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Fantasy Football: Team of The Mid-Season · Draft Offsides Podcast

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  Team of the season so far for Chico.
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  Let's. Let's move the players in the
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  white ball. Let's go through this.
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  You did a 433. OK, Tito, you got a wait.
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  What do you mean? I just cuz I didn't put a center
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  back in the center. Get out of gear.
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  Oh yeah, that. That doesn't bother me how much,
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  But let's talk about this bothers me.
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  I know what bothers me is that you have a midfielder in a
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  forward position. Where?
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  You have Minta is a midfielder. Oh.
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  Damn it. Yeah, you fucked that.
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  Yeah. OK, but let's let's talk about
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  So Minta. Why is he in your top?
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  All right, so I went off of the he was drafted in the in our
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  league. I just based off of that as the
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  ADP fifth round and currently I think he's the ranked top. 3 or
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  4. Yeah, top five.
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  So obviously anytime you get a top five position outside of the
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  first round, that has to be up there.
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  OK, Tiago. That's my boy.
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  That's my boy. Drafted very low, was even
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  drafted a. Lot of times not.
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  Yeah, in our league he wasn't even drafted and he's the one of
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  the top forwards in the league, so I think that's a pretty easy,
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  easy one too. Calvin Lewis kind of scored in
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  the last five games in a row. Do you think you would have had
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  him in there three games ago? No.
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  So you're kind of rotting the hot hand a little bit with that.
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  One, it's the team of the year right now, not from.
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  Three games ago. True, true, true.
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  Oh yeah, Jeremy Doku makes sense, right?
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  Like, obviously, yeah. He's been pretty phenomenal, I
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  guess you could say. But even with the end, like, I
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  think it's also like a testament, like with an injury
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  right now, we're like, yeah, he still deserves to be there
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  because he's just been sensational, huh?
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  Correct. Yeah.
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  Slowest lie, yeah. So I was like, I think this is
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  the lowest ADP yet coming into the year because everyone was
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  low on them, all the new players, but he's been probably
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  one of their best fantasy players and probably best on the
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  field player as well. So he's having a year for
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  himself. I also feel like you picked
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  slowest lie because you got rid of them and it makes me question
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  like how your your dynamics with like exes and stuff.
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  Are you very like you, You you Lord over the the people you
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  like? Oh the ones that got away Is
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  that? Is that something you suffer
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  with T car? Keith, you always have to leave
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  the door open for a bag date or something.
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  Anton Sash, what do you have to say about that one?
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  Again, I don't think he was drafted in all of the leads.
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  He's ranked 22nd overall. Yeah, 3.
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  Points per game. Phenomenal start of the season,
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  long staff came in, he dropped off long staff got injured.
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  Now he's back into like a very high position.
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  So you're just riding that defense.
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  Cal Fiore. Wasn't drafted in most of the
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  leagues, didn't even. We didn't even know if it was
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  going to be starting left back last year.
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  Obviously he was injury prone and my last was getting more
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  starts than he was. So for him to obviously arson
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  defense has been amazing. For him to be off a waiver right
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  player and be ranked 38 overall, that's pretty amazing.
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  Makes sense. Rhys James.
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  And he's caught fight as a defender, so he's gaining.
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  I had to put him or was the who's the other chance to defend
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  that That's. The.
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  Yeah, it was one of those who saw I I That's my boy, Rhys
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  James. Yeah, OK, Nunez.
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  Again, someone else who wasn't drafted in our league.
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  I'm. Pretty sure I drafted him in our
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  league. Yeah, he was drafted in the 12th
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  round. Sorry.
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  So he was. And he's one of the top
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  defenders, one of the top defenders in the league.
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  Kuwaiti, same thing, right? Either is there any shift there?
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  Same thing. No, same thing.
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  Because GUI usually starts off stronger.
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  There's a drop off. No drop off so far.
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  And obviously we had to have a defender from Crystal Palace.
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  Yeah, you. Expect the factors, yeah, yeah.
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  Like with Muniz, the injury is that the also like where he was
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  getting drafted. It makes sense.
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  Like I think where Kuwaiti was getting drafted to what what
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  he's performing at, where Muniz is a you this who you're
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  expecting, right? Yeah, no surprise what Muniz is
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  doing all. Right, Enza.
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  You're not going to respect the goalkeepers.
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  Oh fuck, I forgot about the goalkeeper, OK.
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  It's just Robin. Robin Rolfs.
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  The only. Only, only right answer.
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  Only right answer just from where he was going and
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  expectations were, yeah. As we see Enzo.
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  As we see Enzo side by side, Enzo managed.
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  I don't know how man Enzo did this, but you managed to get the
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  the the like the nation for every player on his.
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  I don't know. They'll they'll take you off.
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  The same thing. That's it, you know the same.
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  Thing There's a Country Club. And until like 90% of the time
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  like foxtrot something with IT and the 10% of the time like
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  those suddenly didn't even know it was possible.
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  And and he figured. Out like the most useless thing.
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  I like this, it shows that I got the the right amount of English
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  players compared to foreign. So you're gonna do.
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  Early Holland. Easy peasy.
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  He's going to score goals all day.
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  He's top score. So what?
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  So he was like the fit, like people were starting to die him
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  a little bit and he came on. He's like, no, I'm the fucking
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  man. Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm a fucking
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  robot and I'm going to score goals.
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  GK we're going to say you had a joke lined up.
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  Yeah, I think. I'll say it after he goes
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  through his. Yeah, Jeremy Doku, we talked
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  every time. Most most dribble completions in
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  the league right now, he's he's got a dead leg, but when he
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  comes back he's going to be excellent.
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  I think he's like. Morgan Rogers, we talked about
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  him. He's only scored in four games
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  this whole season, but I'm. But I'm going with form right
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  now at the moment, and he's probably the best #10 we have in
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  England right now on four. Yeah.
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  And then soccer is a no brainer. Can't can't say no to soccer.
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  You got to have soccer on the right.
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  Pretty amazing soccer's managed to catch up to 5th overall in
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  scoring after missing, you know, a bunch of games inside the
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  season. I'll leave here with some
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  motivation from me. Declan Rice, Declan.
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  Rice I just need that holding midfielder that's going to score
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  me points and get me assists from penalties.
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  Pretty impressive. So we talked about, yeah, I'm
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  pretty, I mean, I'm pretty impressive just from a player
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  that you just don't know what he's gonna what like.
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  I think that like, like I've always talked about rule of
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  thumb, like I stay away from like defensive midfielders and
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  stuff. I think he boxed a chance.
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  He's just such a generational talent.
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  Like him, players like him. Bruno.
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  Bruno. He's bad in Rhodri, man.
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  Yeah, yeah, he's bad. In Rhodri Slobisla we talked
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  about. Slobisla we talked about, yeah.
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  Talk about liberal. Position.
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  What? He put him out of position.
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  Why aren't you getting mad at him?
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  I think it's fine. Never mind.
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  I didn't get never mind he put him in the right position, I
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  thought. In the right.
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  Position Livermento has left back.
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  Talk to me about that. So I like the way Liverment
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  played at begin the season. He was getting you a lot of
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  points right there. I know he's got a knee injury at
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  the moment, but they're trying to give him the go ahead when he
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  can come back. Out of everyone that's found the
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  left, I think it gives you a good balance of attack and
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  defense. And with Doko on that left hand
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  side, I need someone that could defend.
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  OK, I feel like he's not the best.
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  OK. Anyways, OK, Yeah.
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  What do you think? Gabrielle?
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  Talk to me about that. Gabrielle coming back from
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  injury also where he's going to get you goals.
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  One of the best defenses in the league for Arsenal.
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  He was one of the top players in the league period before his
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  injury. He's still like, what, top 30
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  player even after missing the last few games.
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  He's supposed to be coming back any minute now, yeah.
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  We back. Way here we talked about high
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  level Munoz. I mean, it makes sense.
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  Yeah, we know has made sense. We talked about, you know, like
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  where you is this kind of what you like, where you drafted him,
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  This is kind of what you're hoping to get that's.
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  Not why I expected. Yeah, I think, yeah, fair
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  enough. Oh, I expected, but I'm gone by
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  what he's doing on the right hand side.
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  Yeah, OK, Ready for my team? Wait.
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  My goalkeeper. My goalkeeper.
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  Goalkeeper so boring Martinez I have.
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  The most interesting I got the most interesting goal.
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  You're the only one that picked Martinez, so why did you pick
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  Martinez? Because I need a guy that's
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  going to rally up my team. And he's the guy with big balls.
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  Big balls. I mean the shit house, really,
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  That's what I needed. Is it?
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  Is it just Mira? Does it feel like Ansel didn't
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  understand the project? I, I think he understood enough.
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  I was actually more worried that it'd be out of more out of left
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  field. Yeah, I didn't go by vibes.
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  It's not. Livermento's a little vibey.
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  Livermento's a little bit vibey, but I like Livermento.
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  I'm sure I like a player. No, it's not bad.
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  It's, I thought the whole thing was like based off the average
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  strap position, the value you got, not like, yeah, but.
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  If we all did that total. If we if.
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  It's me. I kept the event.
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  I kept the. Yeah, you.
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  Did but you? Ordered some differences.
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  If you did it exactly like that, we'd all have the same fucking
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  tape, yeah. Everyone ought to pick Tala in
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  soccer. I think we must pick Tala in
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  soccer. I didn't.
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  I didn't take soccer, but. Yeah.
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  But I think why did you think Holland is worth I think Holland
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  is worth putting into your team because I think there was a
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  little bit of doubt of him going to the year, like there was a
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  little bit of disrespect that he's not going to the top 2.
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  You know what I mean? Where did he where he ended up
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  going like fifth ABP? But I think I think like, I
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  think on his level and what he's this what he's done this year,
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  you're like, yeah, he deserves like he's he's he's what, 40?
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  He's like 50-60 points better than the next highest player
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  total. And can I put a little bit of
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  back story on this too? I was told about this this
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  morning while I was at work at. Grocery store.
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  You told about it last night. Was it last night?
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  Yes. I was sleeping.
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  I didn't see it till this morning because I had to wake up
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  fucking early. OK, so let's just be fair.
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  I'm not hitting on your team. I'm not hitting.
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  Thank you. It's.
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  Just your team also might actually do the best if it was a
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  real team now that now that you get any points for that.
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  I just make a wish FCI name my team too.
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  Oh yeah, my team. Early Holland, we just talked
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  about that. I think it's just I think it's
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  where he was going in like 5th overall to where he's now
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  delivering, which is first overall, 60 points better than
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  the next player is like you're talking like he deserves to be
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  in that team. Like give the respect.
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  Semenyo third overall ranks, but he was going like what, 11th?
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  12:13 And I also think that like I had Igor, Tiago is between him
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  and Semenyo. And I think the difference is
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  that Tiago, I've been scoring a lot of penalties and so many of
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  those has not in swinging metal penalties is much more like
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  goals in play. So I think like when it comes
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  down to it, that's more valuable to me in that sense, even though
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  even though you have to say like Thiago from a draft value to
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  where you got him obviously way, way higher.
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  But yes, but I think just as far as like team of the season goes,
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  Jamie Dokey, we talked about it, most dribble completions, he's
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  actually getting a lot of playing time.
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  I think the concern is that he's injured and if if like all of a
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  sudden Savio or something else starts popping off, they're
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  concerned that he isn't there. But yeah, Declan Rice, I think
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  for me, he's always a hard player to draft because he goes,
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  I think, higher than he's valued.
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  And that's all I've, I've always said that he goes higher than
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  he's valued and he he delivers less.
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  But this year he's going like, if you've got him the 4th,
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  you're stoked right now, right? Like he's suddenly returning way
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  above the value that he's been worth the last few years.
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  So I think in that sense, yeah, he deserves to be there.
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  You commitment to he's going fourth, fifth round, end of 4th,
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  early 5th. He's delivering first round
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  value right now. We'll see if he can keep it up.
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  Pretty exciting. And then I went with the back 5
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  because I felt like defenders are the name of the game this
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  season. Yeah, Timber, obviously the
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  monster scores. Dan Ballard to me has been like
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  a sensational in the sense he's coming from a promoted team and
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  just actually dominated. I think he's what where is he
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  sitting in total points? He's up there like what, 21st
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  total points from like a 21st from a defender that you weren't
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  like thinking about talk about Gabrielle Gabriel.
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  I think that it's the his ability to score goals on top of
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  being one of the best defenses in the league mix of elite, the
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  way he valued to where you're getting him and then reach
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  James. Just the fact that he can he's
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  classified as a offender often plays in midfield is on set
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  pieces too. Like those are like what's done
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  What's done Vince, the meme that you guys the meme that you guys
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  have been doing to meet for the last week of from WWF.
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  But who's? What's that guy's name?
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  Vince Mcmann. Vince Mcman.
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  Like you don't know. Vince Mcmann So the bit is that
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  my fantasy league thinks I'm Vince Mcmann now is that?
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  Is that the bit we're? Gonna we're gonna get you a do
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  rec. They're sending, they're
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  sending. Every single time I say
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  something, they send a bunch of man beeps.
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  But that one, that one, that really classic one, it's like
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  the three layers of him going ho, ho, ho.
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  I like to me, let's rechange. It's like the Fender that plays
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  in midfield, like scores a lot of points and then also is on
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  set pieces. It's like every single thing.
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  He's just like, yeah, want a layer better for him?
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  And then Robin Ruffs, you got to go with him, right?
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  As far as like point scored and just the value.
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  And if you got him, if you got him just like out of the blue.
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  And that's, and this is Robin Ruffs is a perfect example of
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  how you never spend a lot on keepers.
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  No, right? Just like the value that you can
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  get from like a like a fucking random guy.
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  Mark Flecken last year, same shit.
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  You know, every year we've been playing fantasy, the top
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  goalkeeper has been random ass goalkeepers.
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  Yeah. But I also think that like to
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  speak on that a little bit. There's like Ryo and all those
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  are consistent also. They are.
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  Top yeah, consistent, but I also think that there's this become
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  that was a little bit about defenders in general where
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  there's like, I think they're midfielders and Fords.
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  Like when you look at like the draft like oh, like, you know,
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  Mcminta's fourth round player return first round value.
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  Great. Like all three of these guys are
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  like fourth round players or third round players that return
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  first round value. You're excited about look at the
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  defenders. It's like fourteenth round, like
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  not drafted, you know, eighth round, seventh round.
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  So I think I think that in fantasy and like in the
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  analytics and in all the major things that defense now, I think
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  they're still trying to I think there's that's where like
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  there's the biggest gap of analysis to whatever.
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  And like the biggest also the biggest gap in like where
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  players are getting drafted to where they're finishing, you
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  know, do you think? That defenders are going to get
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  drafted high next season. I think, I think partially, but
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  I also think that that might you might over index in the wrong
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  way because there's because defenders are way less
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  predictable. You know.
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  Risky. They're just saying in at
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  football as well, basketball too, defense doesn't carry over
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  year over year. And I think it's true in every
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  sport. So even if you bring it back
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  like this, almost the same players, it just doesn't carry
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  over a year over year. So you could draft them high,
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  but we talked about there's only a handful of players that
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  deliver every year fantasy wise. Trent obviously was one of them.
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  Munis is now the new player. We thought Anthony or obviously
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  could be that player, but seems like he's not so.
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  He's been, he just, he hasn't played it.
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  He played, he's played two full games, you know.
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  But yes, to your point, don't. Don't talk smack about the Jedi,
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  OK? Let's keep going.
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  But yeah, I know you're saying Tigo.
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  I know what you're saying. OK?
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  Do you want to look at Sergey's team too?
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  Because he put it. Yeah.
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  OK, let's talk shit on this one, Semenyo.
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  It would have been hilarious if he just.
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  Built Arsenal players I would have.
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  I was exactly what I was expecting.
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  Oh yeah. So I feel like it's really safe.
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  So we're talking Semenyo. Yeah.
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  Makes sense. Holla and saka.
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  Boring. I don't understand how Cole
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  Palmer makes the team just in the sack that he's played like 3
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  games all season. Like a little lazy.
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  I don't know. Like I think he didn't
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  understand the the assignment, the assignment just like I
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  didn't, but maybe a little bit more.
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  I think you understood the assignment.
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  I think these are all legit. You can't really, like, argue
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  with them. You can't really argue with
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  anything else. I think that this is just like a
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  glaring red flag of like, you know, it's like a like you're
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  interviewing someone that eats everything, but they answer one
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  question so absurdly wrong that you're like.
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  You don't hire him. Yeah, I can't hire this guy for
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  the way he answered this one question.
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  It's like the step brothers farting in the interview.
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  Yes, that's on the team. Yeah, I think, I mean, I think
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  at the end of the day, Bruno Fernandez, you just you expect
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  him to deliver this. I was personally saying that I
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  thought he was going to drop off.
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  I was wrong. But like at the end of the he's
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  delivered this value for a long time.
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  So I don't, I, I think you're fine to put him in like, I'm not
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  like going to dispute that, you know?
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  All right, are we going to we're going to have the Twitter and
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  all that write this. Yeah, sure.
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  You guys go on our fantasy. I'll post these on.
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  I'll post these on Twitter at Dropped Off Sides and tell us
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  which one is the best team of the season.
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  Good. Thanks, Linda.
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  Did you did you guys also see the Bruno Fernandez rumors or
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  his interview? Where he said that he felt
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  unloved. Yeah, cuz I guess they he did
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  it. He never wanted to leave.
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  They open the club, open the door for him to leave.
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  And then he also mentioned he would love to play for and Italy
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  and Spain. Funny, like he doesn't want to
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  go to fucking out if he had. Real Madrid, I mean, he could
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  still play like Spain for two years and then go to.
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  You think Real? I think Real Madrid wouldn't
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  want to pay him what he wants to get paid.
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  I know that's the problem. Like Periveness wants to make
• 16:42
  over 300 KA week. I don't think Real Madrid's
• 16:44
  going to do that. He'll do amazing in Italy
• 16:46
  because they jog, He'll do amazing in Italy and he'll.
• 16:50
  He'll do amazing in Spain I. Don't think he'll do amazing
• 16:53
  either of those slow last leagues.
• 16:55
  Yeah. I think the problem is is I
• 16:57
  don't have either can afford the amount of salary so he's he
• 17:00
  might have to take a pay cut together.
• 17:01
  I mean, I don't know if you know this about Real Madrid.
• 17:04
  They have literally all the money in the world.
• 17:06
  Yeah, but Tigo, what is last time?
• 17:08
  What are they like? Are they paying like salary
• 17:10
  wise, like outside of like the top three?
• 17:12
  Are they, are they like paying like guys, they're paying a 32
• 17:16
  year old. How old's Bruno Fernandez right
• 17:17
  now? 33.
• 17:19
  Are they going to give a 33 year old a 30 case salary?
• 17:22
  That feels. Like a.
• 17:23
  Ball sound. Like a Real Madrid decision.
• 17:25
  No, it feels like a ball slaughter thing.
• 17:26
  Real Madrid, he's too smart to. Give that money.
• 17:28
  He's 31 years old. OK.
• 17:30
  And right now, what they need is the player to get the ball from
• 17:33
  the defense, bring it to the front, Yeah.