Chiz, Dex and Pru dive deep into Week 4 of Guillotine Fantasy action, along with guest Tim, fresh off of losing his head. The team then makes picks for the upcoming week and discuss Shrewdness Spuds and Sleepers for the upcoming week.
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Hey, welcome to the shrewdness. We are here for another exciting
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week. We're going to talk about a
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little bit of guillotine fantasy football and the week's NFL
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results, and we have a guest on the show.
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Yes, Sir. Tim's going to talk us through
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his first guillotine experience, and unfortunately he's the
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latest shop victim, but we'll at least give him a chance to talk
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about his new experience with the league and all that.
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And then Dex has a whole lineup of stuff to go through with some
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of our normal and weekly picks and that kind of thing.
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So Dex, over to you to introduce our guests and then we'll get
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going. Thank you much.
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All right, so we've got Tim Jones on here.
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Welcome, Tim. Good to have you.
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So he's in Illinois, local native.
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We talked him into playing a new format this year for our
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Shrewdness Listener League and he jumped in with both feet and
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actually had a pretty good team. Once you hear some of the
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reasons that he did not go for like.
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Oh, that's the truth. Is surprising.
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So Tim already had a high score this year in the first four
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weeks and it's how Geo works. You can be riding high next
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week, you're out. So it has happened a couple
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times. Pruitt had a couple weeks ago,
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he was riding high and he was, he's been sniffing the bottom
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the last couple. Weeks now yeah I had high points
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week 1 and barely survived this week so.
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And it happened. To another guy.
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So last week's victim, Will, he was top scorer in Week 2,
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chopped in Week 3. So that's just kind of how the
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Geo wheel works. So don't get comfortable out
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there listeners, and keep listening to the show.
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We're going to try and keep giving you the places to go.
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I just wanted to hit on Tim's experience.
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So Tim, you've got to try out Geo.
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You got your first month in. What do you think of the format?
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Did you like it? Do you enjoy it?
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Hey, I thought the format was great.
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I think the when I first started with the draft, I was reading
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all sorts of information about how to draft and do it well, and
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I thought I did pretty well. And then I picked up a couple
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free agents when some team teams got cut and thought I had a good
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team that just didn't come out this week and they didn't
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perform at all. And you had the ever important
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first pick, which seems to be a curse.
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Who did you take with that first pick?
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Tamar Chase and that is definitely a curse.
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Yeah. Man he cuz last year it was CMC
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in most leagues and everybody was like he'll be fine he'll be
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good. This is 2 years in a row now.
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The top pick in our drafts is. It's.
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Not his fault either. So Joe Burrow going out in
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Cincinnati, not having any offensive line is certainly the
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main culprit of this. Brutal.
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But boy, it's it comes down to Jamar Chase.
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I don't even know what to expect.
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So now he's available and we're getting questions like what
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should I bid on Jamar Chase? Like what are you 3?
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I don't know what you want on the third wide out flex guy.
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So he's gone from just the catbird seat to pure question
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marks after, again, the first game of Jake Browning.
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He what, had 15 catches or something on 17 targets,
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something ridiculous. And everybody's like, that's
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gonna be fine. And then he gets the Vikings
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last two weeks ago and then this week just getting destroyed.
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I mean, just nothing. The whole Cincinnati offense is
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kind of almost dead. But who else was kind of on your
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team that disappointed and LED to your chopping this week, too?
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Well, I have a Kamara who's been there up and down.
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He's not had a great season yet. Aiden Waddle gets his touches,
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but he's he's on the same thing with the quarterback there or
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two. It just isn't, you know, the
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same quarterback he was a few years ago.
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You. Know.
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I mean, other than that, I thought I had some good players.
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Garrett Wilson's the same thing with Justin Fields.
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I know he, Justin Fields, saved a guy, but Garrett Wilson, the
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only wide receiver on that team, and it's that that cost me this
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week. Yeah, he almost came back to get
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you. He was one of our our Saints
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this week. Is Garrett Wilson getting that
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touchdown towards the end. I think he got almost 20.
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Points on a ridiculous catch. Real good chance.
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It was ridiculous. Catch just about four or five.
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Points short in the week, but anyway, so that's that's good.
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I hope you stick with the format next year when we do it.
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And like I said, we're going to do a later draft this season.
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So for Geo league owners out there and commissioners, what
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we've done in our league, it's been a lot of fun, is that we'll
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do a second Geo draft. So the first nine people out,
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we'll do another one after that week and it starts week 10 and
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it kind of goes to the end. So it's just a fun way to stay
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involved all the way through and plus you don't have to draft
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people that are already hurt. So you're not going to have like
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neighbors injury screw you because he's already gone.
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You're not going to have Tyree kill screw you because he's
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already gone. So you just get a fresh draft.
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It's kind of fun. It keeps you in the game all the
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way through the really. Cool part about that is that you
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have a bye week the first week, right?
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So if you're not paying attention, you draft a bunch of
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guys that have a bye week 10, you're already out.
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Yeah. So the vast strategy gets really
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interesting on. I know the first year I I
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participated, Philly and KC had a week 10 by all these people
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were like dancing around Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts and and
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all the all their team mates. And they ended up going like
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round four or five people were finally like, OK, I think I have
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a decent first four or five picks.
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I'm going to dive into the the by pool guys.
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It is so. It is like a killer.
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Different draft. Speaking of bye weeks, so
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shrewdness out there, pay attention, the buys are upon us.
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It is. Time.
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First week kind of hits a little hard right off the bat.
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So we've got Chicago, Green Bay, Atlanta and Pittsburgh.
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And maybe you don't have these guys, but if you've been riding
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Bijon, like, I don't know, maybe a couple shrewdness hosts have
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them in their teams and without Bijon, you guys probably getting
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chopped. So Bijan is going to be out this
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week. Drake London, who rallied back
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with a nice game from Pinnix, he's going to be out.
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Josh Jacobs, Tucker Craft and then DK and Roma Dunes.
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They are probably the last two of I mean, you could be starting
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someone else on there too, but those are the main ones that are
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going to hurt the earlier picks for people's teams.
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So you've got some, especially if you had anyone else got hurt.
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So if you had neighbors or Hill or Lamar Jackson, you're going
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to be kind of you better bid this week.
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So there's no more hanging on to those dollars and taking them to
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your grave. You need to get your money and
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use it wisely this week on the team that went out.
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So that being said, I want to hear how our other shrewdness
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hosts did. So they were right above Tim,
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just like looking right at him. They were staring right at him
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on the other side of the line and safe with their four to five
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points ahead. So who was killing you and
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helping you? This is like a case of you don't
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have to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun your friend.
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That's right, your slowest friend or whatever.
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That's. Exactly what it is.
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So, Pruitt, why don't you highlight why you put yourself
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in a pickle and what you must do with these international games?
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So, so yeah, I had Jalen Warren. I was one of the unfortunate
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many that probably started him accidentally.
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Yes. I was up early, believe it or
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not, actually at church, serving at church and get down with
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church, come home and it's like, wait, what?
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Why is he? Why is he still have zero and
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why am I getting all these notifications on my phone that?
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And why does King will have 200 yards and 18?
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Touchdowns. So immediately Sunday morning I
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was starting my sweats because I was like OK I just took a 0 from
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one of my running back spots. I'm hosed.
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Thankfully I also have Bichon Robinson and Carson Wentz, had a
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nice game. Yeah.
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Yeah, Carson Wentz probably was the guy that saved me this week.
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Yeah, he could be honest. He rallied.
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He end up throwing a pretty good game All in all.
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Chisholm, how about your team? You're you're right there
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sniffing the bottom. Too.
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I had the I had the blade sweats this this week.
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I really thought I was dead going into Monday.
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Night. I thought you were dead.
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Yeah, I thought you were dead too.
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I think everybody thought I was dead, and I just had Justin
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Fields, who is not somebody you want to bet on going into a game
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like that. And you know, he's so erratic.
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Yeah. But he happened to run for a 43
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yard touchdown and then throw for one at the very last second
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and then run in for a 2 point conversion.
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But honestly, the mistake I made the early game got me as well
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because I did not change out Johnny Smith, who's a Pittsburgh
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player, and I would have definitely replaced him.
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Yeah. With Josh Downs didn't do it, so
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I left quite a few points on the table there.
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And honestly, if I hadn't got lucky with Xavier, where where
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did he pick up? And I said I'll throw him in.
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I don't know if they're going to use him and his first lead back
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and he tore it up or I'm out there too.
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So I had a couple things break my way for sure.
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Yep. So that leads us a good segue
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into our sinners and Saints. So we're just not going to go
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into all these, but here's some people that saved many a Guillo
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team this week. So in all of our other leagues,
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once the Jalen Warren news came out, he put in Gainwell and
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Gainwell came through with 89 yards, 6 catches for 35 more and
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a couple touchdowns out in Dublin this weekend.
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Romeo Dobbs, he didn't catch that many really 6 catches, but
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three of them for Tuddies. So we got the hat trick for
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tuddies. Romeo War Romeo, where?
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If we're out there, well, he's. In some free time and then?
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Here's my personal favorite. Thanks, Ashton Genti, Thank you
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so much for showing up Week 4I waited on you for three weeks.
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You're my first pick in two leagues.
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You know, You know it's cool. I'm glad you finally got it.
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I'm glad you got yours. I'm glad you showed what I
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thought you're gonna be all season.
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Just needed a little extended training camp is what he needed.
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Yeah, I did. He's needed three weeks on
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stretched. Out a little bit.
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Three weeks on Texas team and then he'll get chopped because
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he'll suck and then it'll come right for 138.
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Two catches and what, 3 touchdowns?
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2 touchdowns. 3 touchdowns. He had a hat trick too.
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Yeah, he had two receiving touchdowns.
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That's right. Why wouldn't you?
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Sounds fun. And then here's Puka.
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Puka is arguably, if you redraft it today, Puka Nakua all day,
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first pick overall. He had another monster game 13
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for 170 and a tuddy wow Pat McCombs.
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So Patrick Mahomes made of it. Was Xavier worthy and the last?
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Guy's pretty good that Pat Mahomes.
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He's not too shabby. And frankly, the Chiefs finally
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looked like the version of the Chiefs we thought they would if
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they actually had starting whiteouts.
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And you bring one of the two back and look at that.
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So what are we going to get when Rasheed Rice comes back?
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Hopefully more. And I just am looking forward to
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good things for Pat Mahomes. So if you've been riding him so
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far, he stopped running, which is a good sign.
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We don't need Patrick Romes running for 60 yards a game.
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Because that means he's thrown. For 270 and throwing 4
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touchdowns. Another one I think is going to
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be super helpful for owners moving forward is with that Naji
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Harris injury for the Chargers. Oh, Marion Hampton, the rookie
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we talked up quite a bit as a kind of a solid role player.
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It's only him now. So Marion Hampton is going to
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get a ton of carries, 128 yards and a touchdown for his owners
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this week. That's pretty baller.
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Yeah, some of the honorable mentions, the ones that kind of
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got you through in your flex spots.
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But Woody Marks so he he got my wife through this week and wow,
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what a game 69 and everyone was. Counting on Woody marks this
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week. Well, she also had some injuries
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dealing with and just said, I just throw him in like, yeah,
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he'll do something that's chub ahead of him for Christ's sake,
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when he chubs not very good anymore.
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And he had more carries. So the 17 carries was more.
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I think Chubb end up with 14 carries.
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So moving forward, I believe that talent is finally one out
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and it's just watching a flat tire run over and over again,
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which is Nick Chubb right now. Again, I don't.
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I'm not knocking him as a man. Former great player.
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Slightly more burst than I do right now, yeah, slightly
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warmer. Like the hole is closing rapidly
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on that guy. He's looking a lot like Zeke
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Elliott towards the end. Yes, you know, that's exactly
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right. There's just.
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Nothing left in the tank. Like the sunset is already below
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the horizon and you're just looking at the orange.
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That's where Nick is in his career.
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But gentlemen, I want to ask you this question on this player
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because he is available in probably 70% of the league.
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I think he's 31% owned, so he's going to be out there in most
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leagues. What do you see for the future
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of Woody Marx and what are you bidding on this guy?
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Do you think he's someone that can be more than just a bit
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player? Like where are you Woody?
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On Woody Marx, Yes. So I think he's super.
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Valuable and the reason why is running backs you just don't
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find any that produce that any numbers and so you can find
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somebody who can put up some numbers in the NFL at all.
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I think that the only way that CJ Stroud becomes anywhere close
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to what he look like his rookie year, Yep is to get a running
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game. Yes, that will give him some
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time and. Decorate.
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You know, they have become so heavy on the past.
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He's not good enough to just be a pass only quarterback, so they
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have to establish a run. You got a young guy, he's got
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fresh legs, catch the ball well, runs the ball well.
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I like him. Yeah, I'm high on him.
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How about you, Prue? Yeah.
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I think it's similar to like a Cincinnati situation where you
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got a kind of a non mobile quarterback, slightly mobile but
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not a running quarterback. And they, you know, ridiculously
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good arm talent. But you can't just stand back
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there in the pocket. Like people are going to catch
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on quickly. And and I think a bit like CMC
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in San Francisco too, where the the running back is the passing
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game, right. They did a lot with Joe Mixon a
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couple years ago. Yeah.
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And I think they'll do it. Last year he was really good
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too. Mixon was amazing last year.
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And The thing is, people keep telling me this, I'll, I'll read
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some comments like, but Joe Mixon's coming back like, is he,
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though? I don't think so.
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Because I don't know if that's a true statement.
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And even when you try and find out information and you go to
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the Houston Texans, like Bant beat writers, they don't seem
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very confident he's coming back anytime soon.
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Like maybe week 10. Seems like maybe he might be out
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all year, though. That's like some of the
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sentences. And these beat writers say he he
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might not play this season, which is kind of what we
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thought. That's what we were saying
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during the draft draft prep, is that the injuries he has is
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multiple and they're all lower extremity and they're more than
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soft tissue. They're soft tissue plus, yeah,
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so he's kind of screwed. But Tim, did you get to see any
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woody marks? I know you didn't have them on
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your particular team. Is he someone that other owners
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should be bidding on? Well, yeah, absolutely.
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I don't think they have anything else out there for with that
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team. I think that, you know, like you
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said, Chubb is way over injured, way old.
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You just don't have the legs anymore.
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He's not hitting that hole fast enough, and Woody Marx is young
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enough to do it. And I like, I agree with you
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guys. I don't think Nixon's coming
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back this year at all. Yeah, I think, I think he's
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just, I think he's pretty much done with getting beat up.
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He got beat up in Cincinnati a lot and he's getting beat up in
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Houston a lot. It's a lot of mileage on him.
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Yeah, right. There's a lot of mileage on Joe
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Mixon, that's for sure. And.
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Good running backs get abused, yes.
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And I think you're right to him. There's mileage on him and it's
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also mileage behind bad offensive lines.
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He's taking a lot of hits behind the line in his.
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Career, especially in Cincinnati.
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He was getting killed in Cincinnati.
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Right. Absolutely, Absolutely.
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Yeah, I don't, I don't think there's no doubt that what he
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marks as being the the premier running back, the number one
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running back for that team by the end of the season.
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Yeah, I think so too. I think it's going to continue
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to be more carries in his favor. And I know this one, they were
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up a lot. And so I was thinking like, is
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it just because they're up, they gave him more run and it could
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be that, but he also looked 10 times better like on his.
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Carries, right? Sometimes that's what it takes.
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Is a Yeah. It's the in game situation and
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the coach is like wow. He really is good.
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He looks pretty good there. For sure.
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And we should get the. Ball in the passing game too is
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something that's not Chubb at all.
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SO4 for 50 with another touchdown from the passing.
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Yeah, I think Woody Marks is someone the owner should
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definitely look at and I'd be willing to go up to probably
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$100 for him. So I think he's more than just a
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get you through bye week guy. I think he's something that can
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for the rest of the season. At worst, he can be in a flex
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spot for you for multiple weeks. So I'm high on Woody Marks going
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forward. All right, staying in Texas, I
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want to highlight someone who stepped up in the first week
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with no CD Lamb, George Pickens. So I think what's important for
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him is he is in a contract year. So for those that don't know, I
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mean, yes, he went from Pittsburgh to Dallas, but he's
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in a contract year. George Pickens needs to play
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well to see if he's actually number one.
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And he's gonna have a month, if not a little bit more to prove
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that to the other teams out there.
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And I'm sure Jerry's just willing to pay more people more
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money. I mean, that's why he kept Mike.
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So I don't know. It's going to be a problem for
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Dallas if he does too. Well, they're not going to get
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him. But George Pickens, I think he
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had eight catches, 134 and two touchdowns.
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And he had some amazing catches, also had a drop.
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But the amazing catches were really good.
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So what do you guys think about George Pickens moving forward?
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Would you trust him as one of your top 2 wide out slots?
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Because he's had some duds too. But once once Lamb returns, I
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think Georgia Pickens a slide off into the sunset.
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I don't, I don't think he's that great.
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I mean, oh, shots. Fired George.
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I don't suck. I don't.
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I think it's a personality thing with me.
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He just, he didn't fit in, yeah, he didn't fit in in Pittsburgh
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and he's not. I don't think he's going to fit
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in a Dallas and he's going to demand more money he's got than
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what he's going to what he's worth, for sure.
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But once Lamb comes back, I think he'll he'll go back into
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the sunset a little bit. Yeah, I think he's going to be
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really cold anywhere else he would go too.
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He's had the hood inside in Texas in the 80s, right?
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Is going to be freezing when it actually dips below 60 and I.
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Don't know he's out of Buffalo. Yeah, what are you?
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What are you? Where are you at on George
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Pickens? There's no question he's Got
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Talent, but I I agree with you Tim, he's kind of a a diva.
00:18:58
He's a little bit of a selfish streak or whatever.
00:19:02
Yeah, sometimes. Those guys are really good for.
00:19:04
Fantasy, though, Pruitt. I mean, I don't really care if
00:19:06
he's a diva if he's going 102 tuddies every week for me.
00:19:10
Diva away. Wear a dress.
00:19:11
Write a book. If we're talking, if we're
00:19:13
talking fantasy value, Dallas has a terrible defense.
00:19:18
I don't know if anybody's noticed that yet, but what they
00:19:20
are going to be throwing the ball a lot.
00:19:23
Right. Actually the worst defense in
00:19:25
the NFL. So, and surprisingly the best
00:19:29
offense. Right.
00:19:31
So they're like the the Chiefs of old, you know, before we
00:19:35
developed a good defense, it was like, can we score 45 and
00:19:39
hopefully only give up 42? Yeah, it also wasn't a recipe
00:19:43
for sustained success. No, but for short term the next
00:19:47
few weeks while he's the the the primary receiver, I think
00:19:51
there's a lot of value there until Lamb returns and then I
00:19:54
agree CD Lamb's going to be the the go to yeah, once he comes
00:19:59
back, but. But Pickens has a few weeks here
00:20:02
where he could be relied on. I think for a lot of production
00:20:05
it's going to. Be targeted a bunch that's for
00:20:07
sure. Chismar are you Are you with
00:20:09
Pickens or no? Are you an anti diva I.
00:20:11
Mean I think the question is do you like lottery tickets or not?
00:20:16
If you. Like scratch offs.
00:20:18
If you like scratch offs, then you like Pickens because that's
00:20:22
basically what you're getting. Every week.
00:20:23
It's like I need another. I need another bill.
00:20:26
Give me another bill. And it's like. 2 * 2.
00:20:29
Right. And you, you know, some days
00:20:31
you're going to be like, well, that just absolutely sucked, you
00:20:34
know, and then and then actually, most of the time
00:20:37
you're probably going to be like this.
00:20:38
I absolutely sucked. But then he's going to have a
00:20:39
game and you're like, this is awesome.
00:20:41
So he's one of those guys that I only like on my team when I need
00:20:48
a big swing. So if if it's like, hey, I don't
00:20:51
think I've got, I don't think I'm going to win this week.
00:20:55
Like you might as well take a swing at a guy like this because
00:20:58
he can have a huge game, but more than likely he's not going
00:21:02
to have a huge game. And I completely agree with Tim.
00:21:05
Like once lamb's back, no way, no way, no how, when Lamb's back
00:21:09
because it's going to go lamb turd Ferguson #2.
00:21:13
And then? Pickens and then Pickens, yeah
00:21:15
#3 and so I don't love him there, but you know.
00:21:20
If there was a tough spot, looks good to know not.
00:21:22
Bad. Yeah, Devante Williams.
00:21:23
Who would? Have thought you would have say
00:21:25
that. Yeah.
00:21:26
One season with a positive spin. Even right, finish that thought.
00:21:31
You give that guy, you give that guy an offensive line, anybody's
00:21:33
going to run behind that one. That's the truth.
00:21:36
Yeah, right. Well, and they're they're.
00:21:39
Also because they're so pass heavy, it opens up the run.
00:21:42
Yeah, in a lot of cases. Because they're all staying
00:21:44
back. It's backwards.
00:21:46
Running on the nickel. Normal.
00:21:48
Yeah, normal sequence you run to set up the pass, but Dallas is
00:21:53
so pass heavy and such a high-powered offense that the
00:21:56
run catches people by surprise and they get the right personnel
00:21:59
group in there. And a bigger back like Javonte
00:22:03
can take advantage of that. Yeah, for sure.
00:22:06
All right. Last couple Saints I want to hit
00:22:08
at is DK Metcalf. Speaking of Divas, that catch
00:22:11
with their ABS 5 for 1/26 in a tuddy in Dublin against the
00:22:16
Vikings, which was kind of is all up front.
00:22:19
So if you remember, if you got up early and watched that game
00:22:21
like I did because I'm a Vikings fan, he had three catches right
00:22:25
away on the first couple drives, including the Super long slant
00:22:28
drive for zillion yards in the tutty.
00:22:31
But then the rest of the game is what is so frustrating owning DK
00:22:36
Metcalf. 2 targets, 2 catches the rest of the game and the
00:22:42
whole point, like even announced like, oh, they're getting DK
00:22:44
involved early Pittsburgh. This is how you're supposed to
00:22:46
use the number one. Then crickets and chirping and
00:22:51
squirrels running on a fence. And that was DK Ray calves last
00:22:54
part of the game. And you could say, yeah, they're
00:22:56
up a lot and running it out. OK.
00:22:58
It finished 2421. I mean, it's not like they ran
00:23:01
away from the Vikings. I mean, right, got up.
00:23:03
Sure. And Kenneth Gainwell, he was
00:23:06
chunking off yards. That was kind of frustrating to
00:23:09
watch, too. Speaking of, though, like I
00:23:11
wanted you guys take on a little little side here.
00:23:16
What did you think about the fourth and one call by the
00:23:23
Steelers? Dex, you watched it?
00:23:27
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, so 'cause this was
00:23:33
funny, I was sitting in the living room watching it with my
00:23:36
father-in-law and we were kind of, he was, he wanted to go for
00:23:40
it and I was like, I just punt it and make him go the whole
00:23:42
way. You can win the game, but you
00:23:44
can't have a tush push. If you're a Philly and do the
00:23:46
cheat code and just cheat and get your first down and do false
00:23:50
starts, absolutely go for it on 4th and one.
00:23:53
But this team, why not make the Vikings, who struggle, bust the
00:23:57
entire game getting anything going?
00:23:59
I kind of agreed with the call, the punt.
00:24:01
I was on the punt side and I'm I'm usually pretty aggressive,
00:24:04
like win the game. But Aaron Rodger wasn't going to
00:24:06
sneak it and gain. Well, I'd be looking for him.
00:24:11
I don't know. Yeah, yeah, I kind of liked it.
00:24:13
A lot of people were saying that was that was symptom.
00:24:16
That's a nine and eight coach move right there.
00:24:20
Top one being being a little too old school yeah you know and
00:24:24
like why he's never going to like win it now again because
00:24:28
it's. Well, Greg Olsen, that's out of
00:24:30
the old way. I saw the end of the game and
00:24:33
yeah, Greg Olsen went off like he was like, this is a no
00:24:37
brainer. I mean, that was a little
00:24:39
extreme, I felt like. As bad as he was lucky, he got
00:24:43
lucky this time. It worked out OK this time, but
00:24:46
that was the wrong call. Yeah, right.
00:24:49
But at the end of the day, he got his W and he made the
00:24:51
Vikings go the whole way. And yeah, I wasn't too worried
00:24:55
about it. Did you watch?
00:24:56
Get up early and watch that game, Tim.
00:24:57
Yeah, I did. I'm, I'm with you guys.
00:25:00
I I think Tomlin's too old school.
00:25:02
You're the third. You have always putting on 4th
00:25:04
down regardless of what the distance is.
00:25:06
That's what he does, right? Yeah.
00:25:08
But I mean, you've got to have a little bit of a, some gonads
00:25:10
there to go for it and try to steal the seal the deal as far
00:25:14
as I'm concerned. I mean, you got to be able to do
00:25:16
that. Yeah, right.
00:25:18
That's it. But then the Vikings do what the
00:25:20
Vikings do, and it worked out for Pittsburgh.
00:25:23
But hopefully we don't have a repeat performance against
00:25:26
Cleveland in London this week. That'd be horrible.
00:25:29
I think the DK Metcalf thing, I you know, you're not going to
00:25:32
have smelling salts back there with Rogers all the time in the
00:25:35
in the huddle either. So that's a long pass he
00:25:38
completed. So, I mean, I don't I don't DK
00:25:40
Metcalf unless he's Rogers. You got smelling salts.
00:25:43
He can't get the ball down the field anymore.
00:25:45
Yeah, that's true. I mean.
00:25:48
All right, he's now I got to go with the flip side of this past
00:25:52
week. Here are the centers of note.
00:25:55
And if you guys have extra ones you want to highlight, I'm just
00:25:57
going to go through some of the big ones and then we can go from
00:26:00
there. But A.J.
00:26:02
Brown, 2 catches, 7 yards. Ouch.
00:26:05
Devante Smith, 2 catches, 29. See a theme here?
00:26:09
But I'm going to save that one for later.
00:26:10
That's called foreshadowing. Naalik neighbors.
00:26:14
Not his fault, but two for 20 and lost for the season.
00:26:18
So he gave you a four on his farewell tour.
00:26:22
Kind of sucks. I love watching Malik neighbors
00:26:24
play. Here's one that's going to be an
00:26:26
absolute killer because he was drafted in the second round of
00:26:30
every guillotine league. Nearly most of so lad Mcconkey
00:26:34
because he was carrying you to fantasy gold last year at the
00:26:37
end of last year. One catch for 11 yards and he
00:26:41
only had I think 4 targets in and Allen and Quinston Johnston
00:26:47
have taken all of the looks away.
00:26:49
I'm like how is this guy not getting anything but he is
00:26:53
killing you right now. I think we have to consider if
00:26:57
you have them on your team grading him and hope someone
00:27:00
believes he's going to be last year's version of Lad Mcconkey.
00:27:03
I think he's dead to me. I'm going to try and trade in my
00:27:05
other league that no one listens to because it's a guillotine
00:27:07
podcast, I hope, and no one's listening to it right, so they
00:27:09
don't screw myself right here. But lad Mcconk, I'm going to try
00:27:13
and trade off last year's value to try and get somebody else.
00:27:16
Are you guys super? Worried about that?
00:27:19
Too. Or am I overreacting?
00:27:20
It could be an overreaction day for Dex and that's fine.
00:27:22
I want to hear what you think. No, you're not.
00:27:24
And the reason why you're not is they the biggest.
00:27:27
I mean, he wasn't getting a lot of targets anyway and now the
00:27:30
line is for like the whole line is blown.
00:27:32
Left tackle, Right tackle gone. I think there's going to be a
00:27:36
lot of pressure now on Herbert. I think this is where their
00:27:39
season starts to fall apart. And I, I, I think if, if you
00:27:43
could trade, if you can get something out of him, then get
00:27:46
on your decks because it's going to be maybe somebody's thinking
00:27:49
about, somebody's thinking about 2024 lad.
00:27:52
And if so, maybe you get a little something out of it.
00:27:54
That's what I'm hoping. He's still got the name wreck.
00:27:55
That's what I'm hoping. Tim, what do you think if
00:27:58
someone offered you, Lad Mcconkey in your other league
00:28:00
right now, I don't know, say in like a league that you might be
00:28:03
the commissioner of what? What would you do in that one if
00:28:05
if I were to offer you? I would I I'm not touching it
00:28:08
with that offensive line the way it is, damn it.
00:28:10
What's your software say though, Tim?
00:28:11
I need your software to think for you.
00:28:14
My my software says the same thing with the trade I mean.
00:28:18
Software says run away, run away.
00:28:21
I'm underwater. If Keenan Allen's getting more
00:28:23
touches than Lad Mcconkey, there's an issue somewhere.
00:28:26
So yeah, yeah, that's the truth. It's 2020 again, Keenan.
00:28:30
'S right? I'm going to offer a
00:28:32
counterpoint. All.
00:28:34
Right, let's see it. That's what I like.
00:28:35
I like it. All right, Quentin Johnson is a
00:28:38
down the field guy, right? Yes.
00:28:40
Yeah, and what's it, what's it take to throw the ball down the
00:28:43
field? A line.
00:28:45
Yeah. So I think he's going to have
00:28:47
fewer opportunities moving forward.
00:28:50
I like that. Counterpoint, Herbert's going to
00:28:52
get roughed up unless he gets rid of the ball faster, which
00:28:56
means shorter routes. Keenan Allen is older.
00:29:00
He's not super old yet, but he's.
00:29:02
He's old enough. Old enough to have an injury.
00:29:05
I mean, he's he's in the same ballpark as Mike Evans.
00:29:09
You know he looks great, so he doesn't.
00:29:12
Right. So I still think there's value
00:29:14
there I. Mean, I guess if there's an
00:29:16
injury, he's super valuable. If one of those two guys gets
00:29:18
hurt, he's awesome again. Yeah, I I just think Quentin
00:29:22
Johnson is still kind of a flash in the pan for me.
00:29:24
I don't. I mean, we saw I.
00:29:26
Thought that but. Then it's we got so many balls
00:29:28
last year and maybe he's fixed now, but I don't, I still don't
00:29:33
trust in him. I trust Ladd.
00:29:35
Yeah, it is because, because we've seen two years of
00:29:37
atrociousness from him and injuries and traps and now we
00:29:41
have to believe that. I think he was, he was a first
00:29:43
round pick. A few years like this is year 3
00:29:45
for him. I can't remember he's in the 20s
00:29:47
or something, but he's a kind of a mid late round first pick for
00:29:50
the Chargers and I think they're finally getting them.
00:29:52
I don't know. Regardless, Mcconkey down
00:29:55
Johnston up in our got thoughts. But I like your point, Prue and
00:30:00
I think. That's a good point.
00:30:01
Yeah, hang on one more. Week, we'll see what happens.
00:30:04
We've been talking about the thieves and their line problems.
00:30:08
You know, like the last few years they haven't been able to
00:30:11
throw the ball down the field because their lines been so bad.
00:30:13
Yeah. Right now we're all like, oh,
00:30:15
the line's short up now it's time to start launching the ball
00:30:17
again. And.
00:30:18
And it was for one month. And right, you know.
00:30:21
Right. A lot of it's the defensive
00:30:24
coordinators know how to play Patrick Mahomes now and stuff
00:30:27
like that. So it's that's one factor.
00:30:29
But it wouldn't shock me if Mcconkey starts getting more
00:30:33
looks. Yep.
00:30:34
They'll find a way to get they'll find a way to get a
00:30:36
ball. He's he's he's not any value
00:30:38
right now. But I wouldn't trade him just
00:30:40
because it's they're going to have to give the ball.
00:30:42
He is the the wide receiver on that team, so.
00:30:44
Yeah, it's always be bad being the sell low.
00:30:47
You want to buy low on a good player, You don't.
00:30:49
Really want to sell? Low like hey, I got $2.00 I'll.
00:30:52
Give you sell low is pretty rough.
00:30:54
That's a rough spot to be the sell low.
00:30:56
We got a guy that I drafted too early and hasn't produced yet.
00:30:59
You want him. Yeah, there's another way we
00:31:01
hinted at is one of the reasons Tim is no longer among us with
00:31:05
the well, I'm not there either. I have no head either.
00:31:07
But Jamar Chase 5 for 23 and now that's two weeks in a row he's
00:31:11
going to be a top three chopped player.
00:31:14
So everybody just spent a boatload of money getting them
00:31:16
from last week. Like thank God that went bad
00:31:18
weeks out of the way. Nope.
00:31:19
You just got 7.3 points again, right, Jamar?
00:31:25
Do you cut bait on him? Are you bidding anywhere close
00:31:28
to the 2 to 3 to 400? You'll need to get them, and I
00:31:33
just don't think you should. I think he's going to come back
00:31:36
again. That's where I'm at with Jamar
00:31:38
Chase. Is who's with me on that?
00:31:40
Or am I just on an island? I'm just afraid of Jamar Chase.
00:31:43
I think if anybody bids over 150 for him, they're really
00:31:46
overbidding. Yeah, I agree.
00:31:48
Because he doesn't have, he doesn't have a quarterback.
00:31:50
He's going to have to get short or short passes, you know, out
00:31:53
of the whatever that quarterback's name is.
00:31:55
He's trash. Jake Browning.
00:31:56
But what's Browning Offensive line, either?
00:31:59
But yeah, he's going to have four passes and hopefully he
00:32:01
breaks a tackle for a long one. That's that's really all you're
00:32:03
hoping for with him. Yeah, but he averaged less than
00:32:05
5 yards per catch. Jamar Chase, That's unbelievable
00:32:09
to me. Pruitt, are you where you at on
00:32:11
Jamar Chase? I mean, he's available.
00:32:13
Like I know we're not going to give away our secrets on this,
00:32:15
but. I'm going to bid something on
00:32:17
him, but it's not going to be that.
00:32:19
I mean, I, I got to keep people honest, but if I don't get him,
00:32:24
I'm not going to be too upset about it.
00:32:27
Right? Yes, right.
00:32:29
I yeah, He's that's what makes wide receivers great, is the guy
00:32:34
getting them the ball. It is, but Jamar Chase is going
00:32:38
to have a hard time getting that ball and again, even when he was
00:32:40
getting it, it was such they were still in the backfield and
00:32:43
so they're just collapsing because where are you going to
00:32:45
double? I mean TF and Higgins, you don't
00:32:48
need to double him. He double s himself just by even
00:32:51
though he had amazing catch called back.
00:32:52
I think he had a 35 yard run on the sideline.
00:32:54
That was sweet. T Higgins then.
00:32:56
Oh, just kidding, he does. That every now and again.
00:32:59
That's a illegal formation penalty because you are half an
00:33:03
inch behind. That sucks, right?
00:33:06
Right. Artism.
00:33:07
What do you think Jamar Chase moving forward?
00:33:10
And I'm probably too. I'll probably bid.
00:33:13
I'll probably bid. Probably too much, yes.
00:33:16
He's a shiny, shiny toy. He's a shiny toy and like if
00:33:21
you're like, if you're somebody like me who's been just a bottom
00:33:24
dweller all year, like hasn't had like a breakout week, hasn't
00:33:28
had a week where you can just kick back and feel good about
00:33:30
yourself. Cruise.
00:33:33
Yeah, I mean, you're ready. He looks real good out of your
00:33:36
time it looks. Real good compared to, you know,
00:33:39
should I start Jamar Chase or Isaac Tesla?
00:33:41
That's kind of where I am right now.
00:33:42
And it's like, well, I guess like it all.
00:33:47
It all depends on what you've got on the bench.
00:33:48
Yeah, if I had weeps and injuries hitting you, Jamar
00:33:51
Chase is better than that. He's better than guaranteed 0.
00:33:54
He can give you 7. But.
00:33:56
I will readily. Or write Evans.
00:34:00
I will readily acknowledge that I am probably in a situation to
00:34:03
over bid for what I think he's worth.
00:34:06
Yeah, no, I think so too. You can't take the money with
00:34:08
you. I'm in.
00:34:09
So I agree with that. All right, Here are some tight
00:34:13
ends that are just killers right now.
00:34:16
La Porta 3 for 39 and Joku 2 for 11.
00:34:21
Joanna Johnson 3 for 28. Those three tight ends were all
00:34:26
starting and people are counting on them and I have to believe a
00:34:30
lot of those guys are available in your league this week
00:34:33
somewhere along the line. So those guys, I don't have a
00:34:36
lot of confidence in any of them.
00:34:38
Joan Johnson probably the most just 'cause they keep targeting
00:34:41
him the most. So he has so many of the
00:34:43
targets, but he's getting, wow, Crystal Lobby's coming live and
00:34:46
I think Kamara is still going to get his and even Rashid jeed,
00:34:49
right, He's going to be getting his for the Saints as well.
00:34:52
So Joan Johnson right now, it was probably the best of those
00:34:55
3. Laporta though, what has
00:34:57
happened to him? He used to be guaranteed money
00:35:00
and in zone looks and everything else.
00:35:02
What happened to Laporta? I think.
00:35:06
Can't put my finger in. They discovered, I think they
00:35:08
discovered Jamo. Yeah.
00:35:10
Jameson Williams now is a thing. St.
00:35:13
Brown's going to Saint Brown. Yeah.
00:35:16
And then Montgomery and Gibbs. So you got a lot of options.
00:35:20
There are that's I, I'm with Pruitt.
00:35:22
I was going to say is there's only one damn football.
00:35:25
That's the problem. Like, you know, it's like they
00:35:28
got a lot of stick of talent on that team.
00:35:30
And like, where does he fall in the pecking order?
00:35:34
Yeah. He's brought order.
00:35:36
At best they were super pass heavy or something.
00:35:38
Then he would get more. But they like, I mean, they run
00:35:40
the ball effectively and so there's really you're better off
00:35:46
keeping him in the block and and do The Dirty work and establish
00:35:51
your run game and then hit St. Brown and Jameson Williams.
00:35:54
Yeah, it's just weird. Laporta has been around all
00:35:56
those guys and it just keeps being the same.
00:35:58
Tim, what do you think about Laporta or and Joe Johnson, any
00:36:00
of those guys? Well, I think Laporta is.
00:36:02
I had him on my team. So yeah, I think he is the third
00:36:06
option on every pass and play. I think he's the drop down
00:36:10
option when there's nothing there.
00:36:11
But other than that, they want to run the ball and that's just
00:36:14
what it is. And he's a really good blocker.
00:36:15
So they're using a lot for blocking downfield.
00:36:17
So I mean if you watch some of the routes he runs, which is he
00:36:21
is a good. Blocker, I mean real.
00:36:23
Life is a. Good block, super valuable
00:36:24
fantasy tied. But it doesn't really, yeah, it
00:36:27
doesn't really do anything for fantasy.
00:36:29
But I mean, that's what they're using it for on those run, on
00:36:31
those runs and everything. And that's just, I mean, that's
00:36:34
the pecking order of the football.
00:36:36
Like I said, there's only one. Football.
00:36:38
He may be the fourth option because they throw to Gibbs a
00:36:41
lot too. Yeah.
00:36:42
Yeah, right. So that's true.
00:36:44
I think he's just a good option, but not a great option.
00:36:47
Then they unfortunately, they have other great options that
00:36:49
they yeah. You put he's one of those dudes
00:36:51
too. You put him on 25% of the league
00:36:54
and he's probably the number one option.
00:36:55
Yeah, that's it. Like you head on down to
00:36:59
Carolina and right, I know you may move on.
00:37:02
Force feeding that guy like crazy in Carolina, I mean.
00:37:05
Exactly and I want to go to like these a couple other dudes that
00:37:10
just totally shat the bed and if you're still starting this guy,
00:37:14
I don't know how many times we're going to say it every week
00:37:16
because he keeps delivering nothing burgers.
00:37:18
But if you're still starting Calvin Ridley, why what is wrong
00:37:23
with you? Please stop doing it.
00:37:24
You're going to continue to lose SO2 catches for 30 yards and
00:37:28
frankly, that's one of his best weeks recently.
00:37:30
So all five of those points, you take them all if you unless
00:37:35
people. It's really hard to have.
00:37:37
It's really it's really hard to have a guy on a team that scores
00:37:40
0 like that is just not going to work out for you.
00:37:44
Yeah. That's when the Titans are going
00:37:46
to score, right? Yeah, the Titans are not going
00:37:50
to score touchdowns. Yes, full stop and.
00:37:53
Chism. Chism knows not to pick him as a
00:37:56
sleeper, so he's never going to. That's right.
00:37:58
Yeah. No, Jesus, do not.
00:38:01
Last week, so everybody's seeing it.
00:38:02
Last week, not Week 4, but Week 3, he had like 8000 yards, 22
00:38:07
touchdowns. And I'm like, well, that's
00:38:09
awesome. No, he didn't.
00:38:11
Just kidding. Because that's David Montgomery,
00:38:13
our next center. So here's what Monty did last
00:38:17
week. A zillion yards, a zillion
00:38:19
touchdowns. Here's what he did this week. 7
00:38:22
carries for 12 yards, 1.21.2 for David Montgomery.
00:38:28
What? Yeah.
00:38:29
How's that even possible? So he sunk some people this week
00:38:33
too. The Browns are a good defense.
00:38:35
They are. And that's.
00:38:36
What he's going to highlight, they really are a Browns.
00:38:40
Believe it or not, they're really good defense.
00:38:42
Yeah, and it travels and you just need to like have some a
00:38:45
back up plan and if there's anybody that's better than at
00:38:49
least equivalent to what you're putting in there, you need to
00:38:52
start them because Cleveland keeps erasing people.
00:38:55
So I would just not be messing with a a running team against
00:38:58
Cleveland. Dang it, there goes Jordan Mason
00:39:01
this week. All right, so anyway, I want to
00:39:04
go next. Is there anyone else you guys
00:39:05
want to highlight for your sinners or Saints?
00:39:07
Anyone that stood out one way or the other?
00:39:09
I just want to hit the kind of the main ones to me.
00:39:12
Yeah, I will say if I'm Tim, I'm a little frustrated he wasn't a
00:39:17
Sinner like Garrett Wilson. Yeah, I mean.
00:39:20
He was a St. I know, but like it feels like
00:39:24
that offense, they need to throw it to him every play.
00:39:26
Like who else are they? Who else is going to do anything
00:39:29
on? That.
00:39:30
Team. Yeah, like they do.
00:39:32
But in the second-half, in the second-half, like he was like
00:39:35
persona non grata. I was like, they're not throwing
00:39:38
to him. And then they finally throw to
00:39:39
him and he makes this just absurd catch in the end zone.
00:39:43
Yeah, it was amazing. A top three catch all season.
00:39:47
When you watch what he had to do and maneuver around the
00:39:49
defenders arms and stay in bounds and fall backwards and
00:39:53
like what the hell was that? That was unbelievable.
00:39:56
You know that he's just coming back every huddle and like,
00:39:59
dude. Throw me the ball like I don't
00:40:03
care. Throw me the ball, I will catch
00:40:05
the ball. Throw it to me.
00:40:06
I don't care, you know, I mean. And Justin's like, but I'm not
00:40:10
very good at throwing the ball. That's my thing.
00:40:13
Can I run it to you and hand it off to you in the end zone?
00:40:15
That would be better for me. That works for me.
00:40:18
Garrett Garrett Wilson probably won't sign with The Jets again
00:40:21
because they're his best quarterback.
00:40:23
Was that rookie in his rookie season he got he got Garrett
00:40:27
Wilson the ball every time that he that he wanted it.
00:40:29
It wasn't going to be Aaron Rodgers.
00:40:31
Aaron Rodgers wanted all of his picks that he brought to The
00:40:34
Jets. He still had a good year.
00:40:36
Though not just he still had a decent year.
00:40:38
Wasn't a bad year but I mean you go with I can't remember the
00:40:42
Rodgers buddies but he brought them all to new.
00:40:45
York. For that and the.
00:40:47
Lizard. Lizard.
00:40:49
Lizard. I mean, that's, yeah, that's
00:40:52
how, that's how Garrett Wilson's going to go.
00:40:54
You're right, Tim. If you put Garrett Wilson on a
00:40:58
any other team and he's another one that feels like he could
00:41:01
have just massive year because as far as talent goes, that guy
00:41:04
is just incredible. All right, I want to go into our
00:41:08
next little. It's kind of a reflection.
00:41:11
So we're one month in. If we had like soothing music to
00:41:14
play right here, I'd hit that button.
00:41:16
But we don't have soothing music and we're going to reflect back
00:41:19
on what was September and the look back is to look to the
00:41:23
future. So we had to know where we've
00:41:24
been to know where we're going. What are our in game players As
00:41:28
we sit right now, given all the injuries we've had to multiple
00:41:32
position players all over the place?
00:41:34
I'm going to run through kind of just four names that would
00:41:37
probably be on some lists. You doing this?
00:41:41
By position are we doing? This I am.
00:41:42
I'm going to start with quarterbacks.
00:41:44
All right, All right, so here's the quarterbacks that if you are
00:41:46
one of the final four teams, you would feel pretty privileged to
00:41:50
have Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Baker Mayfield at Mahomes.
00:41:57
Who do you take out of there? And I'm assuming Lamar Jackson's
00:42:00
going to be back in a couple weeks from his hamstring.
00:42:02
So he's going to be back Week 7 or 8, whatever after his bye
00:42:05
week. Those are the four I think I
00:42:08
would love to have going down the stretch.
00:42:11
Would you take one of those out or two of those out?
00:42:14
And if so, who? Cuz I, I left Hertz out.
00:42:17
I don't think he's a good quarterback and I don't think I
00:42:19
could trust him at all. So he's off my list.
00:42:23
Hertz is not a good quarterback, and he's still better than Baker
00:42:26
Mayfield. All right, there you go.
00:42:28
I like it. I.
00:42:29
I I I hate watching him play. All 100 yards he throws.
00:42:35
He did not complete a pass in the second-half last week.
00:42:39
A pass. He didn't complete one pass in
00:42:42
the. Did he even?
00:42:43
Throw a pass. He.
00:42:44
Threw seven. He threw.
00:42:47
Seven. He was over 7 in the
00:42:50
second-half, but at the end of the day, at the end of the day,
00:42:54
he's the fourth highest scoring quarterback in fantasy when he
00:43:00
hardly throws for 100 yards. Select.
00:43:03
It is really 'cause I'm looking at him and I'm like, he can't be
00:43:06
worse than that. He can't do worse than that
00:43:09
shit. He's only thrown.
00:43:10
For 609 yards, OK, 5 touchdowns. He's thrown for five touchdowns,
00:43:16
but he's run for 179 and he's run for four.
00:43:20
So therefore. He's tushed in for four.
00:43:22
Got to put him in there because I think the passing numbers
00:43:25
probably only get better. I hate him.
00:43:27
I would I would. I hate watching him but yeah, I
00:43:32
mean. Baker Mayfield or we talking?
00:43:34
About Jalen Hurts, he's. Talking about Jalen.
00:43:36
Hurts play football because all he does is tush push and he
00:43:39
doesn't. Really like Baker either, but.
00:43:41
I've admittedly always been an anti Baker guy, but he's grown
00:43:46
on me and you know, I, I, I appreciate him for what he is.
00:43:51
However, he's also more of this and like Jalen is just like, I'm
00:43:57
going to get you the same number of points every week because
00:44:01
we're going to do the same thing every week.
00:44:03
All right, Tim, out of that list, is there someone you would
00:44:06
take away? I know you hate Pat Mahomes
00:44:08
because you're a Chiefs hater. No, that's pretty good and
00:44:11
doing. Well, so far, if we're talking
00:44:13
fantasy, yes, the only one I would take out probably.
00:44:17
And I didn't know Jaden Hurst was part of that conversation,
00:44:20
but I would take out Baker Mayfield as far as fantasy
00:44:23
points. I think your other other three,
00:44:25
even Lamar Jackson is going to go to score points running or
00:44:28
passing. Yeah, and he's got a pretty good
00:44:30
thing. But I mean, it's, and I'd hate
00:44:31
to admit it, but Padma Holmes is a good quarterback.
00:44:35
I mean I. We got that on tape.
00:44:37
We got that on tape. We're.
00:44:38
Going to play that one over and over.
00:44:40
I'm still upset that the Bears didn't even consider him.
00:44:43
But we, you know, I think I can't remember the other guy
00:44:46
that we took I he's been. So biscuits.
00:44:49
True biscuits. Yeah, the only.
00:44:53
I went to the only Chicago Bears game where Mitchell Trubisky
00:44:55
threw 6 touchdowns against Tampa Bay and it was years ago.
00:45:00
Oh yeah, it was greatest game ever.
00:45:02
You're like. This guy's the future right
00:45:05
here. This guy's the future.
00:45:07
We all thought it was. There ain't no doubt but.
00:45:09
Did that game last the entire month of October?
00:45:15
He didn't have another toes down after that.
00:45:17
I don't know how often Bro Brody Croyle did that for Chiefs fans
00:45:20
back in the day, but probably never.
00:45:22
Yeah, you can't go wrong with Josh Allen, Lamar and Pat
00:45:26
Mahomes. You can't go wrong.
00:45:27
Baker Mayfield is every now and he'll throw a pass and you just
00:45:30
like where? Where was that going?
00:45:32
Yeah. I would take him out of that
00:45:34
one. All right.
00:45:34
Sounds good, Pruitt. I got Everybody hates Baker.
00:45:39
Yeah, I would. I I think those five are fine.
00:45:42
I would, I would be happy with any of those five.
00:45:45
Depending on the matchup, I think you can score well.
00:45:48
I'll offer one more honorable mention.
00:45:50
Yes. That I think is maybe my number
00:45:54
six, and it's probably a surprise.
00:45:56
It shouldn't be. I think I probably have them 6.
00:45:59
I think it's Drake May for me, yes.
00:46:01
Drake May, I was going to put him on there instead of Baker,
00:46:06
and I was like, I'll catch too much Flack for that.
00:46:09
He hasn't been there enough, but he runs.
00:46:11
So he's, he's still largely unproven, I give you that.
00:46:15
What I've seen so far, though, is that he will tuck and run a
00:46:18
little bit. He'll run the ball enough to get
00:46:22
you some points. Yeah.
00:46:24
The Patriots also have a very easy schedule, all things
00:46:27
considered. So I think he's going to have.
00:46:30
FC E twice. Yeah, I mean, they got to play
00:46:34
Buffalo twice, but they get The Jets twice and Miami twice as
00:46:37
well, right? So.
00:46:39
Those are layups. Those six are better.
00:46:41
Than the two I like Drake may as a a potential option down the
00:46:45
stretch because I think he's going to have some favorable
00:46:48
matchups those last few weeks of the season yeah and that can be
00:46:51
the difference right the the first five we talked about can
00:46:55
get you to the finals but it's all going to come down to one or
00:46:58
two weeks at the end where you got to have good matchups and
00:47:01
and if you have to go against Cleveland in week 15 or
00:47:04
something yeah you may be out of luck even if you've had a
00:47:07
dominant. Can I ask you, can I ask you
00:47:09
guys what you think of the the NFL yardage passing leader?
00:47:15
Dak Prescott. Equation Dak Prescott.
00:47:18
Well, you gotta feel like that can't keep going on.
00:47:22
I did, even though what's funny, I do remember.
00:47:25
Saying so, this is the, this is the he's the, it's the anomaly.
00:47:27
Right now. We're seeing the anomaly.
00:47:29
He's going to come down. When we were talking about
00:47:30
quarterbacks during our draft prep, I said Dak Prescott's
00:47:33
actually someone who could lead the league in passing this
00:47:36
season because their defense is so ratty.
00:47:39
That is actually held true for the first. 1.
00:47:42
But man, I just don't know how because now they're down CD Lamb
00:47:46
and like we were talking with Pickens, he's inconsistent.
00:47:49
And so then you're down to Ferguson and Javonte.
00:47:51
I just don't see him for a month.
00:47:53
I think that's what's going to kill him is the month of
00:47:55
October. He is literally 80 yards short
00:47:58
of throwing for twice as much as Jalen Hurts.
00:48:01
Well, that's not hard to do because Jalen hurts.
00:48:02
Doesn't throw insane. Yeah, it is.
00:48:05
That's insane. That's insane.
00:48:08
Jalen hurts. All right, so, so where do you
00:48:10
go? Where do you where?
00:48:11
Speaking of, where do you go for your your running backs?
00:48:15
What are you running backs for? Here is a list I think is pretty
00:48:18
darn solid, but there is room for discussion.
00:48:22
So Bijan Robinson, James. Cook, Jonathan Taylor, James.
00:48:28
Dervy 3rd. Travis Etienne, Kylin Williams,
00:48:33
CMC and Josh Jacobs I think are the 8 I feel most confident
00:48:40
after September having in my top 2 running back slots as a final
00:48:44
Four team. I have notably.
00:48:46
Left out, so here's some. There's some big ones there.
00:48:49
I want to see if you'd argue in one of these guys.
00:48:52
Omarion Hampton, Javonte Williams, Ashton Gente,
00:48:57
probably. Shamir Gibbs is probably, well,
00:49:01
Gibbs already. God Dang, what the hell?
00:49:04
Yeah, Gibbs is on here too. My back.
00:49:05
I was about to say, I think your list just.
00:49:07
I think your list just became 9 because I was.
00:49:10
Like it did. It absolutely did.
00:49:11
I knew I forgot someone. I was writing this news.
00:49:13
Forget fast. Yeah, Gibbs.
00:49:15
Absolutely. So see you later, Jacobs.
00:49:17
Gibbs is there now, as you're now #9 and Kyron Williams.
00:49:20
Did you say Saquon? Barkley I didn't.
00:49:24
Wow. I didn't, so go ahead.
00:49:29
Who are you kicking out of bed? So you want Saquon in this
00:49:32
lineup? Who are you kicking out of bed?
00:49:33
Yeah. You kicking Bijon out?
00:49:35
ATN. James Cook out.
00:49:36
You kicking Jonathan Taylor out? I'm kicking ETN out.
00:49:39
I'm with you. I'm kicking ETN out six. .1
00:49:42
yards per carry the whole first month.
00:49:44
Yeah, man, Really. Really.
00:49:46
And then I think I'm even kicking Josh Jacobs out.
00:49:50
I. Don't know about that.
00:49:52
That's a tough one. Yeah, OK.
00:49:55
I know, I know. I like Josh.
00:49:57
Jacobs too. Yeah, this one's mostly to cause
00:49:59
controversy. Saquon can.
00:50:00
Cause like being a top 8. But so far you don't feel that
00:50:05
confident. He doesn't look like the same
00:50:06
guy from last year and that's a fact.
00:50:08
Everyone hasn't was like, Oh my God, what am I doing?
00:50:11
He hasn't been scoring and he got that little crappy one at
00:50:14
the end. I know he did.
00:50:15
But you take that away. His week last week was pretty
00:50:18
crappy. He he was my spud pick last week
00:50:20
and we'll go into that later. He only had 43 yards rushing.
00:50:23
Come on now, that's not a very. He's only got, he's only got 3
00:50:26
touchdowns. Yes.
00:50:28
And Jalen's going to continue scooping them, if not more.
00:50:30
And I just, I'm worried. That's a, that's a good, that's
00:50:34
a good argument. That's a good argument.
00:50:35
I think you got to have H8IN there and the reason why you got
00:50:38
to have H8 in there. So many catches he.
00:50:39
Catches the ball so Dang much. He does, but who?
00:50:43
You can get there. You don't have ET in there.
00:50:47
Which one you? Have Buck.
00:50:48
You don't have Bucky Irving in. There, I got Bucky Irving in
00:50:50
there. Yeah, he's #4 but he does have
00:50:52
an ankle injury right now. But I'm gonna assume it's not
00:50:54
that big a deal and he's gonna be trucking just fine.
00:50:57
But. I would take, I would take him
00:50:59
over Amari and Hampton. I would take him over Travis CTN
00:51:04
as well. OK, well Hampton, I don't have
00:51:05
him in the top eight. He just one he could argue to be
00:51:07
in there and actually I have I have the 9 cuz I totally
00:51:10
whipped. And you had Ashton Genti, didn't
00:51:12
you? Genti is one that I've seen what
00:51:15
he can do. Now we've seen what he can do.
00:51:18
Genti looked awesome, but he's. Still on that ratty Raiders
00:51:21
line? That's not gonna be good long
00:51:24
term. I know in an honorable mention
00:51:27
of one that everyone had as a late first round pick, early
00:51:31
2nd, Chase Brown. He's now dead like Chase Brown
00:51:36
from the Bengals. I don't know how you can trust
00:51:39
that for the next few weeks you won't be alive if you're riding
00:51:43
him through. OK, here's another one.
00:51:46
Like a couple of. Derrick Henry.
00:51:48
Oh yeah, you noticed he wasn't on the list, did ya?
00:51:50
Yeah. He's not in my top 10.
00:51:53
No, he is. He is.
00:51:55
He's a guy that every this is about the time every every few
00:52:00
months they write off Derrick Henry.
00:52:02
They're like, yeah, yeah, he's done now.
00:52:04
He's done now and then. Don't do it comes a 200 yard
00:52:08
game with three teddies. Don't do it in the world.
00:52:12
Right. Like kind of expects him to just
00:52:14
have another game. Guess who Derrick Henry's going
00:52:17
against this week? Houston.
00:52:20
I know he's going against the Houston D, yeah.
00:52:22
I'm not feeling good. I mean, Derrick Henry probably
00:52:24
chopped your team last week. He with eight carries, 8
00:52:28
carries. I said that, right?
00:52:29
For 42 yards, 2 for 16 receiving, 7.8 points out of
00:52:35
Derrick Henry. Yeah.
00:52:37
Ouch. And that was after.
00:52:38
I mean, come on. Ouch.
00:52:41
That's 2. Weeks ago, honestly.
00:52:43
On the side 25 points, but he can explode for.
00:52:48
You can implode for. Yeah, I was gonna say that's not
00:52:50
an explode, that's implode. As a sidebar, seems like the
00:52:55
Ravens always do this against the Chiefs.
00:52:57
They abandoned the run way too early and it's crazy to me.
00:53:03
I was looking at like, the Ravens are a great team, but
00:53:05
it's like they run, they run the Henry twice in the first series
00:53:09
and they're like, oh crap, we got to throw.
00:53:11
We got to throw now quick. And I'm like, what are they
00:53:13
doing? Like I love it as a Chiefs fan
00:53:15
but I'm like I don't understand it.
00:53:17
They stopped him twice. Now what do we do?
00:53:19
Right, Right. He's a guy.
00:53:22
That you run, you need to run 20 times and in the fourth quarter
00:53:25
he's going to just destroy people because he's beating the
00:53:28
heck. Yeah, I was wondering if you
00:53:29
guys would catch the the Henry and the Saquon.
00:53:32
And here's some guys from last year that they were carrying
00:53:35
into the championship. Chuba Hubbard, he's just not
00:53:37
there anymore. I don't see it.
00:53:40
And that one, I don't know what's going on tomorrow
00:53:42
offense, but Alvin Kamara, same thing is this.
00:53:45
That offense is too bad and not enough kind of opportunities,
00:53:49
really. Yeah, they're not throwing the
00:53:50
ball to him. No.
00:53:51
If he's not getting 5 catches a game then he's not that
00:53:54
valuable. He was a big catching back.
00:53:56
He was 1. You needed to catch, as Tim
00:53:57
knows. Yeah, I think he only had. 4
00:53:59
catches last week but he's 1 rolling out he wants.
00:54:03
Seven or eight out of his especially.
00:54:05
That's what we thought he would do this year.
00:54:06
We actually were pretty high on him because we thought Spencer
00:54:08
Rattler just keep dumping it off and no, no, just kidding.
00:54:11
We're going to throw to Jawan Johnson all the time.
00:54:13
Like, yeah, that guy. All right, right.
00:54:15
That's new. OK, I see.
00:54:17
What? You're doing here, but.
00:54:19
Let's go to whiteouts, see if you can identify who's not on
00:54:23
the list. So Pukunakua, I think that's a
00:54:26
freebie. Amaras, St.
00:54:27
Brown, Justin Jefferson, Drake London and here's some ones I
00:54:32
just think are pretty. It's hard not to start them.
00:54:34
Roma Dunsay That's right, NFL leading receiver touchdown guy
00:54:39
and Tim will like that one. He likes all room Rome,
00:54:41
Courtland Sutton and like he got off to a slow start, but I think
00:54:44
they've now found their stride. Jackson Smith and Jigba and a
00:54:48
Mecca Buca for the the Buccaneers because again, you
00:54:53
saw what Godwin's going to look like.
00:54:54
He's going to look like a crippled hobble old man.
00:54:56
And then yet Mike hamstring Evans, who'll be out
00:54:59
indefinitely until he gets back right.
00:55:01
Buca's going to move those chains.
00:55:03
I like him. So out of those eight, Oh my
00:55:05
God, who'd I leave out? Oh my God, Who's there?
00:55:09
Jamar Chase, man, I'm not seeing it.
00:55:12
I just don't see it. He's the.
00:55:13
Number one draft pick overall for almost every fantasy league
00:55:18
in America? Yeah, is not in your top 8.
00:55:21
Not in my end game players right now.
00:55:23
OK, wait, wait. Let me challenge you.
00:55:25
Yes. Joe Burrow should be back in
00:55:28
game. Is he though?
00:55:31
He's coming back. Why?
00:55:33
Would you come back when you're going to be?
00:55:34
2 and 10. Three months, I thought.
00:55:36
Yeah, he's he's minimum three months, they say and you're not
00:55:39
going to come back if you got double digit losses, you're not
00:55:42
going to waste him for a year and getting no.
00:55:44
Way so it's going to be so if he.
00:55:45
If he if he did come back would you put him in the top your end
00:55:49
game? Yeah, absolutely.
00:55:51
Yeah, well. That's real, though.
00:55:54
Yeah, maybe. I mean, Joe's not going to be
00:55:57
Primo form instantly when he gets back.
00:55:59
True. Yeah.
00:56:01
I don't know, Quentin. Johnston, should you have him in
00:56:03
there? Terry Mclaurin, should you have
00:56:04
him in there? Is there anyone?
00:56:05
Here's the one I here's the one that I I would put in and I know
00:56:10
he's old. Whatever.
00:56:12
Devante Adams. I'm putting Devante Adams in my
00:56:16
8. Who you knocking out?
00:56:18
I'm probably knocking out egg buca.
00:56:22
What? The Rookie of the Year,
00:56:24
Offensive Player of the year. All right.
00:56:25
Yeah, I'm probably locking by the way, that.
00:56:27
I don't trust him yet. It's seven times value, so I put
00:56:30
5 bucks in for an $85 winner for rookie offensive night of the
00:56:34
year. They're already trying to cash
00:56:36
me out at 35 bucks. Are they?
00:56:38
Oh yeah, are they? No.
00:56:40
I'm going to take the full 85. No, no.
00:56:41
We're. Keeping him, we're keeping him.
00:56:43
I like Devante Adams, like like Stafford throwing him the ball.
00:56:48
82. The fact that they're both like,
00:56:50
I could rely on that. So I want that.
00:56:52
I want those guys. I want one of those guys.
00:56:54
I want him my top. All right, so you want him over
00:56:56
at Buca? All right, Pruitt, how about
00:56:58
you? Who are you knocking out?
00:57:00
Now we're talking about scoring. Well, yeah, talking about who
00:57:04
top you need 2 White House to be starting for you.
00:57:07
I like, I don't know if I can bump anybody out, but at least
00:57:13
an honorable mention. I think you got to put Garrett
00:57:15
Wilson in there. Yeah.
00:57:17
He just gets, he's so many targets.
00:57:19
He's just. So many times. 50% of the target
00:57:23
share though or something? Just a crazy opportunity 50.
00:57:26
Three. I think 53 is what they said
00:57:28
last. Night.
00:57:29
Yeah, that's insane. And how about you, Tim Who but
00:57:32
not? Enough Tim. 53% was not enough,
00:57:35
Tim. That's right, not almost.
00:57:38
Not to save my head, that's for sure.
00:57:40
Yeah. I'm I'm still sore about it.
00:57:45
You will be for another week or two.
00:57:46
It's it's successful, it's normal.
00:57:49
I didn't hear you mentioned Justin Jefferson in there.
00:57:51
I I really liked once. Yeah, he's #3.
00:57:54
I got him 3 so. OK, you got him in.
00:57:56
There Jefferson and then Drake, London, a Doonese, Sutton Smith
00:58:01
and Jigba and Igbuca. That's who I like, feeling good
00:58:04
going forward. What about I want I'll be a
00:58:06
little throw that. Chism there.
00:58:08
Chism's got a receiver that should be on there.
00:58:10
I think maybe 2. What about Xavier Worthy?
00:58:16
So Xavier Worthy has been pretty.
00:58:18
Good. But the problem with Xavier
00:58:19
worthy. Here's my problem with Xavier
00:58:21
worthy. My argument against him is
00:58:24
Rashid Rice. Yeah.
00:58:26
Who's going to be actually the one get It can't be both.
00:58:30
Someone's going to. Get their 12 to 14.
00:58:32
We put Nakua and we put Devante Adams on the list.
00:58:36
True, True. All right.
00:58:38
No, that's There we go. I have a logical left brain.
00:58:40
That's why we have an engineer on the show.
00:58:42
He points out the obvious, that Chisholm and I forget, because
00:58:45
we got the right brain moving around.
00:58:46
What? About CD Lamb.
00:58:48
Actually, I do like CD Lamb a lot, but The thing is, when's he
00:58:51
coming back? And that was a.
00:58:52
Nasty. Ankle.
00:58:54
God, it was a gross ankle. It's so high and it's going to
00:58:57
be 4 to six weeks. I mean, if he's healthy and
00:59:00
good, for sure. But as we sit right now, not
00:59:04
him, not him, right? What's that?
00:59:05
Dallas bye week. I don't remember.
00:59:09
But yeah, good question. 11 maybe?
00:59:12
Yeah, I don't remember. Oh, they got a late one.
00:59:14
They got a late 1. I think Dallas is a later one,
00:59:17
but it's one of those kids they're.
00:59:21
Week 10. So yeah, I mean, I don't, I
00:59:22
don't think he's done that before Week 10.
00:59:26
Yeah, it's tough to put him up there.
00:59:28
You need him. What is 13?
00:59:30
The first week of the playoffs? 1514 or 14151617, I think, yeah.
00:59:36
Yeah, that's right. Maybe.
00:59:37
Is anybody make an argument for Zay Flowers or Quentin Johnston
00:59:41
to be on this top eight? No.
00:59:44
Quentin Johnston. Tough too.
00:59:46
Quentin Johnston, probably. OK.
00:59:48
And how would you bump off? I'd get rid of the who'd you had
00:59:52
on there, Keenan Allen or Buka. Yeah, I get rid of the buka.
00:59:56
Yeah, yeah. You don't like the guy that's
00:59:57
dominating? Yeah, neither of us.
01:00:00
Neither Tim or I. Neither Tim or I trust him.
01:00:03
Yeah, though he's the one rookie on the list, I can give you
01:00:06
that. So I'm.
01:00:08
Super scared of rookie rookie riders.
01:00:10
Sievers scare the crap out of me.
01:00:11
Yeah, Randy Moss is terrifying. What about looking?
01:00:15
Cool. As horrible as rookie year.
01:00:18
Ain't with the lawyer on here, right?
01:00:20
Exactly. What about one of your other
01:00:22
wide receivers? Just I like my other one.
01:00:25
Doesn't even believe in his other wide receivers.
01:00:27
I do like Nick. I mean, Nico's, as bad as that
01:00:30
team has been, he's been pretty consistent for me.
01:00:33
Yeah, he is good. I like now he hasn't had.
01:00:36
Like the he hasn't had the massive game, you know, he's had
01:00:40
a lot. Of floors and it but he's
01:00:42
massive game is in him. I think he's right.
01:00:45
He might go off this week actually against Baltimore.
01:00:47
He's kind of a I see a huge game coming up for him this week.
01:00:50
A lot of people go off against Baltimore.
01:00:52
Yeah, I know. So.
01:00:53
So what? I'm saying.
01:00:54
If only we could play Dallas after that, he'd really be
01:00:57
cooking. I could definitely see that.
01:00:59
I mean, yeah, for sure he, he is.
01:01:01
He's 1. You can make an argument for
01:01:03
Peru for sure. Awesome.
01:01:05
All right, so that's our white outs and we do the last one.
01:01:07
So this the the four Titans. You could feel pretty good going
01:01:11
into the final four weeks. So Trey McBride feel like that's
01:01:15
an obvious 1 Brock Bowers this one it should be and by then he
01:01:19
should be fine. But he doesn't look right now.
01:01:20
But he even half ass he's still pretty good.
01:01:23
A Tucker craft, Jason Ferguson, those are the top 4I and Kittle
01:01:29
is he'd be in there for Ferguson, but Kittle again hurt.
01:01:32
I don't know what's up with them.
01:01:33
We'll see if he comes back. He should should be fine.
01:01:36
So Kittle would obviously be one.
01:01:37
They'll be the top four guy at the end, but would you guys add
01:01:40
anyone else? And if so?
01:01:43
So you were. You were.
01:01:44
You were McBride. Bowers Craft.
01:01:47
Ferguson. Ferguson.
01:01:49
But really Kittle, really Kittle's four.
01:01:51
If he's fine going into those last four weeks, frankly it
01:01:53
doesn't. Matter.
01:01:54
You got to throw Hunter Henry in there.
01:01:57
That's who I've got one. He's.
01:01:59
Doing. I've got him good.
01:02:00
That is the hunter, Henry. 33 Tuddies.
01:02:03
That's I would actually, I would actually consider dropping
01:02:07
Bowers off just because he's not getting targeted right now.
01:02:11
Right. It is kind of weird that Trey
01:02:13
Tucker is demanding target share away from Brock Bowers, but I
01:02:16
think it's just the knee brace. I think that's the only reason,
01:02:19
yeah. He has.
01:02:19
Well, I remember the size. Of his legs.
01:02:22
Go ahead, Tim. He hasn't.
01:02:23
Yeah, He's the size of his legs. So I mean, it is.
01:02:26
I mean, he's not running well. Yeah.
01:02:28
Remember the discussion we had at the beginning of the year on
01:02:31
Smallish Titans and what happened specifically?
01:02:35
Like, and it's kind of crazy. Like, I didn't actually think
01:02:39
that would be a thing with him, but.
01:02:42
It's kind of pretty hit on the side now.
01:02:44
God, that sucked. Yeah.
01:02:47
OK. And is there any appetite?
01:02:50
Because here's the one that's kind of my honorable mention is
01:02:52
Tyler Warren for the Colts. Yeah.
01:02:54
Tyler Warren looks really good, is heavily involved all the
01:02:58
time, is heavily involved in the end zone and red zone plays all
01:03:01
the time. I kind of like Tyler Warren as
01:03:03
well. He's the one I'm going to keep
01:03:04
my eyeball on. He's the other. 1 you could
01:03:06
throw in there. Another one you could throw in
01:03:09
there is when you talk about red zone is Dalton Kincaid.
01:03:12
He's got 3 touchdowns. Yeah, he's an all leading guy.
01:03:15
He doesn't move any changes. Leads leads all tight ends, so,
01:03:20
you know, tough to leave the touchdown leader out.
01:03:24
Yeah, he's tired, right? Hunter Henry?
01:03:26
Yeah. That's right.
01:03:27
He's got same as Hunter Henry. Yeah, I think Goddard has 3/2.
01:03:32
Yeah, he's, I don't know. I'm not trusting Dalton Kincaid
01:03:36
as far as I can throw him. Zero chance.
01:03:38
I know I wouldn't. Touchdown say he's top four.
01:03:39
You're right. No, he wouldn't say top.
01:03:42
Four, and here's a sneaky 1 to keep your eyeballs on moving
01:03:44
forward. And it's 1:00.
01:03:45
We, we really liked doing that rookie previews.
01:03:48
So Mason Taylor for The Jets and again, he set all LSU's records
01:03:52
for receptions and touchdowns and yards.
01:03:56
Mason Taylor is starting to get involved heavily with that Jets
01:03:59
offense and he just looked, I think he had a 5 for 48 this
01:04:03
week, something along those lines.
01:04:05
So close to 10 points, but he starts falling in the end zone
01:04:08
and getting those looks. Mason Taylor could be a pretty
01:04:10
nice tight end to look at. So this I got a question.
01:04:13
He might be available out there in your leagues too for your
01:04:15
flex spots. Speaking of tight end, I'm going
01:04:17
to throw this one out there. Question for you.
01:04:19
What do we think of Hawkinson? Man.
01:04:20
He doesn't look the same. I think he's he got broke and
01:04:23
he's. Done.
01:04:25
I do. He doesn't look good, OK, Like
01:04:27
he's not running routes as crisp as fast and if he was, they'd be
01:04:31
looking at him and he's just not getting that separation.
01:04:34
Before he was kind of like a Kittle.
01:04:36
He was awesome and he does not look like that anymore and he
01:04:40
does not Kelsey. You're not seeing that out of
01:04:41
him. No, yeah.
01:04:42
Although I will say Kelsey's looked Kelsey's looked a little.
01:04:45
Better. That was Noah Gray.
01:04:47
We saw That was Noah Gray. That was not Travis Kelsey.
01:04:51
Yeah, Kelsey, Kelsey. No great looks like 8 years ago.
01:04:54
Kelsey. We need to start using him more.
01:04:57
Kelsey is, I think, investing his time and energy in the
01:05:01
billionaire girlfriend that he. Has, yeah, I mean.
01:05:03
There, I'm not saying I would. I wouldn't say I'm not saying
01:05:06
I'm not. Wouldn't do the same thing.
01:05:07
Yes. You mean you mean Jason Kelsey
01:05:11
slash Taylor or Swift? Yeah, that's right.
01:05:14
Absolutely. I tell you absolutely, I like a
01:05:17
tight end. I like that I picked up that I
01:05:19
was going to start over Laporta, if I would have made it this
01:05:22
week, was I like Brenton Strange, He's really good.
01:05:25
I have him by my best too. It's been really good.
01:05:28
He has. That's a.
01:05:29
Bye week feeling too. I mean, if you want to do that,
01:05:31
I mean, it's totally not a bad. That's a great segue, Tim.
01:05:35
We're going to go into our shrewdest sleeper sleeper
01:05:38
sleepers right now. Let's talk about them.
01:05:42
Yeah, let's talk about them. So again, for those new to the
01:05:44
show, we're going to whip through these pretty quick, but
01:05:46
we each give you a sleeper who's less than 35% owned.
01:05:49
So he's going to be available in 2/3 of leagues out there.
01:05:52
If you need to get to 8 and a half, nine points because you
01:05:54
got injury or you have a bye week, you need somebody.
01:05:58
Let's go right to Pruitt. Pruitt, who's your shrewdest
01:06:00
sleeper this week? Who do?
01:06:02
We got. Oddly enough, it's Brenton.
01:06:03
Strange. Hey, what do you know?
01:06:07
Wavelength there we. Go I took him.
01:06:09
I picked him as a as a sleeper the one week he didn't get
01:06:13
enough points to take qualify. Yes you did.
01:06:16
He only had 4.7 that week but he's had 9 point 110.5 this
01:06:23
last week. So I like him again as a sleeper
01:06:26
this week going against KC and we are notorious for giving up
01:06:30
yards to tight ends. Yes, we are.
01:06:34
Monday night games I think. I think he could have another 10
01:06:38
point week. OK, like it.
01:06:41
I like it. Chiz, who do you like for your
01:06:42
sleeper? Sleeper this week.
01:06:44
All right, Homer alert, Homer alert.
01:06:46
Taekwon Thornton at Jacksonville.
01:06:50
Here's why I like him. I think everybody's super
01:06:53
excited about Xavier Worthy, and they're going to be paying
01:06:56
attention to Xavier Worthy. And I think all you need from
01:06:58
Taekwon is 1 deep ball and he's shown the ability to get open
01:07:02
for at least one deep ball and a tuddy.
01:07:05
I like him to eclipse 8 1/2 points because.
01:07:08
All right. I think he's earned some trust.
01:07:10
From the homes to Taekwon, Thor Green, someone has been looked
01:07:13
at and that was with Worthy back.
01:07:15
He's still got in the end zone, so I like having Thornton as
01:07:18
well. I think that's a nice pick,
01:07:19
especially against Jackson. How about you?
01:07:20
How about you, Dex? What are you thinking?
01:07:22
So I'm jumping and it's not cuz it's the the hot player from
01:07:25
last week. I've liked him for multiple
01:07:27
weeks. He's finally got opportunities.
01:07:29
So Woody Marks for Houston is at Baltimore against the defense
01:07:33
that is depleted. They have nobody left.
01:07:36
They are starting their JV team. I think times lining up at
01:07:39
linebacker. This four for Baltimore.
01:07:41
Times ready, but he doesn't. Want more of us are.
01:07:44
Starting this week for Baltimores.
01:07:46
It is, but he doesn't want to try and tackle Woody Marks.
01:07:48
I think they've gotten more involved again.
01:07:51
It's not hard to out compete Nick Chilbur right now because
01:07:53
he's guys 18 knee surgeries and a leg that's this Franken leg.
01:07:58
So I like what he marks this this week against Baltimore.
01:08:01
He's projected for 8.1, but I think he's going to go for way
01:08:04
over that. So woody marks like it.
01:08:06
If he gets the carries, there he goes.
01:08:07
So again, re cash on our sleepers.
01:08:09
We got Britain, Strange Woody Marks and Taekwon Thornton as
01:08:14
our. Shrewdness Sleeper.
01:08:15
Sleeper, Sleeper. All right, Spud alerts.
01:08:17
So here's our spud. So these are the ones everybody
01:08:20
owns. So 95% owned.
01:08:22
We think they're going to get less than 10 points this week.
01:08:25
Let's just jump right into it. Prove who's going to be our Spud
01:08:28
of the Week. Oh, I'm really concerned about
01:08:32
Minnesota going against Cleveland.
01:08:34
I think Jordan Mace or yeah Mason Jordan Mason's going to
01:08:37
struggle against the Cleveland rush D they've shut running back
01:08:43
after running back down so far this year every.
01:08:45
Single week. I don't see him getting up to 10
01:08:49
points, maybe even less than 9. He does, I don't know.
01:08:52
They've been throwing to who's the 3rd down back that they're
01:08:55
using. Xavier Scott, I believe.
01:08:58
Was his name Scott? So.
01:08:59
That was his first game, but yeah.
01:09:01
But he's he caught several pass this last week.
01:09:03
They seem to be putting him in there on the third downs,
01:09:06
obvious passing situations to give Jordan Mason a break if
01:09:10
nothing else without Aaron Jones in there to dispel him.
01:09:13
So yeah, I think he's going to struggle.
01:09:16
I do too, unfortunately, for being a Vikings fan.
01:09:18
All right, cheers. Who you got?
01:09:20
Well, definitely put money on this guy to explode this week
01:09:24
because. I am actually.
01:09:25
I'm gonna immediately go. I'm going home on this guy.
01:09:28
I have been the worst you could possibly imagine at picking
01:09:31
spuds this week. Haven't hit one.
01:09:33
I'm over 5, No 4. Either way.
01:09:36
Not even close. I'm getting ready to be over.
01:09:40
Here's the rationale. I'm picking T Higgins versus
01:09:43
Detroit basically because he's got a Keely Smith throwing in
01:09:46
the ball. That is, That is the only reason
01:09:49
I'm picking T Higgins. And I like that offense just
01:09:52
looked so bad last night. Like, I can't get it out of my
01:09:55
head that you have incredible wide receivers and you cannot
01:10:00
get them the ball so. Yeah, but they got Kajiah Carter
01:10:03
running the ball, so. That's, that's true.
01:10:06
That's true. So I I just can't see T Higgins
01:10:10
eclipsing 10. What name did you say this week?
01:10:14
What name did you say? TF and Higgins, there it is.
01:10:17
You have to say it correctly if we're going to do it.
01:10:20
This is our our criteria we've set for ourselves on Spuds is to
01:10:25
get less than eight points. Prism's 4 picks, the lowest
01:10:31
score any of them have had is 16.9.
01:10:35
Yeah, so. Place your front, place your
01:10:38
front bits. Now T Higgins has looked pretty
01:10:41
time. Touchdown.
01:10:43
This is the week against Detroit.
01:10:45
It'll be a shoot. Higgins 100 plus receiving
01:10:47
yards, 10 plus receptions. Put it down.
01:10:50
Just ladder. It let's.
01:10:52
Go. I even gave you advice last week
01:10:56
shooting us listeners Marvin Harrison when he as soon as
01:10:59
Chisholm fixed Marvin Harrison's.
01:11:01
He busted that dude out of his slump quicker than anybody could
01:11:04
have possibly done it. It was amazing your powers all
01:11:08
right, so I'm gonna I've been pretty solid.
01:11:11
My dudes haven't done real awesome.
01:11:13
So Barkley again, I highlighted he only had 43 rush yards last
01:11:17
week. He just ended up having a couple
01:11:18
of catches for 30 and then he got that late touchdown.
01:11:21
So he ended up with 17.4 this week, though, I'm staying with
01:11:24
the team. I, I feel like I big Philly a
01:11:28
lot. I just don't believe A.J.
01:11:31
Brown. So he's going to be my spot of
01:11:34
the week. He's going to be playing against
01:11:36
Denver. 2 for seven didn't convince you last week, Yeah.
01:11:40
I know, but he had his one good week the week before.
01:11:43
I just think he's going to go over.
01:11:45
This can be more of the same for A.J.
01:11:46
Brown. Patrick Sartan is probably going
01:11:48
to draw coverage for him because you're going to put your best
01:11:50
against the best and they're just going to go to Devante
01:11:53
Smith probably or Dalton or not Dalton.
01:11:55
He's not Kincaid if you haven't even Kincaid.
01:11:57
Goddard's Goddard, So Dallas got her, but I think that they're
01:12:01
fine with that. Philly offense is fine, just
01:12:04
ignoring him and using him as a super expensive decoy.
01:12:07
I think it's going to be one more week.
01:12:09
So A.J. Brown, expensive decoy against
01:12:12
Denver. So they don't have Sir Tan
01:12:13
Picket and take it to the house. Defensive player of the year Pat
01:12:16
Sir Tan, I think he's going to lock him down.
01:12:18
Spud. A.J.
01:12:19
Brown. So 3 spuds.
01:12:22
We got T Higgins, A.J. Brown and Jordan Mason.
01:12:27
All right, let's move into our gambling picks.
01:12:30
OK, let me just say before we go to gambling picks, we are
01:12:33
freaking sizzling hot and I hope that you have taken advantage of
01:12:36
this. It's true.
01:12:37
Back to the matter is like. You don't back like parleys on
01:12:40
our Monday night parley or Sunday night parley.
01:12:42
We had Sunday night Indian parley, you're killing Monday
01:12:45
night in game parley, 3 for three on both those.
01:12:49
We've had 75% of our overall gambling picks for the week,
01:12:54
which is like insane. Yeah, I'd almost think we're
01:12:58
lying if it wasn't on a sheet. Like this was crazy it on tape
01:13:03
and out into the world each week and backing our stats up.
01:13:06
So last week we gave you Tennessee Houston under 39 1/2
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hit New Orleans plus 16 1/2. So choosing gave you that smelly
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stinky high number and said run to the double digit stank.
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New Orleans played inspired football.
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We missed on this one because who knew that Jackson Dart would
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beat not only play well, but beat the Los Angeles Chargers?
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What? And so we had 6 1/2.
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We thought that'd be an easy cover.
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Pruitt missed two in a row. Now we got to get him back on
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track. So we need.
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And by the way, at low props, Dex has not missed all year.
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Whoa, whoa. Knock on wood, come on now, what
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are? You doing Knock on wood.
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Geez, I'm on a little heater right now, but damn. 4 for four
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we. Were I think last year we were
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about 48 to 49% overall as a group and we're hanging at 75 so
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far right now. So we're.
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That's. Crazy.
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Absolutely killing it. Yep, it is.
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I'm over here counting my money. All right, so I'm gonna go ahead
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and start us off on this one. I think I'm gonna.
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It's a smelly 1. I don't really like it, but so
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far that's been working for me. On to the stink.
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It is, and the reason it stinks is cuz I'm taking Houston in 2
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1/2 points at Baltimore. They got a cover -2 1/2 on the
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road in Baltimore. But like I've said, Baltimore is
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going to be starting Cooper Rush, so there's no Lamar
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Jackson. Derrick Henry may have 200
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yards. I don't even care as long as I
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get in the end zone that much. But Houston's defense is not
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going to let that happen. Defense travels.
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They just came off and shut out. I think Houston's is going to
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play very tough. I think Cooper Rush is not going
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to scare them and I think they're going to be able to
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cover the three points on the road at Baltimore on a broken
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team right now. It would take a very inspired
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effort from Cooper Rush and maybe they can make it happen
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unlike other teams that played. But I don't think Houston's
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giving up more than 21 points this entire season, and with
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Cooper Rush the helm, I just don't see it.
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I like. It Dex and here's why.
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This is one of those lines you look at as a as a better and
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you're like that can't be right. Usually if you look at one of
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those lines and you say that can't be right, you should bet
01:15:20
it because somebody knows something in Vegas.
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Yeah, I thought it for sure would be -2 1/2 Baltimore, even
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with Cooper run right for the home two home 3.
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And when they're actually home dogs, I'm like, that means
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everybody's going to bet Baltimore.
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So I'm taking the opposite. So I'm going Houston, follow me
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if you want. We'll see if I can get for five
01:15:40
in a row and we'll go from there.
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All right, Pruitt, what do you got for us?
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What's going to get back on track for you?
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Tennessee is not a good football team.
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What? I don't know if you've been
01:15:50
following along, but. The volunteers are playing some
01:15:54
inspired football. Volunteers might be able to beat
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the Titans this. Year and I I shouldn't say
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they're not a good football team, they're not a good
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offense. Their defense has been OK.
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Yeah. This week they are matched up
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with Arizona, who's another team that I would say is a less of an
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offense now. They lost James Conner for the
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year, right? So they're a little bit more
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one-dimensional. Benson's a fine fill in backup,
01:16:21
whatever. Still not a big mark from the
01:16:23
Harrison's junior fan. I just don't see them creating
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much on offense. So I'm going to the under in
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that game right now it's at 41 1/2.
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I like a like. Seems like a lot for those two.
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21 to 10 type game is what I'm thinking.
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Yeah, See just cannot score more than 10 points against Yeah,
01:16:45
Tony Poly. Arizona be able to break that
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many. Right.
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Arizona's a decent defense and I think they continue to struggle
01:16:52
Tennessee offensively so. All right.
01:16:55
This is the Arizona. 3rd winner. Yeah, this is the third winner
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and it's on the road, which is a little scary, but I'm going
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Denver plus 3 1/2 at Philly. We're keeping our anti Philly
01:17:09
hatred alive and well. It's it is the anti Philly
01:17:12
hatred. At the end of the day though,
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Philly just doesn't blow anybody out.
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Like they don't beat anybody bad.
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And even though Bo Nicks has some brain farts every now and
01:17:24
again, like he did, you know, the other night, last night,
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he's competitive and they have a a good defense and I think
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they're going to be able to keep this within a field goal.
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So cue the Denver, you know, down 3, go for a field goal, let
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it get blocked like I lost on against these rat bastards a few
01:17:46
weeks ago. But I think, I think that Denver
01:17:49
keeps it within a field goal at least.
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Philly probably wins but but I think Denver 3 1/2 I like a lot
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in this spot. All right, I like it.
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So we got Tennessee, Arizona under 41 1/2.
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We got Houston -2 1/2 at Baltimore, and we got Denver.
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We get 3 1/2 points at Philly. That's what we got for our
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three. Tim, do you have a bonus guest
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pick for us that you've been scouting over there?
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Well, sure, I don't like your Baltimore pick.
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I think Baltimore's going to win that game.
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But I mean, we'll see how it goes.
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I mean, I'm I'm a pretty good. Yeah, I told you it's.
01:18:21
Stinky going to win that game. It is stinky, but that's that's
01:18:25
for sure. No, I kind of like the the, the
01:18:30
Bengals or the lions -10 I like them covering that.
01:18:33
OK, Yeah, I like a. Lot of points.
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A lot of points, but the Bengals are just everywhere they have no
01:18:40
they look like. Yeah, they look like a team that
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is absolutely clueless right now.
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They're ready for 2020. 6. Yeah, their defenses arguing
01:18:48
with each other this week, but you know, last night and Monday
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night. So I don't, I don't think
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they're going to come out and play good at all.
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And that offensive line is just horrible and Detroit's just
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going to run it down their throat.
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So I just think it's a that's easy cover.
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I like it. I.
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Think Hutchinson. Doing a four banger this week
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we're doing 4 banger. Let's do it.
01:19:04
Hutchinson's licking his lips right now, getting ready for
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that game, it feels like. Yeah, that's an easy cover.
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All right. Well, shrewdness, hope you
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enjoyed the episode. Tim.
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Thank you so much for coming on and being our guest.
01:19:16
Yeah. Thanks for having me, guys.
01:19:18
I appreciate it. Yeah.
01:19:19
Appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely.
01:19:21
Say thanks to Tim too for participating in the shooting
01:19:23
this league. Something new we're trying this
01:19:25
year. I appreciate it, man.
01:19:26
It's a great time and I'll be around as long as I hear from
01:19:29
John. Are you guys to get in and I'll
01:19:31
be around for a while. Yeah, right.
01:19:34
That works and fun so far. Don't pull a Pruitt.
01:19:37
Check your bye weeks and make sure there's injury report so
01:19:40
they put them out early. You don't have to get.
01:19:42
Check your bye weeks. So these international games are
01:19:45
going to be in London again, so we got the Vikings and Cleveland
01:19:48
overseas. So get up early 7:00, set your
01:19:52
alarm, check stuff real quick and then go back to bed if you
01:19:54
want. But don't don't be starting any.
01:19:57
Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Chicago guys, bid wisely.
01:20:02
You're going to have some bye weeks.
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So for in the look ahead till next week, we got Houston and
01:20:05
Minnesota week 6. So be smart with your stuff.
01:20:08
All right, so that's all we got for this week's episode.
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Good luck. Keep your head and until next
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week. Stay shrewd.