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Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Jason. It's Christmas time. Yeah, man. See you later, Halloween. Hello, Christmas. I saved it for you. Thank you. You're welcome. My tree's up. No, it's not. Oh, yeah, it is. No, it's not. Oh, yes, it is. Andy, it's Halloween over.

Halloween's over. Are you on that boat? I broke out all my Christmas vinyls, which to be fair is one. Took them all out. Which one? Michael Bublé. It's a nice red colored vinyl. Put that on in the house, listening to Christmas tunes. Of course, it's Christmas time. I told you I tried your little method. That's fine, Grinch. You stay over there. No, no. Look, I tried it. Grinch wouldn't have tried it. Oh, he did actually. He tried it. He loved it.

I don't know if you've seen the film. His heart grew two sizes. I don't think the film was based on the second that the Halloween decorations come down. It is Christmas time. Well, we don't know when it started. Yeah. You ever seen the sequel to The Grinch? The best part is it's Christmas all the time. I tried it. I didn't care for it. It made it feel artificial. It wasn't a natural. There wasn't a sprinkle in the air.

You know what I mean? I know what you're saying. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I don't feel that way. I know you don't. It's okay. I actually thought Christmas time was just related to the news that Dennis Allen had been caned. See you later, sucker! I mean, just take the thermometer down. He's not there. Don't rip our wall. What a waste of money. Spike! You're gone!

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We mentioned it on the show, like the trajectory of the Saints. If they lose this game to Carolina, that seat's going to get real hot. I didn't know it was immediately to a volcano. It would be my final straw. I mean, it is a scapegoat thing to a degree. I mean, the injuries have been outrageous for New Orleans, including in this game. I mean, Chris Olave is one of the biggest storylines that we're going to talk about today.

He's in trouble. He's in career trouble at this point. Oh, for sure. I mean, a lot has been made about Tua. His...

His concussion history has been a little bit more in the public eye. It seems like it's always a primetime game. And because he's a quarterback, and it affects the whole team so much more significantly. But there are some significant parallels in the just severity and amount of concussions now, even dating back to college, that Chris Olave has had to deal with. So, I mean, we expect IR.

for Ola. I don't think he will play football this season. Oh, I hope that is. I don't even know what I hope for. This is one of those things where it's like, I want to be healthy playing football. He was in the locker room after the game. That was the good news. Yes. Discharged from the hospital in the locker room. Wanted to be around for the firing, I guess. And I heard there's going to be a party here. But I mean, the Saints. Look, here's what we know. They're going to have a high pick. They need a quarterback.

My DraftKings team was erased the moment that that play happened. Dude, that was such a bummer. But at the same time, you can look at the situation for Dennis Allen and say, well, you've lost now your top three pass catchers. It's just kind of – it's just spiraled. Ever since we hung the thermometer on the wall, ever since you're –

Remaining hair has been threatened. Have you thought about a celebration shave? I have thought about it. I mean, I did shave the sides, so I'm... You're almost there. It was like an honorary for you, Dennis Allen. He wanted to show up, but not that much. Yeah, I don't have that much to show. So we have a lot to get to. We've got more news. We'll give you the latest on Olave.

And some of the other big breaking news of the weekend, including injury reports. We all know tomorrow's a big day. Trade deadline. Oh, yeah. Trade deadline. Huge day for our country because the NFL trade deadline is here. Buyers and sellers. We'll see what happens. Cardinals, get yourself a pass rush.

Divisional leaders, the Cardinals. Let's go over to. Oh, yeah. Let's check in on the Falcons health. How you doing down there? Came to work. Congrats, guys. Thank you. Thank you. I can hand it to you. Yeah. Your voice getting deeper there. It's a little raspy today. Yeah. What was going on last night? Barry White over here. Yeah. About six packs. Yeah. Goodness gracious. He smokes in the bathroom. All right.

We've got your reactions to the weekend. And normally I have Jason take a look at these before we hit the button. But I don't think he got to them today. I have not. So you guys are riding dirty. Oh, yes. Well, we'll start with Jason's main man, Divine A-Chan. Yes, he is. How about Cedric T?

TD man. Oh, baby. Whoa, Burrow. And we've got a trifecta here. Yeah, Burrow, five touchdowns. Jackson Smith win Jigba. Jackpot Smith and Jigba. Yay, SN. Why am I just...

You're yay us in. You're yay us in. We got Cooper Yup. Oh, I love this one. Saquon Backleap. Oh, he farted on that guy. Saquon Beastly. Rico Waddle. Mike Weezycky. And, Mike, you get this one. Lamar's Powers Bring Zay Flowers. Yes, and the weekend, I'll tell you, it wasn't like last week.

It was a lot more negative than it was positive. And we always begin each week with Starvin Harrison Jr. Yeah, Marvin Embarrassin Jr. Or Kyle Pitts of Despair. Or Pitts Creek. How about Puncha Nakua? That's a good one. Puka Nakayo. Yeah, and Bree Stahls. Raheem Moist Turd? Yes! Raheem Moist Turd. Oh, that's gross. That's disgusting.

Mike, go ahead. Yonathan Taylor. And Samist Winston. Oh, how about Tucker Crap? Oh, they're on fire today. Dactosin tolerance? Yes.

And we'll close it out with AJ frown. Dude, I'm never pre-reading these ever again. See, it's better if you don't. It is, but they're not always this good. Moistured? Dactos intolerance? Yeah, I mean. I mean, good job, Foot Clan. Yeah, nice job. Nice job. We had a weekend. You can submit your Monday Punday suggestions, entries on Instagram at FantasyFootballers over on X at the FFBallers.

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Goodness gracious, I need a tool. So, continued updates coming your way. Shout out to our dev team here who's been working their butts off. I mean, they don't have butts. Yeah, they're gone. They have no butts. They've been worked off. They are worked straight off. Sitting is uncomfortable. But shout out to them on the hard work. You ever sat directly on a tailbone? No. No, I haven't. They have. Yeah. You have? Yeah. I'm pretty skinny. Oh. Here we go. Got a pancake butt. Yeah.

Welcome to Ready to Roll, presented by Nissan. I'm going to be honest, I have been jealous of the badonkadonk. When I get into a place where I need to sit on a metal bleacher, you know what I mean? Oh yeah, I bring my pads with me. Yes sir, I do. Got to get on that squat machine, man. I bring my pads with me.

It was the squats that did it for you? Oh, sure. Sure it was. It's squats for you. Burgers for me. No, no, no. I mean, you're really taking away a good thread of jokes from the show with your good health of recent history. I know. It's really stupid.

Well, you know, not for your long-term health. But for the show's long-term health, yeah. I hit the button already. I almost did it again. All right, ready to roll. We're always taking a look at some analytics on this segment every Monday, something we're reflecting on we want to bring to light. We got the Red Zone report inside of the Foot Clan tools, and so we wanted to dive in, take a look at what teams now at the halfway point

are very effective in the red zone thus far. We've got the top six teams. I'm curious your opinion on maybe some actionable fantasy advice you can take out of this information. It's trying to find teams that are, maybe they're running too hot or too cold or like Washington, they're running hot and

but it could be better. Well, I mean, the truth is these are teams that are effective in terms of capitalizing on touchdowns inside the red zone, inside the 20. And right now, I mean, Baltimore is kind of outrageous. They're sitting at 74%.

Of the time inside the red zone, they're scoring a touchdown. They have 29 red zone touchdowns. The league average, by the way, is 56%. So you're sitting nearly 20% higher than the league average. Buffalo has been very effective in the red zone. Maybe a common theme there, you have two

that can move with their legs. Oh, wait, we also have Washington that's been very effective. But that's where I wanted to point out here for Washington. Like Washington, of the teams we're talking about, they're averaging the most red zone plays per game, like over 19. But their percentage is below average. Their red zone touchdown rate is low. There's only 21 compared to like the Ravens who have 29. But red zone field goals for Washington. So that's what I mean of,

They could be a team. Their offense is fantastic. The turnaround of the Washington Commanders is... Bravo. It will probably end up being the story of the season once we look back. But...

A couple of those field goals, if we turn those into more touchdowns, then this is ludicrous what they're doing. You can look at it either direction. You can say they're either inefficient in the red zone, but they're getting there so often that that might go away. They might not stay on the same fiery pace.

and then they're not converting touchdowns enough. Or you can look at it as in they're getting there all the time, and they could even get better. I think with a rookie there, I mean, you look at right now what's happening is they're moving the ball phenomenally, but they're struggling in the red zone to convert to touchdowns because they've got a rookie who's not used to the condensed field where the defenders are in position. So I tend to agree with you, Mike, that it could still get actually better

for the commanders. They have missed Brian Robinson in two and a half games, essentially, which doesn't help your red zone conversion rate. Also, the field shrinks, and he's been so effective moving it between the 20s. That is an area where a rookie is going to struggle a little bit. Are you saying a good running back helps red zone efficiency? Yes. Let's talk about the Lions. Well, the Lions are there. I was actually talking about Mr. Derrick Henry.

That dude is insane. Since 2007, not many teams have been over 72% conversion to touchdown rates in the red zone.

Let me name them for you. You've got the Tennessee Titans in 2019, which was Derrick Henry. You got the 2020 Packers. You got this year's Baltimore Ravens, Derrick Henry. Oh, you got the Titans in 2020 with Derrick Henry. You have the 2020 Steelers, the 2013 Broncos with Peyton Manning, of course. Then you got the Titans with rookie Derrick Henry. So it's like that dude is built different. And

And I know we talk about the punishing nature of Derrick Henry and the business decisions and whatnot, but when I was watching this last game... Yeah, you were pointing them out frequently. It was like, I just felt for the defense. I felt for them on a human level. I was like... For their families? There was a screen pass to Henry where he's,

literally a locomotive going down the field, and he gets tripped up. But as the camera is moving, you see the defender who was just about to have to deal with him. There was a DB. He was standing where he was ready. Oh, he was pumping himself up. And then I'm sure when the guy ahead of him tackled him, he's like, yes! Yes!

You see that skinny DB that truck-sticked Henry last week and just put him on his butt? I think it was at Cincinnati. I don't recall. It didn't make any sense when you looked at the two of them. Came from the side and just knocked him over. Those are your effective teams. You've also got Tampa Bay has been very effective. I mentioned the Lions and the—

The Bengals are worth mentioning because they're throwing the ball so much. Joe Burrow leads the NFL in pass attempts inside the 20 without Joe Mixon, who has kind of turned off the passing faucet in Houston.

Joe Burrow, it's his responsibility. Five touchdowns could have been six this weekend. And so you look at Joe Burrow and say, hey, maybe this is, you know, that's a more predictive one to me. That's not a regression one. You don't have the personnel. Chase Brown is good between the 20s, but you don't have the personnel to Derrick Henry the ball into the end zone in Cincinnati. So I think they're going to continue to throw in the red zone. Here are the bottom six.

You tell me whether you believe any of these teams improves and whether that's prescriptive for fantasy and picking up players on those rosters. Bottom six, the Giants. Nope. Pfft.

The Cowboys have 11 red zone touchdowns. That is 10 fewer than the Commanders, and they're scoring on 45% of drives. They're in trouble. If you read Dak Prescott's lips on the sideline, you can tell what everyone knows. He's not happy with the state of the Cowboys. He included himself. Yeah, it was a we. It basically said we suck. He said we suck.

He said, we suck. On the sidelines, caught. A little more emphatic. Yeah, some words can't say here. Like the Cowboys, CeeDee Lamb got banged up. Gee whiz, we suck. That's what it was. CeeDee Lamb, they kept putting him back in. I mean, him putting himself back in, I'm sure. But at what cost? And then Dak left the game with a hamstring and a hand injury that we don't yet have a status update. But they're...

They could be in big trouble. Yeah, the Cowboys, I don't think that's a positive regression. The Steelers are not very effective at getting there, but I don't think that's what I'm aiming for. The Packers, yes. The Packers, I think we have seen a multitude of things impact this number.

to their quarterback twice this year. Rainy game yesterday. 47% I don't think is going to hold personally. And do you guys agree? No, I agree. Honestly, you know, when it comes to four through six of the bottom, Green Bay, the

the San Francisco 49ers, and the Miami Dolphins, those are injury teams that you expect to get better. Tua being gone, Christian McCaffrey being gone, and Love being gone. I think all three you would expect to have brighter days ahead from a touchdown scoring perspective. Do we get it? Is it really Christmas this week? Is Christmas McCaffrey coming back for us? I think Christmas McCaffrey is back. The question is just when you open the package...

Is it something you want or is it another injury? Any trees up over there in Deuces Alley? Not yet for me. No, okay. My family pushed really hard to put it up this weekend. Oh, so you put the smack down on it. Team Josh. Andy. No tree till December. All right, Barry. No tree till December. It's not that it's not fun. It's just that what makes it fun.

This is such a waste of my breath. What makes it fun is everybody else is doing it. That's what makes it a fun tradition is you've got Christmas everywhere, not just at Lowe's. You know what I mean? Right. I know. Like I know you, you buy into big marketing. So the second you walk into Lowe's, you see the trees up. You're like, I got to do what Lowe's says. You think I go into home improvement stores, man stores. All right. Hey, that was ready to roll.

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The Saints have fired abysmal, maligned head coach Dennis Allen. Congratulations to all of my friends who are Saints fans. Your future should be brighter. You're going to have a

Top quarterback next year. And you are a good franchise. Like, if I was a head coach on the open market and I'm looking at franchises I want to go to, that is a very functionally well-run organization for a long period of time. So I think there's bright days ahead, just not this season. Yeah. I mean, the cap situation's a problem. The cap's a problem and the franchise?

I mean, the functionality of the team making the decision to keep this head coach is perhaps in question. I think that the, I mean, this was my argument on the bold prediction show of the fact that Dennis Allen was gifted this position by Sean Payton. It was kind of, I don't think this was the organization really saying that this is the best route. It was just kind of like the guy who led us fooled us, if you will.

Yeah, it's very odd that it felt like a pretty unanimous thing that outsiders, football fans are like, this guy shouldn't be the coach. Have him be a defensive coordinator somewhere. That's fine, but he should not be the head coach. All of us seem to know this. It's just so strange to me that these coaches get in these positions and

And we all know it's a bad idea, and it's going to fail, and it's going to set you back. So I think the Saints are a couple years away. Keon Coleman will have tests done on his wrist today. We need to stay tuned for that. Dropped a touchdown that turned into an interception in that game. They ended up winning it anyway. The Raiders fired Luke Gutze, their offensive coordinator. They fired their quarterback's coach and their offensive line coach,

as the team takes the next step towards firing their head coach. Yeah, that is true. I think Pierce is...

It's not long. And they don't have the personnel either. Drake London left early with a hip pointer and an oblique strain. The early stuff that I saw on this was optimistic, so hopefully it's not a big deal, but I don't think we have a ton of details yet. We talked about Olave. He's in the concussion protocol. Fifth documented concussion since college, fourth in the NFL, and second in

because he had one in week six, which was not long ago. Darius Slayton in concussion protocol. A.J. Brown left early with a knee injury, but as of this morning, Jordan Schultz reporting it's avoided. He's avoided a serious one. That would be excellent news, because that looked like a multi-week. Dak Prescott left early with a hand and ham injury. Hand string. Also, you know, they weren't competitive. And C.D. Lamb sprained his A.C. joint. He'll have an MRI on Monday.

I put almost nothing into Jerry Jones saying he'll be fine. Yeah, he said he'll be fine because he went back out there for a bit. That doesn't mean anything. Long term, yeah, he will be fine. I do think he'll play through it if it's not showing up on the MRI as anything catastrophic, but that could be something that knocks you out if you land. Basically, that AC joint, if you land on it,

in the game, you could be in trouble. He was in pain. We've seen this with Tyreek Hill before. The whole game. I mean, we were watching, Mike, you pointed this out super early in the game was like, oh, CD's hurting. And then he's playing.

He's playing and he's hurt. And you kept screaming at the TV, like, why are you leaving him in there? Like, don't do this to CD. He's going to die. And then they ended up constantly throwing him the ball because he's CD Lamb. And then he got injured. And then he got a real big one trying to catch a touchdown. Yeah. And landed right on it. Couldn't come back. No, he did come back for a two-point conversion. That was the crazy thing. Eric Hall Jr., rookie tight end for the Bengals, unfortunately. Oh, that's a bummer. Tore his ACL. I missed that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it...

Not that I want to diminish the injury in any way, shape, and form, but obviously his performance, his involvement, and he had a bunch of weeks with four catches. His absence is going to mean that the Gusecki week that happened could be stickier. Sticky Gusecki? Sticky Gusecki.

Whoa. I mean, honestly, you look at those hands reaching out. Because it was right there, man. You dropped it. Did you drop this? Sticky, gaseous, baby. All right. I think it's true. Welcome to the nicknames. It also works with his hands. It does because he's got great hands. He's got sticky hands. They don't call him Sticky Gaseous for no reason, Andy. Yeah, I mean, this is going back to high school. Caleb Williams tweaked his ankle.

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I know for a fact that as we come out of that break that Jason's been typing furiously on his keyboard. What's going on? And I think what he's doing is he's adding Sticky Gasicky to the nickname. Oh, it's added. Dashboard. Yeah, I knew it. Like our website shows the nicknames, and he wasn't going to let that one fly by. Sticky Gasicky, that's just what people call him. Mike's eyes, when he knew so quickly.

That's what I'm here for. It might be a thing. We'll see. Jermaine Burton. Oh, my goodness gracious. Jermaine Burton was supposed to have a game plan built around him. No T. Higgins. Shows up in pajama pants, skips his Saturday walkthrough, doesn't play in the game. Yeah, if you did not hear the drama that unfolded rapidly, T. Higgins was going to be out. We were discussing, like, what do the Bengals do here at wide receiver? T. Higgins is so necessary here. Like, I was –

casting some shade on just, I don't think Yoshivas is that guy for them. Could it be Jermaine Burton? Apparently, the Bengals were doing something of like, okay, let's get the rookie involved who, sorry, rewind just a little bit. Jermaine Burton

electric football player. He fell in the draft specifically because of character concerns. We're not sure that this guy has the drive, the commitment, the mental makeup to make it in the NFL, which is just an unbelievably grueling business for you to be in. This opportunity shows up for him.

Apparently they had a huge game plan where Burton is going to be involved. He's going to be featured. He skips the walkthrough on Saturday. Doesn't call in. Reportedly doesn't call in. Shows up to the game in pajama pants. And then he's a healthy scratch. And it was so frustrating for that to be right there for him.

And, I mean, someone's got to – we've got to get a mentor for this kid. It's all there, but on the path, he will wash out of the league so fast. This is also a team in a situation that is not going to wait for him. Right. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They need to win. They need to win now. And they're not just here to baby this draft pick to hopefully get more out of him. I mean, they want more out of him.

but they are, you know, it's just like having him be a healthy scratch. It's like we don't have time for this. We've got to go win games. They could have dealt with it. They could have said, okay, whatever, we don't care. You're right. And this week specifically could be the difference between them taking a first-day wide receiver. Yeah. I mean, T. Higgins is moving on, and Jermaine Burton could have been the guy. So disappointing. Yeah. Let's get into the studs.

This week's Fantasy Stud Muffins. None of the guys I played. None of the guys I played. I'll tell you that. Jason and I in. What's the opposite of a barn burner? A fart fest. That's what we like to call it. Yeah. I don't know. The opposite of a barn is what? The opposite of a barn? It's a well.

Oh, yeah. No, that's good because you raise a barn and you dig a well. Is it the structure that you need the opposite? And a well is water and a barn burner and it's on fire. Oh, so we had a well water. I was going to go like a barn builder.

As opposed to the burner. Oh, because the burner burns it down? Is the opposite need to be the building or the action that's happening? Whatever it is, we're not going to score 100 points, either of our teams. If it was burner and barn builder, though, then the good one should be the builder. I don't know that you've ever seen a barn burn down. That's a good time.

Anyways, yeah. You ever built a barn? Not fun. Not a good time. I've never participated in either of those, Mike. I've never seen a barn. Andy and I's team in League of Record, we faced off against each other. Did we? Is that what we did? Trades to leverage my future to have big, strong assets like Jonathan Taylor. We covered your trade when you were out of office, allegedly at a school event. Yeah.

Making trades. But look, I mean, you always got to be working. But yeah, I mean, Andy, your entire roster scored one touchdown. Yeah. And that includes my quarterback. Yeah, my entire roster, including my quarterback, scored one touchdown. That's the worst. The worst.

Yeah, I mean, this is studs, so let's focus on the good players. Jalen Hurst, Joe Burrow, Daniel Jones, Lamar Jackson, Geno Smith, your top performance at quarterback. Geno Smith. Burrow was the start of the week. You'll notice the absence of any Colts quarterbacks here. That game went south last night. But...

Hurts has been on fire. I think he has 12 touchdowns, no interceptions in the last three games. Very good. I don't know how great he will be if he has to miss A.J. Brown for any amount of time, but TBD on that injury. Yeah, every time Brown is out...

The numbers have been poor, but this has been a great run. Saquon's moving the offense. Joe Burrow could have had six touchdowns. He had five. They play Baltimore this week. That's always fun. Oh, man. Those games are great. That will be a lot of fun. Joe Burrow's on pace for 38 passing touchdowns. I look... I'm at the point now in the season where it's like, I want to find that guy, that DAC player from last year that's lined up to dominate. And...

Unfortunately for Burrow, I don't like the playoff schedule. You've got to go on the road to Tennessee. Then you've got to play Cleveland-Denver. No, you need the phasers if you're looking for the second half DAC.

Is that Kirk? That is. Kirk Cousins has a phenomenal schedule down the stretch, playoff weeks. Now, needs Drake London back, obviously. Yes. I mean, the weapons are important, but he's been playing good ball. And I know, you know, he didn't have a lot of fantasy points a couple weeks ago when they dominated, but that was because of the rushing touchdowns. But he has been really good. I mean, three touchdowns this week, four touchdowns last week, four.

He can get it done down the stretch. Next Wednesday, and he was on waiver wire before this week in our league. Next Wednesday, we'll do a playoff primer and get you ready with the best schedules for every position. So we won't focus on that today. We'll let another week get under our belt, and then we'll go ahead and dive in. But big performances. Nice to see Josh Allen, who's the quarterback five on the year, overcome the Diggs departure and Noel Murray Cooper this week.

Pretty impervious to the personnel at times. And then, you know, Darnold performed well last night as well. So some good performances at quarterback. None of them played for Jason or I. Yeah. Darnold gets the Jaguars next week. Yeah. Oh, that's very nice. Running back leaders this week. Hello, Saquon. He was so awesome. And if you haven't seen, which I don't know how you haven't seen because it's everywhere, but he backward hurdled a guy.

It was so cool. It was incredible. Yeah. I mean, they're going to kill the man. I feel like he had 75 rushing attempts. Every play was just give it to Saquon and watch him be a stud, but he has been a stud. Barkley, number one on the week. Jason's my guy, Devon Achan, number two on the week. Eight catches. Derrick Henry.

Alvin Kamara, who will be worked to death the rest of the year. And then Chase Brown. Chase Brown getting it done for the... He got a receiving touchdown for the Bengals. He's been really good since he started getting more work. You can go back all the way to week four. You look at his fantasy points scored and he's only got one week since

since week four where he's not double digit fantasy production and half PPR scoring. So with Moss being injured, he had 100% of the running back rush attempts. And this is a player I think you can somewhat rely on, although Baltimore this week, tough matchup for running backs. I do want to go back to my dude, Devon A. Chan, just to make sure people know how insane, just to make sure you two know how insane his performances have been. And the four starts with Tua. Here's his pace, okay? Yeah.

He is on pace through those four games for 229 carries and 1,190 rushing yards. That's very solid. He is also on pace for 119 receptions, not targets, 119 receptions with over 1,000 receiving yards and 13 receiving touchdowns.

He is averaging 24.3 fantasy points per game and half PPR scoring. It's crazy in full PPR scoring because he's, I mean, like I said, 119 reception pace. That's what you want from your wide receiver ones. That's what you want from Jalen Waddell, and that's why Waddell doesn't exist right now is because of the incredible involvement in the passing game of both Devon Achan first and then even the involvement of Johnny Smith in this year's offense. Waddell has disappeared.

You lucked into a touchdown with him. And then you unlocked into negative yards on a – what are those plays called? The hook and ladder. Hook and ladder play. Yeah, I mean, you want to waddle away from him right now. This is not – target share-wise, Tyreek Hill's number one with Tua, and A-Tan is number two, over 20%. So, Jason, you went after him. You told people to buy low before the Tua returned. We are all –

just praying to us stays upright the rest of the year. And A-chan. He carries his own itty-bitty baby boy risks. Mike did not get pushed off of Chuba Hubbard, and it paid off. 15 for 72 and 2 for Chuba Hubbard. Ramondre, two more touchdowns. But that's it.

That's it for Chuba, everybody. Oh, it's over because Jonathan Brooks is coming back. I thought you were saying that's it for Ramondre when you said Ramondre had two touchdowns because you're not wrong. That is also true. Ramondre had two touchdowns, got all the work. I mean, he's just – he's been – the utilization has been crazy with him. He's getting all the work for no yards. He has four.

Of his games inside the top 10 at the position. Four of them. Yeah. Over the last two weeks, he has 30. We can go. I'll give you this. 30 rushing attempts for 64 yards. Over the last three weeks, he is running for 2.2 a carry.

Yeah, but he is their guy around the red zone, and they have nobody else. And he did catch five passes in this game. Rico Dowdle, 12 for 75, 5 for 32 and 1, had a juggling catch that got everybody in the studio all excited. It was very funny. It seemed like first Dak, Rico was wide open immediately on the play. For whatever reason, Dak did not unload it, scrambled around a little bit, made the play difficult.

Then the pass was still easy. Rico drops it and turns it into one of the circus catch. It's one of the first catches. They actually credit him with three receptions on the play. The question for Rico next week is Philadelphia. That kind of stinks. But Zeke was a healthy scratch because he was being disciplined as well. I think he's not very happy with his role on the team right now, showing up late to meetings and things. That's what's being reported. But as of right now,

Rico has two games of 50 or more percent of the snaps for the Cowboys. And in both of those games, he's an RB1. I don't know if they're going to make a move at running back. No, I don't think so. It seems stupid for them to buy.

But they've also been doing a lot of stupid stuff this year. Wide receiver performance. Did you want to comment on Dowdle? I think Dowdle will be an okay start almost rest of season. I've been as out on Dowdle as I've Dowdled him the whole season. But it does appear that... It does appear that...

He is going to get the opportunity, especially with what happened with Zeke. Now, like you said, the Cowboys have done crazy things all year, so they'll bring Zeke back and make him the starter, and no one will be shocked. But also, Bijon had a great game. I want to point this out, though, on Bijon. I saw J.J. Zacharyson.

He pointed this out, and it's fascinating about the running back rush attempts on Bijon this year. Now it's gone back and forth week after week. Have you guys seen this? No. So the running back rush attempts, the share of running back rushes that go to Bijon, week one, 86%. Week two is down to 61%. Week three, up to 70%. Week four, down to 47%.

Week five, up to 67%. Week six, down to 45%. Week seven, up to 68%. Week eight, down to 52%. Week nine, up to 76%. It's all over the place. But it's like, it's exactly, is this like a game plan where it's like to keep him fresh every other week they're going to,

like let him unleash and then every other week kind of timeshare it. It's just so weird that it's exactly every other week for this long. This is over months. Algier did get into the end zone again in this one. Yeah, yeah, he did. Top five scores at wide receiver, JSN with 33.5 points, Zay Flowers, Garrett Wilson, Demarcus Robinson,

Quentin Johnston. In fact, the NFL fantasy account pointed out the fact that all four first-round wideouts from 2023 scored this week in JSN, Quentin Johnston, Zay Flowers, and Addison. That is the first time they have all scored a touchdown in the same week. Flowers had two. JSN had two. Garrett had two. And Quentin Johnston, 4-for-1, 18-1. And they were all pretty awesome. They all played very well. I don't even know who I want to talk the highest of, but I'm between...

Quentin Johnson and Zay Flowers was unbelievable out there. He was making a fool of defenders, getting open like crazy, and doing whatever he wanted. Going forward, it's tough in that offense because there's just so many different ways they can score. What is your thought process on Jason specifically moving forward? Because they go into the bye week. DK Metcalf has missed time. They are sitting at the bottom of the division.

There have been rumors about DK Metcalf's being traded. I don't know if that'll happen. Obviously, the odds are against that happening, but I do think it's possible. There have been rumors with the Steelers, the Broncos, who are competitive, and some other teams that have more space. Seahawks have to decide whether they are in right now. Cardinals at 5-4, the rest of the teams at 4-4. So, is JSN a...

player you can go get or is this performance take him off the table? I believe that well you could definitely go get him because I think people are aware

There was no DK Metcalf in this game, and so that's obviously going to elevate his target market share, his opportunities. And if you watch the end of the game, this was like a must-throw the ball. The clock is running out. We're down back and forth fair with the Rams. So I think this was situational. He is obviously very talented. He's capable of doing this, but this is not normal or prescriptive of the future unless...

the trade for DK Metcalf happened. So if you're out there and you really believe Metcalf's going to be traded, you've got about a 24-hour window to capitalize on it and get JSN, but you're not going to have him this week with the buy. I personally don't think Metcalf is traded, so I'm not hot and bothered by JSN here. In fact, I think the player who's maybe the most prescriptive of this four-pack, as gross as it sounds, might be Quentin Johnston. Quentin Johnston. Oh, he's on waiver wires. That's what I'm saying. He's available to get.

And he was looking good before the injury, which we kind of discounted because you just don't have enough. Well, you discount it because those first four weeks or whatever it was, they were so high-T, and it was –

Yeah, it was touchdown only. It wasn't yardage. This is a 100-yard game for him. Like the last month, the team is opening things up for Justin Herbert. I like Ladd McConkie this past week. I didn't realize that Cuge was going to come out and put up four for 118. First 100-yard game of his career. So I think Quentin Johnston is going to be –

a very he'll be the priority ad but I think it's worth it of like if if this is really what this team is figuring out that they have a great quarterback and they should throw the ball more then you get him more volume and things will happen well and Dobbins we didn't talk about it in the running backs but he scored twice this is a balanced offense that dominated start to finish Herbert is so effective especially in play action and

Quentin Johnson closing in on the total fantasy points he scored last year through only six games played. Devontae Adams, big night on Thursday night. Darnell Mooney continues to dominate, and if Drake London misses any time, Mooney is a must-start type of player. He's the wide receiver 12 on the season. That's crazy. I mean, he has been an important piece to a very good offense.

Devontae Smith was doing nothing. Then he was doing everything. Four for 87 and a touchdown. We were late in the game, and I was complaining because I've got the Jalen Hurts-Devontae Smith stack, and I'm like, he's one for nine. He missed practice the whole week for personal reasons, and we're like, is he just not a part of the game? Okay, there he is. Well, A.J. Brown got knocked out, and then...

And then Devontae had that huge touchdown catch. I'm seeing news that head coach Antonio Pierce, by the way, Raiders head coach, has not decided on a new OC or quarterback. Maybe they'll be the same guy. So that's an empty offense. Dude, you can't start Desmond Ritter.

That's been proven. That's just science. I'm not. Oh, man. They're in a bad situation. Justin Jefferson, 7 for 137. Cedric Tillman, 11 targets, 7, 75 yards and a touchdown going into the bye week. Boss touchdown. I mean, that touchdown was not called a touchdown on the field because it seemed impossible. And then you look at the replay and you're like, whoo. It was also very stinky garbage.

Yeah, but I just care about the capabilities of the wide receiver. I mean, this is a day two draft pick last year who just vanished from the NFL and now is legit. There are no better quarterbacks for garbage time than Jameis Winston. That is probably true. And for the first time in the history of this program,

I want to talk positively about Cortland Sutton. Ten targets, seven for 122 through a touchdown pass. That pass funnel that Baltimore's got going on continues. Sutton has had two straight weeks. Suddenly, 18 and...

And he also was... 21 targets in that span. He's the clear number one for this team. I know he had a goose a couple weeks back, but over the course of the season, he is so dominantly the wide receiver one for this franchise as Bo Nix gets better and better. And he was just missed on a touchdown this week, so he could have had an even bigger game. On pace for 130 targets this year. We'll take a break, we'll hit the tight ends, and then we'll talk about them stinkers.

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Top five tight end scorers of the week, Sticky Gasicki with 24.5 fantasy points.

And that ends our predictive list. I mean, it was like Josh Oliver, Taysom Hill, Theo Johnson. Brock Bowers got to 13 because he will, just targets. But Sticky Ghisicki was the pick. Trey McBride had him. He still has no receiving touchdowns, but he did get another touchdown. He had a rushing touchdown this week. Oh, it saved his day, too. Three for 35 through the air. Have you tweeted out that play? Well, Ian Hart, I was going to cut it myself, and Ian Hart had said already –

posted it. So I'll just retweet it. Yeah, I mean, we were watching it live and it mattered because Kyler was Andy's league of record quarterback. And there's a play where they sell out as a run with only one player on the goal line. They're clearly running the ball and they leak one player, just one player to the back of the end zone on a play action. So the play is only designed to go to one guy.

Which is what made it so confusing. And he was, when we say wide open, I mean, you've got to watch his play. The defense didn't know he existed. You know how they print the letters in the end zone of the team name? Right. There was the full letters gap plus a little more between him. He could read the whole Cardinals. Yeah, he was on the top of the word, and everyone else was on the bottom of the word. And Kyler just didn't throw the ball. It's not partial blindness. It seemed like he looked right at him. This year, no player has been screenshotted.

missing wide open players more than Kyler Murray. I don't know if it is. I don't know if it's that he can't see over the line, like, you know, the whole, like, oh, he's shorty. Maybe he can't see him. But even if you couldn't see him. That's the play you called. You literally could have done this blindfolded. You could have closed your eyes, faked the handoff, turn around, and throw it to a spot anywhere over to my right.

And it would have been a touchdown. He didn't throw the ball. But they did make up for it by giving him a rushing touchdown a drive later. I mean, so McBride, Harrison, Kyler. Okay. All three of them. Disastrous fantasy days. Yes. Okay. I guess McBride. McBride not. McBride was three for 35 with a touchdown. Yeah. So not disastrous, but to your expectations, four targets. My point is that the Cardinals won 29-9.

Their defense gave up no points in the second half. It's just weird when I saw the COD Kyler criticisms coming out again. They won 29-9. They're leading the NFC West. It was a fantasy production thing. It's that the team is finding the identity of the team, and it's James Conner. Look, when you're winning like that and your defense is playing like that, I don't think Kyler did a thing wrong outside of that one play.

in the game because there's nothing you should have had to do that was different. You ran for 150 on the ground. He only attempted eight passes in the second half. Yeah, because it was just – He didn't have to run. But it should tell you something about what can happen here. I have lost three times this year because of Kyler Murray where I've played him. I didn't play him last week against Miami. He has a huge game. Yeah, so he's won like four weeks here over 20 points for Kyler

That will really, really help your team win, but the other times are just... Yeah, you should just push the button because we're already into it. Pooped in his big boy pants. Kyler Murray.

Yeah, I mean, Kyler also got credited with a fumble that was so not his fault. No. Oh, my gosh. The running back goes to take the hand off, and his hands are closed before the ball. You open the monster, dude, and then you chomp down on the ball. Go back to peewee. I was going to say, your son plays football. Do they tell you to keep your arms closed when they hand the football? You don't reach for the ball with your hands. You open. Open the monster. Just make the target.

The quarterback shoves it right in your tummy. But Kyler's finish is the quarterback 1, 7, 6, and 10. Those are his good weeks. Those are great. But this week he scored...

in half point, four point scoring, he scored 4.8 fantasy points. That might be his all-time historical low in a game. I would imagine it is if you take out any game that he got injured. He really didn't play well, or did not play poorly. He played pretty well in this game. They didn't need him. The sucky thing, though, going forward is that you can see situations where they're not

utilizing the running. They don't need to. They don't need to, and it's not a guarantee that it's going to happen every game. And that's always been the baseline for fantasy of those type of fantasy assets, those true dual threat quarterbacks where it's like, hey, even if he doesn't throw a touchdown this game, he might have 50 rushing yards and that's fine. You just don't see a lot of games. Kyler Murray had six rushing yards this week. He has a week earlier this year with 14 rushing yards and a week earlier with three rushing yards.

That's not a dual threat quarterback. And Marvin Harrison can't catch a competitive pass. Well, some weeks. He caught them all last week. Jordan Love, also just a terrible performance. 273, no touchdowns, threw a pick. Yes, it was raining, but...

He was hurting. He was hurting. It's really tough. I want to throw this in the garbage. I really do because that wasn't just raining. That was like a swamp. I mean, it was awful. However...

Jared Goff could complete passes. He threw the ball down the field and hit receivers in stride. The yardage was good for Love. He wasn't in a dissimilar game. He was on the same field. So I think some of it's got to be the injury. Some of it's got to be the weather. But the Packers, they had the...

They had the crap beat out of them, man. Overall game plan, because, yeah, Goff threw the ball 22 times for 145 yards. That's 6.6 yards per attempt. Like, that's not challenging the defense at all. That's just taking little dinks and dunks because Monty and Gibbs were so effective. So, Love, maybe you can throw it away, but they go into the bye and get healthy. Then they play Chicago-San Francisco. Love is right on the edge of that.

I definitely want for the rest of the season quarterback for me. I don't know it definitively. Yeah, I get it. But he's on the edge of that. But that's where Kyler lives. Kyler lives on the edge of that. There's a lot of quarterbacks right on the edge.

On the edge of like, do I trade this player or do I just ride it out? It's really tough with Love because they're going into their bye week. Then they've got Chicago, which is who Kyler just played, who is, they're not great against the run. They are awesome against quarterbacks, wide receivers. Their pass defense is great. Then they've got San Francisco. So it's like, it's a tough, it's a tough like three week stretch. If you're going to go by Jordan Love, I don't think you're going to want to rely on him to be that dude

starting now. I mean, obviously not starting now on a bye week. Jonathan Taylor heads up our duds at the running back position, 13 for 48 on the ground.

Just three for 11 through the air. Five targets. Jason, this was not a good start to the, I hope, Jonathan Taylor's the running back one rest of season. Yeah, that's kind of like the bet I was trying to make. I was really hoping to trade for a superstar that could essentially get five targets in the passing game. He's looked great every time we've seen him on the field this year until I trade for him.

However, Minnesota's run defense is elite, very difficult to run against them, and they proved it. Buffalo? I think you'll be better next time. Buffalo, New York. Detroit, New England. So three of the next four weeks are plus matchups for running backs. Buffalo, you can run on them. The Jets, you can run on them. New England, you can run on them. Detroit, not so much. What happens if Flacco keeps losing? Oh, man. I don't think this one was a very fair—

fight so to speak I mean it was tough tough environment tough to go in there with the blitz packages that Brian Flores throws your way in Minnesota and get it done but he clearly didn't get it yeah it's like a yes and no situation on I don't I don't think when you are the age and the experience of Joe Flacco is that you're allowed to be like ah they had some tough blitz packages with a good defense that's the point that's why we went to Flacco's so that you can handle those things and he

straight up did not handle those things. He looked atrocious. He threw a really nasty pick on the sideline. Josh Downs had a dud of a game because of it. Yeah, he also, he had

several times where he just should have uncorked the ball, was hesitant, and then got sacked. So hugely disappointing. I don't know why he wasn't in the duds, but Joe Flacco was a huge dud. I made the decision last minute in fear of Flacco and the blitz packages to throw the illustrious Kyler Murray into a lineup.

to score an extra two points. Oh, so it was the right decision. Oh, yeah, six to four. Congratulations. Process and results. Oh, baby. Yeah, I'm getting it done. What do you do with the Jags running backs here? Yeah, Etienne and Bigsby. Philadelphia, I've been saying this for a few weeks. Their defense is very good. Go look at it. Their numbers, when we break it down on the matchup shows, are very, very elite across the board.

So Etienne struggled. Tank Bigsby, Stank Bigsby. Etienne caught two passes. They both stink. And they're going to stink in matchups like this because this offense is toasted. So the next two weeks? Is that what you're saying?

Is that what, who are the matches? Minnesota and Detroit. Yeah. I don't, I don't think I want to the, the rule on ETN and I heard you reinforce it on Sunday live. It was show me it on the field before you're going to be in my lineup. Well, he's not going to be in your lineup thing. Cause he didn't show it on the field. Also the split 31%. Yeah. He had three rushing attempts. I mean, Dearness got work. You can't start a player. Not only did Dearness get work, Andy, I don't know if you caught this, the, uh,

The final attempt here for the huge comeback that the Jags were mounting. Most important play of the game. Was a fade-type route to Dearness Johnson. A fade route is a tough one to pull off. Let me try this out. If you got a superstar wide receiver, okay. Maybe you're running back one. That's probably not good. You're running back three? Let me try this out. Yeah, like, hey, grandkids, grandkids.

Doug Peterson's grandkids. I was a head coach once upon a time, and I had a chance to stay being a head coach, but I lost because I threw a fade to Dearness Johnson. Yep. Nick Chubb, little Chubb, 15 for 39.

Didn't work out. Jerome Ford returned. The 15 carries, though, are noticeable. I watched him, though, and he's just not there yet. Yeah, I agree. He's not there yet. They're going into their bye, but. He had 16 last week. He's getting the work. It's just. He is becoming their lead guy. It's just a matter of whether you believe he's going to return to form at any point this season or not. The positive that you can give for Nick Shub right now is it's a bye week.

Get another rehab, try and get a little bit stronger. And then you are against the New Orleans Saints. Yeah, but the –

Everybody's been able to run on that. Yeah, the Saints are a great matchup. He should be good there. But the stretch run after that, Pittsburgh's tough, Denver's tough. I didn't go into that. I just said the good news. Pittsburgh's tough. Kansas City's tough. I mean, Rico Dowdle or Chubb rest of season, I would take Dowdle. I would as well. Chubb's not going to catch passes. Jerome Ford is healthy. And the team needs game scripts that are conducive to what Chubb does best. And I'm worried about him. Alexander Madison was not a good quarterback.

9 for 36. Lost the goal line carry to Zamir White. And he was on the back of the Abdullah Express. Oh, he still exists. They were down in this game. Remember we had posters made for the Abdullah Express? Yeah, I was very excited for Amir Abdullah. It didn't work out. There it is. There's the Abdullah Express.

Looks just like that little wooden toy train. Yeah, he was actually very involved as they were down. So that's a tough thing to see because you would hope that Alexander Madison would be more of the pass catching back, but he was not. It was Abdullah. Well, Puka at wide receiver, one for 11 and a punch out. What are you doing, Puka? He's keeping his knee healthy.

It's really dumb. I don't understand why any player punches a helmet. Ever. Why would you ever punch a guy in the helmet? It also was... It's like getting out of a car in a road rage scenario and punching the truck. Right. With your fist. Yeah, punch the window. Oh, so you don't hurt the person, you hurt your hand. It was also... You thought that call was soft, Al? Yes, it's a weak suspension. It looked like a pretty small...

It was so close to a shove. It was like a shove to the helmet more than anything. If his hand was open. With a closed fist? Yes, but it wasn't. It was soft. It wasn't like a windup. It wasn't an uppercut, you know? It wasn't a windup. It was like the guy pushes him. He just kind of barely hits him back. I think it was a little soft. It was soft. It was weak. But regardless, you ended up with no puka in the game, not for injury reasons, but for ejection reasons. And they won anyways. They did. Demarcus Robinson was great.

Yeah, I mean, that's back-to-back games with double touchdowns, right? Yep, but don't play him because that's the only way you can ruin it. Marvin Harrison, two for 34 and a fumble. Five duds, four good games. Do we need to have the conversation about Marvin Harrison being more of a pivotable play in bad matchups where you see the game scripts going sideways? He has to play the Jets and that secondary.

Next week, then goes into the bye week. I don't know. I wouldn't be putting in like spot start waiver fodder over him. No. Let me read this, though. Six-week span, okay? Wider speeder 26, 58, 113, 62. 113, he got hurt. That was 14% of snaps. Just saying. If you get knocked out at the very beginning of the game, I'm not going to hold that against you. It's just that the lows for Harrison are 62, 58, and 74. I throw that game out.

You've been happy once in six weeks. Yep. That's all I'm saying. Yep. And right now he feels like one of those players that people will start until their season is over. And I'm not sure that there aren't some other names out there that you might on a certain week want to get into your lineup. I mean, nobody started Jason over Marvin Harrison this week.

But that was a decision you could have made against the Rams. And that's all I'm saying is maybe you should think about it. And I will say that you need to be looking at the matchups a little bit because if you look, he was good against the Rams when they were beat up. Detroit is a team that you could throw on, not run on. He was good. Washington's defense, they've gotten okay, but they're not a world beater. When he plays, San Francisco's a great defense. Green Bay's a great defense. The Chargers have been a good defense. Chicago's a great – I just brought that up – a great pass defense.

Those are the duds, duds, duds. So this week against the Jets and Sauce Gardner, I'm not sure he's ready. If the Cardinals get handed off, we know this, if they get handed off every play they would, that's the new offense for them. And how do you beat the Jets? You run the football. So this is not a Marvin week. I would look for if you've got other good options. I mean, the question is going to come up. It's going to be because of the week, Quentin Johnson or Marvin Harrison. That will come up. Who does Cuge play this week? Unless they're in the bye.

They're not on the buy, right? No, they've already had their buy. They play Tennessee, the Titans, who are number one against wide receivers. So that won't come up. No. That won't come up. Jalen Waddell, two for negative four and a touchdown. Irrelevant. Jalen Waddell was the number one player that I saw comments about this weekend across the board. Yes, I know we got into the end zone. It was a two-yard catch. That's not enough. Not involved in the offense.

Do we know what his yardage was? It was a seven yard. Yeah, we got two up as complete to waddle for 12 and then the touchdown was a seven yarder. Then he lost 23 yards on the scramble play. His actual line, which still is bad, is two

Two for 19 with a touchdown. And he disappeared for the vast majority of the game. Because the 23 negative yards. And he got hurt and came back. Oh, he pulled. Yeah. I can't believe. He did. He waddled. I can't believe this guy does it every game. It's a joke that is not a joke at all. We're watching. And I felt bad on this one. Yeah. Because it looked like the way he was. Well, we thought he got like a broken leg. Yeah. I thought he broke his leg. He had to have broken his leg with how he was acting on the field.

And then it was like two plays later, he's back out there. It's like... That's at least the 10th time this happened. At least. At least 10 times. I mean, that's got to be significantly low because he's played... He's had to have played 30 or 40 games in his career. And at least half he's gone out injured and came back. It's... I think it's a... I don't want to... I'm going to whisper it because I just feel bad about it. Okay. I think it's pain tolerance. Hmm.

- Going up soft. - I'm, God.

I don't know what to say. I mean, it's a hard to play in the NFL. I'm not saying I wouldn't. I asked, have you ever been a like slide kick cleated? Yes, I have. When we played flag football, it sucks. Get up. You play the next play. Sorry. Not by a 380 pound monster. Experience from flag. We've all been there from adult. Well, I don't remember you rolling. I don't remember you rolling around grabbing your leg. That's for sure. Uh,

Michael Pittman was not a thing. One for 14. The Colts offense was just. By low on Brian Thomas Jr., him coming off the injury playing Philadelphia. Sure. Got the pass funnels of Minnesota and Detroit coming up. Yeah. That's one I would look at. I love that. Keon Coleman should have scored, but just one for 21 despite Noah Murray Cooper and now a wrist injury. That's disappointing. DJ Moore, Mike, you said it.

You said you wouldn't mess around with it. It looks bad. Nine targets, brother. The Bears wide receivers is the craziest situation of all these plus matchups. Good players.

and no production. And sometimes the team scores points, and I don't know where they go. Hey, guys, we're back in the doldrums. Tied in, Sam Laporta, 2 for 28, Najoku, 5 for 29, Mark Andrews, 2 for 26, Hawkinson, 3 for 27, Pitts, 1 for 11, Kincaid, 4 for 32, Komet, 0 for 0, and Zachert, 1 for 5. That is...

Almost all those players were started this week. Yeah, I mean, that's who you started, which is why Trey McBride had an awesome week. Just an outrageously good week. He dominated your competition. Sticky Gasicki, baby. Sticky Gasicki. I mean, literally, Gasicki was, other than Gasicki and McBride, they were like the only two that were recommended.

that performed. I mean, you got Kelsey tonight and you got Otten tonight. So that top five should change because both those guys very capable of entering the top five with the very low Josh Oliver bar set. I would assume that Otten will be in the top five. I think Kelsey will too. We whispered about Taysom Hill, especially I feel like he came up on Sunday Live maybe, but it was with Jamal being out and Kendrick Miller being on IR. It was like, oh, Taysom Hill. This is probably where he scores.

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