Speaker 1: Wayoffs. Yeah, playoffs light this one. We can win a game.
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Speaker 1: Fantasy free style. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what it is.
Speaker 1: It's your boy, Rocks and Speeds holding you down. We're
Speaker 1: dropping stats over beats. This is the Fantasy Free style,
Speaker 1: and it is getting into week sixteen. So if you're
Speaker 1: listening now on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network or on
Speaker 1: the audio Boom, on the stitcher, on the Google Play,
Speaker 1: on the app, if you're subscribing on iTunes and listening now,
Speaker 1: it's probably because you're in your Fantasy championship. So congrats
Speaker 1: to you, right, Rocks, with about all these people still listening,
Speaker 1: and they're probably listening because they're in their championship, and
Speaker 1: they're probably in their championship because they were listening. It's
Speaker 1: a beautiful cycle. Right. Yeah, you know, we learned about
Speaker 1: this correlation doesn't always equal causation, but in this case,
Speaker 1: I think that it does. So shout out to everybody
Speaker 1: who had a successful season. We're gonna give you what
Speaker 1: you need this week to take home that trophy. Whether
Speaker 1: you've got one of those little digital badge trophies in
Speaker 1: the Yahoo league or whether your league got one of
Speaker 1: those big monstrosities, get to carve your name on it
Speaker 1: this year, you know. Shout out also to everybody playing dfs,
Speaker 1: keeping their interests alive the show. Shout out to everybody
Speaker 1: who doesn't even really mess with fantasy they just listen
Speaker 1: to us because we got some of the best sports
Speaker 1: content out there, all for free on that fantasy sports
Speaker 1: radio network. You know what it is, rob, so we
Speaker 1: put the fun and functional sports radio. I gotta ask you, though,
Speaker 1: you mentioned kind of like the trophies, and that gets
Speaker 1: me to thinking. You know, like I competed in a
Speaker 1: number of fantasy football leagues, and some of them, you know,
Speaker 1: or for money, and some of them are more money,
Speaker 1: some of them for less money, some of them are
Speaker 1: for no money. Right to me, I mean, the money
Speaker 1: is great at all, but it's really about that pride, right,
Speaker 1: It's really about to be able. Let's say to your colleagues,
Speaker 1: or say to your boys, or say to whoever it is, look,
Speaker 1: I won, right. Do you think more people care about
Speaker 1: um the status or actually winning their league and winning
Speaker 1: that dash. I think a lot of it really depends
Speaker 1: on who else is in your league, and obviously, of
Speaker 1: course how much money. You know, the home league that
Speaker 1: you and I have been playing in together for almost
Speaker 1: a decade, you know, it's it's incentivized. Certainly, it's not
Speaker 1: the most insane incentive in the world, but for that
Speaker 1: league where you really know the vast majority of the
Speaker 1: people in the league really really well, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: them out at the bar. It's gonna be something that
Speaker 1: you can use as a talking point. You know. We
Speaker 1: make fun of our good friend Matt, who's in the
Speaker 1: championship this week, for not having a ring for him.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he wants to win for pride. He'll take
Speaker 1: the money, but he's gonna be hoping that he wins
Speaker 1: for pride. So you know, I think as long as
Speaker 1: you know the people and it's not like you know
Speaker 1: you're playing for you know, you're gonna lose the mortgage
Speaker 1: chairman if you don't win the league. You know, I
Speaker 1: think for a lot of people it's pride. I do
Speaker 1: think also though, and we've talked about this in our
Speaker 1: league and also in the charity poker tournament that you
Speaker 1: and I playing often, they're going to create a trophy
Speaker 1: and actually have the names from years past of all
Speaker 1: the winners. And I think that's awesome. Also, even then,
Speaker 1: when you know your trophy is in someone else's house,
Speaker 1: it's got your name up there, Pe'll be like, oh man,
Speaker 1: James won the league twice high and you've only won
Speaker 1: it once, even though it was last year. Rox is
Speaker 1: kind of nasty, huh. I definitely recommend that in your league,
Speaker 1: get a championship trophy, have the names on it, maybe
Speaker 1: get a championship belt, like you're a boxer in the
Speaker 1: w w E. But you gotta have some way to
Speaker 1: commemorate it. Let me ask you, though, this rock to
Speaker 1: commemorating the winners. I also like league where you have
Speaker 1: to do something if you are the loser. You know,
Speaker 1: whether it's something like financial for the winner, or whether
Speaker 1: it's like I've seen leagues where people gotta get like
Speaker 1: a tattoo of the winners choosing, or like take an
Speaker 1: embarrassing picture or tweet something out that is embarrassing. I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the Booby Prize? Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: shout to Shout to England the Booby Prize. It's one
Speaker 1: of those things that can often be lost in translation. Um,
Speaker 1: I like it. The only thing that I worry about
Speaker 1: is that with a lot of these leagues, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes people draft pay attention for one or two weeks
Speaker 1: and then they tune out, and they're not necessarily the
Speaker 1: people you want to have back in your league year
Speaker 1: after your These are the people who will also balk
Speaker 1: at being asked to pay another fifty dollars after, you know,
Speaker 1: after they've already bought in and stopped paying attention. I
Speaker 1: do like something maybe like you know, change your Facebook
Speaker 1: profile picture for a week or something like that. You know,
Speaker 1: just like it's a little bit embarrassing, but it's done
Speaker 1: in good fun and it's not really gonna make anyone
Speaker 1: like angry or upset, you know. And I do also
Speaker 1: think though that you know, it's it's important also in
Speaker 1: a way that you do want to incentivize those teams
Speaker 1: who are at the bottom, to continue setting their line up,
Speaker 1: to continue being active on the to make sure that
Speaker 1: there's not a competitive imbalances that can really screw things up.
Speaker 1: And if you're one of those teams that you know
Speaker 1: that that you watch your opponent that you're maybe fighting
Speaker 1: for the last playoff spot with, you know, get these
Speaker 1: easy wins against teams that that still have Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: in their lineup, that still have you know, Jamal Charles
Speaker 1: and their visitor. They're barely playing. Um. You know, that's
Speaker 1: really really frustrating. It's not good for the league. And
Speaker 1: I also don't think though that that the commissioner should
Speaker 1: have to be stepping in and setting other people's lineups.
Speaker 1: I'm completely against that. And check it out, Rocks. If
Speaker 1: anybody had any questions for us about how maybe to
Speaker 1: structure their league or structure like a payout system or
Speaker 1: an embarrassment system. At the end, I remember we want
Speaker 1: talked about building a whole like Siria B League to
Speaker 1: relegate right, Rocks. If people want to get at us,
Speaker 1: they can get us at Fantasy Freestyle. That Fantasy Freestyle
Speaker 1: Twitter hand will leave off the last because Rocks and
Speaker 1: Speeds may up no errors will be happy to talk
Speaker 1: about lead construction with you. Before the Rocks. You also
Speaker 1: mentioned our boy Maddy G. We have another Fantasy Freestyle listener,
Speaker 1: Maddie Ge. They have heard him, uh in the mailbag
Speaker 1: before he actually reached out to us say that he
Speaker 1: went four for four in his league's making the semifinals.
Speaker 1: So Maddie G out there. We hope you're doing well.
Speaker 1: We hope in some of those leagues you are still involved,
Speaker 1: still with your team and live in the championship. This week,
Speaker 1: Week sixteen, Hey, Rocks, you know someone who is not
Speaker 1: still live with their team. Guts Bradley of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: They finally ended that kind of uh, I guess dumpster
Speaker 1: fire regression. You know, at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: a lot of people actually thought that Jacksonville had the
Speaker 1: chance to be kind of like a sexy sleeper pick,
Speaker 1: and we talked about that. We thought that the defense
Speaker 1: was gonna be much improved. That was one of our
Speaker 1: big talking boys. The Jags were not going to be
Speaker 1: relying on that garbage time from portals anymore. And you know, uh, boy,
Speaker 1: were we wrong. We were just no production at any
Speaker 1: point from that offense, and you know, Gus Bradley, you know,
Speaker 1: you feel bad. He came over from Seattle. He was
Speaker 1: really a big get for this Jacksonville team that hasn't
Speaker 1: really had much success in a while. And you know what, though,
Speaker 1: Gus Bradley, this is just coming out. And then the
Speaker 1: last day or so, he was actually on the flight home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that awkward. It's like it's like when you break up
Speaker 1: with your girlfriend and then you both you both are
Speaker 1: on the same train or something like that. I once, uh,
Speaker 1: I once had a girlfriend. We broke up. We shared
Speaker 1: um season tickets to the right field bleachers of Yankee Stadium,
Speaker 1: and then we didn't know what was gonna happen, how
Speaker 1: to break up the tickets because we still wanted the
Speaker 1: playoff games that were involved. Uh So, yeah, interesting the analogy,
Speaker 1: you know. I'm I'm you're right, though, man, I thought
Speaker 1: the Jaguars and the Raiders were two teams that were
Speaker 1: gonna be primed to take a step forward. It did
Speaker 1: happen in Oakland. It did not happen in Jacksonville. A Rocks,
Speaker 1: I know you also going into the season, I believe
Speaker 1: in PPR settings you had Alan Robinson as a top
Speaker 1: five pick, and you've seen the frustration he has had
Speaker 1: all season long with Blake Wordles. A lot of people
Speaker 1: thought that Blake Bortles was gonna be a top ten
Speaker 1: quarterback and that Bordles service continues. Here's where I think
Speaker 1: the big issue was, if you want to know the truth,
Speaker 1: their defense has improved slightly. You know what I think
Speaker 1: is the biggest culprit. Whatever illness that Chris Ivory had
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the season, I think really set
Speaker 1: them back. Chris Ivory was their big free agent signing
Speaker 1: who was supposed to, you know, like have teams respect
Speaker 1: the running game so that Blake Bortles and Allen Robinson
Speaker 1: Marquis Lee has become your boy, you know um, and
Speaker 1: then he just missed the first few games. T J
Speaker 1: Yelden was not doing it. In the first five weeks.
Speaker 1: They were like a few games where Blake Bortles was
Speaker 1: the team's leading rusher, and I think they went all
Speaker 1: downhill from there. But Rocks, let me tell you something,
Speaker 1: because you know, Amir Khan is like they're there, their
Speaker 1: owner shot Khan and you know how they're like the
Speaker 1: kind of adopted team of London. They go out there
Speaker 1: every year. So you know what, I think Harry Potter
Speaker 1: should be their new coach. I don't know about that
Speaker 1: can make magic happened. There's definitely there's definitely gonna be
Speaker 1: a bunch of changes. Julius Thomas is another player that
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, we thought he was going
Speaker 1: to be back healthy, a real red zone threat. Um,
Speaker 1: nothing worked out for them, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: up to someone else next year to try and write
Speaker 1: that ship. And they're saying as they search for head coach,
Speaker 1: they're not going to force them over the next head
Speaker 1: coaches to play Blake Bortles. I mean, he's a guy
Speaker 1: that you know, we've seen it before with some of
Speaker 1: these coaches that are known for being good with quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: John Bruden certainly comes to mind, Jim Bob Cooer, Jim
Speaker 1: Bob Cooter that really have the ability to kind of
Speaker 1: turn these guys careers around. But uh, I think that
Speaker 1: you know, it's unclear even if they're gonna pick up
Speaker 1: his fifth year option and that's guaranteed for injury only,
Speaker 1: but that could get interesting. You know, those are some
Speaker 1: interesting decisions. UM, let me ask continue this way Rocks. Um,
Speaker 1: you know We've talked a lot about some of those
Speaker 1: veteran quarterbacks that are gonna be on the Merrygo Round
Speaker 1: next year. Tony Romo, potentially Clarkson Palmer Um see Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: fitz pat forward here. There's gonna be Brian Hoyer probably
Speaker 1: out there. We're getting news now, you know, Blake Portals
Speaker 1: might be on that Merry Go round as well. We're
Speaker 1: also getting news out of Buffalo that the Bills are
Speaker 1: not committed to Syrod Taylor. There's an option to be triggered.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if I'm Buffalo, Tyrod Taylor is not
Speaker 1: the problem. So I asked you this one with Romo,
Speaker 1: this Patrick. If you're a team that's in need of
Speaker 1: a quarterback, say you're the Bears, do you look at
Speaker 1: Romo or even Cutler or Fitzy or do you take
Speaker 1: a shot thinking that you're the guy who can fix
Speaker 1: this young guy Blake Bortles. We can take Blake Bortles
Speaker 1: over Gino Smith. Yes, Blake Portals. Blake Bortles has had
Speaker 1: you know, it's he's far He's far from that version
Speaker 1: of Blake Bortles right now. Blake Bortles has had sustained
Speaker 1: success in the NFL. That's something that cannot be said
Speaker 1: for Gino Smith. One more name. Keep in mind Todd
Speaker 1: that I want to add to that list that you
Speaker 1: that you just put out there. And and as a
Speaker 1: Saints fan, I'm hoping it's not the case. I'm starting
Speaker 1: to hear rumors out of New Orleans that this is
Speaker 1: a team that's rebuilding. They're constantly in a terrible cap
Speaker 1: situation because of Mickey loom Is kicking the can down
Speaker 1: the road. Drew Brees is something like a thirty plus
Speaker 1: million dollar cap hit for this team. I don't think
Speaker 1: he has any guaranteed money beyond this year. They're talking
Speaker 1: about maybe a willingness to trade Sean Peyton. I will
Speaker 1: shed a tear when when that's not h the most
Speaker 1: exciting hour to have NFL anymore. Because even this year,
Speaker 1: the Saints have really been a great offense, and as
Speaker 1: they have historically, the problems have been on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. So there will be quarterbacks out
Speaker 1: this year. Um and because I think that this year's
Speaker 1: quarterback class in the draft not as strong as it
Speaker 1: was previous years. Right, Yeah, that's absolutely true. The guys
Speaker 1: you need to look out in the draft class. If
Speaker 1: you're one of these teams like San Francisco, Cleveland, Chicago.
Speaker 1: The Jets were might draft early and might be in
Speaker 1: the quarterback market. You're obviously looking at DeShawn Watson out
Speaker 1: of Cleanson. A lot of people know about him. He's
Speaker 1: been a Heisman finalist the last two years. Clenson has
Speaker 1: been in the National Championship conversation. There's the guy Trabinski.
Speaker 1: He's a guy coming on out of North Carolina. I've
Speaker 1: heard that the Jets really like him. I don't want
Speaker 1: them to go quarterback. I want them to get a
Speaker 1: pass rusher. And there's a guy Brad Kaya out of
Speaker 1: the University of Miami and Miami Hurricane. Word is that
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears are really hot on this guy Rocks.
Speaker 1: I know that you're a Saints fan. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: um the Peyton Breese era. Uh, the window is closing
Speaker 1: on it. You know, as we know, it's in the
Speaker 1: twilight of that partnership, and they've always been joined at
Speaker 1: the hip. If they do, in fact leave, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you exactly where both of them are going. Sean Payton,
Speaker 1: if they're gonna talk about a trade, one team that
Speaker 1: I've just heard that says that they are willing to
Speaker 1: trade for a coach. Is that incredible job out there
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, the l A Rams. I heard sand
Speaker 1: Plunky saying that they would be down to trade for
Speaker 1: a coach. That would be a get for them that
Speaker 1: alcohalify because they want that offensive mind. We talked about
Speaker 1: that to develop maybe a Jared goff in that offense.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you about this, Drew Brees. If Drew
Speaker 1: Brees is in any way, shape or form available, lock
Speaker 1: it down. You know. I do my Shot Callers show Monday,
Speaker 1: Wednesday Friday on a fantasy sports radio network. This is
Speaker 1: Speeds calling his shot. If Drew Brees is anywhere that
Speaker 1: is not New Orleans, Denver, Broncos. If you are Denver
Speaker 1: and you are John Elway, who's the president, and you
Speaker 1: know you've done it before, bringing in Peyton Manning, you trust,
Speaker 1: and you know about veteran quarterbacks that can do their thing.
Speaker 1: You have that Super Bowl winning defense, You know what
Speaker 1: it takes, you know what you need. You're telling me
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't do whatever you had to do to
Speaker 1: bring a future Hall of famer even though he was
Speaker 1: at a pro bowler this year to Denver. I think
Speaker 1: that would be the perfect fit and that Drew Brees
Speaker 1: would be down with sure. Also to demanding Ris Thomas
Speaker 1: and and Manny Sanders. That's interesting, that's interesting. The only
Speaker 1: thing I would say about that doors that doors outdoors
Speaker 1: Denver not so nice in those winter months. Um and
Speaker 1: John a Way also knows, and Drew Brees hasn't shown
Speaker 1: it yet. He did have He was awesome last week
Speaker 1: against arrows Own, albeit in the dome. He had a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks where he was maybe looking diminished, not
Speaker 1: like Peyton Manning last year diminished, but a little wobble
Speaker 1: on his passes that you're not used to seeing. One
Speaker 1: other thing I would say is Simeon has been competent, decent. Okay,
Speaker 1: they also have that first rounder that they just spent
Speaker 1: on Paxston Lynch. He's a development project. I think that
Speaker 1: maybe him to develop this defense is when now keep
Speaker 1: to leave getting older, you know, uh, Marcus ware on
Speaker 1: the back of getting older, the window is now they
Speaker 1: don't have time to turn of lake borders around develop
Speaker 1: a Paxton Lynch, because by the time you do that,
Speaker 1: that defense is no longer a championship defense. That's a
Speaker 1: fair point. Interesting. I mean, hey, we still got a
Speaker 1: lot of football to get We got off here. Man,
Speaker 1: let's let's about I wanted to say one other thing
Speaker 1: real quick, Yo, what's up with your boy on Duke
Speaker 1: with the basketball? Yeah, Grayson Allen, you know, first of
Speaker 1: all Roxin Steins here in the fantasy freestyle, we drop
Speaker 1: stats over beachs. You know, we talk baseball. We're talking football.
Speaker 1: Rocks in any college basketball hold us down. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be giving it to one yard diversity. But you yeah,
Speaker 1: Grayson Allen, Man, Grayson Allen again, you know, tripping the kid.
Speaker 1: We're recording this on Thursday, so this is news. Oh
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Yeah, there was that technical foul, But
Speaker 1: did you see him on the bench straight up throwing
Speaker 1: a temper tantrum literally pouting and screaming, and it took
Speaker 1: like coaches to settle him down. This is not the
Speaker 1: first time this has happened, and it makes me wonder.
Speaker 1: I know, this man is sort of teflon and untouchable.
Speaker 1: It makes me wonder about coach k Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: not not this is not him mounting off to some
Speaker 1: like twenty seven year old coach on his first job.
Speaker 1: This is like one of the most recognizable coaches in
Speaker 1: any sport in the United States. This is a guy
Speaker 1: who's got Team USA, some of the biggest egos and
Speaker 1: superstars on the planet, to play ball the way he
Speaker 1: wants them to. And he can't. He can't have some
Speaker 1: kid showing him up. It's bad for his brand. Also,
Speaker 1: Grayson Allen, is that a college basketball player or a
Speaker 1: law fer get your name right, son. A lot of
Speaker 1: people go to Duke. Maybe I'm to come lawyers. This
Speaker 1: guy might have just lost some money in the NBA Draft.
Speaker 1: We'll find out about that. But however, listen, it's week sixteen,
Speaker 1: it's championship week. You got Rocks and the speeds. We're
Speaker 1: gonna hold you down. We're gonna go into these spotlight
Speaker 1: games and be careful, guys, because with the holiday season,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of games on Saturdays. Make you set
Speaker 1: your line up. That's the last thing you wanna do, man.
Speaker 1: All Right, So what we're gonna do is we're gonna
Speaker 1: focus on a couple of spotlight games right after this.
Speaker 1: Then obviously we're gonna give you our flagship segment where
Speaker 1: we do our game flow geniuses are diamonds and our
Speaker 1: fool gazes. But when we come back here on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, Rocks and
Speaker 1: Speeds are gonna focus in on those spotlight games in
Speaker 1: week sixteen. Help you win your championship. We are dropping
Speaker 1: stats over beats. It's the Fantasy Freestyle. When the Fantasy
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Speaker 1: it is, the Fantasy Freestyle and Fantasy Sports Radio Network.
Speaker 1: It's your boy, Rocks, young fists full of rings. We
Speaker 1: want man Speeds, the spit and statistician. That is a mouthful,
Speaker 1: and we've got a mouthful of ideas about a couple
Speaker 1: of games we're gonna break down for you in week sixteen.
Speaker 1: You know, the first one I want to talk about
Speaker 1: is this Seattle Seahawks verse Arizona Cardinals game. You know,
Speaker 1: this was one when I looked at the schedule early
Speaker 1: in the year, I was like, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: an incredible football game. Arizona didn't really hold up their
Speaker 1: end of the bargain on this one, but one player
Speaker 1: on Arizona that has is David Johnson. David Johnson is
Speaker 1: having one of those Marshall Falk seasons for the ages.
Speaker 1: He's basically proven to be matchup proof, but speeds at
Speaker 1: on fan duel against that Seattle Seahawks defense at home.
Speaker 1: Can we play him? I mean you can, but I
Speaker 1: think there's probably better options. You know, you have to
Speaker 1: have David Johnson at that crazy high price, because, like
Speaker 1: you said, he's basically putting in like Priest Holmes kind
Speaker 1: of work on a weekly basis. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I fade, I fade anybody against the Seattle defense. The
Speaker 1: Seattle defense is second in the NFL, giving up only
Speaker 1: sixteen point eight points per game. And don't forget the
Speaker 1: last time these two teams played Rocks it was a
Speaker 1: six six tie on Sunday Night Football. Um, there was
Speaker 1: not one of the exactly and that was in Arizona.
Speaker 1: This time it's in Seattle. So you gotta figure Seattle
Speaker 1: is even better, right because they have one of the
Speaker 1: best home field advantages in the NFL. So of course
Speaker 1: I like David Johnson, but I think you can get
Speaker 1: better value in DFS this week. Yeah, I agree with
Speaker 1: you there. I would also say, um, coming on late
Speaker 1: as he did last year, Tyler Lockett is starting to
Speaker 1: get more and more involved in the offense. You know,
Speaker 1: he was someone that was being talked about as a
Speaker 1: possible wide receiver to uh. This season did not really
Speaker 1: happen for him. But I would just say, if you're
Speaker 1: in a keeper league and somehow he has been dropped
Speaker 1: and you've got spaced, pick him up and stash him.
Speaker 1: I still think big things are coming for Tyler Lockett. Also,
Speaker 1: one more player I want to talk about real quick
Speaker 1: in this one is Carson Palmer. Carson Palmer had basically
Speaker 1: been left for dead about three or four weeks ago.
Speaker 1: He has played a lot better lately. Um. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was just overcoming that horrible playoff meltdown.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there was still some injury concerns.
Speaker 1: He's an older man. But I really think that Carson
Speaker 1: Palmer now has a decent chance to be back next
Speaker 1: year as the quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals, which about
Speaker 1: five or six weeks ago would have seemed completely far
Speaker 1: fetched and unrealistic. What do you think about that, Speeds Rocks.
Speaker 1: I hear you, and I know you know you love
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer, second only to Julian Edelman, but at Seattle
Speaker 1: you ride with Carson Palmer. I know he put up
Speaker 1: three hundred and eighteen yards last week, two touchdowns, no
Speaker 1: in deceptions, keeping up with Drew Brees shootout, but on
Speaker 1: the road at Seattle against the Legion of Booms, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not riding with him this week. I'm just tipping
Speaker 1: my cap to a player that we had leaved out.
Speaker 1: So maybe he's not on that QB carousel that we
Speaker 1: were talking about a little bit earlier on in this show.
Speaker 1: You're also right, I like Tyler Locket. He had a
Speaker 1: great week last week, seven catches, a hundred thirty yards
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. He could get into the end zone
Speaker 1: again as defenses start to try to focus on Doug
Speaker 1: Baldwin and the Reverend Jimmy Graham. Ay Rocks wasn't at
Speaker 1: the Spotlight game. We're going to week sixteen. We gotta
Speaker 1: get people their championships. You know, one quarterback that we
Speaker 1: talked about all season long, Bus seventy two million dollar
Speaker 1: bus brock Oswidler, if that's your real name, has finally
Speaker 1: been benched for Tom Savage, who has a much, much,
Speaker 1: much cooler name and also by all accounts, looked like
Speaker 1: a better quarterback last week, And I mean, it's really
Speaker 1: not that's not a tough hurdle to climb to the
Speaker 1: tough par to clear. But what I will say is
Speaker 1: that Cincinnati's defense has been actually playing a lot better
Speaker 1: of late. So I don't know if I would go
Speaker 1: ahead and actually take the leap of faith to start
Speaker 1: Tom Savage in DFS. I do think, and you talked
Speaker 1: about this a little bit earlier. I said, this is
Speaker 1: a really really good thing for DeAndre Hopkins, who finally
Speaker 1: has someone who can throw the ball downfield, which Oswiler
Speaker 1: has not been able to do. Would you would you
Speaker 1: try d hop out there this week in DFS? And
Speaker 1: how do you like him in a season long? If
Speaker 1: you're the champion? Are you kidding me? I love DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins this week. First of all, when when Savage came
Speaker 1: in last week, DeAndre Hopkins wound up with fifteen targets
Speaker 1: from Tom Savage. That is more than he's had pretty
Speaker 1: much all season. Brock Os Wilder, for some reason, was
Speaker 1: dragging this entire offense down. Remember, DeAndre Hopkins was one
Speaker 1: of the top five wide receivers in the NFL last year.
Speaker 1: With guys like t J Yates throwing them. Savage has
Speaker 1: been in the system, he looked like a proficient NFL quarterback.
Speaker 1: I think you can get a big game out of
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins this week and for only sixty six or
Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred unfan duel, I think that is good value.
Speaker 1: I also like Lamar Miller and this one truth be told,
Speaker 1: this is still a new backup quarterback. The Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 1: are twenty six in the NFL against the run, giving
Speaker 1: up a hundred and seventeen yards a game, and the
Speaker 1: last few games the Texans have been running the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Lamar Miller going back to the
Speaker 1: twenty plus carries that he got at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season, last three games he's had nineteen plus carries.
Speaker 1: I think that can continue. I like Miller in this game,
Speaker 1: has bonus his ankle is okay, and I like DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins in this game as well. Hey rocks On the
Speaker 1: SINC side, though Jeremy Hill may not go, Tyler Eifford
Speaker 1: may not go. Vantes perfect in the protocol and that
Speaker 1: will basically help the entire Houston offense if he's not
Speaker 1: able to go. And also all the players can feel
Speaker 1: a little bit better about their safety if he's on
Speaker 1: the sidelines, because that's a dirty, dirty man. Um. I
Speaker 1: like a j Green. It seems like he is going
Speaker 1: to be healthy. Obviously. The Cincinnati Bengals have nothing to
Speaker 1: play for at this point, so I don't see any
Speaker 1: reason why they would be rushing him back if he
Speaker 1: was not actually ready to go. Um. Seventy four hundred
Speaker 1: is a really really nice price for someone with his upside,
Speaker 1: and I think that um, you know, again, it has
Speaker 1: a lot to do with how you construct your roster,
Speaker 1: but he's looking like he could be easily in the
Speaker 1: wide receiver one conversation for a little bit cheaper than that.
Speaker 1: Only one thing I'd say is this is a Saturday
Speaker 1: night Christmas Eve game, so uh, you know, if you're game,
Speaker 1: um fading the road team on Christmas Eve night having
Speaker 1: to go travel, they're thinking about their families and they
Speaker 1: want to get home to those milk and cookies under
Speaker 1: the under the Christmas tree. Um. Yeah, but that should
Speaker 1: be interesting, you know. And ones are also what kind
Speaker 1: of ratings that game gets, you know, I'd just be curious.
Speaker 1: You think a lot of people are with their families
Speaker 1: are by then they're just looking to watch some you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's real weird that the
Speaker 1: NFL is doing this this week. It's really weird that
Speaker 1: the calendar falls like this for Christmas Day. I think
Speaker 1: that could be a low rated game. Rocks. I know
Speaker 1: you've got one more spotlight game you want to go
Speaker 1: to here in week sixteen where people are winning their championships.
Speaker 1: Let's give them everything they need to win their leagues.
Speaker 1: You know, Rocks, where else you want to go? Give
Speaker 1: me your give me, give me a game you want
Speaker 1: to focus on. Give me a second. I gotta put
Speaker 1: on my hat, my gloves, my scarf. I gotta make
Speaker 1: sure my north faces is zipped up tight. We're gonna
Speaker 1: We're going to Lambo. We're going it is it is.
Speaker 1: It is not gonna be the nice I can't imagine
Speaker 1: this all time Montgomery because he's really proving himself to
Speaker 1: in fact, be a running back and a good one
Speaker 1: at that. Yeah. Man, you know, Minnesota has really collapsed
Speaker 1: a bit on defense after being lights out early in
Speaker 1: the season, and they never got the offense going at all.
Speaker 1: You know, it's hard to not feel a little bit
Speaker 1: like you are chasing the points with time Montgomery last week,
Speaker 1: he was really really cheap on DFS Vikings. The Vikings
Speaker 1: defense is different, you know. Yeah. You know what I
Speaker 1: would say though, is that the Vikings have actually been
Speaker 1: allowing more than a hundred twenty rushing yards a game
Speaker 1: since Week six. Um. You know, also Montgomery has got
Speaker 1: that wide receiver pedigree, so you know he's gonna be
Speaker 1: involved in the passing game. Uh. You know, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: I don't really know. I think that they may be
Speaker 1: relying a little bit more on the running game this week.
Speaker 1: Kind of letting Aaron Rodgers take with the defense gives
Speaker 1: him not throwing at Beauxavier. Bumpy Rows, who you just noted,
Speaker 1: Uh made the Pro Bowl. Typically Pro Bowl, they've always
Speaker 1: falling the breakout cornerback. This is now years in a
Speaker 1: row because your Bumpy road Plow Bowl with the last Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I would just say that, you know you're probably
Speaker 1: going to see Jordy Nelson matching up against him. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna get enough targets that he'll be a
Speaker 1: viable place certainly in season long. You're not gonna sit him.
Speaker 1: I would look elsewhere. However, On DFS seventy eight hundred.
Speaker 1: I think he's pretty expensive. What do you got going
Speaker 1: on in this row? What do you obviously you know
Speaker 1: on the shout out bumpy roads. But listen, I think
Speaker 1: it's all the time. We tip our capital to um
Speaker 1: Nan who is also been great sud be in the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl myself at the age of thirty eight until
Speaker 1: seventy three seasons. So that's a name needs you know
Speaker 1: you're talking about ropes on Nelson. You know the bunty
Speaker 1: Adams has also been up in the oun But I
Speaker 1: saw him with a horrible drop and I don't know
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be like the Terence Newman on him.
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a lower scoring game in
Speaker 1: the Prosen tundra of Lambeau fielding. While Davonte Adams dropped
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Speaker 1: This is your boys Fees the spitting statistician, and you
Speaker 1: know we just covered some of those games that you
Speaker 1: need to look at in week sixteen. But now it
Speaker 1: is time for our flag shift segment. If you've been
Speaker 1: listening to the shot call is whether it's been on
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Sports Radio Network, back on that Potomatic or
Speaker 1: on our Google Play, on our on our stitcher, on
Speaker 1: the audio boom. You know that we do our game
Speaker 1: flow geniuses, We go our diamonds in the rough and
Speaker 1: we do our fantasy Forget about this week though, Rocks. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of interesting matchups where I
Speaker 1: think the game flow is really going to dictate how
Speaker 1: it goes. So let's start it off with our game
Speaker 1: flow geniuses this week, Rocks. When you got is your
Speaker 1: first game flow genius? Yo? I really like the way
Speaker 1: things are setting up this week for Rob Kelly, running
Speaker 1: back on the Washington football game playing against the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears fifty eight hundred on the fan duel. Kelly also
Speaker 1: near and dear to me as fellow alumni of Two
Speaker 1: Lane University, Roll Wave Baby. Last week, Kelly left a
Speaker 1: little bit of a mess in the bed. He only
Speaker 1: had eight yards. He only had eight yards against Panthers.
Speaker 1: He did score a touchdown, and he also, which was
Speaker 1: really really interesting, was more involved in the passing game
Speaker 1: than he has been all season. Obviously, it was the
Speaker 1: worst rushing performance all year, but he's actually been a
Speaker 1: bit of a disappointment last couple of weeks. However, in
Speaker 1: this one, Washington is a favorite. There about a three
Speaker 1: and a half to four point favorite, depending on when
Speaker 1: the which lines you're looking at against the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Chicago just got destroyed by Time Montgomery, Time Montgomer. He
Speaker 1: owns some souls on that Chicago Bears defense right now.
Speaker 1: I've seen the title deed in his twitter's um. You
Speaker 1: know the Bears seven run defense in d v O A.
Speaker 1: They are also twenty eight and fantasy points allowed to
Speaker 1: running backs. That means they are giving up points. Game
Speaker 1: flow is go to be in Rob Kelly's favor as
Speaker 1: I think the Washington football team plays most of this
Speaker 1: one with a leader at the very least a very
Speaker 1: very very close game. Also in his favor, Bears nose
Speaker 1: tackle Eddie Goldman is out. He's really one of their
Speaker 1: big run stuppers up front. So I think there's gonna
Speaker 1: be lanes for Rob Kelly from Tulane University to run
Speaker 1: through and salt that game away in the second half.
Speaker 1: On fan do well, look long and look hard and
Speaker 1: consider plugging him into your lineup as a game flow genius.
Speaker 1: Rob Kelly earning points like WHOA, I like that called
Speaker 1: rosso I'm giving my game flow genius is a little
Speaker 1: bit different this week in Week sixteen, what I want
Speaker 1: to try and do is set the stage. You know, Rocks,
Speaker 1: what we do, we do not give owners fish. We
Speaker 1: teach them how to how to fish. That's right. And
Speaker 1: so here I like, um what I'll call elements of
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions passing attack. And here is why they're
Speaker 1: up on Monday night football in Dallas against the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And the Cowboys have been really, really staunched this year
Speaker 1: against the run. The Cowboys are actually number one in
Speaker 1: the NFL against the run, giving up less than ninety
Speaker 1: yards a game. But here's the catch there in the
Speaker 1: league against the past, and like I said, these there's
Speaker 1: a couple of games this week where the gameflow really
Speaker 1: matches up kind of like strength verse strength and weakness
Speaker 1: verse weakness. And this is one of those games. I
Speaker 1: told you the Cowboys are really really strong against the run.
Speaker 1: Good thing because the Detroit Lions are not trying to
Speaker 1: run the ball, as you know that Jim Bob Couder offense.
Speaker 1: They do not care. They's a passing place I've seen
Speaker 1: they don't have to really have. They don't really have
Speaker 1: a between the tackles back. Um. You know, Washington was
Speaker 1: filling in for Theoretic last week against the Giants. He
Speaker 1: did not look good, got only thirty one yards on
Speaker 1: the ground. I think that theo ritic is coming back
Speaker 1: this week, and I think that he is the only
Speaker 1: kind of dual threat they have out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: I think he can do work in the running game
Speaker 1: they give him carries. He's also, as you know, an
Speaker 1: incredible beast out of the backfield. Led the NFL in
Speaker 1: receptions for a running back last year with eighty receptions
Speaker 1: and this week he's doing it again. Although he has
Speaker 1: missed a couple of games, missed the last two weeks
Speaker 1: with a risk injury. I think he's back this week
Speaker 1: and I think this game flow looks great for back
Speaker 1: out of the backfield against the against the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I also think that Golden Tape has started to claim
Speaker 1: himself as the number one pass catching options for the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. Remember earlier in the year, Rocks, when it
Speaker 1: was like Marvin Jones and we even had a mail
Speaker 1: bad question about should I keep Marvin Jones or Odell Beckham?
Speaker 1: Can you believe that was actually a male bad question
Speaker 1: for us? After weeks three or four of the season,
Speaker 1: My how times have changed. It is Golden Tape now,
Speaker 1: and I like Riddick and Tape as elements of the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions passing offense that are going to be my
Speaker 1: game flow genius because, as you say, the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: are gonna slow it down, try and run the ball
Speaker 1: with Zeke Elliott time of possession and Matt Stafford is
Speaker 1: going to try and boom real quick throw the ball
Speaker 1: to move down the field against the twenty eight ranked
Speaker 1: past defense of the Dallas Cowboys. For elements of the
Speaker 1: Lions passing game on my game flow genius for week sixteen.
Speaker 1: What got Rocks My second and final game flow genius
Speaker 1: this week is A Marie Cooper Marie Cooper seventy two hundred.
Speaker 1: He's playing against the Colts. The Colts they've got a
Speaker 1: bad defense and they've got a good offense. The Raiders
Speaker 1: have got a bad defense and a good offense. We
Speaker 1: are going to see some points in this one. A
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper has been a bit of a tease this year.
Speaker 1: He's put up good numbers, but he's really been someone
Speaker 1: who's been very very close a lot of times to
Speaker 1: blow up games, not quite getting there. The last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks he's really really not played that great. In fact,
Speaker 1: he hasn't topped sixty yards since Week nine. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: think that this is gonna be a game where the
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders are gonna be throwing the lot. You see
Speaker 1: Derek Carr having trouble under center with that dislocated finger,
Speaker 1: He's gonna be back in the shotgun. I also the
Speaker 1: Ravens o ce Bill Musgrave had said, basically, we need
Speaker 1: to get a Marii Cooper more involved. I think that
Speaker 1: that's always a great sign. You know, he is a
Speaker 1: great talent. I really think that if he gets some
Speaker 1: targets forced to him, forget about a piece. He is
Speaker 1: absolutely electric when the ball is in his hands. He
Speaker 1: can make things happen. And I think this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a back and forth pinball match. Oakland is gonna
Speaker 1: be throwing all game, and I think that sets up
Speaker 1: well for him as far as the game flow is concerned.
Speaker 1: And you know, the talent is there seventy two on
Speaker 1: fan duel. I really really like that price for someone
Speaker 1: who has a decent chance to finish as a top
Speaker 1: eight wide receiver this week, no doubt, no doubt. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you one thing about that call. You know,
Speaker 1: I do think him are Cooper is do? He hasn't
Speaker 1: gone over six catches or six yards anything like that
Speaker 1: in about since like week eight or nine. As you
Speaker 1: pointed out, however, Michael Crabtree has been pulling up the
Speaker 1: slack right, and if you have those FanDuel prices up,
Speaker 1: you would see that a Marie Cooper is still something
Speaker 1: like six seven more than Michael Crabtree. Who do you
Speaker 1: think actually returns more value this week? Because Crabtree has
Speaker 1: been getting ten plus targets in a number of games recently, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, and again, it really has to do a
Speaker 1: lot with how you structure your lineup. I like Crabtree,
Speaker 1: he is he's been a great floor play all season.
Speaker 1: But if you're looking for a home run in Week sixteen,
Speaker 1: you're looking for someone in a tournament play, especially who
Speaker 1: has a real opportunity to put up splash numbers. I
Speaker 1: think that's a Marie Cooper. However, I do love if
Speaker 1: you've got those guys elsewhere um in your lineup and
Speaker 1: you and you feel confident in your upside. I think
Speaker 1: that you've gotta have guys like Michael Crabtree. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been high on them all season, like Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: who provide, like Jarvis Landry, who provide you you knew
Speaker 1: I wasn't. We're gonna get Julian Edelmans. You're Jim Bob Cooder. Hey,
Speaker 1: I got the checks, keep the check the checks keep clearing,
Speaker 1: like a lot of payments over here from Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1: I do I do like I do like those guys
Speaker 1: as as as Flora places, as they really helped round
Speaker 1: out a lineup, particularly if you're someone who plays fifty
Speaker 1: fifties or double ups. You've gotta have some guys like that,
Speaker 1: because every once in a while, those big home run hitters,
Speaker 1: you swing and miss on them, whereas guys like Michael
Speaker 1: Crabtree consistent and they'll they'll add those points. Um, you
Speaker 1: got one more situations. I like how you say it's situation.
Speaker 1: I am a genius and this is the situation that
Speaker 1: I have found. Another game that I think is very,
Speaker 1: very interesting is Christmas Night. Christmas Night, after you finish,
Speaker 1: you know, opening the presents and eating the food you
Speaker 1: got the Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs. Now,
Speaker 1: let me set this stage for you. Um, there have
Speaker 1: been multiple teams this year that have proven that the
Speaker 1: way to beat the Denver Broncos is to ground and
Speaker 1: town right. You saw earlier in the season the Oakland
Speaker 1: Raiders did that by even lining up six offensive linemen.
Speaker 1: Last week you saw the New England Patriots do that
Speaker 1: against the Denver Broncos with Dion Lewis getting eighteen carries.
Speaker 1: Of all people, I think here's the thing. The teams
Speaker 1: that know the Broncos and know how to beat them
Speaker 1: know that the way to beat them is by trying
Speaker 1: to run the ball. The Kansas City Chiefs in that division,
Speaker 1: in that game at home at night in Arrowhead, they
Speaker 1: are going to try to run the ball. As we know,
Speaker 1: the Denver defense is incredible via the past, right, they
Speaker 1: stopped the pass very good. Once again, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: because Alex Smith and the Kansas City Chiefs are not
Speaker 1: trying to beat anybody by the past, and we've seen
Speaker 1: that these guys, they try to run down their throat.
Speaker 1: That is what the Kansas City Chiefs I think are
Speaker 1: built to do. They're built a whole onto the ball
Speaker 1: to be creative in the running game. You see them
Speaker 1: running um wildcats snaps with Spencer Wear and Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: and Shark Andrick Western the backfield. I think these are
Speaker 1: the kinds of things they are going to do to
Speaker 1: try to win this game against Denver on Sunday night.
Speaker 1: So for that, I think there are two people to
Speaker 1: look at. I think Spencer Ware has a bounce back effort. Okay,
Speaker 1: he really popped in the middle of the season, had
Speaker 1: a little bit of a slump, but is starting to
Speaker 1: come on back. Had seventy yards on eighteen carries. Also
Speaker 1: another twenty five yards through the air last week in
Speaker 1: that game against Tennessee. I think he's gonna get a
Speaker 1: ton of carries as they try to punch the Denver
Speaker 1: Broncos in the mouth. And obviously the other guy. I
Speaker 1: want to shout out as someone who is growing on
Speaker 1: my list and mentions here on the Fantasy Freestyle and
Speaker 1: that's my boy, Tyreek Hill. Not a fluke. Not a fluke.
Speaker 1: You saw a Tyreek Hill can do out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: They had that stacked full house backfield. You thought you're
Speaker 1: running one way, You run a count with Tyree Hill,
Speaker 1: and when he has open space in front of him,
Speaker 1: he's gone, Okay. You saw last week sixties six yard
Speaker 1: rutching touchdown. That was actually the bulk of his production,
Speaker 1: all of it. You could always get a return touchdown
Speaker 1: with Tyreek Hill as well. He just got nominated or
Speaker 1: named for the Pro Bowl as the return man for
Speaker 1: the a f C. So shout out to Tyree Hill.
Speaker 1: The other thing Tyree Hill did with old knee down
Speaker 1: Rocks in our latest Gentleman's Bet for Week fifteen. You
Speaker 1: want to tell the people how that went? Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we were um as is my usual. As is my usual,
Speaker 1: I was spotlighting Julian Edelman comparably priced with Tyree Hill.
Speaker 1: I thought, Julian Edelman, actually it's interesting and we all
Speaker 1: come full circle here playing against that ridiculously tough Denver
Speaker 1: Broncos defense shutting down the past. However, I thought correctly
Speaker 1: that he was going to see a ridiculous number of
Speaker 1: targets for his price. He actually wanned up seeing twelve
Speaker 1: targets for sixty four hundred. However, we were doing fan
Speaker 1: duel scoring that point EPR and therefore, as a result
Speaker 1: of that one touch that Tyreek Hill got, and how's
Speaker 1: did it? You edged me out on the fan duel scoring,
Speaker 1: so yo, accountability is accountability. This is what it means
Speaker 1: to be accountable. That one goes in your column, another
Speaker 1: one for space Speeds column, and that just shows the
Speaker 1: explosiveness of Tyreek Hill. It really only takes one touch
Speaker 1: with him and he could get to twelve points out
Speaker 1: of nowhere. But Rocks, let's keep it moving. We did
Speaker 1: our game flow geniuses. I know you want to kind
Speaker 1: of dovetail into one of our full gazees. Well we
Speaker 1: forget about in light of this. Yeah, we're gonna forget
Speaker 1: about again talking about that Denver Broncos past defense. We're
Speaker 1: gonna forget about Jeremy Macklin sweek. Jeremy Macklin came back
Speaker 1: to the Kansas City Chiefs after injury, and basically he
Speaker 1: immediately became their wide receiver one again. And the issue
Speaker 1: here for Tyreek Hill is that he only saw three
Speaker 1: targets in that game. However, he's a guy who's proven
Speaker 1: he can make his targets count and also he's active
Speaker 1: in the passing game. However, no wide receivers, particularly not
Speaker 1: outside wide receivers, are really doing damage at all against
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos. And I understand a temptation to start
Speaker 1: Macklean as your wide receiver three if you've held onto
Speaker 1: him this long. He looked good last week, legitimately good
Speaker 1: and healthy. He led the Chiefs and targets. He had
Speaker 1: six catches for eighty two yards. He's also playing almost
Speaker 1: of the snaps that will probably go up again this week.
Speaker 1: So the opportunities in theory are going to be there.
Speaker 1: But no Denver closes that door. Number one and past
Speaker 1: defense d v o A, they've allowed the fewest catches,
Speaker 1: the fewest yards, the fewest touchdowns, and the fewest fantasy
Speaker 1: points to wide receivers this season. The only pass catcher
Speaker 1: on that Kansas City Chief team I would even consider
Speaker 1: is Travis Kelsey. But even him, the price is a
Speaker 1: little too rich for my blood. So I'm saying this week,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Macklin, foo gaz It looks like a nice price,
Speaker 1: but it's forget about him. Forget about it, Rocks. I
Speaker 1: got another guy that they need to forget about in
Speaker 1: week sixteen. And this is a guy who has been
Speaker 1: pretty good lately entering the RB one conversation, but I
Speaker 1: don't think this is the week for him. I'm going
Speaker 1: down to Carolina and Jonathan Stewart is my fool gazzy
Speaker 1: four Week sixteen. Let me tell you something. Last week,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Stewart was the best part of that offense on
Speaker 1: Monday Night against the Washington football team, went for five
Speaker 1: carries for a hundred and thirty two yards. But he's
Speaker 1: foul gazy for me. And here's why it goes back
Speaker 1: we're teaching people how to fish, Rocks. It goes to
Speaker 1: the game flows. This week they have the Atlanta Falcons
Speaker 1: coming in. The Atlanta Falcons that are number one in
Speaker 1: the NFL, scoring thirty three and a half points per game.
Speaker 1: And guess what that Carolina Panthers defense. They are thirty
Speaker 1: second last time I check. That's last in the NFL
Speaker 1: against the past. To me, what that means is Maddie
Speaker 1: Ryan is a great DFS play. Julio Jones, who's returning,
Speaker 1: is gonna get able to eat off that young secondary.
Speaker 1: What it also means to me is that the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers will not be running the ball twenty five times
Speaker 1: with Jonathan Stewart there. Cam is gonna have to throw
Speaker 1: the ball to Olsen and Teddy Gain and Devin Fungis
Speaker 1: and Calvin Benjamin. I think we may see a little
Speaker 1: bit more of people like Fozzy Whittaker on the field
Speaker 1: instead of Waka Waka Waka, instead of Jonathan Stewart. I
Speaker 1: do not think Jonathan Stewart is gonna be grinding out
Speaker 1: any clothing. I do not think Jonathan Stewart is gonna
Speaker 1: get the touch as the Panthers are gonna have to
Speaker 1: trust Cam and take to the air to keep up
Speaker 1: with m VP candidate Matt Ryan and the number one
Speaker 1: offense in the NFL, the Atlanta Falcons. So because of
Speaker 1: those game floor reasons, I think Jonathan Stewart this week
Speaker 1: is a fool gazzey forget about him. Yeah, I like
Speaker 1: that called Jonathan Stewart also, uh not normally someone who's
Speaker 1: heavily involved in the passing game. So again, like you said,
Speaker 1: the game flow really dictates a lot of that um
Speaker 1: my fool gazzy, my second fool gay zy and this
Speaker 1: one man hit a little close to home because it's
Speaker 1: on that Jim Bob Cooter offense. I agree with what
Speaker 1: you said about theo Ritic and Golden Tate as game
Speaker 1: flow plays. Also because both of them generally catching short passes,
Speaker 1: which are great for fantasy purposes not as great for
Speaker 1: real life purposes, make it hard for that quarterback to
Speaker 1: accumulate points. Maddie Stafford Matthew Stafford seventy dollars on fan duel.
Speaker 1: That's way too rich for my blood. You know, he's
Speaker 1: got the hand thing going on. He's a tough guy.
Speaker 1: He's gonna keep playing. But in a game that has
Speaker 1: a forty three point over on the which is one
Speaker 1: of the lowest in the week, I do not like it. Also,
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys are so slow and deliberate and effective,
Speaker 1: but that offense runs at a glacial pace. Also, you've
Speaker 1: really seen a lot of Jim Bob Cootter slowing down
Speaker 1: the pace for the Detroit Lions offense, trying to keep
Speaker 1: that defense off the field, which has actually been a
Speaker 1: winning formula for them, I mean exactly. And Dallas. You know,
Speaker 1: Dallas is better against the run, as you said, than
Speaker 1: the past. However, they've been pretty effective shutting down opposing quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: They've actually only allowed four quarterbacks to finish in the
Speaker 1: top twelve all year. And Stafford really up late has
Speaker 1: not shown a very very high ceiling. He only has
Speaker 1: two multi touchdown past games over his last eight and
Speaker 1: he's only put up more than two seventy five yards
Speaker 1: once during those last eight weeks. Basically, I think so
Speaker 1: many better options, and I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are actually gonna go to Stafford this week because that
Speaker 1: game is being played indoors, and this is the time
Speaker 1: of year when a lot of people, rightly in dfs
Speaker 1: seek the safety of weather and temperature controlled environments. It's
Speaker 1: a trap, It's a fool gay zey. Forget about him.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be pawning Matt Stafford in in downtown Arlington,
Speaker 1: Texas after this one forget about him Der Rocks talking
Speaker 1: about the trap games out there. I got one more
Speaker 1: food gaze. I want to get into real quick and Rocks,
Speaker 1: because we're running out of time here. We gotta give
Speaker 1: people diamonds as well, So Real Quick maya. My second
Speaker 1: fool Gayzy this week is gonna actually be New England
Speaker 1: Patriots running back Dion Lewis. I told you what the
Speaker 1: Patriots did last week against the Denver Broncos. Because the
Speaker 1: formula to beat the Denver Broncos defenses run the ball
Speaker 1: Dion Lewis. Out of those looking like a past formation,
Speaker 1: they gave Dion Lewis eighteen carries and he delivered for
Speaker 1: ninety five yards. That's not the way you beat the Jets, Okay,
Speaker 1: The way you beat the Jets kids through that past defense.
Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. The Patriots are going to
Speaker 1: be on the New York Jets in the second half,
Speaker 1: and I think what the Patriots are gonna kind of do,
Speaker 1: because you know Bill Belichick and the Patriots, they go
Speaker 1: into fu mode. Sometimes you've talked about angry Tom Brady
Speaker 1: all season long. You may have heard me say Rocks
Speaker 1: on shot callers on the Fantasy Sports radio network. I
Speaker 1: had a pole about who were the biggest Pro Bowl snubs.
Speaker 1: We talked about Matthew Stafford. Uh, he was your food gazy.
Speaker 1: This week I referenced Drew Brees, who did not make
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. The other nominee that I had there
Speaker 1: was our boy, le Garrett Blunt. Yes, LGBT rights were
Speaker 1: not honored in the Pro Bowl voting. Okay, um, Legarrett
Speaker 1: Blunt has fifteen rushing touchdowns and I think he's going
Speaker 1: to get some more. He's gonna be the guy running
Speaker 1: the ball. I think Belichick is gonna let Blunt make
Speaker 1: a statement against the New York Jets. And that means
Speaker 1: they don't rule Dion Lewis this week. I don't. I
Speaker 1: know it's fancy. And if you know that Dion Lewis
Speaker 1: is a guy who catches the ball out of the
Speaker 1: backfield and you see him get eighteen carries, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the Shangri law, this is it must be
Speaker 1: my lucky day. I'm telling you, I'm like Don the
Speaker 1: jeweler on Mulberry Street. I look a little closer and
Speaker 1: I say that Dion Lewis Week six seen forgot about him? Rocks.
Speaker 1: How fake but YO, can't just be all trip. You know,
Speaker 1: we gotta we gotta lips for you. Gotta give me
Speaker 1: a diamond real quick. Bro's vintage Alpaccino looking something like
Speaker 1: my father and that one shout you pops. Um My.
Speaker 1: My first diamonds is a quarterback that I prefer to
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford. That's Ben Roethlisberger, same price. You know what
Speaker 1: it is, Big Ben at home is money in the bank.
Speaker 1: It feels like stealing at that price. His home road
Speaker 1: splits ridiculous, three hundred twenty five yards a game, seventeen
Speaker 1: to three touchdown to interception ratio. In five home games,
Speaker 1: he scored at least twenty Fantasy points in every one
Speaker 1: of them, and he's top thirty and three of them.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And yeah, I understand Baltimore has a
Speaker 1: good past defense there six in d v o A,
Speaker 1: but they've been getting gashed lately since Jimmy Smith suffered
Speaker 1: that ankle injury, and I think that they're not nearly
Speaker 1: as scary in this matchup. Yo, it's gonna be on
Speaker 1: Christmas Day. Trust me, you will have a little bit
Speaker 1: of money to maybe buy yourself a diamond. You go
Speaker 1: with my diamond and that's Ben Roethlisberger, big ban on
Speaker 1: Christmas money in the bank, diamonds, diamond cycle over there.
Speaker 1: Pick a diamond, buy some diamonds. That's Rocks, this first
Speaker 1: diamond of the week. I'm gonna give you another pick um.
Speaker 1: I'm sticking at the quarterback position as well. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you take them over Matt Stafford or what
Speaker 1: have you. But uh, and you know, I think actually Rocks.
Speaker 1: You'll mentioned this guy as a diamond before, and I'm
Speaker 1: on the train with you. You know who's actually not
Speaker 1: performing that that Matt Barkley on the Chicago Bears. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me tell you something why I think this is
Speaker 1: a diamond when I look a little bit deeper. They
Speaker 1: are playing the Washington football team. The Washington football team
Speaker 1: is defensive d v O A, and there are twenty
Speaker 1: in the NFL given up to twenty four and a
Speaker 1: half points a game. Matt Barkley in games at home
Speaker 1: have been very good. The one thing is you throw
Speaker 1: out that game when it was completely snowing against the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty Niners. In his other two or three
Speaker 1: home starts, he has gone over three hundred yards both
Speaker 1: times multiple touchdowns both times last week, getting thirty forty
Speaker 1: three completion three hundred and six and two yards. I
Speaker 1: think this is gonna be a game that's a little
Speaker 1: bit back and forth. I think with the return of
Speaker 1: al Sean Jeffrey, they're gonna have someone to throw too.
Speaker 1: I like Matt Barkley has a great value on TFS.
Speaker 1: He's a diamonds in the rough for me, shining bright
Speaker 1: week sixteen. Yeah, I think that that's a that's a
Speaker 1: good call. You know, again, we've talked about this before.
Speaker 1: If you go a little cheaper at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: it frees up money to be spent elsewhere speeds. Um.
Speaker 1: One knock on Matt Barkley is that he's blonde. Do
Speaker 1: you think that that's a real challenge for quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the NFL to stay to succeed despite being blonde? And
Speaker 1: is that what's holding Jared got back? Yeah, they should
Speaker 1: just shave their head. That's actually a great idea. Someone
Speaker 1: pass that. Someone passed that Matt Barkley. Um my second diamond.
Speaker 1: Also staying at the quarterback position is young crab legs
Speaker 1: himself and prefer Rothlisberger. But if for whatever reason, you
Speaker 1: maybe like Levian Bell better this week, and you want
Speaker 1: to spread it around. Uh, Jamis against the Saints is
Speaker 1: a nice option for eight thousand. He's really been slumping
Speaker 1: a bit of late, maybe hitting that second year wall.
Speaker 1: But the Saints defense they kept him in check less
Speaker 1: time they played in Week fourteen. I do not think
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to do it again. This
Speaker 1: one is in the Dome. The Saints are better in
Speaker 1: the Dome, and everyone who play the Saints are better
Speaker 1: in the Dome. The Saints are actually averaging. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: letting up an average of thirty points per game in
Speaker 1: the Dome to their opponents. Also, Delvin bro not practicing
Speaker 1: this week, the Saints best cover corner. If he doesn't play,
Speaker 1: it could be a complete blood bath of Mike Evans
Speaker 1: dominating on Joe balls against some of these who's that guy?
Speaker 1: Where did he get signed off the street? Um? So
Speaker 1: I really like Jami's eight thousands. Keep it moving, keep
Speaker 1: it moving. He's a diamond. Let him shine, no doubt,
Speaker 1: no doubt here the last diamond for Week sixteen. And listen, Rocks,
Speaker 1: I have been I have been uh fading this guy
Speaker 1: all seasons long, but today this week is the the
Speaker 1: best possible matchup he can get, and I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley on the Los Angeles Rams. Listen. I know
Speaker 1: people put fifty three men in the box against him,
Speaker 1: but he is at home against the historically bad San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine run defense. This is the best possible matchup,
Speaker 1: and I think this is the only chance the Rams
Speaker 1: are gonna be to actually be up in a game
Speaker 1: and be able to utilize Todd Gurley because the San
Speaker 1: Francisco for mar in essence trying to lose games. So
Speaker 1: I know that you have not been able to run
Speaker 1: out Todd Gurley, but this is the week he can
Speaker 1: be unshackled like Trump after the r n c UM
Speaker 1: and you can actually run out Todd Gurley this week.
Speaker 1: I think he's a good value. He is a diamond
Speaker 1: in the rough four week sixteen. So there, you haven't
Speaker 1: Rocks and Speeds dropping stats overbeats. Let Rocks and Speeds
Speaker 1: be one of the first to wish you a merry
Speaker 1: Christmas if that's what you're doing this weekend. We know
Speaker 1: a lot of people are traveling, but hopefully you set
Speaker 1: your lineups and you are ready to go to win
Speaker 1: some championships, win your league truly and win that cast.
Speaker 1: Rocks and Speeds give you everything you need on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Freestyle on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You want
Speaker 1: to wish the people happy holidays as we get out
Speaker 1: of here. Rocks, Yeah, man, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Kwanza,
Speaker 1: whatever you celebrate. UM just want to say, be safe,
Speaker 1: enjoy the games, and we'll see you again soon. We'll
Speaker 1: see him. We'll see him for weeks seventeen because we're
Speaker 1: holding him down. I want winners. I want people that
Speaker 1: want to win. Cannot play with him, cannot win with him,
Speaker 1: cannot coach with him, can't do it.