October 26, 2023 • 45 mins
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Also Travis Kelce Week!!
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Welcome to the Full Time Fantasy Podcast. Please have it by the Fantasy Football
World Championship, home to the industry'smost accurate rankings. What is up everyone,
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Welcome to the Full Time Fantasy Podcast. As always, I am your
host, Adam Krautwurst, and withme tonight I have a special guests,
Robbie Zingis, who is currently insecond place in the CIRCA Las Vegas Fantasy
Football World Championships over at the fFWC. He's here a flex some muscle
on that, Robbie. What isgoing on, my friend? It's watching
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a lot of football and keeping afterall the stats and fantasy and just having
a great time with It's been agreat year so far. That's right,
that's right, living the life,loving it. You've been having a pretty
good season so far. Just overallgrinding. What is your like, what's
your what's your week to week?Like, I know, like for for
myself with all the other teams Ihave, Like my days are already set
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up and I've got my waiver timesand my line up setting times and and
all that type of stuff. Whatis your what is your high stakes life
like? Talk to me? Yeah, well, you know, I start
obviously, you know, spent alot of time preparing in the draft.
I think, you know, draftinggood is by far and away the best,
you know, in my opinion,you know, my draft. You
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know, to start the season off, I kinda I kind of let what
I try and do is I letthe first three rounds kind of play to
me, you know, and justdo that. And then from the fifth
round, seventh round, you know, tenth, round, eleven, around
different rounds, I have certain playersI kind of pick a handful of them
and you know, kind of focuson those is maybe those round picks.
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And so far this year that's workedpretty well for me. My, my,
my, you know, had acouple of good ones so far,
you know that you know, workedout and then week to week, I
just you know, obviously I gota couple of boys, and we,
uh we my basement's kind of setup where I got several TVs up.
So Sunday we dedicate to, uhwatching all the games red Zone on one
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channel, keeping up with the stats, a couple of computers out and doing
all that. And then you know, Monday morning we kind of get up
and make sure all you know,everything's set and uh, Tuesday morning.
I usually get up in the morningand kind of start prepping for who we're
going to pick up. You know, what players are available, what everybody
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did that week, you know,kind of compared to what they've done year
to day versus there, and thenlook at the injuries and all those kind
of things and kind of just puta little list together what I think I
might do. Then Wednesday, sometimethrough the day, I you know,
actually sit down and go through allthe teams and put on all the actual
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pickups and bids. Yeah, no, no, nice. I usually wait,
I do all that kind of researchand stuff to asu you waits in
the last second because you know,you get out like the Brock Party news
late today, like stuff like that. Now I got to go back through
and do it. So I waitas late as late as possible to really
put those I know some people thatstarted like Sunday night or Monday. I
don't even know if you can't doit Sunday night, but like Monday night,
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right after the games, they're alreadyout in there doing it. And
so no, I like, Ilike that for sure, And I'm looking
at your second place team here overallin the Las Vegas circa Championship. I
see you got Travis Kelce on thesquad. Were you? You know,
obviously not tight end premium? Wereyou? Are you? You own a
lot of Travis Kelsey this year wefinally got like that Kelsey gives us like
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one or two of these, sometimesthree of these a year, right,
these massive blow up games. Wereyou big on Kelsey this year or it?
Did they just kind of fall toyou? No? Like I said,
you know, the way I draft, I just I pretty much put
what I believe was the top thirtysix guys out and wherever they fall,
I just I just take them.I got, uh got basically ten champions
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you know, WC teams, andI got five midstakes teams, and I
owned Kelsey twice. And the otherKelsey I have was after the injury news
and we picked them up. Ithink it was to ten. So So
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yeah, yeah, no, thatthat that makes sense. Yeah, I
had a lot of I'm in acouple of five k's, a couple of
three k's where I got Kelsey,uh like much later than he normally goes.
He only missed the one week Andyou could plan for it too,
right, because you knew he wasgonna be out. You could draft him
and not start him, and youcould draft another to tie down, maybe
a little bit earlier than you normallywould, to make up for it.
So no, good, good,good for you. Nice to see it
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up there the top five. Hopefully, hopefully I'll be up there with you
soon here. But uh, wegot our first, that's right. It
is a long season. We gotour first start sick question full p p
R. We got Flowers, pickpick one, Flowers, Godwin, Rice,
ro Sean Hunt. I see Huntis on your is on your team
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here just so without looking even atthe at the rankings right now, and
I'll look at him while you're whileyou're talking. But I would I would
lean, I would lean Flowers.I just think he's Lamar's guy, and
and the offense finally, as yousaw last week, man that finally everything
clicked and they went but they wentnuts. He Flowers is his number one.
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He's even gonna He has a highertarget share than Mark than Mark Andrews
there now, and he looks reallygood doing it. So I really like
him. But I do have RowshawnJohnson's burning a freaking hole in my pocket.
I'll be honest with you, Ireally want to play him and gig
again him out there. But whatdo you think about about these these Uh,
well, you just hit on oneof my guys here. Rice was
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one of my guys that I pickedup all the way through. I think
he's got a great upside with Mahomes. I know, Mahomes moves the ball
around a lot, but he's kindof looking like a receiver. That's you
know, kind of moving up theboard with him, and I like that.
So but you know, I think, you know, yeah, you
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know, I guess the question isis is Lamar Jackson is Is is this
the start of a big thing wherebecause this year he hasn't been you know,
it's been pretty inconsistent. I thinkI think that's his first game of
the year over three hundred yards ifI'm not mistaken. Yep, you know
in the three touchdowns. I meanthe trode just fell apart. Last week.
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I mean that was that was crazy. I don't know. I mean
I got my I got my Gibbsjersey because it was finally Gibbs week.
I haven't worn this. I haven'tworn this since circa drafts in Vegas.
Yeah. There. I haven't hada chance to put it on. I
finally I got to put it backon. But no, I hear I
hear you there for sure. Yeah, I'm looking. I've got I've got
Zay as a top fifth Zay Flowersa top fifteen receiver this week. I
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think he's been consistent. He's beenone of the consistent things on this on
this team, sir here, SoI think I'm comfortable doing that, and
that kind of transitions us into intoone of our first first topics here is
the Ravens passing offense. I mean, like you said, it's been inconsistent,
but you know, moving forward here, I was very high on Lamar
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going into the year, and he'sgot weapons. He's had a lot of
drop passes this season. New coordinatormight might have taken him a minute to
kind of get get going here andstrength to schedule rest away. Guess who's
number one Baltimore evens for for thequarterback. He's got five really easy matchups
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rest of weight, including the Dolphinsshootout, and we know what he did
to the Dolphins last year, wentfor like four hundred and four touchdowns.
He's got them. In Week seventeen, the championship week, he's got Arizona
Seattle, Cincinnati the chart. Imean, a lot of really good matchups
coming up. So I'm a believerin Lamar. I've always been a Lamar
guy. Lamar made me a lotof money in twenty nineteen, his MVP
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year, and so I'm a bigbeliever in him. I'm a big believer
in this past offense and the utilization. They're finally starting to like throw the
ball a little bit more as atthe beginning of the year they were still
kind of that run heavy team.But what do you think about this,
about this Ravens offense as a whole. Well, I think the biggest difference
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with Lamar this year is he's youknow, last year's had some injuries,
some dings here and there, andI think this year he's he's looking to
pay he is, he's looking topass one, he's looking to sit in
the pocket more and you know,yeah, I mean spreading the ball around
a lot. I mean I think, you know, uh, you know,
obviously, Flowers and Andrews I thinkare going to be big. And
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if Obij can come back here andget you know, back to where he
can play, yeah, I meanI think they can definitely do it.
I mean, I think last weekhe had his first three hundred yard game
with what was the three touchdowns?And you know, if he can keep
building on that, that's great.He just hasn't had the consistency this year
of some of the other guys.Yeah, I think he had three passing
one rushing. The rushing has beenthere. People always say, hey,
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you know these quarterbacks, would say, in the pocket more, it will
keep him healthier. Quarterbacks get hurtway more in the pocket. Joshulyn,
I'm a big Bills guy. JoshAllen only gets stinged up when he's outside
the pocket. Yep, they asked, who did they ask today? Jalen
hurts today? They said, hey, about running? Or are getting because
he had the knee brace one.He's like, I can't remember the last
time I got hurt running the football. I get hurt when I'm sitting in
the pocket helping crushed, Like I'drather get tackled by a one hundred and
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ninety pound corner down the field thana three hundred and ten pound killer,
you know, in the pocket.So I'm fine with Lamar running. For
the first month of the season,they had a negative drop back rate over
expectation. Now they're starting, Ithink, get comfortable in this offense,
and so I would I would liketo see I would like to see them
get get going there for sure.Yeah, yeah, it's good. Good
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to be Oh and don't let'sen noforget about about my guy ra Shat Bateman.
Now, I mean he has afirst round pick. He's been electric,
he's just always been the men hurt. I think he scored last week
for the first time in forever.He dropped the touchdown the week the week
week before, So it's it's niceto it'd be nice to see him.
He's a guy that's been like onand off waivers. He's a guy this
week if you've got a spot tospare, if you gotta maybe a guy
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that's hit the ir that you candrop Bateman. If I'm buying this passing
offense, I think I'm gonna buya little bit of Bateman here too,
for sure, for sure. Yeah, yeah, definitely has And he's got
what hundred one hundred little over onehundred yards this year, so he's you
know, but yeah, we needhim, we need him, all right.
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Next topic here, let's let's let'stalk about Josh Downs. Let's stay
in the afc here. Josh Downshas been a guy that I was I
didn't love, didn't hate coming outof college, didn't really have a you
know, I was a big Richardsonguy as a quarterback fantasy wise, but
I thought, hey, he's which'sgonna get there on his legs, and
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so I was kind of off ofthe Colts receivers. But Downs has been
has been awesome. I mean he'sa borderline three moving forward here. I
mean his his comps going back totwenty eleven or like Brandon Cooks, Cooper
Cup even like Sterling Shoppard if youremember him in their in their rookie seasons.
So I think he's like a widereceiver three movement moving forward Minshew and
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ends up working out for me becausealways got more of a pocket passer,
more of a traditional passer. Minshewcan still by the time with his legs.
I think you had like two rushingtouchdowns last week. Of course stealing
it from from from our guy JT. But yeah, I think I like
Downs going forward. If he's availablein your in your leagues, Uh,
He's a guy I would I wouldbe very high going forward. Yeah,
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I mean I think you pinned itright, there is is uh, you
know, I I I was,Uh, I was a little light on
JT this year. I've always lovedhim and I think I think he's gonna
have a great comeback year. ButI was concerned, you know, with
Richard and taking some of his touchdowns. And I think that was the most
surprising thing to me last week wasMinshew takes two of his touchdowns. I
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was like, come on, youknow, and but no, I I
think, uh, since the gamesthat Minshew has been in, I think
he really really likes downs. Imean, he's he's targeted him more than
I mean, he's targeting more thanPitts and some of those games and on
some of those games, and I'mlike, you know, I mean it's
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really I think he had just twotouchdowns the last two weeks, so I'm
not mistaken, and a lot oftargets and a lot of catches, and
yeah, I think he's going tobe really good down the stretch here.
I unfortunately I was not high onhim to start the year, but in
washing him through the season, I'vebeen trying to pick him up a chance
I can, and I've only gothim a couple of times out of you
know, my teams. So yeah, I mean people, I don't think
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anyone was necessarily super high on joshOn Josh Dowins, you know coming out.
I mean he was on waivers allover the place to start the year.
But speak of downs, we haveanother start sit question here. Pick
two wide receivers out of Nico Collins, Zay Flowers, Chris Godwin, and
our guy, Josh Downs. Ilove Nico Collins. That's a guy I
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was high on this season. Hejust looks like an alpha receiver. He's
long, he's lean, he's fast. Uh, they're getting in the ball.
He looks like the next like ascensioninto like that alpha outside receiver in
the NFL. So I do likeI do like Nico this week Carolina is
a run funnel, like they wantyou to run it on them. So
their pass defense is pretty good.But I still like Nico again coming out
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of the bye week, and Ilike Zay Jay Flowers again. I have
him in nineteen fifteen. God winningdown downs is fine down. You could
go down to Nico either way.Went to me, I don't know.
This weekend got short short week,got a little banged up on Sunday,
and he played plays the Bills onthe on the road of the Bills.
But the worst part about the Billsdefense is their run defense. Ever since
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they lost Mat Matt Malonald, soI think their past defense is still okay.
And Evans is the guy there thisyear, so I'm not super high
on Godwin. What do you think, Robbie? You know I I I
have zero shares of Godwin. Evansis on a third of my teams.
Yeah, so yeah, I feltlike Evans was a much better value.
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You could get him around or twolater, and so I yeah, I'm
I'm not a big Godwin guy thisyear. I would agree with you at
Downs or Nico and Zay there.I think that's yeah, absolutely for sure.
Another start sick question tight end Johnnew Smith or Logan Thomas Man.
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I'm on John, I'm I'm misterKyle Pitts not this year to have him
out This year. I think itwas the first person in the content industry
to have a Kyle pitch jersey.I was rocking that jersey last year all
over the place. So I'm moreheartbroken over Kyle Pits than anything. John
new Smith running more routes, gettinggetting a ton of targets, looks good
there. I guess I was fouryears early on John new Smith. I
had him like four years ago whenhe uh he was over there in Tennessee.
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But I think I would go Johnnew Smith here because I just think
he gets more targets. The offensekind of kind of runs through the tight
ends their pits is still getting targetstoo. And Logan Thomas has been good,
but you always have that risk ofLogan Thomas leaving the game. I
mean he's he's always leaving games early, hurt and so. And the offense
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there is just discombobulated in Washington,Like I don't trust anybody over there.
So I'm gonna lean believe it ornot, I'm gonna lead to John new
Smith here. Well. And inthe quarterback situation, I mean, rough
game last week, but you knowabsolutely and and and and the other thing
is Smith is going back to backto the revenge game to the Titans.
So I am huge on him thisweek. Yeah, if I was playing
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a week to week that Bobby mighttight end. Honestly, this week,
I think it's going to be goingback to the Titans, and yeah,
revenge week, revenge week, goover there, all right, let's talk
about the rams make situation, becausethat was like a hot topic last week
with the with the bidding and theand who are you going to pick up?
And listen, people who don't Ilove getting on Twitter. It's all
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these analysts like, oh, don'tspend any money on Zach Evans. Imagine
wasting all that fab money on ZachEvans and this that and everything like listen,
there were there were teams where Iwere you needed unless it was by
Mageddon injuries, bye weeks, firstguy, next guy up. We thought
was going to be Evans. SoI put some bids in on Evans.
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And as the week Wednesday is likeyou have to you have to make decisions
quickly. The weekends on Monday night, they have two days they don't really
practice. Like Wednesday, you're like, that's when you have to decide is
it gonna be Evans or not gonnabe Evans? And so you put in
the bids and then you get moreinformation Thursday, Friday, Saturday, it's
going to be Henderson. It's goingto be Henderson. So then I mean
there were spots where I picked upEvans, and then I also picked up
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Henderson because I needed a running back, and then I started Henderson, you
know, like is it a andI won? Like there were sponsor for
like I needed that thirteen points frommy RB two like do I care that
I blew two hundred on Evans andanother like eighty on Henderson? Like no,
because i got the win. I'mstill alive and now I've got Henderson.
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Henderson's probably the guy for two orthree more weeks. What is your
what is your thought on the onthe Rams backfield? Well, I think
Williams doesn't come back till week twelvewhen I'm mistaken, and and you know,
I think the I just don't knowhow much confidence the coaching staff has
in Henderson. And that's you know, that's my only holdback. I was
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kind of the same way when Iwent in for my bids that week.
I was probably you know, Idon't know, three or three, three
to one. I went Evans overHenderson. Unfortunately. Yeah, so far,
but I'm still, you know,I'm not sure what's going to end
up there because I think that,you know, depending on I mean,
obviously Henderson plays well, he's gonnaget it's his spot to lose, that's
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right. That's so yeah, you'rein the driver's seat if you've got Henderson
obviously, but I just don't hefumbles one time, he has one bad
game, and I just I justdon't know what kind of confidence that the
coaching staff has with him right now. And that's where I think there could
be a pullback if he has onebad game. Yeah, no, there's
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there's there's definitely always concern there.I mean, he literally said the week
before he was watching football on TV, Like, obviously he stayed in shape,
but he like he comes from offthe street to a fifty eight percent
snap share, sixty percent of theattempts, he got high leverage, touches
inside the five, scores a rushingtouchdown for being sure, gets catches like
he had to catch to get himdown to the one, the one yard
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line. He has experience in hisoff the baseball glowingly of him. So
I just think he's the guy forright now. But again, he could
pull his hamstring next week, likeoh these guys, and he could be
he could be toast. But Ijust think in these in the Rams backfield,
it's a valuable backfield. It's likethe Miami backfield or the Niners backfield,
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like they just plug guys in andthey and they they go. I
just I was a big Kyron I'mnot a big Kyron guy, but I
was drafting a lot of them justbecause I was kind of reading the tea
leaves like I think's gonna be theguy there. So I need Kyron to
come back and be the guy.So I don't want Henderson to do too
well. But I think he's theguy there for now. Royce Freeman,
I mean, he's just a plotter, like I don't He's not gonna get
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any of the pass down work.So to me, I think Henderson's the
guy. And it's funny he goesfrom like Savior last week, like all
the teams off of by now okay, now I've got my Breeze haul I
could put back in there. I'vegot you know, Roshan Johnson's healthy.
I'd probably start. I'd probably startRochean. I guess that's a question.
Would you start Roshan consent or DarrylHenderson next week? This week? Wow?
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Well, you know, being aCowboys fan, it's tough for me
to start anybody against. But youknow, I just think, uh wow,
I mean that that that's a realtough call there. That's that's that's
where you're at. Like that's kindof the spot where these running backs end
up going there is like you know, you get these RB two's and Rochean
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finally practiced today. But Foreman lookedreally good last week too, So it's
like Forman is gonna go take aseat, you know so. But Chargers
are last against the pass. Theysaw what Foreman did last week. I
gotta believe the Chargers can make someadjustments to not allow them to run against
them. As my guest, Idon't know. I mean, did the
Chargers ever make adjustments this stinking team? I mean, what what a joke
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they are? Herbert, Oh,you are so disappointing every year. Man,
They've got it all and that it'sjust doesn't it doesn't work out for
him? No, for sure,Crazy, you could be a Cowboys fan
will go ten and seven and losethe first round of playoffs. I mean,
I can anyone will beat me.That's what's gonna happen. I don't
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know. I'm a I'm a Billsfan, so I don't feel bad for
anybody. Okay, I don't feelbad for nobody. Thirteen freaking seconds,
Come on, unbelievable. All right, moving on to a guy that's been
exciting, another West Coast guy,a guy that's kind of popped up.
I have him a little bit onsome teams, wasn't really targeting him at
all. But Jacoby Myers is aguy that's really popped. Who would have
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thought with DeVante Adams and Josh Jacobsand not a great quarterback that there would
be a room for Jacoby Myers tohave a top fifteen season right now for
the Raiders? What are your whatare your thoughts? I mean, the
guy's a target monster twenty eight percenttarget share, Yeah, WHI tricks thirteenth
in the NFL and he missed agame, right, I mean he's he's
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been, he's been a wide receiverone well, you know, obviously had
the concussion and came back to mccussionthe last five weeks. I think he's
I mean, he's he's within likeeight targets of Adams. I'm like,
I would have never ever guessed that. I gotta be honest with you,
I you know, I I'm youknow, I thought Adams would have dominated
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that offense this year and and uh, you know, he Jakobe Myers You've
got touchdowns in the last couple ofgames, and he's looking great, you
know. And that's another thing.After he took that hit in that oh
my gosh, that concussion, Imean, I know, I was like,
is he gonna come back solid?And he's come back stronger than ever?
I know, I know. Sodo you do you think this is
something that obviously, excuse me,Myers is locked into starting lineups right now,
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but is this something that we think. You know, Devanta has been
whining about not getting targets, andI thought that I started Adams everywhere in
the DFS last week. I'm like, Okay, this is the week is
squeaky wheel. He didn't really getgoing again last week. It's just something
he didn't have a lot of targets, though he did had a ton of
targets last week. Yeah, it'sjust something you think Myers can keep up.
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You think it's like a funnel situationwhere it's going to be Myers and
and Adam's rest of the rest ofthe I mean, Jacoby, I'm sorry,
Josh Jacobs has been terrible. He'stwo point nine yards of carry,
like he's just worn down from thatseason he had last year. Like four
hundred touches last year, Like that'swhat happened. So what do you think
about Myers going forward? Yeah,I love him. I mean I think
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I yeah, I think he's goingto be solid all the way through.
He's proven it every game he's beenin this year except the one. Yeah,
he's been solid, So I yeah, been consistent. He's you know,
they keep going to him and hekeeps catching it. So I know,
I know, crazy, rest ofway random off the top of my
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head, rest of way, JacobyMyers or Puka Nakua. I know this
is kind of a crazy statement becauseones on Pooka, but I mean sounds
like a drop. Everyone's on Pooka. I think I think the Rams are
gonna start using cut more and Ithink Jakobe stays I it's gonna be a
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close race. I think a lotcloser than people think. Yeah, I
think either got them both. You'reprobably doing really really well this year.
You've got them both. I likethem both, Pooka pook I just I
love Puka's energy. I love everythingabout him. He's you know, he's
learning from the best over there withCooper Cup. So I think it's probably
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it's probably a coin flip. Ilike, what the it's the same thing
too, Like the Rams are afunnel, it's Cooper Cup or Pukakakua.
Those are the two guys higbees nothingto to Well gets that kind of lucky
jump ball touchdown that we know mayor may have been meant for him.
Like it's just these two studs andthat's it. And I freaking love that.
I love that funnel offense. Somethingsomething that I don't love. I
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don't love the round the Browns runningbacks right now. I don't love the
situation there. Nick Chubb goes downI think week two and uh and so
the Browns running backs Kareem Hunt endsup back there, which is just gross
because the cream Hunt is like,isn't good? You watch him, He's
just slow and like not impressive atall. But now you've got Jerome Ford
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with a with a low ankle springand now he's out there saying they're not
gonna put him on IR. Butthe Rams also said they probably were'ting to
put Tyra and Williams on I R. So we'll see. But what do
you think about the backfield there?Are you? Team Kareem Hunt? I
know you've got him on this.I was just talking so badly about a
guy that you have on your secondplace team. Pierre Strong is kind of
the the the athlete there, thesparkscore guy there. Do you think they
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add somebody? What do you thinkthey're in Cleveland? Well, you know,
I as you said, right now, they're they're saying that he you
know, they're hoping. I believelast I checked that Ford's back in three
weeks. We may all be talkingabout a couple of weeks here. But
you know, then again, youknow who knows the same that they were
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kind of the same way. Willing'sright out of the shoot. But and
and you know, of course,uh Hunt, you know he left ding
you know, you know he wasin and out. He got dinged a
little on this last one. Soand Strong we've never we haven't seen really
enough of him with the Patriots.I mean, he didn't get a lot
of share. And uh so whoknows? I mean, I and there
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you go. That's you know,you know, I just wonder, you
know Fournette still sitting out there?Is he just out of shape? Is
he just what? I mean?You look at him, you look at
the Cardinals. Look a couple ofthese teams, and I'm like, I
know, why is nobody like runningto you know, sign the guy?
Is he just I don't know?And I know and did did Fournette tweet
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out like Sunday like this week I'mgoing to announce what team I'm playing for
or someone. I feel like,yeah, he's been right there. No,
I completely agree, Like if heisn't if he doesn't sound with the
team at this point, you know, because now the trade deadline's coming up.
If you didn't running back, youcan go with Derrick Henry for a
fourth round pick. Why am Igonna go sign Leonard Fournette? You know
what I mean? Like you canget a real running back? So or
what about I heard cook? Iknow he's not having a great year,
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But Jets are I heard they mayyou know, let him go. Yeah,
yeah, there's all different. Yeah, obviously it's not a good mix
there with the Jets with him andyou know, buddy of mine and Nathaniel
Hackets, you know, I knowhim. He lives here, so you
know, because he was a Timbercoach last year. Yeah, and but
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it seems to me like he's goingto be on the trading block here in
a minute, and I would thinkhe's got some miles on him still,
but I don't know. Yeah,I mean, I think they wanted him
to hold that well. I thinkAaron Rodgers wanted him, and then Aaron
Rodgers gets hurt. Now this seasonis like in the tank kind of and
then and then they wanted him.Oh, we'll hold this over till bristollis
well. Bristol is good to go. Now Bristoll looks like the best running
back in football next to Christian McCaffrey, and uh and so yeah, but
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but yeah, no, the runningBCK situations are weird. You know,
Kareem Hunts, he's been a topfifteen running back is like the first two
weeks he's played this season now,but you might even have an expanded role
in this offense. So I thinkif I've got hunt, I'm excited because
I can throw him in there andI'll probably get most of the work.
But I think there's room for PierreStrong. I'm I'm looking to at Pierre
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Strong and waivers this this week.I know he's available almost everywhere everywhere I'm
looking, and so there's desperate teamsand stuff like that. So I've probably
been in a little little cheap biton Strong and maybe see if I can
get him into a couple of differentspots that I need running backs. But
it's still ugly if this like Fordsthe guy when he comes back, it
was not a high ankle sprain.So hopefully he's back. He's back soon,
because I think he's the best runningback there. Yeah, I mean
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I put some bids in on Strongas well, but like I said,
it may only be for two weeksat best, right, And you know,
we've never seen him, you knowwith any any He's almost like Evans
for the for the Rams, likehe's this like athletic freak that the coaches
just don't like. Yeah, he'sbut he's not very good at football,
Like we never we never want toplay him, you know. So I
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don't know, we'll see I guess, I don't know. Yeah, that's
right. Put him in the garage. There's some players in the Bills offense
that I'd like to put in thegarage. Most of them actually, outside
of Allen and diggs Man. ThisBill's offense still ranks top five in the
NFL. Josh Allen's QB one againfor like the fourth or fifth straight year
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like he's still getting there. Butyou know, Diggs is sensational. I
think he's top three receiver fantasy wise, but everything after that's been pretty gross.
James Cook has been hitting miss lastweek in a nineteen yard nineteen point
performance, had a receiving touchdown.But they're running games inconsistent. Their starting
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games off. The first half hasjust been putrid as of late. The
last three games they can't get Jacksonville, the Giants, the Patriots, they
could get nothing done in the firsthalf at all, and then the last
two games the end up getting thelead on the last drive of the game.
But it's just there's something wrong inthis this this offense. I think
it's gonna be a very good thingfor the for the offense that Knox is
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out and that they can just letKing Kate eat Kinkate eight catches for eighty
something yards last week. Knox isjust terrible. I mean, they sign
he's just he drops every past thatthat matters. Kin Kate is so much
better from a fantasy and an offensiveskilled position standpoint. So we'll see short
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week this week. I think Allen'sjust gonna say forget it and just run
and get back to the old Allenwaves of just slinging it all over the
field. But what's your vibe.I'm too I'm too invested in this Bills
team up here in Western New York. It's your vibe on the Bills offense.
Well, I think Diggs and I'mnot a sake, and I believe
he's second in Fantasy right now,top three, I think. Yeah,
IIan Hill, who, by theway, was my lucky year for me,
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but that was my my largest firstround guy nice and it was just
by accident, not by anything Idid. But so but no, Yeah,
as a matter of fact, I'msitting twenty fourth overall in the World
Championship with I've got I've got Alanand Diggs on that particular team. There,
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you go. Didn't love my draftbecause I I got Digs first,
and then I just couldn't. Idid not want to miss on Allen,
So I took Allen the third round, which in my I never take quarterbacks.
I mean, that's just like kindof one of my pet peeves.
Yeah, just you don't do it, do it? You get it.
But it's working out for me becauseI'm sitting in twenty fourth place, So
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which is which is pretty cool.But no, I my I predict that
I think Incaid's going to be thenumber two for the rest of West I
think he's gonna be the number twoguy there. That's what I think.
I could be way out of kilterhere, but I think he might be
the number two guy. I thinkgiven that give him a little confidence.
I see that. I wanted theCowboys to take him. I thought that
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was when the Bills moved up totake him in the draft. I thought
that was one of the best movesof the draft. And I think he
could be the number two guy therethis year. And then my other thought
is what if the Cook brothers maybethey go get Dalvin and bring him in
and maybe it's a good fit forhim there and they they you know,
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rally off each other of the brothersthere. I don't know that's I think
that. I think if they're Ithink the Bills need to go get a
running back, is what I think. I think the Bills need to go
get speed, and they need togo get like they could go get Hunter
Renfro. There's whispers about that he'she's the Cole Beasley better thank Cole Beasley.
I don't know why that hasn't happenedalready. Well, Davelas has been
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quiet this year. Instink I'm tellingyou the guy, if you go look
at all the analytics, he justhe doesn't get separation, he doesn't get
opened. Yeah, he's gonna behe's gonna be gone. Now he's losing
a ton of money this year justbecause he's not. People saying he's not
that good. But I would lovefor Kinkaid to be our number two there.
You know again, it's a rookietight end, like rookie tight ends
normal. They don't even do anythingthe first year. And now we've got,
you know, the kid in forthe Lions who's little lighting it up
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like Mayor's head spots. Like allthese different rookies are kind of Kyle Pitts
two years ago popped off. ButKing Kate, I think you're right.
I think Kinkaid could be should bethe number two guy there going going forward.
So I liked it. I thinkthey would open up their offense for
sure, But yeah, we'll see. I mean this is listen, people
want they play these cover two shells, right. They do it to Mahomes,
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do it to all the best quarterbacks, to force you to dink and
dunk. But if you're gonna dinkand dunk, you gotta have guys that
can run after catch. And that'sKing Kate. You know it's not you
know, so I would I wouldlove to have a lot of Dalton Kin
Kate. I actually was telling peopletwo weeks ago to drop kin Kid because
they're not using him. He notunless you're tight end premium. You're not
keeping two or three tight ends,so you can drop him. Well,
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now, if he's available, pickhim back up. Because Dawson Knox is
gonna be out for a while.They had a risk surgery, so yeah,
he might be done for the year, So we'll see. But I
think again, off its is stillpeople are panicking, there's still a top
five offense. Allen's still a Cuban. Oh yeah, well they're I think
their second in touchdowns this year asan offense. I think their fifth in
yards and second in touchdowns if I'mnot mistaken. Yeah, I mean Allen's
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number one in the NFL in touchdowns. It's just they have games where they
blow out Miami by thirty and thenthey can't score against New England. It's
like what dock are we doing here. Anyways, back to another offense,
that's that's that's actually struggling, isthe is the Packers man. The Packers
offense has just been gross. Uh, it's been really banged up. Jordan
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Love as his accuracy has been hitand miss. To say this is to
say the least Aaron Jones had asensational week one hasn't been right since,
I mean even less last week,Like they need that that game. It's
a close game in the end,and still it's it's it's it's it's aj
Dillon, you know. So,I mean Jones was limited in practice all
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week. They only thirty four percentof the snaps. Hopefully moving forward,
that's that's something. Christian Watson getsbanged up in the game, but he
was practicing today, so I thinkhe'll be okay. But what do you
what's your what's what's your feeling onthis Packers' offense? Is Jordan Love just
not the answer? You know?For me? It's kind of funny.
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I I you know, I thinkthey miss Aaron Jones. I really think.
You know, Aaron Jones won inthe game last week and they said
coming in he was going to beon a pitch count because of his hamstring
energy. Like you said, hehad that great first week hamstring. You
know, he's coming into this andthey said he was going to be on
a pitch count, and I thinkthey miss him. And that's what a
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couple years ago and they said,pay Aaron Jones. You got to pay
that guy. You got to payhim, you know, and they brought
him back. I think the offenserolls around him, and I think if
he can get back healthy and getgoing, I think you'll see a whole
different team. But if that doesn'thappen, I think they're going to finish
in the bottom by six teams inthe NFL. Yeah. No, you
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could be got some great receivers,Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dobbs and
and again Christian Watson. I thinkI think Christian Watson is as a sensational
receiver, but again, banged up, an offense that's not clicking, a
quarterback that might not be that thatgood, you know. I mean,
Watson has twenty percent targets per routerun. You know, I still think
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he'll be will be fine. Ifhe's healthy this this week. I still
think he'll be will be fine.I thought last week, I mean that
was Denver everybody kills Denver, Like, how how did the pack Ers not?
How does Watson not go for twohundred yards against against It's Denver.
So that's the frustrating part is you'relicking your chops at that that matchup,
and then it just doesn't, thatdoesn't happen. So so that's that's the
part that stinks. But I thinklove, you know, Love's got to
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get going. Did they already havetheir buy? Did they come out of
the buy? I think I don't. I don't even know. I can
look it up here. I'm notsure, but I think already had their
their bye we yeah, they didthe yeah, because that's because Aaron Rodgers,
Aaron Jones came back after their byeweek. That's right, that's right,
So they already had their buy,like they right? You know.
Good news is their schedule is prettyeasy here for for at least for quarterbacks
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coming up Minnesota, the Rams,Pittsburgh and then that the Chargers and the
Lions, which are really good there. So that's good. Not not that
people are really relying on love,but let me see what their running back
looks like for strength to schedule herecoming up, we've got oh, the
Packers are bottom, the third tothird from the bottom and straight. They
only have one good matchup the restof the season. That's Carolina in the
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semi finals. So you can someoneget to the semi finals with Aaron Jones,
roll him out. But they've gotMinnesota, the Rams, they got
Detroit, Kansas City, Tampa,so it's gonna be tough. But Aaron
Jones can get there in catches too, Like that's that's where he's explosive as
those catches. Yeah. Yeah,we were talking before the show about like
bad beats in the last week.I came in top five in the FFPC
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main event three years ago and Iwas I was third or fourth going into
the last like one of the lastdrives and Aaron Jones pops off like a
forty six yard touchdown and it dropsme down like by the point two points.
If it was a forty yard touchdown, I went into the ten thousand
dollars or something, but to beforty six and the game was over.
Like so I'll always hate Aaron Jonesfor the rest of my life. But
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uh, that's that's what that's whatI stakes fantasy. Oh yeah, West
for sure. Yeah no, Andthat's you know, Scott called and we
were talking about me coming on theshow and stuff. I'm like, Scott,
this is a long year. Imean, yeah, we're I mean,
big deal that I'm in second place. Now, let's see where I'm
I've been in I've been three differenttimes in the top ten in the World
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Championship for full time Fantasy uh inthe last couple of years here, you
know, halfway through the playoffs yeahyeah, and one time I finished in
the top twenty. Yeah. So, you know, a couple of years
ago, I was I was sittingin fourth place, just feeling great about
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things. The Giants stopped giving theball to squad. If you remember the
game, he had twenty fantasy pointsin the first half. He touched the
ball twice in the second half.My quarterback went down, you know,
on and on on and I endedup I don't know eighteenth or something that
year or something like that. ButI was in fourth place, looking like,
you know, with projections and stuff, moving into first place after the
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second week of the playoffs, andyou know, and in the game,
I'm like, well, yeah,fourteen, score like five points in the
second half. You know, It'slike, what happened here? I know.
It's amazing all that stuff works.That's so everyone's just continue to grind,
to continue to work waivers, continueto set those lineups and put all
the effort in, you know,especially when even when you go to like
the teams you're going to like thenext team, like oh man, I'm
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you know, it says you're rankingthere's like tenth. Yeah, like oh
god, I'm tenth, and youclick you're like, oh, wait a
minute, like I'm really not tenth, Like I'm you know, I'm thirty
five points out of out of theplayoff spot. Like okay, well this
team's still live, it's still good, Like yeah, that's yeah, that's
that. That's the sort of That'swhat I like about the about the record
points record points is that you canyou can get completely screwed every week and
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still make the playoffs. Well,it's funny in that league that I'm I'm
going AM's Jack right now, I'mI'm in sixth place. He's in first
place record wise. Yeah I gotforty I got forty one more points than
him so far. Like, howam I in six place and you're in
first place? That's not you know, but it is what it is.
You know, it's got a horseshoe. He's got a horse somewhere. Speak.
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Hey, speaking of horseshoes, let'stalk about the It's talk about the
Colts backfield real quick. What areyour thoughts on JT and Moss and the
offense going forward. JT's Jonathan Taylor'splaying time was trying to get the right
direction snap shares of sixteen it's ledto seven fourteen and twenty two opportunities twenty
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seven targets per route run. Doyou think this is something that's just like
trending, like JT is eventually goingto take over. They're kind of easing
him in as their big money guy, or or do you think Moss is
gonna kind of hang around? Inmy opinion, I think JT takes it
over. I think he's gonna beone of the top running backs here on
out. I I think he getsback to for him I do. Yeah,
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No, I I agree as well. You know, yeah, I
think he's he's scored. I thinkon a receiver maybe receiving touchdown over the
weekend, looks good, looks fine. I think like they're just easing him
back as their as their big investment. I mean Zach Moss was in Buffalo.
Like the way I'm looking at ZachMoss is lighting it up in Indiana,
I'm like, man, way tillj T gets back because Zach Moss
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stinks. Yeah, way till jT gets back, he's gonna be doing
all this stuff now. I don'tthink Moss is going awhere. We don't
need Moss to disappear, right well. JT to have McCaffrey work. McCaffrey
shouldn't even have McCaffrey work. Crazy, that's crazy what they're doing it,
Chris Christian McCaffrey. But if jT can get sixty five seventy of the
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carries, you know, five targetsa game, I think he'll be just
fine. Schedule moving moving forward asNew Orleans, which is a tough matchup
this week, but then he getsCarolina, which is beautiful New England,
which is nice bye week, andthen coming out of the bye week,
hopefully he can carry you to ah He's got a nice late by.
I mean it's good because he hadan early buy for four weeks and then
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he's got a nice late by tojuice him up for the for the Fantasy
playoff run against the Raiders in thechampionship weeks. Yeah, and the ankle
surgery had last year wasn't a giantit was. I think it was an
outpatient thing. I mean, youknow what I mean, and so and
he took all the time he neededoff. He's getting back into the offense,
you know, he's getting used toMinishow and the whole thing. I
mean, she's gonna start leaning onhim a little bit. Yeah, I
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think he's going to be a topback, you know. Yeah, I
don't even think he was not necessarilyinjured. Like I think that was a
whole That whole thing was a contractthing. That wasn't a he wasn't really
hurt. But hey, listen,if you were able to have him and
get him late, like you know, obviously I had him in a in
one high stakes league early in thesecond like I took him in the second
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round before all the contract stuff.That team's actually in really good shape,
believe it or not. But therewere some teams where, you know,
after the contract and all that,I got him in a five K in
the in the in the eighth round. Yeah, and so now that that
team looks good, and now I'madding JT. To it. I mean,
that's the type of stuff you wereable to do with guys like JT
and Cooper Kupp and and all ofthat type of stuff. So if you
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can, if you could have heldon with those guys, now you're adding
him, that's a really fun thingto kind of go look at when you're
setting your lineup. So I tookhim early on in a slow draft from
the second round, exactly right.That's later on. I got him in
the eighth round. I'm like,I'm not past I don't if he plays
half the year, I'll take jT for if you think he's not gonna
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play at all, which I don'tever think that. Like, okay,
fine, but like, man,he's like a golden ticket. If you
can hang on and then get jT for the run, I think that'll
be pretty cool. But all right, Robbie, well listen, thank thanks
for hanging out today. Man,this is absolutely a lot of fun.
I know, I know we playedeach other recently, we're playing each other
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coming up here. We got somematchups meeting, say eaten by fifty points,
heard scoring for the week with onefifty seven, and somehow he still
beats me by sixty points. Idon't know, Listen, I needed it,
and I still have a losing record. I still unbelievable. But it's
a lot. Like we said beforethe show, it's a long fantasy season
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for sure. But hey, goodluck this year. Good luck in the
Circle Las Vegas Championship. Hopefully you'dstay in the top five there and make
it and make a run for it, for sure, and we'll have you
at the end the end of theyear to talk about how you did,
let's hope. So thanks for havingme on, and I hope see in
Vegas next year for sure. Yeah, listen, you know you already know
I will be there. So thankseveryone for tuning in, and thank thanks
for your questions, and we willsee you next week. Thanks
Welcome to the Full Time Fantasy Podcast. Please have it by the Fantasy Football
World Championship, home to the industry'smost accurate rankings. What is up everyone,
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Welcome to the Full Time Fantasy Podcast. As always, I am your
host, Adam Krautwurst, and withme tonight I have a special guests,
Robbie Zingis, who is currently insecond place in the CIRCA Las Vegas Fantasy
Football World Championships over at the fFWC. He's here a flex some muscle
on that, Robbie. What isgoing on, my friend? It's watching
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a lot of football and keeping afterall the stats and fantasy and just having
a great time with It's been agreat year so far. That's right,
that's right, living the life,loving it. You've been having a pretty
good season so far. Just overallgrinding. What is your like, what's
your what's your week to week?Like, I know, like for for
myself with all the other teams Ihave, Like my days are already set
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up and I've got my waiver timesand my line up setting times and and
all that type of stuff. Whatis your what is your high stakes life
like? Talk to me? Yeah, well, you know, I start
obviously, you know, spent alot of time preparing in the draft.
I think, you know, draftinggood is by far and away the best,
you know, in my opinion,you know, my draft. You
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know, to start the season off, I kinda I kind of let what
I try and do is I letthe first three rounds kind of play to
me, you know, and justdo that. And then from the fifth
round, seventh round, you know, tenth, round, eleven, around
different rounds, I have certain playersI kind of pick a handful of them
and you know, kind of focuson those is maybe those round picks.
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And so far this year that's workedpretty well for me. My, my,
my, you know, had acouple of good ones so far,
you know that you know, workedout and then week to week, I
just you know, obviously I gota couple of boys, and we,
uh we my basement's kind of setup where I got several TVs up.
So Sunday we dedicate to, uhwatching all the games red Zone on one
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channel, keeping up with the stats, a couple of computers out and doing
all that. And then you know, Monday morning we kind of get up
and make sure all you know,everything's set and uh, Tuesday morning.
I usually get up in the morningand kind of start prepping for who we're
going to pick up. You know, what players are available, what everybody
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did that week, you know,kind of compared to what they've done year
to day versus there, and thenlook at the injuries and all those kind
of things and kind of just puta little list together what I think I
might do. Then Wednesday, sometimethrough the day, I you know,
actually sit down and go through allthe teams and put on all the actual
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pickups and bids. Yeah, no, no, nice. I usually wait,
I do all that kind of researchand stuff to asu you waits in
the last second because you know,you get out like the Brock Party news
late today, like stuff like that. Now I got to go back through
and do it. So I waitas late as late as possible to really
put those I know some people thatstarted like Sunday night or Monday. I
don't even know if you can't doit Sunday night, but like Monday night,
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right after the games, they're alreadyout in there doing it. And
so no, I like, Ilike that for sure, And I'm looking
at your second place team here overallin the Las Vegas circa Championship. I
see you got Travis Kelce on thesquad. Were you? You know,
obviously not tight end premium? Wereyou? Are you? You own a
lot of Travis Kelsey this year wefinally got like that Kelsey gives us like
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one or two of these, sometimesthree of these a year, right,
these massive blow up games. Wereyou big on Kelsey this year or it?
Did they just kind of fall toyou? No? Like I said,
you know, the way I draft, I just I pretty much put
what I believe was the top thirtysix guys out and wherever they fall,
I just I just take them.I got, uh got basically ten champions
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you know, WC teams, andI got five midstakes teams, and I
owned Kelsey twice. And the otherKelsey I have was after the injury news
and we picked them up. Ithink it was to ten. So So
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yeah, yeah, no, thatthat that makes sense. Yeah, I
had a lot of I'm in acouple of five k's, a couple of
three k's where I got Kelsey,uh like much later than he normally goes.
He only missed the one week Andyou could plan for it too,
right, because you knew he wasgonna be out. You could draft him
and not start him, and youcould draft another to tie down, maybe
a little bit earlier than you normallywould, to make up for it.
So no, good, good,good for you. Nice to see it
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up there the top five. Hopefully, hopefully I'll be up there with you
soon here. But uh, wegot our first, that's right. It
is a long season. We gotour first start sick question full p p
R. We got Flowers, pickpick one, Flowers, Godwin, Rice,
ro Sean Hunt. I see Huntis on your is on your team
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here just so without looking even atthe at the rankings right now, and
I'll look at him while you're whileyou're talking. But I would I would
lean, I would lean Flowers.I just think he's Lamar's guy, and
and the offense finally, as yousaw last week, man that finally everything
clicked and they went but they wentnuts. He Flowers is his number one.
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He's even gonna He has a highertarget share than Mark than Mark Andrews
there now, and he looks reallygood doing it. So I really like
him. But I do have RowshawnJohnson's burning a freaking hole in my pocket.
I'll be honest with you, Ireally want to play him and gig
again him out there. But whatdo you think about about these these Uh,
well, you just hit on oneof my guys here. Rice was
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one of my guys that I pickedup all the way through. I think
he's got a great upside with Mahomes. I know, Mahomes moves the ball
around a lot, but he's kindof looking like a receiver. That's you
know, kind of moving up theboard with him, and I like that.
So but you know, I think, you know, yeah, you
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know, I guess the question isis is Lamar Jackson is Is is this
the start of a big thing wherebecause this year he hasn't been you know,
it's been pretty inconsistent. I thinkI think that's his first game of
the year over three hundred yards ifI'm not mistaken. Yep, you know
in the three touchdowns. I meanthe trode just fell apart. Last week.
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I mean that was that was crazy. I don't know. I mean
I got my I got my Gibbsjersey because it was finally Gibbs week.
I haven't worn this. I haven'tworn this since circa drafts in Vegas.
Yeah. There. I haven't hada chance to put it on. I
finally I got to put it backon. But no, I hear I
hear you there for sure. Yeah, I'm looking. I've got I've got
Zay as a top fifth Zay Flowersa top fifteen receiver this week. I
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think he's been consistent. He's beenone of the consistent things on this on
this team, sir here, SoI think I'm comfortable doing that, and
that kind of transitions us into intoone of our first first topics here is
the Ravens passing offense. I mean, like you said, it's been inconsistent,
but you know, moving forward here, I was very high on Lamar
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going into the year, and he'sgot weapons. He's had a lot of
drop passes this season. New coordinatormight might have taken him a minute to
kind of get get going here andstrength to schedule rest away. Guess who's
number one Baltimore evens for for thequarterback. He's got five really easy matchups
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rest of weight, including the Dolphinsshootout, and we know what he did
to the Dolphins last year, wentfor like four hundred and four touchdowns.
He's got them. In Week seventeen, the championship week, he's got Arizona
Seattle, Cincinnati the chart. Imean, a lot of really good matchups
coming up. So I'm a believerin Lamar. I've always been a Lamar
guy. Lamar made me a lotof money in twenty nineteen, his MVP
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year, and so I'm a bigbeliever in him. I'm a big believer
in this past offense and the utilization. They're finally starting to like throw the
ball a little bit more as atthe beginning of the year they were still
kind of that run heavy team.But what do you think about this,
about this Ravens offense as a whole. Well, I think the biggest difference
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with Lamar this year is he's youknow, last year's had some injuries,
some dings here and there, andI think this year he's he's looking to
pay he is, he's looking topass one, he's looking to sit in
the pocket more and you know,yeah, I mean spreading the ball around
a lot. I mean I think, you know, uh, you know,
obviously, Flowers and Andrews I thinkare going to be big. And
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if Obij can come back here andget you know, back to where he
can play, yeah, I meanI think they can definitely do it.
I mean, I think last weekhe had his first three hundred yard game
with what was the three touchdowns?And you know, if he can keep
building on that, that's great.He just hasn't had the consistency this year
of some of the other guys.Yeah, I think he had three passing
one rushing. The rushing has beenthere. People always say, hey,
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you know these quarterbacks, would say, in the pocket more, it will
keep him healthier. Quarterbacks get hurtway more in the pocket. Joshulyn,
I'm a big Bills guy. JoshAllen only gets stinged up when he's outside
the pocket. Yep, they asked, who did they ask today? Jalen
hurts today? They said, hey, about running? Or are getting because
he had the knee brace one.He's like, I can't remember the last
time I got hurt running the football. I get hurt when I'm sitting in
the pocket helping crushed, Like I'drather get tackled by a one hundred and
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ninety pound corner down the field thana three hundred and ten pound killer,
you know, in the pocket.So I'm fine with Lamar running. For
the first month of the season,they had a negative drop back rate over
expectation. Now they're starting, Ithink, get comfortable in this offense,
and so I would I would liketo see I would like to see them
get get going there for sure.Yeah, yeah, it's good. Good
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to be Oh and don't let'sen noforget about about my guy ra Shat Bateman.
Now, I mean he has afirst round pick. He's been electric,
he's just always been the men hurt. I think he scored last week
for the first time in forever.He dropped the touchdown the week the week
week before, So it's it's niceto it'd be nice to see him.
He's a guy that's been like onand off waivers. He's a guy this
week if you've got a spot tospare, if you gotta maybe a guy
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that's hit the ir that you candrop Bateman. If I'm buying this passing
offense, I think I'm gonna buya little bit of Bateman here too,
for sure, for sure. Yeah, yeah, definitely has And he's got
what hundred one hundred little over onehundred yards this year, so he's you
know, but yeah, we needhim, we need him, all right.
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Next topic here, let's let's let'stalk about Josh Downs. Let's stay
in the afc here. Josh Downshas been a guy that I was I
didn't love, didn't hate coming outof college, didn't really have a you
know, I was a big Richardsonguy as a quarterback fantasy wise, but
I thought, hey, he's which'sgonna get there on his legs, and
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so I was kind of off ofthe Colts receivers. But Downs has been
has been awesome. I mean he'sa borderline three moving forward here. I
mean his his comps going back totwenty eleven or like Brandon Cooks, Cooper
Cup even like Sterling Shoppard if youremember him in their in their rookie seasons.
So I think he's like a widereceiver three movement moving forward Minshew and
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ends up working out for me becausealways got more of a pocket passer,
more of a traditional passer. Minshewcan still by the time with his legs.
I think you had like two rushingtouchdowns last week. Of course stealing
it from from from our guy JT. But yeah, I think I like
Downs going forward. If he's availablein your in your leagues, Uh,
He's a guy I would I wouldbe very high going forward. Yeah,
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I mean I think you pinned itright, there is is uh, you
know, I I I was,Uh, I was a little light on
JT this year. I've always lovedhim and I think I think he's gonna
have a great comeback year. ButI was concerned, you know, with
Richard and taking some of his touchdowns. And I think that was the most
surprising thing to me last week wasMinshew takes two of his touchdowns. I
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was like, come on, youknow, and but no, I I
think, uh, since the gamesthat Minshew has been in, I think
he really really likes downs. Imean, he's he's targeted him more than
I mean, he's targeting more thanPitts and some of those games and on
some of those games, and I'mlike, you know, I mean it's
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really I think he had just twotouchdowns the last two weeks, so I'm
not mistaken, and a lot oftargets and a lot of catches, and
yeah, I think he's going tobe really good down the stretch here.
I unfortunately I was not high onhim to start the year, but in
washing him through the season, I'vebeen trying to pick him up a chance
I can, and I've only gothim a couple of times out of you
know, my teams. So yeah, I mean people, I don't think
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anyone was necessarily super high on joshOn Josh Dowins, you know coming out.
I mean he was on waivers allover the place to start the year.
But speak of downs, we haveanother start sit question here. Pick
two wide receivers out of Nico Collins, Zay Flowers, Chris Godwin, and
our guy, Josh Downs. Ilove Nico Collins. That's a guy I
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was high on this season. Hejust looks like an alpha receiver. He's
long, he's lean, he's fast. Uh, they're getting in the ball.
He looks like the next like ascensioninto like that alpha outside receiver in
the NFL. So I do likeI do like Nico this week Carolina is
a run funnel, like they wantyou to run it on them. So
their pass defense is pretty good.But I still like Nico again coming out
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of the bye week, and Ilike Zay Jay Flowers again. I have
him in nineteen fifteen. God winningdown downs is fine down. You could
go down to Nico either way.Went to me, I don't know.
This weekend got short short week,got a little banged up on Sunday,
and he played plays the Bills onthe on the road of the Bills.
But the worst part about the Billsdefense is their run defense. Ever since
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they lost Mat Matt Malonald, soI think their past defense is still okay.
And Evans is the guy there thisyear, so I'm not super high
on Godwin. What do you think, Robbie? You know I I I
have zero shares of Godwin. Evansis on a third of my teams.
Yeah, so yeah, I feltlike Evans was a much better value.
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You could get him around or twolater, and so I yeah, I'm
I'm not a big Godwin guy thisyear. I would agree with you at
Downs or Nico and Zay there.I think that's yeah, absolutely for sure.
Another start sick question tight end Johnnew Smith or Logan Thomas Man.
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I'm on John, I'm I'm misterKyle Pitts not this year to have him
out This year. I think itwas the first person in the content industry
to have a Kyle pitch jersey.I was rocking that jersey last year all
over the place. So I'm moreheartbroken over Kyle Pits than anything. John
new Smith running more routes, gettinggetting a ton of targets, looks good
there. I guess I was fouryears early on John new Smith. I
had him like four years ago whenhe uh he was over there in Tennessee.
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But I think I would go Johnnew Smith here because I just think
he gets more targets. The offensekind of kind of runs through the tight
ends their pits is still getting targetstoo. And Logan Thomas has been good,
but you always have that risk ofLogan Thomas leaving the game. I
mean he's he's always leaving games early, hurt and so. And the offense
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there is just discombobulated in Washington,Like I don't trust anybody over there.
So I'm gonna lean believe it ornot, I'm gonna lead to John new
Smith here. Well. And inthe quarterback situation, I mean, rough
game last week, but you knowabsolutely and and and and the other thing
is Smith is going back to backto the revenge game to the Titans.
So I am huge on him thisweek. Yeah, if I was playing
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a week to week that Bobby mighttight end. Honestly, this week,
I think it's going to be goingback to the Titans, and yeah,
revenge week, revenge week, goover there, all right, let's talk
about the rams make situation, becausethat was like a hot topic last week
with the with the bidding and theand who are you going to pick up?
And listen, people who don't Ilove getting on Twitter. It's all
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these analysts like, oh, don'tspend any money on Zach Evans. Imagine
wasting all that fab money on ZachEvans and this that and everything like listen,
there were there were teams where Iwere you needed unless it was by
Mageddon injuries, bye weeks, firstguy, next guy up. We thought
was going to be Evans. SoI put some bids in on Evans.
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And as the week Wednesday is likeyou have to you have to make decisions
quickly. The weekends on Monday night, they have two days they don't really
practice. Like Wednesday, you're like, that's when you have to decide is
it gonna be Evans or not gonnabe Evans? And so you put in
the bids and then you get moreinformation Thursday, Friday, Saturday, it's
going to be Henderson. It's goingto be Henderson. So then I mean
there were spots where I picked upEvans, and then I also picked up
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Henderson because I needed a running back, and then I started Henderson, you
know, like is it a andI won? Like there were sponsor for
like I needed that thirteen points frommy RB two like do I care that
I blew two hundred on Evans andanother like eighty on Henderson? Like no,
because i got the win. I'mstill alive and now I've got Henderson.
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Henderson's probably the guy for two orthree more weeks. What is your
what is your thought on the onthe Rams backfield? Well, I think
Williams doesn't come back till week twelvewhen I'm mistaken, and and you know,
I think the I just don't knowhow much confidence the coaching staff has
in Henderson. And that's you know, that's my only holdback. I was
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kind of the same way when Iwent in for my bids that week.
I was probably you know, Idon't know, three or three, three
to one. I went Evans overHenderson. Unfortunately. Yeah, so far,
but I'm still, you know,I'm not sure what's going to end
up there because I think that,you know, depending on I mean,
obviously Henderson plays well, he's gonnaget it's his spot to lose, that's
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right. That's so yeah, you'rein the driver's seat if you've got Henderson
obviously, but I just don't hefumbles one time, he has one bad
game, and I just I justdon't know what kind of confidence that the
coaching staff has with him right now. And that's where I think there could
be a pullback if he has onebad game. Yeah, no, there's
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there's there's definitely always concern there.I mean, he literally said the week
before he was watching football on TV, Like, obviously he stayed in shape,
but he like he comes from offthe street to a fifty eight percent
snap share, sixty percent of theattempts, he got high leverage, touches
inside the five, scores a rushingtouchdown for being sure, gets catches like
he had to catch to get himdown to the one, the one yard
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line. He has experience in hisoff the baseball glowingly of him. So
I just think he's the guy forright now. But again, he could
pull his hamstring next week, likeoh these guys, and he could be
he could be toast. But Ijust think in these in the Rams backfield,
it's a valuable backfield. It's likethe Miami backfield or the Niners backfield,
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like they just plug guys in andthey and they they go. I
just I was a big Kyron I'mnot a big Kyron guy, but I
was drafting a lot of them justbecause I was kind of reading the tea
leaves like I think's gonna be theguy there. So I need Kyron to
come back and be the guy.So I don't want Henderson to do too
well. But I think he's theguy there for now. Royce Freeman,
I mean, he's just a plotter, like I don't He's not gonna get
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any of the pass down work.So to me, I think Henderson's the
guy. And it's funny he goesfrom like Savior last week, like all
the teams off of by now okay, now I've got my Breeze haul I
could put back in there. I'vegot you know, Roshan Johnson's healthy.
I'd probably start. I'd probably startRochean. I guess that's a question.
Would you start Roshan consent or DarrylHenderson next week? This week? Wow?
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Well, you know, being aCowboys fan, it's tough for me
to start anybody against. But youknow, I just think, uh wow,
I mean that that that's a realtough call there. That's that's that's
where you're at. Like that's kindof the spot where these running backs end
up going there is like you know, you get these RB two's and Rochean
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finally practiced today. But Foreman lookedreally good last week too, So it's
like Forman is gonna go take aseat, you know so. But Chargers
are last against the pass. Theysaw what Foreman did last week. I
gotta believe the Chargers can make someadjustments to not allow them to run against
them. As my guest, Idon't know. I mean, did the
Chargers ever make adjustments this stinking team? I mean, what what a joke
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they are? Herbert, Oh,you are so disappointing every year. Man,
They've got it all and that it'sjust doesn't it doesn't work out for
him? No, for sure,Crazy, you could be a Cowboys fan
will go ten and seven and losethe first round of playoffs. I mean,
I can anyone will beat me.That's what's gonna happen. I don't
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know. I'm a I'm a Billsfan, so I don't feel bad for
anybody. Okay, I don't feelbad for nobody. Thirteen freaking seconds,
Come on, unbelievable. All right, moving on to a guy that's been
exciting, another West Coast guy,a guy that's kind of popped up.
I have him a little bit onsome teams, wasn't really targeting him at
all. But Jacoby Myers is aguy that's really popped. Who would have
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thought with DeVante Adams and Josh Jacobsand not a great quarterback that there would
be a room for Jacoby Myers tohave a top fifteen season right now for
the Raiders? What are your whatare your thoughts? I mean, the
guy's a target monster twenty eight percenttarget share, Yeah, WHI tricks thirteenth
in the NFL and he missed agame, right, I mean he's he's
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been, he's been a wide receiverone well, you know, obviously had
the concussion and came back to mccussionthe last five weeks. I think he's
I mean, he's he's within likeeight targets of Adams. I'm like,
I would have never ever guessed that. I gotta be honest with you,
I you know, I I'm youknow, I thought Adams would have dominated
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that offense this year and and uh, you know, he Jakobe Myers You've
got touchdowns in the last couple ofgames, and he's looking great, you
know. And that's another thing.After he took that hit in that oh
my gosh, that concussion, Imean, I know, I was like,
is he gonna come back solid?And he's come back stronger than ever?
I know, I know. Sodo you do you think this is
something that obviously, excuse me,Myers is locked into starting lineups right now,
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but is this something that we think. You know, Devanta has been
whining about not getting targets, andI thought that I started Adams everywhere in
the DFS last week. I'm like, Okay, this is the week is
squeaky wheel. He didn't really getgoing again last week. It's just something
he didn't have a lot of targets, though he did had a ton of
targets last week. Yeah, it'sjust something you think Myers can keep up.
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You think it's like a funnel situationwhere it's going to be Myers and
and Adam's rest of the rest ofthe I mean, Jacoby, I'm sorry,
Josh Jacobs has been terrible. He'stwo point nine yards of carry,
like he's just worn down from thatseason he had last year. Like four
hundred touches last year, Like that'swhat happened. So what do you think
about Myers going forward? Yeah,I love him. I mean I think
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I yeah, I think he's goingto be solid all the way through.
He's proven it every game he's beenin this year except the one. Yeah,
he's been solid, So I yeah, been consistent. He's you know,
they keep going to him and hekeeps catching it. So I know,
I know, crazy, rest ofway random off the top of my
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head, rest of way, JacobyMyers or Puka Nakua. I know this
is kind of a crazy statement becauseones on Pooka, but I mean sounds
like a drop. Everyone's on Pooka. I think I think the Rams are
gonna start using cut more and Ithink Jakobe stays I it's gonna be a
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close race. I think a lotcloser than people think. Yeah, I
think either got them both. You'reprobably doing really really well this year.
You've got them both. I likethem both, Pooka pook I just I
love Puka's energy. I love everythingabout him. He's you know, he's
learning from the best over there withCooper Cup. So I think it's probably
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it's probably a coin flip. Ilike, what the it's the same thing
too, Like the Rams are afunnel, it's Cooper Cup or Pukakakua.
Those are the two guys higbees nothingto to Well gets that kind of lucky
jump ball touchdown that we know mayor may have been meant for him.
Like it's just these two studs andthat's it. And I freaking love that.
I love that funnel offense. Somethingsomething that I don't love. I
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don't love the round the Browns runningbacks right now. I don't love the
situation there. Nick Chubb goes downI think week two and uh and so
the Browns running backs Kareem Hunt endsup back there, which is just gross
because the cream Hunt is like,isn't good? You watch him, He's
just slow and like not impressive atall. But now you've got Jerome Ford
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with a with a low ankle springand now he's out there saying they're not
gonna put him on IR. Butthe Rams also said they probably were'ting to
put Tyra and Williams on I R. So we'll see. But what do
you think about the backfield there?Are you? Team Kareem Hunt? I
know you've got him on this.I was just talking so badly about a
guy that you have on your secondplace team. Pierre Strong is kind of
the the the athlete there, thesparkscore guy there. Do you think they
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add somebody? What do you thinkthey're in Cleveland? Well, you know,
I as you said, right now, they're they're saying that he you
know, they're hoping. I believelast I checked that Ford's back in three
weeks. We may all be talkingabout a couple of weeks here. But
you know, then again, youknow who knows the same that they were
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kind of the same way. Willing'sright out of the shoot. But and
and you know, of course,uh Hunt, you know he left ding
you know, you know he wasin and out. He got dinged a
little on this last one. Soand Strong we've never we haven't seen really
enough of him with the Patriots.I mean, he didn't get a lot
of share. And uh so whoknows? I mean, I and there
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you go. That's you know,you know, I just wonder, you
know Fournette still sitting out there?Is he just out of shape? Is
he just what? I mean?You look at him, you look at
the Cardinals. Look a couple ofthese teams, and I'm like, I
know, why is nobody like runningto you know, sign the guy?
Is he just I don't know?And I know and did did Fournette tweet
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out like Sunday like this week I'mgoing to announce what team I'm playing for
or someone. I feel like,yeah, he's been right there. No,
I completely agree, Like if heisn't if he doesn't sound with the
team at this point, you know, because now the trade deadline's coming up.
If you didn't running back, youcan go with Derrick Henry for a
fourth round pick. Why am Igonna go sign Leonard Fournette? You know
what I mean? Like you canget a real running back? So or
what about I heard cook? Iknow he's not having a great year,
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But Jets are I heard they mayyou know, let him go. Yeah,
yeah, there's all different. Yeah, obviously it's not a good mix
there with the Jets with him andyou know, buddy of mine and Nathaniel
Hackets, you know, I knowhim. He lives here, so you
know, because he was a Timbercoach last year. Yeah, and but
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it seems to me like he's goingto be on the trading block here in
a minute, and I would thinkhe's got some miles on him still,
but I don't know. Yeah,I mean, I think they wanted him
to hold that well. I thinkAaron Rodgers wanted him, and then Aaron
Rodgers gets hurt. Now this seasonis like in the tank kind of and
then and then they wanted him.Oh, we'll hold this over till bristollis
well. Bristol is good to go. Now Bristoll looks like the best running
back in football next to Christian McCaffrey, and uh and so yeah, but
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but yeah, no, the runningBCK situations are weird. You know,
Kareem Hunts, he's been a topfifteen running back is like the first two
weeks he's played this season now,but you might even have an expanded role
in this offense. So I thinkif I've got hunt, I'm excited because
I can throw him in there andI'll probably get most of the work.
But I think there's room for PierreStrong. I'm I'm looking to at Pierre
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Strong and waivers this this week.I know he's available almost everywhere everywhere I'm
looking, and so there's desperate teamsand stuff like that. So I've probably
been in a little little cheap biton Strong and maybe see if I can
get him into a couple of differentspots that I need running backs. But
it's still ugly if this like Fordsthe guy when he comes back, it
was not a high ankle sprain.So hopefully he's back. He's back soon,
because I think he's the best runningback there. Yeah, I mean
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I put some bids in on Strongas well, but like I said,
it may only be for two weeksat best, right, And you know,
we've never seen him, you knowwith any any He's almost like Evans
for the for the Rams, likehe's this like athletic freak that the coaches
just don't like. Yeah, he'sbut he's not very good at football,
Like we never we never want toplay him, you know. So I
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don't know, we'll see I guess, I don't know. Yeah, that's
right. Put him in the garage. There's some players in the Bills offense
that I'd like to put in thegarage. Most of them actually, outside
of Allen and diggs Man. ThisBill's offense still ranks top five in the
NFL. Josh Allen's QB one againfor like the fourth or fifth straight year
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like he's still getting there. Butyou know, Diggs is sensational. I
think he's top three receiver fantasy wise, but everything after that's been pretty gross.
James Cook has been hitting miss lastweek in a nineteen yard nineteen point
performance, had a receiving touchdown.But they're running games inconsistent. Their starting
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games off. The first half hasjust been putrid as of late. The
last three games they can't get Jacksonville, the Giants, the Patriots, they
could get nothing done in the firsthalf at all, and then the last
two games the end up getting thelead on the last drive of the game.
But it's just there's something wrong inthis this this offense. I think
it's gonna be a very good thingfor the for the offense that Knox is
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out and that they can just letKing Kate eat Kinkate eight catches for eighty
something yards last week. Knox isjust terrible. I mean, they sign
he's just he drops every past thatthat matters. Kin Kate is so much
better from a fantasy and an offensiveskilled position standpoint. So we'll see short
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week this week. I think Allen'sjust gonna say forget it and just run
and get back to the old Allenwaves of just slinging it all over the
field. But what's your vibe.I'm too I'm too invested in this Bills
team up here in Western New York. It's your vibe on the Bills offense.
Well, I think Diggs and I'mnot a sake, and I believe
he's second in Fantasy right now,top three, I think. Yeah,
IIan Hill, who, by theway, was my lucky year for me,
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but that was my my largest firstround guy nice and it was just
by accident, not by anything Idid. But so but no, Yeah,
as a matter of fact, I'msitting twenty fourth overall in the World
Championship with I've got I've got Alanand Diggs on that particular team. There,
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you go. Didn't love my draftbecause I I got Digs first,
and then I just couldn't. Idid not want to miss on Allen,
So I took Allen the third round, which in my I never take quarterbacks.
I mean, that's just like kindof one of my pet peeves.
Yeah, just you don't do it, do it? You get it.
But it's working out for me becauseI'm sitting in twenty fourth place, So
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which is which is pretty cool.But no, I my I predict that
I think Incaid's going to be thenumber two for the rest of West I
think he's gonna be the number twoguy there. That's what I think.
I could be way out of kilterhere, but I think he might be
the number two guy. I thinkgiven that give him a little confidence.
I see that. I wanted theCowboys to take him. I thought that
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was when the Bills moved up totake him in the draft. I thought
that was one of the best movesof the draft. And I think he
could be the number two guy therethis year. And then my other thought
is what if the Cook brothers maybethey go get Dalvin and bring him in
and maybe it's a good fit forhim there and they they you know,
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rally off each other of the brothersthere. I don't know that's I think
that. I think if they're Ithink the Bills need to go get a
running back, is what I think. I think the Bills need to go
get speed, and they need togo get like they could go get Hunter
Renfro. There's whispers about that he'she's the Cole Beasley better thank Cole Beasley.
I don't know why that hasn't happenedalready. Well, Davelas has been
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quiet this year. Instink I'm tellingyou the guy, if you go look
at all the analytics, he justhe doesn't get separation, he doesn't get
opened. Yeah, he's gonna behe's gonna be gone. Now he's losing
a ton of money this year justbecause he's not. People saying he's not
that good. But I would lovefor Kinkaid to be our number two there.
You know again, it's a rookietight end, like rookie tight ends
normal. They don't even do anythingthe first year. And now we've got,
you know, the kid in forthe Lions who's little lighting it up
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like Mayor's head spots. Like allthese different rookies are kind of Kyle Pitts
two years ago popped off. ButKing Kate, I think you're right.
I think Kinkaid could be should bethe number two guy there going going forward.
So I liked it. I thinkthey would open up their offense for
sure, But yeah, we'll see. I mean this is listen, people
want they play these cover two shells, right. They do it to Mahomes,
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do it to all the best quarterbacks, to force you to dink and
dunk. But if you're gonna dinkand dunk, you gotta have guys that
can run after catch. And that'sKing Kate. You know it's not you
know, so I would I wouldlove to have a lot of Dalton Kin
Kate. I actually was telling peopletwo weeks ago to drop kin Kid because
they're not using him. He notunless you're tight end premium. You're not
keeping two or three tight ends,so you can drop him. Well,
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now, if he's available, pickhim back up. Because Dawson Knox is
gonna be out for a while.They had a risk surgery, so yeah,
he might be done for the year, So we'll see. But I
think again, off its is stillpeople are panicking, there's still a top
five offense. Allen's still a Cuban. Oh yeah, well they're I think
their second in touchdowns this year asan offense. I think their fifth in
yards and second in touchdowns if I'mnot mistaken. Yeah, I mean Allen's
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number one in the NFL in touchdowns. It's just they have games where they
blow out Miami by thirty and thenthey can't score against New England. It's
like what dock are we doing here. Anyways, back to another offense,
that's that's that's actually struggling, isthe is the Packers man. The Packers
offense has just been gross. Uh, it's been really banged up. Jordan
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Love as his accuracy has been hitand miss. To say this is to
say the least Aaron Jones had asensational week one hasn't been right since,
I mean even less last week,Like they need that that game. It's
a close game in the end,and still it's it's it's it's it's aj
Dillon, you know. So,I mean Jones was limited in practice all
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week. They only thirty four percentof the snaps. Hopefully moving forward,
that's that's something. Christian Watson getsbanged up in the game, but he
was practicing today, so I thinkhe'll be okay. But what do you
what's your what's what's your feeling onthis Packers' offense? Is Jordan Love just
not the answer? You know?For me? It's kind of funny.
(35:16):
I I you know, I thinkthey miss Aaron Jones. I really think.
You know, Aaron Jones won inthe game last week and they said
coming in he was going to beon a pitch count because of his hamstring
energy. Like you said, hehad that great first week hamstring. You
know, he's coming into this andthey said he was going to be on
a pitch count, and I thinkthey miss him. And that's what a
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couple years ago and they said,pay Aaron Jones. You got to pay
that guy. You got to payhim, you know, and they brought
him back. I think the offenserolls around him, and I think if
he can get back healthy and getgoing, I think you'll see a whole
different team. But if that doesn'thappen, I think they're going to finish
in the bottom by six teams inthe NFL. Yeah. No, you
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could be got some great receivers,Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dobbs and
and again Christian Watson. I thinkI think Christian Watson is as a sensational
receiver, but again, banged up, an offense that's not clicking, a
quarterback that might not be that thatgood, you know. I mean,
Watson has twenty percent targets per routerun. You know, I still think
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he'll be will be fine. Ifhe's healthy this this week. I still
think he'll be will be fine.I thought last week, I mean that
was Denver everybody kills Denver, Like, how how did the pack Ers not?
How does Watson not go for twohundred yards against against It's Denver.
So that's the frustrating part is you'relicking your chops at that that matchup,
and then it just doesn't, thatdoesn't happen. So so that's that's the
part that stinks. But I thinklove, you know, Love's got to
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get going. Did they already havetheir buy? Did they come out of
the buy? I think I don't. I don't even know. I can
look it up here. I'm notsure, but I think already had their
their bye we yeah, they didthe yeah, because that's because Aaron Rodgers,
Aaron Jones came back after their byeweek. That's right, that's right,
So they already had their buy,like they right? You know.
Good news is their schedule is prettyeasy here for for at least for quarterbacks
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coming up Minnesota, the Rams,Pittsburgh and then that the Chargers and the
Lions, which are really good there. So that's good. Not not that
people are really relying on love,but let me see what their running back
looks like for strength to schedule herecoming up, we've got oh, the
Packers are bottom, the third tothird from the bottom and straight. They
only have one good matchup the restof the season. That's Carolina in the
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semi finals. So you can someoneget to the semi finals with Aaron Jones,
roll him out. But they've gotMinnesota, the Rams, they got
Detroit, Kansas City, Tampa,so it's gonna be tough. But Aaron
Jones can get there in catches too, Like that's that's where he's explosive as
those catches. Yeah. Yeah,we were talking before the show about like
bad beats in the last week.I came in top five in the FFPC
(38:00):
main event three years ago and Iwas I was third or fourth going into
the last like one of the lastdrives and Aaron Jones pops off like a
forty six yard touchdown and it dropsme down like by the point two points.
If it was a forty yard touchdown, I went into the ten thousand
dollars or something, but to beforty six and the game was over.
Like so I'll always hate Aaron Jonesfor the rest of my life. But
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uh, that's that's what that's whatI stakes fantasy. Oh yeah, West
for sure. Yeah no, Andthat's you know, Scott called and we
were talking about me coming on theshow and stuff. I'm like, Scott,
this is a long year. Imean, yeah, we're I mean,
big deal that I'm in second place. Now, let's see where I'm
I've been in I've been three differenttimes in the top ten in the World
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Championship for full time Fantasy uh inthe last couple of years here, you
know, halfway through the playoffs yeahyeah, and one time I finished in
the top twenty. Yeah. So, you know, a couple of years
ago, I was I was sittingin fourth place, just feeling great about
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things. The Giants stopped giving theball to squad. If you remember the
game, he had twenty fantasy pointsin the first half. He touched the
ball twice in the second half.My quarterback went down, you know,
on and on on and I endedup I don't know eighteenth or something that
year or something like that. ButI was in fourth place, looking like,
you know, with projections and stuff, moving into first place after the
(39:30):
second week of the playoffs, andyou know, and in the game,
I'm like, well, yeah,fourteen, score like five points in the
second half. You know, It'slike, what happened here? I know.
It's amazing all that stuff works.That's so everyone's just continue to grind,
to continue to work waivers, continueto set those lineups and put all
the effort in, you know,especially when even when you go to like
the teams you're going to like thenext team, like oh man, I'm
(39:52):
you know, it says you're rankingthere's like tenth. Yeah, like oh
god, I'm tenth, and youclick you're like, oh, wait a
minute, like I'm really not tenth, Like I'm you know, I'm thirty
five points out of out of theplayoff spot. Like okay, well this
team's still live, it's still good, Like yeah, that's yeah, that's
that. That's the sort of That'swhat I like about the about the record
points record points is that you canyou can get completely screwed every week and
(40:15):
still make the playoffs. Well,it's funny in that league that I'm I'm
going AM's Jack right now, I'mI'm in sixth place. He's in first
place record wise. Yeah I gotforty I got forty one more points than
him so far. Like, howam I in six place and you're in
first place? That's not you know, but it is what it is.
You know, it's got a horseshoe. He's got a horse somewhere. Speak.
(40:37):
Hey, speaking of horseshoes, let'stalk about the It's talk about the
Colts backfield real quick. What areyour thoughts on JT and Moss and the
offense going forward. JT's Jonathan Taylor'splaying time was trying to get the right
direction snap shares of sixteen it's ledto seven fourteen and twenty two opportunities twenty
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seven targets per route run. Doyou think this is something that's just like
trending, like JT is eventually goingto take over. They're kind of easing
him in as their big money guy, or or do you think Moss is
gonna kind of hang around? Inmy opinion, I think JT takes it
over. I think he's gonna beone of the top running backs here on
out. I I think he getsback to for him I do. Yeah,
(41:23):
No, I I agree as well. You know, yeah, I
think he's he's scored. I thinkon a receiver maybe receiving touchdown over the
weekend, looks good, looks fine. I think like they're just easing him
back as their as their big investment. I mean Zach Moss was in Buffalo.
Like the way I'm looking at ZachMoss is lighting it up in Indiana,
I'm like, man, way tillj T gets back because Zach Moss
(41:45):
stinks. Yeah, way till jT gets back, he's gonna be doing
all this stuff now. I don'tthink Moss is going awhere. We don't
need Moss to disappear, right well. JT to have McCaffrey work. McCaffrey
shouldn't even have McCaffrey work. Crazy, that's crazy what they're doing it,
Chris Christian McCaffrey. But if jT can get sixty five seventy of the
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carries, you know, five targetsa game, I think he'll be just
fine. Schedule moving moving forward asNew Orleans, which is a tough matchup
this week, but then he getsCarolina, which is beautiful New England,
which is nice bye week, andthen coming out of the bye week,
hopefully he can carry you to ah He's got a nice late by.
I mean it's good because he hadan early buy for four weeks and then
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he's got a nice late by tojuice him up for the for the Fantasy
playoff run against the Raiders in thechampionship weeks. Yeah, and the ankle
surgery had last year wasn't a giantit was. I think it was an
outpatient thing. I mean, youknow what I mean, and so and
he took all the time he neededoff. He's getting back into the offense,
you know, he's getting used toMinishow and the whole thing. I
mean, she's gonna start leaning onhim a little bit. Yeah, I
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think he's going to be a topback, you know. Yeah, I
don't even think he was not necessarilyinjured. Like I think that was a
whole That whole thing was a contractthing. That wasn't a he wasn't really
hurt. But hey, listen,if you were able to have him and
get him late, like you know, obviously I had him in a in
one high stakes league early in thesecond like I took him in the second
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round before all the contract stuff.That team's actually in really good shape,
believe it or not. But therewere some teams where, you know,
after the contract and all that,I got him in a five K in
the in the in the eighth round. Yeah, and so now that that
team looks good, and now I'madding JT. To it. I mean,
that's the type of stuff you wereable to do with guys like JT
and Cooper Kupp and and all ofthat type of stuff. So if you
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can, if you could have heldon with those guys, now you're adding
him, that's a really fun thingto kind of go look at when you're
setting your lineup. So I tookhim early on in a slow draft from
the second round, exactly right.That's later on. I got him in
the eighth round. I'm like,I'm not past I don't if he plays
half the year, I'll take jT for if you think he's not gonna
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play at all, which I don'tever think that. Like, okay,
fine, but like, man,he's like a golden ticket. If you
can hang on and then get jT for the run, I think that'll
be pretty cool. But all right, Robbie, well listen, thank thanks
for hanging out today. Man,this is absolutely a lot of fun.
I know, I know we playedeach other recently, we're playing each other
(44:13):
coming up here. We got somematchups meeting, say eaten by fifty points,
heard scoring for the week with onefifty seven, and somehow he still
beats me by sixty points. Idon't know, Listen, I needed it,
and I still have a losing record. I still unbelievable. But it's
a lot. Like we said beforethe show, it's a long fantasy season
(44:34):
for sure. But hey, goodluck this year. Good luck in the
Circle Las Vegas Championship. Hopefully you'dstay in the top five there and make
it and make a run for it, for sure, and we'll have you
at the end the end of theyear to talk about how you did,
let's hope. So thanks for havingme on, and I hope see in
Vegas next year for sure. Yeah, listen, you know you already know
I will be there. So thankseveryone for tuning in, and thank thanks
for your questions, and we willsee you next week. Thanks
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