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00:04Today we're starting at running backs.
00:06Saquon Barkley sits at the top at 9,600.
00:09You get a little bit of price relief from Bijan Robinson
00:11and a big game for his team at 8,900.
00:14And then there's James Cook, 8,800,
00:16the best running back that nobody knows about.
00:18Joe, take it from there.
00:20Well, look, I think last week we talked about James Cook
00:23going over, we even talked about ladder betting.
00:26The number was set somewhere in the mid-60s
00:27and he reached a hundred, right?
00:28We said, let's go ladder it all the way to a hundred.
00:30It's going to be a good day.
00:31Why? Because the New England Patriots don't tackle anybody.
00:34Well, the Jets are not that great
00:36against the run either, folks.
00:37Just hard truths here at this point in the season.
00:40And also, you know, you got to look at
00:42what everybody's got to play for at this point.
00:44James Cook is a nice, you know, 8,800,
00:48cheaper than Saquon Barkley.
00:49Now you're going to get a lot of Saquon in this game
00:50against the Dallas Cowboys, I would imagine for two reasons.
00:53Number one, we are still chasing a bit of history.
00:56Now you have to sit back as the coaching staff
00:59in the organization and say, okay,
01:00how much does the individual matter here
01:03in terms of setting records?
01:05And we know Saquon really doesn't seem to
01:07care too much about that.
01:09Would it be nice to get? Yes.
01:11But at the end of the day, he's about winning
01:13and he wants to go to the playoffs
01:15and he wants to have a deep run.
01:16He wants to get to a Super Bowl.
01:16That's why he left New York in the first place.
01:19So you have to manage him a little bit here
01:21because the last thing you want is to,
01:23A, have Saquon Barkley get hurt,
01:25B, have him be worn out by the time you get to the playoffs
01:27and get Jalen Hurts healthy.
01:29So just 9,600 to me is just too much.
01:33I'd rather pivot down to Bucky Irving at 8K.
01:35We talked about the Carolina Panthers
01:38and maybe having a little bit of a different situation too,
01:40where you throw Rashad White in a lineup
01:41or even both of them together,
01:43with Rashad White as a flex could be very useful.
01:45They're going to attack them on the ground.
01:47Sure, Mike Evans is going to get his.
01:49I love the Tampa stack this week.
01:50I think that's definitely where they go against Carolina,
01:52especially with Carolina.
01:53You know, they don't have Jonathan Brooks
01:55and now they don't have Chuba Hubbard, right?
01:56So we're down to third string running backs here.
01:59It's going to be a tough scenario for them.
02:00They've had Adam Thielen, Xavier Leguette injured.
02:02You know, they've had a lot of issues down the stretch.
02:05I think they have a lot to take
02:07from this second half of the season and say,
02:09hey, we're finally turning the corner on the misery
02:12that's been the Carolina Panthers for so long.
02:14But at the same time,
02:16I don't know if it's going to be that scenario
02:18this week in week 17.
02:20So give me Bucky Irving.
02:21He is my favorite running back play.
02:22Might be chalky, don't care.
02:24And then Jonathan Taylor was a man possessed last week
02:26after being a man who couldn't keep possession
02:28of the football the week before.
02:30Can he do it two weeks in a row?
02:31I think the answer is yes.
02:32So Taylor, Bucky Irving, very pricey running backs,
02:36but at the same time, I think running backs,
02:37you really want to start with as your core
02:40and fade the very top with Saquon.
02:41I just think it's going to be, again,
02:43a bit more of a management situation here
02:46with a couple of weeks left.
02:47I know they're chasing the one seed,
02:49but you don't want to end up with the one seed
02:51and end up with Saquon Barkley unavailable
02:53or hurt or tired or any of those scenarios.
02:55So you've got to manage them a little bit.
02:57It's been a while since Saquon Barkley
02:58played 17 games of the season.