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imagine the fascination, but whatever you that's

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great. Korey Kowski plays for the Loretta Larks

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right now. Yes, I didn't know that. With his three

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sons, four sons. Yeah, he's

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got a bunch of kids. Uh yeah, in this area,

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as I recall, and they're all good athletes

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as well. Obviously, let's

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talk Calvin Ridley. We're here to break down Calvin

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Ridley. We thought a refresher would be great because obviously

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a year away from the game, and Ridley

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was an impact player prior

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to all the stuff that went

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down. Got traded to the Jaguars.

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You may or may not remember that because you haven't played

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with the Jaguars yet. Finds himself in a

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far better situation than he would have been

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a head he stayed in Atlanta and it's not close.

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Let's start here, Tyler, give

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us a refresher on Calvin Ridley.

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What had where was he heading into

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the twenty twenty two season that never happened

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for him? Yeah, so, I mean before he

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was suspended and that we were kind

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of like you mentioned the twenty twenty one season where

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he was just kind of on and off whatever. His first

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three leagues, first three, his first three years

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in the league, he finished as the wide sep. Twenty two, his rookie

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year wide receiver eight seen and then that third year he

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really broke out wide receiver four and average points

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with that because Julio Jones was constantly out

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of that. He constantly hurt that year, and so he

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turned into wide Receiver one when Matt Ryan

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was still good. Yeah, And I think it's

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one of the things as interesting is I read his letter. I don't

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know if you had a chance to read. I did read that open letter

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that it was very insightful, kind of like behind

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the scene look of everything, and I just it was a really

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good letter. He mentioned on that that he

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was on painkillers for two straight years

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of because of bones spurs, and then he broke

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his foot halfway through twenty twenty, so

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he said he put up that wide Receiver four finished

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on like bones spurs, broken foot craz stuff,

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which is insane, that is. And then twenty

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twenty is kind of where it went, kind of like your twenty

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twenty one where it went kind of down the hill for him.

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His house was broken into, which kind of really

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rattled him. It sounds like that's why he didn't go to that London

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game, if you remember, he didn't travel there,

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and there was the whole kind of mental health stuff being

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tossed around with him, and let's go so let's just

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pause on this for a second. I've

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been subject to a break in, and

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it is unnerving. I

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don't anybody who's like, your house got broken into.

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Why couldn't you travel to London? Look, it

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mean it's to know there was somebody

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in your house who wanted

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to do bad things to

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you and your family. Is I mean, it really

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does mess with you a bit. Oh, I bet I can't

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even imagine what that must be like, because he mentioned

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in that letter that that's kind of why that was like the

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breaking point when he took he to take some time off because

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he was genuinely worried about the safety

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of his girlfriend, his and his daughter.

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Yeah, so it was it was a really big thing that hit him,

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and I think he took some

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steps away from the game. He obviously had the parlay

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that led into his suspension for the

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rest of for the rest of last year, So

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he included the Falcons in a eleven

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leg parlay three hundred dollars.

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Yeah, it was three hundred dollars to win.

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It was four hundred eighty one to

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one odds, So I

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think he would have won one hundred and twenty eight

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dollars or something in that. I don't know. Something in that ballpar

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I'm trying to do some top of a headmap that's something

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like that. I would have ended up on br betting if you would have

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hit that, you know where they always just post winning tickets

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that are crazy. That would have had to

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hide the name Draft

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Kicks. But I

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think where it's important to talk about

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kind of where we are now with Calvin Realley.

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The last thing that I will say about the letter, he

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says that he's getting fourteen hundred yards.

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This healthy.

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Yeah, that's what you're saying. Anything they want. Adrian

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Peterson every year was like, I'm going for three thousand

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yards. No you're not. Yeah,

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no, you're not. The fourteen hundreds at least getable

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though, which would be the most yards in his career. It's

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worth mentioning. But I think he, like you

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mentioned, this might be the situation where he gets done. This

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best situation might be in as a as a pro.

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For sure, we saw Trevor

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Lawrence take a massive, massive

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step forward last year. He turned into

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the quarterback we thought he was going to be, you know

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when he was drafted, but obviously Urban Meyer blew

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up that whole rookie year start over, Trevor

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looked pretty darned good down

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the second half of the season in particular, and

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Calvin Ridley walks into a spot where, really,

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outside of Christian Kirk, who was very

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productive last year, Calvin

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Ridley, you know, he might be the best. He might be the best,

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clear best receiver on the team if

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he's healthy and in the same kind

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of shape and ability that he

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had prior to last year. Even if

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we get like ninety percent of what he was

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that wide receiver for a year in Atlanta,

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He's definitely the best talent on this team at receiver,

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and you kind of look at the opportunity and you gotta

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like what you see from just an opening

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standpoint. So, I mean, they obviously have guys like Christian

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Kirk. He's mainly a slot guy though

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web Calvin was in Atlanta, he'd eighty eight

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percent of the time he'd lined up on the outside, So

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he'll be on field all the time. He'll be on exactly.

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Christian Kirk's not going to take any snaps away from Calvin

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Ridley. Also, Marvin Jones, he's

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a free agent. I mean, he hasn't we haven't heard any

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news about Marvin Jones, but I can't imagine he will

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be back there. And then you got Zay Jones, who

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was kind of their outside guy last year, who's lined up

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there seventy percent of the time. He was the wide

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deceiver twenty six last year, which is pretty

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good for a guy like Za Jones right

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exactly, and doesn't have nearly at the

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athletic ability of Calvin Ridley exactly.

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So I'm just trying to imagine, like what the ceiling could be

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for Calvin Ridley if he

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is just that number one guy. The only thing

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that might scare me is that there is Christian karrict

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Is, Evan ingrams A, Jones, as we mentioned, isn't terrible,

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and you have Travis Etn maybe eating some targets as

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well. But in terms of the offense that he's

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in there, there's definitely some room for Calvin

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Ridley to make some noise. Calvin. If everything

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breaks perfectly for Calvin Ridley, he's

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got wide receiver ten upside

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in him. Where is he going in ADP

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right now? Right now? He's the wide receiver in nineteen.

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Wow, that's higher than I thought. Yeah, it's so

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about round four in best ball,

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which the format, and that's little different because it's a wide

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receiver heavy yeah, first, but still wide deceiver

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nineteen. I'm really surprised.

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Just I have figured a year away from the game, unknown

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situation with Jacksonville,

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that people would shy away from him. But it

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sounds like there's at least one believer in every league it's

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willing to take him round four. Wow.

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That's um. I thought I was going

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to get better value and Calvin Ridley I thought,

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I'm like, I'm thinking, okay, I'm gonna buy in,

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and Calvin Ridley I just said he came his wide receiver ten upside.

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That's if everything breaks perfectly, just

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the odds are it's gonna miss

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some games. He's we don't know what kind of

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shape he's gonna be in mentally, physically,

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where he's gonna be a year away from the game.

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I know, is he up to speed in week one or do you have

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to wait until week eight f him to get his football

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legs under him? Again, we don't know. There's a lot of question

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marks in Calvin Ridley. I don't think

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wide receiver nineteen's too high. A

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yeah, I don't know. I just don't know. I don't

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know if it's too high for me personally. I

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just don't know, because you

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saw what he could, what he was in Atlanta,

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and people that next year were drafts

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him as a top five wide receiver, So we know what the talent

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is. And I don't know if Trevor

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Lawrence is Trevor Lawrence better than Matt

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Ryan when he was with when Matt Ryan was actually good

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obviously, but because he's not that anymore,

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miney means. But I think I'll

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take I'll take a dart throw on on Calvin Ridley

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just because I think there is that top ten wide

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receiver finished potential with him,

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and this is something sometimes you just gotta take

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some shots and some players that you like. I think cal really we know

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the talents there. It's just whether or not that he's

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gonna be acclimated to this offense in time. Yeah,

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And is Christian Kirk gonna still get fed? Churse

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Kirk was a top ten He was a top ten wide

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receiver last year too, so you know,

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if they're both, they're not both going to be top ten

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receivers and all probability and

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that is Christian kirking to give up a lot

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of that productivity to Calvin

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Ridley. I don't know, there's a lot of questions here. If

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I'm like, if I'm asking myself, I'm in round four and

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I've got for me, I'd

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already have two wide receivers. But let's just say you're a

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normal person and you've only got one wide receiver.

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It's round four. You're on the clock. Calvin

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Ridley's there, I'm going some other way, some

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other direction. That's too early for me to take that

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risk, all right. Let me throw out some players are kind of going

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around him right now then, Yeah, Terry McLaurin,

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Ridley, Michael

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Pittman, not

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knowing their quarterback but knowing it'll be

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a rookie, Ridley

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Ave, Chris All. I

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think i'd go Chris Alave. Yeah, he's I

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mean, he's proven himself to be very

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very good. I think I would go a love all

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right. Last one, Drake London. I'm

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bored with Drake London and that man.

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He is so underwhelming last year and

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again run first offense. I don't know. That's

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yeah, I'm not I'm not sold on London, all

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right. I expected so much more from him last year.

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I don't think I'm ready to get about. So maybe it turns out I do like

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Ridley more than I thought. Maybe he's gonna be my

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guy wide receiver nineteen. Yeah, there you go. Yeah,

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um, that's yeah, that's that's It's

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an interesting case and a guy who's got massive

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upside and plenty of risk associated

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with him. But hey, that's how sometimes, that's how you win fantasy

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leagues. Right, You take three or four big

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risk players. You hope two or three

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out of those three or four hit. Yeah.

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