Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Monday, December ninth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show where we should
Speaker 1: have learned to be better at baseball.
Speaker 2: It's me and your man, am G. Marcus Grant, joined
Speaker 2: by Michael F. Florio and Lakwan Jones.
Speaker 1: I would have been disappointed, Florio if you were not
Speaker 1: sporting Mets gear on the day after the Mets land
Speaker 1: the biggest fish in MLB.
Speaker 2: So congrats to the Metropolitan so on Jan Sota, thank you.
Speaker 3: Not only do they get him taking him from the Yankees,
Speaker 3: and like I.
Speaker 2: Know, people were like, why do you care about the Yankee?
Speaker 3: Like No, I grew up as a Mets fan in
Speaker 3: New York after my team was taken hostage by a
Speaker 3: Ponzi scheme, and Yankee fans mocked us for decades Like
Speaker 3: I'm I'm celebrating this till.
Speaker 2: The wheels fall off.
Speaker 1: I look any I feel like self respecting American sports
Speaker 1: fan has feelings about the Yankees, just like they have
Speaker 1: feelings about the Cowboys, the Lakers.
Speaker 2: I guess at this point probably the Dodgers too.
Speaker 1: But whatever, we got a whole lot to dive into
Speaker 1: on today's show, we will have our biggest takeaways from
Speaker 1: the week. That was still one more game, of course,
Speaker 1: to be played Monday Night Football between the Bengals and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but that we will have our look at
Speaker 1: the rest of Week fourteen, plus the waiver wire. Because
Speaker 1: no fantasy playoffs start for most the leagues coming up
Speaker 1: this week, the waiver wire going to be very, very
Speaker 1: important for a whole lot of people. But let's get started,
Speaker 1: as we always do, with some fantasy headlines and a
Speaker 1: couple of quarterback headlines to dive into. We will start
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, where Aidan O'Connell was carted off the
Speaker 1: field after suffering a knee injury in the game on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and early reports are this could be season ending for O'Connell.
Speaker 1: So Florida, we have gone through Gardner Minshew, we have
Speaker 1: gone through Aidan O'Connell. It would appear, barring some signing
Speaker 1: during the week that day is the next man up now.
Speaker 1: Rock Bowers has been good regardless, Jacoby Myers has been
Speaker 1: pretty good regardless of the quarterback. Is Desmond Ridder a
Speaker 1: bridge too far for us to keep starting these skill
Speaker 1: position guys in Vegas?
Speaker 2: Definitely not with brock Bauers.
Speaker 3: But I know Patrick Claibon had been calling out Aidan
Speaker 3: O'Connell for not scrambling ever in his NFL career, and
Speaker 3: he did like three times yesterday, and every time he
Speaker 3: did he came up lame. So like I think we
Speaker 3: realize why he doesn't run ever. But brock Bauers, look,
Speaker 3: he is simply.
Speaker 2: Too good to get away from.
Speaker 3: He already broke Sam Laporta's rookie record for tight end
Speaker 3: record for catches. He's a little over one hundred yards
Speaker 3: away from setting the yard record, which Mike Dicko's record
Speaker 3: has stood since the sixties.
Speaker 2: That is how impressive brock Bowers is.
Speaker 3: And like you said, the quarterback play hasn't really been
Speaker 3: all that great, So Desmond Ridder maybe a little bit
Speaker 3: of a knock, but not enough for me to get
Speaker 3: away from him. If anything, maybe this takes some shine
Speaker 3: away from Jacoby Myers. He's much more option dependent, but
Speaker 3: I do think he is even in play just because
Speaker 3: of volume, So that one depends a little bit more
Speaker 3: on who you have besides him. But yeah, unless you
Speaker 3: have like Trey McBride or George Kittle, I don't see
Speaker 3: how you get away from Brock Powers.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just keep flashing back to last year,
Speaker 1: you know in Atlanta where we were so frustrated for
Speaker 1: guys like Drake London and Kyle Pitts because it was
Speaker 1: Desmond Ridder.
Speaker 2: Turns out with Pitts. Maybe the quarterback wasn't the situation.
Speaker 1: There, but for Drake London certainly it was impactful getting
Speaker 1: away from Desmond Ridder this season. Other quarterback news, Lakwan,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr suffers a left hand fracture, another quarterback who
Speaker 1: was injured trying to scramble. He also, as you mentioned
Speaker 1: in our text chain, trying to do all Taysom Hill
Speaker 1: type things and hurdle people, which no, just no, that's
Speaker 1: not your job, buddy, it's not. It's not that's not
Speaker 1: your that's not in your bag. That's not in your
Speaker 1: bag at all. But I mean, look, Lakwan, we have
Speaker 1: been through so many injuries, right with the wide receivers,
Speaker 1: Olave sha Heed, You've lost Sayson Hill, so many guys
Speaker 1: gone now and now Derek Carr is gone.
Speaker 2: I mean, what are we doing with the Saints at
Speaker 2: this point? Ah Man?
Speaker 4: I mean, Adam Kamara is the only safe option Man,
Speaker 4: because you honestly lose that deep ball with MVS. So
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be banking on him to have that
Speaker 4: Boom or bus. You know, it's most likely gonna be
Speaker 4: bus during this playoff run. And I can't trust guys,
Speaker 4: you know, out there with quarterbacks that you came a
Speaker 4: name off the top of your head, Like when the
Speaker 4: guy came in number three, I don't.
Speaker 2: Even know his name.
Speaker 4: I'm just thinking, like, who's this guy? We're Spencer Radnberg,
Speaker 4: Jake Hayner by the way, yes, who.
Speaker 2: Is this guy?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, this does not seem like it's good
Speaker 4: for my pass catchers. But again, who's left? Chrysal Lobby's gone,
Speaker 4: Rashid's gone. I mean, I don't even know Mason Tipman. Maybe,
Speaker 4: Like it's like guys that are just guys that you
Speaker 4: cannot trust, Like MVS seems like you know a good
Speaker 4: option to go to, but we need that deep ball
Speaker 4: to exist there, and I don't think it's there with
Speaker 4: Jake Henner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's just it's just not a good situation.
Speaker 1: Even the thing about Alvin kamaras you mentioned, we saw
Speaker 1: a lot of Kendre Miller and Obviously it's a new
Speaker 1: regime because when it was Dennis Allen, he never had
Speaker 1: one nice thing at all to say about Kendred, not
Speaker 1: even like the way he wears his socks. He couldn't
Speaker 1: say one nice thing at all about him. With Darren Rizzy,
Speaker 1: it's a whole different situation. Rizzy seems to like Kendre
Speaker 1: Miller wants to get him on the feeling we saw
Speaker 1: a lot of him this past week, So even the
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara workhorse thing might be going away, which is
Speaker 1: probably taking away the one thing that we thought we
Speaker 1: could count on in New Orleans. I mean, if Miller's
Speaker 1: gonna get more touches and especially get them down near
Speaker 1: the goal line, it's gonna be a tough sledding for
Speaker 1: anybody trying to start Kamara the rest of the way.
Speaker 4: I should look at Miller as basically a Taysom Hill,
Speaker 4: but in the actual running back, like when the usage
Speaker 4: in the red zone and all that other stuff.
Speaker 2: But I think Alvin Kamara for the most part should
Speaker 2: be fine. No right, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 3: Feels like a situation where he won't score many touchdowns,
Speaker 3: but he'll have like the ten catches for forty eight
Speaker 3: yards or something like, let's go.
Speaker 2: I'm all in on that. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 4: I'm not greedy man.
Speaker 2: The playoff there here, I need that. All right. Well,
Speaker 2: we'll we'll see how this thing goes.
Speaker 1: But I will say that the early returns are a
Speaker 1: little bit concerning for Alvin Kamara. Let's take a look
Speaker 1: at some of the week's top scorers. Two more teams
Speaker 1: left to play. Josh Allen did everything except pull out
Speaker 1: a win. Counts for six touchdowns, three injured and forty
Speaker 1: two passing yards, eighty two rushing yards nearly fifty two
Speaker 1: Fantasy boys from Josh Allen, chiebas Zach Sharbona, the Seahawks
Speaker 1: sipping sharbone and only the Cardinals particularly like that. One
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four rushing yards, two touchdowns on the ground.
Speaker 1: Also seven catches fifty nine yards thirty eight point three points.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: Pooka Nakula had himself a day and what was a
Speaker 1: really entertaining game over at SOFI Stadium. Twelve catches a bucks,
Speaker 1: sixty two a touchdown, Also sixteen rushing yards in a touchdown,
Speaker 1: nearly forty two points for Puka. George Kittle doing things
Speaker 1: for the forty nine six catches one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: one yards twenty one point one points. There, Jason Sanders
Speaker 1: four mayfield goals for the Miami Dolphins that was sixteen points,
Speaker 1: and the forty nine er defense having a day against
Speaker 1: the Bear seven sacks I take away, thirteen points allowed,
Speaker 1: thirteen fantasy points scored for the Niners defense. So those
Speaker 1: are some of the top level fantasy eros. Now look
Speaker 1: a little bit closer to home, Lakwan who is your
Speaker 1: hero for Week fourteen?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: I needed this so bad from Tyrone Tracy because the
Speaker 4: wire was so weird this week with the running backs
Speaker 4: like you look at a Sincere McCormick, look at Isaiah Davis.
Speaker 4: But I was happy that we were able to lean
Speaker 4: on Tyrone Tracy. The dude had a season high ten targets, man,
Speaker 4: because it was looking nasty on the ground when he
Speaker 4: had the lay up matchup. But Drew Locke, he brings
Speaker 4: a little bit more functionality and familiarity with the Giants offense,
Speaker 4: playing like Daniel Jones, running out of the pocket, using
Speaker 4: his legs a little bit more, even making the same decision,
Speaker 4: so he's mirroring the Giants offense and these are the
Speaker 4: games where Tyrone Tracy becomes very, very useful. But I
Speaker 4: was very very surprised about the route that he was running,
Speaker 4: how many routes he was running. I think that the
Speaker 4: Giants were actually putting a lot more on their play
Speaker 4: for Tyrone Tracy to see how much more they can
Speaker 4: get out of them, because ten targets is a little
Speaker 4: crazy to me to see when you had them little
Speaker 4: Perry on the sideline and Devin Singletary barely even touched
Speaker 4: the field. So I think they were seeing how much
Speaker 4: of the workload they can put on Tyrone Tracy. And
Speaker 4: this is good news heading into the playoffs, because even
Speaker 4: though the Giants offense is bad, Tyrone Tracy still makes
Speaker 4: an impact to be Fantasy relevant.
Speaker 1: I think the thing with Tyrone Tracy for the remainder
Speaker 1: of the season is the Giants obviously are going nowhere.
Speaker 1: Why not see what you have in your rookie running back, right,
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary is kind of a stopgap option. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody expects that they're building around him, so why
Speaker 1: not see what you got with Tracy?
Speaker 2: So maybe this is what we see for the remainder
Speaker 2: of the year. Floria. I look at your fantasy hero.
Speaker 1: Is this just to sort of ease the pain from
Speaker 1: what happened to your team yesterday?
Speaker 2: Or what h no.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Lakwan the Rams lights out, and look,
Speaker 3: it's not the end of the world for the Bills,
Speaker 3: non conference all that. It did break my heart because
Speaker 3: I'm like, you can't trust Sean McDermott. But I had
Speaker 3: five teams that came down to the wire yesterday of
Speaker 3: whether or not I was going to make the playoffs,
Speaker 3: and on three of them I had a lot of
Speaker 3: play all My team pretty much was in this window
Speaker 3: with the Cardinals, the Bills, and the Rams, and Poka
Speaker 3: Nkua showed out first player in NFL history twelve plus catches,
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty plus reck yards and with a
Speaker 3: rushing and receiving touchdown, first in NFL history. And I
Speaker 3: had a league where I was long out of it
Speaker 3: record wise, I was like five and seven, five and
Speaker 3: eight something like that. But the last playoff spot goes
Speaker 3: to most points and I was seventy five behind. I
Speaker 3: didn't even check all day. I look at the end,
Speaker 3: I blew this person out by like one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty points because Hooka Nikua in that league gave me
Speaker 3: something like fifty.
Speaker 2: So Puokah in two leagues single handedly, him and.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen dragged me into the playoffs with team that
Speaker 3: maybe shouldn't be there, but I don't care because I'm
Speaker 3: there and I have Pookin Nakua, so anything is possible now.
Speaker 1: Once you get to the playoffs, who knows is gonna
Speaker 1: happen at that point. So nikoua matata for Michael f
Speaker 1: Florio and his fantasy squad this weekend.
Speaker 2: For me, my.
Speaker 1: Fantasy Euro of the week is Chuba Hubbard because everything
Speaker 1: pointed to Chuba Hubbard not having a really good fantasy day,
Speaker 1: but apparently, unlike the leader of Ovo, Hubbard still has
Speaker 1: at least a.
Speaker 2: Couple hits left in him.
Speaker 1: A nice day against the Eagles there got you twenty
Speaker 1: point seven fantasy points found the end zone, ninety two
Speaker 1: rushing yards. I looked at this as one a bad matchup,
Speaker 1: but also a game where the Panthers are going to
Speaker 1: have to be pass heavy, so maybe we didn't see
Speaker 1: quite as much chewba. Hubbard maybe helped a little bit
Speaker 1: because Jonathan Brooks went down did not play the full game,
Speaker 1: so that meant more opportunities for Hubbard over the course
Speaker 1: of the contest, but still for him to get you
Speaker 1: twenty points in a week where you probably had to
Speaker 1: start him but didn't really expect.
Speaker 2: The whole lot.
Speaker 1: I think that goes a long way towards cementing him
Speaker 1: as certainly one of the un sung heroes of the
Speaker 1: fantasy season, but possibly a fantasy hero for you, especially
Speaker 1: if it was enough to help push you into the postseason.
Speaker 1: Those are some of our small takeaways from what we saw,
Speaker 1: but maybe a bigger takeaway from what we saw this
Speaker 1: past weekend.
Speaker 2: Lakwan, what did you learn you guys?
Speaker 4: Every team needs a Adam Thielen old man feeling still
Speaker 4: got it, Like he's out there functioning as if he's
Speaker 4: this wide receiver one playing for the Vikings again, because
Speaker 4: just look how much better this Panthers offense look every
Speaker 4: single week where it's just surprised of the things that
Speaker 4: Bryce Young was doing. Screw the stats, screw the outcome
Speaker 4: of the game. Bryce Young looked great and was able
Speaker 4: to have Adam Delon look like he was playing his
Speaker 4: old self. That fourth down tip trill was amazing. That's
Speaker 4: the veteran clutchness that Adam Thinglan brings so like the
Speaker 4: volume that he's getting right now, It's crazy to me
Speaker 4: that he's only rostered in like fifty percent of the leagues.
Speaker 4: The amount of volume he's seeing these last two games, man,
Speaker 4: is something that you need to pick up and have
Speaker 4: ready and stashed on the bench to be prepared to
Speaker 4: show up and show out when his name is called.
Speaker 4: And Adam deeln Man, I just absolutely think that he's
Speaker 4: going to be here next year for the Panthers, and
Speaker 4: the Panthers are going to go out there and win
Speaker 4: eight games. And I say this with confidence. I say
Speaker 4: this with confidence only because last week I came on
Speaker 4: here in this mic and I said, I'm not scared
Speaker 4: of Eagles defense. That secondary not scared a at all.
Speaker 4: The Rams they beat theirself, and Bryce Shawm was out
Speaker 4: there executing on this defense. The Eagles defense. Guys, he
Speaker 4: almost went out there and won the game.
Speaker 2: He did. I mean, they were, they were, They were
Speaker 2: very feisty.
Speaker 1: On Sunday, Adam Rank has made the point that right
Speaker 1: now the Panthers are racking up a whole lot of
Speaker 1: moral victories, maybe not actual ones, but they are playing
Speaker 1: well feeling to me, feels like a guy who's good
Speaker 1: in doses. Like I don't know that you could count
Speaker 1: on him over the course of you know, sixteen seventeen games,
Speaker 1: but I think, you know, spots here or there.
Speaker 2: I do think he still has a little bit of
Speaker 2: juice left.
Speaker 1: I still think if you're the Panthers, you got to
Speaker 1: go out and get yourself a wide receiver though, either
Speaker 1: in the draft or free agency.
Speaker 5: Still got it.
Speaker 2: He's got it for now. Again, like I'm not building.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to build the whole am playing out
Speaker 1: of Adam Thielen is what I'm telling you.
Speaker 2: So they should get someone like Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, all right, So let's take our
Speaker 1: minds off of that depression.
Speaker 3: What is your takeaway, Floria, Josh Allen is the fantasy goat.
Speaker 3: And I've said this for a while now, but I
Speaker 3: don't know how people can even argue it.
Speaker 2: Like he's had some of the best fantasy seasons. He
Speaker 2: is routinely finished as the.
Speaker 3: QB one, and now he has the highest scoring game
Speaker 3: that a fantasy quarterback has ever had and the first
Speaker 3: quarterback since Auto Graham with six with three passing three
Speaker 3: rushing touchdowns in a game. For context, when Auto Graham played,
Speaker 3: they didn't wear helmets. They had the letter still like
Speaker 3: that is how far back we are going, and what
Speaker 3: he is doing is special right now. And I had
Speaker 3: a number of people text me to this morning like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I should I had zero business winning this week, but
Speaker 3: then I had Josh Allen and now in the playoffs
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. And next week he gets the Lions,
Speaker 3: so like it could be. I'm not saying he was
Speaker 3: gonna give you fifty again, but expect another huge number.
Speaker 3: And yeah, he is just the bet because the elite passing,
Speaker 3: elite rushing, the best fantasy quarterback in history.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, it's between him and Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Uh. Fun fact, Otto Graham also played basketball in what
Speaker 1: was the NBL then for the Rochester Royals, which if
Speaker 1: I have my am, and they.
Speaker 2: Didn't jump when they shot back then as much of plumbers.
Speaker 2: They dressed in house shoes.
Speaker 1: But if I'm not, if I am correct, I believe
Speaker 1: the Rochester Royals you now know them as the Sacramento Kings.
Speaker 2: I think it's who they are. Correct After Autogram, they
Speaker 2: were not lighting the beam in Rochester. I think back
Speaker 2: in the day they were not.
Speaker 3: For me.
Speaker 2: The thing I learned is backup running backs matter.
Speaker 1: And we talked this time of year about adding the
Speaker 1: handcuff to whoever your top running back is across Fantasy,
Speaker 1: and this week showed exactly why that is important. You
Speaker 1: look at the guy who had our Fantasy relevant games,
Speaker 1: or who found the end zone. I mean, obviously we
Speaker 1: expected a lot out of Isaac Garrindo. That happened was
Speaker 1: great until he got hurt late in the game. Patrick
Speaker 1: Taylor found the end zone, but Tyler Aljier, Tank bigsby,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Davis. All these guys found their way into the zone.
Speaker 2: Kindre Miller another one who got a whole lot of opportunity.
Speaker 1: So just a reminder at this point in the season,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of running backs, We have a
Speaker 1: lot of wear and tear. I thought he was talking
Speaker 1: about Zach Sharboney, how I forgot him having a just
Speaker 1: a bananas game against the Arizona Cardinals. This is the
Speaker 1: time of the year where these guys start to get
Speaker 1: more opportunity, either because the guy ahead of them.
Speaker 2: Is hurt or maybe run down after a full workload.
Speaker 1: This is when you start to see some of these
Speaker 1: other guys, These secondary backs get more opportunity, so it's
Speaker 1: worth picking some of them up, if for no other
Speaker 1: reason to have insurance for your top back.
Speaker 2: But also some of these guys.
Speaker 1: Might just end up being fantasy relevant over the final
Speaker 1: few weeks of the season. Yes, in fantasy RB's matter,
Speaker 1: and backup our bees especially matter. Speaking of backups, we're
Speaker 1: gonna dive into some waiver wire coming up after the break.
Speaker 1: Plus we got a Johnny Smith update that and Moore
Speaker 1: coming up on the NLFL Fantasy Football Show. Let's take
Speaker 1: a look at this week's waiver wire options. Big week
Speaker 1: florio the playoffs start for a lot of leagues. Who's
Speaker 1: your folks beat targeting?
Speaker 2: Yeah, only quarterbacks if you need to stream.
Speaker 3: But I like Jamis Winston against the Chiefs this week
Speaker 3: and Aaron Rodgers surprisingly because he gets the Jaguars first.
Speaker 2: Three hundred yard game in like thirty eight games.
Speaker 3: I believe Zach Charboney should already be rostered, but if
Speaker 3: he has not had him Sincere McCormick led the Raiders
Speaker 3: and has a good schedule the rest of the way.
Speaker 3: Isaiah Davis and Braylen Allen split work, but both could
Speaker 3: be streamed and both are options.
Speaker 2: You need to pick up Patrick Taylor Junior.
Speaker 3: And then I have Keshan Vaughn as well because both
Speaker 3: Isaac Grendo was injured yesterday as well, and then Sean
Speaker 3: Tucker because Bucky Irving was injured, and Blake korm who's
Speaker 3: been getting a lot of work for wide receivers.
Speaker 2: Adam Olman feel needs to be added.
Speaker 3: I agree with Lakwan Roma Dunzay Sterling Shepherd continues to
Speaker 3: be the number two target behind Mike Evans and then
Speaker 3: Ray Ray McLeod. He has kind of jumped Kyle Pitts
Speaker 3: in the target pecking order and then tight Ends.
Speaker 2: Not any great.
Speaker 3: Options this week, but Juwan Johnson, Grant calcatarare probably your
Speaker 3: best bet. And then Michael Mayer low Key had a
Speaker 3: lot of volumes despite brock Bowers being brock Bowers.
Speaker 1: I think that happened because I was going out and
Speaker 1: saying in my bold prediction that brock Powers would be.
Speaker 2: The tight end one overall. So the Raiders are like,
Speaker 2: you know, we'll show you. We're gonna throw it to
Speaker 2: our other guy for a little bit into the pod Man.
Speaker 1: So if you started Michael Mayer, you can thank me
Speaker 1: for the performance that he had. One of the names
Speaker 1: on that list that I think is interesting Lakwan is
Speaker 1: Romo Dunza because we know obviously it's been up and
Speaker 1: down for the Bears.
Speaker 2: They did not look.
Speaker 1: Good, especially in the first half yesterday against the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers, but Odunze ended up with a couple of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I'm still not sure who the number two target in
Speaker 1: the offenses behind DJ Moore, but it does feel like
Speaker 1: Caleb and Rome are starting to build something together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're seeing these things flash, like these little connections
Speaker 4: in chemistry that they're building for the future. Like this
Speaker 4: is good for Dynasty, but right now it's a headache
Speaker 4: trying to figure out which week is going to be
Speaker 4: Roman Dunese. I don't even think Thomas Brown, the head coach,
Speaker 4: now even knows who's the second target on this team.
Speaker 4: Because there's times where Cole Comet shows up he's relevant.
Speaker 4: Then there's Keenan Allen going off last week. Now you
Speaker 4: got Romadonza. It's like it's a headache that I don't
Speaker 4: think for fantasy managers they want to constantly deal with.
Speaker 4: So hopefully you know, these fantasy playoffs will get a
Speaker 4: little bit more ironed out, and this Caleb and Romadonese
Speaker 4: connection continues to build. So he's definitely, you know, a
Speaker 4: wide receiver I want to pick up off the way
Speaker 4: war because I'm looking for straight Depp. If I'm going
Speaker 4: into the playoffs, I want to have the Warriors on
Speaker 4: the bench. I don't want zombies, guys that have no
Speaker 4: vume or you're waiting, you know, your guy that you've
Speaker 4: been waiting on for all season long, just so you
Speaker 4: could say, great Dorge scored a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's me. I'm that guy. I still have Great
Speaker 2: Dorch on my bench.
Speaker 4: Roman Dunese is definitely one of those guys that I
Speaker 4: definitely want to target priority on the waiver wire this week.
Speaker 1: Until you said that, I was about to just pop
Speaker 1: off about, you know, starting Jalen McMillan this week. I
Speaker 1: was mostly you know, because circumstances were dire. But I
Speaker 1: did start Jaylen McMillan this week, after waiting all year
Speaker 1: long for him to actually do things. Yeah, Florida Leakwan
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, having headaches and trying to figure
Speaker 1: out wide receivers, which sort of brings me to Tim
Speaker 1: Patrick because you know, when he was in Denver, I
Speaker 1: felt like a breakout year was coming for him with
Speaker 1: the Broncos. They let him go, he goes to the Lions.
Speaker 1: It was quiet for most of the year. Last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks really started to pick it up. Obviously, had
Speaker 1: the two touchdowns this week, which is a really big deal.
Speaker 1: Starting to see more targets. Is it enough that he's
Speaker 1: worth starting or is it like just enough that he's
Speaker 1: going to be an annoyance for anybody else that.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, two touchdowns was great.
Speaker 3: Seven targets, but every game prior to that four or
Speaker 3: fewer this year. And the thing is aman Ros Saint
Speaker 3: Brown is not going the way Jamie Williams is not
Speaker 3: going away. Those pass catching running backs are not going away.
Speaker 3: And now we're also seeing Sam Laporta utilized a little
Speaker 3: bit more, especially in the red zone. So same I feel, look,
Speaker 3: I like a Dunes say more than Tim Patrick. But
Speaker 3: my viewpoint is like, unless I'm really weak at wide receiver,
Speaker 3: this is the time of year where I'd rather use
Speaker 3: my bench spots on running backs because they are one
Speaker 3: injury away from being a player that we could start
Speaker 3: every single week. Like I added Patrick Taylor in a
Speaker 3: couple of leagues last week, thinking like this isn't gonna
Speaker 3: come to anything, but now it might. So this is like,
Speaker 3: unless again I need a wide receiver, I'm gonna let
Speaker 3: someone else pick these guys up, and I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: adding the running backs this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean this obviously, you know Sonic and Knuckles,
Speaker 1: kind of the big things going on there with the
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, and besides, as you mentioned Saint Brown, I
Speaker 1: guess sanly Porta is starting starting to flash a little
Speaker 1: bit too, So a couple of names to kind of
Speaker 1: keep in mind there.
Speaker 2: Speaking of tight ends, I guess it's so John Smith update.
Speaker 2: It was looking so good for you, Lakwan.
Speaker 1: He had zero catches for the entirety of the regulation
Speaker 1: in the Dolphins game against the Jets, and then in
Speaker 1: overtime John who came to life three catches, forty four
Speaker 1: yards and the game winning touchdown thirteen point four fantasy
Speaker 1: points all in overtime.
Speaker 2: He's the tight end four right now. He has pass
Speaker 2: Travis Kelce.
Speaker 1: He's one point eight points ahead of Travis Kelce, nearly
Speaker 1: twenty four points ahead of the Titan six. Who is
Speaker 1: Kate Otton. I mean, it's not over, but man, it's
Speaker 1: looking bleak for you right now, buddy.
Speaker 2: It's over.
Speaker 4: It's like I've literally had tweets lined up celebrating, like, yo,
Speaker 4: zero points, this is exactly what we needed. I was
Speaker 4: like so excited for Kate on and putting up ten points.
Speaker 4: I'm like, this is all I need to give it
Speaker 4: a chance. And then you get Zach Ers Mark Mark
Speaker 4: Andrews back from by. This can make this thing possible
Speaker 4: for him just to finish right out to the top five.
Speaker 4: But no, he would turn up in overtime. Look soon
Speaker 4: that play right there. As soon as he called the
Speaker 4: ball and got up and screened, I was like, oh no,
Speaker 4: I'm screwed. He's going to activate John new Smith in overtime,
Speaker 4: this secret weapon that was just non existent for four quarters.
Speaker 4: But in the fifth quarter, of course, John knew needs
Speaker 4: to show up and show out and make my hair blonde.
Speaker 2: One, this keeps them in the contention.
Speaker 3: But two, we know for a fact that John new
Speaker 3: Smith knows about this, as he is aware that your
Speaker 3: hair is on the line right now.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, we.
Speaker 1: Heard from our friend inside of a reporter Cameron Wolf
Speaker 1: who actually maybe we're gonna try to get him in
Speaker 1: studio with us on Wednesday for the show. But he
Speaker 1: did explain your your plight to John new Smith, which
Speaker 1: I think the response was something to the effect of, good,
Speaker 1: I hope he goes blonde because he doubted me, yes,
Speaker 1: which is it's not really true because you did doubt him,
Speaker 1: you actually thought he could do it, and that's.
Speaker 4: Sort of your You're his biggest believer. Yeah, exactly, I'm
Speaker 4: the only believer. Apparently, like it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Come on, now, you're gonna pay for it.
Speaker 3: People are gonna say they like John new your hair
Speaker 3: is gonna prove it absolutely look godd color though strawberry blondet.
Speaker 2: We got it that it's gonna be a circle for
Speaker 2: this whole season.
Speaker 1: That is for sure going to be a moment we love.
Speaker 1: At is time now for moments we love and your
Speaker 1: shut out because the Vikings have had some really good celebrations,
Speaker 1: but cam Binam and Josh Mattelish had a team celebration
Speaker 1: after they intercepted Kirk Cousins. They recreated the dance from
Speaker 1: the movie White Chicks. It was fantastic. Tom Pelaso our
Speaker 1: own Insider tweeted about it after he asked cam bid
Speaker 1: him and he said, we watched it a million times.
Speaker 1: The mental reps is everything, just like watching film. You
Speaker 1: watch it, then it's all right, Josh, we gotta master it.
Speaker 1: Took thirty minutes one day just to master it. I
Speaker 1: am impressed, Florio by the commitment to excellence by the
Speaker 1: Vikings defense on this one.
Speaker 3: This is what the third or fourth time that they
Speaker 3: their celebration has been the moment we love like it.
Speaker 3: I want to know what they have that like every week,
Speaker 3: I hope they get a pick six because they're just
Speaker 3: gonna pull something out and it's always from like a
Speaker 3: movie that you probably haven't thought of in a long time,
Speaker 3: but then you see it and you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: like it's from White Chicks or something like that.
Speaker 2: H Man, it was fantastic.
Speaker 1: So shout out to the Vikings who did not make
Speaker 1: the did not allow the Kirk Cousins revenge game to
Speaker 1: happen because they shut it down and had a little
Speaker 1: bit of fun in the process.
Speaker 2: Now for us, that is it's we are done.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you hanging out with the NFL Fantasy Football show.
Speaker 2: You know, the drills out two friends. It's out two friends.
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Speaker 1: chickens can cross the road and not be questioning about
Speaker 1: their motives. Be safe, take care of yourselves, and we
Speaker 1: will talk to you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Wow. No,