WEBVTT - Playoff Primer 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.760 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:11.160 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.200 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:18.639 whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:20.400 here's your host, Paul Chargia. 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:24.800 Welcome to the first of our off season editions, a 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:27.720 Fantasy Football Weekly. Yes, Scott Fish, it sounds weird to 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.120 talk about offseason when you know we've still got a 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:33.960 regular season week to go. He's got the regular NFL playoffs. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:38.000 But yeah, but the two hour version is done. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.360 It's done. It's done. I like the short shows. They're fun, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:43.919 They're feeling a little more relaxed. There's a lot more 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.800 grambling to make sure we get everything every single player covered. Yeah. 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.040 Do you think listeners appreciate us that we have to 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:55.480 jam the you know, like fifteen games into two hours 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:56.640 with plus commercials. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.560 I think they do, just because I think they'd like 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:00.840 that we touch on every player, Like how many shows 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.920 touch on every single player except for ours, Like, it's 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:04.800 not a common thing. 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.360 It's there's there's a lot of there's a lot of 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.600 work to it, which I don't mind setting aside. After 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:14.880 having done it for this one because the fantasy playoffs 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:18.679 are coming and fantasy play a football super fun it is. Yeah, 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.040 we love fantasy football in the playoffs, I want to 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.600 talk about some different formats. So by doing that now 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.240 people have got this next coming whole week to get 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.720 leagues together full figure out how you want to play. Yeah, right, 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.720 And before we get to that, I want to talk 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:39.200 about some of the unlikely league winning players from this 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:43.160 past cycle of you know, so basically weeks fourteen, fifteen, 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.200 sixteen seventeen in here, right, So I want to talk 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:47.840 talk about some of that and tell me if you 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:51.600 think these guys are going to have sustained value. Like 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:56.320 last year, cam Akers sure rocked the Fantasy playoffs, but 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.960 they thought he would have sustained value. But two weeks into, 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.800 two weeks into it, it was one week into it, 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.880 it was clear that Kyrien Williams. Williams is gonna be 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:06.400 the guy with the rams, and he ultimately, of course 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.440 got cut traded. Yep, yeah, whatever. 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.720 And historically we've been there's been two sides to this 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.120 coin throughout We've had the Tim high Towers and the 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.880 Ron Daines, but we've also had the Jimmy Grahams and 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.760 the Arian Fosters that went on to be really good 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:21.880 after that. So I'm gonna hit you, Jerry Johnson. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.000 I'm gonna hit you with a few different players, and 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.760 tell me if you think this is flash in the 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:31.480 pan or sustained fantasy value. Begin at the quarterback position, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.440 and this one, this one is a little thirty. Joe 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.000 Flacco elite, so. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:42.600 So elite, such a franchise quarterback. He's being rested week eighteen. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:43.440 How about that? 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.200 He went from couch to be rested for the playoffs. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.040 Unbelievable, right, you. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.000 Starting to get rest the other night while he was 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.360 on the bench there, so far ahead. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.359 Okay, So I think he's in the league next year. 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.360 I think I think he's not just in the league. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:04.359 I I think his role is likely either a backup 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.120 for a rookie or starting the season while a rookie 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:08.160 prepares underneath him. 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.760 That could somewhere, Yeah, that could be a perfect spot, right, Yeah, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.040 it probably wouldn't be a rookie that goes at the 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.720 top of the draft. Now, those guys wanted everything, right, and. 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.720 The fan bases, the GMS, they all want him to 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:23.680 start right, right, there's not as much projects next year. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:25.520 I feel like the top four or so are not 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:26.760 really as project d. 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.799 They say that bo Nicks is a project that could 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.440 still go like late first round. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:32.800 Yeah, yeah, I don't know. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.040 I don't know, but I haven't started that whole process. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.360 Yeah. Well I'm not a big personally, but well there's 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:39.320 a lot of people that aren't. 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.480 I know, ye four will be helping himself a lot. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:43.080 He'll be good. 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.480 Yeah, I'm excited to talk to him about that. So 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:50.240 Joe Flacco sustained fantasy value. We think next year too. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.600 I think it's more probably start of the season and 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:54.560 he might tail off. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.960 He's he'll be thirty nine percentage chance. Joe Flacco is 0:03:57.960 --> 0:03:59.760 the starter for the Browns. 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.400 They have a lot of money investing in that position, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.960 and then they don't have outs for like another two 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:07.960 years or whatever. 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:09.120 Uh. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.000 I would give it like ten percent fifteen percent. But man, 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.360 if if he leads a run here, maybe he maybe 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.640 he wins the super Bowl and retires. Honestly, if he 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.760 leads a run, I think it's really low. I think 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:21.000 it's like ten percent for the Browns. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.960 I'm gonna go forty. Wow, that's I also think the Browns. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.680 I think the Browns are gonna make waves in the 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:28.240 playoffs a lot of the moment. 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.719 I don't think any team wants to play the Browns 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.080 right now. I want to offense is humming and the 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.080 defense has been awesome all year. No one wants to 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:35.400 play that. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.039 Absolutely. In reality, they should be like the number two 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:42.159 seed behind Baltimore. If you're just doing like strength Strengthen 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.680 Team ANFC, they'd be the two seed. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.840 College Football playoffs style just will rank you and then 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.240 you seeded there all. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.479 Right, flash in the pan for the fantasy playoffs or 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.400 sustained value for Jordan. 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.680 Love, sustained value. His entire team is young. You saw 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.440 them gel better and better together as the season went on, 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.359 like they started the season rough his first season starting, 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.480 and there were flashes of good. Now those flashes are 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.520 becoming more and more frequent each game instead of just 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:12.599 here and there. And the whole team is just young, 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.039 so much, so much athletic young wide receiver talent on 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.680 that team. I like the future of where that's going. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.920 Yeah, he's progressed incredibly well. I don't think any of 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.560 us saw he could have predicted that he'd be way 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:25.840 better in the second half than he was in the 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.440 first half. It looks like a different guy. Yeah, the 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:31.800 first half guy was so inconsistent. He's so scattered, shot, 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:33.239 bad decision making. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.560 He led the league for a while in off target 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:38.040 throws and not so much of it. He's gonna be 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:39.880 like a four thousand plus thirty touchdown guy. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:45.960 This year's amazing. Yeah, it's amazing. Baker Mayfield. Yes, what 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.919 do you think of him as a playoff flash in 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.240 the pan or sustained fantasy value? 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.440 Do I know Dave Canallis is not going to get 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.520 a head coaching job. He probably He was the OC 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.200 for Gino Smith winning Comeback Player of the Year last year, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.160 and then Gino Smith tailed off and then yes, there 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:05.440 were injuries. This year goes down to Tampa Mayfield. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.960 It's the best year of his career, absolutelistically. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.960 Yeah. I don't know what they have to invest in 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.800 the quarterback position, so I could see him being a 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.920 starter next year, probably more of a super flex guy. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.599 I don't I don't know that it's a flash in 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.960 the pan. He'll be serviceable. I don't think he's going 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:23.159 to be, you know, a superstart, though. I think this 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.760 plus Mike Evans and Chris Godwin are both three agents. 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:26.839 If he's saying that's. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.160 That's a huge vest, just a huge factor. Yeah, I'd 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:34.080 reup Evans before I would Godwin. Yep, that's just me. Uh, 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.120 this one's pretty straightforward. Brize Hall powered teams through the 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.120 fantasy playoffs. Obviously, he's headed for a first round draft 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:40.640 pick next year. 0:06:40.680 --> 0:06:44.039 Yeah, he's RB. Probably probably RB one or two, depending 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.360 on who you ask. I've seen people talk, yeah, one, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.520 two or three, but probably one or two. 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:50.839 Christian McCaffrey's gonna be going. 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.920 Yep. People, people are gonna hamper on. Oh he got 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:55.680 hurt again at the end of the year and he's, 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.039 you know, twenty eight years old. People are gonna do that, 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.520 which is fair. They're gonna, you know fair. There will 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:01.760 be people who have haul one. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.840 Kyron Williams also obvious. I think he will also be 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:06.760 a first rounder. 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:08.560 He's still twenty three, like he's young. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.880 Yeah, he's And the way the utilization by the RAMS 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:13.440 was so absurdly high, I. 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:18.760 Mean, exactly unbelievable. When he finds his guy, he's he goes. 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:24.200 James Connor has been fantastic down the shis, including the 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.320 one handed catch for the touchdown last week. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:30.600 It doesn't either matchup proof like he put last last 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:31.720 week was not a good. 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.360 Matchup the Eagles. 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.800 I mean the Eagles have tailed off defensively lately. But 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.120 like he's he's busted two really good, really tough matchups 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:40.520 in the last five weeks. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:44.560 Yeah, San Francisco, I think as well. Yeah, wide receiver 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.200 George Pickens out of the blue helped him part because 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:52.600 Mason rudolph'sid yeah flash in the pan or sustained fantasy value. 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.240 Well, I believe Deontay Johnson's a free agent after the year, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.600 which that could make a make a factor. I'm not 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.200 one hundred percent positive I think he is, though, Uh, 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.720 I think that he will still be something, but he's 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.440 going to be tricky to predict sometimes. They really need 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.160 to fortify that quarterback position to make me feel better 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.880 about George Pickens. But you know me, like it's insane talent. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:16.040 I love the talent. 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:21.960 The talent is there. I believe they. I believe the 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.040 Steelers who are gonna pick it right roughly, like as 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.480 it stands right now, they're sitting a pick like seventeen 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:30.120 eighteen something like that, So they're not going to be 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:31.720 in a spot to go get a young rookie. 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:32.840 This is a landing. 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.280 This is no, it is. This is a landing spot 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:40.520 well for Joe Flacco, Russell Wilson, Kirk Cousins, potentially as 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.720 a dark horse Baker Mayfield. Look if they just put 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.839 if they just put NFL average quarterbacking on that team, 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.200 suddenly the Steelers are very playoff relevant yep, which they're 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:51.520 not right now with Mason Rudolph. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.600 In my opinion, Tomlin refuses to lose more than a games. 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:55.120 I love it. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:56.080 I love it. 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:59.440 It's so good for him. I think this one's obvious too. 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:05.040 But as a fantasy playoff factor. DeMarcus Robinson out of 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:10.160 the blue, Yeah, touchdowns and I believe four five games. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:11.600 Actually I think it was five year old. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.080 Then he missed one, right, Okay, maybe that was it. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.280 Four to the last five, five to last something like that. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.520 DeMarcus Robinson sustained fantasy value for twenty twenty four. 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:21.840 Yeah, Well, he's going to be open a lot with 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.839 Pooka and Cooper around. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.160 There, assuming he's back with the Rams. 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.319 I think it's gonna be I think it's going to 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.199 be sustained value. He should be on rosters. But also 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.880 it's gonna be pretty hid and miss. He's always had decent, 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:37.640 decent like games, even back to Kansas City and what 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.720 like Bears or whatever. It was like he has he 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:41.559 has his moments. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.600 When he first popped up getting reps with the rams A, 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.440 I was like, is it that DeMarcus Robinson exactly? Still 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.400 talking about the same DeMarcus Robinson. Yeah, unbelievable. There's a 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.200 late late career resurgence. What is it like year nine 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:56.679 or something? 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.800 Yeah, I think I think he's put himself into the conversation. 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:03.360 He'll be drafted, you know, late rounds of drafts and 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:04.640 hope it works out. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.720 Again, there's a chance, Cooper Cup maybe this is the 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.360 beginning of the end for a player who's whatever seven 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:11.400 years in the league. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:12.960 Yep, for him, it's possible. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.040 Yeah, it's possible. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.800 He's the good thing he is is they're oute running, 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.360 but he probably doesn't have the quick titch twitch is 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:20.240 probably going away. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.439 It might be it might be David and Joku surging 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:25.520 with Joe Flacco. 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:26.720 Yeah, what do you think? 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.880 Did he finally turn the corner? We've been waiting because 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.320 he's had he's been the athletic specimen all this time, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.880 but he could never give you consistent, reliable production until 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.040 Joe Blacco showed up. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:40.040 I will I will say he had three or four 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.720 good weeks before Flacco got there. He just went nuclear 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.520 when Flakka got there. Yeah, this this might be the resurgence. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.600 This might be one of those classic He couldn't do 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.800 it in the schemes, their systems, their quarterbacks, and then 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.320 in the past and they he finally got a got 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.640 a you know, a situation that could feed him. I 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.320 think there are a lot of question marks for that 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.440 offense for for next year. You know, is Nick Chubb 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.520 gonna come back? Are they going to run the ball 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.160 more if he does? Is Joe Flakko gonna be there? 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:10.160 If Watson can't run that? Like, I think there are 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.280 a lot of question marks. But yeah, I'll be taking 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:14.760 I'll be rolling the dice on him. I think he 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:18.000 looks awesome. I think I think Stefanski'd be dumb not 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.200 to keep feeding what he saw this year into next year. 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.000 I'm with you on that. And you know, we don't 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.040 know that Stefanski had always been sort of a run 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.560 first guy. He was in Minnesota with Adrian Peterson, you know, 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.400 when they was there. Then he rolls into Cleveland. He's 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:33.079 got Nick Chubb. 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:33.360 YEP. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.160 I kind of think that Stefanski might not be as 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.120 run heavy now that we've seen what we've done with Flacco. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.240 He's throwing Flacco's arm out of personnel right Yeah, where 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.520 he just goes to where his personnel leads him. 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.240 Which is a mark of a good coach. 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.840 Juwan Johnson flashed in the pan or has he turned 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.959 the corner? Saints tight end man. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.880 He's had a lot going for him in in in 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.800 terms of uh injuries on the field and playing from behind. 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:06.800 And yeah, I don't know. I will say every year 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.200 the beat reporters are like this, Juwan Johnson kid is 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.000 great in camp and stuff, and it's never really panned out. 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:16.199 Maybe he has. I mean, he's gonna probably be rang 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.880 to tight end sixteen again, and you know, he probably 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:21.720 won't get drafted, but it's possible. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.920 Let's go to playoffs some of the playoff formats. First 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:27.520 of all, I want to give a shout out to 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.640 my friends at my fantasy league. We know the people there, 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.080 We love the people at my fantasy league. It is 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.240 a little bit like guillotine leagues. It's a kind of 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:40.079 a family run family business, right, and they are free 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.880 to use in the playoffs. So if you want to, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.000 and they can because my fantasy league is so flexible, 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.280 it can do so many things. Yeah, almost, no matter 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.240 what oddball scoring system you might want to try in 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.280 the playoffs, my fantasy league can do it. You could try. 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.520 God bless you. If you do it, let me know 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.240 how it goes. A guillotine league in the playoffs is 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.480 a little bit tricky, although I want to try it, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.280 and yeah, I just got to figure out how to 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.000 do it, what's the right number of people, how to 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:12.200 chop and stuff like that. But also broadly, before we 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.200 start talking some specifics for playoff leagues that you could form, 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.320 this is the perfect chance to test drive any rules 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.400 and changes you want to make sure. Maybe you want 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.680 to change your scoring system, right, maybe you want to 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.679 give points for first downs, whatever, Right, this is your 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.280 chance to do it on a small scale. See how 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.439 you like that change? Yeah, then you can apply it 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:32.360 to your your full season. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:34.000 I like that idea. 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.679 So if you're going to give people one and you 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.800 you know, like the scott Fishbowls, you've always got unique 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.600 scoring tweaks and roster tweaks. If you're going to give 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.880 people one playoff tweak to make, so it's just sample 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.520 see if you like it. And you know you've got 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:52.720 all of this fish Bowl experience with all the different 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.480 scoring systems. What do you think? 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.680 I think the most obvious one is probably something that's 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.880 really becoming common, but we have a pretty you know, 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.440 general audience, pretty wide audience. I think the most the 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.320 most obvious one is just super flex. Yeah, I think 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.480 the most obviously if you're not playing super flex in 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.720 the regular season because you're worried about the quarterback depth 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.880 or you've played one QB for so long. In the playoffs, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.360 playoff leagues are generally smaller. They're generally like six teams 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.680 or whatever. There's twelve quarterbacks or fourteen quarterbacks. Now play 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.320 with two of them. Try try that out first. Other 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.320 things that make it fun are you know, first downs 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.880 are big, big bonuses for things because you're watching every 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.280 game and when one of those big plays happened, you're 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.880 doubly excited because you're actually what you're Sometimes when you 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:40.720 play fantasy, you don't you're not watching every game, so 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.400 you don't see those things happen in the playoffs, you are, 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.840 so it's game. See, it's a little more fun when 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.120 it happens. But super flex is the one that just strikes. 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.440 Super flex or more flexes are the ones that make sense. 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.120 To me speaking of is just quick aside when we 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:55.720 get to do that on this format of the show, 0:14:55.720 --> 0:15:00.760 which I love. Yes, the Texans play too bad real quick. 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:04.840 That's right, you've worked that matchup. This is going to 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.960 be the first time all year most of the US 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.160 has had a chance to see c J. Stroud. The 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:15.200 Texans have played nothing but noon starts the higher year. 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:19.080 I didn't realize until now, I've seen a lot of strouds. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.280 You know, if you didn't have NFL ticket, you all 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.800 you were seeing were highlights. He's so good. And most 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.160 of the country they know he's good because the stats 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.440 are good whatever, But they they don't know, and they 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.680 don't see it firsthand. They're not seeing him play in 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.160 and playout. CJ. Stroud's great. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.200 Yeah, I wish they got to see him with Tank 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.320 Dell too, and No Brown is you know, we'll see 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.080 if he's healthy enough for the playoffs. 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.800 But he's not playing this week. But they need him. 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:50.280 If I think the Texans are going to win here, 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.000 they're going to get into the playoffs. I think they're 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:54.440 gonna be a sneaky, tough team. 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.760 Now they'll be. They'll be a tougher out. They've they've 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:01.000 fought hard with and you know, late last second beat 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:01.840 some good teams. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:06.960 Yeah, their run defense has gotten way way better, and 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.040 that's their pass defense has got all kinds of injury issues. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.200 But yeah, it's. 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:16.200 Here's how I play fantasy in the playoffs. Okay, this 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.920 is this is the charge league. Because there are seven 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.000 of sorry, because there are fourteen teams in the NFL playoffs. 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:24.800 I play with a league of seven. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:25.200 Okay. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.400 That means everybody gets two team quarterbacks yep, two team kickers, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.760 two team defense, and I do play with the kicker and 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.440 defense in the playoffs. I think most people do. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:33.240 Most people do. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:37.440 Yeah, yeah, I want it here. Then we have exactly 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.440 fourteen roster spots. We have the two team quarterback, kicker 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.920 and defense that I mentioned for running backs, for receivers, 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.520 two tight ends. No bench. Everybody starts every week. That 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:48.120 you know, everybody starts every week, you know, to make 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.240 any bench starts, which I love, I just draft my 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.600 team and don't have to worry about one bench and 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.680 who I'm starting. I like the no maintenance part of 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.880 it after I've been doing maintenance for all year long. 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.560 Just enjoy it, Yeah, just enjoy it. Yeah, keep the 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.720 team you drafted, score all the points your guys give you. 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:03.120 That's it. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.920 Yep, that's pretty straightforward. Yep, that's yeah. That's one of 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:08.200 the more common ones. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:09.600 Do you, I think it force? 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.360 Do you just do a draft for a fourteen round draft? Yep? 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:14.200 Fourteen round drafts? 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.800 Okay, there's there's two versions of that very thing. The 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.080 one is the just draft fourteen you know, seven players each, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.280 fourteen players each. The second version is you have to 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:25.600 pick one player from each team. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.040 Yeah. A lot of the you have to pick one 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:28.960 player from each team. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.439 It's it's a little more stressful, either you know, on 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.560 the draft or the selecting or if you're yeah or whatever, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.600 But yeah, I like yours better. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.440 So for the leagues where you have you can pick 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.960 one player per team, yes, how chalky do you go? 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:49.480 As an example, it's the Ravens. Yeah, just taking Lamar Jackson? 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.840 Or do you try to pivot to somebody that gives 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.800 you some upside right, but not everybody else is going 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:58.840 to have right, because if you go nothing but chalk, 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:04.120 yeah right, Christian McCaffrey, right, then you go Eagles, Jalen Hurts. Right. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:08.400 If you take the most obvious player from each team, 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.600 you've got a very chalk lineup that's gonna match a 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.080 lot of other people and try to deviate some Yeah. 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:15.840 Mind you, the type of league we're talking about does 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.840 isn't capped at seven people? Yours sounds like a draft, 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.960 and it's a little This is more. You can have 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.399 multiple people because you can all have the same players. 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:25.840 You could have one hundred. You could have one hundred 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:26.600 people in that league. 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.800 Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't I I don't. I don't know. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.000