Week 13 Preview - The Raw Dog Episode - Kevin, Lyle, Robbie

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It's time for the fantasy football guysdropping loads of fantasy football knowledge all up
in your ear drums. Here theyare Lyle con Keel and Kevin Moore and
the fantasy football guys. Yeah,that's right, we're the fantasy football guys.

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Kevin. Oh, and I wasnot able to do much show prep
today, so I am raw doggingthis episode. Gross. Yeah, that
is kind of gross. Well,I'm glad you guys can be here for
it raw dogging. I'm excited,are you? Are you excited? I

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can't wait to see what that actuallymeans. Yeah, Lyle always excited for
a raw dogging. Yeah. Imean, you know it wouldn't be yeah
Magic Johnson, oh man, agood one. You know, it wouldn't

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hurt, It wouldn't be that bigof a deal. They him. Well,
I'm sure it's a very big deal. Have you seen how big he
is? Yeah? Fair enough?Well please thanks? All right, dude,
there was I was trying to figureout where we're going to talk about
opening of the show. There's reallyonly one thing to talk about at this
juncture. The Jets have opened AaronRodgers twenty one day practice window. That's

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pretty big. That's huge. Yeah, I mean, this is an achilles
usually takes a full calendar year tocome back from. So I love conspiracy
theories because they always bring out theworst in society. They always do.
You know, Pizzagate, you knowflat Earth. You know it's craziness.

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Right. So there there's the conspiracytheory that Aaron Rodgers didn't actually rupture is
tendon his achilles, that it wasjust some sort of way to you know,
make himself. I wonder if AaronAaron Rodgers actually believes in that.
Well, if there is a dudein the NFL conspiracy theory, guy,

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I don't know, dude. Sometimesyou hear. I mean, the NFL
is a group of people, likeanybody else, You're gonna have whack jobs
and you're gonna have you know,solid folks, So you're gonna have everybody
all kinds of humanity. But youknow, there are people talking about flat
Earth and you know Bigfoot's reel,and you know you've got a bunch of
people, you're gonna get a bunchof different opicis bigfoots an alien dude?
Bigfoot is Chewbacca. I'm just saying, think about it. The government's hiding

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in from US huh yeah, yeah, whatever, Well turns out UFOs are
real. Just saying it turns out, yeah they are. Who knew?
Uh yeah, I mean it's ahuge deal. I don't know. I

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don't I don't know if he shouldcome back and play too soon. I
mean, the Jets are they're notgoing anywhere this season. I mean,
they're paying him enough money. Iunderstand when to get him in there,
but yeah, I mean they're payinghim enough that if he can get in
there, they want him in there. But why risk it, I don't

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know, put asses in the seats, you know, maybe make some of
that money back. I don't know. Uh, But anyway, he's going
to be limited in practice reducing therisk of injury. Said the quarterback is
cleared for functional activity but not contact. Quoting Solid here, He's like,
this isn't so much getting ready toplay as much as it is a progression

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in his rehab. Cool. Hewas talking on mcviews show yesterday. Aaron
was yeah, Aaron was, yeah, that's he's still doing like the underwater
treadmill thing that helps you know,reduce the weight on the ten and as
you were walking around and like he'sstill like not ready to play. But

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the fact that they open his windowI think is surprising even to people who
you know, are like, wow, he's going really fast with his rehab.
That they're opening the window now islike whoa. Well, yeah,
I mean at the end of thetwenty one days, you got to shut
him down for good or put himon the fifty three. Yeah. Right,
that's pretty that's pretty Uh. Youknow, three weeks is going to

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go by just like that, youknow, and we're going to be looking
at maybe Aaron Rodgers playing football.That'd be cool. I mean, I
was excited to see him go tothe Jets. I felt so bad for
them when he went down because,I mean, they can have a solid
defense. Well here's the question,they have some they have some good players
on offense too. Clearly, anAaron Rodgers quarterback team, this Jets team

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would be in the hunt for theAFC. I mean, given the way
the Bills had been playing. Yeah, I was going to say culture in
front of the Bills at this point. Yeah. Yeah. So it was
with Zach Wilson and now Timmy Boylethat bad that they could take a team

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that could potentially go for the divisionroute or you know, kind of compete
for the division and maybe deep intothe playoffs. Is one guy that bad
that he dragged that entire team down? And would Aaron Rodgers be the guy
if he was in there, thatwould take that team to the playoffs.
So here's what I'll say. Theywould not have seven losses if Aaron Rodgers

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was there. I think they mighthave four. They might have four,
yeahright, So I mean they'd beand they'd be in there. So I
don't know. That's interesting. Man. I think they I mean, they
they can't score any points. That'stheir problem. Yeah, and a good

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quarterback would actually help with that.Yeah. Yeah. Their defense is they've
only given up five more points onthe season and the Bills at dude,
they've only scored one hundred and sixtythree points. Do you remember last week
when we got in contact, thePatriots have one hundred and forty eight.
Oh yeah, I know. Wewere talking last week about whether Bill Belichick's

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on the hot seat or not.After that loss, dude, I could
feel the seat warming up from here. It's uh, yeah, I get
that, but it's Belichick. Yeah, and it's it's the Patriots. I'd
be shocked. I don't think they'llfire him. If he does anything,

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he'll move him himself. Right.Well, he's you know, he signed
a contract, so he you know, in the off season, so he
can't just say I'm leaving. Now. There has been speculation, well,
if he retires, he can't goanywhere else. So there was speculation that
maybe he'd be traded. You cantrade a coach. Remember when Gruden was

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traded from the Bucks to the Raidersto the Bucks. Was traded technically,
wasn't he the Broncos. Yeah,yeah, so that would be interesting.
Let's chuck to Carolina. That's nevergonna happen. So, so that is
the second worst owner in the NFL. Next to is number one. He's

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horrendous. The Cardinals is pretty bad. Well, I don't know if you
know this about Ersa, but he'she's discriminated against because he's one of the
few white billionaires in the country.So clearly the police discriminated against him.
I'm not just coming up with this. These words came out of that dude's
mouth said in an interview. Icould an idiot, but I just cannot

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believe that Frank Reraig got fired.So that that owner came into the league
five years ago. I can't rememberhis name off the top of my head.
David Tepper. There you go.And he took over for arguably the
second worst owner in the league then, which is Jerry Richardson. Sure,
because there was all kinds of likesexual harassment around that dude. So clearly

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he's gone through so with Temper's gonethrough four head coaches already in five years.
In five years, they've given awayThey gave away their best player,
their star player, a bag ofpeanuts to a team that was in their
conference, at the top of theirconference, right right, which is not

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something you typically do whatever that waslast year, whatever, But they draft
a rookie quarterback and you give theguy twelve games, eleven games, eleven
games. Yeah, you know,It's just it baffles me, Like what
would have happened if the Cowboys hadgiven up on Jimmy Johnson and Troy Aikman

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their first year? How many winsdid they have? One? Yeah?
Right? And Aiateman through an insightand look at the career that do that
Hall of famers. Whether he deservedit or not, I don't know,
but you know, he's God.And if you look at the number,
you can't tell the story of theNFL without Troy Aikman, but the stats

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aren't there. Same thing with JoeNamath. Then there's a bunch of other
guys too. But get here,I hear you. You're the guy who
says Eli's a Hall of Famer.He is a Hall of Famer. Okay,
we'll see he beat Tom Brady inthe Super Bowl twice. I mean
yeah. If you're going to sayyou can't tell the story of the NFL
without ex player, you can't tellit without Eli Manning. Well, Eli
is definitely a Hall of Famer.I don't know that he's a first ballot

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Hall of Famer, but you know, the story of the NFL in the
twenty first century is the story ofTom Brady. And you can't tell that
story without the guy who beat himtwice in the Super Bowl, right,
dude. The helmet catch, comeon, get out of here, got
here anyway? More impressive. Moreimpressive than the helmet catch was the escapability

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of the light before the helmet catcheven happen, just to get out of
there. And it was not themost nimble bro more nimble than his brother
Peyton. That's for damn sure.That is very sure. Yeah, anyway,
But I just can't believe that theythat they chucked Frank Raig out the
door that quickly. And here's thereal kicker. For the next four years,

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they have to pay Frank Raig twentyfive thousand dollars a day. Yeah,
they're still paying that rules, stillpaying that rule. Yeah, Oh
my god, they're paying that ruleforty million and Frank Reike thirty million.
It's insane. It's insane. Andso what if you're say you're an aspiring
head coach or or a head coachwith experience, are you going to lean

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into that that Carolina Panthers job.Nobody wants that gig unless it's their first
gig, and there they can't getLike, you're gonna take a head coaching
job if you can't, Right,if you're a coordinator and you're offered a
head coaching gig, you're gonna takeit? Well, I don't know,
because I think probably the two mostwhat's the word I'm looking for, you

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can capable coordinators that are probably gonnabe up for a coordinator or a head
coach job next year are Ben Johnsonfor OC for the Lions and Bobby Slowick
OC for the Texans. Yeah,Eric b enemy if that staff gets fired
out of Johnson is very high onpeople's list too. I don't know.
Yeah, I heard Chefter say that, but it's chefter say if it's true
the enemy as well. But Ifeel like the enemy is gonna be the

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head coach if the team he's onright now. Probably, but we'll say
b enemy too. The reason Ididn't say him is because that offense isn't
the best. But like the Lionsoffenses are really good, the Texans offense
is a really good. Sure,if you're those ocs, are you gonna
leave the amazing situation you have withthe team that, for the Lions is

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potentially Super Bowl contender? Or forthe Texans are like first year about to
get something started with a great youngquarterback? Are you gonna leave that situation
to go to Carolina even if it'sa head coaching job, Like, yeah,
but a head coaching job's a bigdeal. Yeah, but that would
be a tough call. It's likebeing a senator. There's fifty of them
on the planet, So thirty twoNFL head coaches, you're one of thirty

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two, and you never know youmight catch lightning in a bottle, have
a couple of good seasons, andbasically you're set Nick Siriani with his success
he's had with the Eagles. Ifhe gets blown out tomorrow, he's got
a job next year. And youknow the year after that. You know,
Peterson took a year off, butyou know, you knew he was
coming back to the NFL. Youwant to go to a super Bowl,

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have success like that, you writeyour own ticket for a decade, whether
you deserve it or not. I'mjust those two coordinators are young enough to
where they can not take a headcoaching job this year, continue what they're
doing for another two or three yearsuntil the window closes, and then get
a head coaching job. Yeah.But see that that's a big risk,
man, because like like, likeKevin says, there's thirty two of them

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on the planet earth. Right.If somebody goes, we want you to
run this show, and we're gonnawe're gonna back up the bringstruck to your
front porch. Yeah, I'm notsaying that they want to go to Carolina
necessarily. I'm just saying that ifyou have an opportunity to do be the

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head coach of an NFL football team, it's very hard to turn it down,
yeah, regardless of ownership. ButI totally understand, like you know,
and I would bet that there arepeople out there that would turn it
down. But yeah, and bythe way, there are one hundred senators,
not fifty. Just yeah, whatare you talking about anyway? Good?

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Yeah, So that's the deal.When the brass ring is there,
you grab that bad boy because youdon't know if it's gonna be there for
you again, Yeah, I think. I mean, if those two guys
do end up getting a head coachingjob, I would assume one of them
probably wants to go to the SanDiego Los Angeles Chargers. Yeah, why
wouldn't you? Would you rather?Would you rather live in Colston, Carolina,
which you know isn't isn't bad,you know, it's pretty good,

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or La in Charlotte. They're notshow a son on the coast, but
you know, still Carolina pretty prettynice climate. It's like the third smoggiest
city in the country. Yeah,yeah, very very foggy there because it's
in the middle of a valley.So fog or smog fog, Okay,
that's different. Smog is a differentthing, yeah than fog. Anyway,

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we digress. Anyway, I thoughtthat was interesting, you know the fact
that you know, he's the onlyhead coach in history to be fired mid
season two years in a row.Yeah, poor Frank, We'll take you
back in Philly. Bro. I'dlove for him to come out as a
consultant this year. If yeah,bring him in, and if our offensive
coordinator gets uh gets hired away asa head coach, bring him back as

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a coordinator. Hell yeah, hewas awesome. We'll take that, you
know. I'd love to see whathe can do with Jaialen. Oh,
anyway, lots of Eagles hate thisweek about the refs, and I've heard
a lot of people all the refsare always on the eagle side. I'm
like, if you watched an Eaglesgame, it's their reps are never on
the eagle side. They are thefourth least penalized team in the NFL.

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The Eagles aren't, yep, WellNumber one is the Minnesota Vikings. Well,
I guess you know. You gottaplay clean. That's just clean football
right there, That's what it is. Have you guys, have you tried
not cheating? Yeah? Have youtried that, you know, attempt to
play within the rules. NFL.Yeah, I don't. I don't think.
I don't think that any team hasbeen fairly officiated all season. Low.

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I've seen some bs with the Chiefs. I've seen bs with the Cowboys.
I seen you know, forty nineers, the name it. The
refs just aren't that good. Yeah, there's no consistency there. And they
were talking about the AJ Brown catchfumble or not catch fumble versus versus the
I guess it was Keenan Allen catchfumble and they look, you know,

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it was clear difference. AJ neveractually secured the ball whereas Keenan Allen actually
did. But you know, I'mnot going to argue with people on the
internet. That's just foolish. Itwasn't a catch. I mean it just
wasn't like and thank god, butit just wasn't. I find it funny
that the forty nine ers come intoPhilly with two more losses than they're favored

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by two and a half points.This is two and a half insult.
Yeah, I saw his two anda half today. It bounces back between
two and a half and three.So I want the dog Masks to come
back out. So here's another thing. Black Party does not play well in
the rain and it's going to bepouring, yeah on Sunday. Man,
But like what that's that's horrible.Yeah, listen, the Eagles never get

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any respect. It's just it's justthe way that it is. I saw
that PFF released their their power rankingstoday and the third behind you, behind
San Francisco and the Chiefs, theyfreaking beat. That's fine. The only

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power rankings list that matters is theone that they published mid February, right,
you know, because none of itthis weekend is oh I forgot,
Sorry about that, Pillows. Let'sdive into some news real quick. David
Montgomery limited in practice with his footone of his feet anyway. Let's see

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Josh Palmer has a knee, couldreturn this season. Remember we saw Josh
Palmer have some success after Williams wentdown. But Staley says there's a possibility
he could come back this season ifyou're a Josh Palmer evangelist. Zeke Elliott
with his thigh limited in practice today. Kadarius Tony has an ankle and a
hip, but did practice in full. Rashid Rice has a foot issue,

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but he put in a full practicetoday. Tight end for the Dolphins.
Allegedly. Durham smythe limited in practicewith an ankle. Chase Claypool limited with
a knee, full practice for SkyMoore in his knee. Limited practice for
Devon a chain or Ash Shane ora chain. I've heard it all kinds
of different ways. Anyway, limitedin practice today. Kind of hoping he's

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up. Actually, Jerry mcinnan McKinnonsideline with a groin in practice. Trey
McBride, no practice for him,Same thing with Keenan Allen Brees Hall limited
today because he's got that hammy.Kenny Pickett has an ankle, but did
practice in full today. Kenny Walker, the third oblique injury that he was

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out with last week, is doubtfulagain this week because the oblique is not
improving. Sorry about that. Hey, Spencer Rattler declared for the NFL Draft
kids. Woo, I'm sure allthose Patriots fans are really happy. Oh
yeah, let's see Chris A.Lobby's in concussion protocol. Don't look now,
boys, Joey Flacco taking some firstteam reps for the Browns. Hey

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man just saying Miles Garrett has ashoulder. Didn't practice. Kareem Hunt with
a growing didn't practice. Marquise Brownnesspractice with a heel to Mario Douglas has
a Patriot never mind Raheem Mostert ankleand a knee not seen in practice.
Also, he's a vet, sohe gets rest. Reek Hill has a

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hand issue. We saw him.If you've watched Hard Knocks, you saw
he had a hand issue, whichI know you didn't see it, Lyle.
Not seen in practice today. Let'ssee what else we got here.
Tank Dell has a calf issue.Doesn't practice today, Bailey Zappy taking the
majority of first team reps for yourPatriots, Lyle, I'm shocked. No
practice for Aaron Jones and his kneetoday. Also a J. Dillon not

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practicing, Jayden Reid not practicing.Looks like Hendon Hooker has a practice window
opened for the Lions. That'll beinteresting to see. Jonathan Taylor had surgery
on his hand. He's heading toIR. Zack Moss is going to come
back as the lead running back forthe Colts. Remember when Taylor was out
and Zach Moss was a running backone. Yeah, crazy things going to

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happen, Crazier things, yeah,all right, so check your check your
own. Oh by the way,Baker's back. He's expected to play that
anklely he suffered last week back forWeek thirteen. Nice. Nice, So
obviously these guys get hurt in practice. Now toward the end of the season.

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You know, everybody's hurting, socheck before you set your Lineup's kids.
All right, he's dive into somegames, shall we. Let's do
it? Man? We got whatsix teams on buy this week? It
seems like yeah, yeah, letme see. Yeah, everybody knows who
they are. So the Thursday nightgame we're all going to talk about is

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the Seahawks at the Cowboys. Uh, Cowboys have been rolling recently. Seahawks
lost three in a row. Sowhat's going to happen here? I expect
this thing that's been happening to continueto happen. So what I think be
closer. You know, the Cowboyshad a little bit of trouble with the
Charterers. You know, they've theCowboys have played some bad teams in the

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past few weeks. You know,the Giants in Carolina are pretty awful.
Yeah, you know, so youknow, I expect Washington's not much better.
I expect them to win this gamefairly easily. But I think it'll
be a little bit closer than it'sbeen the past few weeks. Yeah,
seat those defense, you know,relatively stout, but you know, eventually

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Cowboys are at home. So Ijust I don't lose there very often,
dude. But Dak Prescott and they'retalking about him for MVP now, and
you know Cowboys right now, Cowboyshaters can be like a screw deck.
But dudes, since the Frisco loss, he's been a quarterback one, the
quarterback won twice, the quarterback threetwice, and the quarterback two one time

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over the past five out of thelast six weeks. Now, he had
a stinker in there once. Butdude's playing the best football of his career
bar none. Yeah that's true.But look at who they've played. Fair
But you know, you Chargers,the Rams, they did play Philly,
they played the Giants, Carolina inWashington. Yeah, none of those teams
have great passing ds. They don't. But you know, I can't blame

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Dak. He can only play theteams and put huge numbers. Ironically,
he didn't have a huge game againstCarolina, Yeah, which you figure he
might, but you know, theywere able to run the ball and the
defense scored fourteen points. I think, yeah, that helps, It helps.
Yeah, we've been talking the lastcouple of weeks about Pollard not really

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living up to expectations. But dude, the last couple of weeks he's been
in RB one twelve and nine yep, so he's put the numbers up last
two. Now, whether that translatesto the rest of the season, I
don't know. Well, the thingis he scored in both games, and
he hadn't done that since Week one, yeah, where he had two touchdowns
against the Giants. So he's scoredin both of those games back to back.

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So I mean that's the real key, because he's not getting enough carries.
He does okay with his carry Imean past two weeks he was five
point one and six point one perbut he's getting twelve to thirteen, you
know, and he does catch afew basses. So in PPR leagues that's
a little bit better. But well, you know, while you gotta feed
Rico Dowdell, you can't leave thatguy on the bench. Get at here.

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Of course, you got to playCD. Dude, Brandon Cooks last
couple of weeks, he's worth aplague worth of flex I think Yeah,
I think so too, Seattle.Yeah, I mean, with all these
teams on buy, I guess yougotta play Gino, but maybe you know
if you have to if by weekQB two is well, I have him

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here, and I think that mightbe generous. What I will say is,
if you can legally bet on sportsin your state, and you have
a prop bet for a Duran Blandpick six, putting money on that because
Gino does throw it to the otherteam Becka, Who's Yeah, he's got

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eight picks on the year, nothorrible. He actually only has one interception
his last three games. So butI mean, at this point it's a
good bet no matter who he's buthe's playing against Patrick Mahomes a couple of
dollars on it for sure. Yeah, so Kenny Walker is probably still out.
Zach Sharbone against Frisco nine point eightPPR points, but Frisco's number two

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against running backs, so it's gotto be easier this week, right for
Zack it is. Bud Wade Dallasis the middle of the pack. No,
Dallas is number four in the lastfour weeks. Last month against Fantasy
run they play. Yeah, that'strue, that's I think that's a slanted
stat man probably, And also becausenot only was it that the opponents are

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bad at running the football, butwhen Dallas is up by thirty points,
they're not running the ball, right, So I put in here game script.
Chances are Seattle's going to be behindand they're not going to be running
the ball. Now, Zach isactive in the in the passing game.
But I don't think Zach is goingto be, you know, top of
the list. But he may dobetter than he did last week over ten

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points. Maybe what do we thinkabout DK You got to play him.
I think he's at least a Flix. It's not sexy though, but I
mean, you know, you lookat something. I mean, he's getting
targeted nine twelve times a game.It's really hard not to play that dude.
Yeah, and we all know whathe can do. It's one of
those things where you know you puthim in because of what he has done

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in the past and what you knowhe can do in the future. And
Lockett's the same way. You know, he did nothing against Frisco, but
against Washington he was eight for tenninety two in a touchdown, you know,
so you know they target him againstCleveland he was eight for ninety eighty
one in a touchdown, so he'sover twenty PPR points in those lee in
those games. But you know,against Baltimore, three for eight thirty two

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and he kind of limps out toa six point two point total. So
hard to sit these guys because whenGino's on, it's worth a play.
I don't know whatever I can doto get Jake Bobo onto a team.
I'm going to do Jackson Smith andJigba has been somewhat disappointing this year.

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I think his future is bright,but the future ain't now. I think
if Gino was playing better, hewould probably be shining a little more.
But yeah, poor Gino has oneyear at the at the twilight of his
career, people were like, hey, Geno's back. He is not back,

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all right, so get into theSunday games. You have the Colts
and the Titans. I don't understand. I don't know what under what situation
you might think you need to putGardner Minshew into a starting lineup, But
whatever it is, you need tore examine your life and your options.
I'm just saying that. Now.We talked about Taylor being out with that

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hand Zach Moss was, like Isaid, an RB one four times out
of those five weeks, even aftera tailor came back that first week.
Moss was a beast. So ifyou got Zack Moss, find a way
to put him in flex running backtwo, whatever you got to do,
get him in there. Uh doublePPR figures in the last six for Michael
Pittman. Quietly, I mean,you know, Minshew's not a great quarterback,

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but he seems to be getting theball to Pittman enough for him to
be at least flexworthy. So finda place for him. It's a volume
beast. Yeah, he's targeted likea madman because he's the only one on
the team. Josh Downs had aperiod of time where he was pretty good.
Last time they played Tennessee he wassix for six targets ninety seven yards,

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decent enough PPR day. So youknow, if you're if you're in
bye week, hell, you considerthat guy. I wouldn't play Pittman and
Downs if they if they're you havethem both on your team, But I
would play Pittman for sure. Downsperhaps looking at ten to see Levis has
an ankle, so you're not gonnaplay him anyway, probably, dude,

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Just when you think Dereck Henry's washed, you watch him. You know,
he runs into the pile. Hedude, had eighteen carries for seventy six
yards and two touchdowns against Carolina.But it's Carolina. Indianapolis is thirteenth against
fantasy running backs in the last month. I don't think he can sit Derek
Henry, especially in the divisional game. Yeah, I mean he's They're gonna

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use him near the end zone ifthey get there in the red zone,
if they get there. Not awhole lot of yards here. Eighteen carries.
Three years ago, Derek Henry wouldhave had one hundred and fifty yards.
Now he has seventy six. Buthe does get into the end zone,
and you know those points count.Two. DeAndre Hopkins. Hopkins for
me is a flex a worse prettymuch every week. Colts are fifth against

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fantasy wide receivers in the last fourweeks. But Levis seems to find Hopkins
at least every other game for atouchdown. So I'm gonna throw him in.
And really, there's nobody else onthis Titans team that deserves a nod
at this juncture. That's how itbe. I got lyon Saints here to
kick it off for me, KevinJared Goff has been okay as a fantasy

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quarterback. If you need eighteen totwenty points, he's your guy. Three
weeks in a row. He's putup two touchdowns, awesome. He did
have three picks against Chicago, sonow they won that game. Oof.
Yeah, not good. But hewas interception less in the other two games
since they're bye, So you know, if you've been rolling with him,

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I don't hate it. He's notthe sexiest pick, but like I said,
eighteen to twenty points is probably whatyou're looking at. Gibbs and Montgomery,
if he plays, are absolute mystarts, especially in a PPR league.
Both of these guys are fantasy RBtwo's probably sometimes RB ones. I

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mean Gibbs was great three games ina row. Yeah, Montgomery is not
playing then, Yeah, honestly Iwould say they're they're both RB one with
the floor of RB two. Yeah, maybe RB one upside. Well,
I mean Montgomery has scored three straightweeks. If he does play right now,
he's questionable. But if he doesplay, absolutely playing. You're going
to play games obviously. You're alsoobviously going to play a mon Ra.

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He's one of the most consistent fantasywide receivers this season really and like ever
too. Yeah, seriously, man, I mean he literally e catches,
e catches, nine catches, touchdown, touchdown, Like it's just constant.
So it's almost as if they wantto get him the ball. Yeah,
they targeted. It's what a likean actual good offensive scheme? Does they

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get their best players the ball everysingle game? Crazy Wilde Falcons to Atlanta.
Yeah, but also play Sam Laporta. Obviously, he is more than
just a guy. He can havepedestrian efforts out there, like any tight
end can. But he scored anothertouchdown last week. That's five on the

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season. That's not bad. Guy'sgot fifty five catches. It's not bad.
So I would give him a roleas well. From the same side,
it's a little bit different. There'ssome there's some talk about Derek car
getting benched, and I don't seewhy they shouldn't at this point, they've
lost two straight games, you know, against Minnesota and then against Atlanta,

(31:26):
which was a big one. Hehas looked awful. He has been horrible.
Give me some me too. Obviously, wouldn't touch him really, not
much to choose from on this team, their wide receiver corp is totally decimated.
Kamara, Okay, I'll give hima nod. He you know,

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he he runs the ball fairly well. Still, he's only got two touchdowns
on the season. Would have likedto see more there. But he catches
a fair amount of passes too,so especially at PBR. Taysom Hill did
have a key fumble last week,bummer, but you know he ran the
ball twice for fifty five yards,Yeah, the big one. And he
also sorry, he caught the balltwice for fifty five yards and he also

(32:09):
ran another seven times. I mean, they're giving him the rock at a
tight end spot. He's not abad dice roll. I will say this.
If you're stuck at tight end andhe's not available for whatever reason,
I might put Juwan Johnson in aswell, simply because they don't have any
wide receivers right now. You don'teverybody's hurt. You know, Johnson last

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week was targeted seven times, calledfour passes. He might not be a
horrible dice roll, but that's allhe is. And that's it for this
game, all right. We gotthe Cardinals going to Pittsburgh to play the
Steelers. I think this game isgoing to be better then we anticipated it
was going to be six weeks ago, because Kyler is playing and Matt Kennon

(32:52):
isn't on the building anymore. Somight actually be a decent game. Mirth
and merriment may ensue. It mayfor the Cardinal. Not really many guys
that are like locks Kyler. Obviouslyyou're gonna play. James Connor didn't do
great last week, but we've seenhim put up some good efforts. The

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Steelers have a really good defense,so I don't think he's going to be
RB one or two, but heprobably fits into a flex pretty well.
Hollywood's got the You said it wasa heel. He's dealing with ye,
some sort of foot related injury.If he plays, he gets enough volume
that it's it's worth having him inthere, somewhere below the shin exactly.
Yeah. The other wide receivers arequestionable at best. Rondell Moore is really

(33:39):
sort of a gadget player. Hesuper boom or buss. You know,
he has two games where he doesanything all year and this shouldn't be though
he shouldn't. He is, That'swhat they got him doing. Don't look
now though, guys, Greg dorchwhat stay with me. Since Kyler's come

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back, which was Week eleven,he had eight targets and the nine targets
in back to back games. Beforethat, the most he had in the
game was one. He barely playedwith Kyler. He's actually like a relevant
flex player. I don't know,Lyle, I think this is a kind
of player, a guy who's rawdog in the show. This is this

(34:22):
is this is raw dog analysis isright there, all right. But if
you go back and look at hisnumbers from last year, uh, in
a couple of games that he wasplaying before uh, you know, while
d Hop was out and then whenHollywood was out, when he was when
he was up and healthy, hewas putting up like wide receiver three type

(34:45):
numbers when Kyler was healthy. Nowthat Kyler is back healthy this year,
if you're looking for someone to potentiallyfill an injury spot for the rest of
the season and you need someone,dude, Greg dors Okay, it's a
definitely are you're throwing a dart androlling dice at the same time. But

(35:07):
he might win you the league.Well, let's not that's not he could
do bro. Greg Dorge could doit. No, Kyrien Williams can win
you a league. Greg Dorts cankeep you from losing a league. Take
out, it's about it. Ilike that better. Yes, that's for
the receivers. Training. Bride hasbeen doing very well the past several weeks.

(35:31):
He's been in the top ten tightend three out of the past five
weeks. He did have a stinkerin there in an average tight end week,
but he's getting the volume and theproduction. He's probably one of the
twelve tight ends that you would considerstarters. Definitely want to roll with him
for the Steelers. We actually hada productive game out of the Steelers.

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This is the first time in sixtygames or something they had over four hundred
yards of offense the first game withoutMatt Canada. Yeah, funny how that
works. Really Unfortunately for Kenny Pigott. Even with all that being said,
still terrible fantasy quarterback. Had elevenpoints last week. Not worth starting,

(36:21):
honestly, Probably droppable if you're ina redraft. Maybe maybe even if you
have a bunch of quarterbacks in thedynasty league, you probably want to get
rid of him. Not really doinganything. Nause and Jalen Warren though I
think are both worth starting at leastin a flex they're actually getting some production.

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Well, they looked like two differentbacks this last week with a new
play caller. Yeah, and they'reI think they're still both very good.
Nase definitely between the tackles type guy. Not very fast. I saw break
when earlier and it looked like hewas back pedaling while everyone else is running
forward. Not a fast guy,but he he was running into dudes,
That's for sure. I would startboth of those guys. The receivers on

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this team. I still think needa little bit more, a little bit
more work before I'm comfortable starting themin Like actual receiver spots Deontay and George
Beckins both probably flex is at best. You see Deontay walk by that fumble,
that live ball fumble I did,Yeah, he just did not see
it well or was k or waspalady and ignored it? I don't know.

(37:31):
A pascatry I think I will bedoing something about is. Pat Fryermouth
had the best Fantasy game of hiscareer last week. Nine catches for one
hundred and twenty yards. He wastargeted, he was which I like as
a a frequent owner of him inmy fantasy football leagues. If this is

(37:53):
production continues, he's gonna vault upfrom the void, the tight end void
into being guy you definitely want tostart. So give them a roll this
week. Oh right, Uh,there's a lot of games this week that
is good team versus bad team,and this is one of those Miami Dolphins

(38:14):
Washington to my Commanders. Although Idid see a path that all NFC East
teams could make the playoffs, itstarts this week for the Commanders. They
have to beat the Dolphins, andthere goes that. You're telling me that
Giants can make the playoffs. Yes, technically, yes, technically they're not.
They're not eliminated yet. Now,the Eagles could actually clinch a playoff

(38:37):
spot this week if they beat Friscoand get a couple of other teams help.
No, I think it's it canhappen this week last week if they
if they lose out and other teamswin out, then they'll be like number
eight yeah something. But you knowwe have to lose to the Giants twice
for that to have. Don't talkabout Tommy Cutlets bro. Yeah, yeah,

(39:00):
the passing pies on Goba gool Whatwas I got to do with a
Gaba goul So you got Miami,you got washing and so yeah to you
know, it's not automatic good numbersfor that dude, right, but he
has gone big. He probably willgo big again, and you don't want

(39:21):
to have him on your bench whenhe does, so you can't sit in
to it, not like you wouldanyway. Raheem Mostert's going through ankle hip.
I don't know whatever. But ifhe's up, you gotta play him,
Devin a Chain. If he's up, you definitely have to play him.
Let me remind you, guys,not of the game he played against
the the the Raiders in week eleven. Let me tell you about his last

(39:45):
three games before he got hurt.Against Denver, he had eighteen carries for
two hundred and three yards, caughtfour balls for thirty had two rush rushing
touchdowns and two receiving touchdowns. AgainstBuffalo the next he had eight carries for
one hundred and one two touchdowns,caught three passes for nineteen yards. Next

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week, Week five, against theGiants, he had eleven rushes for a
buck fifty one in a touchdown,caught one passer fourteen yards. Dude,
if he's up. I don't carewho I have to sit to play him.
I'm playing him. Oh yeah,Now, he came back, you
know, in week eleven against theRaiders and heard it re injured his knees.

(40:27):
So there's a little trepidation there aboutwhether he can stay healthy and up.
And that's the only reason you wouldn'tplay him. But I'd give him
a shot. If he's up.Of course you're gonna play Rekilling, Jalen
Waddle, really nobody else on thisteam. You played the speed guys,
and that's it. From the Washingtonside. Sam Howe's a top ten scoring
quarterback and seven of his last eightnow. Thankfully, in most leagues they

(40:52):
don't take points off for getting sackedbecause that would change that he does.
And that might be the only thingthat saves Rivera's job is the fact that
Sammy Hall is doing as well ashe is. Brian Robinson has FTPPR numbers
and two out of his last three, but Miami's number one against fantasy running

(41:15):
backs in the last four weeks.Something's got to give. I think that
also may be a fake situation whereteams are trying to catch up with the
Dolphins and throwing the ball versus runningthe ball. But still I give Brian
Robinson a role here as well.Terry McLaren. McLaurin is hard to play.
Has him of the top ten widereceivers since Week four against Philly.

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You're looking for five to seven pointsover the last three weeks. He's your
guys. Maybe he'll get you upto nine. He had a stretch there
where he was in double digits fromweek six to week ten, week nine,
but since then, I'm not gonnatell you to sit him if he's
you know, you drafted him toplay and he's been, you know,
a fixed R in your lineup,but temporary expectations in a big way.

(42:00):
Johan Dotson I would play though.Dude has a touchdown in three out of
his last five. Disappeared against Seattle, but it has been reasonably solid.
Otherwise, Curtis Samuel is a riskyplay, can be a beast, but
more likely, Yeah, not goingto do it. But I was researching
Johan Dotson was like, he's quietlybeing a steady receiver there in Washington.

(42:22):
Desperation Bye week, Phil. Ifyou have Logan Thomas, you probably have
a better option. Though indeed,speaking of better options, Bronco is playing
the Texans. Oddly enough, thisis a much better game now than we
would have thought five or six weeksago too. Yeah, yeah, but
not a lot to like fantasy wise. From the Denver Broncos still Russell Wilson.

(42:43):
You know he's been winning games.I give him credit, but like
you know, his best performance youknow, over the past their winning span
is eighteen points, right, Usuallyhe's around fifteen or sixteen, So it's
not the biggest numbers. Javanta Williamsgets a fair amount of touches, so

(43:06):
he had eighteen last week, hehad twenty one against Buffalo. But he's
not doing a whole lot with him. He has no touchdowns on the year
rushing. He does have two throughthe air, maybe a PPR flex at
best for him. Courtland Sutton's theonly other player you can talk about.
Forget about Judy. He is actuallypretty reliable. There's only three games this

(43:29):
year he didn't score a touchdown,man, so you got to play that
guy. From the Houston side.Stroud is an absolute mustard. I don't
feel like I shouldn't even have tosay that. His last four games he's
got four seventy three fifty six,three thirty six and three four along with
four touchdowns in his last three games. Sorry, five touchdowns in his last

(43:51):
three games, and the previous gameagainst Tampa he had five. He also
had that's just through the air inhis last three games. He also has
two on the round. So it'snot bad when your worst game out of
a four game stretch is three hundredand four yards, right, three hundred
four yards and three touchdowns. Yeah, well, sorry about your off week
there, CJ. Yeah, Imean, I guess Arizona he had the

(44:15):
least amount of points. He onlyhad eighteen points, but I had a
in the NBNFL League Lyle I tradedDeebo Samuel against c J. Stroud.
I think I won that in abig way. I think you want it
too, Thanks, Brian, appreciateit. Broh. The running backs here,
I'm not sure what to do.When Pierce was out, Secretary actually

(44:38):
looked pretty good. You know,again, Cincinnati had a buck fifty and
a touchdown. I guess Arizona youhad a buck twelve in a touchdown.
And then last week, obviously theyhad a tough game against Jacksonville. You
know, he only had eighteen yardson the ground on six carries. Now,
he did catch six passes for anotherfifty four yards. Not bad.

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But as they're working Pierce back in, he only got six touches last week.
I expect that to increase. Idon't know what to do with these
guys now. I want to playSingletary in a flex. I'm just not
sure I would play both of thewide receivers. They're fantastic. Really not
much to say about it. Imean, Nico seems to be the possession

(45:21):
guy, whereas Tank Dell scores allthe touchdowns. I don't know, pretty
awesome, man. I think Dellhas touchdowns in four straight games, including
a multi TV performance against Tampa,So gotta love that. And I would
give Dalton Schultz role too. Iknow that he only had one catch last
week, but again it was atough one. In the previous three games,

(45:43):
he had a couple of touchdowns.He had one hundred and thirty yard
game, he had a seventy yardgame. I mean, these are huge
numbers for a tight end. AndI mean if you look at his sorry
I just clicked off my screen,if you look at his PPR stats over
the season, man, he hasput up some really big numbers for a

(46:06):
tight end. I mean, youknow, you go all the way back
to Week four, he was tightend six, Week five he was tight
end six, tight end two,tight end one, tight end eight.
Right, I mean he's he's hadsome really really good performances. I think
he's an absolutely my start. Yeah. The receiver situation there kind of reminds
me of like DK metcalf Title Lackettsituation, where yeah, Nico is gonna

(46:32):
get well, it hasn't been happening, but he would think he's gonna get
more like volume on catches, butthen tanks can get the yards and the
touchdowns. But tanks can targeted twelvetimes a game too. So yeah,
both of them are very good.You were you done there? All?
Right? Next week got the Chargersgoing to New England to play the Patriots.

(46:55):
I'm gonna give you guys some somenumbers here, some some stats that
I think is amazing. Keenan Allenhis best season season where he had the
most amount of Fantasy points actually thesecond most. I was twenty twenty one.

(47:15):
He had one hundred and six catches, just over eleven hundred yards,
six touchdowns in sixteen games through twelveweeks eleven games this year, he has
ninety seven catches, just over elevenhundred yards and seven touchdowns. He is

(47:36):
he is what is this nine catchesshy of his career best catch total with
six games left, and he's whathe is thirty he is thirty one years
old. Yeah, he's he's goingto be flirting with the catch the season
catch record at the end of theseason. I think if he stays out,
you mean the season catch record,yeah, or his season catch the
season, which is one hundred andforty nine from Michael Thomas back in twenty

(48:00):
nineteen. We'll see eleven games,he's a third of the way. They
are a third of the way,two thirds through the season. He's two
thirds of the way to the record. Okay, you know, I mean
I'd love to see it. Imean, yeah, quirky things like that.
Yeah, I just as I'm asI'm raw dogging this analysis. While
you guys are doing your thing,I'm looking at his stats, like,

(48:22):
my god, he's got almost onehundred catches through eleven weeks. That's amazing.
I think the question is here ishow many times we can actually say
the phrase raw dog, raw doggingwell, we we just got two more
games lefter. We we can fitit in. Yeah, we can raw
dog it in. Uh. Anyway, Uh, you're gonna play Keenan Allen.

(48:44):
That being said, shocker, youhave to start Justin Herbert obviously.
I think you start Austin Neckler two, even though he's had two back to
back stinkers. I thought that hewas He had a breakaway run and they
clocked him at thirteen miles. Hehad a I think he had a breakaway
jog. Yeah, I mean Ithink I could hit thirteen miles an hour

(49:06):
with a good tail wind. Yeah. I think he he tweaked an ankle
or something last week and it lookedlike he was still bothering him. I
mean week eight, weeks eight,nine, and ten he had twenty two
to twenty one and twenty one Fantasypoints, and then the past two weeks
six and then eight. You know, it kind of streaky. But we

(49:27):
know him to be a good runningback. So I mean, you gotta
hope that the ankle feels a littlebetter and you can get back to form.
But you know, New England's defenseis pretty good really the only thing
they have going for him. Yeah, so I have to see how that
goes. So you're gonna roll withhim, but just you know, be
careful. I guess not that youcan do anything about it. That's really

(49:51):
only people from the Trogers. Ihave any confidence in the rest of the
receivers drop passes. I mean evenKeenan drops passes. But yeah, yeah,
I'm steering clear basically everybody else.And for the Patriots, I'm playing
Remandre against the thirty first ranked rushdefense and that's it. Who all right,
Remember I said something about good team, bad team. This is bad

(50:15):
team, worst team. Now.The funny thing is is one of these
teams is leading their division. Theother team is the Jets. Okay,
so you got the Falcons visiting theJets. Falcons somehow leading their division,
they could host a playoff game.Guys, be hilarious. Yeah, all

(50:37):
right, So obviously you're not gonnaplay Desmond. Ritter Bijeon has been a
study in how not to use thenumber one running back. Pick right.
The first couple of games, youknow, they fed him the ball pretty
well. He had one hundred andtwenty four yards against Green Bay in Game
two, blah blah. Then hehad a stretch in there where Arthur Smith

(50:57):
said he's useful as a decoy.I guess he got lamb based over that.
So the last couple of games,he had twenty two carries against Arizona
for ninety five yards in a touchdown. He had almost eighteen points in that
one. In a PPR last weekagainst New Orleans, sixteen carries, ninety
one yards, had a touchdown,caught a couple three passes for thirty two
and another touchdown. This is howyou do it, and he had twenty

(51:22):
seven plus PPR points. If theycontinue to throw the ball to him,
which they weren't, and they continueto hand the ball to him which they
weren't, I don't know, maybethey'll win the division and you know,
earn that playoff spot. As faras your concerned, Bjean Robinson a shareholder,
you've been playing him. Maybe nowyou'll actually get a little something for

(51:43):
it. We'll see really everybody elseon this team. I'd love to play
Drake London. He can have decentflex numbers. But I don't know.
If you've heard of a guy namedSauce Gardner. Who else is he going
to cover? Mac Hollins, No, of course, not Scotty Miller.
Now, of course, So Idon't say I don't think we're going to
see a whole lot out of Drakethis week. Kyle Pitts is just a

(52:06):
guy. We know this. Soone dude out of the Falcons, the
division leader in the NFC South forthe Jets, Timmy Boyle. Did I
say this before? I'm not sure, but I remember saying last week that
Timmy can be any worse than Zach. I were wrong. Timmy can damn

(52:27):
well be worse than Zach, Andto prove it, they're gonna give him
another start, just to see,just to remove all doubt I was.
I was gonna mention earlier about AaronI just coming back. I had a
thought that was it's possible that they'remaybe risking him coming back earlier than they'd
want, just so that everybody sees, this is what the team should look

(52:47):
like with Aaron. So like freeagents come to our team in the offseason,
like not just that, but seasonticket holders buy season tickets for the
next year. They just want toThey want to tease what the team should
would look like next year so thatthey can actually do things in the offseason.
Maybe, but they brought they broughta lot of free agents and to

(53:08):
make Aaron happy Lizard Cobb. Yeah, that didn't work out. So you
know, Bresall is questionable with ahammy. He's a good BPR play at
least in flex and believe it ornot, Garrett Wilson is playable even with
shite QB play in a PPR.Especially so Bresall and Garrett Wilson their quarterback

(53:30):
proof apparently amazing to see what theycould do with an actual quarterback and potentially
in under twenty one days might beable to say it, you never know.
That's it for this game. Loleah right, I got the game
of the week, of the monthof the year. It's been circled on

(53:51):
my calendar since the start of theseason. San Francisco at Philadelphia rematch of
the NFC Championship Game, four pmin Philadelphia this week. What can we
say about the cry baby Whiners?Rock Purty has played much better he has

(54:12):
in the past three weeks since they'reby They seem to straighten some things out,
they got healthy. He has beenmuch much better. He didn't have
a huge game statistically last week,but the previous two weeks he was top
five quarterback. Believe it or not. Against Jacksonville, I mean they totally
steamrolled on He had two ninety sixto three touchdowns against Tampa again, three

(54:34):
thirty three and three touchdowns. Phillydoes not have a good pasty. I
would expect him to have around threehundred yards and several touchdowns. Their receivers
always seem to be open. Theyare. I don't see that being different
this week. I don't either Seemack, you're gonna play do even he didn't
describe that you should play him,silly, You're good. Honestly, he's

(54:59):
the better receiver of the two.But Debo's really good too. Ay scored
the three straight games. But Debo, obviously, he's a dual threat.
He's got two rushing TV's in thelast three games. He's got to play
that. You're obviously gonna play Kittleas well, no question. That's it
for the forty nine ers, theforty wers. Sorry, from the eagle

(55:22):
side, it's gonna be a similarstory. You're gonna play Jalen obviously last
week? Yeah, alright, Icare. I don't care. If they're
playing the best defense in the historyof the NFL, I would still play
Jalen Hurts He's pretty good if yousay so. DeAndre is an interesting question.

(55:46):
He obviously has fallen off a littlebit. His numbers are still good
enough to put him in that flexcategory and stuff, but he's not He's
not great statistically. He has somebig runs in key moments in the game,
but he didn't score a touchdown lastweek. He did eighty Huh he
did. DeAndre Swift got the end, Zoe. He did not get in

(56:08):
the zone last week. I willthat you one thousand American dollars. His
stats say he did not score atouchdown last week. Okay, a deal.
Nah, yeah, I don't thinkhe did because Hurts had two and
uh, Hurts accounted for all ofthe touchdowns. Yeah, and then a
thousand dollars and alright, you hadcheck he scored the week before against KC

(56:32):
but he still had eighty yards andagainst Kannas City he had six point three
per against Buffalo he had five pointseven per. Those are pretty good defenses,
and so he's running the ball effectively. He just doesn't get the ball
enough. I think you know,he had fourteen touches last week, what
fifteen if he count he caught aone yard pass. He doesn't. They

(56:52):
don't use him much in the inthe receiving game, which is kind of
wild because you know, his bestreceiving performance was against the Jets and they
lost, so who knows. He'sprobably still a flex against this defense,
because again, he put up decentnumbers against Casey and Buffalo. But I
would temper expectations. You're gonna playAja obviously pretty much a monster always,

(57:20):
and I would play DeVonta Smith too. He has really turned it on lately.
He's got touchdowns in three of thelast four games, but they've played
in He's also been at or justat. He had ninety nine twice and
over one hundred in three of thosegames as well. And rumor is that
it's possible he didn't practice today,but it's possible that Dallas got it.

(57:44):
Returns this week against San Francisco.I wouldn't count on it, but if
it turns out he's playing, Iplay. I think the biggest question about
who's playing this week is is LaneJohnson playing. Apparently he's feeling much better.
Good. See that's excellent. Howabout Fletcher, Yeah, now he's

(58:05):
got to growing. He'll probably beout. Bill Williams should be back.
Though, because that was a concussion. Cool, that's all right. Uh.
Next week got another NFC South Battle, Panthers going to the Bucks.
This one should be horrible. Uh. From the Panthers is the only person

(58:29):
you even want to consider playing isAdam Dalon Uh. And honestly, he's
not been as good as he wasthe first four weeks of the season,
but you know he's got that potential, so you know, you throw him
in a flex if you if yougot to running backs on this team can't
do anything. The other wide receiversare sporadic at best. There I don't

(58:51):
even know the name of they're startingtight end Hayden Harris, but he's been
out. I'm not even sure he'sgonna play this week. They're gonna have,
you know, some some new bloodcalling plays running the team, so
maybe that accounts for a boost.But even with a boost, these players
are far below average, so don'tplay any of them really. From the

(59:15):
Bucks is a little different. Baker'sstill been really good. He's a solid
QB two if you're in if you'rein one of those leagues, roll with
Baker, dude. Baker's like TonyRomo back in the day. Good fantasy
points. Does something stupid at theend to lose the game, throw a
pick, sack, fumble something.Baker's that guy. Yeah. But and

(59:38):
the thing I love most about himis that he will hit stick a mother.
I almost said the F word onthis clean podcast. I was real
close. Only Liz Losa can curseon this podcast. Yeah he, I
mean he already hit last week.He just took off from the pocket and
ran over the strong safety. Hedid lower the shoulder with Colt with the

(01:00:01):
quarterback pads on. Yeah, dude, I was sitting right. I got
fired up a little bit, youknow. Robbie jumps up, Yo,
Baker, go ahead, brother,I see you. It was It was
nice. Uh yeah, I rolledBaker. If you need to start two
quarterbacks for sure, Rashad White,even though the Bucks can't really run the
ball, he does great work inthe passing game, and he's establishing himself

(01:00:24):
as like a very low end RBone just just from passing stats. So
definitely gonna roll him against the Panthersbecause you got a figure he might be
taking a lot of hand alsoay inthe game, gonna roll with him.
Mike Evans is pretty goddamn good.Isn't he. Yeah, he's gonna gonna
probably get at least another thousand yardseason. Yeah, so gonna definitely roll

(01:00:49):
with him. Mike Evans Hall ofFamer probably, Yeah, not first ballot,
but I think he'll get in alot of receivers. A lot of
receivers are putting up huge number.Yeah, but he's got what ten straight
thousand yards seasons. Consistency is justcrazy. It's bananas with the ring.
Yeah yeah, I mean he playedwith Tom Brady. I think. Really
the thing is that he's had thatmany thousand yard seasons with like five different

(01:01:14):
quarterbacks, and one of them wasJameis Winston. Yeah, so that I
think is the biggest thing is thathe was able to do it with anybody
throwing him the football. So you'regonna start him. Godwin's not really been
great this season. Maybe it's thenot tom Brady effect or the Baker effect,
but he's a flex at best recently, which is kind of sad considering

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what he has been in the past. Yeah. Yeah, you kind of
relegated to that and you're not goingto play Kado sorry sadly, in fact,
I have to this week. Ohthat sucks. I think I have
to leave as well. Dude.Yeah, that he was sitting on the
waver wire for me. Hawkinson's out. What's a guy to do? Yeah?

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Pick up Kate Outen? Yeah?Was that it? All right?
So he got the Cleveland Browns andthe Los Angeles Rams. What to do
with this Browns team? Pretty simple? Actually, you're not gonna play Dorian
Thompson Robinson, even if he's backfrom his concussion, didn't practice today.
Could be Joe Flacco. He's takenfirst team reps. Not gonna play Joe
either. I don't know, dude, may do Okay, I'm not gonna

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take that chance. I'm trying tomake the playoffs, damn it. I
will play Jerome Ford though, sincehe came back from injury. You know,
I thought it was gonna be afifty to fifty split with him and
Kareem Hunt. Turns out not somuch. Jerome Ford is actually getting the
bigger share and the more important carries, and Kareem Hunt's just kind of eh.

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I'm not gonna play him, butI will play Jerome. I'd love
to play Amari Cooper, but he'squestionable with ribs and bad quarterback play leads
to bad wide receiver numbers. Whoknew? Yeah, so really this receiver
crew, I like Cedric Tillman.I'm gonna stash him in Donacy leagues and
see if I can hang on tohim for the future. But as far
as this week, no thanks,David, and Joku has been a number

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one tight end for the last sixweeks. Dude has a lot of drops
though. Just watching Red Zone Channel, I saw him drop a touchdown and
a first down in like fifteen minutes. So yeah, play him, but
you know the drops will kill you. Just kind of like the hope from
the Rams side. Matty Stafford atis the best game of his season against
Arizona Cleveland number two. Against fantasyquarterbacks, you got a better option than

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Matty Stafford, boy, I hope. So if you're looking to crunch time
your way into the playoffs, orif should I say raw dog your way
into the playoffs, there we go. Yeah. Kyrin Williams came back from
injury wondering whether he was going toease his way back in. Dude that
sixteen carries for a buck forty three, called all six of his targets for

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sixty one yards, had two tutters. Yeah, in my scott Fish Bowl
league, he had over fifty points. Thank you, Kyron. So if
the if the draft is uh tomorrow, Lyle, where are you putting Kyraen
Williams in the first round. Ah, He's probably towards the back end tomorrow.

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Tomorrow. By the end of theseason, he might be towards the
front end. Yeah, yeah,I mean, you know, clearly they
believe in him. You know,Uh, look at these receivers. Cooper
Cup. Let me let me letme open the thing here so I can
talk about Cooper Cup. Since hecame back from injury. Right the first
week he came back, buck eighteen, You're like, yeah, Cooper's back

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next week a buck forty eight inthe touchdown, You're like, yeah,
since then, twenty nine yards againstPittsburgh, twenty one yards against Dallas,
forty eight against Green Bay on twocatches, one catch for eleven yards against
Seattle, three catches for eighteen yardsagainst Arizona. The hell's happened to Cooper
Cup? I don't know, Butcan you sit Cooper Cup? Yes,

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against Cleveland's defense. I think hecan remember too too. At well,
when Cooper was out had had somegames, remember pooking Nakua Rookie of the
Year candidate. Yeah, not anymore. These guys just they're not putting out
the numbers that they were. Canyou can you see? I mean yeah,
you can sit to too relatively easyeasily. Cup and Pooking the coup

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are difficult to sit because the wayI see it though, is, you
know what last week, Kyrien Williamswas the entire offense he was against the
Browns. I don't see him havingthe same success. He's going to be
good, but he's he's not gonnahave two hundred yards and scrimmage and two
touchdowns probably, So I think they'regonna need to throw the ball a little
more right. Over the past fivegames, though, Cooper Cup hasn't busted

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a fifty burger to defor u Lyle. Yeah, hasn't had over forty eight
yards. So and they're there,He's getting targeted decently. He just either
the passes are askew or he's justnot catching them. You know who is
catching passes though, Tyler Higbee,usually just a guy, had two touchdowns
last week. Not saying play thedude, but you know, if you

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need if you need a tight end, you know, apparently Matt Stafford likes
throwing to Tyler Higbee in the redzone. So what the hell. I'm
not telling you to sit Cooper Cuppor Pooking Nakua, but just really temper
your expectations against a good defense.And the last few games it's been bad
at best. Right, I gotChiefs Packers here, man, this one's

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gonna be fairly easy. Easy.You're gonna play your Chiefs, You're gonna
see your Packers. I'll go throughthem. But that's pretty much how it's
gonna go. Patty Mahomes, you'regonna play him. So you think,
you think maybe Patty Mahomes is ago, But listening to his points in
the last four games seven, fifteen, seventeen, twenty, they're not great

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man. So seven was the game? You know what? Fel Well guesst
Denver. He's still second in MVP. Uh, yes, we could argue
that because I think Dak actually belongsahead of him. Agreed, Yeah,
I think so. It's a separatestory. Pacheco is compelling, you know,

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he scored two touchdowns last week.He bounces back before and forth between
mediocre performances and slightly above mediocre performances. I would put him in as a
flex Uh, I don't know what. I guess start Rashid Rice. I
guess somebody's gonna catch passes. Ithink Watson. I don't know he's gonna

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drop a couple. Travis Kelsey,you would definitely play. I think maybe
from the Green Bay side. It'sit's uh, you know, I would
love to play age Joan. Iloved him in the past, but he
has been really bad over the pasttwo weeks. He's been really bad all
season, and you know, Jonesapparently still as a knee, so it's

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probably still gonna be him. Chiefshave a good defense. I would expect
under ten points. I would sayit. Watson is really the only other
person I could talk about on thisteam, and he scored two weeks in
a row, so I can't ignorethat. But he's got three touchdowns on
the whole season. They're gonna haveto throw a lot in this game,

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so if you're desperate for a flexvilleat wide receiver, he might get you
a touchdown. That's about all Ican talk about. Tyler Craft or Tucker
Craft. You can't even mentioned.No love for Jordan No, I see
what you did there? Do youlove for Jordan really no, I mean,
listen, he he, I mean, he had three touchdowns last week.

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He had a couple of the weekbefore that in three and twenty two
yards, but that was against theChargers in Detroit, right, this is
against Kansas City. I would expecthim to go back to his normal self
and throw for a buck eighty ina touchdown. Regressing to the mean,
listen, he might be in thetop fifteen for fantasy quarterbacks, but he's
not in the top twelve. Yeah, fair enough, all right? Rounding

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out the game's got the Bengals goingdown to Jacksonville the Monday night to play
the Jaguars. As expected, forthe Bengals, everybody is much worse without
Joe Burrow. I think their highestscoring players from r Chase and he had
twelve points. Can't sit him.But he's not gonna be wide receiver one

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scoring, that's for that's for sure. T Higgins is supposed to come back
this week, so there's gonna beeven fewer targets to go around, or
I guess you could figure you couldthink of fewer targets. But also maybe
they're gonna be more open because nowthey have to cover Te Higgins and Jamie
Chase. I don't know, butyou know, Jake Browning is not great.

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That's some hard hitting analysis, notgreat. Mixing all had eight carries,
which I think is criminal, buthe didn't really do anything. Jaguars
defense isn't bad, so they're gonnahave to play well to do anything.
Uh, They're gonna have to runthe ball, and I don't think it's
gonna be easy to run the ballagainst Jacksonville because their offense is really good.

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They're gonna have some points. Well, not just that, but you
know, you're not gonna have toworry about the passing game from Bengals,
So we're not stacked the box.Yeah, So I mean, I hesitate
to start anybody but Chase really,Uh, that's really it for the Bengals.

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For the Jaguars, things a littledifferent. How do you feel about
Trevor Lawrence. So, Trevor Lawrencehas had two back to back good points
scoring games, but he's still notthrowing touchdowns, right is the thing we're
watching the we're watching the games.The other day, Lyle and Robbie says
Trevor Lawrence only had one touchdown pass. They won the game. As a

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great performance. He had almost twentyfive points, but he threw one touch
out pass. Yeah, that's it. He ended up with with two rushing
attempts, zero yards but a touchdown. Nice. So then he had a
one yard touchdown run and then tooka knee at the end, so right
equaled out there. So two totaltouchdowns but only threw one of them.

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I mean, he's scoring points,so I guess you can play because he's
kind of on a streak, butcan't count on that rush. And I
heard somebody put him in the samecategory. He was like, there's elite.
It was the talking head. Itmight have been like heard or somebody.
It was like, we got elitequarterbacks in the AFC. You got
josh Allen Mahomes, Trevor Lawrence,and Joe Burrow Right, And I was

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like, really, is Trevor Lawrencein that conversation. I don't think Trevor
Lawrence is better than Justin Herbert.Yeah. Well even preseason they were putting
him in there. I'm like,that's a little premature, but I don't
think something So I don't think TrevorLawrence is better than Tua, not on
either. I'm just telling you what. These people were there, you know,
and they and they threw it outthere like it was fact, and

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they weren't even discussing it, andnobody discounted it. No, no,
yeah, I mean he's scoring fantasypoints. I'd see you probably started.
They did mention Lamar too, Yeah, MVP candidate Lamar Jackson. Yeah,
yeah, former MVP. Anyway,we digress, sorry, yeah, yeah,

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I'll give I'll give Trevor that.No, I'm sure he'll throw zero
touchdowns and four picks this week becauseof it. But you know he's doing
He's done pretty well at tenas kindof regressed since the bye week. He
was like RB two before their weeknine by and I think he's averaging RB
twenty six since to buy. Ithink they're throwing down the field more than

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they were and he they're you know, kind of biling up the run a
little bit better on defense. Theyhave played three straight pretty good run defenses,
so that might have something to dowith it. But still you're gonna
start him just because you know whathe can do for the receivers. Don't
look now, Calvin really has twogames back to back touchdowns. Don't look

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now, actually looked good Yeah,he looked like the Calvin Ridley. Everybody
thought he could be right, andI hope he continues to be again.
He's on a hot streak. Gottastart him, gotta play him. He's
outperformed his teammates, which hasn't happenedsince Week one. I'm rolling with him.

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Christian Kirk has likewise kind of takena back seat. He's still pretty
consistent. He's gonna get your twelvethirteen points a week, but probably not
much higher than that with Calvin startingto get hot or the flex at least.
Zay Jones kind of a disappointment.Makes big plays in the game,

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but he only catches three passes atmost for thirty yards. His only relevant
game was Week one, and thenhe's been on and off, hurt,
not really done anything, not worthstarting. Evan Ingram still does not have
a touchdown, but he is stilla pretty consistent tight end that I think
is worth starting because at any pointhe could score that touchdown and you know,

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but apparently not from Trevor Lawrence.Yeah, yeah, someone I was
gonna have to throw the pass.Yeah it's going to be Travis. Yeah,
that's that's what I got, Andthat meet them games, belches,
Hey, what do you say?We do some questions, Let's get to
it. I do have one fromthe REDDITO in the chat here, right,

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Wizard of cut uh says League oneone point PPR Jalen Warren versus Arizona
Hollywood Brown Pitt high like Jalen Warren. I think I did two, and
Hollywood's banged up as well. Yeah, yeah, I would definitely play ja
Yeah yeah, League two one pointPPR. Tight end is on by,

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So pick from this stack. Caateaddenat Carolina who always seems to be available,
Juwan Johnson versus Des Trois, jigOn Kwonkwoe or something like that versus
Indy Hunter, Henry versus Chargers,Tanner Hudson who versus Jacksonville, Tyler Higbee
versus Cleveland. I play stacked there, buddy. He did say it was

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a stack, and uh, you'renot wrong. I'm gonna say Johnson just
because I mentioned him earlier. Yeah, honestly, yeah, I think so
maybe Higbee maybe, yeah, really, let's be honest. Could be any
of these guys, but more likelyit's gonna be none of these guys.

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So sure Juwan Johnson or Tyler Higby, you flip your coin and you make
yourself happy. And that's the readyquestions, all right, tacker Wolf says,
Hey, guys, with Burrow out, do I ride Chase or swap
him out with someone like Addison,Ridley or More going into the playoffs.
The rest of the team is goffhowl. He's got Bijeon, Carl Williams,

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Herbert, Mitchell, Chase, lambDell is his current flex. He's
got really more in Addison on thebench. I'd ride him for a week,
but you have options there. IfRidley has another good game, I
would swap him. Yeah, Iagree, and and that I mean that
applies to More and Addison as well. But but Chase is too good not
to play him at least one moreweek. I don't know. I was

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in I was thinking I might swaphim this week. Yeah, I don't
know. I mean Addison and Moreon, So it'd be Ridley or Chase,
right. I I just don't trust, really, I don't trust him.
Did trust Chase with Jake Brown andthrowing and throwing him the ball?
I trust? I mean he's thebest player on their team, so fair
Yeah, yeah, I mean youknow you kind of what you always want

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to be the guy who ducks outjust in time. It might be that
that might be this week with thewith the Bengals. But yeah, I
think given Chase one more week tolet the offense gel around the new quarterback,
and and see that's what I woulddo. Uh, And then next

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week you'll have multiple options to choosefor him, right, DC said,
this is the last question. Actually, DC says, Hey, guys,
my Dynasty League at the half peeper, I was offered a clear in exchange
for giving up Algyar in my twentytwenty fourth second round pick. Currently,
I'm the fourth league in the playoffs, and current rbs are Aaron Jones,
Brian Robinson, Dalvin Cooks, thatWard's Damian pearce ngerom Ford. I also

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have a second round pick next yearas well, so the impact of losing
the two won't be huge. I'mkind of worried that Eck isn't getting younger,
and he'll likely be on a differentteam next season, so who knows
how that affects his production. Whatdo you think I should do? I
totally agree with that. Yeah,that's what I was gonna mention. However,
Algier is basically nothing so you're givingup a second for Eckler, right,

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I mean you would assume that Bijonwill eventually take all of the carrier
who knows with freaking Atlanta, butAlgier really isn't much. So I would
do the second round picking the DynastyLeague for Freckler. I would, especially
if I was in self contention andyou have RB trouble. Yeah right,
I mean you got Aaron Jones isbanged up, your Brian Robinson who's played

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well, Dalvin Cook, Gus mightscreen a touchdown Pierce and Ford. You
know, I would do it tomake a push for this season. Yeah,
I think you know, you couldprobably get a better running back with
that second first you have than Eckler. Yeah, because I think what's gonna

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happen to Eckler second second? Iknow he's just a second first round pick.
Oh okay, right, Yeah,I think what happened to Dalvin Cook
in this offseason is gonna happen toAustin Eckler in this upcoming one where he's
gonna go to a team and notbe the number one guy and not really
get much use because he's gonna betwenty nine next year. I think so,

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and we've seen that he's not reallya traditional running back as far as
fantasy goes. Yeah, he youknow, he doesn't get a whole lot
of carries through the line. Hemakes his hay in the receiving game.
That's fine. He might go andbe Jack McKinnon somewhere, Yeah, which
is potentially good, but yeah,not fantasy good. Yeah. I think
you're right that if you want toget someone that's gonna help out, not

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just this year, you could probablysend that other first to get DeAndre Swift,
Sakuon Barkley. Yeah, someone that'sgoing to help you this year and
also next year. Yeah, Soyou know, is Ek the guy?
I don't know. I mean Ilike to have team I like to have

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players on teams who are playing forsomething other than playing out the string at
the end of the season, ifpossible. And you know, we we've
seen the Chargers what they are thisyear. They're basically what they were last
year. They may eke into theplayoffs, but they're not going to do
anything past that. So if Ihave a second first, I'm shooting shooting
a little bit higher. If you'rethe fourth seed, you know, maybe

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you can you can win from there. But I think you can do better
replacing a running back with that secondfirst that you have than worrying about trying
to get Eckler. Yeah, youknow that's what I would look to do.
All right, that's been a question, and that means this show is
over. We're gonna raw dog itinto the credits. Oh yeah, I

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mean it, Kevin, raw Dogs. You're a friend, just raw Dog
and you as a friend, yes, I mean, you know, with
benefits. Don't want to get feelingsinvolved here now, I mean past the
obvious, you know. Sure,all right, we're out. Enjoy your
lucky Week thirteen games, and we'llbe back next week for the last regular

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season Fantasy football week, Week fourteen. So yaya,