Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, November fourteenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. We should probably
Speaker 1: mix in a salad. It's me your man, nam j
Speaker 1: Marcus Grant, joined by Michael Florio and Lakwan Jones. How
Speaker 1: are your eating habits at this point in the season,
Speaker 1: because mine tend to fall apart.
Speaker 2: We're doing better since strawberries has entered my life, a
Speaker 2: little bit healthier. Now I'm venturing to new fruits.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: That's kind of good.
Speaker 2: So and you know I'm feeling good right now health wise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, Floria, we were talking about fruits the
Speaker 1: other day. I brought up for simmons and I think
Speaker 1: everybody in the room was perplexed as to what that was.
Speaker 4: That's not real.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I eat salads all the time. I cannot tell
Speaker 3: you what nonsense you're talking about.
Speaker 4: For simmons, they're very good in the summer.
Speaker 1: You get them, you put them in the fridge, they're old,
Speaker 1: they're fantastic, very much mild flavored fruit or orange.
Speaker 2: It sounds like something that's in my grandma's per Stordan
Speaker 2: church or something that she hands me.
Speaker 1: As they do sound like little wrapped candies that like
Speaker 1: old people hand out for sure, but I punish you.
Speaker 4: I promise you that they are They're pretty tasty. We're
Speaker 4: gonna go through some things today.
Speaker 1: I will have our big calls our players to beware
Speaker 1: our favorite sleepers. I was looking for some news. It
Speaker 1: really isn't a whole lot of major news. I guess
Speaker 1: we could kind of talk a little bit about Isaiah
Speaker 1: Pacheco because his window to get back on the field
Speaker 1: has opened again. Not expected to play this week against
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. But I mean, l Q, if you've
Speaker 1: got Pacheco, or more importantly, I guess if you have
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt, how are you feeling right now?
Speaker 2: This is actually like a weird situation for me because
Speaker 2: I am in this exact situation in one league that
Speaker 2: I really care about, and like, I feel like, if
Speaker 2: Pacheco is back, I'm going to star him just based
Speaker 2: on the talent, but it's more so what does that
Speaker 2: workload look like for the next couple of weeks. It
Speaker 2: is probably like the biggest question I have. So I
Speaker 2: don't have the answers for that, but I feel as though,
Speaker 2: if Pachecko's healthy, you starting them man, I feel like
Speaker 2: you can't really shy away.
Speaker 4: I'm I mean, Florida.
Speaker 1: Does this end up being a two headed backfield or
Speaker 1: do they just go back to being a Pacheck go offense.
Speaker 3: I think it'll take a couple of weeks, Like the
Speaker 3: first game he's back, it probably eas in then Maybe
Speaker 3: I don't know how long it'll take, but I assume
Speaker 3: there will be a ramp up period. But my expectation
Speaker 3: is that Pacheco will get the the heavy side of
Speaker 3: the work sooner rather than later once he's back. But
Speaker 3: I do think Kareem Hunt is more of a threat
Speaker 3: to have a standalone role than any of the running
Speaker 3: backs that were on the roster before Pachecko got hurt.
Speaker 1: Remember those couple of days when Carson Steel seemed like
Speaker 1: he was gonna be a thing?
Speaker 4: That was Yes, that was a funny forty eight hours
Speaker 4: or so.
Speaker 2: People in the comments were ripping us about that. But
Speaker 2: we never like boasted him up to be like an
Speaker 2: RB one.
Speaker 1: I mean no, he was just he was like kind
Speaker 1: of next man up. He was the g I stayed
Speaker 1: in there, so we thought maybe he was gonna get
Speaker 1: some touches.
Speaker 3: The people who thought Pacheko wasn't going to be a
Speaker 3: thing because of samaj p running.
Speaker 4: Yeah oh yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was really weirding a mess. All right, let's
Speaker 1: get to some of our predictions for Week eleven. As
Speaker 1: always started with club du Well dub the non quarterback
Speaker 1: that we think is going to be the top scorer
Speaker 1: this week, and uh lakwan. I mean, look, we're going
Speaker 1: by it with a good old standby. Maybe he hasn't
Speaker 1: had the hugest year this year, but a guy that
Speaker 1: it's hard to argue against.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Travis Kelce. As the weather's getting colder,
Speaker 2: he's starting to heat up. He's putting on that tight
Speaker 2: end one crown this week. I definitely think, you know
Speaker 2: your muss, Glorio. Buffalo Bills are going to have a
Speaker 2: hard time trying to figure out can they cover Travis
Speaker 2: Kelce with a safety with a linebacker, because you're not
Speaker 2: going to always want to put a linebacker on him.
Speaker 2: And I really feel as though you have to worry
Speaker 2: about DeAndre Hopkins and then you have Xavier Worthy as
Speaker 2: a decoy. This Bill's defense are going to have their
Speaker 2: hands full. And I think last time in that Divisional round,
Speaker 2: Travis Kelce lit them up twenty four fantasy points, seventy
Speaker 2: five yards and two touchdowns. I think he sits on
Speaker 2: the crown at the top with tight end one this week.
Speaker 1: I love you saying earmuffs to Florida, like he doesn't
Speaker 1: know all the hell that Travis Kelcey has put his
Speaker 1: team through over the years, Like I'm sure he is
Speaker 1: fully aware of all the things Travis.
Speaker 4: Kelce has done against the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately.
Speaker 4: Yeah, who's your top scorer for the week.
Speaker 3: I think it'll be George Pickens, because one, George Pickens
Speaker 3: is awesome to people get mad when I say stuff
Speaker 3: like that, like oh, this guy's awesome, like it's not
Speaker 3: true or something. And then Russell Wilson has been playing
Speaker 3: better football as of late and has really been elevating
Speaker 3: George Pickens. He's averaged ninety two yards per game with
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson and eighteen fantasy points per game. But now
Speaker 3: he gets the Ravens, who have allowed the most yards
Speaker 3: touchdowns to wide receivers the most yards touchdowns to quarterback.
Speaker 3: They are the best matchup for passing attacks and on
Speaker 3: top of their defense struggling, their offense is the best
Speaker 3: in football so they score a lot of points, so
Speaker 3: you have to then try to match them. This is
Speaker 3: a good game where I think russ could throw a
Speaker 3: whole bunch and that's gonna lead to good thing for
Speaker 3: George Pickens. My Bowl prediction is both our top five
Speaker 3: this week, but Pickens might mess around and be the
Speaker 3: top scorer.
Speaker 4: Of the week. Last week messed around and got a
Speaker 4: triple double. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look, Pickens is very much back in play. I mean
Speaker 1: the fact that we like Russell Wilson this week, that
Speaker 1: I like Mike Williams potentially as a sleeper. I even
Speaker 1: think Calvin Austin might get some love. This should be
Speaker 1: a really back and forth game and George Pickens very
Speaker 1: much in play for a huge week this week against
Speaker 1: the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Have we seen George Pickens play though, Like, have we
Speaker 2: been watching the on field antics? Like it's been much.
Speaker 4: Watching for me? Oh yeah no, He's coming.
Speaker 3: The most entertaining dude in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I want a George Pickens super cut of all the
Speaker 1: non football things that he does on a field, Like.
Speaker 2: Like I think he wakes up with the shisty on
Speaker 2: Black Air Forces with NBA young boy just playing in
Speaker 2: his head all day long.
Speaker 1: They pulled an RKO on Mike Saine was still last
Speaker 1: week and what are we doing?
Speaker 3: I saw a tweet that was like, after the interception,
Speaker 3: Pickens didn't care about the football, he just started fighting.
Speaker 3: And then I saw the video and I was in
Speaker 3: tears for a solid five minutes.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what happened. Club Dove winner for sure, dude
Speaker 4: is comedy comedy.
Speaker 1: My club that picked this week is gonna be Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon because see, here's the thing about the Cowboys defense.
Speaker 1: It's bad and it don't really matter, you know, if
Speaker 1: it's against the pass or against the run. They haven't
Speaker 1: really been able to stop much of anybody. Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: has been fantastic all year long. I mean, look even
Speaker 1: last week and what was sort of a down game
Speaker 1: for him against the Lions, He's still got you ninety
Speaker 1: scrimmage yards, still found his way into the m zone.
Speaker 1: So even the the quote unquote bad games for Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon this year has still been pretty good. This is
Speaker 1: a great I know, we sort of like CJ. Stroud
Speaker 1: to bounce back this week. There's no reason to say
Speaker 1: that both CJ. Stroud and Joe Mixon can't eat. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's Stroud rows a few to mixing, maybe he runs
Speaker 1: a touchdown in, maybe he fetches a receiving touchdown, doesn't
Speaker 1: matter either way.
Speaker 4: I think it's happening for Mixon in a big way
Speaker 4: in week. Love it.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, on the red flag side, after I just sit
Speaker 1: here and say, we all, like CJ.
Speaker 4: Shroud, I look at that.
Speaker 1: This will teach me to not look at the rundown
Speaker 1: before I start talking, because Lakwan's just sitting here and
Speaker 1: basically just.
Speaker 4: Throwing this all back in my face. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2: Listen, the biggest red flag for me this week is
Speaker 2: c J. Stroud against his Dallas defense, and honestly, Micaeh
Speaker 2: Parsons is back and his president was felt last week
Speaker 2: against Jalen Hurts pressured him five times. I mean he's
Speaker 2: pressured on fifty three percent of his dropbacks. That's the
Speaker 2: highest pressure rate hurts his face this entire season in
Speaker 2: the game, and I honestly think we're not putting much
Speaker 2: emphasis on how bad this Texans on line has been.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, c J. Stroud's the second most quarterback
Speaker 2: in the league right now. This Houston Texans offensive line
Speaker 2: cannot protect him. They simply can't, and we have Micah
Speaker 2: Parsons back in business. It's gonna be a long night
Speaker 2: for for CJ.
Speaker 4: Strout U, a hater like we all. We all don't
Speaker 4: want this to happen like.
Speaker 3: We all want we do.
Speaker 4: We all want good things to happen here. But now
Speaker 4: you're throwing hater eight on it. All right? Fine, uh, Floyd?
Speaker 4: Who are we worried about? This week?
Speaker 3: I really thought about going with a lot of the names,
Speaker 3: and I haven't start sitting like Ceedee Lamb, Brian Thomas Junior,
Speaker 3: Jalen Wattle, DJ Moore. But I'm just preaching to the
Speaker 3: choir there, like everyone already knows that those guys are
Speaker 3: are risky plays this week. So I'll go with Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 3: who isn't getting the same heat that a lot of
Speaker 3: those other wide receivers are getting, despite the fact that
Speaker 3: he probably should be. Since Week two nine point two
Speaker 3: fantasy points per game, he has not scored fourteen Fantasy
Speaker 3: points in any game. We for a while, we're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: it'll get better once two is back to his ben back.
Speaker 3: It hasn't really gotten all that better for Tyreek Hill now,
Speaker 3: and he gets the Raiders who've allowed the third fewest
Speaker 3: yards to wide receivers, and they are really tough on
Speaker 3: out wide wide receivers, which is where Tyreek Hill runs
Speaker 3: two thirds of his route. So in a game where
Speaker 3: I think they're just gonna run the ball a whole bunch,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you can necessarily get away from
Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill because he's Tyreek Hill and the upside is
Speaker 3: always so high because he just needs one play. But yeah,
Speaker 3: the floor, the ceiling, none of it has been what
Speaker 3: we are accustomed to with Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's wild.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that he is sort of, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of an escaped suspicion maybe because he's Tyreek Hill, and
Speaker 1: were like, oh, the big breakout game is coming, but
Speaker 1: it hasn't really happened yet, and we haven't really looked
Speaker 1: at him sideways the way we have with Jalen Waddle. Also,
Speaker 1: it's weird to have a conversation to say the Raiders
Speaker 1: are really tough against wide receivers because that just has
Speaker 1: never really been a thing. It's just a really good thing,
Speaker 1: But this year it's a thing. So I think we
Speaker 1: should probably acknowledge that might gotta be aware of is
Speaker 1: James co And I don't know that you can get
Speaker 1: away from James Cook, right, I mean where you've probably
Speaker 1: drafted him and the way you've probably used it. I
Speaker 1: can't really make a strong case to just straight up
Speaker 1: sit him, but I do worry about him against that
Speaker 1: Chiefs run defense.
Speaker 4: They've been good against everybody, you know.
Speaker 1: I sort of look at what they did against the
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers a couple of weeks ago, and they
Speaker 1: shut down Jordan Mason yet an okay game, And I
Speaker 1: feel like that's going to be sort of the.
Speaker 4: Thing with Cook.
Speaker 1: It might not just be a flat out terrible fantasy performance.
Speaker 1: It might just be sort of it's not going to
Speaker 1: give you a whole lot. I think there are ways
Speaker 1: for the Bills to move the ball against the Chiefs
Speaker 1: this week, but I'm not sure that working through James
Speaker 1: Cook is going to be one of them. I think
Speaker 1: this is going to be a week where we see
Speaker 1: do a lot of Khalil Shakir. I think we'll see
Speaker 1: some presumably Dawson Knotts because it looks like Dalton and
Speaker 1: k may not go this week.
Speaker 4: So I think there are.
Speaker 1: Other avenues for the Bills to be successful, just not
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure that James Cook is going to.
Speaker 4: Be the guy. But again, I get it.
Speaker 1: If you can't get away from him, just understand that
Speaker 1: I think the ceiling.
Speaker 4: Is a little bit lower than it normally is.
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Speaker 2: Huh Yeah, he's my sleeper this week against the Jets.
Speaker 2: And I feel like we've all been grounded as kids
Speaker 2: before and then once we get off of punishment, we're
Speaker 2: like the greatest kids ever, Like we want to go
Speaker 2: out there and make the right decisions. And I think
Speaker 2: with Anthony Richardson getting off a punishment dincist Jets defense,
Speaker 2: I think we might see a little bit of more
Speaker 2: of him running out of the pocket because Hassan Reddick
Speaker 2: has been causing hell in the trenches the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks, so therefore him getting out of the pocket
Speaker 2: where I think the Jets are being weak at at
Speaker 2: stopping mobile quarterbacks. I really feel as though you know
Speaker 2: him sitting on the sideline. He can lock in because
Speaker 2: we saw Bryce Young go through it when he was
Speaker 2: benched and come back. He's playing a lot better. And
Speaker 2: Will Levis wasn't a benching, but he had this in
Speaker 2: on the sideline with injury. But I think he was
Speaker 2: trending towards being benched anyway. But we're seeing these guys
Speaker 2: come off of punishment and start performing better and making
Speaker 2: better decisions. So he's my sleeper this week.
Speaker 4: Man, all right, I want.
Speaker 1: To believe I'm thinking gave more, wait and see approach
Speaker 1: with him because I just I want to see him
Speaker 1: run more because that's the thing that he hasn't done.
Speaker 2: Yes, still bad taste in your mouth, it does.
Speaker 1: It's still I'm still a little bit scarred. So I
Speaker 1: hope for the best, but I'm gonna, you know, in
Speaker 1: places where I have him, I'm gonna hold off for
Speaker 1: a little bit and just kind of see how things
Speaker 1: go before I make a move.
Speaker 4: I mentioned this.
Speaker 1: Guy before, florio I said in passing that he could
Speaker 1: be away that the Bills succeed this week.
Speaker 4: You apparently are all on board with it. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think Dawson Knox like it's a one week thing
Speaker 3: more than likely. But I think he is a great
Speaker 3: streaming option, great bie week injury replacement, whatever the case
Speaker 3: may be, because there was a stretch it was like
Speaker 3: a two three year stretch where Dawson Knox like he
Speaker 3: got paid here because that's how much work he was
Speaker 3: getting from Josh Allen. Never a great yard type of
Speaker 3: tight end, but he had his season with nine touchdowns
Speaker 3: in a season with six touchdowns and had over five
Speaker 3: hundred yards in each of those. That was before Don
Speaker 3: Kincaid's arrival. Don Kinkaid looks like he is not going
Speaker 3: to play this week. He has not really practiced much
Speaker 3: this week. If he plays, disregard everything I'm about to say,
Speaker 3: but Knox has the trust of Josh Allen, especially in
Speaker 3: the red zone. The Bills pass catchers are really banged up.
Speaker 3: Key On Coleman has been ruled out. Kincaid hasn't practiced,
Speaker 3: Amari Cooper is like practicing off on the sideline. And
Speaker 3: then the Chiefs are elite against the run, They're elite
Speaker 3: against wide receivers. They are not elite though against tight ends.
Speaker 3: Most yards allow their top two and fantasy points allowed.
Speaker 3: So I like his chances of scoring a touchdown, and
Speaker 3: I think he could surprise people and finish as a
Speaker 3: tight end one this week. So I'm streaming him in
Speaker 3: a lot of places this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't hate that at all because I would have
Speaker 1: been big on inkaid had he been available. But as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, it's not looking great for him getting on
Speaker 1: the field. So I'm totally okay with Dawson knock stepping in.
Speaker 1: You're talking about him being a thing for a couple years.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I put out a whole lot of Dawson
Speaker 1: Knox Dawson's creak related puns for a couple of years
Speaker 1: every time he did a thing. So trust me, Like,
Speaker 1: I am fully on board with that idea.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 1: For me, my sleep of this week's going to be
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, right, I mean, we have been waiting for
Speaker 1: a big Nick Chubb game. This feels like the opportunity.
Speaker 1: The Saints ranked twenty eighth against the run, giving up
Speaker 1: more than five yards per carry to running backs so
Speaker 1: far this season, second most rushing touchdowns allowed to the
Speaker 1: position this year. Chubb, for his part, has been pretty consistent,
Speaker 1: right around fifteen touches per game in the three games
Speaker 1: he has played, he just hasn't had really good matchups.
Speaker 1: Now they're coming off the buy to a week to
Speaker 1: sort of game plan to kind of get everybody healthy
Speaker 1: a little bit as well. The volume has been there.
Speaker 1: Now he's got his best matchup of the season. This
Speaker 1: feels like we can get one of those. Maybe not
Speaker 1: one of those vintage Nick Chubb games, but certainly, you know,
Speaker 1: the best game that he has had this season. So
Speaker 1: you know what we've all kind of said, Look, let's
Speaker 1: take a wait and see on Nick Chubb. This I
Speaker 1: think is the opportunity to try and get him in
Speaker 1: a lineup, because I do like what the opportunity is
Speaker 1: for him against the Saints this week with jamis kind
Speaker 1: of going back down to New Orleans. See if you
Speaker 1: can eat a w down there in the Dome. We'll
Speaker 1: see how that goes.
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Speaker 1: All Right, those are our calls for Week eleven, and
Speaker 1: that'll do it for this edition of the NFL Fantasy
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