Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Podcast. It is me Joey p Joe, Pi Zapia
Speaker 1: and with me for Week sixteen on the Waiver Wire,
Speaker 1: Round two of the playoffs. My best buds Deebro, Derek Brown,
Speaker 1: the King of Bros. And my Patty Cakes, who just
Speaker 1: had another year round the Sun. Everybody wish him a
Speaker 1: happy birthday in the chat. If you have missed the
Speaker 1: Fitsy birthday, We're gonna do a whole birthday month for you, Fitzie.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fantastic. But hopefully, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: some of you still got playoff teams alive. We're recording
Speaker 1: this Monday morning, Monday night, not one but two NFL
Speaker 1: games really making us sweat out the first round of
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I don't care for it. NFL stop doing
Speaker 1: this to me. I already have no hair on my head.
Speaker 1: So we still have some games yet to be decided.
Speaker 1: But regardless, hopefully all of you out there listening, watching
Speaker 1: on the YouTube are looking ahead to Round two in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and looking for more players or we're gonna
Speaker 1: help you add them. Because there was a ton of injuries,
Speaker 1: a ton of football to dissect and reflect upon, including
Speaker 1: a decision that I just don't understand and I just
Speaker 1: want to talk about it with all of you because
Speaker 1: there's a less than ten percent chance of getting an
Speaker 1: onside kickback. So Dan Campbell's basically telling you in that
Speaker 1: Lions Bills game, Pat, I like my chances of getting
Speaker 1: an onside kickback more than stopping Josh out on the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. That's what he's telling me. What do you
Speaker 1: think I.
Speaker 2: Thought it was an imprudent decision, Joe. I would rather
Speaker 2: take my chances with stopping the Bills, and you know,
Speaker 2: stop the Bills and you get reasonable field position. If
Speaker 2: you don't get that onside kick, even if you do
Speaker 2: stop the Bills, then they're going to punt and bury
Speaker 2: you inside your own twenty yard line. And it's just, yeah,
Speaker 2: I thought it was a suboptimal decision.
Speaker 1: Yes, that was a very politically correct answer. That was
Speaker 1: really good. I'm sure a lot of Lions fans have
Speaker 1: a lot less politically correct answers about it, Debro. Dan
Speaker 1: Campbell is like the double edged sword. He's the reason
Speaker 1: they're great, and he's also the reason why in these
Speaker 1: big games they continue to fall short, and I just
Speaker 1: feel like these games get in his head. We saw
Speaker 1: it in the last year in the playoffs against San
Speaker 1: Francis Go, we're seeing it again. I just don't understand
Speaker 1: where is heads at.
Speaker 3: I mean, I just think we need a better balance
Speaker 3: of aggression versus rationality. And I'm not saying like I'm
Speaker 3: all for go go for the fourth downs, like make
Speaker 3: everything like four downs and make the defense have to
Speaker 3: stop you in four downs.
Speaker 1: I get that.
Speaker 3: Like some of the calls, I think like we're borderline
Speaker 3: like reckless in the sense of okay, kicking an on
Speaker 3: side kick with that much time left and you're only
Speaker 3: down by a score and a field goal, and what
Speaker 3: we saw the week before that going for it inside
Speaker 3: of you know, that close to your own goal line.
Speaker 3: That's where I'm like, look, I love Dan Campbell. I'm
Speaker 3: all for the aggression, but there's there's sometimes where it's
Speaker 3: just like.
Speaker 1: You, honestly do you do it? Like do you think
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell forgot that you have to announce it's an
Speaker 1: on side kick now because of the change of the
Speaker 1: kick off role. I think there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: chance that he was like, oh wait, yeah, it's different. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying there's a small chance that they got
Speaker 1: up there, got to line at the decision and he went, oh, right,
Speaker 1: they know it's coming. If it'd been a surprise on
Speaker 1: ziche Cake like it was, you know, two thousand and four,
Speaker 1: maybe I feel different about it. But look, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's splitting hairs. It was just a crazy thing in
Speaker 1: the great game that was really fun to watch. You know,
Speaker 1: whenever you have almost one hundred points in offense, I'm entertained.
Speaker 1: But man, I agree with like eighty five percent of it. Man,
Speaker 1: it's the problem. It's like when you get to this,
Speaker 1: like the all onside kick stuff. It's like this.
Speaker 3: It's a similar thing as like, Okay, it's third and one.
Speaker 3: Should we run a quarterback sneak or run it up
Speaker 3: the gut? Or should we toss a bomb down the field. Okay,
Speaker 3: let's go for the hailm Arey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. Well, look, hopefully our decision making
Speaker 1: process will be Joe, Joe, can I help everybody make
Speaker 1: sure you? Oh, I'm just.
Speaker 2: Gonna make a quick fantasy comparison with Dan Campbell. Like
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell is please, Dan Campbell's the guy who's got
Speaker 2: a really good roster and wants to get overly cute
Speaker 2: with lineup decisions and feel like he's really man his team.
Speaker 2: And so he benches AJ Brown because he's worried about
Speaker 2: a matchup with Joey Porter Junior and decides to start
Speaker 2: Mari Cooper instead, thinking I need upside. And you know,
Speaker 2: Joey told a few people to keep rolling with AJ
Speaker 2: Brown in our live stream yesterday, and you keep rolling
Speaker 2: with aj Patty.
Speaker 3: We got so many AJB questions, so many AJB questions
Speaker 3: in the discord.
Speaker 1: Dude. Look we were all over yesterday and it was
Speaker 1: live in the chat yesterday too. But look, hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: make better decisions here than Dan Campbell will make late
Speaker 1: in games. All right, let's start with the streamer running
Speaker 1: backs of the week. And there's an opening now in
Speaker 1: the world of Cleveland because poor Nick Chubb is terrible
Speaker 1: broken foot, so he's done. So that means Jerome Ford
Speaker 1: next man up, good matchup against Cincinnati Bengals to that defense.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about a de bro Jerome Ford. Your
Speaker 1: expectations for him in week sixteen, where you think you
Speaker 1: might have him ranked. I know it's a little early
Speaker 1: for that, But is he RB two? Is he flex? Like,
Speaker 1: what's your confidence level?
Speaker 3: He's a low end RB two and some of the
Speaker 3: I guess, like where he falls in that range kind
Speaker 3: of depends on who do we get for quarterback and
Speaker 3: what do we get out of quarterback in Cleveland. I mean,
Speaker 3: Jamis that is not so great. Jamis things this last
Speaker 3: week and so maybe it's dtr under center, but we
Speaker 3: all know that the matchup is good. Jerome Ford has
Speaker 3: been an efficient running back when he's gotten opportunities. I mean,
Speaker 3: we saw this last week, terrible matchup, nine touches and
Speaker 3: he got one hundred and.
Speaker 1: Four total yards.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Ford is the guy that, like I really
Speaker 3: wanted to highlight in this section because it's not only
Speaker 3: just the Cincinnati Bengals. Like I know that, you know,
Speaker 3: the last week of the NFL regular season, he gets
Speaker 3: the Ravens. But a lot of people aren't playing that
Speaker 3: in the fantasy playoffs. But the next two matchups Cincinnati
Speaker 3: and Miami both really good ones for Ford.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they certainly are. And look, drum Ford's showing you
Speaker 1: the ability to catch a football before he's shown you
Speaker 1: he's comfortable in the offense. He's not a new guy.
Speaker 1: He's he's not fresh and new, and you don't know
Speaker 1: what to get out of drum Ford. You know what
Speaker 1: it looks like when Ford's been the guy. So it's
Speaker 1: just a matter of how much work load he gets.
Speaker 1: And certainly the opportunity looks like it could be a
Speaker 1: good one for a streaming purpose. In week sixteen, FITZI,
Speaker 1: let's talk about a guy that you know, we've been
Speaker 1: talking about for a couple of weeks now stashing And
Speaker 1: really the numbers didn't climb as much as I think
Speaker 1: they normally would have. Maybe it's just the time of year,
Speaker 1: a lot of people who are eliminated not putting in
Speaker 1: waiver wire claims, or maybe people just not familiar with
Speaker 1: Sincere McCormick. Now, we'll see what happens in this evening game,
Speaker 1: but as of right now, looking ahead in theory, Sincere
Speaker 1: McCormack against Jacksonville also looks like a running back that
Speaker 1: is worth at least grabbing onto for a week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so obviously how he fares against the Falcons tonight
Speaker 2: is going to affect the amount of fat money that
Speaker 2: people are bidding with whatever they've got left in the tank.
Speaker 2: But what we really like is the remaining schedule for
Speaker 2: week sixteen. In week seventeen, he gets the Jaguars and
Speaker 2: the Saints, two of the best matchups you can have
Speaker 2: for running back. So what's interesting is that Alexander Madison
Speaker 2: is expected back in week fifteen for this game against
Speaker 2: the Falcons. But Antonio Pierce had said has said he
Speaker 2: is going to roll with sincere McCormick like they are
Speaker 2: auditioning him for a greater role in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: So seems like he's a pretty good bet for fifteen
Speaker 2: plus touches. Let's see what he does with them. But
Speaker 2: if we get encouraging results, I think people are really
Speaker 2: gonna want to spend up to take advantage of these
Speaker 2: Jaguars and Saints matchups down the stretch.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about a wide receiver and FITZI your Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers really stuck it to me last night. I'm
Speaker 1: not happy about this at all. And Romeo Dobbs is
Speaker 1: back again, folks, the cycle of Romeo Dobbs, this season
Speaker 1: of getting picked up and dropped and picked up and dropped.
Speaker 1: But here we go looking ahead to next week. You
Speaker 1: want to pick them up again against the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 2: Why because the matchup is decent. Dubbs has like sort
Speaker 2: of a minimal level of involvement, Like you can't fully
Speaker 2: trust anyone in this Green Bay passing game right now, Joe.
Speaker 2: Because the Packers really like to run the ball. They
Speaker 2: have become one of the run heavier teams in the league,
Speaker 2: and they are sorting out targets between Jaden Reid, Christian Watson,
Speaker 2: Romeo Dobbs, Tucker Crafts, cameo appearances by Dontavian Wicks, and
Speaker 2: the occasional Malie Heath or Bow Melton. So it's not
Speaker 2: a big pie to go around. But Dobbs does seem
Speaker 2: like the one receiver who's fairly consistently involved. Jaden Reid
Speaker 2: and Christian Watson will have these inexplicable disappearances. Sometimes Dobbs
Speaker 2: seems like he gets his five or six targets at least,
Speaker 2: no matter what, he's in a good offense, and the
Speaker 2: matchup looks pretty good against the Saints this coming week.
Speaker 1: Another matchup on paper that might look pretty good as
Speaker 1: one for a Tampa Bay wide receiver that I was
Speaker 1: very high on coming into the year and it just
Speaker 1: didn't happen. Godwin it Evans just kind of took off.
Speaker 1: And again, you know, I've been talking about it for
Speaker 1: weeks and weeks. Baker Mayfield is my MVP. I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's one guy that's gone out there and
Speaker 1: done more with less this year and just take this
Speaker 1: team by the haunches and going through. He's the intercontinental
Speaker 1: heavyweight MVP. That's what he is. He's the worker title guy.
Speaker 1: He's that dude who deserves a lot more credit. And
Speaker 1: Jalen McMillan, now all of a sudden, might be a
Speaker 1: guy worth looking at. And I still like this player
Speaker 1: of long term in Dynasty. I like a lot of
Speaker 1: the buzz he got in training camp and here we
Speaker 1: are now in week sixteen, Debro you think he might
Speaker 1: be relevant?
Speaker 3: I do, and I think it's time for us to
Speaker 3: stop and give the guy a respect. I mean, over
Speaker 3: the last two weeks he's gotten a twenty three percent
Speaker 3: target chare, he's averaging sixty seven receiving yards, and he's
Speaker 3: scored freaking three times.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's a viable flex player this week and
Speaker 3: the matchups moving forward Dallas, Carolina, New Orleans are is
Speaker 3: anybody worried about any of those secondaries?
Speaker 1: Nobody should be. All right, let's talk about a quarterback here,
Speaker 1: because super flex leagues are gonna have to be look
Speaker 1: at because mahomes iffy with the ankle. Then you also
Speaker 1: have got Geno Smith. It's just it's kind of brutal
Speaker 1: out there. Superflex has been tough this year. It's been
Speaker 1: pretty late. A lot of guys gropping up on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire, believe it or not, not always good options,
Speaker 1: but there is an option against the Raiders next week.
Speaker 1: You are in on debro Let's talk about mac Jones.
Speaker 1: What you saw yesterday. I mean, obviously BTJ had a
Speaker 1: big day, so clearly, Pat, you were talking on the
Speaker 1: live stream yesterday with me on Sunday about you know,
Speaker 1: I think BTJ is gonna be fine. Just keep leaving
Speaker 1: him in your lineups, and you know, I know you
Speaker 1: told a lot of people to keep them in. Certainly
Speaker 1: was a good return. So can we roll that over
Speaker 1: for yet another week here with mac Jones?
Speaker 3: We can, And I understand people are gonna hear the
Speaker 3: name mac Jones and they're saying, oh, really, are we
Speaker 3: at that point with all the quarterback injuries and what
Speaker 3: we've seen, And the bigger part of this is they're
Speaker 3: playing the Raiders. Their past defense can't stop anybody Mac
Speaker 3: Jones and to put a little bit of respect on
Speaker 3: the name entering Monday Night Football, Mac Jones QB.
Speaker 1: Eight for Week fifteen.
Speaker 3: So that's just I just got to keep it real
Speaker 3: with people, like I understand it's hold your nose kind
Speaker 3: of gross, but the matchup is great and I think
Speaker 3: he could be AQB one again for US in Week sixteen.
Speaker 1: Against the terrifying Jets defense. No less too, speaking of
Speaker 1: the Jets. Last week, there was somebody on the show
Speaker 1: that recommended Aaron Rodgers and it was this guy over here,
Speaker 1: pet fitz Morris, And it worked out. Deante Adams had
Speaker 1: himself a day. He ate lots of yarders there for
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers put up a thirty burger there. In most
Speaker 1: formats So are we gonna roll the dice two weeks
Speaker 1: in a row here, Pat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you're one of these Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 2: Gino Smith or maybe Jamis Winston stakeholders. We don't know
Speaker 2: if Winston is gonna be starting in week sixteen. There
Speaker 2: is appeal with Rodgers. He's had two really nice games
Speaker 2: in a row. He and DeVante Adams are now clicking
Speaker 2: like they were at their peak in Green Bay. And
Speaker 2: he's got Garret Wilson who maybe gets a squeaky wheel
Speaker 2: game after apparently being upset that Aaron Rodgers didn't throw
Speaker 2: a fade that Garrett Wilson wanted him to throw. So
Speaker 2: weaponry is not a problem. And maybe in a matchup
Speaker 2: against the Rams this week. I know the Rams passing
Speaker 2: game was not going full boar last week in that
Speaker 2: kind of rainy game against the forty nine ers on
Speaker 2: Thursday night, But maybe this turns out to be a
Speaker 2: little bit of a shootout. Matthew Stafford and Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: hearkening back to their NFC North ays together and hooking
Speaker 2: up for a high scoring affair. I do think there's
Speaker 2: upside for Rogers. I'm probably gonna have him ranked as
Speaker 2: like a mid range QB two this week.
Speaker 1: I love hearkening back to things. I think you like
Speaker 1: a good mark in there, de bro I do. I
Speaker 1: do likes a good hearken, especially when it's cold inside.
Speaker 1: I like a good hearken. Yeah, if anybody's fixing a hearken,
Speaker 1: it's Derek Brown. Let's get to the tight ends here. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go with you here, Fitzie, let's start off here.
Speaker 1: Let's do something smart at tight end. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty intrigued by what we've seen from stones Smart Joe,
Speaker 2: Like he looks really like quick and athletic and rangy
Speaker 2: to me, like he shows pretty good catch radius. He
Speaker 2: seems faster than the average tight end, Like he is
Speaker 2: a pretty pure pass catching tight end. And if we'll
Speaker 2: Disley misses Week sixteen, in case you haven't noticed, the
Speaker 2: Chargers can't run the ball anymore. Like their running game
Speaker 2: is just completely broken. So I think they're going to
Speaker 2: have to throw maybe a little more than Greg Roman
Speaker 2: and Jim Harbaugh would like. And maybe stone Smart could
Speaker 2: be part of that down the stretch. I think he's
Speaker 2: got some intriguing streaming potential for Week sixteen.
Speaker 1: How much does Jim Harball want Ashton genty in the
Speaker 1: draft this year. What's somebody to run the football all
Speaker 1: day long? All right? From a smart tight in selection
Speaker 1: to a strange one. Derek Brown take it away.
Speaker 3: I just for everybody they're watching this on the YouTube,
Speaker 3: Joe grinning ear to ear with these illustrious transitions, just
Speaker 3: has to get Week sixteen that you did.
Speaker 1: You were like, if you don't enjoy what you do,
Speaker 1: what's the point of doing it? Having a good time. Here,
Speaker 1: it's week sixteen, We're in the playoffs. Let's go, come on,
Speaker 1: do five thousand shows this year. You know we're coming
Speaker 1: to an end here, We're gonna a little bit of a
Speaker 1: break maybe, so plowing through this is how I amuse
Speaker 1: myself on that. Hey man, look, we gotta talk about
Speaker 1: other person.
Speaker 3: We got to talk about stranger things right now, and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk about Brenton Strange.
Speaker 1: I didn't think we'd be sitting here a week sixteen
Speaker 1: talking about.
Speaker 3: Brenton Strange as the tight ends stream intersure, But here
Speaker 3: we are, and they get the Raiders just talking about
Speaker 3: Mac Jones. Good passing matchup for Mac Jones Strange last week,
Speaker 3: I mean, doing his best Evan Ingram impersonation twenty six
Speaker 3: percent targets here eleven receptions and seventy three receiving guards.
Speaker 3: Now he gets raiders who have allowed the third most
Speaker 3: receiving yards per game and fantasy points per game to
Speaker 3: tight ends. Yeah, he's gonna be flirting with tight end
Speaker 3: one value this week.
Speaker 1: It's not surprising either that Strange was good with Mac Jones,
Speaker 1: because you know, when you're the number two quarterback, you're
Speaker 1: working with the number twos. We've seen this plenty of time,
Speaker 1: so keep that in mind too. If you're gonna see
Speaker 1: like Carson Wentz maybe play next week, Maybe somebody else
Speaker 1: might get a little bit more involved. It's just something
Speaker 1: to keep in mind. Maybe more of a DFS thing,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to the injuries, we've had a
Speaker 1: tight end at this point. If that Strange Jones connection
Speaker 1: is a thing, and it looked like it was at
Speaker 1: least yesterday in a good matchup, maybe in week sixteen,
Speaker 1: it's something to pay attention to. Debro Let's talk about
Speaker 1: a streaming defense for Week sixteen. Everyone's trying to eke
Speaker 1: out every single point they possibly can. What defense do
Speaker 1: you think can help folks out in this round two,
Speaker 1: we're going down to the bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 3: And I'm not telling you got to feel great about it,
Speaker 3: but you just start every freaking defense against the Giants.
Speaker 3: I don't care who's playing quarterback. I don't care if
Speaker 3: it's Tommy d Drew Locke or a day Ball is
Speaker 3: going to be under center this week because we don't know,
Speaker 3: but we're we're streaming the Atlanta Falcons against the Giants, all.
Speaker 1: Right, streaming. Well, that mean the Giants, certainly, well, they're
Speaker 1: a thing. They're a football team. They are they exist.
Speaker 1: It's bad. You know, it's frustrating too, because I had
Speaker 1: I'm not a Giants fan by any stretch of the means,
Speaker 1: but I had expectations that day Ball was actually a
Speaker 1: good hire and it seemed like, you know, things were
Speaker 1: going in the right direction, and it just seems like
Speaker 1: that one big decision that they had to make, they
Speaker 1: muffed it and they just haven't been able to get
Speaker 1: back on track since. And everything's just literally fallen apart.
Speaker 1: And that's unfortunate because that's the coaching and that's the
Speaker 1: leadership of getting the guys prepared, and they just haven't
Speaker 1: been Who's going to be prepared in week sixteen on
Speaker 1: the defensive side for you.
Speaker 2: FITZI wait, Joe, can we backtrack to this theory you
Speaker 2: have about backup quarterbacks and backup receivers, because it sounded
Speaker 2: like you brought up Carson Wentz. It sounded like you're
Speaker 2: saying we should maybe pick up sky Moore for an
Speaker 2: incoming Again.
Speaker 1: Keeper has already picked umup. I'm sure in three yeah, yah,
Speaker 1: got a roster nowhere now, No, But I mean, what
Speaker 1: we've seen that before, FITZI, like, we how many times
Speaker 1: have we seen like there's a secondary wide receiver on
Speaker 1: a team like the Chiefs, probably less of a thing,
Speaker 1: but on a team like Jacksonville where there's injuries and openings,
Speaker 1: you know, it was kind of that thing also too,
Speaker 1: where you know the New Orleans Saints quarterbacks, all right, well,
Speaker 1: Rattler Hayner, Who's who have they been practicing with? There's
Speaker 1: no wide receivers out there for this team. Maybe somebody
Speaker 1: pops off and has a good game. You can't take
Speaker 1: a lot of risk of this time in the season, though,
Speaker 1: but with range, it seems like one that you might
Speaker 1: be able to scout.
Speaker 2: Team chemistry is real, Joe.
Speaker 1: It is real, amazing, and scout team talent is real too,
Speaker 1: So remember that because sometimes it lets you down. That's
Speaker 1: why they're on the second team in the first place.
Speaker 1: FITZI stick with your Homer picks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've we've got a We've got a team, an
Speaker 2: indoor team from the Deep South coming up to Northeastern
Speaker 2: Wisconsin for a football game next Monday night. Temperatures should
Speaker 2: be somewhere in the twenties I would expect for that one.
Speaker 2: And we don't know who's gonna be quarterbacking the Saints.
Speaker 2: Maybe Derek Carr comes back from his concussion and his
Speaker 2: hand injury, but really, what's the point of doing that.
Speaker 2: And if we don't get Derek Carr, I think we're
Speaker 2: going to get Spence Spencer Rattler, who came in in
Speaker 2: relief of Jake Hayner, who the Saints clearly were not
Speaker 2: too enamored with after his early game showing on Sunday.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean Spencer Rattler. We saw the Packers
Speaker 2: get their pass rush dialed up against the Seahawks Onday night,
Speaker 2: and Rattler in his three starts plus his relief appearance
Speaker 2: on Sunday, he has fumbled three times, thrown two interceptions,
Speaker 2: and taken fourteen sacks. So this is a pretty good.
Speaker 1: He's the one they want to see again, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Exactly, and he is the preferred backup option here. So
Speaker 2: things look pretty good for the Packers defense this week.
Speaker 1: Deepro, we're you getting like a doctor evil vibe from
Speaker 1: FITZI just now when he was like, it's going to
Speaker 1: be very cold in Green Bay.
Speaker 3: I was waiting for a hair little cat to just
Speaker 3: jump on his lap.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: He's like, you know it was actually no, it wasn't
Speaker 1: even Doctor Reeve. It was more like it was more
Speaker 1: the Emperor in Return of the Jedi. He's like, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm afraid Green Bay will be quite cold when you
Speaker 1: get there. I feel like that's kind of the vibe
Speaker 1: he's he's still in a high from last night. You
Speaker 1: can tell Fitzy just he hasn't slept the wing.
Speaker 4: He was watching all that.
Speaker 3: He kept watching all the same house sacks. One think
Speaker 3: about his day.
Speaker 1: He saw the Lions lose in the afternoon, then at
Speaker 1: night he saw his Packers win. He's looking around, He's like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe you know the Viking's good lose today. Next thing,
Speaker 1: you know, all of a sudden. Those Packers are right
Speaker 1: there and think of it like that's that's a spicy
Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the kicker, because we have to.
Speaker 1: Who's the kicker?
Speaker 2: Cade York for the Bengals, repped by your sweatshirt, Joe.
Speaker 1: That's right, and uh yeah, I mean were good that
Speaker 1: one year, Yes, Cad York.
Speaker 2: I believe his career field goal percentage on like thirty
Speaker 2: seven career tries, it is only like seventy three percent.
Speaker 2: So I'm not vouching for the caliber of the kicker.
Speaker 2: I'm vouching for an offense that has averaged thirty four
Speaker 2: points a game over its last six games. The Bengals
Speaker 2: are just on fire offensively, and that is going to
Speaker 2: have residual benefits for whoever's kicking field goals and extra points.
Speaker 1: All right, So there you go, another kicker added to
Speaker 1: the list. Go ahead, their debro. Give us the kicker
Speaker 1: for Week sixteen.
Speaker 3: Chase McLaughlin. Baby, he's at least sixteen Fantasy points sixteen
Speaker 3: in two of his last four games.
Speaker 1: So you talked about loving Baker, Gotta love the kicker too. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: Baker's been the real deal. I'm I'm happy that he
Speaker 1: figured it out. Yeah, he's a fun player. He's got
Speaker 1: a lot of energy. I know he had a lot
Speaker 1: maybe too much swag. Maybe he needed to get humbled
Speaker 1: a little bit. Whatever it was, he's figured it out
Speaker 1: now and it's been great. And Tampa does play in
Speaker 1: a soft division. But regardless, man, he has been a
Speaker 1: great job leading this team. This is gonna be back
Speaker 1: to back QB one years for him fantasy wise. I mean,
Speaker 1: what a value he was in super flex leagues and
Speaker 1: he's played so good. Man.
Speaker 3: If the Bucks had a like an actually good defense
Speaker 3: and they were a ten or eleven team, I think
Speaker 3: he honestly would be in the MVP conversation and he should.
Speaker 1: We Look, they can fix that. It's so offseason, right,
Speaker 1: like if you have the quarterback, you can fix everything else.
Speaker 1: You know, got to keep the OC, keep the OCU.
Speaker 1: But look, I mean this is a different OC this
Speaker 1: year though, too. I mean, look, that's lost canals last
Speaker 1: year and then you know this year, new OC. A
Speaker 1: lot of people were question sing like, is it gonna
Speaker 1: fall apart? Louyd Gino did it didn't. In fact, it
Speaker 1: might have even gone better in some aspects of the game.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the top five list for those of
Speaker 1: you who are running waivers this week. In Week sixteen,
Speaker 1: Round two of the playoffs, FITZI give us your top
Speaker 1: five that you feel good about rostering this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got Sincere McCormick number one over Jerome Ford.
Speaker 2: Pretty close call. I think you could flip those if
Speaker 2: you wanted to. But I really like Sincere McCormick's Week
Speaker 2: sixteen week seventeen schedule. Number three, Kendre Miller. We saw
Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara leave with a groin injury, and so maybe
Speaker 2: it's a full dose of Kendre Miller in Week sixteen
Speaker 2: against the Packers. You know, not a favorable matchup, but
Speaker 2: if he's getting twenty plus touches and the Saints are
Speaker 2: trying to hide their quarterback, he could have some value.
Speaker 2: We'll go with Romeo Dobbs at number four and number five,
Speaker 2: ty J.
Speaker 1: Spears.
Speaker 2: You've got Tony Pollard dealing with an ankle issue, and
Speaker 2: Spears looked really good as a pass catcher yesterday against Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Okay, Debro, your top five for Week.
Speaker 3: Sixteen pretty much in concert with FITZI here just a
Speaker 3: few small wrinkles, but since here McCormick number one, Jerome
Speaker 3: Ford number two, Kendre Miller number three. For all the
Speaker 3: reasons that FITSI outlined, I mean just volume alone of
Speaker 3: Kamara Missus, he's on that RB two, RB three, CUSP,
Speaker 3: Jalen McMillan number four, and Tajy Spears coming in at
Speaker 3: number five.
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