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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to a spooky edition of the Stardom Sidham Show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Florio, the author
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  Speaker 1: of the very not scary Stardom Sitdem column. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: frightening in that column, is there. It depends if the
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  Speaker 1: player hits or not. Yes, really that's actually a very
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  Speaker 1: fair comment there, so you can check it out. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: every week at NFL dot com slash Start sit But
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  Speaker 1: this is what we do. We break it down for
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  Speaker 1: you in digestible, bite size form. We got plenty to
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  Speaker 1: talk about here. On Halloween weekend, we have hit week eight,
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  Speaker 1: which means we are at the midway point of the
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  Speaker 1: fantasy regular season, so we're going to tell you who's
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  Speaker 1: going to pile up the points. Plus we got our
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  Speaker 1: Fantasy mid season Awards. The Kwan Jones will join us
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  Speaker 1: for that a little bit later on in the show.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get in to the starts and cents four
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  Speaker 1: Week eight, starting with the quarterback position. So who are
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  Speaker 1: you scaring up on your list this week?
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  Speaker 2: I am scaring Jared Goff into my starting lineup, Joe
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  Speaker 2: Burrow brock Perty if he plays, Sam Darnold if he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't is in play. As a streamer, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: see Jay Stroud and then the frightening guys this week,
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  Speaker 2: Dak Prescott against the Rams, Geno Smith against the Browns,
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  Speaker 2: Matt Stafford against the Cowboys, and I want no part
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  Speaker 2: of Jordan Love against the Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: So let's start with Joe Burrow. And for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks we were scared to start him, but we
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  Speaker 1: were also scared to bench him as well. Look the
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  Speaker 1: matchup on paper against the forty nine ers seems like
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  Speaker 1: one you don't want to mess with. But you got
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  Speaker 1: some confidence in Joey b this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna give Joe another I did that terribly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give him another shot this week. Though. He
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  Speaker 2: started to look healthier before the bye. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: thing with Joe Burrow, and he is healthy, we know
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  Speaker 2: he is a must start option regardless of the matchup.
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  Speaker 2: Now with the bye, I'm hoping we see him healthier
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  Speaker 2: than ever. And the nine or on paper, yes, they
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  Speaker 2: are his toughest test yet, but they struggle more against
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  Speaker 2: the pass. They are very good against the run. We
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  Speaker 2: just saw Kirk Cousins and the Vikings without Justin Jefferson
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  Speaker 2: light them up. I think Joe Burrow with Jamar Chase
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  Speaker 2: and everyone else that he has at his disposal to
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  Speaker 2: Higgins and Plus, I mean they wear black and orange.
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  Speaker 2: This is their weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta start your Bengals tar to go against a
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  Speaker 1: pumpkin team on Halloween weekend. Meanwhile, Jared Goff, we like
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  Speaker 1: to say all the time, he is an indoor cat,
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  Speaker 1: and he's going to be indoors on Monday Night against
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  Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders. This feels like an easy start. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: If Jared Goff played all of his games at home
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  Speaker 2: this year, he would be the Fantasy QB one right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's just how good he has been at home. He's
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  Speaker 2: given you over eighteen fantasy points in every home start
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  Speaker 2: this year. He's also thrown multiple passing touchdowns in them all.
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  Speaker 2: And the Raiders generate pressure at just the fourth lowest
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  Speaker 2: rate in the NFL. So I think Golf with that
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  Speaker 2: Lion's offensive line will have plenty of time to just
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  Speaker 2: comfortably get the ball to Lapo aman Ros Saint Brown,
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  Speaker 2: all the guys that we want him to get the
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  Speaker 2: ball to in fantasy football.
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  Speaker 1: I Meanwhile, the Raiders have been masquerading as a defense
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  Speaker 1: for the last couple of weeks, so we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: that goes coming up on Monday night. Those are the quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Let's turn our attention now to the wide receivers. Taking
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  Speaker 1: a look at your start sit list for week eight.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of starts this week.
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  Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, because if you're not playing Scary Terry on
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  Speaker 1: Halloween weekend, what are you doing. Zay Flowers and a
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  Speaker 1: good matchup Nico Collins. I love this week.
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  Speaker 2: Rashid Rice has really come to life as of late,
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  Speaker 2: and you start Drake London even in spite of Arthur
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  Speaker 2: Smith and then some sits like I know I said
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  Speaker 2: he start your Bengals, but if you've gotten this far
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  Speaker 2: without t Higgins, I think you could try to get
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  Speaker 2: away from him and just play wait and see Approach,
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  Speaker 2: d Hop kJ Osbourne and.
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  Speaker 1: Then Jerry Judy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's He's like a permanent sit right now.
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Judy has been on the sit list ever since
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  Speaker 1: Steve Smith smoked him on national television, just as not
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  Speaker 1: being able to get off the sit list since then.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Zay Flowers though, because the rookie has
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  Speaker 1: stepped in and been a MIAs pretty much since Week one.
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  Speaker 1: The Ravens offense looks like it's starting to click right now,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got a great matchup against the Arizona Cardinals.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the matchup one, like you said today, Flowers
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  Speaker 2: has been awesome. He's given you double digit fantasy points
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  Speaker 2: in all but one games, so such a safe floor.
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  Speaker 2: But the matchup is what gets me excited. Not only
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  Speaker 2: have the Cardinals allowed the most fantasy points to Wade
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  Speaker 2: receivers in the last month, they play zone coverage eighty
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  Speaker 2: percent of the time, and Flowers eats against zone coverage
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  Speaker 2: eighty eight percent of his yards and his loan touchdown
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  Speaker 2: has come against that plus fifty or more yards in
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  Speaker 2: his first seven career games. The only other wide receiver
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  Speaker 2: to do that in NFL history is Jamar Chase. Like
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  Speaker 2: he is an elite company, start Exavian kievon Flowers this week,
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  Speaker 2: we use the full government name.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely looking for Flowers to bloom in the desert this week. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: a veteran in Tennessee not giving us what we'd hope for.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it's not a surprise because the
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  Speaker 1: Titans passing offense hasn't been great but now de Andre
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  Speaker 1: Hopkins either dealing with Will Levis, who might be a
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  Speaker 1: bona fide sociopath putting mayo in his coffee, or Malik Willis.
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  Speaker 1: Either way, it doesn't seem like a good situation.
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  Speaker 2: No, and even with Ryan Tannehill like, it hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: great for DeAndre Hopkins this year. He's averaging less than
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  Speaker 2: eleven Fantasy points per game. He scored eight or fewer
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  Speaker 2: in half of them, and he has just one game
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  Speaker 2: this year with over fourteen Fantasy points. So the ceiling
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  Speaker 2: has been low, the floor has been even lower. It's
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  Speaker 2: a rookie quarterback, we think, like you said Marcus making
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  Speaker 2: his first debut, a rookie quarterback who eats banana peels
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  Speaker 2: and then the falcon secondary just deranged. Yeah, singy secondary,
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  Speaker 2: deranged quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of reasons to get away mayo and coffee
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  Speaker 1: and eating banana peels, Like Will Levis, you are, You're different.
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  Speaker 1: Cat Man's all I know about that. So there you go,
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  Speaker 1: avoided DeAndre Hopkins if you can this weekend. Meanwhile, we're
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  Speaker 1: just getting started here. We got running backs and tight
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  Speaker 1: ends coming up. Plus we got the pile up stick around.
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  Speaker 1: See who scores a lot of points in check out
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  Speaker 1: more of the Stardom Cindam Show done to talk some
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  Speaker 1: stardom SIEM running Backs four Week eight Florio.
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  Speaker 2: Go Breise Hall as must start as must start, can
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  Speaker 2: be same thing for Isaiah Pacheco this week. I like
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  Speaker 2: Damian Pierce and I'm gonna give Jalen Warren a shot
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  Speaker 2: this week, But I'm not gonna give his teammate Naji
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  Speaker 2: Harris a shot because I think he is a sit.
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  Speaker 2: So is Brian Robinson, Junior Miles Sanders and Emery de Mercado.
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  Speaker 2: In the entire Cardinals backfield.
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  Speaker 1: That Cardinals backfield has been a headache. But let's start
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  Speaker 1: with Isaiah Pacheco because well, Broncos, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, you think a SAT The Broncos are in
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  Speaker 2: the top three and allowing it to running backs.
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  Speaker 1: You don't believe me.
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  Speaker 2: They're in the top three and rushing yards, rushing touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: fantasy points, receiving yards, receiving touchdowns, and targets, I mean
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  Speaker 2: and catches.
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  Speaker 1: So this is Lincoln, how would you like to play?
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  Speaker 1: They physically everything?
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, Isaiah Pichecko seventeen fantasy points per game in
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  Speaker 2: his last five at least thirteen in all of those,
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown in four of them. He at sixteen against
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos earlier this year. You're starting Isaiah Pichecko this week, so.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you've got Jalen Warren as
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  Speaker 1: a start, but Naji Harris is a set. It just
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  Speaker 1: made me think of the hangover the whole like, not
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  Speaker 1: you fat Jesus. That's kind of what I thought about
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  Speaker 1: when I saw that. But why do you like Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Warren against the Jags?
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  Speaker 2: It's all about the matchup first of all. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if everyone knows this. Jalen Warren has outscored Naji
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  Speaker 2: Harris every single week but won this year. The last
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  Speaker 2: time they played was the only time that Naji Harris
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  Speaker 2: outscored Warren. But Warren has reached double digit Fantasy points
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  Speaker 2: and scored a touchdown in three straight and four of
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  Speaker 2: his last five games. The Jaguars have allowed the fourth
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  Speaker 2: fewest rushing yards this year to running backs, but they
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  Speaker 2: allow the most catches and they're in the top four
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  Speaker 2: and receiving yards allowed to the position as well, so
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  Speaker 2: they struggle against past catching backs. Jalen Warren has more
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  Speaker 2: than double the amount of targets this year as Naji Harris.
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  Speaker 2: He's also the back that they like to use more
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  Speaker 2: when they're playing from behind. So because of all of
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  Speaker 2: those reasons, I think Jalen Warren is the Steelers running
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  Speaker 2: back to start this stag.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, hopefully the Steelers just decide to pick
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  Speaker 1: one and go with it, and if it's that one,
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  Speaker 1: we hope that that one is Jalen Warren. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the running backs. Let's talk some tight ends because that
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  Speaker 1: is maybe the most vexing position in all of fantasy football.
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  Speaker 1: Who are your starts and sits for this week?
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  Speaker 2: Michael Mayer because Halloween weekend of Darren Waller in the
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  Speaker 2: battle for New Jersey, Taysom Hill, just keep an eye
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  Speaker 2: on if Juwan Johnson is playing or not. And I
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  Speaker 2: like Jake Ferguson a lot this week as well. My
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  Speaker 2: sits Luke Musgrave against the Vikings David and Joku. It's
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  Speaker 2: not you, it's just your offense. And then Hunter Henry
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  Speaker 2: started off hot and then has just done a disappearing
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  Speaker 2: act ever since.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let's talk about Michael Mayer. Do do
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  Speaker 1: best Halloween movie fun fact? The Michael Myers mask is
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  Speaker 1: actually a William Shatner mask painted white. I've seen Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how many times. I never knew that
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  Speaker 1: would say William Shatner mask. That's paim. Don't ask me
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  Speaker 1: what I know that, but it's one of those facts
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  Speaker 1: that just lives rent free in my head. But Michael
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  Speaker 1: Mayer starting to come on, and the Lions were as
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  Speaker 1: good as they've been defensively, not good against tight ends.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's the thing. The Lions have allowed the
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  Speaker 2: third most yards to tight ends this season. Michael Mayer
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  Speaker 2: has fully taken over, I would say, as their top
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  Speaker 2: tight end there in Vegas. He played seventy two percent
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  Speaker 2: of the snaps last week, ran more routes than Austin Hooper.
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  Speaker 2: That's been a couple of weeks in a row now
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  Speaker 2: that that has been a trend.
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  Speaker 1: Look.
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  Speaker 2: He is not a must start tight end, but we're
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  Speaker 2: always looking for tight end streamers and I think that
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  Speaker 2: is where he comes into play. Trey McBride another tight
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  Speaker 2: end streamer that I like this week, but I'm chasing
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  Speaker 2: rookie tight ends. I was very big on dal Kink
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  Speaker 2: this week. We've both been very high on him this
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  Speaker 2: year and Sam Laporta. Let's keep the rookie tight end
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  Speaker 2: thing going.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, the rookie tight end class was supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: very good, and these guys are starting to produce at
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  Speaker 1: the midway point of the fantasy season. All right. I
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  Speaker 1: take no pleasure in saying this out loud, but Taysom
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  Speaker 1: Hill is actually a thing and is actually producing there
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans right now.
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  Speaker 2: He came through last week with sixteen point eight Fantasy points,
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  Speaker 2: finished as the tight end six on the week, and
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  Speaker 2: he did it in a number of different ways. Ran
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  Speaker 2: forty routes, which is by far the most by a
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  Speaker 2: Saints tight end. Targeted five times, caught four of them
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  Speaker 2: for fifty yards. Also ran the ball five times for
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  Speaker 2: eighteen yards and a touchdown. Could get involved as a
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  Speaker 2: passer as well. He does some of everything, and it
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  Speaker 2: could be frustrating at times because the floor's not super safe,
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  Speaker 2: but we don't care when the ceiling is as high
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  Speaker 2: as it's been for Taysom. And again, if Juwan Johnson sits,
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  Speaker 2: he is there tight end one and it is a
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  Speaker 2: good matchup as the Cults have allowed the fourth most
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  Speaker 2: yards to tight.
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  Speaker 1: Ends this year. I mean, he's running routes, he's getting open,
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  Speaker 1: he's getting targets. At some point. As much as he
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  Speaker 1: frustrates us sometimes at Fantasy it's time to admit that
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  Speaker 1: Taysom Hill is actually doing some things done. Now, for
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  Speaker 1: Club Doom, we had the guys that we guarantee we'll
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  Speaker 1: score at least twenty five Fantasy points. Now, normally we
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  Speaker 1: do this at the end of the show. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: it's at the middle of the show. So consider this
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  Speaker 1: kind of a day party, if you will. So, who's
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  Speaker 1: got their white ones hanging out of the day party
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  Speaker 1: this week?
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  Speaker 2: Breece Hall, Because ever since Breis Hall has come off
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  Speaker 2: to snap count, a twenty five fantasy point game is
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  Speaker 2: basically an average game for him. He's averaged twenty four
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  Speaker 2: point four Fantasy points per game since they take him
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  Speaker 2: off to snapcount. And now he gets the Giants, who
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  Speaker 2: wi allowed the second most rushing yards, third most rushing
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns two running backs. They've alsolled the eighth most Fantasy
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  Speaker 2: points per game. I don't worry about game script or
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  Speaker 2: anything like this. In fact, I think comes Sunday night
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  Speaker 2: and after the Jets win the Battle of Jersey, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna find Brice Hall down there and Karma fist pumping
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  Speaker 2: with all the Jersey short people there.
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  Speaker 1: It is so Breece Hall gonna be getting to going
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  Speaker 1: with Mike d in the situation. But meanwhile I got
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  Speaker 1: Tony Pollard. And Pollard had a big start to the
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  Speaker 1: season with two touchdowns in Week one against the Giants,
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  Speaker 1: and really as was on a steady decline for a
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  Speaker 1: while until just at just before the bye when he
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  Speaker 1: had seventeen points against the Chargers. Now he gets the
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  Speaker 1: other LA team as the Cowboys, as Patrick Claibon put it,
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  Speaker 1: try to be the champion of La County. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: have struggled against running backs this year, especially running backs
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  Speaker 1: who catch the ball out of the backfield. With the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys offense having been inconsistent, I think coming out of
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  Speaker 1: the buy this is an opportunity for them to really
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  Speaker 1: feature Tony Pollard, get him a lot of touches, get
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  Speaker 1: him some targets, and I expect him to go big
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  Speaker 1: against the Rams still to come. It is time to
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  Speaker 1: hand out some awards and some grades. We're giving out
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  Speaker 1: our mid term reviews as we've hit the halfway point
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  Speaker 1: of the fantasy season. Stick around for more of the
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: stardom Sittam Show, it's time for our mid term review.
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  Speaker 1: To help us out with that, Laqwan Jones researcher extraordinary.
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  Speaker 1: We all have a set of awards that we are
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  Speaker 1: handing out, so we'll give the award and we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about the player. So, Florio, what is the award you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to hand out first? The biggest league winner so far?
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  Speaker 1: And to me, there is this is a no contest.
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  Speaker 1: It is Puka Nikua right now.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Poka Nakula and fantasy leagues either win as
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  Speaker 2: like a last round draft pick or undrafted. And through
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  Speaker 2: seven weeks, the only players with more non quarterbacks with
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  Speaker 2: more Fantasy points Tyreek Hill, Christian McCaffrey, Stefan Diggs and
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  Speaker 2: AJ Brown. They were all either first round picks or
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  Speaker 2: borderline first round picks. And that is how good pokah
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  Speaker 2: Nikua has been.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's gotta be amazing for anybody who kind
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  Speaker 1: of slucked up on him on the waiver wire. You
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  Speaker 1: mentioned deeper leagues, he was drafted maybe in the late rounds.
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  Speaker 1: He has been amazing. In Lakwan. You are our resident
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  Speaker 1: Rams fan here. I know Sean McVay talked him up,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think even the most optimistic Rams fan
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  Speaker 1: expected this from Puka.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like even on draft day when we like
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  Speaker 3: picked him up, I was looking at his clips. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: he's very versatile, like he can be used all over
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  Speaker 3: this Rams offense. So I figured, like, hey, he will
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  Speaker 3: eventually find his way on the field, but I did
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  Speaker 3: not expect him to explode. It's what he's doing right now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's amazing that he's going out there and
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  Speaker 3: producing the way he is.
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  Speaker 1: It's sort of fitting though, right because he plays next
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  Speaker 1: to Cooper Cup, who's another guy from a smaller school
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  Speaker 1: that nobody had really heard of, who came out of
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  Speaker 1: nowhere and blossomed into the superstar almost right away in
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  Speaker 1: the La Rams offense. All right, so Nikua, right now
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  Speaker 1: the biggest league winner, Lakwan, what award would you like
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  Speaker 1: to hand out?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to give the Overachiever Award to Traves etn Man.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, you were drafting as a RB two,
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  Speaker 3: maybe even RB three. He was dropping in drafts, but man,
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  Speaker 3: he's returning huge with RB one numbers. I mean he's
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  Speaker 3: the top five running back round now, averaging nineteen Fantasy points.
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  Speaker 3: For a game. I mean, what more could you ask for?
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  Speaker 3: I mean over the summer, we were all hyped about
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  Speaker 3: this tank bell I mean Tank Bigsby hype. But I
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  Speaker 3: was guilty of that as well, like cutting to some
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  Speaker 3: of these opportunities. But Traves Etn is tied with Christian
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  Speaker 3: McCaffrey right now and touches, so you gotta love the
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  Speaker 3: return that you're getting back on him right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, as of like a week or so ago,
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  Speaker 1: the only two players in the NFL that had five
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  Speaker 1: hundred and more rushing yards and five or more rushing
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns were Christian Caffrey and Travis Etn and Florida. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing is that they're actually getting targets to
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  Speaker 1: him now. It's something we didn't see his first couple
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  Speaker 1: of years in the NFL, and.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that we kept clan like, we want them
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  Speaker 2: to throw him the ball. We know he can be
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  Speaker 2: used as a pass catcher. And also the touchdowns, Like
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: remember the first month of the year, we were like, oh,
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Travis Etn is great, but they're using Bigsby near the
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: goal on the touchdowns haven't been there. He's got like
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: six in the last month or whatever it is.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he has been legitimately a workhorse back in that
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: Jacksonville offense and the Travis etn has given you huge,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: huge value. Speaking of value, my best value pick for
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: the first half of the season has been Sam Laporta.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: And this is the guy who got a lot of
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: hype during the preseason, during training camp and was getting
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: drafted sort of later in drafts. He was gonna be
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: your tight end two. Right now he is the tight
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: end four. Overall has been amazing and it comes at
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: a position where we're looking for help anywhere we can
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: find it. I mean, Lakwan, look, we knew that the
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: offense was going to be good. We knew how mont
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Ross Saint Brown was gonna get his But I think again,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: if you were optimistic about Sam Laporta, you didn't think
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: he was going to be coming every week starter the
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: way he has. Absolutely not.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, Jered Goff is targeting him as if he's
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: his Tyler Higbee. You know he's going to be using
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: security blankets, but he's using him as a actual elite target.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, having Sam Laporta on the fail for him,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: he has to feel a lot more comfortable if a
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Monro's doubled because Sam laport is going downfield and making
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: the big plays just like a mon Ros Saint Brown.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: So I'm pretty sure he's happy. Sam Laporta was drafting
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: and he's going to be there for a while.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Iowa Heightened University just pumping out another one that we
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: can love for fantasy football. All Right, So while we
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: love having Sam Laporta on our rosters, Florida, you've got
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: somebody that we maybe are a little bit frustrated with. Yeah,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: my biggest disappointment so far, because there's still time for
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: him to write the ship unfortunately, goes to a player
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: that I was really high on this offseason, Calvin Ridley.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: And you see their wide receiver thirty seven right now.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I'm giving him a d. I'm hopeful, but he starts
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: to turn the season around this week against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: I think he's in play as a start for there.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: But it's been so up and down getting to this point.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I thought that he was going to be a fantasy
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: wide receiver one. Not even sure we could say that
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: he's been the wide receiver one. Well, I'm sure we
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: cannot say that he has not been the wide receiver
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: one on his own team thus far.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I mean Lakwan. We had Week one when he had
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: over one hundred yards, had a touchdown. We were all
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: dancing a jig, figuring, all right, here comes the breakout,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: like Cali really is back since that's been the Christian
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Kirk show. I mean, any hope that things turn around
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: on the second half. I'm not quite sure.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: It's not looking good because he got Christian Kirk, he's
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: kind of been Travis Trevor uh Lawrence's alpha guy in
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: that offense. And Calvin Ridley, like you said, week one,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: we were celebrating. Then it's like, oh no, we suck again.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Like I really don't understand what's going on and how
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: he's not really gelling into this offense. But hopefully he
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: could bring it around. But right now it's just not
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: looking good. It is not looking good for Calvin Ridley.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: We'll see what happens for him in Week eight against
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Meanwhile, you got another guy who has
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: broken our hearts so far this season.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, broke in my heart is like an understatement, man.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: I mean Damian Pierce. What is going on?
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: He gets the dumpster fire.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Award man because it's just been bad, Like, it just
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: has not been good man, two point nine yards per carry,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: averaging less than ten fantasy points per game. I mean,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: we know the talent is there, and we know Houston's
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: old line has been bad, but it's just been a
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: complete dumpster fire. I mean, come on, man, where's the
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: guy that was advertised this summer of being more involved
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: in the passing game. This dude has nine catches. I mean,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: who do I send the email or the letter to
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: to say, Hey, this is not what I bought, this
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: is false advertisement. So it's just been bad. I want
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: to be mad if fantasy managers want to kick him
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: off the roster.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I yeah, I understand folks who are dropping Damian Pierce.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I sort of share your pain too, because I went
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: heavy on him in drafts this season. Almost floy I'll
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: say this, to start the second half of the season,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: he's got a choice match up ahead of him. I
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: mean it feels like, you know, Week eight could be
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the first day of the rest of his fantasy life hopefully.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you saw on the RB boards I have Damian
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Pierce as a start this week. Laquon both of our
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: disappointments really and Damian Pierce. It starts here. They're gonna
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: fix it, all.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Right, We're turning things around. Meanwhile, I'm giving you the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: we all saw this coming award, and this is a
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: guy who's not on your start list this week. It
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: is Naji Harris going into drafts this season, I think
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of fantasy analysts, a lot of fantasy managers
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: were very wary of drafting Naji Harris. You saw him
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: falling in drafts. There was the concern that Jalen Warren
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: was going to take some opportunities away from him. And
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: everything we were worried about has come to fruition. He
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: is the RB thirty six right now, he is tied.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: He has the same number of Fantasy points as Taija Spears,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: who is behind Derek Henry. He wasn't even playing, you know,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: early in this season. He's just slightly ahead of Chuba Hubbard.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: That's how bad things have been for Naji Harris. You
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: heard Laurio mentioned it early in the show that he's
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: been outscored by Jalen Warren in every single week but one.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: He only has two games with double digit fantasy points.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: He's generally been around five to six points most weeks,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and I mean Floria at this point, like, what do
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: you do because no one's gonna trade you for him?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Do you just drop Najie Harris? Now, I think he
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: gets too much volume where you can't drop him just
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: in case of injuries or buys.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: But we always say, like anchor on your fantasy lineup,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: that's Naji Harris is the definition of an.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Ankor just an anchor around that lineup right now? All right,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: so let's come back around something a little bit more upbeat, Floria.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: You've got something that we can all agree on right now.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: The best Player in the World award. You already know
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: who I'm gonna say, it's Tyreek Hill. Like the scariest
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: site on an NFL football field is when Tyrek Kill
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: throws up the peace sign at your defense.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: You just know it's a rap.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Then hey plus plus plus grade and you see there
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty six points, six PPR points. Coming
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: into Week eight, no other player was within fifteen Fantasy
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: points of him, and fifteen is a good game for
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: most players not named Tyreek Hill. Even with not having
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: played this week, he has more Fantasy points on the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: year than Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs and all the
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Bucks who have played an extra game more than he has.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: He is the absolute best player in Fantasy right now,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: and it's looking like if you don't have Tyreek Hill,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: you might not be able to win a championship.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's wild you talk about, you know, fifteen points.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: He had fifteen points in one game way back in
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Week two. If he came back with fifteen points this week,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you'd be like, what what's wrong with Tyreek Hill? Yeah?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: What happened where? Didn't go wrong any other widers. If
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, that's pretty good, Tyrek Hill give you
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: fifteen points, You're like, ooh, he must have been sick
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: or something. No idea, what happened there? Lukwan, You've got
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: an underdog story right now. Yeah, you got a roof
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: for underdogs. Man.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Jacobe Myers has always been a productive wide receiver, even
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: dating back to his time in New England, which I'm
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: not quite sure why they let him walk, but man,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: the best thing about Jacoby Myers right now is that
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: he's scoring touchdowns. Like that's the best thing going on
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: for him. He had trouble finding the enzone in New England.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: He's actually leading the Raiders right now in touchdowns. Like
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: every time Jacoby Myers are scoring touchdowns, I was screening
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: my living room like a psychopath. He would think it
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: was pooking decor or a Cooper cuff like scoring touchdowns.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: But like, I just got a roof for the underdog.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: He's such a productive wide receiver. He's top twelve right
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: now and averaging seventeen Fantasy points per game, and like
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: he's has more targets than DeVante Adams in the last
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: three games. Like this is crazy to really talk about.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: And you were getting him so late in drafts, so
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: you got a roof for the underdog here.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Man, the Patriots had to move on from Jacoby Myers.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: That you give targets to a wash to Juju Smith
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Houston just makes perfect sense. He's also made Hunter renfro expendable.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, guy, yeah, it's a man like you forget
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that he's on the roster because he's never on the
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: field and never seen, never gets targets in their offense anymore.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Our last award of the show is the Goodwill Hunting Award.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: It's not your fault. It's not your fault. Kyle Pitts
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it's not your fault. He doesn't get a great he
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: is an incomplete because look, it's not about you, Kyle,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: it's about your head coach, who apparently just fantasy football
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: lives rent free in Arthur Smith's brain because every time
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: somebody asks him about his player usage, he makes a
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: reference to fantasy football. It's like, you know, Arthur, this
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: is about your offense maybe not living up to its
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: full potential because you want to force feed Cordero Patterson touches.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Nobody understands it. You've got a guy who's just an
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: absolute freak of nature athletically, and Kyle Pitts. You can't
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: consistently get opportunities. When we as fantasy folks, say you
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: should give Kyle Pitts the ball, it's not solely because
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: we want our fantasy teams to succeed, but it's because
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: it seems like you'd be the best reason for your
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: offense to succeed. Floryda, I mean, I know we do
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: this every week on the NFL Fantasy Football Show, we
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: do it here, right, but like, I don't even know
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: what to say anymore other than why why is this
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: happening to us? You know how Arthur Smith clearly has
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: some staying for fantasy managers.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: That's exactly how we feel about you, Arthur Smith. Like
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and just remember the Internet always gets the last laugh.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: So we're just we're gonna keep this all in our
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: mind and we'll see at the end of the.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Year we've got the receipts. I mean, LQ, there's nothing
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: that brings the fantasy community together like Arthur Smith. Like
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: we don't agree on anything. We all agree that we
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: don't like the way Arthur Smith runs this.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Offense absolutely not Like I don't even care for the
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Falcons in general. But when he comes to Kyle Pitts,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: he's a generational talent and you're just keeping the Lamborghini
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: in the garage man, just letting him out, go on
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: the road and fit one hundred and forty, do whatever.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: The case may be.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: But he needs the ball in his hands more times
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: than John and Smith.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. I mean it really is that
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: meme of the sports card next to the beat up
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: old house with the whack car and cover on it,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: That's exactly what Kyle Pitts is in the Falcons offense. Mean, well,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: this show, it's been a lot of fun. We hope
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: that you enjoyed it. We enjoyed having you with us
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: on this episode of The Startum Sodam Show. For Laqwan Jones,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: for Michael lef Floyda, I am Marcus Grant. We appreciate you. Hey,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: it out with us. We'll talk to you again real
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: soon