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Speaker 1: Football my playbook app debro. On the Thursday show, fitz
Speaker 1: Ericson and I were talking a bit about just kind
Speaker 1: of the state of our teams at this point in
Speaker 1: the season as we enter week twelve. How are your
Speaker 1: teams across the board looking so pretty good?
Speaker 3: Pretty good, guys. I got a few first place teams,
Speaker 3: I got a few top three teams looking at first
Speaker 3: round buys, a bunch of the Dynasty squads, you know,
Speaker 3: our own content league. I'm currently retooling and rebuilding to
Speaker 3: work in some trades. You can never have too much
Speaker 3: JJ McCarthy exposure, So I honestly can't be mad. It's
Speaker 3: a good time of year.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, you're saying you're having a pretty
Speaker 1: good season. You are in last place in that Dynasty league,
Speaker 1: just to point out, and fits is in is in tenth, So.
Speaker 2: I'm in third.
Speaker 3: I okay, sorry, you're not in first.
Speaker 2: No, I am not in first. Oh okay, I am
Speaker 2: in third.
Speaker 1: Just got to make the playoffs unlike you, guys. Before
Speaker 1: we jump into this week's questions, let's check in with
Speaker 1: Colin Coward and his over under picks for the Fantasy
Speaker 1: over Under Challenge. Time now for the Week twelve Over
Speaker 1: Under Challenge. As always, this segment is presented by DraftKings
Speaker 1: and I'm joined by Colin Coward to talk through some
Speaker 1: of our favorite player picks for this week's slate. We'll
Speaker 1: jump right in, but first I want to remind everyone
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Speaker 1: challenge and try to not only beat Colin, but win
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Speaker 1: com Slash Challenge. All right, let's start with the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and we'll start at the very top with Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: at Carolina. He's QB fourteen on DraftKings and Fantasy scoring
Speaker 1: the season sixteen point eight fantasy points per game, just
Speaker 1: one top five performance, though that was back in Week
Speaker 1: nine against the Bucks, so it hasn't been a ton
Speaker 1: of highs in this season for Mahomes. More of a
Speaker 1: high floor than a high ceiling in terms of fantasy scoring.
Speaker 1: Going up against his Panthers pass defense allowing seven point
Speaker 1: six yards per attempt that's tied for twenty fifth in
Speaker 1: the NFL.
Speaker 2: What do you expect that of Mahomes this week? Colin?
Speaker 4: Well, for the first time in a long time, double
Speaker 4: digit favorites this year, not only winning, they're covering the spread.
Speaker 4: Awful loss. Kansas City. I like them here now Bryce
Speaker 4: Young has played pretty well. That tells me Carolina keeps
Speaker 4: it close for a while. I think that's actually good
Speaker 4: for Mahomes. You know, it's gonna be an interesting stretch
Speaker 4: for the Chiefs. Denver's better than we thought, and Hardball's
Speaker 4: got the Chargers really rolling, so they don't have time
Speaker 4: to waste here. Those teams are coming hard, and so
Speaker 4: I think Kansas City will you know, steal sharp and steal.
Speaker 4: The Buffalo loss, I think is a reminder how difficult
Speaker 4: it's going to be in the playoffs and an increasingly
Speaker 4: good division. I think the Chiefs will play well bounce
Speaker 4: back in a competitive, high scoring game, But I'll take
Speaker 4: the Chiefs in Mahome playing well offensively.
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you've seen from Mahomes just in
Speaker 1: terms of like the fantasy scoring is down, even though
Speaker 1: they're obviously winning games. He's still you know, you know,
Speaker 1: as good a quarterback as you can be, but the
Speaker 1: fantasy scoring hasn't been there.
Speaker 2: Is it just the lack of the weapons or is
Speaker 2: there anything else?
Speaker 4: Well, it's the third year in a row that they're
Speaker 4: trying to figure out what the receiving corps is. It's
Speaker 4: been it's the only unit on their team that's in
Speaker 4: flux for the third year in a row. Now they
Speaker 4: add a rookie Worthy, who still I don't think is consistent.
Speaker 4: You know, they have Watson, Noah Gray's played pretty well
Speaker 4: the backup tight end, but I you know, it's I
Speaker 4: think it's a This is the unit that has They've
Speaker 4: had to sacrifice dude to Mahomes' contract and Chris Jones' contract,
Speaker 4: and Travis Kelsey's contract and Joe Tooney's contract. So I think,
Speaker 4: you know, this is an imperfect team, and you know,
Speaker 4: the receiving unit is again for the third year in
Speaker 4: a row, in flux.
Speaker 1: Brock Perty is the other quarterback we've got in the
Speaker 1: challenge this week. He's at the Packers QB six nineteen
Speaker 1: and a half Fantasy points per game on DraftKings this season.
Speaker 1: He's got three top five weeks five top ten weeks
Speaker 1: this season, so he has some has had some pretty
Speaker 1: good games here for fantasy, going up against his Packers
Speaker 1: pass defense seven point two yards per attempt that's tied
Speaker 1: for eighteenth in the NFL allowed.
Speaker 2: I've seen you Jennings is playing really well. Still have
Speaker 2: devastimo there. What do you expect from party?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: The wise guys like the Niners this weekend. They've been
Speaker 4: kind of an unlucky team. They've had bizarrely bad special teams.
Speaker 4: But if you really look at the numbers, as you know,
Speaker 4: brock Perty's been fine, their defense isn't as good. If
Speaker 4: Bosa is not on the field, It's not the same
Speaker 4: defensive unit. They've run through defensive coordinators, you know the
Speaker 4: Demico Ryans and to Robert Sala, you know Steve Wilkes.
Speaker 4: Now they've got another. So I don't think it's the
Speaker 4: same team. And that actually is an advantage because the
Speaker 4: forty nine ers they're in close, competitive games. That tells
Speaker 4: me they're throwing the ball in the fourth quarter. I
Speaker 4: like brock Perty.
Speaker 2: A couple of running backs here.
Speaker 1: James Connor at Seattle RB seventeen on DraftKings this season,
Speaker 1: just over twelve and a half Fantasy points per game.
Speaker 1: In eight out of his ten weeks this season, he
Speaker 1: has finished with eleven point nine points or more so, again,
Speaker 1: really high floor for him. Now going up against the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: rush defense four point eight yards per carry. That's tied
Speaker 1: for fourth worst in the NFL. Do you think James
Speaker 1: Connor has a big day this week?
Speaker 4: Well, I like Arizona. I think they have a real identity.
Speaker 4: I don't think Seattle does. Connor is a violent, explosive runner.
Speaker 4: I think when Arizona Dome teams go up to Seattle,
Speaker 4: my take is they want to shorten the game. Go up,
Speaker 4: be physical, get in a plane and fly home. The
Speaker 4: cyclone bomb will be out of the Northwest by then.
Speaker 4: But my feeling is Arizona has an offensive identity. They'll
Speaker 4: keep it on the ground. It'll be a fairly low
Speaker 4: scoring game. Situational football, circumstantial football will matter. I like
Speaker 4: Connor this week, and who I think is on a
Speaker 4: short list? You know who he is. You don't think
Speaker 4: he's ignored, But I think the national media just doesn't
Speaker 4: watch Arizona enough. I think he's an I think he's
Speaker 4: a star. I think he's one of the most difficult,
Speaker 4: game changing backs in the league.
Speaker 1: Really fun to watch, and perpetually under ranked. Every August
Speaker 1: feels like he just is a screaming value in fantasy
Speaker 1: drafts because oh.
Speaker 2: He's getting older.
Speaker 1: Oh they drafted Trey Ben said, Oh, he's you know,
Speaker 1: maybe not the fast running back that.
Speaker 2: No, he's just good and produces every year. So I
Speaker 2: totally agree.
Speaker 1: I think he's fantastic and like I said, super fun
Speaker 1: to watch another running back we have in the challenge.
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams at the Raiders RB thirty six on draftings.
Speaker 1: This season been really like, you know, back and forth
Speaker 1: just in terms of who the lead in this backfield is.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, last week we saw Adric estimate
Speaker 1: the rookie he got the bulk of the workload or
Speaker 1: me two weeks ago. Then last week he was kind
Speaker 1: of back to Javante again going up against his Vegas
Speaker 1: rush defense four point four yards per carry. Do you
Speaker 1: think it's another Javante Williams week? And do you think
Speaker 1: this running game can be good against the Raiders?
Speaker 4: Well, the Raiders play hard, they're very limited, Gardner minshew
Speaker 4: too many turnovers. I like Denver to win this game.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a division rivalry, so it'll probably be close.
Speaker 4: And again I think Sean Payton's done a good job
Speaker 4: of the balancing act, not relying on bow Nicks yet
Speaker 4: trusting Bonnicks I still don't think. I like Courtland Sutton
Speaker 4: more than most, but I think a lot of their
Speaker 4: young receivers are inconsistent. Their tight ends are solid, not spectacular.
Speaker 4: So my guess is, when you go on the road
Speaker 4: and you have a young quarterback, I mean, wouldn't your
Speaker 4: game plan be, you know, like bow Knicks last week
Speaker 4: at home, really aggressive game plan. But when you go
Speaker 4: on the road division game, you don't want to put
Speaker 4: as much. You don't hear as well. The Raiders play
Speaker 4: really hard, so I think they'll lean in on their
Speaker 4: running game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what a game for bo Nix just by the
Speaker 1: way last week, four touchdowns first time in his career.
Speaker 1: Band your passing yards, first time it's career. He's been
Speaker 1: awesome for fantasy too. Not on this week's challenge though.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson is our wide receiver at the Bears wide
Speaker 1: receiver six a little over twelve fantasy points per game
Speaker 1: on DraftKings this season. It's a Bears defense that definitely
Speaker 1: has talent and has played really well at times. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson is, you know, as good as it gets
Speaker 1: at the position.
Speaker 2: Do you think he'll have a big week.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure. So I believe if you look at
Speaker 4: Brian floh as the defensive coordinator for the Vikings, historically
Speaker 4: he eats up turnover prone quarterbacks or young quarterbacks. So
Speaker 4: here's what I think Minnesota's game plan is. On the road,
Speaker 4: cold weather play conservative. Our defense will confuse Caleb Williams
Speaker 4: and force him into mistakes. So I don't think it's
Speaker 4: going to be a high flying Minnesota offense this weekend.
Speaker 4: I think they'll win ugly. I think they'll rely on
Speaker 4: their run game and their defense, so I don't think
Speaker 4: he's gonna pop.
Speaker 1: We've got a tight end on the challenge this week.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey obviously also going up against the Panthers. We
Speaker 1: already talked to me about Mahomes and how you like
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to bounce back coming back from that loss.
Speaker 1: You know, about as easy of a matchup as you're
Speaker 1: going to get against the Panthers. Kelsey's tight end eleven
Speaker 1: this season, a little over six fantasy points per game
Speaker 1: on DraftKings. Obviously the least productive year that he's had
Speaker 1: and is certainly a very long time. You know, got
Speaker 1: to get the sense they're saving him for January, right
Speaker 1: been Boom or bus. He does have three top five
Speaker 1: weeks and then also five weeks of under four points
Speaker 1: in fantasy scorings. Definitely a roller coaster season for him.
Speaker 1: Do you think, obviously you like kind of Mahomes and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to bounce back. You think it'll be through
Speaker 1: Kelsey or will it be through the possible return of
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco or Kareem Hunt or some of these other pieces.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I agree with your first statement. I
Speaker 4: think they're saving Kelsey. I think Denver and the Chargers
Speaker 4: are equipped to really match up with Kansas City. Noah
Speaker 4: Gray is growing into a much more comfortable target for
Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes so and I think Isaiah Pacheco will get
Speaker 4: some run. And again they're still trying to figure out
Speaker 4: exactly Xavier Worthy's role. He's clearly a gadget guy. He's explosive.
Speaker 4: So I think you have to almost guess, you know,
Speaker 4: when I trust Travis Kelsey playoff game, Monday night game,
Speaker 4: big TV spot, big rivalry game. This is not one
Speaker 4: of those.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been saying it on the shows. I mean
Speaker 1: I was fading him on Draft Day. Just this isn't
Speaker 1: a team that's playing for January. They're playing for February, right,
Speaker 1: they have one thing on their mind and they want
Speaker 1: to make sure they get there as healthy as they can. Remember,
Speaker 1: everybody to head to fantasypros dot Com slash challenge to
Speaker 1: play along all season long. Colin, thanks for joining us,
Speaker 1: all right, thanks, all right. Let's jump into the slaty
Speaker 1: games here for week twelve. A bunch of teams on by,
Speaker 1: so if you were matchups here than usual. Let's start
Speaker 1: with Vikings at Bears Signs of Life from Chicago kind
Speaker 1: of in week eleven.
Speaker 2: Fits.
Speaker 1: What did we learn about the Bears for fantasy purposes
Speaker 1: in their first game post Shane Waldron, Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: Would not have big expectations for this passing game going forward.
Speaker 5: They really sort of put the training wheels back on
Speaker 5: Caleb Williams. It was just to us scale down passing game,
Speaker 5: nothing downfield at all. Just have Caleb get the ball
Speaker 5: out of his hands quickly, you know. To be honest,
Speaker 5: it looked a lot like the Luke Getsy offense when
Speaker 5: he was the Bears offensive coordinator. Just like really quick throws,
Speaker 5: everything close to the line of scrimmage, nothing downfield at Also,
Speaker 5: it made the numbers look better for Caleb Williams. He
Speaker 5: completed more than seventy percent of his throws in that game.
Speaker 5: But man, there was just it was the classic horizontal
Speaker 5: passing attack, equal effort with the wide receivers all of
Speaker 5: Dj Moore, Keenan Allen, and Romo Dunes. They had between
Speaker 5: seven and ten targets. Caleb did run more aggressively. They
Speaker 5: had some designed runs in there. Seven excuse me, nine
Speaker 5: carries for seventy yards, So maybe he's going to offer
Speaker 5: a little more rushing value going forward, but just I
Speaker 5: don't know, Like it was not exactly a breakout game
Speaker 5: for the Chicago passing attack.
Speaker 2: What did you think watching this game? Debro?
Speaker 3: A lot of the same things fits he highlighted here
Speaker 3: when I went through the numbers for the primer, I
Speaker 3: mean it was it was everything that fits you just outlined.
Speaker 3: Like you're looking at weeks one through ten. Caleb's eight
Speaker 3: I dropped from eight point six to six point seven.
Speaker 3: He had the eight fastest time to throw. He had
Speaker 3: four designed runs in that game, which if you look
Speaker 3: over the entirety of the rest of the season, he
Speaker 3: only had three rest of the season. So this all
Speaker 3: and I know fits. He brought up Luke Getzid. This
Speaker 3: honestly felt to me like what Brian day Ball did that,
Speaker 3: you know a few years ago with Daniel Jones, really
Speaker 3: just to newter him like like get the ball out
Speaker 3: of your hands first read or take off running and
Speaker 3: a run first offense really just a lot of design screens.
Speaker 3: It really just is like, Okay, Caleb, we need you
Speaker 3: to play on schedule, We need you to play on time.
Speaker 3: The best way we can do that is to get
Speaker 3: you to throw design tunnel screens like every other freaking
Speaker 3: play or run the ball. And so for me, I
Speaker 3: think my biggest takeaway with this offense is that we're
Speaker 3: continuing to see the immersions of Roman Doonza since coming
Speaker 3: out of the first read, Chare is leaned in his direction.
Speaker 3: Like last week he led the team with a thirty
Speaker 3: two percent target chair. So I think looking at the
Speaker 3: matchup this week and looking at a few of the
Speaker 3: things like in various particular weeks since the buye, he
Speaker 3: has led them in first read looks, even before Thomas
Speaker 3: Brown taken over. So I think Rome, if you're looking
Speaker 3: at any Chicago pass catcher to really walk away from
Speaker 3: this and saying who do I have the most faith in,
Speaker 3: because it's tough to have faith in any of them,
Speaker 3: it's probably romadoonze Fitz.
Speaker 1: What do you think about this matchup for kind of
Speaker 1: the new look new ish look Bears offense against Minnesota, Specifically, it's.
Speaker 5: Gonna be harder than the matchup against Green Bay. I'm
Speaker 5: not sure why, but New Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley
Speaker 5: was playing a lot of soft coverages, big cushions at
Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage. I don't think we're going to
Speaker 5: see that out of Brian Flores. I think he's gonna
Speaker 5: press and make things more difficult for Caleb.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the next matchup here, d ro Bucks
Speaker 1: at Giants. Daniel Jones is out as the Giants starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: What does Tommy DeVito Tommy Cutlets mean for their skill
Speaker 1: players in fantasy this week?
Speaker 3: It's a push. I mean, Daniel Jones's barely league average,
Speaker 3: so I don't think you're getting a downgrade for anybody
Speaker 3: in this offense. I mean, if Brian Dable can scheme
Speaker 3: things up around Daniel Jones, then he can scheme stuff
Speaker 3: up with Tommy Cutlets. So for me, it's a push.
Speaker 3: For all parts and pieces, And to be honest, man,
Speaker 3: I think my biggest thing, and I just want to
Speaker 3: mention this real fast, is I just feel bad for
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones. Like not only did he get demoted from
Speaker 3: from being the starter, they got him all the way
Speaker 3: freaking down at QB four. Like he's basically the practice
Speaker 3: squad like scout team quarterback right now. Like I get
Speaker 3: the money and I get the reasons, I get all
Speaker 3: of that, that's still a really tough thing to do
Speaker 3: to a player on your team.
Speaker 2: Fits.
Speaker 1: What do you think we'll see from just kind of
Speaker 1: this offense as a whole under Davido?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with Debro pretty much a lateral move,
Speaker 5: but lateral is not good in this case. Di Vito
Speaker 5: made six starts for the Giants last year, only reached
Speaker 5: two hundred passing yards in one of them, and I
Speaker 5: went back and looked to see if he favored any
Speaker 5: of the receivers, and obviously, like things are different now,
Speaker 5: they've Milik Neighbors. Did not have Milik Neighbors last year.
Speaker 3: Not really.
Speaker 5: There was one big Darius Slayton game, there were a
Speaker 5: couple decent Wandell Robinson games. There was actually one hundred
Speaker 5: yard Jalen Hiatt game thrown in there with Tommy Davido
Speaker 5: ad quarterback. So yeah, I don't know. I mean, maybe
Speaker 5: we just get a big dose of tyrone Tracy now
Speaker 5: and the Giants lean into the running game, which would
Speaker 5: be great because I think Tracy is terrific.
Speaker 2: Were you guys ranking neighbors with Divito.
Speaker 5: Kind of conservatively wide receiver seventeen for me, I mean,
Speaker 5: like he's averaged I think fifty five yards per game
Speaker 5: since the first month of the season. It hasn't been
Speaker 5: all that pretty.
Speaker 3: I've got I've got it more aggressive. I'm wide receiver
Speaker 3: eleven right now. Just the Bucks secondary is terrible. I
Speaker 3: think I think he's a lock to see ten plus targets.
Speaker 1: To that point fits in the four games since he
Speaker 1: came back from the concussion stuff six point one fantasy points,
Speaker 1: ten point six, ten point four, seven point eight, and
Speaker 1: then he had to buy last week, So those four games,
Speaker 1: like not that's in half PPR scoring, by the way,
Speaker 1: So it hasn't been the like superstar that he was
Speaker 1: in that stretch from you know, weeks two through four,
Speaker 1: twenty three point seven, twenty four point two, seventeen point one.
Speaker 1: It's looked different, you know, somewhat with the head injuries,
Speaker 1: you know, now obviously with just kind of the state
Speaker 1: of the offense in general.
Speaker 2: Dero, where do you have Tracy rank this week?
Speaker 3: Oh? Tyrone Tracy? I love him. I think I have
Speaker 3: him as the top twelve. I've got him an RB thirteen.
Speaker 3: So where where's where's the ECR at on him right now?
Speaker 1: ECR is that's sorry, I have the receivers up. ECR
Speaker 1: has Tracy fourteen.
Speaker 3: Actually, so you're just gonna spot I mean, I want
Speaker 3: I want to stay above ECR. That's that's a definite.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to Cowboys. That Commander's NFC East rivalry battle.
Speaker 1: Jaydeen Daniels and the Commander's passing game struggled mightily to
Speaker 1: push the ball downfield against the Philly d in Week eleven.
Speaker 1: A lot of their passing went to Austin Eckler zach Ertz.
Speaker 1: It was all near the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's been some talk about, like, you know, is he hurt,
Speaker 1: how hurt is he is it affecting his ability to run?
Speaker 2: Stuff like that.
Speaker 1: There's been some denials for some of the folks around
Speaker 1: Washington of how hurt he is if you watch him,
Speaker 1: that seems kind of hard to believe. Deebro, how do
Speaker 1: you like the Commander's chances to bounce back against Dallas
Speaker 1: in terms of that downfield passing attack.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'll lead this off with saying, I don't
Speaker 3: think that Jayde Daniels is fully healthy. There's no way shape,
Speaker 3: form or fashion anybody that watched that game, and if
Speaker 3: you go back and watch us. It's funny because FITZI
Speaker 3: and I were talking about this before we turn the
Speaker 3: mics on. But one specific play, and you could point
Speaker 3: to a bunch of different plays. It's not just that
Speaker 3: they kept everything around the line of scrimmage. He had
Speaker 3: a three point seven a dot last week. So's not
Speaker 3: kid ourselves. This is not the same Jade and Daniels
Speaker 3: we've seen for the entirety of the rest of the season.
Speaker 3: But Noah Brown was running across from one of those
Speaker 3: plays and Jane Daniels needed to grip it and rip
Speaker 3: it and push the ball to him and he couldn't
Speaker 3: drive it. Man. So like, honestly, like his the velocity
Speaker 3: off of his hand, like it looked very I felt
Speaker 3: like I was watching Bryce Young. It was not good.
Speaker 3: And this is not me throwing shade at Jane Daniels.
Speaker 3: I love the kid. I think he's immensely talented, but
Speaker 3: I don't think that he's anywhere close to healthy. And
Speaker 3: every time he saw him on the sideline, I mean
Speaker 3: they were patting his ribs like he looked uncomfortable. He
Speaker 3: didn't look comfortable anytime he took off the run. I
Speaker 3: think we're gonna see maybe not as exaggerated of a
Speaker 3: an underneath passing attack as we did versus Philly because
Speaker 3: Dallas is not pressing the quarterback. Their secondary has sucked
Speaker 3: like that team just looks like they have totally given up.
Speaker 3: So I think he's gonna have more time in the pocket.
Speaker 3: I think we're gonna see a better game from Terry
Speaker 3: McLaurin and the receivers in this one, but really more
Speaker 3: because the matchup, not so much because I think Jayden
Speaker 3: Daniels is just going to be like pretty much the
Speaker 3: same guy we saw earlier part of the season. Because
Speaker 3: I do not believe you, Dan Quinn, I do not
Speaker 3: believe that he's healthy right now.
Speaker 1: He's currently QB three in ECR. He's one of only
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks that Fannas Bros. Has projected for over twenty
Speaker 1: points this week, Jalen Hurts and Lamar Jackson the only
Speaker 1: guys ahead of him. Directly behind him Justin Herbert Kyler,
Speaker 1: Murray bow next, Jared GoF.
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes given just the eye test, fits.
Speaker 1: From what we've seen out of Jaden Daniels and not
Speaker 1: totally believing that he's fully healthy, and then coming off
Speaker 1: the game we saw last week. I know Dallas is bad,
Speaker 1: but do you think he deserves to be ranked as
Speaker 1: QB three for the week.
Speaker 5: I've got him QB four, and my suspicion on that
Speaker 5: is that I'm too.
Speaker 3: High on him. I've got to make QB six.
Speaker 5: I mean like, he has not had a rushing touchdown
Speaker 5: since Week three. He has been held to two hundred
Speaker 5: and nine or fewer passing yards in each of his
Speaker 5: last three game games. He's top twenty fantasy points just
Speaker 5: once in his last five games. Yes, it's a really
Speaker 5: good matchup. The Cowboys are allowing eight point three yards
Speaker 5: per pass attempt, only Jacksonville is giving up more of
Speaker 5: the Cowboys have the fifth worst opponent passer rating. But
Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe I I feel like I should
Speaker 5: have bow Knicks ranked ahead of him, and now look out,
Speaker 5: Jaden Daniels is only six Fantasy points ahead of bow
Speaker 5: Knicks now on the season, like objects in your rear
Speaker 5: view mirror, maybe closer than they appear. Bow Knicks is
Speaker 5: right on his bumper, and he has been like coming
Speaker 5: on fast lately. Entirely possible that he could pass him
Speaker 5: in the next week or two.
Speaker 1: Worth noting, you know, the last two weeks in particular,
Speaker 1: have been tough matchups. Like you mentioned that stat fits
Speaker 1: only top twenty points once in the last five games.
Speaker 1: It's really once in the last four because one of
Speaker 1: those games is Carolina where he left early, so hard to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're kind of blamed for that.
Speaker 1: But in those four, you know, the last you know,
Speaker 1: three games ago was against the Giants. He was at
Speaker 1: nineteen point nine points, so he was close. That was
Speaker 1: the most comfortable matchup. The other two, Pittsburgh and Philly
Speaker 1: are tough matchups. So, you know, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say it's it's not like he's struggling against very you know,
Speaker 1: low hanging fruit. It's been struggling against good defenses. But
Speaker 1: it has been a struggle to your point, I don't
Speaker 1: want to deny that the where he said he had
Speaker 1: him ranked sixth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got him ranked sixth and right now, just
Speaker 3: for everybody out there, uh Bo Nicks right now on
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Speaker 2: Well, let's let's put a ball in the conversation with this.
Speaker 1: Where would you guys rank Jane Daniels rest of season
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's definitely a QB one only with the
Speaker 3: hope that he gets healthier. Right now, I've got him
Speaker 3: get out here during.
Speaker 2: The NFL season, right it's I mean, but it's.
Speaker 3: As rich he can if he can not to do
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Speaker 3: Kyler above him, like I think, I'm not going to
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Speaker 3: like the QB eight QB nine range.
Speaker 2: What do you think fits. He does have a buy
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Speaker 5: Not a hypothetical question for him because we had fantasy pros.
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Speaker 5: Uh No, I've got him QB seven rest of season?
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Speaker 5: Just giving you the business for him.
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, next game, Chiefs at Panthers. Which returning
Speaker 1: running back do we like better this week? Isaiah Picchecko
Speaker 1: or Jonathan Brooks. Again, a reminder for everybody that we
Speaker 1: are taping this a day early, so if there's been
Speaker 1: any kind of change to the status of these guys.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously it's not official that Pacheck's coming back yet,
Speaker 1: but as of now, we're kind of anticipating that both
Speaker 1: guys will be on the field this week. So, Deebra,
Speaker 1: which running back do we like better this week? Who
Speaker 1: is returning?
Speaker 2: Check Over?
Speaker 3: Can I save options? See neither I mean, if I'm
Speaker 3: picking one guy, it's one guy has arguably the worst
Speaker 3: matchup for running backs on the board in the entire league,
Speaker 3: and one guy has the best matchup. So if I'm
Speaker 3: picking one, it's Isaiah Pachecko. But I think both these
Speaker 3: guys only play a handful of snaps. I'm not dinging
Speaker 3: Kareem Hunt this week at all. I think Pachecko might
Speaker 3: just see a handful of plays this week. But could
Speaker 3: he get a touchdown? Could he rip off a long run?
Speaker 3: It's possible, but I I definitely do not want to
Speaker 3: play the ros.
Speaker 1: Fits, and I and Ericson talked about this on the
Speaker 1: Thursday show.
Speaker 2: Do you think that.
Speaker 1: If Pachecko's on the field, the Chiefs probably don't need
Speaker 1: him to win this game?
Speaker 2: Right give him a matchup?
Speaker 1: And they're also only one loss this season, like they're
Speaker 1: playing for the playoffs, they're playing for February only. So
Speaker 1: if he's on the field, is that assigned to you
Speaker 1: that he's totally cleared and we should expect the big game?
Speaker 1: Or do you think he would be on there if
Speaker 1: he's like not totally o the way, but let's start
Speaker 1: easing him back in.
Speaker 3: I think you just ease him back in man, like
Speaker 3: I don't. I mean, look at what they've done with
Speaker 3: a few of the other players and stuff, Like Juju
Speaker 3: came back last week. He didn't see a full time workload.
Speaker 3: Now I know, like you know, you got a lot
Speaker 3: of parts, parts of pieces in that passing attack to
Speaker 3: kind of like muddle through and stuff. So he didn't
Speaker 3: have to push him back into that. But same thing here,
Speaker 3: Kareem Hunt's been i mean, getting almost freaking twenty five
Speaker 3: touches a game. There's nothing wrong with him, So you
Speaker 3: don't You're not forced to have to push pa Checko immediately,
Speaker 3: like right back into a high volume role. So I
Speaker 3: don't think they do.
Speaker 2: Fit's what do you think Pachecko or Brooks this week?
Speaker 5: Oh it's Pachecko. I mean, let's let's take the guy
Speaker 5: who's been a successful workhorse in the NFL going up
Speaker 5: against a run defense that pretty much rolls out the
Speaker 5: red carpet for every running back they face. And then
Speaker 5: we've got Jonathan Brooks, a guy who's never taken an
Speaker 5: NFL snap, going against the defense that lays down a
Speaker 5: bed of high Cole's for every running back they face.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I gotta go with Pachecko here, and I
Speaker 5: agree with Debro. The most likely scenario is that Pachecko
Speaker 5: gets a slow roll coming out of the gate here
Speaker 5: and probably plays like whatever fifteen snaps, gets five or
Speaker 5: six carries, six or seven carries. But let's not rule
Speaker 5: out like the possibility that the Chiefs have deemed him
Speaker 5: good to go. He's their guy again, he gets fifteen
Speaker 5: or sixteen carries wouldn't totally shock me, Like, I don't
Speaker 5: think that's the most likely outcome, but that's a possibility,
Speaker 5: and I kind of want a factor for that in
Speaker 5: my ranking of Pachecko. So I don't know. I'm we
Speaker 5: talked about this early on in the show where I'm
Speaker 5: and I'm still sort of debating Pachecko versus like Javonte.
Speaker 3: Williams, you know.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean I've got right now, I've got Pichecko.
Speaker 5: I think RB twenty nine, And because look, the guy
Speaker 5: can have a decent day even if he only gets
Speaker 5: seven carries. Again, it's this defense. That's how bad the
Speaker 5: defense is. Wouldn't be surprised if they gave him a
Speaker 5: goal line carrier two to get him in the end
Speaker 5: zone in his return return game. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: I just it's possible they give him a lot more
Speaker 5: work than we're expecting.
Speaker 3: The other thing, I'll throw out a real fast what's
Speaker 3: the line on this game too? Worm? Like, I mean
Speaker 3: it's like it's eleven, it's eleven like that. That's the
Speaker 3: other thing that I think we need to discuss here too,
Speaker 3: Like we do all think that the Chiefs run away
Speaker 3: with this game if that happens early, like say they
Speaker 3: get a defensive score, the Chiefs score like two or
Speaker 3: three other times, Like, I think this game could get
Speaker 3: out out a hand pretty quickly. And if that's the case,
Speaker 3: then maybe we see Pacheco kind of get bubble wrapped
Speaker 3: for the second half.
Speaker 1: Like fit Fitz, do you agree with debro in that,
Speaker 1: like you'd rather just take option see or do you
Speaker 1: actually like Pachecko as a start this week?
Speaker 5: No, you can't like him when you're not sure that
Speaker 5: he's going to play more than a dozen snaps. So
Speaker 5: I don't like him at all. But like I'm not
Speaker 5: about the game script thing. Maybe, like the Chiefs have
Speaker 5: this bad habit of playing with their food when they've
Speaker 5: got easy matchups, and like, I mean, we thought we
Speaker 5: thought they were going to roll over the Raiders on
Speaker 5: Christmas Day last year and look what happened. So I
Speaker 5: don't know about that. I just that is a big wildcard.
Speaker 5: What the workload split between Pachecko and Hunt is going
Speaker 5: to be. I think we're all assuming it's going to
Speaker 5: be mostly Hunt with a dose of Pachecko, but maybe
Speaker 5: that's not the case.
Speaker 3: I know we're not talking about the passing attack for
Speaker 3: this game too much, but I think this is a
Speaker 3: big get right game. This is a really good spot
Speaker 3: for Holmes, Kelsey and company to kind of light it up.
Speaker 3: So I'm actually more interested in their passing attack than
Speaker 3: their rushing attack.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Liones at Colts. What did you guys
Speaker 1: think of the Colts offense in the return of Anthony
Speaker 1: Richardson last week? Obviously, he ran for two touchdowns. How
Speaker 1: does this version of the offense for Indy matchup against
Speaker 1: Detroit fits?
Speaker 5: I'll start with you, oh man, I was much more
Speaker 5: excited about this offensive reset than I was about the
Speaker 5: Bears offensive reset. So as with the Bears, there were shorter,
Speaker 5: quicker throws for Richards and although not so close to
Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage as the sort of throws that
Speaker 5: Caleb was making earlier in the season. We were just
Speaker 5: seeing all these deep shots, low percentage throws to well
Speaker 5: covered receivers downfield for Anthony richards and just clearly wasn't working.
Speaker 5: If he made any such throws on Sunday, I missed them.
Speaker 5: I don't know if he had any deep throws to
Speaker 5: well covered receivers, I don't think so. Just seemed like
Speaker 5: he was much more accurate on Sunday than he was
Speaker 5: earlier in the season, on target for most of the day,
Speaker 5: and the Colts he used a lot of run pass
Speaker 5: options are pos And that's about freaking time, because like
Speaker 5: that was what I was hoping for all season from
Speaker 5: Shane Steichen in this offense, Like you have to design
Speaker 5: the offense around this dude's mobility, like that is the
Speaker 5: like that that is his best traits, take advantage of it.
Speaker 5: And this time it just seemed like we got such
Speaker 5: a better game plan for Shane's from Shane Stike and
Speaker 5: than we've been getting for most of the season when
Speaker 5: Anthony Richardson's been the quarterback. And uh, you know, a
Speaker 5: lot of play action too, which was nice to see.
Speaker 5: I just wonder, like where was this earlier in the year,
Speaker 5: but better late than ever.
Speaker 2: I guess, Debro, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Finally, finally we see a game plan out of Styche
Speaker 3: and that makes sense, man, Like I I've hated all
Speaker 3: like a lot of the different stuff. And I'm not
Speaker 3: saying that Anthony Richardson has played well for most of
Speaker 3: the season, but like what Vizi is talking about, when
Speaker 3: you're gearing up the difficulty of ten and eleven on
Speaker 3: every single throw, everything's deep down the field. Everything's a
Speaker 3: play accident, play action, deep shot. Like where are you
Speaker 3: giving Anthony Richardson easy answers to the test? Like that
Speaker 3: hasn't been the case for most of this season as
Speaker 3: well as you're you're asking or up until this point,
Speaker 3: like FITZI was talking about, Stike was asking Richardson to
Speaker 3: play with one arm behind his back. It's like his
Speaker 3: best weapon out of all the weapons in his back
Speaker 3: is his freaking legs. Let him use them, let him run.
Speaker 3: And we saw that last week, so like to me,
Speaker 3: good things man, Like he was a QB four in
Speaker 3: Fantasy last week. I'm not saying that he's gonna be
Speaker 3: a top twelve quarterback this week. And I'm not telling
Speaker 3: you that it's an easy matchup, but you can run
Speaker 3: the ball on the Lions to an extent. We've seen
Speaker 3: that over the last few weeks, and I think we're
Speaker 3: seeing better play calling that actually makes sense for the
Speaker 3: skill set of their quarterback. So Richardson, like, I don't
Speaker 3: have him ranked as a top twelve quarterback for this week,
Speaker 3: but what am I going to be shocked if he
Speaker 3: walks away again this week as a top twelve quarterback?
Speaker 4: Hell No.
Speaker 1: We got a question from a Mitch asking if FO
Speaker 1: would rather start Anthony Richardson or sing Donald this week.
Speaker 1: Richardson's about four spots higher on ecard. The upside seems
Speaker 1: to be there with Richardson, Fitz, what do you think
Speaker 1: Donald or Richardson?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Richardson. I think that Bears Vikings game has a
Speaker 5: total of under forty points. It looks to be like
Speaker 5: a rock fight, and I would rather play Richardson and
Speaker 5: just cambell on the rushing upside and maybe a little
Speaker 5: passing upside too.
Speaker 3: Debro, Yep, I've got Richard Richardson, I've got a there's
Speaker 3: a wide gap in my rankings between those two quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: I've got Donald at QB twenty one, and I've got
Speaker 3: a rich at QB fifteen, so just barely outside the
Speaker 3: top twelve.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Broncos at Raiders bonickx QB seven in
Speaker 1: ECR this week. We mettion you it a little bit
Speaker 1: earlier QB ten in our rest of season rankings. See Fitz,
Speaker 1: I didn't know we had those.
Speaker 2: This comes up.
Speaker 1: This comes off the heels of his best game as
Speaker 1: a pro for Bonix, when he threw for four touchdowns
Speaker 1: and three hundred yards against Atlanta. Will be one hundred
Speaker 1: percent bought in on Knicks as a strong thing. Se
Speaker 1: quarterback rests the season or is there still any cause
Speaker 1: for hesitation?
Speaker 2: Deepro No, I.
Speaker 3: Know there's not cause for hesitation. And this is I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm gonna own some ls here man. As a
Speaker 3: person who if people want to go back and pull
Speaker 3: up the receipts our draft stream of when Denver drafted
Speaker 3: bo Nicks in the first round, I think my first
Speaker 3: reaction is I just started laughing my butt off. I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I was so dismissive, and dang it,
Speaker 3: Sean Payton still got the magic. Dude still has the magic.
Speaker 3: Shouldn't it shouldn't have questioned him as much as I did, specifically, Like,
Speaker 3: I was not a fan of Knicks as a prospect,
Speaker 3: and I'm wrong. I had been proven wrong, man, Like,
Speaker 3: he has been awesome since Week five. The QB five
Speaker 3: in Fantasy points per game since week five amongst thirty
Speaker 3: six quarterbacks, he is seventh and passer rating seventh and
Speaker 3: CPOE and he is sixth and fantasy points per game
Speaker 3: at this point point. He's shown it at enough times.
Speaker 3: And look, here's the thing, guys. He hasn't even been
Speaker 3: running the last two to three weeks either, so he's
Speaker 3: got multiple outs. Man. No, we don't need to sit
Speaker 3: here and worry about it. Yeah, bot Nicks is for real. Fits.
Speaker 5: I've mostly bought into this. He has quickly gotten a
Speaker 5: lot better as an NFL passer. So he's averaging six
Speaker 5: point four yards per attempt, which isn't a great number,
Speaker 5: but let's look at how that's evolved. Over his first
Speaker 5: four games, Nicks averaged four point eight yards per attempt. Yikes,
Speaker 5: that's a pretty alarmingly bad number. But over his last
Speaker 5: seven games seven point four yards per attempt, which is
Speaker 5: like rock solid NFL starter good four interceptions, in his
Speaker 5: first two games, only two interceptions in his last nine
Speaker 5: games for rookie quarterback, really impressive sixty five point five
Speaker 5: completion percentage. He's accurate, he runs aggressively. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: I've bought in there to be bumps along the way.
Speaker 5: He's still a rookie after all, But there is something
Speaker 5: to be said in debro Maybe you can, like, you know,
Speaker 5: forgive yourself for whiffing on him with the prospect evaluation.
Speaker 5: There is something to be said. And we saw this
Speaker 5: with Brock Perdy for a dude who makes a lot
Speaker 5: of starts in college against power five competition, and like
Speaker 5: Purdy came in and he was not overwhelmed at all
Speaker 5: by NFL defenses. And I think it's been kind of
Speaker 5: the same thing with bow Nicks, who you know, struggled
Speaker 5: in the SEC, went to the PAC twelve sort of
Speaker 5: refound himself out there. But this is just a guy
Speaker 5: who's made a lot of starts, and maybe this is
Speaker 5: the reason it took or has taken Anthony Richardson a
Speaker 5: while to get used to the NFL. Like this guy
Speaker 5: did not make a lot of starts in college, so
Speaker 5: you know, like he has been thrown into the deep
Speaker 5: end of the pool, whereas you know bo Nicks has
Speaker 5: sort of waded in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think two big things like for these
Speaker 3: rooky quarter I think we always go back to not
Speaker 3: only the ecosystem that they get thrown into, but kind
Speaker 3: of going back to the Anthony Richardson conversation good play
Speaker 3: callers man, like not only like do these kids need
Speaker 3: to stay aggressive and know what they're seeing on the
Speaker 3: NFL field, but also the parter piece of they have
Speaker 3: to be put in good situations, like in the sense
Speaker 3: of like are you giving them outs? Are you giving
Speaker 3: them easy answers to the test? Are you know, are
Speaker 3: you stacking the deck against them? More like and honestly
Speaker 3: helping the defense by designing an offense that doesn't eat
Speaker 3: one either cater to their strengths or two give them
Speaker 3: outs when they see pressure, when they see man coverage,
Speaker 3: when they see different things on the field. And Peyton
Speaker 3: is I'm so curious what this offense looks like when
Speaker 3: we walk into Week one next year, Like what do
Speaker 3: they do in the draft, like getting a running back,
Speaker 3: getting other players in this offense that actually fit the system,
Speaker 3: and getting him somebody outside of court and Sutton on
Speaker 3: a weekly basis he could depend on things are looking
Speaker 3: up in Denver.
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Speaker 1: at Seahawks, Jackson, Smith and Jigba did not suffer at
Speaker 1: all with the return of DK Metcalf, leading Seattle in
Speaker 1: targets with eleven catches with ten and yards at one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten. How comfortable are we going back to
Speaker 1: him as a top option after seeing him.
Speaker 2: With a big game while Metcalf was on the field.
Speaker 3: Depro very comfortable. I mean, looking at him right now,
Speaker 3: I've got him ranked as a wide receiver fifteen for
Speaker 3: the week, and I've got DK Metcalf one spot ahead
Speaker 3: of him. I'm almost to the point where looking at
Speaker 3: the coverage matchup, I'm gonna flip the ranking because it
Speaker 3: definitely leans in the favor of Jackson Smith and Jigbo
Speaker 3: Atlanta I mean, excuse me and Lanta. Arizona has leaned
Speaker 3: more too high heavy, and that has been he's been
Speaker 3: the go to receiver JSN has versus too High I
Speaker 3: mean Seattle when they faced too high. JSN leads the
Speaker 3: team with a twenty three point five percent target chare,
Speaker 3: So I like JSN a ton in this matchup, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I think he's going to out target DK Metcalf this week. Fits.
Speaker 2: What are you doing with JSN?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got him wide receiver nineteen, so I'm pretty
Speaker 5: high on him. Too deep ros got me out flank there,
Speaker 5: But I still think he's pretty close to a must start.
Speaker 5: Like we are seeing the second year breakout and it's
Speaker 5: pretty exciting. And what we were waiting for was for
Speaker 5: JSN to do it while sharing a field with DK Metcalf.
Speaker 5: He'd only had one good game in games that Metcalf
Speaker 5: had played. He had that smash game against the Rams
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks ago where DK was out and
Speaker 5: he had two touchdowns and what one hundred and eighty yards.
Speaker 5: Last week, DK comes back eleven targets, ten catches for
Speaker 5: JSN one hundred and ten yards. So I'm buying into
Speaker 5: what looks like a year two breakout, Like this is
Speaker 5: the sort of production we were expecting from a guy who,
Speaker 5: as a nineteen year old sophomore at Ohio State head
Speaker 5: a ninety five catch sixteen hundred yard season while sharing
Speaker 5: targets with Garrett Wilson and Chris Olave.
Speaker 3: Like what happens when you don't have Shane Walder to
Speaker 3: deal with hump FITZI.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's a good point, man. I mean, like it's
Speaker 5: starting to look pretty good here. I was wondering though,
Speaker 5: like in fairness, like when we were not seeing anything
Speaker 5: from him over the first half of the regular season,
Speaker 5: I was concerned, like maybe maybe this guy, just maybe
Speaker 5: he isn't it. But yeah, this has been a pretty
Speaker 5: satisfying last couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: I think we've seen his role kind of change too,
Speaker 3: like since Week five, and I just are since Week six,
Speaker 3: like just pulling this up. Through the first five weeks
Speaker 3: of the season, his a dot only lips eight yards
Speaker 3: in one of those first five weeks. Since Week six,
Speaker 3: his A dot has not dropped below seven in any game,
Speaker 3: and he's only dropped below eight point five in one game.
Speaker 3: So I think the other thing about it is Seattle
Speaker 3: has said, you know what, you could do a lot
Speaker 3: of other things besides us just feeding you underneath targets,
Speaker 3: like he can win down the field, and we've seen
Speaker 3: that and that's really given another life to JSN of
Speaker 3: the last few weeks.
Speaker 1: All right, dib, but I don't want to like put
Speaker 1: you on blasts, though you did just recently trade away
Speaker 1: JSN in that Dynasty we reference, So I bring it
Speaker 1: up again, not to put you on blast, but just
Speaker 1: kind of ask like, is that a sign for kind
Speaker 1: of how you feel about.
Speaker 3: Him long term? No, so outside of last week, there
Speaker 3: have been some concerning things like if you look at
Speaker 3: separation scorers, route win rate, things like that. The other
Speaker 3: part about this is that, like I've got JASN in
Speaker 3: so many different leagues, I honestly a player that I
Speaker 3: didn't and just for full transparency, it's a rebuilding team
Speaker 3: and I traded for Ladd McConkie. I don't have Ladd
Speaker 3: on a lot of different Dynasty squads, and I love
Speaker 3: a lad right now, Like I think he is going
Speaker 3: to go scorched earth the second half of the season.
Speaker 3: So I look at Ladd as especially on rebuilding team
Speaker 3: as much as just his general prospects. I look at
Speaker 3: trading for him At that point, I felt like his
Speaker 3: dynasty value is going to do nothing but go up,
Speaker 3: So for that squad as well as just the player,
Speaker 3: I really wanted to get lad on another dynasty team.
Speaker 5: Worm, are you really questioning the four dimensional chess steebro
Speaker 5: is playing in our the Dynasty League?
Speaker 1: How many top five picks has he traded away and
Speaker 1: then ended up having a rebuilding year that season? And
Speaker 1: since we started it feels like every season.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've got a lot of really good young players.
Speaker 3: It's not my fault you don't want to trade for
Speaker 3: James Cook. It's not my fault that I trade Jalen
Speaker 3: Hurts and then I get Jordan Love and a first back.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, yeah, you're still in last place.
Speaker 1: This is all I can say.
Speaker 3: Keep talking your smack. I'm going to sit here and
Speaker 3: rub your face in the next year in this league.
Speaker 3: I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Forty nine Ers at Packers Fits, Christian Watson had by
Speaker 1: far his best game of the season against Chicago four catches,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty receiving yards, top ten finish at
Speaker 1: the position, despite not getting into the end zone.
Speaker 2: So pat, what do we expect from him in this
Speaker 2: week's follow up?
Speaker 6: No idea.
Speaker 5: He has one of the years widest weekly ranges of
Speaker 5: possible outcomes of any wide receiver in the league. Just
Speaker 5: a ton of big play potential here, which we saw
Speaker 5: last week. Like he is tall and fast, his ball
Speaker 5: skills are very underrated, like he made a couple of
Speaker 5: spectacular catches last year against or last week against the Bears.
Speaker 5: The problem is that Watson does not get the sort
Speaker 5: of target counts that lend themselves to weekend wink out consistency.
Speaker 5: Even if we exclude the game earlier this season against
Speaker 5: the Vikings where he got hurt and left after just
Speaker 5: nine snaps, he's averaging four point three targets a game,
Speaker 5: and it does seem like he's sort of clearly moved
Speaker 5: past don Tavian Wicks, which is a good thing. For
Speaker 5: a while those two were kind of splitting snaps, you know.
Speaker 5: And maybe he's going to start to outrank Romeo Dobbs
Speaker 5: as far as earning targets from Jordan Love. But you know,
Speaker 5: it's just he is a hard guy to peg. Week
Speaker 5: in week out, I'm sort of splitting the baby. This
Speaker 5: week I've got him met like wide receiver thirty four,
Speaker 5: so you know, but he could finish wide receiver eights
Speaker 5: or he could finish wide receiver seventy three.
Speaker 2: Dera.
Speaker 3: Oh, whoa, we're going to talk about another talented player
Speaker 3: that seems to have found his way onto my dynasty
Speaker 3: roster in that league. Interesting, huh okay, fine, let's let's
Speaker 3: discuss him. Did I just want to see And I
Speaker 3: was texting VIZI on Sunday because every big play that
Speaker 3: Watson made, we were texting back and forth. And I
Speaker 3: just want to see Watson healthy, Jordan Love healthy. I
Speaker 3: think if we see that, the rest of it can
Speaker 3: take care of itself. Man. And again, if you're looking
Speaker 3: just for talent, I don't think any of us should
Speaker 3: question Christian Watson. Like, since week six, amongst one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty four qualifying wide receivers, he ranks fifth in
Speaker 3: separation and he ranks sixth in route win rate. I'm
Speaker 3: still flummixed. I'm like FITZI, like, on a weekly basis,
Speaker 3: who's going to get the ball? Like, looking at coverage
Speaker 3: data and all these different things, I just want to
Speaker 3: make a bet on the talent of Christian Watson. And
Speaker 3: I know this sounds like a very tired diatribe, like
Speaker 3: we've said this on this show, We've done this dance before,
Speaker 3: but it doesn't mean that it's wrong. Man, Like how
Speaker 3: many different iterations right when we think the Green Bay
Speaker 3: Packers are getting healthy or Watson is healthy and Love
Speaker 3: is healthy, that we see like a wrench get thrown
Speaker 3: into the freaking gears where it's like, oh one of
Speaker 3: them is now dinged up, Oh one of them is
Speaker 3: missing time. I just want to see them healthy and
Speaker 3: considering talent, I think we can see that second half
Speaker 3: of centship for Christian Watson because and again looking at
Speaker 3: just this game, it's tough to kind of parse through
Speaker 3: all the numbers because certain guys have been healthy. Love
Speaker 3: has been healthy, he hasn't. Watson's been healthy he hasn't.
Speaker 3: But just looking at the coverage aspect of it, I mean,
Speaker 3: since week four, forty nine ers are running cover three,
Speaker 3: cover four, and almost fifty seven percent of the defensive
Speaker 3: snaps against that since Week six, with Watson, Healthy, love
Speaker 3: back all those types of things. Watson has three point
Speaker 3: nine yards per route run against those coverage types. So,
Speaker 3: like FITZI talked about right now, I've got him ranked
Speaker 3: as wide receiver forty. I think you can make cases
Speaker 3: anywhere from him being a wide receiver three and ranking
Speaker 3: him over Jade Reid and as the top Green Bay guy,
Speaker 3: to ranking him as the bottom Green Bay guy. Like.
Speaker 3: The range of outcomes is so astronomically wide for him.
Speaker 3: But if you need a ceiling play this week, Watson
Speaker 3: as ceiling.
Speaker 1: I want to ask about Juwan Jennings on the other
Speaker 1: side of this. At least seven catches and at least
Speaker 1: ninety yards in both games since he returned to the
Speaker 1: lineup healthy. Is he more of a high ceiling play
Speaker 1: Debro or more of a high floor option this week
Speaker 1: against the backers.
Speaker 3: I think both. I think his floor is crazy high
Speaker 3: and I think his ceiling's high. Man Like, I think
Speaker 3: he's playing the Brandon Ayuk plus role in the sense
Speaker 3: that if you look at the last few years how
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers have attacked different coverages, it's been
Speaker 3: really easy to kind of suss out who is going
Speaker 3: to get the volume on a weekly basis. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: they play a single high defense, it's Brandon Ayuk week,
Speaker 3: and they play a two high defense. Then it's Kittle week,
Speaker 3: or it's Debo week, er it's both of them week.
Speaker 3: What we've seen out of Jennings, I mean, he's been
Speaker 3: awesome against both play He's probably going to see a
Speaker 3: lot more too high coverage this week, So I think
Speaker 3: Deebo is going to have a really good game. But
Speaker 3: I think Jennings is going to be massively involved, man like,
Speaker 3: amongst all their wide receivers minimum forty routes, Jennings leads
Speaker 3: the team in target per route run rate against too
Speaker 3: high twenty nine percent, and he has three point two
Speaker 3: yards per route run against the coverage. So I think
Speaker 3: Jennings is going to smash yet again this week.
Speaker 2: Fitz, what do you think?
Speaker 1: I was looking at the stat Actually, as we were
Speaker 1: doing this show, Michael Florio from NFL Fantasy tweeted this
Speaker 1: wide receivers averaging three yards per route run this minimum
Speaker 1: fifty routes, AJ Brown, Nico Collins, Rashi, Rice Pukinakua, Juwan Jennings.
Speaker 1: So he's been I mean, obviously I'm not breaking any
Speaker 1: ground playing spectacularly this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's made four starts this year and he's had
Speaker 5: no fewer than eighty eight yards in any of his
Speaker 5: four starts, So all vote for floor. But as as
Speaker 5: Debro said, you could make the case for floor or
Speaker 5: ceiling because well we saw the ceiling in that game
Speaker 5: earlier in the year where Deebo was out and he
Speaker 5: had one hundred and seventy five yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean Jennings is averaging one hundred and
Speaker 5: eleven zero point eight receiving yards in his starts for
Speaker 5: the forty nine ers this year, So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: like a star is born and here's this guy who
Speaker 5: was just this seem like a spare part to us
Speaker 5: in the fantasy community, to you know, up until this season,
Speaker 5: and now I mean he is he is a force
Speaker 5: to be reckoned.
Speaker 3: With question real fast, guys, because I just this is
Speaker 3: percolating my brain. Does the ascension of Juwan Jennings make
Speaker 3: Deebo expendable this offseason with pearsall on the roster?
Speaker 5: What do you think, Coutsie, Yeah, I mean it does
Speaker 5: seem like there's a logjam that needs to be broken up.
Speaker 5: It does seem hard to think that they would roll
Speaker 5: into next season with all of Deebo Ayuk and we
Speaker 5: know Ayuk's not going anywhere with the big contract Jennings
Speaker 5: and pearsall.
Speaker 1: Before we get to the key question for Sunday Nights matchup,
Speaker 1: which is Eagles at Rams, I want to ask you
Speaker 1: guys about your Uber Eats Sunday Night meals of the week.
Speaker 1: We just did LA last week, so we're gonna lose
Speaker 1: the away team this time. Deebra, What must order food
Speaker 1: gets you reaching for your Uber Eats app for great
Speaker 1: game day deals when you think of Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: Dude, a roast pork sandwich. I just I was looking
Speaker 3: at the description of this online and I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my lord, man like some sharp provolone over that.
Speaker 3: Oh heaven, heaven.
Speaker 1: I noticed, by the way, there's a theme with all
Speaker 1: of ours. It's a lot of meat coming to you
Speaker 1: from Philly fits what's yours?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I got this will appease some of the people who
Speaker 5: gave me grief and the comments on YouTube who roasted
Speaker 5: me for mentioning a chopped salad last week, and one
Speaker 5: guy was like, a chop salad in Vegas I'm like
Speaker 5: it was in Vegas, dude, we were talking about Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: Of course I'm not eating a chopp salad in Las Vegas,
Speaker 5: but yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with the pork motif.
Speaker 5: Philly is my kind of town.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 5: I'm a big pork guy. A pork roll. Like if
Speaker 5: I were in Philadelphia and hungover for any reason, like
Speaker 5: holiday party or something like that, I could totally see
Speaker 5: myself ordering a couple of pork rolls from Uber Eats
Speaker 5: to help chase that hangover.
Speaker 3: A way, speaking of Vegas, I mean, maybe we're just foreshadowing,
Speaker 3: but I kind of foresee in my mind, say a
Speaker 3: liquid diet in Vegas coming.
Speaker 1: Make a joke about like, if you're spending time in Philly,
Speaker 1: you better be hungover. I actually really like Philadelphia. You know,
Speaker 1: I grew up a few hours away and it was
Speaker 1: a fun spot to go.
Speaker 3: Mayor's gonna love this section of the show Go Bird.
Speaker 1: It's not like my favorite scene in the world, but like,
Speaker 1: I do enjoy Philly for I mean, it's a.
Speaker 2: Philly cheese steak.
Speaker 1: Like that's the correct answer. I'm I'm the type of
Speaker 1: person if you've discussed in this show. Who doesn't want
Speaker 1: like onions mixed into stuff or some of the kind
Speaker 1: of added on fix ins. But just like a great
Speaker 1: Philly cheese steak with the meat and the cheese and
Speaker 1: the bread like which I've had many times, as plain
Speaker 1: as you can make, and whatever sauce they want to
Speaker 1: throw on there, fantastic, like like I get it.
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not going down in a limb there
Speaker 2: with Philly she steak.
Speaker 5: But yeah, before we get off Philly foods, I got
Speaker 5: to ask, have you had scrapple?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know what that is.
Speaker 5: It's like some sort of weird breakfast meat that like
Speaker 5: they roll it in oats or there's some sort of
Speaker 5: coding to that. It's like a breakfast thing in Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: I've never had it, but I've.
Speaker 3: Never had a description. Looks very interesting.
Speaker 5: It was like, yeah, it is a hardcore Philly thing.
Speaker 5: Philly's an interesting eating town. Like they have some uh,
Speaker 5: some unique specialties. I mean, like that that roast pork
Speaker 5: sandwich like they put broccoli rob and roasted red peppers
Speaker 5: on the sandwich, like really unique.
Speaker 3: And none of us even mentioned hogies. Man.
Speaker 2: I mean, I do love a good hogy.
Speaker 3: I worked.
Speaker 1: At one point, I thought you were gonna take hogy
Speaker 1: to be here. I was a baseball scout. I lived
Speaker 1: in Coppley, Pennsylvania, and right around the corner next to
Speaker 1: like kind of the ability we're operating out of was
Speaker 1: this place.
Speaker 2: My landers Milanders. I forget how they.
Speaker 1: Pronounced it, but they've made these massive hogies and they
Speaker 1: I would get them for lunch and they would last
Speaker 1: you for days.
Speaker 2: They were so good. I do love a good HOGI yeah.
Speaker 1: This scrapple looks great, traditional mush of fried pork scraps
Speaker 1: and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour. Like, sign
Speaker 1: me up, Like I'm the other thing I was gonna
Speaker 1: I was gonna pick if you guys had taken the food.
Speaker 1: I wanted a yngling.
Speaker 2: I enjoy a good yngling to go along with the
Speaker 2: meal most of the time.
Speaker 3: Very long as it's an I I can get down
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you have it. Our Uber Eats Sunday Night
Speaker 1: meals of the week. We've got pork rolls, we got
Speaker 1: Philly cheese steak. We've got you know, anything, meat and
Speaker 1: bread and cheese we got for Philly.
Speaker 2: This week.
Speaker 1: Uber Eats has the best game day deals all season long.
Speaker 1: Order now for game day key questioning this game guys.
Speaker 1: Since Week seven, Devanta Smith has been really hit or
Speaker 1: missed for Fantasy. In the last five games, he has
Speaker 1: two games inside the top twelve at receiver and three
Speaker 1: games outside the top fifty. Fits which kind of game
Speaker 1: would be this week?
Speaker 5: Oh man, I love the player. I think DeVante Smith
Speaker 5: is one of the best route runners in the league,
Speaker 5: but I tend to be more of a passmiss than
Speaker 5: an optimist about him right now, just because the passing
Speaker 5: volume is so buttoned up right now for the Eagles.
Speaker 5: Since the start of October, Jalen Hurts is averaging twenty
Speaker 5: one point eight pass attempts per game. The Eagles are
Speaker 5: the run heaviest team in the league. And uh, you know,
Speaker 5: DeVante Smith is the number two receiver on this team
Speaker 5: behind aj Brown, so the Rams aren't a bad matchup.
Speaker 5: Davante could always pop off for a big game hit
Speaker 5: on a couple of plays, but I've got him ranked
Speaker 5: wide receiver twenty four, so I'm being pretty conservative with
Speaker 5: my ranking of him this week.
Speaker 2: Debro, where do you rank smith?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm pulling up ECR right now.
Speaker 1: He is a wide receiver twenty one.
Speaker 3: I think I'm dropping him. I've got him at wide
Speaker 3: receiver twenty two, but I'm gonna drop him the twenty four.
Speaker 3: I might drop him a little bit further. I mean,
Speaker 3: like he's living in a range where like I would
Speaker 3: rather play Calvin Ridley, I would rather play Marvin Harrison Junior,
Speaker 3: I would rather play Tank Dell. So you know, kind
Speaker 3: of foreshadowing, it's not that again, everything that FITSI highlighted
Speaker 3: is absolutely correct. It has nothing to do with the talent.
Speaker 3: It has everything to do with the passing volume. Like
Speaker 3: he's just he's gotten squeezed man. And the other part
Speaker 3: about this is this is not just Okay, it's a
Speaker 3: good matchup for Davonta Smith. We could talk about that. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's great, that's grand. It's also a fantastic matchup for
Speaker 3: AJ Brown and the Rams cannot stop tight ends, and
Speaker 3: they can't They've been more of I mean, the run
Speaker 3: defense has had issues. So I think that this was
Speaker 3: a tougher matchup for like Dallas Goddard, then I would
Speaker 3: feel a little bit better about volume getting pushed to
Speaker 3: DeVante Smith, but I mean Dallas Goddard I think is
Speaker 3: set up for a really, really strong game. And it's
Speaker 3: not like Devonte Smith has a lot of outs. Man,
Speaker 3: it's not like he's been getting used in the red zone,
Speaker 3: like since week three, he has one red zone target.
Speaker 3: So even if we want to say, well it's the volume,
Speaker 3: but maybe he scores a touchdown, Dude, even him scoring
Speaker 3: a touchdown is a slim proposition, you know, like so
Speaker 3: that that might not even save his day. It just
Speaker 3: really comes down to the matchup and can he bust
Speaker 3: a big play. If he doesn't do that, we're likely
Speaker 3: disappointed this week.
Speaker 2: Now we usually talk about Monday Night football.
Speaker 1: Deebra has made it clear I'm not allowed to talk
Speaker 1: about the Ravens, despite the fact that.
Speaker 3: Yet they make the screw sheet.
Speaker 2: We're a fantasy show and they're the best offense in football.
Speaker 2: Am I allowed to talk about Ravens charges defense?
Speaker 3: You need a talking points did your defense every single week?
Speaker 3: Because it's true, it's not true, but you just you
Speaker 3: need new material. Also, we tried and picked the kind
Speaker 3: of like the best games of the week. I mean,
Speaker 3: like to a degree, I want to pick the fantasy
Speaker 3: relevant ones. But I will give, like you know, at
Speaker 3: an extra edge to a really strong matchup there. Their
Speaker 3: schedule has been ridiculous. They all, we only play.
Speaker 1: In fun and excited games, so I am not I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna apologize for talking about them on a fantasy
Speaker 1: show when their offense is this good. We are gonna
Speaker 1: talk about Ravens at Chargers, a classic kind of start
Speaker 1: everyone type of game fits which players are we fading
Speaker 1: in this one? Since I think everybody's kind of lean
Speaker 1: is going to be to start as many as possible
Speaker 1: in this one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean JK. Dobbins against the Ravens run defense,
Speaker 5: the ranks fifth and dvoa and has given up the
Speaker 5: third fewest rushing yards to running backs. And yeah, I'm
Speaker 5: not all that excited about starting any of the Baltimore
Speaker 5: pass catchers besides A Flowers. Now, I think you could
Speaker 5: play Rashad Bateman in a pinch if you're getting squeezed
Speaker 5: by the sixteen bye week. You know, Mark Andrews is
Speaker 5: an okay start at tight end, but really Dobbins is
Speaker 5: the only guy would say it's kind of a fade
Speaker 5: for me, you know. And even there, I've got him
Speaker 5: ranked like running back twenty two or whatever, just based
Speaker 5: on volume. It's just that like I wish he I
Speaker 5: wish he were used more as a pass catcher, Like
Speaker 5: he's gotten a little bit of usage there, but it's
Speaker 5: just I don't see him having a big day on
Speaker 5: the ground against the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Debro what do you think?
Speaker 1: I mean again, it's the type of game where people
Speaker 1: are going to be inclined to just get as much
Speaker 1: exposure as they can.
Speaker 2: But is there anybody that you are personally fading?
Speaker 3: I think the first name that people need to hear
Speaker 3: is exactly when the fitz he letoff with is JK.
Speaker 3: Dobbins the one that I'm going to go down the
Speaker 3: list for that. I think a lot of people are
Speaker 3: going to have to start And I'm telling you I
Speaker 3: would be considering streaming options over him as Mark Andrews.
Speaker 3: And I know that name might surprise some people, but
Speaker 3: the charges are legitimately the worst matchup you can have
Speaker 3: for a tight end right now. They are the only defense,
Speaker 3: the only defense in the NFL that has yet to
Speaker 3: allow a receiving touchdown to a tight end, the only defense.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of defenses that have held tight
Speaker 3: ends to one touchdown. They are the only defense that
Speaker 3: is yet to allow now a single touchdown, and they
Speaker 3: have allowed the sixth fewest receiving excuse me, the six
Speaker 3: fewest Fantasy points per game to opposing tight ends. So Andrews,
Speaker 3: I understand that a lot of people are going to
Speaker 3: have to start him. I get that they're i mean
Speaker 3: looking at streaming options, like I know I'm going to
Speaker 3: sound crazy for this, but telling me the best matchup
Speaker 3: on the board, Like if you need ceiling this week,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't push back against somebody, but playing JT Sanders
Speaker 3: over Mark Andrews.
Speaker 5: I knew that was the name that was coming. I mean, well,
Speaker 5: the worst matchup.
Speaker 3: On the board for tight ends, best matchup on the
Speaker 3: board for tight end.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Chief smother perimeter receivers and like get crushed
Speaker 5: by tight end. So it makes sense.
Speaker 1: You know, the Chargers, they haven't faced a murderer's row
Speaker 1: of tight ends, but they have faced Bowers, Kelsey ed
Speaker 1: McBride this year, so it's they have had some games
Speaker 1: against some really good tight ends.
Speaker 3: All the Sinci guys didn't get in last week either.
Speaker 3: That's what I told people to must bench Mike A
Speaker 3: Secu last week.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a great set.
Speaker 1: Do you think, Debro, there's any credence to the idea
Speaker 1: of like the Chargers will want to kind of help
Speaker 1: either Dobbins or Gus or both get touchdowns against their
Speaker 1: former team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think Dobbins definitely, especially you know
Speaker 3: comeback narrative. He's had a great season and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: The other part about this, man, like I do you
Speaker 3: just want to root for a team with Harball, Like
Speaker 3: Jim Harball has done such a good job with the Chargers, man,
Speaker 3: that team, like from every video clip we've seen, like
Speaker 3: they freaking love him, dude, Like I want to see
Speaker 3: them win again. Like it being the Harball Bowl, Is
Speaker 3: this the first time we've seen both Harballs since play
Speaker 3: each other since the Super Bowl? Is that right?
Speaker 2: Well, they played on Thanksgiving night one year.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what year that was.
Speaker 3: Was that I just I just started getting like memories
Speaker 3: and flashbacks of the freaking Super Bowl. Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's obviously the big, the big one.
Speaker 1: I forget what year was that they they play, because
Speaker 1: it was there was that Thursday night Thanksgiving game that
Speaker 1: they played, and I don't remember if it was if
Speaker 1: it was before or after the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to look it up here, but I.
Speaker 1: Think unless I'm totally forgetting one, I think those are
Speaker 1: the only two times they've played. Was okay, yeah, so
Speaker 1: that was before the super Bowl. Looks like that was
Speaker 1: twenty eleven.
Speaker 3: So the Super bowls the last time they met that,
Speaker 3: so I.
Speaker 2: Think that is the most recent time. Yeah. Interesting, that's uh, it's.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's always you said, you said, it's always
Speaker 1: you always want to root for the team with Harbaugh.
Speaker 1: You didn't specify which one at first, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: sign that well.
Speaker 3: I was due to be honest, I was like, which
Speaker 3: one is it? Which It's like when you talk about
Speaker 3: you bring up the last name of car You're like,
Speaker 3: is it David or Dearred?
Speaker 2: Is it David or Derek?
Speaker 3: I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels when you root for one of the teams,
Speaker 1: it's like you're obviously much more attaining to it. And
Speaker 1: but I do hear people all the time say Gym
Speaker 1: when they mean John or vice versa, and it's always
Speaker 1: it's always fun. This is gonna be a great game
Speaker 1: that I'm really I think this we were talking about
Speaker 1: this on the Thursday show. Also de Bro, I think
Speaker 1: that this is going to Like I loved the Raven
Speaker 1: Steelers under love, loved, loved it last this week, I
Speaker 1: adore the over in this one.
Speaker 3: I think this game is going over. Yeah, now you
Speaker 3: the nail on the head last week about Lamar and
Speaker 3: Steelers and stuff like that. Like, I think this game
Speaker 3: is going to go over. I think it was.
Speaker 1: My favorite bet of the week was under and the
Speaker 1: under basically clinched in the first quarter. I mean you
Speaker 1: could just tell watching Raven Steelers where that was going.
Speaker 2: But best of luck to.
Speaker 1: Everybody this weekend, whatever bets you make or start set
Speaker 1: decisions you have. Hopefully this is a really fun slate,
Speaker 1: a couple of standout games like I mentioned, so I
Speaker 1: really appreciate everybody tuning in and again, if anything happens
Speaker 1: to Thursday night, sorry we missed it. We had to
Speaker 1: tape early this week. But for Debro and Fits, I'm
Speaker 1: ryan warmly thanks everybody for tuning in again. We'll see
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