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Week 6 Waiver Wire: Rico Dowdle, Kendre Miller, Kendrick Bourne, Mason Taylor among top adds
In this episode of the Fantasy Football Happy Hour, Matthew Berry discusses the top waiver wire pickups for Week 6, including running backs Rico Dowdle and Kendre Miller, as well as wide receiver Kend...
Week 6 Waiver Wire: Rico Dowdle, Kendre Miller, Kendrick Bourne, Mason Taylor among top adds
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Thank you for joining us today.
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Finacy Football Happy Hour with Matthew Berry.
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Welcome to the fantasy football happy hour.
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Dude, ball drinks for free.
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Yeah, they do.
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Congratulations to all of our sad Jaguar fans, including our very own producers, Steven Diagostino.
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That video you saw at the top of the show was him at some sad Jaguars bar where they
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all gather to be in New York City, in New York City to be sad together.
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But last night they were not sad.
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They were celebrating.
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They're there in Blake Bordel's jerseys.
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Fred J.J.J.
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Fred Taylor jerseys, yeah.
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It's quite a buffet.
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Right.
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All the time.
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Kenneth McCartell, yeah.
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Exactly.
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All the greats.
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Yeah, people actually don't realize that the current of ours pandemic didn't start in
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Wuhan.
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It actually started in the Jags bar in New York City.
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Yes, I believe that.
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A little nervous back.
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You're on your own with that one.
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I want to love the new one.
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Exactly.
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Valien Vincent says the traveler better be drinking for free.
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All of Duval.
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All of Duval.
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He's part of Duval.
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The traveler by the way, done wrong.
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By the way, just before that play, traveler on the sideline, camera says like, yes, at some
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point, like I was picking his nose or whatever, like at some point, the director of ESP,
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I'm running out of the man.
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What the man is in football games.
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Love a god.
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It's not like he's sitting around, like there's tissues around.
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I'm like, he's in a football uniform.
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Yeah.
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Let the man live.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Mr. T in the chat, the fall in Duval.
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Yeah.
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But the rising, what a moment.
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They are this team.
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This team is so surprised.
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Like this is the instead of the Saints, this is the team you should have bet on at Long
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Arts to make the playoffs, Jay.
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No, no, no.
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The Jags are a different tier to the Saints.
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The Jags were like confident and confident, but it is the thing.
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So a couple of numbers.
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The Jags now plus 650 to get the one state.
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The Jags tend to want to make the Super Bowl.
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There's a ridiculous happening.
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I don't think either of those things are going to happen.
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Yeah.
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But they're four and one.
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Schedules are not that difficult.
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Easy division.
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I think the cults are the better team.
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My cults will ultimately win that division.
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You are a cultman now.
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I'm a cultman.
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I've chosen my fighter in the AMC South.
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And I'm happy with the fighter.
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I think the cults are the better team.
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But very impressive win from the Jags.
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Gudi from Trevor Lawrence as well.
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He's had a very uneven start to the season.
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But one thing he's ever had Trevor Lawrence for all his faults.
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Like he, I mean, he's tough and he gives it a go.
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He just makes a lot of mental mistakes.
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But yeah, he can't doubt that the man's moxie.
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He is tough.
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We will get to Monday Night Football later in the show, Conor Rogers.
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Someone needs to take care of this.
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Please see guys.
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I'll be out.
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Take control of this show.
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But one thing I will say though.
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And like a Ruhan?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's so interesting because every day we're on for a lot.
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We're on National TV for a live, for an hour, for a live, you know.
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We're on live television for an hour, basically, every single day.
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And every day we join the show.
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I'm usually like minus 400 to get us canceled.
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Yeah.
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To get myself canceled to be trending on X like, oh, you know, can't believe it, right?
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You know, like, not sure when you're live.
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Oh, exactly.
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I mean, one of the regular's could just clip whatever they want.
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I do.
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100%.
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But Jay, Jay, why can't I type rope?
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I like it.
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Fair enough.
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Did you say the Jags videos?
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There's no doubt that something of global international importance has developed in that
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bump.
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Some wild scene.
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Some wild scene.
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I wonder how producers even attend this bar for this.
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He might be a regular.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I have the Jags bar.
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I just, it's, I mean, there's one.
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It's a gathering of sadness for many years.
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Right.
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It's another four and one now, but I'm just for many years.
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Right.
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It's been a gathering of sadness.
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And so I just, I mean, how many places are there where you can be like, I want to be sad,
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but I want to be sad with other people who are sad like me.
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We didn't show the pregame picture.
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Totally different.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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We got to hold.
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We will absolutely get into that.
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More and more.
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So.
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Terrence Murphy comedy back in the chat.
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I feel like it's been a while.
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Jaguars fans were so happy and are four and one over under how many weeks till it goes
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off the rails.
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Oh, they're like that.
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I pick against the Seahawks next week and then they play the Rams.
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So it could be four and three.
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They're slightly five and two.
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You probably split those two games, but they're a solid team.
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I think it's a solid, solid offense, solid defense.
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I think they're world beaters, but they're every week.
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I'll have a chance.
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All right.
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Yeah.
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That division, although, by the way, though, Houston with impressive win against Baltimore,
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I get it Baltimore.
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You're terrible this year, but still they put 40 points on the road at Baltimore.
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Obviously, you know, talk about the cult.
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This is suddenly kind of an other than Tennessee.
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Like it's suddenly sort of an interesting division.
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Yeah.
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You know, a division that you were sort of like, that's Newsy.
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It's like, Authouse interesting.
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Yeah.
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There you go.
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That's incorrect.
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That's a great way to put it.
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It is.
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It's Authouse interesting.
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Valiant Vincent in the chat says, hey, you are what your record is as Barry's fantasy
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team will attest.
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Yeah.
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Factually correct.
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All right.
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Let's go to waivers.
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Yeah, officially.
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Yeah, we don't have to.
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I, it's people are wondering if I covered the spread.
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We'll get to it later.
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Wait, why are we running backs?
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And before we talk about who you want to make a bid on, we have to talk about who's not
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available to you because of the buy weeks and early buy week here.
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George Mason, who's averaging over 12 points for game.
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He's RB 25, Nick Chubb, who's been up and down, maybe less impactful there.
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And then obviously his teammate, Woody Marx.
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Yeah.
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Look, I mean, not a huge bunch of running backs.
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On by, but we're also going to be without Amari and Hampton, who last yesterday was placed
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on IR by Jim Harbaugh, tough scene for my ride or die.
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He's going to miss four weeks with a high ankle sprain.
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So no Jordan Mason, Nick Chubb, Woody Marx or Amari and Hampton this week, which of course
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brings us to the waiver wire running backs.
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You probably need potentially a running back to replace one of those guys here.
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Or even if you don't, like even if you don't have any of those guys, but it's always good
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to fortify.
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I feel like we're great.
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I feel like when we have that little graphic, it's always like,
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oh, this is brutal wake.
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Like how are we going to get like this?
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This place is a mouth.
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He'll find.
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You should be okay.
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At least that running back up.
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Yeah.
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Wider receiver is going to be a different story, but running back, you should be fine.
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But if you're not, listen, the man said it himself after their win over the dolphins on
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Sunday, Rico Dattles said buckle up.
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Uncle Rico.
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Uncle Rico, it's revenge game time against Dallas.
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Rico Dattles was phenomenal against Miami in week five.
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We got to hear from both Rico Dattles and his head coach on the state of the Panthers
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running back room.
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Honestly, we started off slow.
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I think my first two runs I had like five yards.
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It was just a matter of grinding it out and giving coach confidence to keep calling
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the run.
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Like I said, we started off slow and we were able to turn it into a game where we was
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able to run the ball.
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And like I said, giving coach confidence to keep running those guys up front, opening
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the hose up from me.
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And then once I got going, I knew it would be a good game.
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But Rico Dattles, yesterday, happy and am packed on how you use a two backs move before
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it.
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Yeah, Chubo, we're going to evaluate him every day and kind of see where he's at.
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And then, you know, with he and Rico, what I take from it is we have two good backs.
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And so we have to figure that part out.
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That's a good problem to have.
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But it's something that we have to work through.
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Like a negative.
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It's like something we have to work through.
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Like you have a good running back in Chubo Hubbard while established.
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And Rico Dattles is trying to do in the yards and he's just like, hey, we have to work
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through that.
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Like, yeah, there's all the Panthers problems.
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Exactly.
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Like, that's what you got to work through.
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You should be like, the answer should have been like, we're thrilled.
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We feel like we've got two good running backs here.
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And, you know, we're going to mix and match and play the hot hand.
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But, you know, we're excited about how our backfield, you know, how our running back
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room is shaping up.
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But he's just like, we're going to have to work through that.
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Like a tire-taped balance.
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Yeah.
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I don't know how the Panthers have the same record as the Chiefs.
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Because they don't look very good.
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So far, they've banked these two wins.
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So credit to them for that.
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But is the thing that I think does help Rico Dattles and even Chubo Hubbard wants to
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be a challenger returns?
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Bryce Young's been horrific this year.
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This thing cannot be dependent on Bryce Young throwing the ball.
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I think they're going to be a very low pass rate over expectations and going forward.
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The O-line is solid.
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Like the O-line's not a weak line of time.
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So it would better be solid.
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And the running backs are a solid as well.
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So I think this is going to be a run-the-ball offense and then chuck it up the T-Mac and then
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hope for the best.
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Yeah, to be clear, Rico Dattles was obviously a popular pick-up all last week when they
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knew Chubo Hubbard was going to be out and you like to match against Miami.
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So he's only available on about 40% of leagues, 42% to be specific.
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So it's likely he's gone in your league.
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But because he's close to our 50% threshold, we just wanted to mention that if he is somehow
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still available in your league, we do like, obviously, there's a real chance that he's
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starting running back against the Cowboys this week, get your popcorn ready, the whole
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thing, hashtag revenge game.
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But even if Hubbard is back, Dattles has clearly carved out a role in this offense to your
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point, Jay.
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Like, they could either hand it off or let Bryce Young throw it and unfortunately it's
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just of the offense.
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The answer seems right now that there may be enough run volume here to support two
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flex viable running backs, assuming Dattles continues to get work when Hubbard's back.
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Another player in an elevated role, Michael Carter, 61% available, obviously because of
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all the injuries Matthew.
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Now this is a weird one because you look at 18 carries, he had five targets he caught
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all five of them.
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The volume is really high.
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But the script for three quarters of this game was very in favor of Arizona.
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Yeah, that's the thing.
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I mean, they were, they were just, I still don't know how it is in a while.
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It's like it's unbelievable.
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I mean, I've been talking about how fraudulent I think the Cardinals are overall as a team,
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but they absolutely should have won this game.
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The fact that Cam wore it through an interception and scored a touchdown on the same play, like
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the Kyle Lacket touchdown.
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The gods in events.
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Well, that's it.
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Yes, and that's, that's, that's the God saying, I'm already, MacCarta, when you like, you
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should be happy just getting to the end zone.
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Anyway, that's whatever play it does that.
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The same loses.
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Don't them Tyler against Den Velosti, Eddie Mitchell Rams, the Comagots get involved.
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They really do.
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Anyway, but the point to your point, Connor here, is that positive game script that allowed
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them to run the ball and have Michael Carter.
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So in a game this week where they're at your Colts, Jake Ranger, where it might be a closer
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game or the Cardinals might be trailing, could they use Amari DeMaccardo, who is their third
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down back a little bit more?
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Now, we don't know.
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Is DeMaccarta just completely in the doghouse?
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The way Eddie Mitchell was last week.
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I mean, like, Eddie Mitchell, like it was all Ashton Dulan, like they, they want to know
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part of Mitchell.
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So we'll see what happens with DeMaccardo.
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I certainly wouldn't start DeMaccardo, but to your point, Connor, maybe lower expectations
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on Carter a little bit in case GameScript isn't as favorable.
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But he had a 90 utilization score in week five.
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That was the fourth highest among all running backs.
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There were 31 team running back touches for the Cardinals.
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23 of them went to Michael Carter.
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He's clearly the trade Benson replacement you want until, until Benson comes back.
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So he's available in over 60% of leagues.
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Yeah, it's just tough to the Gansfield going from facing the worst statement football
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arguably, Tennessee to arguably the best statement football minds in Apple is called.
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Six and a half point dollars.
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He said that with a straight face.
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Eddie's so serious.
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Yeah, look, they're not the best.
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I'm not sure that I'm not sure.
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So, Dave, now it's been the schedule.
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Point differential.
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They're offensive and defense.
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Look at their EPA.
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This team's a, it's a very good, I don't think they're the best statement football.
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I don't think they're a top five team football, but I think they're kind of on the fringes.
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Yeah.
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I will grant that they're the best team in their division, even on the, the, the,
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the, the, the cold.
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Some of the legitimate chance to be a top two seed in the, I'm giving out the chiefs
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and Ravens of stuff.
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It's crazy.
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Jay Stab saying Evil Jay's culture dumping another 40 on Arizona this week.
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Yeah, it's a, the offense just works.
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It's a really good offensive, Lions, a great play call.
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A great weapons.
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Daniel Jones is, uh, commandeering the ship and the defense is, is fun.
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It's not a great defense, but it's fun.
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Connor is how well this team is playing right now under Daniel Jones.
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Who is kind of like a, you know, a free agent for anyone to, to kind of grab, right?
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Um, an indictment on just how bad Anthony Richards has been this program.
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It's not a good look, right?
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Yeah.
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Because you look at all that a lot of the talents the same.
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Like, yeah, they had a Tyler Warren who's really freaking good.
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Yeah.
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But Jonathan Taylor's there, healthy.
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But the wide receivers are all the same guys.
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The offense is the same.
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What they've wanted to do.
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The line has continuity.
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No.
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It's, it's a pretty tough one right now for Anthony Richards.
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The problem with Anthony Richards is he can't throw the ball where he wants to, which is always
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finished.
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That is a challenge if he'd like to play quarterback in the end of the ball.
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It just holds you back.
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Sport becomes harder when that's an issue.
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Yeah.
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So it's, that's why I'm not in quarterback in the end.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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It doesn't work for me either.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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Our next one here, Kendra Miller.
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This is a weird one, Jay, because nothing's wrong with Alvin Camera.
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Kendra Miller is just getting more work week after week.
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Yeah.
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As you can see, the touches per game.
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It's trending in Kendra Miller's direction.
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He only had one fewer touch than Alvin Camara last week.
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And look, I think Camara is a decent chance notwithstanding the Saints getting on the board.
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With the W Spencer Atlas first of his career in the NFL.
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But I think Camara is a very good chance to get traded at some point.
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And this becomes Kendra Miller's backfield.
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I would make it greater than a 50% chance that Kendra Miller is the lead back of the New Orleans Saints
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when you factor in the trade element for Camara and also just the injury risk for Camara too
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as an older player.
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So I think Kendra Miller, he is a guy.
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And by the way, a functional NFL offense.
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I don't think right now that this, I don't think the Saints are one of the five worst teams in the league.
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I think you find five worst teams than them at the moment with the way they're playing.
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Outside of the Seattle blowout, they've been competitive in all these games.
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They're really competitive in Buffalo.
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They kind of blew the doors off the Giants towards the end of that game.
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Spencer Rattler has been a lot more competent than I think people gave him credit for at the beginning of the season.
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Absolutely. I agree with that.
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And I also just think just to the I test, Kendra Miller just looks more explosive.
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Is it better fit to this game?
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Yeah, exactly.
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Again, you've got Kellyn Moore there, brand new head coach who's got no loyalty to Alvin Cmary.
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He's trying to build something.
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And so he's sitting there like, hey, I need some young players here.
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And so Rashid Shaheed and Chris Hollavi, even though it feels like they've been around for them.
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They're both fairly young players.
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Obviously, you've got Rattler and a young quarterback there as well.
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So they're trying to build something.
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I just, I do agree with you.
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I think there's a better than average chance that Cmary gets dealt over the second part of the year.
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Kendra Miller's had back-to-back games now with double-digit touches.
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So I think he's, you know, he's in the deep league flex conversation.
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But with some upside for more, given the chance that Cmary could get hurt and or trade it as well.
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The only thing about Kendra is don't love the schedule.
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They're home to the Patriots this week.
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Good run, defense.
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Yes, sure.
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They're down James Cook last week.
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They're out Chicago.
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That's a great matchup.
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Chicago can't stop the run.
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But then home to Tampa Bay at the ramp.
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So three of the next four are pretty tough run defenses.
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And as long as Cmary is healthy, he's still going to be splitting some time.
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But I do think Kendra Miller needs to be rostered in a lot more leagues.
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Aloha Bricks asks Kendra Miller or Uncle Rico Dowdell for the rest of the season.
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Kendra Miller.
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Kendra Miller.
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So for the rest of the season, if the answer was for this week, I'd say Rico Dowdell.
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But for the rest of the season, I just, you know, I can't believe I'm saying this,
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but give me the same.
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So over the panthers offensively.
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And I also just think there's a clear path.
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I'd rather be behind Alvin Camera who was injury prone and could get traded than behind Chuba Hubbard,
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who yes is injury prone, but like with his contract, they're not trading him.
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I also think there's a material chance that Kendra Miller just superseded to Alvin Camara.
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If Alvin Camara sticks around, I get to just think he's a, what is Kalimov?
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That's what is trending towards him.
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Yeah, that's kind of what's been going on.
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And what does like Kalimov want to do with this game?
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It's like a gap scheme.
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Think about Sequan Bakley last year.
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It's just like hit the whole user explosive speed.
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That's much more Kendra Miller's game than Alvin Camara's game, which I think was a better fit for the kind of zone running scheme of Clint Kubiak last year.
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So yeah, I think Kendra Miller's.
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Yeah, they like jumping down.
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They didn't have healthy wide receivers last year.
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So he was the passing game, but Alavi and she heat are both healthy.
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They just got to taste some hillback who's going to do some gadgety stuff.
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John Johnson, of course.
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Fantasy football legend.
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Part of the first championship squad.
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I now have to, you have to understand that given how my season has gone now, I have to live in the past.
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You're watching the VHS and the champion.
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I am.
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I'm like, you know, back in my day.
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Yeah.
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Back in my, that's, I have to be that guy now.
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I now have to embrace, I have to be the, the old guy that talks about.
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Are you going to start tanking?
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Should I?
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No, maybe you read this.
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What I could do.
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What I could do, yeah, I'm not going to get the first pick, but what I could do is just create havoc in chaos.
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I could just make a bunch of lopsided trades to like try to upset the competitive balance in the league.
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Just make sure that two of you guys don't win.
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You know, like here's, here's Jane Daniel.
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What do you want fans to ratler in the league right now?
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You had to pick.
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I know you don't want to win.
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You don't want me or him to win.
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For the right reasons, you'd be humiliated on the show.
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No, I kind of severed it.
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No, that's not a very good thing.
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Back up for a very good thing.
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No way.
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Absolutely not.
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That might be number one of, do not win.
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I actually would trade players to you guys to make sure backup proves the peak did not win.
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That's a tough one.
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Dev, that's an offensive.
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You know what?
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Actually, that's what I'm really for stupid dev.
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I'm rooting for Emmy Award winning stupid dev who's been a good sport and he's a good driver.
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He's good.
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That's what I'm rooting for.
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Producer Damien as well.
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You know, a fan of producer Damien.
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You know, producer Steven, he's a Jaguars fan.
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He's not a lot of satellites.
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That's why I'm much.
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So, you know, add him I feel bad for, but add him's in the basement with me.
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It's not worth it.
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He's also like seven players.
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So, yeah, I don't want Lawrence to win either.
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So, anyway, yeah, that would be my list of who I would try to.
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Dev and Damien.
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Yeah, stupid dev and Damien, I think.
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And Steven, yeah.
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Alright, our next running back is Kenneth Gainwell.
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63% available.
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The Steelers are coming off the by-week.
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They have the Browns and while Kenneth Gainwell looked really good against the Vikings Matthew,
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you do have to wonder when Jalen Warren is going to be back in it that just makes Kenneth Gainwell kind of, you know, not even a factor at all.
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Well, he took individual drills at practice on Monday.
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This is Jalen Warren.
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Again, it's been two weeks since he missed the injury and the game overseas.
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But in that game against Minnesota, the last time we saw Kenneth Gainwell, you know, 25 touches in a game that were Jalen,
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and was very productive.
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Right? He had a 97 utilization score.
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And so, I think, again, similar to what we just talked about with Rico Doudal, assuming if Jalen Warren is back this week,
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if I have Jalen Warren ranked ahead of Kenneth Gainwell, of course, I do.
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But do I think Kenneth Gainwell just goes back to doing absolutely nothing?
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I don't. I think he is, I think that performance against the Vikings, a game in which the Steelers won, which I think is important.
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I think he's earned a bigger role.
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And because Warren has been banged up before in his career, we don't know if he's officially back.
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I do think he's worth rostering Gainwell because I think he'll carve out a role.
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Again, this is Arthur Smith, who likes to use multiple running backs.
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Remember, the year they spent a top five overall pick on B-John Robison, I'm sorry, top eight.
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I top eight overall pick on B-John Robison.
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Tyler L. Giergott, you know, didn't you get a thousand yards?
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Didn't Tyler L. Giergott get a thousand yards?
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The year that B-John Robison's rookie year, I'm pretty sure I did.
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Damien looked it up for me, see if I got that right or wrong.
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But I'm pretty sure that he did.
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I don't think he did the rookie say his rookie say his and the following up.
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Oh, Giergott, maybe not.
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He's a rookie year.
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Oh, he's a rookie year.
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He got a thousand yards.
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But then they drafted B-John Robison.
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We couldn't understand why you had a rookie that run for a thousand yards.
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Why are you drafting B-John Robison?
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And then not using him.
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By the way, I think I'll just miss quite a bit.
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I don't know, I don't know, Bay-John's amazing, but he's somewhat vindicated
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than his usual Tyler L. Giergott, who's just really good.
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Like, Tyler L. Giergott, I think he's like a top five day running back in the league.
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Yeah, it's just he took away way too many times.
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Yeah, sure, Bay-John's the greatest.
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Yeah, the argument there is that, yeah, they found something in Tyler L. Giergott.
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I don't know that Tyler L. Giergott is a top 15 running back in the league,
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but they found something in him.
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He's a productive running back.
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The argument is that the Falcons never should have drafted B-John Robison.
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They had so many needs and they actually had a productive running back to use a top,
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right, exactly.
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To use a top eight overall pick on a running back, you know, anyway, whatever.
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But I think that my point is that Arthur Smith likes to use multiple running backs
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and that we've seen multiple running backs have fantasy usefulness under Arthur Smith.
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Yeah, I think in a neutral wake, neutral opponent that both gang well and war on it,
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like high-end flex guys, they feel the confidence starting them.
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I would probably still rather have war on over gang well,
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but still both of these guys, I think, are going to be viable.
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A much more difficult situation to figure out.
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Ryder Die, Marian Hampton, unfortunately placed on IR.
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The issue with this one, Matthew, is Hassan Haskins and Kamani Videl,
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going to factor in here.
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It's hard to tell really how they'll be differentiated.
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Like, Haskins feels like the in-between the tackles runner.
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Videl feels like more of that third down pass catcher,
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but we just haven't seen enough of it yet.
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Yeah, I mean, it's, my guess is that the chargers have been fairly pass heavy early in the season.
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Now, they've been having trouble protecting Herbert.
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So they've tried to be a little bit more balanced, but my expectation here is that Amari and Hampton,
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they just go back to being sort of pass happy and just he's out of the shotgun quite a bit
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and they try to figure out ways to chip guys and help out that offensive line.
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Yeah, I mean, I think if I was, if I'm, I think I'd prefer Haskins to Videl.
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Now, again, if they're passing more of that, speaks more to Kamani Videl.
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And I really think it's going to be a hot hand committee approach here.
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But the one thing I will say is Hassan Haskins to your point, he's the more,
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he's the closer one-to-one replacement for Amari and Hampton.
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Remember, Haskins played it Michigan for Jim Harbaugh,
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so there's a little bit of trust and familiarity there as well.
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And so Videl, who last year had games where he was a healthy scratch, Connor.
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I mean, like there were games where Videl's healthy scratch.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they added this running back room.
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They're rumors that Gus Edwards, the Gus Bus, can roll back into town.
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You know, can you imagine? But so he might, but so I wouldn't go crazy on the way
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where we're trying to pick up either one of these guys.
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But I think they both need to be rostered and I would, I would prefer Haskins over Videl,
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even though I think it's going to be a bit of a, you know,
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truly 50-50 split, but Haskins is going to have a better chance of scoring touchdowns on a weekly basis.
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Yeah, I think the real winner's here, Vlad Mckonkey, Kena Nall,
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and Quinn Johnson, I think they're just going to lane.
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Herbert Johnson, Herbert, yes.
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A recap, the top running back targets for the week, Michael Carter, of course.
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He's got the Colts Kendra Miller against the Patriots.
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Kenneth Gainwell, Hassan Haskins, and Kamani Videl.
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They play at Miami this week, by the way. That is a nice matchup.
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And we just saw Rico Dattle run all over and remember,
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Miami top five in terms of most fantasy points allowed to opposing running back.
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So Haskins and Videl could be, especially in that order,
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could be, you know, viable desperation plays this week.
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Got some deeper league targets in here as well.
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Kreme Hunt with a nice night on Monday night football.
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A lot more on that in the next segment. Tyler Aljir, who just always appears on this show.
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And as he's had double-digit Russian attempts in three out of four games so far this year,
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Falcons off the buy.
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Taje Spiris, back and healthy.
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Isaiah Davis, now the number two behind Breese Hall.
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That's much like Kendra Miller, a staff situation,
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because there's a world where the Jets trade Breese Hall.
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He's in a contract year and then Isaiah Davis will be the lead back as Braila now in his hurt.
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And then Sean Tucker as Buck Eurving as her.
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He's behind Rashad White.
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Yeah, it didn't do much, but that was against Seattle.
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Wasn't a great matchup. He only played 12 snaps.
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But in the 12 snaps, he got six touches.
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So I mean, when he was out there, they were using him.
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He just wasn't out there that much. Rashad White had a great game.
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Also just want to mention, Jaden Blue was finally healthy.
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I mean, it was finally active for the Cowboys last week.
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Didn't do much, but just somebody that, you know, people liked in the preseason that showed a spark.
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And you know, at some point they've got to give Javante Williams a rest.
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Crazy World, we potentially picking up Javante Williams insurance backs.
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That's where he's at the moment. That's where we are.
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That's exactly where we are.
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Let's go to the wider receivers.
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Now we said the by-weeks for the running backs.
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You don't have much to worry about.
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It's probably a different story for you this week with both Justin Jefferson,
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Jordan Addison catching the game-winning touchdowns last week after not playing in the first quarter.
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Coach's decision, Nico Collins as well.
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And then it tied in both TJ Hockinson and Dalton Schultz,
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so some bigger hurdles here.
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But there is some help available out there on Waiver Wires after a monster week for Kendrick Born
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where all the nighters reserves were filling in to end up winning that game against the Rams.
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We got to hear from Kendrick Born, who's always a great listen on his role with the nighters going forward.
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I didn't come here to be the guy.
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I'm not coming here to try to get 50 catches a game.
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None of that.
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I'm here to play a role, help the younger guys, you know, be a vet.
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And so if Kyle wants me to play F or he wants me to go to running back,
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then that's what the week is going to, you know, present.
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So that's just my mindset.
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It's about being humble understanding that there's a role to be played.
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And that's how my career has been.
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And I've excelled in that.
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And that's kind of how I got to where I am.
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And Kyle has shout out to him because he gave me my first opportunity of showing me how to play in a role.
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I used to be big on third down and as grown in my relationship as grown with him now to trust his there.
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Kendrick Born, we talked to him super week, I think two years ago.
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Absolutely loved getting to know him.
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He is fun.
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I like that.
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I'm not here to be the guy.
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When have you ever heard that before in your life from a Waiver receiver?
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Never.
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Especially by the way, looking like a million bucks.
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Looks like a Waiver receiver wanted to be really does.
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He looks the part, but just like I'm just here to play my role.
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I'm going to say that in the next FNIA production meeting.
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I'm not here to be the guy.
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I'm not here to be the guy.
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Let me make my part right in my best way.
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Yeah, be a veteran.
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You know, help out the younger guys.
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That'll be me.
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Kendrick Born coming up that 11 target, 10 reception, 142 yard game against the Rams.
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Just a monster, 23% target share, 82% rapid dissipation, a week five.
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Again, Joanne Jennings and Ricky Pierce all both have a chance to return this week for the game at Tampa Bay.
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But born on an offense that's trying to find some answers here, San Francisco.
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You know, again, they've sort of struggled.
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They've been a lot of guys in and out.
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We're still missing George Kittle.
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And so there seems to clearly be a connection between Matt Jones and Kendrick Born.
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Looks like Jones is on track to make another start for the 49ers.
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You know, Perty feels more week to week-ish.
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Why wrong?
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Yeah.
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And it does honestly.
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So if Matt Jones is legs, there's a test for his body.
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Which is not a great look on Thursday night.
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But I guess the thing is, is that this team, of all the good teams, the nine as their situation on offense is the most influx of any team.
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Because all of these roles, again, it change.
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Because Ricky Pierce sold Joanne Jennings.
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They both seem a decent chance to come back this week.
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George Kittle seems that's going to be a little bit further out.
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And so I think there are a lot of actions that can be done.
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One, I think that Kendrick Born, I think that if Pierce sold and Jennings both play, his utility just drops off significantly.
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If only one of them comes back.
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I think he can still be viable, particularly if it's Matt Jones at quarterback.
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A little bit of a tangent, but I would try and trade Christian McCaffrey now if you have any money to aim.
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So the receiving volume is about to fall off a cliff once they get all their guys back.
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He's not going to keep on getting 90 receiving yards again.
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Like he's like top five in the NFL and receiving yards.
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That's the four.
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But hang on though.
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I agree with you.
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But what are you trading him for?
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Because by the way, so you say he gets 80%, 75% of his workload.
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That's still better than almost everyone else in the NFL.
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The only guys that I would rather have than Christian McCaffrey right now, maybe B. Sean Robinson,
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John Schumer Gibbs, Jonathan Taylor, if we were drafted today, he probably goes like 7th.
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I'm just off the top.
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I probably goes like 7th.
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You drop Puka ahead of him as well.
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And what about guys like Amon Raj, JSN?
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Absolutely.
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But like he's still a first, yeah, I mean, yeah.
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But like I think that Amon Raj versus Christian McCaffrey, given the depth of running back versus wide receive.
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Like that's a fair trade.
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Yeah.
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I'm not saying like I would definitely rather have one versus the other.
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Sure.
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That's a fair trade.
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I just, I don't know what the market is for Christian McCaffrey.
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Yeah.
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I like that.
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I like the chat.
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Cobra Kiger said listen to Jay.
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He was right about King Henry and now he's calling for CMC.
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Yeah.
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You know, you know, you might have a voodoo as a second bottle.
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He's next.
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He's done and done.
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I'm out of inter-William.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Look, I, no, I, I get the argument.
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I'm just saying I'm just trying to think about it in practical terms.
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Like do I think the production takes a, you know, a bit of a dive because of additional pass catchers I do.
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I just don't know what I do with that information, right?
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So I just think if you have like a Niners fan in your league who is willing to trade you.
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Bay John, Jimmy Gibbs, Jonathan Taylor.
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Oh, without that.
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Like those guys.
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Definitely.
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McCaffrey is also the biggest cult risk of any of these.
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Yeah.
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But the problem is I just don't, and are league in where people know what they're doing.
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I just don't know that somebody that has Jonathan Taylor or Jimmy or Gibbs or Puka or anything like that or suddenly like,
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oh yeah, let me give this up to go get McCaffrey.
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Yeah.
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Who, I think they concerns you, dude.
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It's made the inflection point of guys like a Monroir and Jay-as-Send.
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And particularly with a Monroir, because of the touchdown equity, I think I'd draw that pin in the McCaffrey on.
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That's, that's completely fair.
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Somebody, you have Chris McCaffrey and I offer you a Mecca of Buka.
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You doing that deal?
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Not at all.
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Okay.
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So there you go.
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Don't get, I would take that back.
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You're thinking about it.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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I just don't, I don't believe in Chris McCaffrey being healthy across the entire season.
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Wow.
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But I said that before the scene.
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This isn't like a new development.
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No, it's fair.
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Like Chris McCaffrey, once all these guys, once Kiddell comes back, PSL-Droner, his receiving probably is going to be like 45.
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Which is great for running back, but he's also having three point one y'all to be carrying on the ground.
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Sure.
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But the counter argument there is now with more pass catchers, with more pass catchers, like their offense will be more efficient.
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You can't just focus on McCaffrey.
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Maybe.
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There's anything in week one against the CEO, because he was like 22 for 69.
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Siocs are a really good defense.
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I don't know.
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It's amazing.
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The problem is he's not fast anymore.
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He's got a run post.
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He's only speed metrics.
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It's one of the better debates we've had in a while, but we do have a lot of y'all to get through.
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Anyway, the argument is that Kendrick Bourne, I think, needs to be, you know, should be rough.
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I forgot about Kendrick Bourne.
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Yeah, that's where we started.
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But again, his role remains to be seen, but like given the injury history of Jennings and Pierce All,
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even if they're both back this week, I don't know that you feel confident that both guys play every game the rest of the year.
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Romeo Dobbs, our next one, he just makes the cut here at exactly 50% available.
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He has the Bengal's defense, which he can't really ask for much more right now.
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This is Romeo Dobbs' numbers against Dallas in week four, or right, 20% in target share.
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Dobbler.
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The new Dobbler.
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It's exceeding Joshua.
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Yeah, the three in touchdowns really takes the cake here, guys.
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Right, go ahead, Matt.
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It's a little fake.
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Right.
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It's, but, but he is the Jordan Love.
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That's what it's going to say.
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And he's got, for the season, he's got 45% of the Packers end zone target.
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Right, so, like, when they don't give it a Josh Shake of the end zone, it's basically Dobbs or Tuck of Craft.
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When Jordan Love is throwing in the red zone, he's boasted to looking for Dobbs or Tuck of Craft.
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So, do I think, you know, I think he's awesome.
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I don't.
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I still think Matthew Golden is going to continue to impress, right?
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We like Tuck of Craft.
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They want to be more run heavy.
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They have a good defense.
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They're not going to be in shootouts, like the 40 to 40 game, you know, the rest of the year, I think, likely.
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All that said, he does seem to have a floor kind of role in this Packer's offense.
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And it is Cincinnati this week.
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Yeah.
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It's funny watching it being in the stadium at AT&T for that epic Cowboys Packers game.
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And like on these key third downs, fourth downs, got to have it.
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It's like Jordan Love for this team.
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It's like a top four Super Bowl favorite.
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And the wide receiver is a, you know, Romeo Dobbs and Tom Tavion Wicks.
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Yeah, it's like son.
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It's not great.
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But, to your point, the past catching room is going to get healthier.
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Tuck of Craft as well.
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I was dealing with an injury a couple of weeks ago.
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I think he's still ramping up back to full pace.
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So, we have a question from the VST.
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Ranked Dobbs, Craft, Golden, Craft one.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think rest of the season.
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I mean, it depends.
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I think Dobbs has a higher floor.
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I think Golden has a higher ceiling.
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That's exactly what I was going to say.
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So, I think it depends what you need.
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If you're telling me I need somebody to start right now and craft is gone, then I can be Dobbs over Golden.
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If I'm like sitting there like, I'm good with my starters.
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So, I'm just trying to look bank for like a second half rookie blow up, which we've seen multiple times.
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Over the last couple of years, among rookie wide receivers, then give me Matthew Golden.
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Don't worry, Christian Watson will be thrown into this equation at some point.
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And there'll be a lot more fun.
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So, you got in on the Packers Wide Receivers.
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I'm sorry.
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So, let's take a look at some other notable wide receivers here.
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Darnell Mooney, who just always seems to be on the fringes of this line.
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67% available.
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Trey Tucker, Josh Downs, who's coming off a good week.
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It was a slow start to the season for Josh Downs.
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They just have so many options.
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That's the cost offense.
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Troy Franklin, they're nopping down.
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Isaiah Bond is out there a ton right now for the Browns.
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Tori Horton gets more love with the Seahawks.
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He's caught a lot of touchdowns early in the year.
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Then Ryan Flanoi, the back end of the depth chart to a hundred yard game against the Jets.
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Yeah, I mean, Dallas is going to be throwing, right?
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And so, after performance like this, you have to figure like that earns a more playing desperation.
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Jalen Tolbert is just so brutal.
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91% row of organization.
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No, I like, listen, I got cut.
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If Jalen Tolbert had literally caught one pass, one pass for 10 yards, that's all I needed to do.
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Caught one pass for 10 yards or Drake made through one touchdown pass.
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Or, you know, Oramari and Hempton doesn't leave early.
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I was spreading this.
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No, I would have not gotten cut from a guillotine league last night.
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So, because that was the, the Xavier word of the thing that I needed.
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We'll talk about that.
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Exactly what happened.
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We said what happened.
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A hundred percent.
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Yes.
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Nice little talk.
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Talk to me a little bit.
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So anyway, Flanoi is out there for, again, we love how Dak Press could have spent a lot of time.
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He's playing and they need guys beyond George Pickens while CDLAM heals.
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Talk to me a little bit about Isaiah Bond because he, while the production hasn't been there just yet for Cleveland,
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he's playing a ton of snaps.
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22% target share in week five, 86% row of participation.
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Club set unfortunately closed at the moment.
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So, I'm going to talk to him about Isaiah Bond who had some off the field issues which dropped his draft stock.
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But just from a prospect perspective.
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Right.
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He was one of the best deep threats in the drafts.
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There's no way around it, right?
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It was just the rest of his game, including obviously off the field that needed to be monitored.
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This was somebody that, you know, throughout parts of the season, people thought it could be a second round pick.
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So, the show kind of where, and obviously the Browns are right there playing him at what they think of his talent.
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The question I have is or the concern is, do we have any faith that Dylan Gabriel is going to be chucking the bolt down the field?
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What did you make him as young?
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I know the mixed reviews in the London game against the Vikings.
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Anything that looked great, it doesn't find, but it didn't look, I don't think that was a huge ceiling.
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Yeah, that's why I was a little, not to react to one game, but to react to the player.
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This is why him going in the third round surprised some people.
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He's what you would want as a backup, right?
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He's smart, he can take care of the football, he can run the quick game.
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All the things he did to Oregon, he can move a little bit.
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He's a small quarterback and it doesn't see the middle of the field very well and doesn't have this big arm and this great athleticism.
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It just very, it limits the offense.
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Like this offense is, they built the plane out of Quinshaw and Judkins, right?
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Yeah.
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And that's not going to change.
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Right, but for getting about Gabriel's fantasy value for a second, but just in terms of if you're Kevin Saphansky and like,
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I mean, there's quarterback rumours as a disaster.
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If you're just like, listen, I've got a top three defense in the NFL and I can run the ball.
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So if you give me a quarterback that can run my offense, not turn the ball over and just help me move the chains,
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find them Joku, you know, for a 10 yard out occasionally, take a shot or whatever, but like,
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like, he's probably a better fit for that, for what they're trying to do this year, then Joe Flacco.
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And you got to get a look at him.
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Exactly.
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Like you might be bad enough that you're picking another quarterback in the top eight to ten picks.
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Yeah.
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If Gabriel stinks for a couple of weeks then you look at Shedore and you got all the answers.
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And we're going to see Saphans in the next couple months.
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Yeah, I'm sure we will.
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Last thing on Deep League ads as well, when we mentioned Tori Horton, who's very quietly scored in three of the past four weeks,
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we like Sam Donald quite a bit.
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Cooper Cuppet feels like the end is near for him.
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There's also some guys out there that if you have an open IR spot, you know, Brandon IU, Jalen Coker,
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you mentioned Christian Watts and all guys that we think will be back at some point this year and be productive,
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grab him just asham on your IR.
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All right, let's look at the tight ends here, headlined by Mason Taylor.
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That's 86% available.
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Let me see how we will look at Mason Taylor.
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There's not a lot of good things in the Jetsland right now.
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This is the one.
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Why do we call it?
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I'll tell you what, because we've been talking about Mason Taylor for quite some time.
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Right, it's us.
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Yeah, we're talking to ourselves, honestly.
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Like we've talked about this honestly since the preseason where we talked about Aftergaren Wilson,
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who's the number two pass catcher on this Jets?
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And we talked about Mason Taylor, the rookie out of LSU, no Connerly liked him.
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I think you had him as Titan 4, after War, Loveland and Arroyo.
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And so we're like, you know, the Jets might have gotten a steal in just in terms of fantasy production.
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He landed in the perfect spot because outside of Garrett Wilson,
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there's just not a lot else in the passing game.
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We've seen it over the last couple of weeks where his target share continues to ramp up.
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25% target share now and back to back weeks.
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And while some of it was junk time, it all counts in fantasy.
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Right, and the Jets might have been playing a lot of junk time.
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That's right.
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I mean, they're playing Denver overseas this week.
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It's just a tan on Wilson.
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Yeah, Mason Taylor could lead the team in receiving on.
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And I will say this because the last two weeks his usage has gone up across the board,
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especially on third and fourth downs off of play action.
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It's all looking good for Mason Taylor.
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Garrett Wilson, who's been great, but the Jets don't throw the ball usually until they're down significantly.
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A lot of his production has been in garbage time or trailing mode.
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Yeah.
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Mason Taylor, he gets involved off the opening script.
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So I think this is very real right now.
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He has an 88 utilization score over the last two weeks,
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which is the highest among all tight ends.
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None of the Jets, like all tight ends in the NFL,
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Mason Taylor's got more utilization over the last two weeks than any other tight ends.
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No touchdowns.
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Right, exactly.
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So that's a nice baseline.
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Yes, right now for Mason Taylor.
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For sure.
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And by the way, you mentioned Denver, okay, tough, but then home to Carolina at Cincinnati.
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And then, exciting week for you, a by week.
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Nothing bad can happen to the Jets on the by week.
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Probably tough enough.
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Probably.
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Hopefully.
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All right, this one from Travis McKnight asking,
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it's the Jets, we're not asking saying, it's the Jets.
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There will always be garbage time.
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Thank you, Travis.
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Yeah, this is why I'm not sure the Carolina since the any matchups are great,
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because they might be able to run the ball.
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Right.
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A lot of the way in the trial mode.
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And then, yeah.
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And then, yeah, and then, yeah, Mason Taylor, I mean,
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he looks like a tight end won the rest of the ball.
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Yeah.
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Which is tough to find.
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And then, some other guys out there, if you are pretty desperate here,
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everything in Arizona, 52% available.
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He does have the Jets though, and the Jets have been horrific against tight end.
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So he actually might be a really nice desperation play at tight end this week.
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The O Johnson getting involved.
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It feels like Jackson Dart, Matthew is comfortable throwing to the O Johnson.
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Real signs of life from him.
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He's a nice big target, right?
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And when you're scrambling behind that offensive line, looking around,
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you're just looking, oh, hey, there's a big guy that can come down with a ball.
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Two starts that Jackson Dart has made.
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The O Johnson's had a 20% target share in both of them.
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Three end zone targets for the big man as well.
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Jake Tongus again, the San Francisco tight end as long as Kittle is out.
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He's now scored in back to back games.
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We're not expecting to see Kittle until week seven.
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And finally, how about AJ Barner?
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They like him in Seattle.
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Again, we like the Seattle offense.
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They're passing offense more than we did in the beginning of the season.
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Darnels has looked terrific.
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It's a nice fit with Clint Kubeck here.
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And so Barner very, very quietly.
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Four touchdowns in his last four games.
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20% target share last week in a shootout still.
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But I just, I could easily see a scenario where over the second half of the year,
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this offense is obviously you've got JSN, Tori Horton, and AJ Barner,
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as kind of the top three guy.
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Good on Cooper Cop.
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No, I just honestly like it does his near.
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I was just as very macabre for him.
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I mean, I think he has a very, you know, a lot of life.
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Look, you guys know I love Cooper Cop.
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I love Cooper Cop.
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He's not a little Cooper Cop.
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But I just...
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He was.
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I mean, I mean, I know he's still my little Cooper Cop, but I'm a bench.
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On the way of wire.
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I'm just waving to him.
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Like, I just, it's...
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The production hasn't been there consistently for a while.
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No, he's a full catch for 40 yards now.
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He's not on a good day.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Four catches for 40 yards in a game that was 38, 35 or whatever that came with.
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I mean, like, it was a complete shootout.
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Darnell was brilliant.
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They'd go in toe-to-toe with Baker Mayfield, and he didn't put any numbers there.
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And again, he's had basically one good game in four for the Seahawks,
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and he was bad for the last four or five down the stretch for the Rams last year.
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I just...
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Hey, he's on the other side.
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Yeah.
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Let's talk quarterbacks here.
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The starting quarterbacks on a buy.
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Hopefully are not playing one of these guys right now, though.
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It's been a good two weeks for CJ Stroud.
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Sure.
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So those numbers are a little skewed by his low start.
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And the Wensler and the Wensler are just doing the Wensler things.
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I really am.
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It's just a terrifying headshot from Falty.
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He looks surprised.
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It's a luck-down on Wensler.
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I think he's done as well.
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It's a joke, I'm a Coltie Tom.
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No, the Wens is just like...
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That smile is like, I'm happy I have a job.
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Yeah, I'm smiling.
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That's pretty good.
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Look at me.
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I'm a big.
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Well, I'll tell you else is pretty happy,
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because he's got the starting job.
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That is Jackson Dart, who is 61% available.
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It's been solid for Jackson Dart so far,
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and he spoke on just the rookie learning curve in the NFL.
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Yeah, I mean, I've never cared about my age.
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Coming in to the NFL right now,
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I'm in the youngest quarterback in the league.
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But I could give two crops about that.
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It's about winning.
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So I don't take any excuse for age or being a rookie.
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There's a response bill doing your quarterback to go win games.
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And that's just the sound of that on my soul too.
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Jackson Dart's first two starts here.
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A lot more passing attempts at you in the second one against the Saints.
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Yeah, you like that.
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He's more comfortable in the offense,
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but he's also using his legs.
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That's why he's fantasy viable.
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We said this when he got the job.
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He would be a top 12 fantasy quarterback through us away.
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He's averaging over 17 fantasy points for game in his two starts.
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He's had at least 50 rushing yards in both those games,
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including 31% of the Giants red zone rushes.
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When they get in close,
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Brian Dable not scared to dial up a quarterback sneak,
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a design run for Jackson Dart.
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Dart, I like the fact that he's sitting there saying like,
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hey, no excuses.
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I'm going to take accountability.
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You know, we got to win.
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That's how I am as a fantasy football manager.
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Jackson, Dart and I both, you know,
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facing the tough questions from the press for taking accountability.
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That's what we're known for.
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The two of us, 100%.
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How about Mac Jones, Jay?
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95% available.
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So if you need a streaming quarterback, this one is absolutely on the table.
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He's got the bucks who have found themselves in some shootouts
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with all the injuries they've had.
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And Mac Jones is putting up numbers.
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Yeah, I think the key is is that Carl Shanahan clearly trusts him to run the offense
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in a similar way to Brock.
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Perdi, and that he's just getting huge passing volume.
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He's been 279 pass yards or more in all three of his starts,
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in which the nine is R3, you know, he has the rapport.
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With Kendrick Born, he has all the dump offs that he can get to Christian McCaffrey.
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They're going to get healthier PSOL Jennings, a chance to play as we mentioned.
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And the bucks are post funnel crap defense where you cannot run the ball on VitaVay
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or friends, but you can throw the ball as Sam Donald showed on the weekend.
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Some other targets here, deeper leak targets to a tongue of by Loa.
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He's got the charger.
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Sam Donald, but a monster week.
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He's got the Jaguars.
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Yeah, and as suddenly tougher than you think Jaguar's defense.
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But still, Donald has been terrific.
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Two has been better for straight games now with multiple touchdown passes.
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He hasn't seemed to miss a beat with Tyree Kill out.
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And how about Dylan Gabriel?
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Steelers allow the third most yards per pass attempt.
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You know, the last time we saw him, you know, they,
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it's not the Steelers defensive old.
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I'm going to say like again, you'd have to be pretty far down the list
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if you're truly desperate for Dylan Gabriel.
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But again, he is going to start at Pittsburgh this Sunday.
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If you need a defense, how about the Packers against the Bengals?
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Yeah, it's been tough for Jake Browning.
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The Colts against the Cardinals.
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And the Cardinals might just hand them the ball.
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The Patriots against the Saints.
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Patriots defense looked very good against Josh Allen in Buffalo.
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We're going to take our first break when we're back more on the Monday night victory in DuVal.
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Our takeaways from the Jaguars beating the Chiefs right after this.
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The end.
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The end.
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The end.
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The end.
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Hey, guys, talk about resilience.
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Down 14 nothing.
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Come back.
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One plan of time.
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How about Devon?
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Four.
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That was the Jags locker room after the big win at the end.
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The first time he was in the home against the Chiefs, here's the notable fantasy leader board right here.
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Patrick Mahomes.
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And Trevor Lawrence.
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No surprise at the top there, Matthew.
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Though Kareem Hunt being number four is probably what stands out the most.
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I mean, like, it was just disgusting.
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He played 33% of the stample.
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He got seriously.
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He got eight touches.
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But four of them were, you know, goal line rushes.
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I mean, just, you know,
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I mean, Pechecko, I thought Pechecko looked better than he has all year,
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a little bit more explosiveness, kind of, signs from life, and Pechecko has the double-dead touches,
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but when they get in close they give it to Kareem Hunt as well.
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Ashard Smith would keep waiting for it.
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Then, then look like it's happening anytime soon.
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He just plays eight percent of the snaps for coaches on three, and gets three targets.
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Like, they're just not using them that way.
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It is a full-blown committee, wants the only guy I think you can trust
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is because he does, at least, have some touchdown equity.
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But it's gross.
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It is, like, it is.
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like their running game is.
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They're leading Russia was Patrick Mahomes.
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I mean, we get always this.
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He's the new LeBon Jackson.
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Yeah, that's it.
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The Chiefs sort of won that game.
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But good for the Jaguars for doing it.
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Like, the Chiefs all last year were sort of like
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getting away with it and now they're not.
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Yeah, here's the thing though.
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I'm interested what you think you're gonna...
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To me, the Chiefs, the past couple,
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they've looked the best they have on offense
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since like two years ago.
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Or when they were like in a playoffs on the way to beating
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the Nine is something super ultimate.
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So maybe our offense looks kind of back on.
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I think that they are the real...
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I'm not sure if they're ever sleeping,
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sleeping giant because they're the Chiefs,
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but I think that they're gonna turn into a juggernaut
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once for Shay Rice comes back.
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I think they're gonna be okay.
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I think they're gonna make a couple moves to the deadline too.
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It feels like they could use one more run stopper
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up front at the tackle and a real running back,
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whether that's pretty tall, Alvin Camaro.
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What if the Panthers feel like they could trigger
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a go doubt all at some point?
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The other thing too that really makes you bullish
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about the Chiefs from a fantasy perspective going forward
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is past the offense looks pretty shaky.
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And they're very shaky against the Jags.
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So I think that it's gonna be Mahomes
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with a good offense in shootout mode,
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which we haven't seen for a while.
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And that's part of it, right?
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Is it the defense is not what...
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The last two years it's been in elite defense.
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It just isn't this year as well.
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So on the...
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Sting with the Chiefs for one more second here,
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Xavier Worthy was a weird game,
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22 and a half percent target share,
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80 percent, route participation,
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but just didn't seem like himself.
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I mean, again, he came into the game questionable.
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He played, he went down with it, looked bad,
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we're like, oh boy.
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And then he's out there the next...
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Like, what was that about?
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He literally is out there the next flight.
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It was playing through something, yeah.
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Something.
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Well, I was all better because, like, as I told you,
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because, you know, whatever, Drake May,
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and just I needed basically Xavier Worthy to have
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either under nine fantasy points
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or somehow outscore Mahomes.
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Right.
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And he did not, he scored 11.
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You know what I mean?
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So I lost by two points,
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and then of course you just killed me in a differently.
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So last night, tough scene at the at the at the Berry House.
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I wanna...
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You know what's weird about fantasy pool
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is like the leagues that I don't care about,
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like those are the ones I'll win.
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Oh, right.
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Like the couple leagues where I was just like,
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I'd like to win this one this week.
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What are you gonna do?
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Um...
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On the jacksville side,
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any signs of life here from Trevor Lawrence and Brian Thomas,
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because that's been a big concern point leading up to this.
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Well, it was more a gutsy performance
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than one that makes you feel really good
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about projecting it going forward.
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I just don't understand why Travis Thompson
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doesn't get more run out there as a base.
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He looked amazing.
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That's what I'm...
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But like, three targets.
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I know.
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But the yards after the catch on those catch...
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Like, he looked awesome.
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He was making a move...
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Yeah, he really did everything when he got chances.
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Yeah.
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He really did.
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Brian Thomas, I look not great,
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but feels better on the fourth quarter drive,
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you know, the ultimate game-winning drive.
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Unbelievable throw from Trevor Lawrence,
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and a great catch by Brian Thomas down the sideline.
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Also, remember, you know, he drew a pass interference call
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on the end zone.
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They got them to the one yard line.
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So, was it great?
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No.
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I mean, it was 12 fantasy points, but still,
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four for 80.
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Like, I feel better about Brian Thomas than I did before.
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I still don't feel great about him,
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but I feel better than I did, you know, 24 hours ago.
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Yeah.
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I think it's a very apt summation, Matthew,
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of how you describe the 2025 Jax season indirectly.
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Not great, feels better.
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It's basically where we're at with the Jax.
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And that offense, and with Brian Thompson,
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you can only trend up, maybe build some confidence
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off of a solid showing on National TV.
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Last thing here is it was just nice to see Trevor Lawrence use his legs,
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54 rushing yards.
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Again, that was one of the arguments for him in the preseason
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as a sleeper was that Liam Cohn would start to unlock that.
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So, maybe we see it.
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I'm not ready to buy in just yet.
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They're home to Seattle next week,
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but still, just something to watch out for.
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That would be good.
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Really impressive performance from Trevor Lawrence.
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Nice to see my homes go, you know, just my home's in again.
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And lastly, like, I kind of like Tyke on Thornton.
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Even where she writes comes back,
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you just, Tyke on Thornton,
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and it continues to find ways to make plays.
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Like, I'm not getting rid of him just yet,
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even with the expected return of where she writes soon.
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The powerhouse is collide on Sunday night
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when Jared Goff and the Lions face Patrick Maholms
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and the Chiefs tune into NBC and Peacock at 7 p.m. Eastern
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as we lead you up to kick off at Arrowhead.
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Last call is next.
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Oh, the crown is yours.
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The crown is yours.
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The crown is yours.
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It's time for last call.
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Today, what do you like on the early line board
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as we show?
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These are the games with the highest projected point total.
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Yeah, I'm going to go sign on my football.
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I'm going to take Lions' shapes over 50 and a half.
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I think a little under our story right now
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in the NFL's little.
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The twirl eyes don't have any cornerbacks.
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Again, Terry and Arnold out, DJ Reid
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does his hamstring.
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Jake Browney in comeback mode.
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I was lighting them up in the second half.
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So I think that also the chiefs defense
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didn't look great against the jacks.
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So I think that's going to be a shootout.
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I think another game that could have a lot of scoring
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Cowboys at Panthers.
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I just don't know if the Panthers can keep up
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with the pace the Cowboys are playing at right now.
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I like Uncle Rico in our revenge spot.
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But that is playing a phenomenal brand of football
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right now.
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The Cowboys have all the receivers working.
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Cowboys, I think they cover that three and a half line.
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I don't love the hook, but I think they'll still win
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by more than three and a half.
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I like that call.
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I'm going to go back to Detroit Kansas City game.
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We said yesterday on the show that the Lions
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were the best team in the NFL.
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We all agree on that.
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How are they underdogs on the road at Kansas City,
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a team that just lost to the Jaguars?
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Chiefs are one and a half point favorites here at home.
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They're traveling on a short week.
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They were in Jacksonville last night.
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They have, I know they're traveling home,
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but they're still.
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They're traveling back to Kansas City on a short week.
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The Lions, this minus one and a half basically says
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the chiefs and lions are equal in terms.
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I don't think they are.
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I get it, he's my homes, but the Lions have won in Kansas City
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before.
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You know, two years ago, give me the Lions getting one.
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I'm getting the, I'm getting points with the Lions.
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I'm in.
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I don't think it'll last long.
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I think I'll go the other way and that's absolutely agree.
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But we're doing early Lions.
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So get in now on that.
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It's closing time.
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You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here
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for Jan Conrad Mathew.
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Good luck on your waivers tonight.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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Peace.
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Cow.