WEBVTT - SpittinSPEEDZ Week 16 Takeaways & Waiver Claims 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.040 You are now about to witness the strength of fantasy 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:11.719 knowledge Fantasy Sports Radio Network. You are now tuned into 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:16.200 the Speeds and Spitting Statistician on Fantasy Freestyle. Next on 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.880 that cipher on the microphone. You know that I'm one 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:36.760 of the best yet, Martinez, you know what it is. 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.040 It's your boy, Dame Martinez, a k A. Speeds, a 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.040 k a to Spitting Statistician a k a to Stable 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.960 Genius and vocal Minority. And welcome to another edition of 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.120 the Fantasy Freestyle right here on the Sports Grid Network, 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:53.040 episode number four hundred and twenty seven, the four hundred 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:57.320 and twenty seven convening of the Stats Overbeat Cipher. And 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.959 it is a very special one because if you are 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:04.640 are still here, maybe just hopefully, either you are three 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.800 hours away from it or maybe you already have one 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.480 your league and one that cash. And I got people 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.000 hitting me up on social media left and right that Yo, 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.840 I won my league and won net cash. Yo, I 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.240 won my league and won net cash. And I know 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:24.240 some people are going to after Monday night football tonight 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.319 with the Minnesota Vikings and the Green Bay Packers. Will 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.360 tell you what I think about that. Some prop bets 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.160 to play just in case you didn't get your cash 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.399 in season long, you can still do it on any 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.440 Monday night. Football will get you ready for that. Also, 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.440 you have to acknowledge there are still some people who 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:43.039 play in week seventeen. So I gotta give you a 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:44.959 couple of things that Speed's got right, a couple of 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.640 things that Speed's got wrong, and even some people on 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.320 the waiver wire. We will also talk about some of 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.000 the league's we have been following for a long time. 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.880 All right, we will talk about you know these Remember 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.800 I was in two finals, I was in four semifinals, 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.360 fo finals. I'll let you know how we did. Knows. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:05.760 We've got the Stats Overbeats final and by the way, people, 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.680 it has not been decided yet. Okay, so we are 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.800 we are going to find out who will win first 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.079 ever Stats Overbeats league. But we got a whole lot 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.720 of other stuff to do, okay, because the cycle just 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.679 keeps turning, right, So we have to talk about who 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:24.600 got banged up, who laid duds, and what that means 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.600 for you moving forward in fantasy or in other ways. 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.160 If you're capping the games, if you're gonna play DFS regardless, 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.200 Dwayne Haskins with that ankle. He got carded off the field. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:34.920 That looks like he's gonna be you know, obviously they 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.840 don't have any more games left. It was the worst 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.360 thing possible, right. I'm glad he avoided catastrophic injury that 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.880 would you know, be surgery or something that he had 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.160 to you know, impact his offseason program. But still the 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.880 ankle doesn't look good. Spa, he'll be gone for a week. 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.840 Seven teen Spencer wear out with a shoulder. James Conner 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.799 with a thigh. A lot of people were riding him 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:56.919 now that he was back with the Pittsburgh Steelers, thought 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.480 that he would have a shot to deliver a fantasy championship. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.959 I had shares of James Conner in a championship matchup. 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:04.280 I'll tell you if I want to lost that one 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.720 a little bit later on zach Ertz with a rib. 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.960 This one could be very interesting, Okay, for a number 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:14.200 of reasons. One, Earth is clearly a championship caliber tight 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.399 end for your fantasy team. There are probably some big 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.240 deal teams that have zach arts. But also, you know, 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.119 it was the emergence of Dallas Goddard, as we told 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.880 you about over the last couple of weeks. And also 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.799 Jordan Howard is trending like he may be coming back 0:03:27.840 --> 0:03:30.600 for the Philadelphia Eagles against the New York Football Giants 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.080 coming up in week six seventeen after come back from 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.960 that shoulder injury. D J. Moore in the Concussion Protocol, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.480 Corey Davis in the Concussion Protocol, Kyler Murray with a 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.440 hamstring Now they said he also avoided catastrophic injury and 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.800 that it's just like kind of a normal strain. We 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.480 don't know if he's going to wind up playing in 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.640 Week seventeen. They don't have much to play for, so 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.520 you know, maybe the better part of judgment is to 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.320 keep him on ice for Week seventeen against the Los 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:57.480 Angeles Rams. Keep an eye out for that. We'll give 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.760 you an update on that on the Thursday edition of 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.880 Anacy Freestyle. Mark Ingram with the calf injury. That's a 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.640 big one because listen, they've got they're calling it maybe 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.680 a three week thing. They're gonna arrest them this week regardless. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.080 Then they have the bye week, right so right there 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.840 for divisional matchup. They are now hopeful that he'll be 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.720 okay for a divisional matchup. But remember They've got so 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.599 many other running backs and that scheme is kind of 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.159 plug and play guys like Gus Edwards, guys like even 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.160 Justice Hill. All right, so they have plenty of options 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.279 over there. Will fully reaggravated that groin injury. It looks 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.880 like he's gonna miss some time now. And even you 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:33.839 know Houston in the playoffs, it's looking like he is 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:35.960 going to miss time. We'll see if that has impact. 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.840 You know, they at least have this week. Um, they're 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.640 locked in. They're gonna make the playoffs because their w 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:46.560 on Saturday, big knock to the Seattle Seahawks running game. 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.920 I think Seattle, more than any other team maybe had 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.880 the worst Week six team. They lost Chris Carson to 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.120 a hip injury. He gone rest of the season. They 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.920 lost c J Process, the backup out of the backfield, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.520 to an arm injury. He gone. We're getting reports people 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.400 that maybe Beast Mode Marshawn Lynch is flying up to Seattle. 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:08.520 He may work out and sign a deal. Jay A 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.880 g i E was cut today by the Eagles. Maybe 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.600 he goes out to Seattle. Seattle, we know this. They 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.720 have a huge game next week that's been flexed to 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.240 Sunday night against the San Francisco forty Niners. But they're 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.760 in the playoffs, right, So will it be you know, 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.240 with a by getting somebody time to get caught up 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.400 to speed, or will they be playing and turn around 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.120 and you know, traveling to uh potentially a Philly or 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.240 Dallas for a wild card game without these running backs. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:37.640 They also lost tackle Dwayne Brown. That's a huge offensive line. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.200 Last Seattle got beat up bad in this game, and 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.320 then they went ahead and lost to the Arizona Cardinals, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.159 giving the seat San Francisco forty Niners the kind of 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.880 inside track on the NFC West Division and quite frankly 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.000 a bye in the NFC. Talking about in week seventeen, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:55.200 one of the things that we're going to have to 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.560 be talking about is like where resting their team their 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.920 players are not certainty. Teams are have already come out 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.159 and said they will probably rest some of their stoughts. 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.120 Baltimore has said this, we will not see Lamar Jackson. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.240 His m v P regular season is over. We'll probably 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.920 not see We're not gonna see Ingram, We're not gonna 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.679 see something Earl tom As some of their linemen. Okay, 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.200 I think Mark Andrews got a little bit gimpy, might 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.080 not see him. However, the Houston Texans, they are gonna 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.000 play their guys. They were Bill O'Brien's already come out 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:24.160 and said, guys like DeAndre Hopkins, Kenny Stills, they are 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.000 going to play. Deshaun Watson is going to play Week 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.719 sixteen against the Tennessee Titans. Now, remember Tennessee needs that 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:34.120 game to win to uh make the playoffs. Okay, if 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.119 they lose win, If they lose, excuse me, and Pittsburgh wins, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.920 then it would in fact be Pittsburgh. We also got 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:41.880 a big poll question up. All right, I got a 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.560 poll question up at spitting speed. You can always check him. 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.920 Because I thought about the Tennessee game, makes me think 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.599 about New Orleans and what Michael Thomas has done this year. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.920 He broke the all time record and he still has 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.080 a game to play. He's got a hundred and forty 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.279 five catches. So I ask you, if you're in a 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.159 PPR format next year, where are your drafting Michael Thomas? 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.080 Are you drafting Michael Thomas? Literally? First, overall, it's been 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:06.159 a while since the wide receiver really was in consideration 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.159 from true number one to overall. Would you draft him 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.640 first overall? Would you draft him somewhere in the top 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.320 five maybe like you did with a guy like DeAndre 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:18.480 Hopkins or Antonio Brown in in recent years. Would you 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.160 just take him no, just late first round because you say, hey, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:22.840 maybe I can get that production from other wide outs 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.280 like Julio Jones or DeAndre or someone else that you 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.200 think could have send and be in that level next year. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.960 Or are you someone who, like you, don't go wide 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.000 receiver in the first round. You just get that that 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.040 work horse running back in the first round. Let me know, okay, 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.880 right now, you say that Michael Thomas is a first 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.680 round top five pick. Interesting, that's kind of where like 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:44.640 Alvin Kamara was last year? Has he passed Alvin Camara? 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.920 Let mean know at spitting speeds my takeaways, what speeds 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.480 got right? With speeds got wrong? Come on back on 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.440 the other side of fantasy freestyle. You heard Billy Dilly. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.120 You're NFL season is an ALTNA, so you can be 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.880 on the eighth person wain one million dollars in a 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.960 Fanueler Draft Kings tournament. My sator lineup using the Daily 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:04.840 Order dot Com DFS line of Optimizer. 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Hey, Danny, No, I have not yet 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.520 gotten the package, okay, but it's probably coming in a 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.360 couple of days. Don't sweat that. Snorkel Ops in the building. 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.160 You're right about James Conner. He's certainly not the terminator. 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:58.480 It's like he's made of Mr Glass. I agree, and 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:03.280 you know what, m HM? Does that carry forward for 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.000 you for next year? Snorkel Ops and others? Are you 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:09.439 gonna like this year? Connor was a top ten running 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.840 back going into fantasy drafts. Right He was like RB 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.400 seven eight nine, A lot of people. His production is 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:18.400 still there when he's there, Right, He's still gonna be 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.600 the lead back of a Pittsburgh Steelers offense with big 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.600 Ben back likely. Right, Let's say he's ranked as like 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.840 an RB eleven and you're there at the turn and 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.400 James Conner is there? Do you pass on James Connor 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.400 because of the injury history and like the injury prone nous? 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:37.599 You know, because I would ask you, what about a 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:41.280 guy like Dalvin Cook? Do you pass on him because 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.760 of injury prone nous? It's an interesting question to me. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.800 And then Tom Pierce, Yeah, I'm talking about top three 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.800 from Michael Thomas, like who would it be? Right, Christian McCaffrey, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:51.959 do you go back to Sa Kwan even though it 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.960 just what about say Kwan Barkley yesterday? Huh? Right, further 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.920 removed from the ankle injury, looking good, he's probably still 0:09:59.920 --> 0:10:02.400 a top three, top five pick. Someone in the chat 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.320 room was talking to me about what about Kenyan Drake. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.160 I don't know if I would count on him again 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.440 to have this over the course of a full year, 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.560 but maybe he could be an RB one next year. 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:12.960 You go back to a guy like Zeke I mentioned 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:16.640 Cook What about a guy like Lamar. Someone's gonna take 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.720 Lamar in the first round of draft next year, right, 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.239 So does Michael Thomas fit in there? Guys like Miles Sanders, 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.760 that's interesting, you know, I like other ascending running backs. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.480 What about a guy like a Devin Singletary. And obviously 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.000 there's others, you know, don't forget about guys like obviously 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.080 Todd Gurley, lev Bell. You know where all these people, 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.559 Alvin Kamara, you know, we know about this, Aaron Jones 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:42.480 who was playing tonight, um. But where Thomas fits in 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.719 there is pretty interesting. But not even let me when 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.120 we talk about takeaways. You know, let's let's talk about 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.320 what big takeaways, what we got right, what we got wrong? 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:54.400 And honestly, you know, we'll save the Michael Thomas. But 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.840 you know, I want to talk about this because tanking, 0:10:56.920 --> 0:10:58.640 and it has been such a big issue all year. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.000 Players don't tank. Look at that Cincinnati Miami game. First 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.240 of all, you think Andy Dalton is tanking because he 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.520 wants the Bengals to draft Joe Burrow to replace him. No, 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.080 he goes out there and throws three nineties yards and 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:15.880 four touchdowns. Players ain't tanking, Okay, you think Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:19.320 has a tanking bone in his body. Coaches don't take Okay, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:23.040 you see Flores for Miami all season long. He's been 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.760 getting it after it, yelling at officials, going hard, guys 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.360 playing for him. Teams don't tank what players don't tank. 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.160 Coaches don't tank. They are preparing, They are working their 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.800 ass off. You know who tanks though front offices and 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.680 general managers. That's why you'll see a team like Cincinnati 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.640 go to Ryan Finley to evaluate him. That's why you'll 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.719 see Miami go ahead and trade everyone. That's how they 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:51.520 were trying to tank. Okay, and think about it. They 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.120 traded away Kenny Stills useful for Houston, Jeremy tunsl why 0:11:55.200 --> 0:12:00.320 excuse me, Laramie Tunsel useful for Houston. DeVante Parker it though, 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.679 decided to keep him Gaze didn't like him. Now he's 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.679 blowing up signing an extension. Uh minca Fitzpatrick, they like 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.880 all him now he's a consideration for Defensive Player of 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.640 the Year. That's how you tank. All right. I'm gonna 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.640 tell you also, a big takeaway from me, this quarterback 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.839 Merry go Round is gonna be very interesting in the 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:20.640 off season. Okay, add Now Derek Carr potentially, Okay, they've 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.320 been talking about he. They may be in the market 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:26.240 four quarterback add Jamis potentially. Okay, we're here. Oh, they're 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.079 gonna franchise tag him before the game on Saturday. Then 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.200 Bruce arians after the game saying, now I don't know, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.559 I don't know about that. We may be in the marketplace. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.200 All right, we're gonna do it one day. We'll do 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.600 a full on thing one day of like all the teams, 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.520 all the musical chair stops, and all the potential quarterbacks 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.320 they may be out there. It's gonna be very interesting. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.760 Same with head coaches. And I also one of my 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.079 big takeaways, you know, I was talking with Ariel Epstein, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.400 our homegirl who you guys see on a lot of shows. 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.640 Now we do Put Football Today together. She's on the 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:57.760 Morning After as well. Um, we were talking on Saturday 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.559 because she was wondering about them putting Daniel Jones back 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:02.480 out there, and I was like, no, you gotta get 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.079 him the reps. And she was like, well, what about 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.320 the injury concerned? What if he gets hurt? And I 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.960 was like, yeah, but the only thing you'd be risk 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.679 is if he has a really bad injury, and then 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.200 what do you know, rookie Kyler Murray gets hurt, pulled 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.800 a hamstring. It's not the bad injury though. And then 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.560 Dwayne Haskins, though, gets carded off the field with an 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.520 ankle injury. And that's a problem, right, And it's always 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.320 we talked about this in preseason, like are you gonna 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.679 get hurts? Why should they be out there? Same kind 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.520 of thing. Now do they learn? Do they get better? 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.360 Remember Baker at the end of the year last year, 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.760 Remember uh Sam Donald at the end of the year 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.480 last year, or you know, or should a guy like 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.520 Haskins not be out there right now? A guy like 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.720 Danny Dimes, a guy like Kyler Murray? Should they not 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.280 be out there right now? And that's something that's interesting. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.000 We're gonna hear a lot about that going into this 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.320 week as people are getting shut down or rested. So 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.720 I think that's interesting. Let's talk about some things that 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.920 Speed's got right. Okay, and let me tell you something. 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.720 The number one thing that I got right, and I've 0:13:57.720 --> 0:13:59.840 been talking about this for the last couple of weeks, 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.199 and now, Sandro, if you're down there in the pit, Yang, 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.440 if you're down there there in the pit. Remember that 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.240 I've been saying this, because you're gonna start to hear 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.439 more and more people talk about this. I was early 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.920 a couple of weeks ago, telling y'all look out for 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.480 the Kansas City Chiefs defense, all right. I was saying 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.880 that their defense has been playing a lot better. Everybody's 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.520 on Baltimore. Everyone knows about the Chiefs offense. I'm saying 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.400 that the Kansas City defense is what makes them live 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.160 in the a f C. They are still plus seven 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.400 fifty elect eight to one odds to win the Super Bowl, 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.240 and I am listen, I'm not on New England. Everybody 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.160 is on Baltimore. So the pivot for me is Kansas 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:39.040 City and Mahomes is getting healthier and that defense is 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:41.280 getting better and better. They gave up three points at 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.960 Chicago after a three points the follow the previous week 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.480 against I believe it was Denver. They're averaging less than 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.640 ten points a game against them in the last five 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.000 or six weeks. Tyron Matthew the honey Badger. He don't 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.080 give a damn. And I've been saying for the last 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.840 couple of weeks. A Steve Spagnolo new defense takes a 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:02.440 while to get the arn't okay, and now they're doing 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.000 a lot. I'm telling you this Chief's defense, if it 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:09.400 continues to improve, makes them very dangerous. I've been telling 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.760 you about that. I got that one right. I hope 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.280 you are listening to me about this another thing that 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.480 Speed's got right. I told you about the Eagles. First 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.320 of all, I had the Eagles winning that game. I've 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.080 been telling you for weeks that I thought the Eagles 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.960 would still win the a F NFC East, mostly because 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.320 of the schedule, and then that this game yesterday was 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.120 at Philly and that did matter. Okay, But I've been 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.560 saying with the Eagles and a ton of teams, Okay, 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:36.200 what has been my narrative almost all season. If you're 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.840 real deal stats over beat Cipher, it's the idea about 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.440 how the run game must be there to provide balance 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.920 because you don't want your quarterback turning into a volume thrower. Yeah, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.160 that's cool for fantasy if you have Philip Rivers or 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.680 Matt Ryan or Jared Goff or Carson Wentz, one of 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.760 these guys who might put it up forty five times 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:56.800 Jamis Winston, But that doesn't help the real team. Well, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.120 the Eagles have found balance. And remember how I said, 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.360 I thought, Jordan, how it was that balance. And then 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:02.840 over the course of the last couple of weeks, I 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:05.920 was like, listen, Miles Sanders is great and all right, 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:07.880 and I said, Miles Sanders was getting more and more 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.120 in the receiving game. But then over the last couple 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.400 of weeks, I had Miles Sanders in my DFS lineup 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:14.840 and I was like, Miles Sanders, if he can provide balance, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.200 this is gonna be big for the Philadelphia Eagles. Well, 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.840 what do you know, Speed's got that right, Okay, because 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.600 Miles Sanders got twenty carries and it's about the touches. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.240 It's about the commitment to the run game. Miles Sanders 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:30.480 twenty nine carries, seventy twenty carries seventy nine yards and 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.840 a touchdown, another five catches in seventy seven yards in 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.920 the receiving game. Okay, a total of a hundred and 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:40.160 fifties six yards from scrimmage and a touchdown on twenty 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.760 five touches. That is giving you balance. Now, what happens 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.640 even though Eagles only scored seventeen points, Look what happens whence. Yeah, 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.720 he puts it up a lot, but a seventy six 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.800 percent completion percentage when he goes thirty one forty. And 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:58.240 you need that run threat, especially guys like Earth's and Godard. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.560 You need those linebackers respecting the run, whether it's Miles 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.480 Sanders or Jordan Howard. I told you all about how 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.879 he represented this balance for the Eagles and how that 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.760 was going to be important, and what do you know, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.480 they win a big NFC's divisional slate and pull into 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:16.120 the driver's seat for the NFC's divisional title over the Cowboys. 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.560 Another defense I told you about was the Indianapolis Colts 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.080 last week. I said, I like the Colts defense potentially 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:22.919 as a stream I was giving you guys those in 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.479 the waiver wires, and if you picked them up and 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.199 faded Will Greer, well, not only did you get three 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.200 interceptions from Will Greer, not only did you get five 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.760 sacks by that Colt defense, but you got not one, 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.600 but two hunt returns for our touchdowns from Nahem Hinds. 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.880 If you listen to your boys speeds and you picked 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.520 up the Indianapolis Colts as a streaming defensive defense, I 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.000 told you I had a time you could have gotten 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:51.600 You probably won your championship matchup, but it wasn't all smiles. Okay, 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.440 I must admit Speeds got some things wrong. We will 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.320 acknowledge what I got wrong. 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