thanks to ten catches for a hundred forty five

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Speaker 1: yards and those three scores. The future Hall of Famer

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Speaker 1: ranks third all time and fantasy points by a tight end,

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Speaker 1: behind only Tony Gunzalez and Jason Witten, and finally at

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Speaker 1: number one on our list, we have a tight end

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Speaker 1: legend and now a TV star, Shannon Sharp. In Week seven,

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00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: two thousand two, Sharp caught twelve balls for a tight

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Speaker 1: end record two hundred and fourteen receiving yards and two

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00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: tuddies and rounds to an incredible forty five point five

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Speaker 1: fantasy points. How long from Mark Andrews or Hunter Henry

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Speaker 1: to put on one of these weeks? Let's hope together

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Speaker 1: until next time I'm at Okata. This has been ask

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Speaker 1: a nerd and made the fantasy points be with you?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, met It was a good mix of of

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Speaker 1: tight ends that we saw in that block. They're just

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Speaker 1: gotta you know, some some old, some new. Uh, and

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Speaker 1: so all right, Usually we get to this part of

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Speaker 1: the show. I've asked you know which tight end you

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Speaker 1: would want since two thousand, but I feel like there's

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Speaker 1: only really one answer to that. I mean, if it's

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Speaker 1: generally it's not Gronk, I just don't know who it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Um. And then I asked, you know which

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Speaker 1: tight end do we think could maybe join the list,

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Speaker 1: But I don't feel confident that there's a solid answer

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Speaker 1: this week with Travis Kelsey on a buy and George

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Speaker 1: Kittle injured. So instead I'm just gonna ask you at

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Speaker 1: this point, what do we do about tight end draft strategy?

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Speaker 1: I mean, if we're starting to think about next year

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Speaker 1: and we're drafting a tight end, what approach. Do you

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Speaker 1: suggest people take My approach for a stretch was just

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Speaker 1: a draft Antnio Gates at tight ends, So that was

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Speaker 1: fun seeing that in that But I think my approach

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00:54:58,440 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 1: next year is gonna be the opposite of what it

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Speaker 1: was this year. This year, I was saying, if I

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Speaker 1: can get Kelsey here, kiddo, you know, end of rounds two,

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Speaker 1: I will take them, and then if I missed out

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Speaker 1: on those guys, I would wait and I would try

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Speaker 1: to grab a tight end that I perceived as having

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Speaker 1: the upside to kind of take that next step. In

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Speaker 1: Evan Ingram or Tyler Higbee was one that I was

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Speaker 1: very high on and and where I drafted those players

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Speaker 1: outside of Evan Ingram now, but like early on, I

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Speaker 1: was still streaming tight end week to week. So I

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Speaker 1: think my approach next season is going to be Kelsey Kittle,

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Speaker 1: and I'll put Waller in that bunch early and really

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Speaker 1: prioritize the position early, or just wait until like the

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Speaker 1: double digit rounds and I'll end up streaming the position anyway.

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Speaker 1: But that's what I'm doing when I wait till the

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Speaker 1: middle rounds to take a tight end anyway. That was

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Speaker 1: sort of my strategy this year too, that if I

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Speaker 1: would either get one of those top two guys early

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Speaker 1: or I would just wait until the double digit rounds

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Speaker 1: um and that might just have to be it again

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Speaker 1: because those middle round guys have been incredibly frustrating. Whether

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Speaker 1: it has been you know, Hunter Henry and than Ingram uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, you take your pick at those, it just

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Speaker 1: hasn't really worked out. Um, So I think, but I

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00:56:07,160 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: think there is actual value in going and get some

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Speaker 1: getting somewhat early. So I'll ask you this though, because

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Speaker 1: of what we have seen sort of in the middle

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Speaker 1: to eight round guys, uh, the fact that that George

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00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: Kittle has not been healthy for a good stretch of

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00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 1: the year, would you be surprised to see Travis Kelsey

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Speaker 1: jump into the first round in a lot of leagues,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't, And I for the first time ever, I

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Speaker 1: think I may not shy away from it. I am

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Speaker 1: still someone that believes you need to get your running

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Speaker 1: backs early just because those workhorse running backs dry up

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Speaker 1: really fast. But my approach this year was wide receiver

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00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:43,759
Speaker 1: is so deep, especially in rounds three through seven, that

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Speaker 1: I'm okay waiting and getting my starting wide receivers there

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Speaker 1: and then it just got deeper as the season went on.

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Speaker 1: Like there's so many great waiver wire wide receiver pickups

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Speaker 1: this year that I would not be surprised if if

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Speaker 1: we see tight ends going ahead of a lot of

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Speaker 1: these wide receivers, just because the scarcity at the running

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Speaker 1: back and tight end position compared to how deep wide

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Speaker 1: receivers Wide receivers. Yeah, I do think Kelsey is going

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00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: to be very coveted. I think you're gonna see him

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Speaker 1: go really early. I think it will still goes early.

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Speaker 1: Daryl Waller may end him going early, but beyond that,

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Speaker 1: I think you're just gonna be better off sort of waiting.

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Speaker 1: And if there's if there's a position you can absolutely

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Speaker 1: wait on, it is probably wide receiver, just because there

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00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 1: are so many guys who are so productive at that level.

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Speaker 1: One day, Titan will be deep, or at least we'll

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Speaker 1: stop telling ourselves that Titan is going to be deep

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00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 1: and we just accept that this is correct. Which will happen. First,

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Speaker 1: it will stop trying to make it good. I think,

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Speaker 1: I think what will happens, and we'll stop trying to

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Speaker 1: make it good, and then it will become good. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know that's that's that's how it's gonna work out,

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Speaker 1: and we stop beating our heads against that wall, then

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Speaker 1: actually the door will open up. It will have some

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Speaker 1: fantasy tight ends. So all right, there it is. That is,

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Speaker 1: it's we are done. We appreciate you hanging out with

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Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Show presented by Draft Kings. You

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Speaker 1: know the drill. Tell two friends to tell two friends

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Speaker 1: as the person who named the fireplace. Be safe, take

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Speaker 1: care of yourselves, wear a mask, and we will see

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Speaker 1: you on Monday. Y wan wan, I'm color to color