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Speaker 1: just a few moments, Frankie, what's happening man Reggae? Happy
Speaker 1: hump day to you, Bud. Lots to talk about getting
Speaker 1: a lot of news here. Teams opening up their practices
Speaker 1: for the weeks, so we're getting a lot of relevant
Speaker 1: injury information before we do that. Hid you sleep last night, buddy?
Speaker 1: It felt so good. It's good to sleep and not
Speaker 1: be hungover when you woke up. It was a fantastic feeling.
Speaker 1: I did wind up taking more Adeville when I got home.
Speaker 1: Um it was I bought Thailand all for the office yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't know, not even the longest hangover I've ever
Speaker 1: had in my life. I mean, they only get worse, healer,
Speaker 1: you get, that's the problem. I guess I haven't drank
Speaker 1: that well, I haven't drank that much being that old,
Speaker 1: and we've been old for a long time. Well, yesterday
Speaker 1: was older than I ever before. I hear that marriage
Speaker 1: ages you Greg, maybe it did, but it was bad, man.
Speaker 1: I did not get right until I woke up this morning.
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, this is awesome. Yeah. Likewise, man,
Speaker 1: it was a rough day yesterday, trying to get through it.
Speaker 1: But again, lots of fun on Monday night for the
Speaker 1: holiday party. But now we are well rested and we
Speaker 1: are good to go. Here on a hump. Take one
Speaker 1: thing I was able to do last night, Frank, was late?
Speaker 1: Was I I watched check out raw mat e y
Speaker 1: Like that wasn't some two minutes like you were legit
Speaker 1: on the show on Monday night. Yeah, yeah, I kind
Speaker 1: of made a little bit of an appearance there, me
Speaker 1: and Andrade going one on one in my hometown. Uh,
Speaker 1: that changed during the day. So it was it was fun.
Speaker 1: It was fun to be in there. It's a it's
Speaker 1: always cool when I get a chance to perform, and
Speaker 1: especially in my hometown. So it was, it was, it was.
Speaker 1: It was a good experience. That was awesome. It was
Speaker 1: it was fun to watch and I was like, I
Speaker 1: was really into it. It was cool. So that was
Speaker 1: really awesome to see. And of course be able to
Speaker 1: talk to you again here with a clearheaded mind is
Speaker 1: also fantastic to see. Let me get into some news
Speaker 1: and notes. We're gonna the whole hodgepodge of stuff today.
Speaker 1: We have some strategy conversations. We're gonna get to some
Speaker 1: strategy conversations, but we're like overall league rule type of things. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to that. Um, we're got the news
Speaker 1: and notes. Like I said, we'll hit on what's going
Speaker 1: on in Carolina. I want to start with my hometown team, Frankie.
Speaker 1: That's the New York Giants, where what back, what's old
Speaker 1: is new? Again Danny Dimes hurts the ankle, which means
Speaker 1: the final times in New York Giant, Eli Manning is back. Baby,
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go Eli Manning. Yeah, just in time
Speaker 1: for a divisional matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles. An Eagle
Speaker 1: secondary that got destroyed last week against Ryan Fitzpatrick as well,
Speaker 1: but over the past couple of weeks before that, they
Speaker 1: were actually playing really well. It'll be interesting to see,
Speaker 1: you know, how this affects everything from a betting perspective.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the line is going to change. The Eagles
Speaker 1: were already eight and a half point favorites in that game.
Speaker 1: I looked into the target shares from earlier on in
Speaker 1: the season Greg where Eli Manning did start for the
Speaker 1: first two games for the Giants, and that was without
Speaker 1: Golden Tate. We saw Evan Ingram in those two games,
Speaker 1: Greg with a twenty four percent target share, Benny Fowler
Speaker 1: with a sixteen percent target share, Say Kwan Barkley third
Speaker 1: on the team with a fourteen percent target share. Stilling
Speaker 1: Shepherd only played in Week one. If I had to say,
Speaker 1: you know, how does this affect their offense? I would
Speaker 1: imagine more checkdowns, more dump offs, for Sae Kwon Barkley.
Speaker 1: So someone tweeting earlier today we're back to fourteen receptions
Speaker 1: for fifty yards for se Kwan, which if you're playing
Speaker 1: the PPR League, I'm sure that that is welcomed. But
Speaker 1: we also got a report earlier today that Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: should be good to go, and I think based on
Speaker 1: the targets here he had in those first two games
Speaker 1: with Eli Manning, Evan Ingram will make for another really
Speaker 1: good play in week fourteen. Alrighty, Evan Ingram, if he's back, well,
Speaker 1: we're putting your a lot of gold and should be
Speaker 1: back for the Giants. We'll see how Eli Manning manages
Speaker 1: to utilize these weapons. And e y you pulped for
Speaker 1: the Eli Manning swan song, I think pomp would probably
Speaker 1: not be the right word for it. Um. For me,
Speaker 1: what just comes down to for the Giants is se
Speaker 1: Kwan Barkley has been a massive disappointment. This is his
Speaker 1: second year UM lit the league on fire last year,
Speaker 1: was pretty much the consensus number one pick this year.
Speaker 1: Uh And I was reading a thing yesterday that David
Speaker 1: Johnson actually has more top ten finishes this year than
Speaker 1: say Kwan Barkley. David Johnson has barely played uh and
Speaker 1: Sagan Barkley. Yeah, I know he was hurt there for
Speaker 1: a bit um, but he came back and was supposed
Speaker 1: to be back up to speed and he just hasn't
Speaker 1: been the running back that everyone thought he was getting.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Eli Manning is going to help.
Speaker 1: So there you have it. He's definitely not going to
Speaker 1: help him from a rushing perspective, that's exactly right, e y.
Speaker 1: And look just in terms of getting them down the
Speaker 1: field to present scoring opportunities for se Kuan, probably not
Speaker 1: going to help him there either. But we have seen
Speaker 1: that whenever Eli is still back their quarterbacking for the
Speaker 1: New York Giants, Greg all he does is checkdown, checkdown,
Speaker 1: check down, Same thing with Joe Flacco when he was
Speaker 1: starting for the Broncos. So I think this helps the
Speaker 1: target share for se Kwan Barkley, It'll help the receptions,
Speaker 1: but ultimately does not help his rushing efficiency, does not
Speaker 1: help his ability to score touch since all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: probably not. We saw the Giants with Eli Manning or
Speaker 1: speaking of touchdown, Sakwe has not scored since Week eight,
Speaker 1: and it is bad. It's not good Marklyn What does
Speaker 1: he goes? He? Where does he go next year? In drafts?
Speaker 1: I saw someone tweeting this out yesterday. Actual might have
Speaker 1: been Davis Maddick shout out to Davi's Maddock Awesome podcast.
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Speaker 1: Patrick Laird, Baby, Patrick Laird was on the Take cast
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Speaker 1: and Pete Overzette of Rhodo Grinders, And they've basically created
Speaker 1: a cult DFS following for Patrick Laird, so that's how
Speaker 1: they were able to get him on the podcast. Again,
Speaker 1: Laird only has like eighteen Twitter followers now with the
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Speaker 1: something to do with that. But yeah, they talk about
Speaker 1: how he got the nicknamed the Intern, so that was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. They just talk about their love
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Speaker 1: So it's fun times in the fantasy industry. That's awesome.
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Speaker 1: Get all the grid. I'm just watching this this peloton
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Speaker 1: of weird and everything. There's a new sexist uproar about this.
Speaker 1: Either of you guys see this? I did not? What
Speaker 1: about you? Uh? No, uh, there's an uproar. I feel
Speaker 1: like every five minute of course. Yeah. So basically this
Speaker 1: is this woman like with doing all those selfy videos
Speaker 1: like wow, alright, I'm a little nervous my first peloton class.
Speaker 1: So we're doing it five days later. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I love it. This is great. And the end of
Speaker 1: the commercial is she's watching the um is since watching
Speaker 1: the commercial on TV and she goes over to her
Speaker 1: boyfriend or husband. I really needed this thank you, And
Speaker 1: it was just like, it's sexist because the man made
Speaker 1: like the man got her, this president of a peloton
Speaker 1: like made her to do this. And I was like,
Speaker 1: people are people are really showing you, Like, all right,
Speaker 1: this guy got his wife a gift, Like that's awesome story.
Speaker 1: It's got him mighty here. What a world. I hope
Speaker 1: we're not considered sexist for for for bringing for bringing
Speaker 1: this up and and choosing to feel the way that
Speaker 1: we do it. We're not sexist. I just I would
Speaker 1: say that we are very far from sexist. I like
Speaker 1: to think so, yeah, bike, but isn't that the way
Speaker 1: that everything is going nowadays? Guys like just in general
Speaker 1: look like there are things that are wrong, for sure,
Speaker 1: like there are things that can an uproar that deserve too,
Speaker 1: but it seems like everybody's just trying to find something
Speaker 1: to be angry about or to cause an uproar about,
Speaker 1: or two, I don't know, just lash out against it.
Speaker 1: It just seems like people are really really reaching at
Speaker 1: this point. It's that's why you know, Look, play fantasy,
Speaker 1: have fun. I don't think we have much controversy here
Speaker 1: do we? Greg well play controversy. You can tell people,
Speaker 1: say Ryan Dannel, you know, I'll tell you again to
Speaker 1: start him this week? The top ten quarterbacks Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: that would be Frank Let's go, Let's go Titans. You
Speaker 1: mentioned during the break like do I know where saying
Speaker 1: on Barkley's been the last since he's been back. He
Speaker 1: returned in weeks seven. So from weeks seven through thirteen,
Speaker 1: where do you think Sae Kwon Barkley ranks at the
Speaker 1: running back position in Fantasy points per game in a
Speaker 1: PPR format, knowing that he had as you reveal tofore break,
Speaker 1: he has not scored since week eight, is not scored
Speaker 1: since week eight and E Y will give you a
Speaker 1: shot to uh guess this as well, or RB fifteen
Speaker 1: and fantasy points for game e y, what would you say?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go, um eight, RB eleven. It wasn't far off,
Speaker 1: but doesn't feel like he's been worse. Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: He's still in RB one since he has returned in
Speaker 1: PPR League. He's catching passes, he's not scoring, he's not
Speaker 1: doing Sa Kwon things, I guess is the way to
Speaker 1: put it. But he's still in RB one. Well that's
Speaker 1: the thing, right, So we're gonna like Sklon Barkley, you're
Speaker 1: underwhelmed by what he's giving her one for sure. The
Speaker 1: same thing about Avin Kamara. Well, sure, another really good?
Speaker 1: Where's he ranking that start? The same time periods here?
Speaker 1: He's hurt during that time too, remember no, but that's
Speaker 1: why fantasy points per game. Okay, so you look that up.
Speaker 1: But the other name that he's RB six. But the
Speaker 1: other name that it really came to mind was Odell Beckham, right,
Speaker 1: because like ode beck has been underwhelming. People don't want
Speaker 1: it anymore. We talked at Benji ode Beckham name on
Speaker 1: him off the back of the jersey, the whole deal.
Speaker 1: But if you look, he's on page for you stiff
Speaker 1: on paste for the eighty catches over a thousand yards,
Speaker 1: a bunch of touchdowns. But it's not like the Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham that you expect when you drafted at the end
Speaker 1: of the first round. So if you want to get
Speaker 1: fanasy points per game in the same time, aread for Odell?
Speaker 1: What do you got? I've already I already exit Outreig
Speaker 1: You kidding me? Were you looking at while I was
Speaker 1: doing from weeks seven through thirteen fantasy points per game?
Speaker 1: Odell Becka, He's gonna be far down the list here.
Speaker 1: You can't like control f Odell? Yeah, but yeah, this
Speaker 1: website's weird. Man, He's RB. He's wide receiver thirty seven
Speaker 1: in fantasy points accumulative fantasy points during that time. What's
Speaker 1: not the question? Though? Well, once you sort it by
Speaker 1: fantasy points per game, it doesn't use the right numbers anymore.
Speaker 1: It's tough. But I mean still, from weeks seven through thirteen,
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham is wide receiver thirty seven in PPR leagues accumulatively,
Speaker 1: are not? I mean seven? What are we doing? Absolutely? Okay?
Speaker 1: Um Ode Beckham saging Barkley notwithstanding, like those are superstars?
Speaker 1: Who Joe is a superstar? He were trying to practice
Speaker 1: limited fashion. I expect he will play on Sunday. But
Speaker 1: before we move on some of the other news and notes,
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure we hit on something that
Speaker 1: you're very passionate Franky. Last night, the waiver wire ran
Speaker 1: for many of us, including the Pit League, where we
Speaker 1: are trying to advance to the next round to play
Speaker 1: Y for the third time. As you can't lose someone
Speaker 1: three times in a row. You'd think, we hope, we hope,
Speaker 1: we hope, But it atally this wasn't an issue. In
Speaker 1: some leagues. You got people of consolation black consolation bracket
Speaker 1: going out of the waiver wire and taking guys like
Speaker 1: oh Man Patrick Laird from us. You have an issue, alright.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give you a nuanced answer here, Greg,
Speaker 1: because you know what else would you expect. I think
Speaker 1: if you play in a league where the consolation bracket
Speaker 1: counts for absolutely nothing, then people should not be able
Speaker 1: to make waiver wire pickups. It just shouldn't be able to.
Speaker 1: But if you play in a league where I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's some kind of money that goes into the pot
Speaker 1: for a consolation bracket or the constellation bracket, means something
Speaker 1: for the next year. So I think in the flex league,
Speaker 1: if you win the consolation bracket, you get to choose
Speaker 1: your draft pick for the next season. And that's how
Speaker 1: we play in my home keeper league, where in order
Speaker 1: to kind of mitigate people fire sailing their whole team
Speaker 1: away at the trade deadline, to offer some kind of
Speaker 1: incentive for continuing to play out the rest of the
Speaker 1: season because it is a keeper league, if you win
Speaker 1: the consolation bracket, you get to choose your draft spot
Speaker 1: the next season. So we are playing for something. And
Speaker 1: in leagues where the constellation bracket counts for or something,
Speaker 1: I have proposed to you Greg that okay, the normal
Speaker 1: waiver run, whether you do it on Tuesday or Wednesday,
Speaker 1: the first waiver run in your league, the people who
Speaker 1: are playing in the playoff bracket have the first go
Speaker 1: at that waiver run. So if you play, if you're
Speaker 1: in the constellation bracket, whether you're playing for something or not,
Speaker 1: you cannot make a waiver wire pickup in the first run. Now,
Speaker 1: when you have the second run normally, whether it's Saturday, Sunday, Friday,
Speaker 1: however you want to do it, that's where everybody can
Speaker 1: be involved. But I think that for the people that
Speaker 1: are still playing in the playoffs that actually matter, that
Speaker 1: are competing for the championship, they should get there shake
Speaker 1: at the waiver wire first and foremost, without anybody in
Speaker 1: the constellation bracket affecting that. And that's how I feel
Speaker 1: about it. Now, if your league just has a constellation
Speaker 1: bracket that you're just playing out for fun and it
Speaker 1: doesn't have any involvement, but no, you shouldn't be able
Speaker 1: to make any waiver wire pickups. That's dumb, like you're
Speaker 1: already out of it. It doesn't mean anything. What if
Speaker 1: you played for money or if there's something at stake
Speaker 1: in your consolation bracket, you should have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: make waiver wire pickups later on in the week, not
Speaker 1: during the first waiver wire run. And that's how I
Speaker 1: feel about that. When it comes to like obviously, when
Speaker 1: there's a thing on the line there, their line up
Speaker 1: should be locked, right, there's no reason, no trades, no
Speaker 1: waiver WI pickups. No you can't drop your players, and
Speaker 1: you know, funago the league. But here's my issue. Constellation bracket.
Speaker 1: Should it never mean something because though they are losers,
Speaker 1: do not get do not get rewarded for being a loser.
Speaker 1: So you have two waiver wire runs, or you want
Speaker 1: to have two waiver wire runs in your lead one
Speaker 1: for the uh the playoff bracket, for the Constellation bracket. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be changing things because that's how my league
Speaker 1: is now. We have two waiver runs throughout the week, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and then overnight from Saturday into Sunday. Sunday is then
Speaker 1: open waivers all morning. Got it? So? All right, So
Speaker 1: Tuesdays for the playoff teams. Yeah, Wednesday is for the
Speaker 1: non playoff teams. No, the Tuesday Wednesday, the first waiver run,
Speaker 1: whether you do it on Tuesday or Wednesday, is for
Speaker 1: just the people that are playing in the playoff, competing
Speaker 1: for the championship. Got it? So? Then the Saturday one
Speaker 1: is for everybody. Okay, here's my issue. What if, as
Speaker 1: we've seen plenty of times before, the guy gets hurt
Speaker 1: in practice tomorrow. Right now, you don't necessarily get this
Speaker 1: guy on Saturday daring every one someone who it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter for. I don't give a crap, but your draft
Speaker 1: stock next year, I'm not. You're trying to win a
Speaker 1: championship this year. You're the playoffs somebody may get that
Speaker 1: player that benefits from that because of the day of
Speaker 1: the week. That's ridiculous. Okay, but there are a lot
Speaker 1: of things that happen in fantasy that are not necessarily
Speaker 1: fair greg that are out of our control. This is
Speaker 1: it you, I would say, if your Constellation bracket means something,
Speaker 1: I mean, there are a lot of people that will
Speaker 1: pick up players in their Constellation bracket just to screw
Speaker 1: over other teams, and that's ridiculous. It should Your Constelation
Speaker 1: bracket shouldn't mean something. These six teams lost in Keeper
Speaker 1: League League, why are they? Okay, we're trying to find
Speaker 1: a way to keep people active throughout the course of
Speaker 1: the entire seat. It's screwing you over. It has potential,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily going to screw people. The other answer
Speaker 1: is just locking the waiver wire for the entire playoffs.
Speaker 1: Look at that a second. Why what do you think
Speaker 1: of this? If you're a Constellation bracket, should you continue
Speaker 1: to play? Yeah? I'm kind of one with frank Is
Speaker 1: in like, look, if you're a GM and the Constellation
Speaker 1: bracket is for nothing, that there shouldn't be a Constellation bracket,
Speaker 1: and those those teams should be locked from getting players.
Speaker 1: I made a mistake of of picking guy up. Uh.
Speaker 1: I thought that I had made the playoffs and was confused.
Speaker 1: And I have been so many leagues. Uh, this is
Speaker 1: not the face of an organized person. Uh. So I
Speaker 1: accidentally picked a guy up. I dropped him today and
Speaker 1: then they'll run another waiver thing tomorrow to see who
Speaker 1: gets that player. Uh. For me, like I mean up
Speaker 1: until the point where the playoffs are on the line,
Speaker 1: be competitive play all the way through. At this point,
Speaker 1: if you're out of the playoffs and the Constellation bracket
Speaker 1: means nothing to you, it's just to play, then you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be picking up players where we come back to
Speaker 1: one that means we win GREG and you lose. When
Speaker 1: we come back. We'll describe if there's new waivers at
Speaker 1: all in the playoffs, because I know a couple of
Speaker 1: these don't do that. We talk about that. We'll get
Speaker 1: some of the news and notes from today. It's a
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Speaker 1: Last year, on the waivers, we talked about two waiver runs,
Speaker 1: a nonwaiver run if you're smart for this uh um
Speaker 1: for the non constantly consolation bracket, because it's stupid. Should
Speaker 1: there be weavers at all in the NFC the expensive
Speaker 1: leagues that professionals play, our GST league waivers are non existent.
Speaker 1: After Week thirteen, your team is is what it is.
Speaker 1: So all these handcuffs, a backup kicker just in case,
Speaker 1: no streaming defenses, backup quarterback, just in case you gotta
Speaker 1: do that all before the season the regular season ends.
Speaker 1: Do you like that model? Frank, I don't mind it.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would say I like it
Speaker 1: because it does limit the player pool for you. And
Speaker 1: there are going to be players that emerge in weeks fourteen, fifteen,
Speaker 1: and sixteen, like somebody's gonna get hurt knock on wood,
Speaker 1: hopefully you know, no big names. But again, you know,
Speaker 1: we referenced a lot c J. Anderson end up winning
Speaker 1: people fantasy championships last year, Greg, So they're gonna be
Speaker 1: players that emerged throughout the fantasy playoffs that need to
Speaker 1: be added. And you know, for the teams that still
Speaker 1: have fab remaining, they should be able to access those players.
Speaker 1: So I don't mind it. Is it my preferred way
Speaker 1: to play. Probably not, but I do play in leads
Speaker 1: like that. I'm in an NFFC playoff right now where
Speaker 1: my team is locked. There's no more waiver wire moves.
Speaker 1: But the way that the rosters are constructed there in
Speaker 1: the high stakes leagues is you have deeper bench spots,
Speaker 1: so you'll have eight to ten bench spots, which which
Speaker 1: allows you to grab a second defense, a second kicker
Speaker 1: in case your kicker gets hurt, or you know, have
Speaker 1: more handcuffs available to you. So you know, if you're
Speaker 1: going to play like that where you just lock the
Speaker 1: waivers after the regular season, you know, once you get
Speaker 1: to week fourteen, that's it. No waiver wire. You have
Speaker 1: to have deeper bench spots that allow people to carry
Speaker 1: two kickers, to carry two tight ends, and you know,
Speaker 1: however many defenses you need, and try and play the
Speaker 1: matchups that way. But personally, I do like to play
Speaker 1: in a fantasy playoffs scenario where you have access to
Speaker 1: the waive war Why where are you on this? I mean,
Speaker 1: as long as everyone agrees to that, then it's fine.
Speaker 1: I think that's strange, a strange thing to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you want to lock certain teams that earn in
Speaker 1: the playoffs from picking up players that that's a more
Speaker 1: preferred system for me. But I mean, as long as
Speaker 1: everyone understands the rules before going in, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what the rules are, just as soon as long as
Speaker 1: it's very clear. I agree. I agree. As long everyone
Speaker 1: understands the rules, they know where they are, and they're
Speaker 1: not a knuckle head that's in the constellation bracket picking
Speaker 1: up players, you're good. So what would you prefer? Greg?
Speaker 1: Would you prefer of the all the scenarios that we
Speaker 1: have discussed no waiver wire uh once the Fantasy playoffs start,
Speaker 1: or having a waiver wire just available for people playing
Speaker 1: in the winners bracket, or kind of mixing and matching
Speaker 1: where you have one waiver run for the winners and
Speaker 1: then everybody kind of jumps in together in the second
Speaker 1: wave run. It sounds like you prefer just one waiver
Speaker 1: runs for the winners. Yeah, yep, exactly what I want. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mentioned breaking news. A lot of baseball football us
Speaker 1: to gets you. There is breaking baseball news you probably
Speaker 1: don't wait to get thoughts. You probably read about this
Speaker 1: that Cole Hamiles signed for eight sea million dollars on
Speaker 1: one of year contract with the Atlanta Raves, well, the
Speaker 1: n L East. He isn't done. Zach Wheeler. One million
Speaker 1: dollars plus it's a lot of money. The Philadelphia Phillies
Speaker 1: over five years, good picture, probably not a difference maker picture.
Speaker 1: Our boy Joe Girardi has a new web in the Phillies.
Speaker 1: What is Zach Wheeler number invertation is a Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 1: He's number three picture right. I think if everything hits
Speaker 1: for him his upside as, he could be a number
Speaker 1: two picture on the staff. I think that that's true.
Speaker 1: Million dollars for a number two, for number three, maybe
Speaker 1: a number two, Yeah, okay. I think it's because he's
Speaker 1: still younger and you've seen flashes of him having the upside.
Speaker 1: But it does seem like a lot of money for me.
Speaker 1: When I saw the numbers being thrown around for him,
Speaker 1: even before he signed this contract, I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: I like Zach Wheeler. I was all in on Zach
Speaker 1: Wheler last year. Obviously that didn't come to fruition um,
Speaker 1: but that's a lot of money. Five years for a
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars for Zach Wheeler. That is a decent bit,
Speaker 1: especially when you consider he was pitching in City Field,
Speaker 1: which was a neutral park more of a neutral park recently,
Speaker 1: and now he's going over to a hitter's park in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that that's gonna bode well for him.
Speaker 1: In Romance Sandro, it's just under a hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars. Well, there goes the dream of him joining
Speaker 1: Houston becoming an awesome, fantasiastic, very weird men. Right, um,
Speaker 1: let me get to some football news, you know, that's
Speaker 1: what us here for. Anyway, Marlon Mack returned to practice
Speaker 1: for the Indianapolis Colts. T Y Hilt not so much.
Speaker 1: It was a mess last week in Indianapolis. Hopefully this week,
Speaker 1: e y, Marlon Mack. If he does return, I went
Speaker 1: from this broken hand and he plays, he's not nearly
Speaker 1: as much of a mess. Are you confident if Mac plays,
Speaker 1: you put him in your line up? Yeah, if he plays.
Speaker 1: I mean like they're they're battling. I mean that that
Speaker 1: whole uh, that whole division is battling for a spot.
Speaker 1: They're all kind of on equal playing and have a
Speaker 1: very similar record. So if Merlin Mac can go and
Speaker 1: can play, he's gonna play, and he's going to carry
Speaker 1: the ball because that's what they want to do. So
Speaker 1: I'm still in the process of working on my running
Speaker 1: back rankings for the week. Greg. But again, while Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay has shown cracks in the armor recently in the
Speaker 1: run defense, they're still a very, very good run defense,
Speaker 1: and I think that the Cults are going to have
Speaker 1: success throwing the ball to Jack Doyle and Zach Pascal.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like t Y Hilton is gonna play.
Speaker 1: It's still early in the week. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: But for me, I don't know that Marlon Mack would
Speaker 1: be the slam dunk RB two started that he has
Speaker 1: been all season. I still think that they might mix
Speaker 1: in Niheim Hines a little bit more. I don't know
Speaker 1: that they give Marlon Mack that full workload. Is first
Speaker 1: game back, and it's a tougher matchup as of now.
Speaker 1: I think Marlon Mack to me would be more of
Speaker 1: an RB three, more of a flex play than the
Speaker 1: RB two he has been most of the season because
Speaker 1: he's returning from injury and it is a tough matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I'm good with more than Mac putting in my
Speaker 1: line as if he's out there, I expect the normal
Speaker 1: workload from him. I know what Jonathan Williams did. I
Speaker 1: know what Jordan Wilkins did. I think if he plays,
Speaker 1: he's not even is a muscle injury, right, This is
Speaker 1: a hand that's gonna be wrapped. They're gonna figure out
Speaker 1: a way that he's gona be sucessful. I don't think
Speaker 1: he snaps are limited if he plays, but it might
Speaker 1: affect his ability to catch passes, not that he catches
Speaker 1: a ton of hate anyway, but opens up the likelihood
Speaker 1: for more of a fumble, you know, playing with a
Speaker 1: brace on your hand or whatever it might be. So
Speaker 1: there are a few factors to take into account. Greig,
Speaker 1: the question that I will have to answer on one
Speaker 1: of my playoff teams is do I start David Montgomery
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night Football or do I use Marlon Mack
Speaker 1: playing on Sunday in a tougher matchup against Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: As of now, I would leave David Montgomery. What about you?
Speaker 1: I probably lean David Montgomery as well. He's looked good
Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks. Score the touchdown on Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1: I would leave David Montgomery. E y, yeah, Montgomery for me.
Speaker 1: He's looked he looked really good. He's more in the
Speaker 1: past game last week two had that absolutely hopefully that
Speaker 1: continue play. That was design fan, which is cool. So
Speaker 1: David Montgomery be used. Not that hard, Matt Maggie. Just
Speaker 1: give get one of your best players the ball. Don't
Speaker 1: let Mitchell to risky throw the ball thirty five times
Speaker 1: a game. It's not that hard. Speaking speaking a running
Speaker 1: Max coming back um, Terry On Johnson returning to practice
Speaker 1: for the lines, I was on I R. So he's
Speaker 1: not eligible to come off I r um until week
Speaker 1: sixteen when he returned to practice. I don't know that
Speaker 1: they activate him off I R if they're they are
Speaker 1: completely out of it. I don't, you don't. I don't
Speaker 1: just have the reason for it. Terry On Johnson's out there,
Speaker 1: Frankie picking him up. I am not picking up carry
Speaker 1: On Johnson because when he is activated, if he is
Speaker 1: in week sixteen, that's when he's eligible. He'll go up
Speaker 1: against the Denver Broncos, who have been very tough against
Speaker 1: the run. Plus who's to say that he's going to
Speaker 1: see a full workload in his first game back after
Speaker 1: not playing for eight weeks. So you have all these
Speaker 1: different things that to account for the fact that he
Speaker 1: still might not be Is he gonna see a full
Speaker 1: workload both Scarborough has actually run pretty well for the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. They're already out of it. It's a tough matchup,
Speaker 1: way too many things to take into account, Greg, I
Speaker 1: am not adding carry On Johnson, all right, Carrie On
Speaker 1: Johnson not an ad for Frank? What about for Eric?
Speaker 1: I mean if you could have him, I mean, and
Speaker 1: you think you're gonna make it through, I mean, he
Speaker 1: could be a starting running back. We know that carry
Speaker 1: On Johnson is very talented. The fact that he's on
Speaker 1: the I R and that he returned to practice today
Speaker 1: means that by week syste and he could be. So
Speaker 1: if you're getting healthy carry On Johnson, I mean, what
Speaker 1: could it hurt. There's got to be room or your
Speaker 1: roster for someone like that. The problem is he why
Speaker 1: if you pick him up, you're almost gonna feel like
Speaker 1: you have to play him right because his name is
Speaker 1: carry On Johnson and he's really talented. Look, I love
Speaker 1: carry On coming into the year, but in a tougher
Speaker 1: matchup against Denver bron and the Denver Broncos in Week sixteen,
Speaker 1: it's just I don't even want to present myself with
Speaker 1: that predicament. Almost does that make sense? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it makes sense. I actually I'm I I've held him
Speaker 1: in my r I R spot this this whole season,
Speaker 1: uh in the w w E League. Um. Now, like,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm pretty loaded there. I got Derrick Henry and
Speaker 1: see Kwan Barkley at running back Sanders Hide like I
Speaker 1: end up being able to pick up Madison. So I
Speaker 1: mean I'm loaded. But I mean for me, you can
Speaker 1: never have enough running backs. No one's gonna force me
Speaker 1: to do anything, Frank, But I like having cary On
Speaker 1: Johnson there. I mean, like, there's gotta be someone on
Speaker 1: your roster that you can uh get rid of. If not,
Speaker 1: then then don't pick him up. But I mean there's
Speaker 1: gotta be somebody you're not going to start heat you
Speaker 1: to the tiber here picking up carry On Johnson. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not picking up carry On Johnson. The number one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's either number one. I don't
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna be around in week sixteen, I hope,
Speaker 1: So I don't know number two. I'm playing for the
Speaker 1: future boys here, I understand you playing for the future.
Speaker 1: I get that, but number two, I don't know his
Speaker 1: workloads like in week sixteen, right, like not that. J D.
Speaker 1: McKissick and both Scarbrough my man, I believe, don't worry.
Speaker 1: They're Ti Johnson. They're involving the offense, and they're not
Speaker 1: nearly what carry On Johnson is. But carry On Johnson
Speaker 1: coming back from this injury and and getting he's twenty
Speaker 1: carry or what he touches the game, no way, no way. Personally,
Speaker 1: I don't even think he's activated. I mean they're out
Speaker 1: of it, right. I think that they just rest him
Speaker 1: for the final games of the season and have him
Speaker 1: ready to go for next year. So personally, uh, there
Speaker 1: are too many things playing against him in my opinion.
Speaker 1: All right, so I agree, I am not picking up
Speaker 1: carry On Johnson at you. I'm I'm so sorry. Way
Speaker 1: by the way, Uh, w w EE League and x
Speaker 1: T League you in? Are you in the playoffs? That's
Speaker 1: going on? And xt League fell short? My team is
Speaker 1: really good. I really liked it put up, but I
Speaker 1: fell short. They are but w League, Uh, I finished
Speaker 1: in first to my division. I gotta buy this week
Speaker 1: who who ended up dominating in the NXC league? Uh?
Speaker 1: In the NX two. Uh Mike Rowlis again, um did
Speaker 1: very very well. We had him on the show the
Speaker 1: one time. I'm trying to see here, who else is in? Like? Look,
Speaker 1: I told you, like, look at this is not a
Speaker 1: face of an organized person. Um. So remembering all my leagues,
Speaker 1: this is the part of the year where it's just
Speaker 1: it's too hard for me to keep track because I'm
Speaker 1: so deadly into hockey. When we come back, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you who else made it to the nx T League.
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Speaker 1: Get all the grade back with you, BFFs. I'm Greg.
Speaker 1: He's Frank Eric's here too. Anyway, you're gonna break down
Speaker 1: the w RE league. I was, yeah, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: looking at the playoff bracket. So it was a controversial
Speaker 1: finish to the league. I'm not gonna get into details,
Speaker 1: but the commissioner, um Rick Moss, got into a bit
Speaker 1: of a back and forth with uh one of the
Speaker 1: other guys and uh, some shade was throwing happy. No, no,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna get into that. Who was, Uh, well,
Speaker 1: there's a there's a conspiracy theory. D a Brewer, referee
Speaker 1: from n X t uh filled in. He took over
Speaker 1: a team that was picked um by the consensus. Everyone
Speaker 1: took a took a round and and and picked a
Speaker 1: player for this makeshift team, and then he took them
Speaker 1: over during week one. Uh, he finished eleven and two.
Speaker 1: There's a theory. Yeah, it's I mean, it's of course
Speaker 1: the team that was. I mean basically, we just, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's who someone who would pick next with no care
Speaker 1: or or desire or want to make the team good.
Speaker 1: H We just threw the team together. He finished eleven
Speaker 1: and two in dominant fashions. Um, he's getting to buy.
Speaker 1: We got Roderick Strong also getting a bye finished with
Speaker 1: ten and three. Very good record that we got Rickick
Speaker 1: Moss versus uh Tomaso Chompa and in uh the storm
Speaker 1: watch blood Feud, we've got um Dash, which we on
Speaker 1: the show last year, a very good fantasy guy, great
Speaker 1: dude versus e C three. So there it is. That's
Speaker 1: the playoff practice. He pivoted real quickly, real quickly. We're
Speaker 1: gonna find out what we're not getting. I mean, you
Speaker 1: know how he did it can get I'm sure you
Speaker 1: guys have been in leagues where people that are buddies
Speaker 1: they end up in uh poof pretty heated argument over
Speaker 1: something that doesn't mean anything. Um, I think cooler heads
Speaker 1: to prevailed. I think they've talked since and worked it out.
Speaker 1: May have been a few drinks involved in that one,
Speaker 1: and uh, we're not gonna get into the details. This
Speaker 1: fantastic cheers to fantasy football. I will be texting it
Speaker 1: after the show, that's for sure. Um. Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: We've heard some had some heated conversations in regard to
Speaker 1: fantasy football, and um, people got really really ticked off.
Speaker 1: So it's really interesting. Um, how even like professional athletes
Speaker 1: get that intense, that intense on it. Well, of course,
Speaker 1: I mean you would say that they might even be
Speaker 1: more intense, right, because look, professional athletes, they might be
Speaker 1: more competitive than the average human being. And once you
Speaker 1: once you play that much testosterone into uh, into a league,
Speaker 1: a fantasy football league, where obviously, look everyone's trying to win,
Speaker 1: everyone's trying to compete. Uh. You know that competitiveness comes out, man,
Speaker 1: and sometimes that that type of competitiveness can bring out
Speaker 1: the ugly side in human beings. You know, I've I've
Speaker 1: nearly ended friendships over like fantasy football, and I left
Speaker 1: the fantasy basketball league a couple of years ago. I
Speaker 1: was the commissioner. I was like, look, someone else can
Speaker 1: take this over. I don't want anything to do with it.
Speaker 1: It's stuff gets crazy, man, right. So I've since calmed
Speaker 1: down a little bit. Yeah, you're older, like, you know,
Speaker 1: the older wiser. I'm not gonna say that I care less,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I come over and works. She was like,
Speaker 1: I think I like football more than you do at
Speaker 1: this point. I was just like, it's just it's worked
Speaker 1: for me at some point, and she just like it's
Speaker 1: all super into it, like screening on Oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is this is our life. This is what we choose,
Speaker 1: which is fun, of course. I mean it's some of
Speaker 1: the other big stories. So we did talk about it
Speaker 1: because it wasn't like Super Fantasy relevant, but I think
Speaker 1: it's worth mentioning. Right. Ron Rivera fired as the head
Speaker 1: coach of the Carolina Panthers yesterday after our show. Had
Speaker 1: a goodbye press conference this morning, which is crazy because
Speaker 1: it's like he won the press conference. People are saying,
Speaker 1: I've never heard somebody win the combined press conference, but
Speaker 1: he did. And a lot of teams are gonna look
Speaker 1: at Ron Rivera. He's been linked to the Giants already,
Speaker 1: even the Gettleman connection, and people seem to like Ron Rivera,
Speaker 1: and they opened a new ideas that he's a gambler
Speaker 1: the whole deal. He could be matched up with Cam
Speaker 1: Newton and go somewhere together, maybe I don't know where,
Speaker 1: maybe Washington, I don't don't know, but we'll see um.
Speaker 1: But with Ron Rivera out, Frank and Perry fuel in,
Speaker 1: Scott nor Scott Norville Scott Turner taking over for his
Speaker 1: father Norville Turner, what changes if any comes to the
Speaker 1: fantasy landscape in Carolina. Yeah, so we were talking about
Speaker 1: this downstairs, and I don't think that much is going
Speaker 1: to change for the Carolina Panthers. I mean, the identity
Speaker 1: of this team is very obvious at this point. It's
Speaker 1: feed Christian McCaffrey and then guess what you feed Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey even more actually looked into this while is downstairs
Speaker 1: as well. Christian McCaffrey, as of now in PPR scoring
Speaker 1: is averaging the fifth most fantasy points per game in
Speaker 1: NFL history this season, and I don't think that that's
Speaker 1: going to change even with what is the gentleman's name,
Speaker 1: Scott Turner. Scott Turner as the offensive coordinator now. Calling
Speaker 1: plays a very weird situation too, because like your dad
Speaker 1: gets fired, but then you replace your dad didn't get fired,
Speaker 1: relieved or he like stepped he stepped down because you
Speaker 1: want to be there without Ron Vero and he wanted
Speaker 1: to have his son an opportunity. All right, well, that's
Speaker 1: cool then all four of that, but ultimately, um, you know,
Speaker 1: he might put some new concepts into play, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe some kind of like creative things, do a little
Speaker 1: bit things differently, but ultimately, you know what the pulse
Speaker 1: of this offense is. It's Christian McCaffrey. They're gonna feed
Speaker 1: the two wide receivers and someone who's getting talked up
Speaker 1: this week, Greg If Greg Olsen cannot go, he did
Speaker 1: not practice today. He's dealing with a concussion. Ian Thomas
Speaker 1: is now back in the mix. And you know he
Speaker 1: played about forty seven percent of the snaps he was
Speaker 1: running route for the Carolina Panthers this past week. I
Speaker 1: believe you had four targets in that game. Yea, four targets,
Speaker 1: four catches for twenty four yards. So going up against
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons, we can see him back and forth.
Speaker 1: If Greg Olson can't go and you need a tight
Speaker 1: end to stream, I think Ian Thomas is going to
Speaker 1: be back in that mix. Greig, We'll see Ian Thomas.
Speaker 1: We've been looking for tight ends all season long, and
Speaker 1: if Greg Olson is out, sure, why not Ian Thomas?
Speaker 1: Ian Thomas. There's only so many tight ends you can start. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We and this is someone that we've liked in the
Speaker 1: past because if you talked about him as you know,
Speaker 1: a dynasty play, he has flash at times when Greg
Speaker 1: Olson has not been in the lineup. How about you
Speaker 1: y any interest in Ian Thomas here with the Panthers yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean they like using the tight end there in
Speaker 1: the passing game, Greg Olson going out, And I mean
Speaker 1: like last year, I can remember Ian Thomas showing up
Speaker 1: late in the season. Uh you know, I mean he's
Speaker 1: not gonna to win you a week. But look, no
Speaker 1: tight end really is. I mean, tight end is an
Speaker 1: absolute mass. This might be the worst year ever for
Speaker 1: tight end, which is saying something absolutely. It was a
Speaker 1: brutal year out end, unless, of course, you Mikaseki the
Speaker 1: first twelve weeks for you, first eleven weeks, Greig, He's
Speaker 1: scored in back to back games. Brutal first eleven weeks
Speaker 1: for you. You speaking of tight ends, I mentioned that
Speaker 1: Eli Manning's returning. We talked about the skill position players
Speaker 1: with the Giants for a moment. Evan Ingram could be
Speaker 1: back on Monday Night football. Golden Tate also expects to
Speaker 1: be back for the New York Giants. Yesterday we talked
Speaker 1: a lot about Minnesota Vikings and Dalvin Cook and what
Speaker 1: we want. And I've told you Frank anywhile like I
Speaker 1: don't want Dalvin Cook to play. I do not want
Speaker 1: him to play because this is going to be a disaster. Well, Greg,
Speaker 1: you can always get what you want. Dalvin Cook seems
Speaker 1: very adamant that he is going to play. People keep
Speaker 1: asking about him, asking him about it, and it seems
Speaker 1: like he's almost getting frustrated to a point where he
Speaker 1: keeps reiterating, I am going to play this week. Look,
Speaker 1: you don't want to cause turmoil within the organization, especially
Speaker 1: with a team like the Vikings that has played so
Speaker 1: well this year. But at some point you have to
Speaker 1: protect a player from themselves. And we spoke about this
Speaker 1: a lot yesterday. I think that that would be in
Speaker 1: the best interest of the Minnesota Vikings and Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: for the longevity of the season, for them going deep
Speaker 1: into the postseason, for the longevity of his career as well.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're talking about this is a pain tolerance thing, great,
Speaker 1: where he's not gonna end up making the injury worse.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I buy that completely, So I'm
Speaker 1: reading a lot about it. I read a lot about it.
Speaker 1: It's just clavital it's just it's it's frain. So when
Speaker 1: you get hurt, I don't know that I buy that
Speaker 1: you can't make it worse, though, So I think if
Speaker 1: you have a shoulder injury, like if you land the
Speaker 1: wrong way. Of course, you're gonna make it worse. Like
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about so. Andrew Kramer says down cook
Speaker 1: shoulder injury is a pain tolerance deal. There is not
Speaker 1: any risk of injury it worse. He'll play on Sunday.
Speaker 1: He just has to work on holding onto the ball
Speaker 1: when he's hitting the shoulder alight, So can you. I
Speaker 1: brought it up down the stairs and I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: it to you. Dalvin Cook, I believe will be limited
Speaker 1: in some fashion. You'll not have his normal workload. Can
Speaker 1: you start Alexander Madison over Daln Cook this week? I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I mean you may believe that. I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's any truth to that or not. Uh,
Speaker 1: but people are owners of Dalvin Cooker are going to
Speaker 1: have to make a decision. I'm an owner of Delvin
Speaker 1: Cook in a dynasty league where I absolutely dominated this year.
Speaker 1: He's uh, he's been one of the big reasons. And
Speaker 1: the reality is is, I mean, there's no one I
Speaker 1: can really put in there that's going to give me
Speaker 1: the upside of Dalvin Cook. He may be limited, you
Speaker 1: may be right, but we're not gonna know he seems
Speaker 1: Adam and he's going to play, and I mean, he's
Speaker 1: arguably one of the best running backs in the league
Speaker 1: this year. Uh, and maybe going forward he's gonna want
Speaker 1: to play. Um. So, so we'll see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: The problem with this, Greg, is what happens when the
Speaker 1: Lions go of zip against When the Vikings go up
Speaker 1: zip against the Detroit Lions and David Blow. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to downplay David Blow. He actually looked
Speaker 1: pretty good on Thanksgiving, but the Minnesota Vikings are thirteen
Speaker 1: point favorites in that game for a reason. Greg, So
Speaker 1: you know, they go up two scores or what it
Speaker 1: might be. I mean, why are they trotting Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: out there for the rest he saw it against Seattle
Speaker 1: they were down, they were in this case, they were
Speaker 1: down in the other way, you go up and he
Speaker 1: doesn't play. I don't see how you can't not use
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook though. I mean, look, you're question. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to have some some real cojones to uh to
Speaker 1: pull that one off. Greg. But I think ultimately, if
Speaker 1: you own both of these guys, I mean, maybe you
Speaker 1: flirt with the possibility of playing ball, so can you
Speaker 1: play both of them? Again? I haven't finished my my
Speaker 1: rankings yet, but I think instead of Dalvin Cook being
Speaker 1: the top five running back that he normally is, he
Speaker 1: probably will come in more as a low end RB
Speaker 1: one high end RB two because I think that there's
Speaker 1: a chance that he is limited in some capacity and
Speaker 1: that will push Alexander Madison up into RB three flex
Speaker 1: territory for me. So if he is better than your
Speaker 1: other flex options, then the answer will be yes. They
Speaker 1: So I bring up the names that we've been talking
Speaker 1: about off the waiver wire this week, Patrick Laird, Jack Pascal,
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller, Peyton Barber, most Scarbor. Like those types of guys,
Speaker 1: I would use Madison over both Scarborough for sure. I
Speaker 1: don't like the spot for both Scarborough being thirteen point
Speaker 1: dogs and a tough matchup against the Vikings, so he's
Speaker 1: one that's already out. I would use Madison over Patrick Laird.
Speaker 1: UH have to wait and see what the chiefs. But
Speaker 1: if it's just Darwin Thompson and Lasan McCoy, then I'm
Speaker 1: probably gonna use Darwin Thompson over Alexander Madison myself. But
Speaker 1: you know, once we get into those wide receivers like
Speaker 1: I think I would use Madison over Anthony Miller, and
Speaker 1: I would use Madison over Pascal. But it is a
Speaker 1: conversation worth happening having. E Y, what about you when
Speaker 1: it comes to Alexander Madison, I mean, how high is
Speaker 1: too high for for him? Is he an RB two
Speaker 1: in this game? Even if Dalvin Cook is active? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I mean, how I'm I'm doing it?
Speaker 1: Maybe because it's wishful thinking on my part, but I
Speaker 1: think if Dalvin Cook wants to play and he's clear
Speaker 1: to play, he's going to have very similar kind of workload. Um.
Speaker 1: I think if they do get up, they may say, hey,
Speaker 1: look like, you know, we gotta lead. Let's let's just
Speaker 1: let Batison carry the ball. Uh, you know, work the
Speaker 1: clock and keep you fresh going forward. That that is
Speaker 1: a reality, That is a thing. But I don't think
Speaker 1: any of us can predict what's going to happen. Uh
Speaker 1: the Lions, Uh could could make this game interesting. I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't know. Scarborough has been decent. Uh, Galladay had
Speaker 1: a big week last week. So we're gonna find out.
Speaker 1: We're gonna see me myself. I'm gonna start Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: I think if you have them, you should start them. Um,
Speaker 1: if you're in a busins where you gonna start both
Speaker 1: of these guys in a playoff game, m hm. I
Speaker 1: wish you luck because I don't think you're going to
Speaker 1: be in the playoffs very long. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do. They really don't. I have Laird, I have
Speaker 1: Barber Great. I don't know if this helps or hurts
Speaker 1: your decisions. Well, last time Dalvin Cook face the Lions
Speaker 1: this season carries a hundred and forty two yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Yeah, good luck, buddy, Thank you. I don't
Speaker 1: of Dalvin Cook anywhere, so I don't have to make
Speaker 1: this decision. If you are an Alexander Madison owners separately
Speaker 1: the Dalagook, you know what Cooking? You just known Madison?
Speaker 1: Are you more at to start him? Yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: same kind of situation. Look, he's gonna be in the
Speaker 1: flex discussion. It depends who else you have. I just
Speaker 1: kind of broke down, you know how I feel about
Speaker 1: Madison versus some of these other waiver wire targets that
Speaker 1: we've we've been talking about all week long. But I
Speaker 1: think it probably makes me more apt to play him
Speaker 1: if I don't own Dalvin Cook, just because whenever you
Speaker 1: start to running backs on the same team, you're feel
Speaker 1: kind of weird about it, right, Yeah, because you know, look,
Speaker 1: what are the chances that both of these guys, you know,
Speaker 1: unless of course it's for Shot Penny and Chris Carson,
Speaker 1: what are the chances of both of these guys having
Speaker 1: fifteen plus touches in the game? Not very high. You know.
Speaker 1: It's funny because in my league, someone's gonna hit and
Speaker 1: someone's gonna let you down. In my league that I
Speaker 1: have Dalmond cooking, my opponent is starting Kirk Couson's games freme,
Speaker 1: all those vikings game. Yeah, that is uh, that's just
Speaker 1: a gameflow galore for you. Greg. You're hoping that Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook scores early, maybe once or twice, then then it's
Speaker 1: the Alexander Madison Show from there on. A last time
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins faced them, he did for like four yards
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Speaker 1: I want to start with my hometown team, Frankie. That's
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. Where what back? What old? Is
Speaker 1: new again? Danny Dimes hurts the ankle, which means the
Speaker 1: vital times in New York Giant. Eli Manning is back, baby,
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go Eli Manning. Yeah, just in time
Speaker 1: for a divisional matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles. An Eagle
Speaker 1: secondary that got destroyed last week against Ryan Fitzpatrick as well,
Speaker 1: but over the past couple of weeks before that, they
Speaker 1: were actually playing really well. It'll be interesting to see,
Speaker 1: you know, how this affects everything from a betting perspective.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the line is gonna change. The Eagles were
Speaker 1: already eight and a half point favorites in that game.
Speaker 1: I looked into the target shares from earlier on in
Speaker 1: the season Greg where Eli Manning did start for the
Speaker 1: first two games for the Giants, and that was without
Speaker 1: Golden Tate. We saw Evan Ingram in those two games,
Speaker 1: Greg with a twenty four percent target share, Benny Fowler
Speaker 1: with a sixteen percent target share, Say Kwon Barkley third
Speaker 1: on the team with a fourteen percent target share. Stilling
Speaker 1: Shepherd only played in week one. If I had to say,
Speaker 1: you know, how does this affect their all fence, I
Speaker 1: would imagine more checkdowns, more dump offs for sa Kwon Barkley.
Speaker 1: So someone sweeting earlier today we're back to fourteen receptions
Speaker 1: for fifty yards for se Kwan, which if you're playing
Speaker 1: the PPR League, I'm sure that that is welcomed. But
Speaker 1: we also got a report earlier today that Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: should be good to go, and I think based on
Speaker 1: the target share he had in those first two games
Speaker 1: with Eli Manning, Evan Ingram will make for another really
Speaker 1: good play in week fourteen. Alrighty, Evan Ingram, if he's back,
Speaker 1: what we're putting your a lot of gold and tap
Speaker 1: should be back for the Giants. We'll see how Eli
Speaker 1: Manning manages to utilize these weapons, and e y, you
Speaker 1: pulp for the Eli Manning swan song, I think palmpt
Speaker 1: would probably not be the right word for it. Um.
Speaker 1: For me, what just comes down to for the Giants
Speaker 1: is se Kwan Barkley has been a massive disappointment. This
Speaker 1: is his second year UM lit the league on fire
Speaker 1: last year, was pretty much the consensus number one pick
Speaker 1: this year. Uh. And I was reading a thing yesterday
Speaker 1: that David Johnson actually has more top ten isshes this
Speaker 1: year then sa Kwan Barkley. David Johnson has barely played uh.
Speaker 1: And Sagan Barkley, Yeah, I know he was hurt there
Speaker 1: for a bit, um, but he came back and was
Speaker 1: supposed to be back up to speed and he just
Speaker 1: hasn't been the running back that everyone thought he was getting.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Eli Manning is going to help.
Speaker 1: So there you have it. He's definitely not going to
Speaker 1: help him from a rushing perspective. That's exactly right, e y.
Speaker 1: And look just in terms of getting them down the
Speaker 1: field to present scoring opportunities for se Kuan, probably not
Speaker 1: going to help him there either. But we have seen
Speaker 1: that whenever Eli is still back their quarterbacking for the
Speaker 1: New York Giants Crag. All he does is checkdown, checkdown, checkdown,
Speaker 1: Same thing with Joe Flacco when he was starting for
Speaker 1: the Broncos. So I think this helps the target share
Speaker 1: for se Kuan Barkley. It will help the receptions, but
Speaker 1: ultimately does not help his rushing efficiency. Does not help
Speaker 1: his ability to score touch since