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Dream Team: Week 8 · The Dream Team

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  Speaker 1: It's time to set your lineup with the dream team.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Jim Zoki and John Halpin. All right, we join
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  Speaker 1: you from all across America today to bring you this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, John Halpin back in Charlotte. This is Jim
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  Speaker 1: Zoki in Appleton, Wisconsin, getting ready for Thursday night football.
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  Speaker 1: As we record this, getting ready for the Panthers in
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  Speaker 1: primetime against the Green Bay Packers. And last year, what
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  Speaker 1: you wanted, you got, was the win, John. It was
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  Speaker 1: not a fantasy football stellar performance, though. Bryce Young threw
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  Speaker 1: for like 102 yards, and the Panthers kicked a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of Brian Fitzgerald field goals, but much happier to take
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  Speaker 1: the win to get fantasy stats. But we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: this one plays out. This one doesn't set up, in
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  Speaker 1: my mind, I'll see about you, it doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a 16-13 game this time,
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  Speaker 1: does it?
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  Speaker 2: It definitely doesn't. Over-under is 47.5, so we're looking at
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  Speaker 2: a high-scoring game. Panthers are still without their cornerbacks, not great. Um,
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  Speaker 2: Packers have some injuries too. Uh, so, and lots of
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  Speaker 2: good skill players everywhere that I know we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about, but yeah, 16, 13 doesn't seem likely more
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  Speaker 2: like a, more like a 27, 24 kind of game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's stick with them for a minute. You mentioned it.
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  Speaker 1: And as we record this, we don't know about Matthew Golden, right?
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  Speaker 1: He's got a foot and a shoulder injury. So they're
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  Speaker 1: still listening to him as questionable. Does that feel like
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  Speaker 1: a game time decision?
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  Speaker 2: It feels like that. We, I haven't normally, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you wake up in the morning on, let's say a
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  Speaker 2: Sunday and And you hear, yeah, this guy's tracking likely
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  Speaker 2: to play today on Matthew. We're doing this Thursday late morning.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a we don't know on Matthew Golden. So
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  Speaker 2: game time or close to that.
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  Speaker 1: And so, as you mentioned, the Panthers without their two
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  Speaker 1: top cornerbacks, also depth wise, I know it's polarizing, but
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Evans will not play. He's another player you don't have.
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  Speaker 1: So it looks like a lot of practice squad help
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  Speaker 1: to go with Willie and Shaw Smith Wade at corner.
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  Speaker 1: Could this be a bonanza potentially, and hopefully not, but
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  Speaker 1: potentially for Christian Watson who can flat out fly with
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  Speaker 1: the football? He's got six touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately I think so because with those injuries, on
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  Speaker 2: top of those injuries, Christian Watson is a deep threat
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  Speaker 2: and Jordan Love likes to attack. He's not a check
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  Speaker 2: down Charlie kind of quarterback. He's a let it fly
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  Speaker 2: kind of guy. So you would think they're going to
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  Speaker 2: be throwing downfield quite a bit to Christian Watson and
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  Speaker 2: Golden if he plays. I mean, if you look at
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  Speaker 2: those two guys, Both of them. I mean, Golden's averaging
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  Speaker 2: 15 yards a catch. Watson's up around 17. Like, these dudes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they get after it. They are not, you know,
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  Speaker 2: catching four-yard slants and getting tackled. They are going downfield,
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  Speaker 2: and I think the Packers are going to do a
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  Speaker 2: lot of that tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so probably some deep safety help to help those
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  Speaker 1: corners out tonight for Carolina. I had Tucker Kraft last
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  Speaker 1: year in fantasy. He was, I would say— maybe top
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  Speaker 1: two tight end at the time last year, about this
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  Speaker 1: time on the calendar last year, and he blew up
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  Speaker 1: his knee against the Panthers. He's been back playing this year.
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  Speaker 1: He's not been as dynamic, but probably feel like as
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  Speaker 1: he gets more and more recovered and healthy as the
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  Speaker 1: season goes on, that he might be a guy that
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  Speaker 1: really makes a difference in the second half of the season, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's better than your average tight end
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Talent-wise, he's much better. Stat-wise, 29 catches so far,
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  Speaker 2: about 10 yards a catch, pretty good. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: get in the end zone a little more often and
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  Speaker 2: things work out pretty well. But, you know, Tucker Kraft's
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  Speaker 2: probably in the top. If I was going to project
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  Speaker 2: fantasy tight ends for the rest of the year, he'd
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  Speaker 2: be in the top six or seven.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay. So keep an eye on him tonight as well. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, last week was the return of Josh Jacobs.
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  Speaker 1: And he only ran for 36 yards. He had five catches,
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  Speaker 1: 55 yards, and a touchdown receiving in his first game back.
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  Speaker 1: And they are the worst rushing team in the NFL. So, again,
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  Speaker 1: they are like the Panthers. A lot of injuries on
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line, so hard to project everything. But he's
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  Speaker 1: a guy, even if they can't get the run game going,
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  Speaker 1: will probably get you something in the receiving game, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, even though he's the best back they have, even
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  Speaker 2: with the backups, they were struggling to run all year.
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  Speaker 2: They kept saying things like, you know, I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: until Jacobs gets back because the other guys can't run.
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  Speaker 2: And now Jacobs is back and he really couldn't run.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, you know, I think that they'll try,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't think they'll be stubborn about trying.
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  Speaker 1: And Jordan Love, back on draft season, You mentioned him
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  Speaker 1: and that lump of players like, don't go chasing big-name
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks early. There's guys like Jordan Love out there, and
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  Speaker 1: he seems like he's been playing really well as far
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  Speaker 1: as the value of somebody taking him in their fantasy
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  Speaker 1: draft and waiting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately, you wish Jordan Love would run a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: but he's averaging 280 passing yards a game. Like I
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  Speaker 2: said earlier, they kind of get after it.
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  Speaker 1: They attack.
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  Speaker 2: They don't just dink and dunk their way down the field,
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  Speaker 2: and that's going to lead to bigger plays and more yards.
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  Speaker 2: He's QB 14 in points per game right now, but
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  Speaker 2: I think rest of the year again. With those two receivers,
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Love is the guy who didn't cost you much
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  Speaker 2: on draft day and is kind of nice to have.
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  Speaker 1: All right, before we talk about the skill players for
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  Speaker 1: the Panthers, of course, recapping a disappointing loss of Taylor
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  Speaker 1: Moten after he just came back from the blood clots
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  Speaker 1: and now the ankle surgery he's done for the year
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  Speaker 1: at White Tackle. So Monroe Freeling back in. Damian Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: the guard, will not play in this game. It's been
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  Speaker 1: a tough year for the O-line. They allowed five sacks.
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  Speaker 1: last week, which had a hand in the three turnovers
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  Speaker 1: that Bryce Young had of the four turnovers Carolina had.
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  Speaker 1: So now, moving into this game, you would think the
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  Speaker 1: Panthers have to adjust to the fact that their offensive
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  Speaker 1: line is not as stout as they hoped it would be, right?
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  Speaker 2: Correct. And the Packers' defense seems to be improving, even
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  Speaker 2: without Micah Parsons back yet. You know, the last, what,
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  Speaker 2: four games they've averaged, they've given up like 13 or
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  Speaker 2: 14 a game average. So yeah, I do think the
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  Speaker 2: Panthers are going to score their points, even with the
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  Speaker 2: offensive line injury issues. Um, but you know, as far
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  Speaker 2: as how, I mean, if you scored 24, everybody can't
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  Speaker 2: do a ton. Some weeks they have like, well, you'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, Hey, Chuba and Teteroa and Jalen Coker. Everybody's great. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about everyone tonight. I tend to think
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  Speaker 2: that this might be a Chuba night more than some
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  Speaker 2: of the other guys. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And because, you know, he still ran it well last week.
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  Speaker 1: He just didn't get the opportunity. Seven carries 33 yards,
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  Speaker 1: had four catches last week too. So he's a guy
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  Speaker 1: obviously that is a dual threat as a receiver and,
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  Speaker 1: and are running back here. On the road, you've got
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  Speaker 1: some personnel issues. Helps to shorten the game, right? You
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  Speaker 1: get a good running game going. They always talk about
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  Speaker 1: it anyways. But just to take some of the stress
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  Speaker 1: and the snaps off the defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally agree with that. That would be a way
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  Speaker 2: to go tonight. And that might lead to it being
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  Speaker 2: a little lower scoring than we talked about earlier. But
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  Speaker 2: good idea for the Panthers. And Chuba's been so good.
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  Speaker 2: Like last year was the only blip on the radar
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  Speaker 2: in how good he's been this season for fantasy managers.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so everything stunk last week in the loss to
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. And T-Mac and Jalen Coker combined for five catches,
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  Speaker 1: 59 yards. That's what we expect one of those guys
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  Speaker 1: to get in a half normally. So obviously Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: took care of that too, but we expect some bounce
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  Speaker 1: backs from both those guys, I would think, right? Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny. You think a game, if you look at
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  Speaker 2: the score, the one thing you'd think fantasy-wise was, well,
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  Speaker 2: I bet the receivers got theirs in garbage time. And nope,
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  Speaker 2: nobody got anything. It was just terrible. So I think
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  Speaker 2: they'll bounce back and have solid nights. They're too good
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  Speaker 2: not to. They get Even with the Packers' defense improving,
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  Speaker 2: these are two we keep talking about. There's two number
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  Speaker 2: ones here. They get open, and Bryce should find them
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  Speaker 2: for some productive nights.
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  Speaker 1: And classic, as we've talked about, Darren Waller every week.
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  Speaker 1: He's so tempting, and yet you might catch him on
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  Speaker 1: the right week. He had only one catch, but it
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  Speaker 1: was a 50-yard touchdown. And so it's like you never know.
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  Speaker 1: He could have had one catch for nine yards like
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Cochran, but he got three for a 50-yard touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: So you just never know. And you cautioned about, hey,
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  Speaker 1: don't go in on Tommy Tremble with two touchdowns the
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  Speaker 1: week before at Philadelphia. You just never know with this
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  Speaker 1: group who's going to stand out.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't yet done the exercise of combining the stats
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  Speaker 2: of all the Panthers tight ends and seeing where they
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  Speaker 2: would rank. I'm going to do that before next week.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just, you know, so many touchdowns. Waller caught, what,
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  Speaker 2: two earlier in the season? And he got one last week.
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  Speaker 2: And Tremble got two the week before. So we're up
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  Speaker 2: to five. Most of the tight ends don't have five. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Panthers tight ends in the aggregate, if he could
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  Speaker 2: draft a team position, would be great. As far as
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  Speaker 2: picking one of them, no chance would I ever try
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  Speaker 2: to do that.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So let's look around the league. And folks
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  Speaker 1: need to know, set their lineups to Thursday night football.
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  Speaker 1: But also this weekend, no Saints, Giants. Niners or Texan
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  Speaker 1: players in fantasy football. Lamar Jackson for Baltimore was close
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  Speaker 1: last week. Didn't quite get on the field. Does that
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  Speaker 1: make you think he's going to play this week?
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like he's going to play full practice Wednesday. You know,
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  Speaker 2: last week it sounded like he could have made it
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  Speaker 2: and he didn't, but they're playing the Bills big game.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you can count on seeing him out there.
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  Speaker 2: Why is Ravens Bills at one o'clock, by the way?
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  Speaker 2: Come on, NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Do better. That's dynamic, you would think, but... Hey, you
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  Speaker 1: know what? I'm kind of glad I like early football.
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  Speaker 1: So I like seeing some good early football happen. You
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  Speaker 1: may not know this, I have a Sunday of no football.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I always love that. So some other injuries to keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on. Man, Philadelphia's snake bit. Devontae Smith has
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  Speaker 1: the hamstring injury. And I saw they put their running
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  Speaker 1: back Pierce. I mean, that's not a big fantasy player.
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  Speaker 1: But just the depth over all of that team. They
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  Speaker 1: have been that team that's been snaked by injuries this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, in the backfield. Bigsby, Shipley, and now
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  Speaker 2: Pierce on IR. Saquon came back last week from a
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  Speaker 2: hamstring injury and then got hurt. He hurt his back
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  Speaker 2: during the game Monday night. But then when Pierce went out,
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  Speaker 2: Saquon had to come back. I mean, they probably would
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  Speaker 2: have kept him out, but it was like, well, there's
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  Speaker 2: nobody else, right? And Saquon says even though his back hurts,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to play this week against the Commanders. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're right, and that's a mess. And Devontae Smith, hamstring
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  Speaker 2: injury still out. There are rumors that they might just
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  Speaker 2: shut him down. what a disaster season the Eagles are having.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say I'm heartbroken about it, but it's a
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  Speaker 2: rough one for them.
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  Speaker 1: Your insight on this one, I told you I was
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  Speaker 1: lucky in one of my leagues that no one was
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  Speaker 1: paying attention to Jordan Mason. I picked him up last week.
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  Speaker 1: I played, I didn't do anything much, but Aaron Jones
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  Speaker 1: is a DNP, didn't practice on Wednesday, so could be
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  Speaker 1: a big Jordan Mason week, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Aaron Jones hurt himself on Sunday and it didn't
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  Speaker 2: look great. It's not an IR situation, but I'd definitely
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  Speaker 2: be a little skeptical of him playing this week. And
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Mason... Look, they're playing the Lions, who haven't been
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  Speaker 2: awful against the run, but not a great defense. Last week,
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  Speaker 2: you're right. He didn't get in the end zone, but
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  Speaker 2: the volume was there. like we talked about that first
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  Speaker 2: game of the season he carried 15 times uh last
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  Speaker 2: week he got a bunch of work too I think
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Mason could be in line for 20 carries this
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  Speaker 2: week and if he if he if we think he's
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  Speaker 2: going to get that he's probably worth starting in most fantasy.
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  Speaker 1: Formats Kyle Menungai left it all out in the field
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  Speaker 1: about a month ago. He had that 130-yard game. He
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  Speaker 1: got injured in that game. He's got a thumb and
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  Speaker 1: a toe injury. And for those who have DeAndre Swift,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like you could continue to count on him
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  Speaker 1: being the bell cow, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, DeAndre Swift. A little bit of Roshon Johnson mixed in,
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  Speaker 2: but Swift's been really solid, and they're not When they
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  Speaker 2: got there with Ben Johnson, he didn't use Swift as
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  Speaker 2: much in Detroit. He used him as more of the
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  Speaker 2: 1B to David Montgomery and gave him less work because
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  Speaker 2: he's a smaller dude. But they're working him as much
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  Speaker 2: as they can.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Waddell, the chest injury. Obviously, he had that one
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  Speaker 1: good game, like week two or week three. That was it.
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  Speaker 1: So the whole Broncos offense has been disappointing, obviously, with
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton. taking over the play calling duties, trying to
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  Speaker 1: get some juice going there. But just everything with that
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  Speaker 1: Broncos offense, they got some nice players, but really nobody
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  Speaker 1: fantasy wise is standing out week to week.
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean, maybe, you know, Jonah Coleman's starting to,
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  Speaker 2: he got back last week and they gave him the
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  Speaker 2: most carries. So that's an interesting one in their backfield.
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  Speaker 2: Be right about Waddle. Waddle was a third, fourth round
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  Speaker 2: turn type of fantasy pick. I was really high on
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  Speaker 2: him coming into this year going, hey, they traded a
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  Speaker 2: first round pick for him. They're bringing him in and
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  Speaker 2: they throw the ball a ton. This is going to
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  Speaker 2: be great. It has just been a disaster. Part of me,
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  Speaker 2: with the one team I have Waddle on, I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: and going, thank goodness I might not have to start
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  Speaker 2: him this week because I'm sick of him going out
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  Speaker 2: there going 2-3-17.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting to keep an eye on a couple of other receivers.
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens is weird to watch. I've got him in
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  Speaker 1: two of my fantasy leagues. And he'll have like zero
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  Speaker 1: catches at halftime, but then the game ends and he
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  Speaker 1: has like really good numbers by the end. Like Dak
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  Speaker 1: remembers him in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Starts throwing to him. However, did he get a practice
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  Speaker 1: injury or what's going on with him?
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  Speaker 2: We're not sure because after they came out of practice,
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  Speaker 2: after practice, he was on the injury report with a
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  Speaker 2: hamstring injury and some of the writers were like, we
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  Speaker 2: didn't know about this, so maybe it did happen during practice.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're going to have to watch this one.
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  Speaker 1: Been waiting on DJ Moore to come back from that
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  Speaker 1: shoulder injury. He's been out for maybe more than a
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  Speaker 1: month at this point. Is this the week he returns?
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  Speaker 2: It sure sounds like it. I think he was limited Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: but they said he's tracking toward coming back, which is
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  Speaker 2: great news for the Bills pass offense and good news
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  Speaker 2: for that That Bills-Ravens game, that should be a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun.
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  Speaker 1: What about Rasheed Rice with Kansas City?
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  Speaker 2: Big, maybe. Since we're doing this Thursday morning, the guys
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  Speaker 2: who are limited Wednesday, we're going to have to play
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  Speaker 2: it by ear a little bit. But Rasheed Rice doesn't–
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  Speaker 2: kind of sounds still pretty iffy.
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  Speaker 1: And still waiting on Emeka Abuka. He had that concussion
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  Speaker 1: that kept him out last week against the Panthers, but
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  Speaker 1: also beyond that, he's got a foot injury, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and concussions are who the heck knows with concussions.
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  Speaker 2: He was limited Wednesday, which means he is doing some work.
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  Speaker 2: But concussions, I always say, you know, with a foot
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  Speaker 2: or a hamstring, you can say, oh, that's usually two
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  Speaker 2: to three weeks. The concussion is it's ready when it's ready.
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  Speaker 1: What to do about Jeremiah Love? You know, there's been
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  Speaker 1: no decision to make the last couple of weeks because
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  Speaker 1: they haven't played him. But if he's up this week,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't know that he is, but if he
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  Speaker 1: is up, I mean, is it too risky to play him?
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  Speaker 2: The way they've been going. So first of all, that's
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  Speaker 2: an if he's up. But we said each of the
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  Speaker 2: last two weeks, the coach has said things like, well,
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  Speaker 2: if he's not 100%, he's not going out there. And
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  Speaker 2: the last two weeks, they've not only gotten production out
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  Speaker 2: of Tyler Algeo, but they've got it out of Bam Knight.
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  Speaker 2: And last week, Bam Knight didn't get a ton of work. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, 7 for 48 rushing, 3 for 15 receiving.
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  Speaker 2: Not too shabby. Like, they have a three-man committee option here,
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  Speaker 2: and they seem like they want to protect Love for
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  Speaker 2: some weird reason. Like, you and I have talked about before,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you draft a guy in the first round,
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  Speaker 2: you should use him. And they seem content with... with
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  Speaker 2: babying him a little bit. And I know he's been injured,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't want to get on him for that,
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: but you're right. If he plays, I'm like, okay, how
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: much work are Knight and Algie are going to get?
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Probably a decent amount for both of them because they've
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: been pretty good.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: J-E-T-S. Jets, Jets, Jets. That's a couple guys to talk about.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: And you're a Giant fan. I know it hurts you
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: to hear that. Brees Hall, Braden Allen. What do you
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: see for their health?
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: So it sounds like Brees Hall is coming back, which
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: is great. But Braden Allen... He's played four games since
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Hall's been out and he's averaged 89 yards. He's a
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: good runner. If you're the Jets, why would you just say, hey,
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: bring him down and take a seat? You know, you're
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: going to get four carries today. I think they're going
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: to use both of them.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: All right. I'm scared here. One's an injury. One is
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: just what the heck's going on in Indianapolis question. Broad strokes.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: You have traded away two key players, offensive and defensive line.
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: I have Jonathan Taylor in one league who's been terrific,
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: except for one game he didn't get much. His wife
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: went to social media saying, is he going to be traded?
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Is he going to be sat down? Because they're going
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: to trade him and they don't want him to get hurt.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: And then you do have an actually hurt, very good
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: tight end, top five tight end, I would say, in
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Tyler Warren, who's got the groin injury. He suffered in
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: practice a couple weeks ago. Talk about Tyler Warren and
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: also Jonathan Taylor.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tyler Warren was limited in Wednesday's practice, which hopefully
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: is a good sign since he's missed the last two games.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: As far as Jonathan Taylor, I don't know. Part of
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: me thinks that they won't trade him. They traded the
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: other two guys, Nelson and DeForest Buckner, because they had
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: expiring contracts. Taylor's different. He just signed a two-year extension.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not convinced that they're going to trade him. I
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: don't know that it's this thing where they're going to
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: trade everything that's not nailed down. With that said, last week,
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: they tried to counteract the Minnesota defense and the pass
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: rush with a lot of running. And Seth McGowan carried
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: the ball 11 times. They like Seth McGowan, and he's
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Taylor's backup. Now, I don't know that they're going to
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: sit Taylor. I find that difficult to believe. But with
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: that said, you might have McGowan giving Taylor some more
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: breathers than he might have before.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: Got you. Chargers-Rams, weird matchup of the week. Chargers coming
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: off a bye week, come back out of it and
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: say Mike McDaniel is still an offensive play caller. So
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: weird there. They're struggling. They've got what everyone thought is
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: a very talented quarterback. He's shown it for years. And
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: then Ladd-McConkie with the concussion. So first of all, Ladd-McConkie,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: what do we know about his potential return? And how
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: do we feel anyway about anybody with the Chargers? I
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: actually saw Marion Hampton on the waiver wire, and I
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: passed right by him. This is a guy I would
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: have taken. Second, third round probably before the season began.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, okay. McConkie concussion, but full practice Wednesday. They
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: were on a bye last week. This sounds pretty promising
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: that he's going to return. So they went 0-6. Harbaugh
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: came off the field and basically said right away, yeah,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: we're going to change the play calling. And then this
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: week he was like, nah, I don't think we're going
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: to do that. McDaniel's going to still call plays. All right, sure, whatever.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: I do take heart. If you drafted Ladd-McConkie in the
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: third round of a draft like I did, I take
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: solace in the fact that if you remember when he
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: was healthy, which has been a while, in the first game,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: they threw to him a lot. Before he got hurt,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: they were targeting him very intentionally and with high volume.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: And I think if he's healthy, they're going to try
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: to do that again. Now, will they be successful? Will
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: the offense be functional? Can't really answer that right now.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: But I'm not giving up on Ladin McConkie.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: At this point. All right. And one more injury note.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: He hasn't played yet this year. Is this the week
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Zach Charbonnet returns? And as we know, he wouldn't be
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: like a bell cow, but he's certainly a guy that
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: could be short yardage touchdown guy for certain players. Yeah.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: So they had faked everybody last week. They're like, oh,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: he's coming off the, you know, his windows open to return.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: And then they decided not to return him. Now, even
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: if he does return, well, Jadarian Price is supposedly going
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: to return to practice too. And I don't know that
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: they're going to bury Jadarian Price. They have other guys
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: there that they've been using. Manuel Wilson. Is that Wilson?
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Am I got the right guy?
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: And George Filani. So I don't know. If Charbonnet's active,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be starting.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Him this week. All right, let's look at the waiver wire.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I mentioned a couple of people I've been able to
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: pick up the last week or two. I'm seeing some
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: retread names in here this week. Let's start with quarterback,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: if you're looking to find one off the waiver wire.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Well, basically what you do if you want a streaming quarterback,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: you look and see who's playing the Cowboys. And if
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the quarterback's available, you pick them. So Jacoby Brissett, you're up.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: He's 44% rostered on Yahoo. The over-under in that game
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: with the Cowboys is 54 and a half. He leads
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: the NFL in pass attempts because the Cardinals are so bad,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: they have to throw all the time. I mean, that's
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: the reasoning. It's not that Jacoby Brissett is a great
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: real-life quarterback, but he's got a great fantasy matchup this week.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: And then running back, using your logic, I'm guessing Bam
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Knight of the Arizona Cardinals, another option on many waiver wires.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I will say that this is the best
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: of a bad bunch. I said he might be in
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: a three-man committee, and he might, but it's not like
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: you've got any guys that, are going to carry the
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: ball 15 times that are available. So Bam Knight, he's
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: available in three quarters of Yahoo leagues. Again, he's, he's
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: been pretty solid. The Cowboys have given up 145 rushing
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: yards per game. That's near the bottom of the league.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Bam Knight could have some success again.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: You've got a couple other possible running back options. If
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Bam Knight's not available, right? Yeah.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I mentioned Seth McGowan again, he'd be a sidekick to
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor, but that's, it's possible that he could produce
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: also Mike Washington, a junior on Vegas, Ashton Gentry, something's
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: wrong there. Like, I think it's probably an injury. I
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: know they're using him more as– not as a third
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: down back, but they're giving Washington more work. He was
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: only 6-27 last week, but he seems to be on
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: the field more. If I had Jenty– I mean, if
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you have Jenty, you're pretty much angry if you picked
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: him in the first or second round. But Mike Washington Jr.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: seems like he's going to get more of a workload
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: moving forward.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I lived through Gentry last year in two of my leagues.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I didn't even go near him this year, so I'm
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: glad I did not make that mistake twice. Wide receivers,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: those seem to be a little bit easier to find
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: week to week on the waiver wire. Anybody solid out there?
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Well, let's go to the Monday night game. I got to, um,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: McKay lemon from Philly. We mentioned that everybody else is out. Uh,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: he was seven for 67 and a touchdown on eight
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: targets last week. He was a first round pick. He's talented.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: They like him. He's probably the lead receiver at this point,
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: other than maybe Dallas Goddard. Otherwise you look across Antonio
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Williams on Washington from Clemson, uh, 19% rostered on Yahoo's
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: playing against the Eagles. It with Terry McLaurin out for
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: the season, uh, Williams and one other guy we're going
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: to mention in a minute, step up as probably the
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: leading targets in the Washington offense. And I think Jaden Daniels,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: for whatever block-headed time management he's working on, he's not
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: a bad quarterback.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sticking with your Monday Night Football theme, tight end
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and defense also are the games that might provide some
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: relief to somebody looking for somebody this week, right?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty much down on the Eagles. So Chigokonkwo,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: in his last two games, one of them with McLaurin out,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: 13 targets, 11 for 129. That's pretty good for a
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: tight end if you're looking to stream one. And this week,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: if you have Kittle out, Isaiah Likely out, someone like that.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Or if you're just kind of bottom feeding a tight
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: end and streaming week to week, a Conco could be
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: pretty good. I actually picked him up and I'm hoping
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: to use him for most of the rest of the season.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: The other one, as far as the defenses that are
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: widely available are not that good this week. The Commanders
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: being pretty widely available against the Eagles and Tanner McKee
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: is one that I might go after. The Eagles' expected
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: point total based on the over-under is 17.5. Not so great.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: All right. That's it from us. Hope you have a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: great week, and we'll catch up again on the pregame
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: show next week.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: You too.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Jim.