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Week 5 Recap: Backup RBs SHINE & MASSIVE Duds | Fantasy Focus 🏈
In this episode of Fantasy Focus, the team recaps Week 5 of the NFL, highlighting standout performances from backup running backs and discussing major duds. With insights on player performances and a ...
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Fancy you in the home six.
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Don't wanna home.
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Fancy.
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Fancy focus.
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Welcome into fantasy focus presented by Little Caesars
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alongside Stefanie Bell and Phil Gates.
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My name is Daniel Dopp.
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We are here to recap week five.
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It is Monday.
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We got the majority of the week in the books.
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Obviously there's a Monday night football game still.
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But a lot of football was played yesterday.
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Hopefully you guys had a little bit of fun.
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Did your fantasy teams do all right?
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So far so good.
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Yeah, we got some action left to be determined tonight.
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You'll then I have a matchup that comes down to tonight's...
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Oh, yeah.
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Tell me about it.
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Now show league.
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Now show league, yes.
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I forget the parameters of what needs to happen.
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I don't remember right now, but you can pull it up because you're faster than I am.
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I'm currently head by something like 30 points, but he has my homes.
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And somebody else going tonight.
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Oh, you're up by 41's.
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41 Patrick Behalms and Brenton string.
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I don't want to.
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Oh, man.
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I think I'd rather be Stefania.
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Well, I have to.
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I have a defense going tonight.
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Oh, man.
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You do not.
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You have you're done.
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Your Lions played yesterday.
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Yeah.
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Your Lions defense played yesterday.
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Sorry.
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Your Lions.
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All right, all right, kid.
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All right.
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This is how it works.
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I would like the pole to weigh in.
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Oh, as to which side they would rather be.
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Who'd rather be.
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I mean, yeah, I think that one's.
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I don't know Patrick Mahol.
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Well, yeah, it was the last time a home score 30 fantasy point.
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But I want Patrick Maholms and Brenton's Brenton strings could have this huge breakout game.
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Maybe they could really, really hope that happens.
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I don't have great confidence in it, but we'll see what happens tonight.
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That is why they play.
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I got good confidence in Stefania.
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We're going to dive into a bunch of stuff today.
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Winners, losers, a bunch of what the heck players, whatever you want to call it.
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Yeah, yeah.
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We got a bunch of stuff studs and does as well as a quick Monday night preview.
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So let's get things started.
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And I'm going to say that for everyone in America, you're welcome.
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Yeah.
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Because you get 15% off free pizza.
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Oh, here's how this worked out.
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America has been struggling recently and they said, you know what we need?
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We need someone to pick us up.
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And so they said, there's one guy we have in mind.
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Right.
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It's Daniel.
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Oh, Daniel can come to us and you know what he can do?
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He can choose one player that can play so well that we get 15% off our pizza on Mondays.
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And who did I choose?
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I chose Jack Jackson Dart.
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Yeah.
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Now mind you, Jackson Dart actually had a little bit of a rough go on Sunday.
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Let's be honest about that.
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Which part do you want to take credit for?
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I'm taking credit for the fact that we got to the 15 fantasy points.
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We needed there were six toe turnover.
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Excuse me.
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Six points lost off of turnovers.
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Two interceptions in a fumble.
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However, Jackson Dart keeps using his legs, man.
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That's what I, that's my big takeaway.
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Jackson Dart's going to go get that 15% off the pizza.
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That's right.
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He knew about that.
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He was like, I got to hang on to the box.
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Okay.
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So enjoy 15% off promo code is winner winner.
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Winner winners.
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Winner winners.
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Scrapes by with 15.58.
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But he's not your winner of the week.
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No, he's not your winner.
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I mean, he's the winner of my heart because we get pizza, but not my actual winner of
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the weekend.
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Winners of the my actual winner, the weekend.
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Anyone that started back up running backs this week won the weekend field.
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Jates, if you started Rico Doudel, 206 yards on the ground plus a touchdown for targets,
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three receptions, 32.4 fantasy points.
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He's RB one in the week, but not the only guy.
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There was also Rashad White, 14 carries, 41 yards.
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He had two touchdowns for receptions for 30 yards, 23.1 fantasy points.
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He was RB seven on the week.
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Still not the only one.
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Michael Carter, 51 yards on the ground plus a touchdown plus five receptions for 22 yards.
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Good enough for 18.3 fantasy points.
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We had three backup running backs that heading into Monday night football were top eight
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at the position.
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If you got to start any of those guys because of by weeks or injuries, you just got bailed
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out here in week five.
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Yeah, and they all got done in sort of different ways, right?
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So Rico Doudel played the best by far.
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That's so good.
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He was amazing and the Panthers offensive line was great.
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It was an amazing matchup and doubtful, totally crushed it.
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What it does, I think, is it at least buys them time.
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The Panthers have jubbered neat another week.
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I also do think there's a chance that this cuts into the workload of Chuba a little bit
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is going forward.
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He just played too well to doubt.
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And Dave Canales, if you pay attention closely, has been talking about trying to ease
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a bit of Chuba's workload.
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Wouldn't surprise me if that happens going forward.
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Michael Carter has a runway of maybe three more games.
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It wasn't the most efficient rushing performance and it doesn't matter because he had five
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receptions as well for 22 yards.
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I don't know what happened in that card.
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Those game will talk about that in just a little bit.
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They look like classic Rashad White to you like back before Bucky Irving was a part of
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the backfield.
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You know, and by the way, chef, the report of yesterday, the Bucky Irving could be out
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next week as well.
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So we could get another Rashad White game against the Jaguar's next Sunday.
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No, against the, I take that back.
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They are playing the 49ers next Sunday.
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My apologies.
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But yeah, my winner of the weekend and full transparency.
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I had two different winners and I was told by our producers act today, hey, each of your
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winners was picked by somebody else.
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So I can't wait.
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This is my winner.
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But in some ways, he was my third place finisher.
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He was on the podium, at least.
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Is Javante Williams?
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Yeah.
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I love this one.
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Yeah.
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What a cool moment for Javante yesterday is he actually has 135 rushing yards.
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Which is a career high for Javante Williams 16 carriers for 135 yards.
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He had a pair of targets good for one catch and four yards.
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He did not really even need the receiving volume, which there was barely any of it to
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get to 26.9 fantasy points currently RB 6 for the weekend.
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He had a 66 yard rush that he was tackled with the one yard line kind of ran at a gas
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at the very end of that run.
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I'll say this for the Alice Cowboys.
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We can question a lot of things that they have done for a long time now, but especially
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this off season, you can't question the bet they made on Javante Williams because
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they basically said we think Javante Williams can be what Rico Doudo was last year.
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And he's been better than that.
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He has been outstanding has Javante Williams.
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I'd argue he's the best running back value so far in drafts.
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A top eight player at the position for me right now.
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The Cowboys were down for offensive lineman yesterday and still had this monster rushing
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day.
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So shout out to you, Javante.
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It makes me really happy just the PT and me because talking to Javante at training camp,
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remember, he said that he felt like he was really finally passed all the mental hurdles
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that came with that huge injury that he suffered because the talk on him has been the lack
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of explosiveness, lack of physicality and his running.
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And now you're seeing it.
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And it's like players really know.
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I mean, they know their body and he's like, I'm finally passed that and he felt like
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he was in a great offense with.
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He complimented Dac on how smart he was and how well he could run the offense.
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And Dac was talking about Javante after the game yesterday talking about how smart he
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is as running back.
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So there are a lot of mutual admiration going on there, but great for him.
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My winner, another guy, I kind of loved coming into the season, but he's outperformed all
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of my expectations.
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And Mecca Igbuka, who has been a star every single week pretty much, but he had an amazing
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game last week.
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Seven catches on seven targets.
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I mean, you're 100%.
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How do you get better than that?
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163 yards in a touchdown, 31.3 fantasy points.
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You're a wide receiver one on the week.
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He's wide receiver three on the season behind only Pukinakua and your guy, Amon Ross,
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St. Brown, averaging 20.5 fantasy points per week.
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It's his, it's the third top 12 finish for him, second top five finish for him.
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What a star.
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He's a star.
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The bucks did it again.
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They absolutely crushed it in the draft and they have nailed it once again.
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He's basically an every down player and we'll continue to have a conversation as Chris
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Godwin gets more and more back into his peak form and when Mike eventually returns to
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the lineup.
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But the thought that maybe Amon Aboca will fall off when they have all three of those guys
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cooking is still possible, but it feels a lot less likely by the week with him bawling
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out.
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It just feels like it'd be tough to take him off the field with the way he's been playing.
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Plus, the way with the way the Baker's playing.
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There might be enough room for all three of them, even if they get a slight downgrade.
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Loser of the week,
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those are the week for me.
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Unfortunately, was Derek Henry.
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Yeah.
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Derek Henry, Rush did not open up like a whole new world for this offense.
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Unfortunately, Derek Henry is averaging seven and a half fantasy points per game over
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the last month of the season.
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He has three catches over that span.
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So like when you're Derek Henry and that's like a fairly typical Derek Henry stat, right?
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But like if you're not getting yards and touchdowns because there is very little passing
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game work, you're just not getting fantasy points.
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He hasn't topped 50 rushing yards in four straight games.
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He is right now flirting with that.
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I am a touchdown dependent RB two moniker more than he is anything else, but he scored
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yesterday.
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I'm still not a touch on RB two.
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I know.
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He had 15 carries and a touchdown.
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Two things here.
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I thought I wanted to see, hey, maybe when Lamar Jackson's out, if the Texans would just
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stack the box and say we'd rather Cooper Rush beat us with his arm than Derek Henry beat
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us with his legs, I reached out to friend of the program Munich times and she noted that
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Derek Henry actually saw a lower percentage of stacked boxes yesterday than he had in
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the first four games of the season field.
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He rushed he had 15 carries for 33 yards.
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If he's seen just over two yards per carry in a lessened stack box, yes, it's a problem.
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And he is also sort of the opposite with Jamar chase.
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We'll talk about in just a little bit who got back on track yesterday.
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Garbage time points are garbage time opportunities.
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Don't matter for Derek Henry relative to most players because Henry is not a receiving
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threat.
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And if you're trying to play down 14 21 or whatever it was for them yesterday, like 28
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points, you're just not going to run the football.
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You're going to throw it and try to make it a semi respectable game in the final box
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score.
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So that garbage time running back situation field, like they will run the ball out down
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to the 18 yard line and then be like, okay, I know that we could punch it in if we want
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to, but now we're going to kneel it down.
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It's now the garbage town points where it's like, you know, like wide receiver as it
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feels like you have actual garbage time available.
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Yeah, you don't for Derek Henry.
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They play so for next week, we'll have a very thoughtful conversation about where he
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ranks next week because they play the Rams who I think the Rams are coming to be coming
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in with a little bit of.
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Affordation.
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I think after this week, after what happened,
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in this past Thursday night, the Ravens defense is an abomination.
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They're having a hatter by injuries.
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It's, it's, it's the same thing is sorry, Daniel.
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You're lying deep as to the end of last year.
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That's what you're dealing with right now is, it doesn't matter how good the offense
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is.
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The defense is as good as the offense is, the defense is comparably bad.
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So Derek Henry will have a conversation about whether he even cracks the top 20 for next
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week.
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What about you, Field?
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My loser of the week and it's not a total surprise because if you read Mike Lace
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column or you just know ball about Patrick T in the second, you know that he's going to
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be clamps on basically every wide receiver that he faces.
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That was AJ Brown yesterday.
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Five receptions, 43 yards on eight targets, couple of opportunities that he missed.
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There's been the much discussed vertical shot that he looked like he was open down the
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field.
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And if he catches that pass, we're probably talking about a six catch 100 yard touchdown
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day.
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And we're all saying, yeah, whoo, AJ Brown's back.
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You're talking about the play that he kind of just like quit running the route on a little
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bit.
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And he's he answered it.
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His answer.
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It looked like yes, basically the ball.
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If he had just kept running, he probably had a shot at catching that pass.
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Look like he kind of slowed down for whatever reason.
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Yeah.
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But AJ goes for five for 43, 9.3 fantasy points.
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And again, we kind of knew this was happening because of past or 10 the second.
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The hope was maybe this week, you will gets the grease and maybe the Eagles say we're just
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going to get you 13, 14 targets and you're going to be the central point of the offense
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because despite the fact that Devon they Smith is also upset with his role.
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Devon they Smith does not carry the same.
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I don't know, or as AJ Brown, right?
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Like AJ is just a more notable player.
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He's been a better player for the Eagles.
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I would argue as well.
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And Devon they Smith is like a church mouse.
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He's so quiet.
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Like if he's frustrated, he's going to go like, right.
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AJ obviously makes it a little bit more pronounced.
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That was not the case yesterday, 9.3 fantasy points.
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This is the fourth straight game with at least eight targets for AJ Brown.
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Targets are not all credit equally.
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He's my loser.
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What's your answers to find?
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Uh, minus Geno Smith because Geno Smith does not look like the Geno Smith.
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We were maybe excited about coming to Las Vegas and providing a spark for the offense.
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Just another lousy day for him in a series of relatively mediocre performances.
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25 of 36 for 228 yards with two picks.
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5.92 fantasy points.
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No, granted he's not your starting quarterback, but he's somebody that we thought would be
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a more than a qualified second quarterback, a by week replacement, et cetera.
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But it's not just that.
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He has been not uplifting.
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You know how the rising tide lifts all boats.
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He's not a rising tide.
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He's a sinking one.
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People say that about me on the Wednesday and Thursday shows like without Daniel Field
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and Mike, which is be sinking, but Daniel helps to rise all those times.
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So you understand what I said, Mike, not Mike's not a swimmer.
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Another outside the top 20.
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I mean, he ranks outside the top 20 for the entire season.
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He's no longer a consideration for any sort of replacement, but I'm more concerned about
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the past catchers around him and just the way the entire offense is looking for.
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It was so frustrating for me because yesterday we got the news during fantasy football now,
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no Brock powers.
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And so there's a couple of lineups where I'm like, ooh, I'm going off this week.
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Like I'm in a spot that just never happened.
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By the way, like not having Brock powers and we said this on Tuesday, like we talked about
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it, like maybe you need to make plans.
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Like don't love still finding out all that.
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Like you go the entirety of the week and then you have to wait until Sunday morning to
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find out you're not going to have your tight end.
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I know that's how it works sometimes.
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It's one of my situation, especially.
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It's a tough one.
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All right.
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So we had winners.
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We have losers.
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Those are generally names that you hope play well and do and then guys that you hope
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play well and don't.
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Yeah.
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Sometimes weird stuff happens on Sundays in the NFL.
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Like what the heck was that?
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What the heck happened to Woody Marks, my friends?
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Were we early?
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Were we like, were we just a week too early or is there something more here?
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Because I look at the situation, Woody Marks last week, last week, not this one in week
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five, but the week before the reason we had so much optimism, 21 touches, four catches,
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119 total yards and two touchdowns, 27.9 fantasy points.
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And then this week, the Texans scored 44 points.
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44 and the reason that we said to start them is because coming into the week, the Ravens
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had allowed the most fantasy points to running backs.
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Everything seemed like it lined up with everything that we had been talking about.
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It was an incredible matchup.
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The Texans ran for 167 rushing yards.
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They had a touchdown on the ground.
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He wasn't involved though.
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Yeah, he was not.
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Seven carries for 24 yards.
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CJ strouled through a pass to 10 different players.
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Maybe he got involved in the passing game.
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So they scored 44 points.
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No, he had one target and no catches.
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Woody Marks finished with 2.4 fantasy points in a week in which we felt like we're definitely
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going to see more of them.
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And this matchup is too good to not take advantage of.
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What the heck happened with our Woody Marks call?
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I think veteran Deferent is something we need to keep in mind for these running backs.
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And I don't know if anybody has it on their sheet.
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But last night, and this is a quick sidebar.
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Remondress, Stevenson, one of the things.
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And then we talked about the two main symbols for the Patriots, right?
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Antonio Gibson gets hurt.
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Leaves the game and they quickly rule that with a knee injury, which is not usually
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portend good things going forward.
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And yet Travian Henderson still was feeding opportunities to remondress, Stevenson.
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And after the game, it sure sounded like Mike Ravel was thinking that like remondre
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is their guy now.
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Remondre found the end zone twice.
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There's something about veteran thing that you're talking about.
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Yeah, is that like, you know, with the Texans for as good as Woody was last week.
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Nick Job is going to get first crack in their eyes.
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And yesterday, when they put up whatever it was, 44 points, I think they're saying to
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themselves, it was working.
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No need to cry foul this morning.
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But yes, what are you going to have to be?
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We're going to be patient there on Woody marks, not quite ready for prime time as
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they top 20 starter.
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I have an idea of what's to find is going to go with for her, what the heck.
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And it's a good one and a dramatic mine is a little bit less dramatic.
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But you thought coming into this Cowboys Jets game, like, hey, the Jets move the ball
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effectively against the Cowboys with the way the DAX move in the football.
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He can move the football against anybody.
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George Pickens do for a big day with the sauce cardener shadow.
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Now Pickens did find the end zone.
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He had two catches.
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I want to say it was like 57 yards for George.
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Put not the Cowboys wide receiver that finished his wide receiver 13 on the day.
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And if you can name another Cowboys wide receiver with Cavanagh, Turpin out good on you.
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Jalen Tolbert, not him.
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Nope, nope.
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Ryan Flowernoi, who was a
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60 of Ryan Flowernoi Chevrolet and East Dallas, Texas.
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Is that right?
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No, that would be it.
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It's just like Ryan Flowernoi sounds like he owns like a car dealership.
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I believe he's a he was a southeast.
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I apologize.
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I'm going to get yelled at by his school.
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I believe that it was one of those schools that kind of changed names while he was there.
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Southeast Missouri State.
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It was a good prospect last year.
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He was a six round pick small school guy.
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Very athletic.
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Excuse me.
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Six catches for 119 yards plus two.
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I don't believe a book for 10 yards.
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18.4 Vanisie points.
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What the heck was that if anybody out there started right in Flowernoi.
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That's been your lunch for the week.
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Well, I long shot.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It should have been my long shot for the week.
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I know.
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I know.
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I'm just saying here.
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He wouldn't have been a bad choice, but nobody knew.
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Nobody had it even on their being a car.
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Yeah.
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He was like over in the pile to be drawn.
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Mine was the obvious one probably for everybody.
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Probably you guys would have picked it had I not, which is a Mary Demercardo.
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And the fumble at the go.
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It's a sin as old as time.
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You celebrate.
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You think you're across the goal line.
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You're not.
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He drops the ball early.
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It was like 72 yard run for a touchdown.
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Everything's looking like this is going to be the most amazing play.
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And it's short of the goal line bounces out of the end zone out.
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The back becomes a touchback and a turnover.
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So not not only do you not get the score, you're giving them the ball.
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It was all of the wrong things.
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When are we going to learn people?
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I don't know.
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I don't know the answer to them.
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By the way, they ended up losing this game.
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If they had, if if if Maria just scored, I think the game is over.
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I do.
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I'm not trying to pin it on one player one player.
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Conversation after the game was about all the, there were a number of things that were like
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could have would have should have like little close calls.
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But Kyler Murray said he talked about how close he was with the Mary Demercardo and said,
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I know how smart he is.
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I know like I would never in a million years have guessed that he would make that mistake.
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Well, here's here's the thing that I don't understand is that this happened last week.
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All right.
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80 minutes.
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Literally last week with the votes.
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It has happened too many times in recent years.
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Remember Jonathan Taylor lash.
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I do.
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I have the Broncos like a whole that's the one guy would never.
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This is what I don't get is one like what's the urge to drop the football?
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Why not Barry Sanders it like the side line.
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Thank you.
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Feel but too.
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This is the part that I understand is every head coach or most head coaches either,
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either themselves or with an assistant goes around the NFL throughout the week and finds
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notable plays that are sort of like coaching points that could apply like.
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Remember like when there was a leverage call against the Broncos and the Chargers game.
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Hey, for a field goal block team, this is the one thing you can't do.
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Make sure we don't do it this week.
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Last week I guarantee you 32 out of 32 coaches.
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Hey, I do not care how tired you are.
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I don't care how far defender is from you.
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Just run all through the end zone.
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I don't care if you run the foot.
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If you run into the stand and punt it, I will pay your phone.
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I just run into your tunnel like nothing wrong with that.
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I'm just wondering if you like have like because I've never scored a touchdown yourself.
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So I'm just wondering if like after a play like that, you have this blackout moment of like,
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you're just all in your field.
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Like who would have thought 72 yard touchdown and you just forget everything.
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Go.
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When I caught my 40 yard touchdown from Russell Wilson.
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That's so clear.
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You went all the way through the end zone.
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I did.
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I ran all the way through the back of the end zone.
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It's like it's we've been I say we, I'm going to make myself a football player.
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I'm going to play.
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We've been playing this game since we were kids.
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Yeah.
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Like this isn't one of those things where it's just like your lack of effort is what
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hurt you here.
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It's like this is not and I don't agree with all the the broadcasters and everything they say.
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But one of the things that Mark Scheler talked about, I watched a bunch of people
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unfortunately jump off side.
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He was like, it takes zero effort to not jump off sides on defense.
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This is just one of those like mental things.
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Watch just like just that's it.
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Right.
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And this is one of those plays where it's like what you're not even doing, you're doing
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the opposite of what you have been taught since you were seven years old playing pop
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Warner.
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Oh, if you desperation started at Marri D.
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Marcato, you could have had what 83 plus six will be 14.3 fantasy points.
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You would have got 82 yards because I think with fun will automatically.
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And six point one fantasy points.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Big difference.
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I think he was mad about the Mike Clay accent.
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I think that's what I was.
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That is my.
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No, Michael forever now call them Imari D. Marcato.
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No more accent from Imari.
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No, I'm going for a lot of D.
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Marcato.
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Oh,
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Oh,
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that bad.
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Let's get to take away from the main takeaways.
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I think they take away from the week.
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John Aries has arrived.
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Ha stop.
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We're people.
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We have ha stop.
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Maybe.
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Oh my god.
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There's hundreds of on October 10th.
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We came here from the digital world.
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The war for our world begins.
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What in God's name is that?
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Unimax.
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This is the end of this world.
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No, it's not.
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I can help you.
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John Aries did beachy 13 maybe in the appropriate for children under 13 only in theaters on October 10th.
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Get tickets now.
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Eight years ago, I blew my football career.
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He dropped into one yard.
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Chad Powers has arrived on Hulu.
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I can't place rust.
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I'll play as someone else.
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My name's
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and last name.
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We did from executive producers E.
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Ryan Peyton Manning remember.
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I'm wearing a prosthetic mask.
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This is acting and starring Glenn Powell.
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Hey, thanks.
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You were a real for Chateau.
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Not rubber.
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I'm man made a flash.
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The Hulu original series Chad Powers is now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus for bundle subscribers.
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Terms apply new episodes Tuesdays.
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What he got one of my first takeaways is that Dibo Samuel is still a must-start even when Terry McClure
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and comes back in his healthy.
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How good is he?
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He looks unbelievable right now for this team.
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Yeah, he looks fantastic.
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This last week, 11 targets, eight catches, 96 yards in a touchdown, 23.6 fantasy points.
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Last two weeks on this commander's team, there's been no Terry McClure in, right?
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17 targets, 14 catches, 168 yards and two touchdowns.
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Plus he rushed the ball three times.
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No other wide receiver has more than three catches over the last two weeks.
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He's got 14.
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So like he's clearly the number one guy that is there.
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Right now he is wide receiver six.
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That was in the middle of Sunday night football in week five.
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He's wide receiver eight through the first five games of the season.
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And I realized there's been no Terry McClure and that I don't think Terry McClure has been playing.
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He's been hurt for it.
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It's worth, but like even when he was out there, he wasn't playing at the level that I think he will play at once.
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We get a little deeper on into the season.
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But Dibo Samuel, I think has just become a top 20 wide receiver.
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He's been amazing and he's the kind of guy.
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I mean, when the four nighters made the trade, I'm sorry, the commanders made the trade with the 49ers.
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Some skepticism, you know, this guy washed and remembered during OTAs.
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There was the clip that went around of Dibo running around and everybody's like,
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Oh, he's fat and slow.
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It's like, no, maybe not.
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I mean, not by the way, if he is and he bothering him on the field, because he's been awesome.
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He has just soaking up the targets.
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He had in Daniels, looks brilliant yesterday, by the way,
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and the best win for the commanders.
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I would argue this season going on the road to Los Angeles.
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And I was going to start somewhere else, but I might as well just fill out the commander's conversation here.
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Because we talked about backup running backs to begin the show, Daniel.
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This isn't a backup situation, but Jacquery Crosky-Marit or Bill had his best game and his very young
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career so far. He played 49% of the snaps. That is a career high. 14 carries also a career high,
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11 yards, also career high. And of course, two touchdowns is first multi touchdown game yet.
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He's currently RB five going into Monday night football, 27.0 fantasy points for Crosky-Marit.
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That's of course a career high as well.
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So the good news is like you play well, you continue to get more opportunities.
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That is logical. It stands to reason. What I do wonder is I think that your confidence in starting
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Bill Crosky-Marit is going to be a little bit dependent upon how confident you are
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that the commanders are in control of the game. They hadn't played great the first four weeks.
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Now they dealt with two weeks of no Jaden Daniels. They're their best player.
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But they controlled that game for much of it yesterday.
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And because they were controlling it, they were able to run the football with Bill playing with the lead.
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If he's if they're in a tie game in the fourth quarter or if they're playing from behind,
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I do think you'll see more than you did of you'll see more of Chris Rodriguez and Jeremy
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McNichols. McNichols, especially a good pass catching back. But this was a big moment here for Bill.
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He is definitely trending upwards, even if there are some games where GameScript might not be
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totally in his favor. You always are excited when every see a rookie get his first 100 yard
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rushing game and 150 yards from Scrimmage. It was just a great game all together.
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He's trying to get for sure. He is definitely trending up. Just, you know, I do think that the
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GameScript helped them a little bit yesterday. Definitely. So we'll keep an eye on they play the
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Bears next Monday night in DC. Monday night double header Jaden versus Caleb. What's your
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spine? Like that. Well, I'm going to stick with running backs. But unfortunately mine's a little
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bit on the downer side. We have a running back injury that we need to monitor this week. That's
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a Marian Hampton who was injured in the fourth quarter and was in a walking boot after the game.
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And even though the chargers don't say anything, Jim Harbano. He's the worse of the day.
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When it comes to Harbano. Just like nothing at all. But we have to think about this because
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we lost Najee Harris already for the season within Killie's injury. And for fantasy purposes,
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Marian Hampton looked like, wow, he's going to get all this work going forward. You don't like
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seeing a player in a boot. I will be the first to say that sometimes the boots are proactive.
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Let's protect it. So you're just not putting the same kind of weight through it.
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But he is going for further testing on Monday today. And you need to be prepared.
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Like this is one where like who's up next in the chargers running back room? And what do they do?
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If indeed it is, you know, is a bit of a pile hard to see what the injury was.
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What do you do if it's a multi-week injury if you're the chargers? What are you going to do?
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I think you know, at this point of the season teams are usually more prone to stick in
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in-house. But the trade deadline is around the corner. Hassan Haskins in and I'd
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come on. If it's not the two next men up, they were active yesterday. Each of them saw three
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opportunities after the Marian Hampton injury. So I think that those are the two primary names to know.
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Hassan Haskins definitely profiles as the first since second down banger. And then
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Monivadal is the change of pace slash receiving back. The chargers next week are playing the jaguars.
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I think I have that right. Hold on. I'm looking at it right now. Jacksonville plays Seattle.
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The chargers actually play. Are they on the East Coast somewhere? I'm trying to look for other
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Los Angeles. Play Miami Miami. I'm the East Coast. I had the wrong team. My bad. So it's a great
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matchup next week for Hassan Haskins. We'll dive into that much more if he indeed is the next man
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up into Marian Hampton. They did not have a buy until week 12. So yeah, he is not great. I'm
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running back. So like, I mean, not you hear us. So Marian Hampton, Richon Slater on one side,
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Joe Alton, the other side, like they've had a wounded. Yeah, they've had a lot going not as bad as
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people. They caught up to them yesterday. It was a tremendous how did Jackson Herbert all day.
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My next takeaway is that with no Tyree Kill, Jalen Waddle is the man. I had him as a top. I think
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field. I don't know how much of this is yours. Because I think you and I had a similar takeaway here.
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My whole thing was he's a must start now without Jalen Waddle. Excuse me without Tyree Kill when
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you look at what he did nine targets this week season high six receptions season high 110 receiving
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yards season high 23 fantasy points. And this was such a weird game because there was no rushing.
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Yeah, like zero and for 16 for Devon Hn. That was so weird. It was like when I look at that,
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I'm like, what's going on? Devon Hn basically just turned into a wide receiver. He like stopped
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being a running back. Nick Westbrook, a key name ran the second most routes, but had zero targets
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on the team. And then Malik Washington had an unbelievable stat line. I'm just giving you the
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other wide receivers. Markable six targets for receptions for zero receiving yards and receiving
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long of eight yards. That's what I was hoping for when I subdomin and when I heard all of Malik
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Washington. Yeah, that's so how do you have an? So at least as far as the wide receivers go,
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just looking at the other people on that roster, Jalen Waddle is the only one that is there.
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However, he's not the only pass catcher. And do we need to pay attention to Darren Waller now?
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Like is this real? Because it's been two weeks over 17 fantasy points. He stopped playing football
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and came back from retirement. And in his first two games back from retirement, he scored over 17
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fantasy points in back to back games and found the end zone in both of those games. It's a reincarnation
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of unbelievable. Darren Waller, who I know good for him. I'm happy for him as a person, but also with
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volatility at the position of tight end. I'll take it. You got it. Go with the hot hand. Absolutely.
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Very yes. It was very hard to find consistency there. But if you want to stick in the family of
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things, mine. Oh, oh, they want to add on Waller just to put a pen and it is five for 78 touch
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downs of line. He played 60% of the snaps yesterday after 28 per snaps, 28% of the snaps we could go.
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All of Darren Waller's production came in the first half. All of it. All of it. So he was totally
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shut out in the second half. That being said, at a tight end spot where we are literally looking for
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anybody. Darren Waller has entered the top 12 conversation. Absolutely. I mean, one of my big takeaways
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was there's only one tight end. You can trust some fantasy really. And that's Jake Ferguson. Yes.
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Because he is the only one who has been so consistent. Now we had a big day for tight end
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yesterday. We had your boy, Sam Laporta, Tramock bride, who's been probably the next most consistent
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tight end name for you. Oh, oh, yeah. Tyler. I mean, yes, Tyler Warren and Barner up in
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Seattle. Right? So big games. But when I'm talking about consistency, so Jake Ferguson,
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nine targets, seven catches yesterday, 49 yards, two touchdowns, that really helped 23.9
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fantasy points. Those touchdowns been a big deal. That is looking for him in the red zone. He
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has 86.2 fantasy points on the season. That is 20 more than the next guy who is Tyler Warren.
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More important is that he's been had top five finish every week since week one when he was out
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of the top 15. So week one was not no bueno. But after that, top five finish every week. He's the
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only one 48 targets. McBride is second with 42. So he's playing. He's being looked for by Dak.
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He's being looked for in the red zone, particularly, and he's scoring touchdowns. And that is the
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one thing that we have not seen consistently from tight ends. So yeah, he had zero himself last year.
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Yeah. Jake Ferguson is definitely been like also with the fallout of CD Lam not being there. He's
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been more but CD Lam was there when Jake Ferguson had, you know, when he was he was there when
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Dak was looking for him already. But obviously with that one guy being gone and able to catch
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passes. Also, while we didn't like we weren't hugely in on Jake Ferguson is like a top five to
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seven tight end. We liked him as like a, you know, if you want to guy that you wait in the position.
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I'm right. That's paying off in spades. Dallas didn't think he was a valicus Dallas paid him real
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money this off season. Like they thought he was going to be a really good tight end for their
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mother or move. That was actually because they have a few tight ends there. And I think people were
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wondering who was going to be the one that emerged the most. And when they paid Jake Ferguson,
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I was like, that's the guy because Luke Schoonmaker is somebody that you were looking at there.
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Yeah. He's been in another tight end. But the past catcher that Dak is looking for is Jake Ferguson.
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So just thinking if you're looking to try and make him roster move, your fancy roster and you're
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thinking we've got tight ends who are performing well now. But nobody's been as consistent as Jake
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Ferguson. If you are rich and wide receivers, but you want to replace a tight end, look for
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somebody you can deal Jake Ferguson. Just while we're talking tight ends really quickly. I don't
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have this as one of my topics. I just wanted to bring it up to you guys. But when you look at
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Tyler Warren, just because we mentioned it, the Tyler Warren Colston Loveland conversation,
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unfortunately, is purely going to be Tyler Warren because Colton Loveland just isn't really
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playing right now. Obviously been banged up a little bit. But he has a substantial role in this
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Colts offense. Like he came in and looks more like the Sam LaPorta two years ago as a rookie
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or Brock Boaurs last year as a rookie. Like Tyler Warren, especially getting like touches again
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out of the backfield. Like he's got a little bit of taste of him. Hill in his game with the way
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that you utilize him. Yeah. He had a pass attempt yesterday. Yes. Like he's all over the place.
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Like Tyler Warren. And I realized that we haven't he hasn't had any like monumental huge breakout games.
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Part of that is because Daniel Jones is just spreading around in that. Yeah. But
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it was really good yesterday. He's been awesome. So let's talk wide receivers here because I think
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we absolutely need to and a couple guys pulled out yesterday. Let's talk about Von Diggs.
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Who have us all. Stefan Diggs played 50% of the Patriots snaps last night. Just 50%. Yep.
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And yet he finished with 12 targets on 30 total snaps. He had a team high target share,
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team high and receptions, targets, yards, 140, 60 yards on 10 catches for his to Von Diggs. So
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24.6 fantasy points. Good for wide receiver for on the week. So far without a touchdown.
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I test was awesome. Just to find it. He looked amazing last night. He did. He looked
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the biggest takeaway for me is you're trying to figure out when do guys look great tweet
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from the big. This came right from the Patriots Twitter account if you're watching right now on our
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YouTube. It's you get that side eye right now. I know. I'll tell you what. My dog looks at me like
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that when it's like she knows that I have something that I'm going to give to her. But she's like,
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are you really looking at me like Stefan Diggs with a serious side eye to Josh now? He was
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what I what I was going to say is you know when somebody's coming off an ACL injury,
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there's all these different things that you look for to try and signal that they're really all
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the way back and they're comfortable and the things that he's doing it's in the way that he's
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moving. It's in the way that he's stopping and planting and leaping and dying. Like everything
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about his movement suggests there is zero thinking about the knee, which is really hard to get past
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after you have a major injury like that. He now looks like the guy and it looks like they brought
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him along exactly right. Think about this though. I want people to think about this and apply
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to other situations. Stefan Diggs was cleared when he came to training camp. He practiced the entire
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way through. So he was coming off an ACL got all of that practice through camp and now here we are
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week five. You know week four was not bad, but he's been steadily ramped up and week five were like,
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okay, he's back. That's a couple of months of practice. So when you think about guys who come back
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mid season or you look at like the Brandon I youk, will he come back? What do you expect?
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What's the ramp up look like? Yeah. Yeah. It takes a while. Yeah. There's a chance that we're talking
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about Stefan Diggs sooner than later. It is a wide receiver too or somewhere in that strong flex
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conversation. He was amazing last night and Drake May despite no touchdowns also stepped up in
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prime time. But the other wide receiver store that we must discuss is it doesn't matter when you
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score the points. It just matters whether it's points or not. And that is Jamar Chase.
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Yeah. Who at one point if you checked into the broadcast there was a time yesterday where Jamar
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Chase was tied for the team lead with three tackles. Jamar Chase did not switch the defense, my friends.
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His quarterback just thought that he might have the same thing. The color blind. Yes, the color blind.
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Yeah. Take Browning was throwing passes left and right to the Detroit Lions. So at one point
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seriously, Jamar Chase had three catches and three tackles at one point during the game yesterday.
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But in the second half, fantasy points for the tackles. You do not. But in at least not in maybe 90
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people that you do. Yeah. But Jamar Chase ended up with a monster day. He is now wide receiver two
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on the week. Mike and I were joking over text last night that our board bet from this past week
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was like a roller coaster, right? Yeah. I was like, do you guys know the meme? It's they had us in
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the first half, not going to lie. That was how Mike. How Jamar Chase had Mike. Yeah. Because in the
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first half, he's he's looking like he has the past few weeks. The bangles are completely listless
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offense. Once again, Jake Browning is people are clearly calling for his job right now. But when
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the Lions totally, totally called off the dogs and were down their top four corners last night.
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Correct. So the top four Lions cornerbacks were all out. Yep. The team was up 28 to three at one point.
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And Jamar Chase salvages the day or more than salvages the day with six catches 110 yards.
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And two touchdowns. So again, it's not how it's just how many we noted and Mike was on this that
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like the schedule does get better for Cincinnati than where it was the past couple of the weeks prior
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to this. And Garber time can be our friend. I don't care. I don't care whether he gets them in a
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game which the bangles score 1000 points and win or if they score 25 points and lose all good. So
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I watched the whole game guys that bangles offense was a trocius. So that he's got to touch down
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in garbage time as well that salvaged his day like it was just wild just wild. I think we got one last
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one. I've got a couple more. Yeah. All right. Go ahead. Define. What do you got?
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Well, I just wanted to give Jonathan Taylor some love because I don't think he's getting enough
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credit for what he's doing as a running back. I just feel like it's we're seeing the version of
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Jonathan Taylor that we did the year I drafted him first overall and he promptly got hurt and there
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were other things going on. Jonathan Taylor, it's the rushing yards. It's the way he's running
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the ball. He's the second running back on the season behind Christian McCaffrey. But the big
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difference between them obviously Christian McCaffrey has so many points in receiving yards
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that he is basically ranks in the top five of pass catchers in terms of fantasy points. And he's
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a running back. Jonathan Taylor is getting his refreshing think about this. Christian McCaffrey has
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91 carries for 282 yards. Jonathan Taylor has 94 carries for 480 yards and six touchdowns.
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So it's just the way that he's running the vision, the patience. Obviously the offensive line is
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really strong and Indianapolis. But it's also the way he runs. Do yourself a favor. Look at him.
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Remember Daniel the time that he said his idol was Nick Chubb because he's the best pure runner.
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I do remember that Jonathan Taylor looking very Nick Chubb like the way that he's running.
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If you drafted him in fantasy, congratulations to you. 31.6 fantasy points yesterday.
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It's been awesome. Nothing but love.
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None PPR friends out there. He's the best player non PPR.
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Oh, yes. He has number one, I think, regardless of position. I'll give you guys one more,
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a couple more. But this one's sort of a sneak. It's a little bit of a quieter takeaway because
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they got absolutely smoked. There's a case at least that we had the best usage for
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Aston, Gentini in the game this season. And you're going to say yourself he was RB one last
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right last. He's RB 14. Like that doesn't seem like a very logical statement to make field.
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He's RB 14. That doesn't seem like an logical statement. Very much for handling that one.
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teammate 14 carries for 67 yards for Aston, Gentini. So okay, good rushing efficiency. That
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matters, right? Because it hadn't been a real factor for him the first three weeks of the season.
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Nearly five yards of carry. But the most important part was seven targets yesterday for Aston,
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Gentini. Matter of fact, the very first play of the day for the Raiders offense was a 29 yard.
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What looked at least to my eyes like a designed wheel route to Aston, Gentini. So
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is he going to have five catches every single week? Maybe not. But if he's getting somewhere,
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like if Gentini boosts from like two targets a game to four and a half or five,
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that's a legitimate and notable thing. If you look at a snap percentage from yesterday,
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it's lower than it was for practical purposes because they yanked him. They actually yanked him
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from the game early and not Geno Smith. I think that was a sign of just how important
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nationalists that they were getting totally roasted yesterday. That was encouraging. So back,
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you know, 14 RB 14 is not unbelievable for Aston, Gentini. Could have easily been a little bit higher
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if he had played the fourth quarter, but the usage was good for him. With this offensive line,
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if you give me RB 15 or better every single week, I'm going to feel pretty good about it.
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There's a chance. I go over the past two weeks. I think the possibility of it being more like
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RB 8 to 10 is in play here, which is, you know, a huge huge, they play the Titans next week too.
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So could be a monumental, mental opportunity for Gentini. Last thing for me,
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yes, one in four Titans. There's no giants, wide receiver that really matters with
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no Malik neighbors. And this is kind of as expected, but just to put a couple of numbers to this,
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or one number specifically, Jackson dark completed 26 passes, nine of those went to wide receivers.
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It's running backs in tight ends. Theo Johnson had a jam is a day, but it's mostly the running
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backs and the wide receivers that Jackson Dart, who is not throwing the football very far down the
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field is targeting right now. Second week in a row in which theo Johnson has found the end zone.
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We'll see if that Jackson, our touchdown has gone to Theo Johnson. So really indeed,
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interesting. I have one other, which is the Seattle Sea Hawks backfield continues to be a nightmare.
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It continues to be a coin flip of is it going to be Kenneth Walker? Is it going to be Zach
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Charbonne? And I think at this point, they're relatively neutralizing each other's value. If you
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look at yesterday, Charbonne came out ahead in the fantasy points department with 11.8 fantasy
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points, basically because of a catch for 12 yards and the touchdown. Yep. And then Kenneth Walker,
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who's had a couple amazing games ends up with 9.6 fantasy points 10 carries 86 yards.
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Only one catch for zero yards again with the catch for zero yards.
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Here's the thing. Charbonne is the stake. Ken Walker is the sizzle. Even though we want Ken Walker
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to be the stake as well, right? Yeah. I was looking at this box score yesterday. Ken Walker,
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you said he has nine he had nine carries for 60 yards, right? 10 for 10 for 10 for 10 for 86.
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And nine for 36. Okay. So of that 10 for 86, his longest carry of the day was only 12 yards.
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It was just like it was just like nine yard carry after nine yard carry after nine yard carry,
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that efficiency. When I was watching that game, I was like, how does this guy ever come off the
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football field? Just keep doing this over and over again. Totally. And instead, he only had 10
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carries. Yeah. It's not it's not working. I think the problem is people looking for somebody to
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start, but you can't count on Kenneth Walker week and a week out. Not right now. No, you cannot.
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All right. Let's do a couple of other studs and does from the week and we'll start at the tight end,
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spot. We mentioned this briefly, but AJ Barnard seven care, excuse me, seven targets, seven
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receptions, 53 yards, two touchdowns, 24.3 fantasy points. Then anybody start AJ Barnard in your
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16 team war room league by chance. No, he is on waivers. On waivers. But I want to say shout out to
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Lindsey theory who called AJ Barnard out by name yesterday on fantasy football now.
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I had to go Lindsay. I also good stuff there from Lindsay. She always has an exceptional job for
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us there on FF now. Not the only stud that was there. And we had already mentioned this with some
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of the Tampa Bay pass catchers, but Baker may field was unbelievable. 29 of 33 only four in
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completions for 379 yards, two touchdowns plus 15 yards on the ground. Good enough for 26.66
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fantasy points. Unbelievable day for Baker me. Mayfield who if he's this good with only a handful
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of his wide receivers, what happens when all three are back and they're fully healthy? It's
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like something lights up in him. But I feel like they've been operating at a deficit every year.
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Last year was Chris Godwin goes down and he had to find, you know, all of a sudden we learned
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about Jalen. Millon. Millon. We saw other people step up because Baker knows how to find other
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people and get them involved in the game. It's really it's amazing. I want to give a shout out to
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somebody on your favorite team. Oh, okay. Go ahead. David Montgomery.
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He was great. Wasn't amazing back home in Cincinnati throws for a touchdown on a wildcat play.
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I mean, that was so awesome. And not the first time he's done it throws it to tight and
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Brock Wright. Unfortunately, David, that didn't help any of us. But good on you. Also scored a
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rushing touchdown. The third quarter really sweet story to he has a sister who is paralyzed in 2024.
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First time she's been able to come to a game. So he goes back home. He has this performance.
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Seizes sister shot out to David Montgomery. It was a very cool moment. Very, very cool moment.
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I'm with you on that one. Feel do you have any studs that you want to be able to break?
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Yeah, six studs to work with. But these guys are all names like just shot. I mean, Justin Jefferson.
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What a remarkable player he is. Seven catches for 123 yards. If this was the Olympics and there were
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judges who were judging degree of difficulty, I think Justin Jefferson would be the gold medalist.
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He makes some incredible catches. Look very, very routine. In that same game,
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Quince on Judkins was once again awesome. He's so good. 23 carries for 110 yards. He had a 50 plus
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yard touchdown run called back to do a hold only 13.8 fantasy points. But for relatively boring
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Browns offense, Quince on Judkins continues to be the man had that 50 yard touchdown. Stan
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Gerradi and 11 points to what was already a 13 point day. So yeah, you know, almost 25 fantasy
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points was in play for Quince on judge, which would have put him right in line with Justin
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Fields, which again, we told you, doesn't matter how it's just how many the jets junk time
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their way to a huge day for Justin Fields 283 passing yards to touchdowns plus 26 carries good for
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nearly 26 fantasy points. He was outdone though in that same game by Dak Prescott.
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Yeah. Dak has been just awesome. By the way, Fields, you know, top 10 quarterback right now.
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Feel really good about that for fantasy purposes. Dak Prescott is probably knocking on the door.
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With Dak, we know he's not going to not normally going to offer you a lot of rushing upside.
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But 237 passing yards for touchdowns from Dak Prescott. He's playing an amazing, amazing
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football right now. Real joy to watch him play. AJ Brown was my loser to begin the show of the weekend.
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Devon Desmuth was a study yesterday. Yeah. Other side.
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100 or 14 on 10 hard watching him run. Beautiful runner. Yeah, he's a he's a he's a fantastic
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wide receiver. And the Eagles certainly fed him last week. Eagles play Thursday nights. We'll
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talk about the Eagles a bunch before they play the giants down there at MetLife. Finally,
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Jackson Smith and jig by the other Ohio State wide receivers. It was a day for a state wide
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receivers. There was an exceptional eight catches for 132 yards touchdown. His quarterback,
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Sam Donald deserves to mention as well. Sam was terrific yesterday. It was. This was
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probably the most entertaining game of the day. It was too great. Two quarterbacks who had been
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left for dead elsewhere who had great days. Ohio State wide receivers lighting up the field.
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Marvin Harrison Jr. not bad either. You know, for if you're talking Ohio State wide receivers,
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but decent decent day for them. I had Theo Johnson on my list. You already referenced him,
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but the adjuster somebody to keep an eye on. If you're looking for a tight end, I think he's
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going to be a frequent target for Jackson Dart. And then Calvin Ridley. Welcome back to the
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outhouse. We've been waiting for a hundred and thirty one yards. 18.1 fantasy points.
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Nice. Who knew? It's been tough. It's been tough sledding for Calvin Ridley and all the managers
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that have wanted to use him so far this year because of all the matchups he's had to deal with.
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So this week was nice to be able to see him get on track. Do you have a couple of
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duds from the week that you guys want to start three? So do you have any or no? I got three as well.
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Yeah. Hit him. Hit him. Hit him. Hit him. I share four. Jameson Williams was awful. Yeah.
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One target. One reception. Nine yards. One catch. It kind of feels like it. I don't understand
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because they had so many good things in the postseason and the offseason where they were like,
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we're going to expand his route tree. He's going to get more involved. We're going to give him a
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boatload of money and a new contract. And then he just hasn't been utilized. I think you guys
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should trade on one or all same breath. Stop it. Stop for Jameson. I don't do. To name a tea. You
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know, I get it. I hear you for like we have to just accept that like reality and fantasy are
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completely separate in this conversation. We can complain about a lot of things in life if we want
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to. I'm not sure anybody will listen to us, but the Lions offense is not one that we can complain
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about. And then I think it's not a catch. It's a touchdown in the same game. But at the start of
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the year, remember you talked about Jameson Williams and you thought that there were a lot of things
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that pointed to a different sort of involved. Yeah. Yes. That has not happened. That has not happened.
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He's still exceptionally valuable to the Lions clearly. They're getting what they want out of him.
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But the notion that that was going to change for fantasy purpose. I think we're enough games in.
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That has not happened. You're going to get a game here and there where he's going to be
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a rock star. And that's going to be the result of the way the game is set up.
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felt like towards the middle to end of last year. And we were hoping the beginning of this year.
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We were seeing a little bit more consistency with how the Lions were utilizing Jameson Williams.
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Not a ton. Still was never a big volume guy. But we thought there was going to be more of that.
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It's actually tapered off to now the opposite. And he's just a boom bus player. So another guy
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that's a boom bus player. It feels like Jerry Judy right now, five targets, two receptions,
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15 yards, three point five fans. The past catchers that got involved with Dylan Gabriel
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under center were not the wide receivers. It was the tight ends. It was David and Jocque and Harold
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Fanon. So that's like one of the big takeaways. I feel like Ricky quarterbacks get these.
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You know, they look for the tight ends big, easy to see. Good hands. Like good hands.
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You're a young quarterback. David. It's going to be a lot to be said for that.
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Last one. Dudd for me was Mark Andrews just with Cooper Rush under center. Like it was just brutal.
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It was two for 22, four point two fantasy points. It feels like without Lamar Jackson under center.
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There's not a lot of guys on this Ravens team. I'm interested in starting it. And I will probably
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still keep starting Derek Henry. I just don't feel good about it. And I'll keep playing Zay flowers
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because he was already boomer bus. I already built that into how I approach, you know, being
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able to play him in fantasy. But doesn't feel good right now with Cooper Rush field. Who you got
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for your does? For me, we mentioned Bryce Young as a potential streaming option last week in this
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incredible matchup against the dolphins. Just 12 point zero to fantasy points. We also warned.
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Like this is not an auto stream, but he's a name to note. If you have a Brock Purti or Lamar
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Jackson or a quarterback on a buy like Jordan lover Caleb Williams. Is this can ask you a question
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by the real fast? Yeah. Is that because you think Bryce didn't play well or because when you have a
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running back that rushes for over 200 yards, I think Bryce played well either. Okay. Yeah,
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like both things. I think that Bryce, I mean, he had this weird like he fumbled the ball. It was like
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we were talking about this. That was like he was trying to cross over dribble and in basketball.
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Yeah, that was a playing football instead. Bryce did not inspire a ton of confidence for me
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yesterday. Juan Johnson, two receptions for 17 yards for Juan. Taseem Hill was back yesterday.
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So they're getting healthier at that tight endspot. Taseem Manchland. I think I'm going to
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factor a role. Yeah, perhaps. So at tight end, he might still be a top 15 option, but definitely not
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a confidence play at this moment. Yeah. Jacobi Myers. He thought, hey, big opportunity to be here
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against the Colts for catches for 32 yards, mostly in garbage time. So just 7.2 fantasy points.
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And then last, that of the week is me for earlier today, naming him Ryan Flower Noi. As I know,
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it's Ryan Flanoi, wide receiver from the Dallas Cowboys. Oh, Flanoi. Flanoi. Yeah. Flanoi.
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That flower. Noi. My apologies to Ryan. My apologies to Cowboys fans. He was a preseason darling.
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Cowboys fans were not happy that he got cut at the beginning of the season. He's obviously back
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on the team, but Flanoi gets my what the heck. And he also causes me to be a dud.
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I love that. I love that. Yeah. No. I'm kind of ended there. But I have a few more to add to the
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pile. Quint Johnson. Where were you? That was very sad. Four catches on four targets. So
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the efficient 40 yards, one carry nine yards, six point nine fantasy points. I'm expecting
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triple digits. Remember, he was answer to our fantasy trivia question yesterday about the most
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air yards besides who was who was in first with the air yards? What was that? Like
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my neighbors. Like neighbors. Yeah. We saw, didn't we see Lad McConkey get in the end zone?
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Yeah. Yes. We did. We didn't even mention it on the show. Guys, come on.
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I actually had another touchdown called back. I saw that. That was a bad penalty. So, you know,
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yay, Lad McConkey, but sad. That's the story. For Quint Johnson, for all of us who've been,
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got so excited and been starting him. Chris Godwin, I hate to put him in there, but I think everybody
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just got a little over excited after the first came back and assume like automatically we're going
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to see now he was on the field a lot, but it was the targets. Yeah. Yeah. And targets the last
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week last week, 10 targets, only four targets this time. You know, just kind of keeping eye on
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Chris Godwin. I think it's too quick to anoint someone fully back after they're there for a week.
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And then Zachards, who some of us started in and I was like, I actually wondered because I
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wasn't watching that game the whole time. I was like, did he get hurt? Like, what happened to
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Zachards? He was just completely not present. One target, no catches. No catches. Zero catches
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for Zachards. How about that? That's so weird because when you don't have Terry McClure in there,
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and you don't like outside of Debo, there's not like a huge like grouping of pass catchers. I would
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thought Zachards would have been one of those trusted guys. That's why I that's why he's a
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dud. That's why I had him in my lineup. And that's why he's a dud because I exactly that no
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Terry McClure. And he has been one of the guys. She didn't just look to him a lot last year.
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Notably just 15 completions for okay. Okay. Okay. Most of this. All right. Again, they're playing
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with a big lead yesterday and they're running the football effectively. So not a dramatic surprise
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that there wasn't a ton of production, but zero is up and you stick to a whole lot. Zero is bad
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as much as you can be. Unless your defense giving me negative points. That's fair. All right. Let's
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dive into a Monday night football preview. This week there's only one Monday night football game
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in comparison the last couple of weeks and next week as well. There's going to be a double
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add or next Monday night as well. So you get a little bit extra sleep this week, my friends.
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Right. Let's talk about the chiefs and the Jaguars. I want to start. Yeah. I was going to say
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with Xavier Worthy who you saw up there. Of course, people would think he'd be a lineup block,
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but you better pay attention. His ankle swelled on the flight to Jacksonville, according to
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a report from NFL Network. And they had to add him to the injury report as questionable. So this
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is if you see this, the questionable tags not related to the shoulder from which he came back and
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and has has looked pretty good in coming back since he just located shoulder. This is
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swelling in his ankle. They said they wanted to see how he looked today. So expect updates.
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I'm hoping that we're going to get an update well in advance of kickoff, but
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something to be aware of. You should have a plan. If you were holding out for Xavier Worthy tonight,
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just the fact that this cropped up, you need to make sure you have insurance.
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Maybe this is a stupid question. But when you said this, you said that his ankle was fine,
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but then it swelled on the plane. Like the injury, court and court happened like because of the flight.
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Well, it's well known fact. There's a thing that, you know, swelling in the whole thing with
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the pressure in the cabin. Yeah. You know, if you have a pressure sensitive injury or prone to
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swelling, especially with sitting and legs, not, you know, fluid collection, a lot of different
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reasons you can get swelling while you're flying. Okay. But if it happens in your ankle and you're
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an elite athlete and it wasn't there before, I just want to make sure I heard you correctly.
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It's not like he heard it on the field and like something, but like well, there could have been
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something there that then sure resulted in that. So we'll continue to monitor that because
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Xavier Worthy looks pretty good last week for those fantasy managers that decided to use them in
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his first week back. It was awesome. In this game, I'm also keeping on the Jaguars offense.
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What are we going to get from them tonight? Right? Are we going to get?
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Track of CTN feels like the most trustworthy. But like, is there a Brian Thomas Jr. moment to
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comment any point this season? Yeah. The Chief Defense is legit. The Jaguar's defense has been
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really good as well, by the way. But to me, it's all lies on, can this Jaguar's offense
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get things rolling? Track of CTN should be a busy guy tonight. He has been both effective
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and really the only guy they can count on. But at some point, like, yeah. And the national
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spotlight can be interesting for these reasons is that if things don't go well tonight for Brian
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Thomas Jr. There might be people that simply say to themselves, if they haven't already,
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we're cutting bait. Like you're going to the bench, you're going to time out with everyone to
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describe it as, but it's a huge opportunity for him to either perpetuate the current narrative
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or rewrite it. And it's been a really rough start for a guy who was red hot down the stretch last
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year. I am also going to watch this chiefs backfield. A little bit of news about a
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Breshar Smith maybe getting a little bit more run here. There has been so little value out of the
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running back room for the Kansas City Chiefs. We weren't trusting Kareem Hunt coming into the
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season. Unfortunately, the chiefs are trusting Kareem Hunt plenty right now with how much they're
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giving him the football. Isaiah Pacheco, I know he found the end zone last week, but looks completely
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not the same as he was pre injury. He just looks like he doesn't look like he has the same
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judge that he had before. And so I think you see flashes of it, but it's just not consistent.
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Yeah. He's, you know, right now the chiefs are a stay away backfield. We'll see whether they can,
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you know, rise above that moniker for the moment, but the chiefs are if you can stay away.
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I'll take the chiefs in this one. I'm taking the chiefs as well. And by the way, if the chiefs
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win tonight, they are right back tied for the best record in the AFC West. So the demise of
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the chiefs, perhaps was a touch overstated. Yeah. Clean sweep. Clean sweep. Yeah. Taking the chiefs
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to be close to like the Jaguar's going to play him well. Like I'm impressed by Jackson,
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but what they're doing defensively so far. Yeah. Oh, listen. We know we're a fantasy show,
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though, field. We don't give a crap what they're doing on defense unless you're 49ers fan,
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you're very aware that you're only lost. Came at the end. That's a big guy because of their
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defense. So yeah, and the fact if this was an arrowhead, I think I'd feel stronger about the
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chiefs. Yeah, although it's lost a little bit. I know. I would feel stronger about my choice
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of the chiefs, but I saw Patrick Maholmes is a wizard at the end of the day. That guy is still
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a wizard finds ways to get things done. And the Jags haven't faced someone like him yet this year.
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So all right. Let's dive into a couple of questions from our YouTube chat really quick before we
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close the show out here for this Monday. First question that we have from our YouTube chat. By
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the way, we appreciate you guys hanging out there with us. The entirety of the show. This comes
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from Max and wants to know Stefania with Nick Chubb's soft tissue calf injury tube Hubbard.
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Sorry. We'll Chuba Hubbard with Chuba Hubbard's soft tissue calf injury. Will Rico Dottel take
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over for the foreseeable future more than just next week? You believe. Yeah. I mean, I think at least
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he's going to concede some of the workload field already referenced that Chuba Hubbard has been
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an incredible workhorse through the last couple seasons. I mean, he's sort of defied logic that
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later in his career, he's been so heavily utilized and seen so much playing time. But the soft tissue
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injuries get harder to recover from the older you get. And even though we have no indication that
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it's severe, it was enough to cause him to miss a game. And when you've got Rico Dottel performing
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as well as he has, you're likely to keep using that for balance. Most of my tissue is soft.
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And it takes me a long time to return from injuries right now. Yeah. So I just I get it.
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It's often a good cutly. Yeah, exactly. In the right way. Absolutely. All right. Another question
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here from our YouTube chat. This one comes from Josu, Hidalgo wants to know what's the realistic
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return value for Jamar chase in a trade? If you're doing it right now, you're going to have to say,
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give me a top 10 wide receiver after yesterday after yesterday. Right now that would have been
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different going into the week. But this is such a week to week game and momentum matters so much.
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I think people are going to be saying if it's not, it's not like an Amon Ross, not a Puka,
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it's not, you know, a guy at that caliber, but you're going to have to get a legit locket
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in starter. Nico Collins would be a name that comes to mind. Roman Dune's, they'd be a name that
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comes to mind. Xavier worth being named becomes to mind. Like that's the kind of player you're going
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to have to get if you're going to even consider trading Jamar chase. Gosh, it just feels so
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it's so tough to trade in because any, he's a, he can win you a week, any given week. But if we've
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seen what we've seen out of this Bengal's offense, how much Jamar chase do you want this year versus
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maybe taking a shot at somebody else? All right. We have one more question here from our YouTube
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chat. Last one for us today. This comes from Caroline. Do I trade Zay flowers for Stefan Diggs?
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Field G. A. To find your bell. What do you think? I would leave towards you. Yeah. I know. I was
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just thinking the same thing because we know Zay flowers deep threat for Baltimore. But the
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offense has been so inconsistent. We don't know when Lamar Jackson is coming back.
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And Stefan Diggs has just been trending upwards. It's the trajectory that he's on. There's no
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reason to think that he's going to back off of that. He's going to be the clear number one pass
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catcher in New England. So I pass heavier offense in New England. Baltimore, when Lamar is back,
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at least, it's not super. A lot because they're so brilliant offensively with Lamar on the field.
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So I would lean towards yes. I would lean toward Diggs as well. Diggs. That's right. All right.
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That's going to do it for our show today. Have fun watching Monday Night Football. Today's show
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was presented by little Caesars. Don't forget to love each other. Be kind to yourself and enjoy
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your Monday Night Miracle. We'll see you guys tomorrow.