Speaker 1: Whoa, Hey, everybody, It's Tuesday, December twenty fourth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. It's to me
Speaker 1: your man, MG Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Floryio
Speaker 1: and Lakwan Jones. And it's the day before the day
Speaker 1: and by that I mean the day before. There are
Speaker 1: two games on your television set from the NFL on Netflix.
Speaker 1: Oh and I guess Christmas too, that's also a thing
Speaker 1: that is happening. Yeah. So this I'm just saying, this
Speaker 1: is like a new experience. But we had Christmas Day
Speaker 1: games previously. It's just that Christmas didn't come on a Wednesday.
Speaker 1: That's the new part, right, I mean we are we
Speaker 1: prepared because Florio just feels like now that the NFL
Speaker 1: is doing games on Christmas, like we're not going back.
Speaker 2: Oh, We're never going back. I mean, look like like
Speaker 2: you said in the past, I was at a Christmas
Speaker 2: party a couple years ago. It was on a Monday.
Speaker 2: All right, there's three games on, that's cool. It was
Speaker 2: on a weekend. There's games on that's cool. On a Wednesday,
Speaker 2: like just the one day that football should never be
Speaker 2: played on. And here we are so yeah, we're we're
Speaker 2: getting games whether you like it or not. On Sorry, NBA,
Speaker 2: the NFL is here to stay.
Speaker 1: Christmas Day used to be for NBA games and like
Speaker 1: ce tier college football bowl games, right, I mean it
Speaker 1: was like the the Pooh Line Weed Eater Independence Bowl
Speaker 1: or something like that was on Christmas Day. But yeah,
Speaker 1: do you lakwi, is there one game over the other
Speaker 1: because we're gonna basically dive into the Christmas Day games
Speaker 1: and Thursday Night football. Is there one of those two
Speaker 1: Christmas Day games that you are more excited about than
Speaker 1: the other man.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I want to see the Steelers. I want to
Speaker 3: see George Pickens back out there lighting it up because honestly,
Speaker 3: I missed the schisty Black Air Force energy man, like
Speaker 3: I need it back out there. And I want the
Speaker 3: Steelers to win. I want them to beat the Chiefs,
Speaker 3: Like I don't want to see them have this perfect season.
Speaker 3: They got Hollywood brown back. I don't want to see
Speaker 3: the Chiefs three piece, So I want them to get
Speaker 3: a look day of coal on Christmas Day from the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Well, see, in that case, you should actually want the
Speaker 1: Chiefs to win this week. You want them to be
Speaker 1: as high and mighty going into the playoffs so that
Speaker 1: they suffer a monumentus because they're not gonna be unefeated.
Speaker 1: They've already lost once. You know, we can thank the
Speaker 1: Bills for that. There's no perfect season, we can we
Speaker 1: can take the Bills for that. But you know, like
Speaker 1: have them take a tumble and have it be more
Speaker 1: painful in the playoffs. That's really what you want. Like, like,
Speaker 1: if you want to be a hater like you, you
Speaker 1: got to see them rise before you see them fall,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're gonna get your silky Johnson on
Speaker 1: this week or this year. So uh, anyway, we are
Speaker 1: going to dive into the Crew to Christmas Day games.
Speaker 1: We're also going to dive into Thursday Night Football. We've
Speaker 1: got some hot starts and some hot takes for you
Speaker 1: as well. So what let's just get started with the
Speaker 1: two games on Christmas Day. Both of them can be
Speaker 1: seen on Netflix. The first one, Chiefs at the Steelers
Speaker 1: one pm the Eastern time is the kickoff for that one.
Speaker 1: Talk a little bit on Monday Show about Hollywood Brown
Speaker 1: and sort of how he fits in to the Chiefs
Speaker 1: wide receiver room. It's got really crowded over the last
Speaker 1: few weeks, Florio. But if you had to pick one
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs pass catchers, and we can throw the
Speaker 1: tight ends in this as well, which one do you
Speaker 1: like the most against a Steelers defense that has been
Speaker 1: pretty stingy this year.
Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy. I think he is underappreciated now. I know
Speaker 2: earlier in the year he was like the toy that
Speaker 2: they had that every so often they would break out for,
Speaker 2: like a run player or something like that. But like,
Speaker 2: don't look now he led them in routes ran this
Speaker 2: past week. Last week he had eleven targets, seven catches,
Speaker 2: sixty five yards and a touchdown. Nearly had a second
Speaker 2: touchdown but couldn't get his second foot down. That's been
Speaker 2: an issue for him a little bit. But he's getting volume,
Speaker 2: and it's not just like downfield plays. It's the exact
Speaker 2: volume you want for him. It's either like a downfield
Speaker 2: target or it's a short, quick, like creative touch where
Speaker 2: he could just do what he's doing here, running with
Speaker 2: the ball space and using that speed. So look, I
Speaker 2: don't care how good a defense is. Speed transcends and
Speaker 2: Xavier Worthy someone that I loved in the draft process,
Speaker 2: and I'm really excited. As much as I hate that
Speaker 2: he's a Chief, I'm really excited to watch him moving
Speaker 2: forward in his career.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting because I think he's sort
Speaker 1: of the future. Him and a healthy Rashi Rice. Right
Speaker 1: when we see Rashi Rice back again in this offense,
Speaker 1: I think those guys are gonna be the primary options
Speaker 1: going forward. But I was thinking about it watching that
Speaker 1: game rewatching that game after Saturday, that you know they've
Speaker 1: got Worthy and Juju is still there. I know Juju
Speaker 1: is not a big part of the offense, but he's there.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, Hollywood Brown is now there. You still have
Speaker 1: to get the ball to Travis Kelcey, Noah Gray keeps
Speaker 1: catching touchdowns justin Watson gets the occasional target somewhere in
Speaker 1: there as well. There's a lot going on, and that's
Speaker 1: before you talk about, you know what, like guys like
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt and Isaiah Pacheco and samaj p Ryan getting
Speaker 1: the football. There's like so much going on in this
Speaker 1: Chief's offense right now, it's hard to kind of put
Speaker 1: a finger on where you want all healthy.
Speaker 3: For the record that they have now, like you wouldn't
Speaker 3: think like Rashid Rice is done for the season due
Speaker 3: to friendly fire. Like you would not think like, how
Speaker 3: are they doing this? No, seriously, how are they doing this?
Speaker 1: This has to be magic, devil magic, that's how they're
Speaker 1: doing devil magic. It is, it is, it is. It
Speaker 1: is straight up, straight up witchcraft is what this is
Speaker 1: for sure. Meanwhile, the Steelers are sort of doing it
Speaker 1: on I don't know, bubble gum and happy thoughts at
Speaker 1: least offensively, Like defensively they're good. The offense is just
Speaker 1: good enough. You mentioned George Pickens looks like he's going
Speaker 1: to be coming back. That's the expectation. He's going to
Speaker 1: be ready to go for Wednesday. So obviously we all
Speaker 1: know we like George Pickens, But Lakwan, is there anybody
Speaker 1: else in that pass catching game that you like? There?
Speaker 1: For the Steelers this week?
Speaker 3: Calvin Austin man, he's been trying to like mirror what
Speaker 3: George Pickens brings to that offense and stretching the field.
Speaker 3: So you know, Russell Wilson, he's going to take those
Speaker 3: shots and some of those big catches that he had. Honestly,
Speaker 3: I'm like, yo, you need to get him the ball
Speaker 3: even more when George Pickens is there because all the
Speaker 3: attention is going to be on him, and Calvin Awson's
Speaker 3: having an amazing season. Man, he's definitely jumping on the
Speaker 3: bandwagon to being a guy that I will draft next year.
Speaker 3: He's one of those guys that you can have as
Speaker 3: your wide receiver four or five and then put him
Speaker 3: in there occasionally when the matchup is there, especially against
Speaker 3: a defense that gets cooked on the deep ball. So honestly, man,
Speaker 3: looking at him going into next year, he's one of
Speaker 3: those guys I definitely have my radar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Calvin Alson's the guy that I really liked.
Speaker 1: He especially was getting love when there was no Pickens.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if they both can coexist because as
Speaker 1: much as Russ has done good things in real football,
Speaker 1: I do think Russell Wilson has been sort of underwhelming
Speaker 1: in fantasy. So I do think Alvin Austin does have
Speaker 1: some potential, but I think he also needs to break
Speaker 1: some tackles and get a big play in there because
Speaker 1: I don't know that the volume is going to be
Speaker 1: what you want it to be. Do like Pat Fryarmuth though,
Speaker 1: just because the Chiefs have been kind of bad, against
Speaker 1: tight ends pretty much all season long. So that's one
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. There. The other game that
Speaker 1: we have going on on Christmas Day, it is the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens at the Houston Texans. That one set to
Speaker 1: kickoff at four thirty Eastern, and again it is on Netflix, laclid.
Speaker 1: I'll start with you on this one. Zay Flowers has
Speaker 1: been hot. He's had some up he's had some really
Speaker 1: big games. He had some games. Houston's been a really
Speaker 1: tough matchup for wide receivers. Can you trust za Flowers
Speaker 1: against this Texan secondary?
Speaker 3: I don't know if he could trust because honestly, this
Speaker 3: Texan secondary is like really under the radar, good man,
Speaker 3: and they're taking the ball away. But honestly, man, if
Speaker 3: I'm in the championship and he's got me here those
Speaker 3: ups and downs, man, I'm gonna put it to bed.
Speaker 3: This is literally MVP campaign season for Lamar Jackson, so
Speaker 3: he's going to be playing his best football, and honestly,
Speaker 3: a Flowers, he's electric. He gets open, he finds the
Speaker 3: open spaces, and then he creates after the catch. This
Speaker 3: is what he brings to the table. So I think
Speaker 3: with Lamar Jackson trying to go hard in this MVP campaign,
Speaker 3: He's going to be able to light it up.
Speaker 1: Look, I think you like Zay Flowers because he is
Speaker 1: essentially the primary target in the passing game and the
Speaker 1: way Lamar Jackson's throwing the football. It's hard to you know,
Speaker 1: to to doubt any of those guys there. But you know,
Speaker 1: every now and then we see the Rashot Bateman resurgence.
Speaker 1: You know, Mark Andrews is getting his love, especially near
Speaker 1: the goal line. But I do think, especially in a
Speaker 1: week like this, I would take the shot, mostly because
Speaker 1: Lamar's playing so well, and give the shot to Zay
Speaker 1: Flowers in that one. On the other side, Floria, I've
Speaker 1: been talking about Joe Mixon the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: because the schedule has not been very favorable to him.
Speaker 1: He's got the Ravens. The Ravens against the past have struggled.
Speaker 1: We've been able to figure out that we can start
Speaker 1: pass catches against them. Running backs have been a tough
Speaker 1: deal all year long. Can you trust Joe Mixon against
Speaker 1: this Baltimore front?
Speaker 2: It's one of those situations where ideally I don't want to,
Speaker 2: but you probably have to because, like, are you gonna
Speaker 2: sit him for like a mirror Abdulah. I don't know,
Speaker 2: because I get it like last week he did. He struggled,
Speaker 2: even though he averaged over four yards per carry against
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, which was pretty impressive. But the one saving
Speaker 2: grace I think is as elited as the Ravens have
Speaker 2: been at stopping the run, they have struggled against aass
Speaker 2: catching running backs, and we know that that is an
Speaker 2: area where Joe Mixon can contribute, especially now with Angel
Speaker 2: being done for the year.
Speaker 1: Tony Scale dissipated me.
Speaker 4: It's a Nico Collins, Dalton Schultz and then like Robert
Speaker 4: Woods was third in targets last week, so I wouldn't
Speaker 4: be surprised if we get a lot more jump offs
Speaker 4: to Joe Mixon. So again not someone that I'm like, yes,
Speaker 4: you have to start him, but you'd have to have
Speaker 4: a pretty good option to get away, just because of
Speaker 4: the volume that Joe Mixon could see in this one.
Speaker 1: And that's sort of where I am with Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: is that it's hard to get away from him. He's
Speaker 1: been so good for the majority of the season and
Speaker 1: there really isn't anybody there that you're worried is gonna
Speaker 1: take a lot of opportunities away from Mixon, so that
Speaker 1: means he's gonna be in a lot of lineups. It's
Speaker 1: just that I go into the week maybe with some
Speaker 1: lowered expectations about where he is. The ceiling gets a
Speaker 1: little bit lower for me with mixing just because of
Speaker 1: the matchup on the other side. But in terms of opportunity,
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be what it always has been
Speaker 1: for Joe Mixon for sure. All Right, those are the
Speaker 1: Christmas Day games. We'll get to the Thursday at football
Speaker 1: a little bit later. It's time to see who will deliver.
Speaker 1: Presented by Uber Eats. However you define this topic here, Lakwan,
Speaker 1: who is the player you'd like to speak on.
Speaker 3: I think Jalen Warn might be a sneaky sleeper, like
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna surprise some folks in this matchup
Speaker 3: against the Chiefs, because honestly, there's been some opportunities for
Speaker 3: running backs that have been involved in the passing game,
Speaker 3: and that's exactly where Jalen Ward fits the bill. You
Speaker 3: look at Chuba Hubbard's game, Alvin Kamara, James Cooch, just
Speaker 3: to name a few guys. Even Justice Hill had double
Speaker 3: digit Fantasy points going up against his Chiefs defense. Listen,
Speaker 3: it may not be on the ground for him, but
Speaker 3: he's been running a ton of routes. He's honestly taken
Speaker 3: up that role and he's keeping Najie Harris at bay.
Speaker 3: In the last three games, he's out snapped Harris fifty
Speaker 3: seven percent to thirty five percent. So honestly, he is
Speaker 3: not even a real worry. And when it comes to routes,
Speaker 3: Ran Arthur Smith had hisself a little game de little
Speaker 3: hisself having Cardero Patterson going out there catching passes, but
Speaker 3: he's running just as many routes as Najie Harris. So
Speaker 3: it's like one of those things that have a clear
Speaker 3: mind that Jalen Warren's going to be able to show up,
Speaker 3: show out, and hopefully Pickens is back in the lineup
Speaker 3: as well, so they can create more scoring opportunities because
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson needs him back to find his way back
Speaker 3: in the end zone as well, and I think Jalen
Speaker 3: Warren adds to that.
Speaker 1: I know there's been talk in fantasy circles about, you know,
Speaker 1: creating like a team running back position right where you
Speaker 1: can just draft, say like you want forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: running back, which means you'd have like seven guys on
Speaker 1: your team based on this year. But like if Thattary Hiller,
Speaker 1: Patrick Taylor, now, not you, not you. But if we
Speaker 1: were to do that, it feels like the Steelers would
Speaker 1: be a perfect test case for it, because if somehow
Speaker 1: Najie Harris and Jalen Warren could like form like Voltron,
Speaker 1: they would be one really good running back instead of
Speaker 1: two mediocre ones in fantas. So anyway, that's all I
Speaker 1: have to say about that, Florida. Who is your player
Speaker 1: for this section of the show.
Speaker 2: Dalton Schultz, who all year I have had as a
Speaker 2: sit in stardom Sidham when he has been featured there,
Speaker 2: And even when Steph Diggs went out, it was like no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: This isn't like last year because last season it took
Speaker 2: an injury to one of the top two receivers for
Speaker 2: Dalton Schultz to get going. This year, it needed to
Speaker 2: happen twice, and unfortunately it has. So we're at the
Speaker 2: point where we were last year when Dalton Schultz was
Speaker 2: a very useful fantasy tight end, where it's only one
Speaker 2: Alpha wide receiver out there. That he has to compete
Speaker 2: with targets with and in this past week eight targets
Speaker 2: was second most behind Nico Collins five catches, forty five
Speaker 2: yards and a touchdown. Now he gets the Ravens, who
Speaker 2: as of late have done a better job containing tight ends,
Speaker 2: but on the year they're still in the top three
Speaker 2: in yards allowed to the position. Could be a game
Speaker 2: where the Texans are in ketchup mode, or it's a
Speaker 2: back and forth kind of game. They have to throw
Speaker 2: a lot. So Dalton Schultz, someone that I was strongly
Speaker 2: avoiding all year long, is someone that I'm strongly advocating
Speaker 2: for in championship week. This yeah, Bizarro season comes full circle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it really does. No, I mean, you're you're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: because right now, all the circumstances point to Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: being a big part of the passing game there. You know,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the matchup, you mentioned the fact that there
Speaker 1: are guys that are gone now that that were there
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. So you know, back
Speaker 1: back in the summer when we thought that CJ. Stroud
Speaker 1: was gonna look again this year like you did last year,
Speaker 1: we thought, oh, sure, you can support all these pass catches,
Speaker 1: it'll be fine. That turned out to not be the case.
Speaker 1: But as one by one, as one by one, fate
Speaker 1: has peeled away the other options there for CJ. Stroud
Speaker 1: and the Texans. Suddenly you know, Dalton Schultz, he's the meme.
Speaker 1: But the guy sitting on the couch like pointing at me,
Speaker 1: who me, Like, that's that's Dalton Schultz this point in
Speaker 1: the season, since we're talking tight ends, I guess I should,
Speaker 1: you know, open up the Friars club and say Patrick
Speaker 1: or say Pat Patrick. Maybe it is Patrick. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Pat Fryarmuth is the guy that I'm in on this
Speaker 1: week because I mentioned earlier in the show the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have really struggled against the tight end position, and for
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, he really does like getting the tight end
Speaker 1: position involved. Now, mind you, I said that. You know,
Speaker 1: Russell has not been great statistically, it's been just fine.
Speaker 1: It's worked for the Steelers to help them get wins.
Speaker 1: But you know, aside from chucking the ball downfield and
Speaker 1: saying bleep it, George Pickens is down there somewhere, we're
Speaker 1: starting to see Friarmuth get more and more involved. Now,
Speaker 1: mind you, I don't expect huge things out of Friarmuth.
Speaker 1: This is somewhat a function of just the tight end position,
Speaker 1: because after your top say four guys or so, it
Speaker 1: falls off really really quickly, and you're into streaming territory
Speaker 1: really really quickly. And I think that's sort of where
Speaker 1: you see friar Mouth. But this is a matchup that
Speaker 1: I think can allow him to prosper as long as
Speaker 1: they can protect against that pass rush and Russell can
Speaker 1: get the ball out. I think you're gonna see George
Speaker 1: Pickens get his targets, and I think you're gonna see
Speaker 1: Friarmuth gets some love as well. So if you are
Speaker 1: still streaming tight ends, or maybe you're just playing daily fantasy,
Speaker 1: I think Pat Fryarmuth has a little bit of a
Speaker 1: value for you this week. It is Pat.
Speaker 3: By the way, it's Patrick John Fireman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, thank you Wikipedia, Like I'm glad to
Speaker 1: know that actually, you know, you actually did real research,
Speaker 1: like you were a researcher. Here. You have actual research
Speaker 1: sources that you can go to and not just the
Speaker 1: wiki for stuff like that. That's what we do, that's
Speaker 1: that's our job. We just uh please don't please don't
Speaker 1: put on the internet that I got mad. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take a break, come back with some hot starts. Look
Speaker 1: at Thursday Night Football as well. That's next on the
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Speaker 1: presented by the all new hybrid Toyota Camry. So we
Speaker 1: definitely have more of a clear marching orders on this one.
Speaker 1: Who's your hot start for the week?
Speaker 3: Lakwan Keenan Allen against the Seahawks. Man, honestly, he has
Speaker 3: been on a street heater the last five games, five touchdown,
Speaker 3: twenty fantasy points per game. This dude is looking like
Speaker 3: the alpha wide receiver for his Bears offense. But that
Speaker 3: doesn't really matter because all the other guys could eat
Speaker 3: as well. I mean sixty percent of the passes or
Speaker 3: what their offense are living on where he could spread
Speaker 3: the ball around and have these guys feast. We just
Speaker 3: saw the Vikings have their way with this Seahawks defense.
Speaker 3: They are suspect I've been screaming at all season long.
Speaker 3: So what do you think with Justin Jefferson and Jordan
Speaker 3: Addison both find the end zone? This looks like a
Speaker 3: Keenan Allen big game. This has been his strongest stretch
Speaker 3: all season long. So I'm looking for big points from
Speaker 3: Keenan Allen and DJ Moore might have himself a good
Speaker 3: game as well.
Speaker 1: Now I'm with you. I think this is another Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen week. I mean he's been a really nice security
Speaker 1: blanket for Caleb. I think that keeps rolling this week
Speaker 1: as well. Floria, who's your hot start?
Speaker 2: I know I spoke up Xavier Worthy earlier in the show.
Speaker 2: I'll take it a step further. I think Xavier Worthy
Speaker 2: is the only chief that you could start with confidence.
Speaker 2: Like Patrick Mahomes. I know he had a good game
Speaker 2: last week, but it was the same old usual passing numbers.
Speaker 2: He just had a rushing time. Travis Kelce. I think
Speaker 2: it's six straight games in a row now he's been
Speaker 2: in single digits. The running backs are taken away from
Speaker 2: each other too much. There's not all three of them
Speaker 2: are getting involved. I know we could get excited for
Speaker 2: what Marquise Brown did, but second game back in a
Speaker 2: short week, like, I don't think I want to start
Speaker 2: that in Fantasy Championship D hop you can't trust right now.
Speaker 2: So despite being fourteen to one, I think there is
Speaker 2: one player, and it is a rookie wide receiver who
Speaker 2: was unusable at the start of the year. It is
Speaker 2: just such a weird season for everyone in fantasy, but
Speaker 2: especially for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Worthy's really starting to come together. It
Speaker 1: was a slow start, which I guess as a rookie
Speaker 1: should be kind of expected, but he's really picked things
Speaker 1: up in the back part of the season. My hot
Speaker 1: start's gonna be Nico Collins, who's been a great start
Speaker 1: pretty much all year long for both the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: and fantasy managers. Unfortunately, now the Texans having to go
Speaker 1: the rest of the way without Tank Dow they had
Speaker 1: already lost Stefan Diggs earlier in the season. Collins, all
Speaker 1: regular number one option for CJ. Stroud, now gets that
Speaker 1: much more attention in the passing game. We continue to
Speaker 1: pick on the Ravens secondary. We have done it all
Speaker 1: season long, see no reason to stop now. I think
Speaker 1: in order for the Texans to stay in this one,
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens are gonna score points. I think
Speaker 1: the Textans are gonna have to try to match, so
Speaker 1: Nico Collins an easy start for me in Week seventeen.
Speaker 1: Look He's probably a big part of the reason you
Speaker 1: made it to week seventeen in your fantasy leagues. No
Speaker 1: reason to try to back away from it now against
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. So at talking about Wednesday, let's focus
Speaker 1: on Thursday, where we do have Thursday Night football the
Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Bears. You can see that at eight
Speaker 1: fifteen pm Eastern on Prime Video. Kenneth Walker came back.
Speaker 1: We saw him for the Seahawks. The Bears run defense
Speaker 1: has been very good. So Florio, if I tell you
Speaker 1: Kennth Walker and Zach Charbonay, you're going either neither or
Speaker 1: both this week.
Speaker 2: I'm going Kenneth Walker and that's it. And it's unfortunate
Speaker 2: for Zach Sharboney for as well as he played with
Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker's sidelines. And then Seattle not only named him
Speaker 2: the starter, they named him a team captain before yesterday's game.
Speaker 2: And you know how they rewarded him for that. They
Speaker 2: gave him the same amount of snaps as Kenny McIntosh,
Speaker 2: two fewer carries and one more target. He had half
Speaker 2: as many yards as Kenny McIntosh did. Meanwhile, Kenneth Walker
Speaker 2: only eight carries, but he had eight targets and that
Speaker 2: really propels him up. They both kind of saw work
Speaker 2: near the goal line. The one knock I have on
Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker as he's not a good goal line runner.
Speaker 2: I've seen enough of him getting stuffed repeatedly this year
Speaker 2: to be able to end over the past years to
Speaker 2: tell you that. But he's explosive and he's getting the volume.
Speaker 2: So you start him, and unfortunately for Zach Sharbonay, it's like,
Speaker 2: thank you for your service. The Seahawks don't really want
Speaker 2: to trust you. How could we in fantasy? You know?
Speaker 1: I mean this is another one where if we could
Speaker 1: do team running backs Seahawks running backs, we could somehow,
Speaker 1: you know, match up Kenneth Walker and Zach Sharbonay. We'd
Speaker 1: be doing pretty well when it comes to our fantasy
Speaker 1: running back spot. So you sort of answered this, Lakwan,
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna I'm gonna, you know, kind of may
Speaker 1: be tweaking a little bit. I'll just say the Wheel
Speaker 1: of Bears receivers where you put in your chip. You
Speaker 1: already talked about Keenan Allen, So I just ask you, like,
Speaker 1: do you see a scenario where you'd feel comfortable with,
Speaker 1: say Romo Dunes, DJ More, I think you're starting, but
Speaker 1: Romo Dunes, would you feel comfortable plugging him in anywhere?
Speaker 3: So funny enough, since week nine, you have Keidananda leading
Speaker 3: them in targets and yards, then you have you DJ
Speaker 3: Moore leading them in catches. But the one category where
Speaker 3: Roma Dunze just has the upside every single week he's
Speaker 3: leading them in red zone targets since week nine. So
Speaker 3: you're looking at this basically wide receivers where they should
Speaker 3: all fuse into one Megatron wide receiver, where you have
Speaker 3: them having their roles in this offense, and Roma Dunese
Speaker 3: having that touchdown upside. He makes me like an appealing
Speaker 3: flex option for me. And honestly, this is going to
Speaker 3: be a defense. Like I said before, their they're suspects,
Speaker 3: so he might have some upside the fining end zone
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: This week. Yeah, look, oh, Duneesa really has been boom
Speaker 1: or bust, right, Either you get a couple of touchdowns,
Speaker 1: you get a touchdown or so from him, or you're
Speaker 1: looking at like six points out of Romo Dunze. So
Speaker 1: it really has been up or down with him. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm with you in the I think Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen is kind of the guy. If I had to
Speaker 1: pick a Bears receiver this week, I think there's brighter
Speaker 1: days for Odonsay. I think he and and Caleb Williams
Speaker 1: are building something, but I don't know that I trust him,
Speaker 1: especially not in Championship week. I'm not trusting Romo Doonza.
Speaker 2: Look a little saving grace for your boy, Marcus and
Speaker 2: Bears fans. Nine games losses this year without an interception
Speaker 2: thrown by Caleb Williams, most losses ever without an interception
Speaker 2: in NFL history.
Speaker 1: I mean, look there, they're definitely Look there are moments
Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, this is really painful to watch
Speaker 1: and it hurts my heart. But there are moments where like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the Caleb we thought we would see. And
Speaker 1: I think once they start to build, they get a
Speaker 1: head coach in there and they kind of start to
Speaker 1: build the program. I think we're going to see that
Speaker 1: a little more often next year. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: a hot take, but it is now time for hot takes.
Speaker 1: As we close out the show, Well, Kawhan, get a
Speaker 1: little spicy for us.
Speaker 3: Please listen. This is a he may not be in
Speaker 3: your starting lineers for your championship.
Speaker 1: But c J.
Speaker 3: Strout is going to have the best fantasy performance he's
Speaker 3: had all season long. He's coming because listen, we saw
Speaker 3: how emotional he was and how much of a brotherhood
Speaker 3: this team is. With Tank Dell going down, I think
Speaker 3: there's opportunity for him to go out there and get
Speaker 3: a w for his boy, his best friend, his brother,
Speaker 3: and go out there and get this Ravens defense secondary
Speaker 3: guessing it's going to Nico, if it's going to Joe Mixon,
Speaker 3: is a Dalton Schultz, whoever the case may be. And listen,
Speaker 3: this Ravens defense there a lining the most completions of
Speaker 3: ten plus yards. So therefore we know how aggressive c. J.
Speaker 3: Strout can be of going downfield. So I'm expecting some
Speaker 3: big plays from him and showing up and showing out
Speaker 3: for championships.
Speaker 1: I know this is gonna sound really simplistic, but it
Speaker 1: really is about the offensive line in Houston. If they
Speaker 1: can give him a clean pocket, give him time. I
Speaker 1: saw really good things from him last week. It's the
Speaker 1: problem that the offensive line has struggled. He's been under pressure,
Speaker 1: and that's when bad things tend to happen again. I
Speaker 1: know that's a simplest, simplistic view of things, but it
Speaker 1: also tends to be kind of how the text also effect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just really how it goes. Florida. What's
Speaker 1: your hot take for the.
Speaker 2: Week that that Seattle's water receiver one is going to
Speaker 2: give you twenty Fantasy points, but it's not the wide
Speaker 2: receiver you might be thinking of, because their new wide
Speaker 2: receiver one is Jackson Smith and Jigba, And I don't
Speaker 2: see how you can really argue this. Right now, he
Speaker 2: is eight straight games with eleven or more Fantasy points.
Speaker 2: In that stretch. He is averaging twenty Fantasy points per game.
Speaker 2: Look at the volume that he is seeing each week.
Speaker 2: He had twelve targets this past week, twelve targets last week.
Speaker 2: He has numerous games in this stretch, four of them
Speaker 2: actually with eleven or more targets. He is the first
Speaker 2: raid on the majority of plays, like DK is just
Speaker 2: the big play threat guy on the other side, but
Speaker 2: JSN is the guy they run the offense through, and
Speaker 2: the Bears they've struggled against the pass as of late.
Speaker 2: So I think Jaysn eats and I think he stamps
Speaker 2: him as a league winner.
Speaker 1: This year. He has taken Tyler Lockett's whole swag, including
Speaker 1: usurfing DK metcalf as the wide receiver one they're in
Speaker 1: Seattle for right. My hot take other side of that
Speaker 1: same game, that Caleb Williams goes for twenty plus points
Speaker 1: for the second straight week, call the sort of no stats,
Speaker 1: just vibes, or maybe mild stats, mostly vibes. Every time
Speaker 1: Caleb has scored twenty points, he has backed it up
Speaker 1: with another twenty point game. Right. This would be his
Speaker 1: sixth twenty point game of the season. They all come
Speaker 1: back to back, Right, It's like it's like Little Caesars Pizza,
Speaker 1: you get two for one when it comes to twenty
Speaker 1: point games for Caleb Williams this season. I think he
Speaker 1: gets it done against that Seattle's secondary that we've mentioned
Speaker 1: has been struggling lately, whether it's through Keenan Allen, Romo Dunes, A,
Speaker 1: DJ Moore, maybe even DeAndre Swift, who knows. I think
Speaker 1: Caleb William's gonna get it done for fantasy managers in
Speaker 1: Championship Week and it will be a merry Christmas for all.
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