WEBVTT - Building Your Playoff Roster 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.960 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:09.440 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:14.120 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.840 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:23.720 here's your host. Welcome to a playoff edition of Fantasy 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.280 Football Weekly. I'm Paul Tcharchi and my co host today 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:31.360 is Matt Harrison. Hi, charch I, really enjoy coming to 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.800 do the podcast at your home. Uh. The third butler 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:37.360 was really nice. Yeah yeah, Well, I you have to 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.159 work your way through to the foot butler. Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.320 The first one is just password. Then you have to 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.320 then you have to defeat the second one an armed battle, 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.919 and um I killed him with a trident. Very impressive. Well, 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.480 Ron Burgundy and then uh, the third butler, Uh, if 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.600 you don't get past him, he releases the hounds. Oh yeah, 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:02.680 so we're very big on released hounds here, scraps and peppers. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:07.440 They're brutal, really brutal, very much so. Last week's Fantasy 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.679 Football Weekly, we talked about all the different kinds of 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.800 playoff formats that people have got and you know, ways 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.400 to play in the playoffs. We love playoff fantasy football 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.080 and um so then following up that now is when 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.200 everybody's building their roster this week. I just I just 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.360 submitted my roster to your game in the last last 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.399 few minutes in which I went back and forth lots 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.280 on and so it's tough. You gotta play out the bracket, right, 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.400 you do? I think you don't know what we're doing 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.560 in this That is what we're doing for you. So 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.520 I think the best advice we can give people is 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.720 to help you look at how many games each team 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.399 is gonna play, then identify the players you want from 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.480 each team. So what I've challenged you with and myself 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.840 is give me the number of games you think each 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:55.200 team is gonna play. And then I asked for a 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:58.120 chalk player from every team, like who's the obvious guy 0:01:58.200 --> 0:01:59.960 to take? And a lot of these playoff formats, Matt, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.600 I'll let you take anybody like you know, just give 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.560 me one player from each of the fourteen teams. But 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:07.920 if you're in a big enough pool, you have to 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.880 go against the chalk sometimes sometimes, so then we've got 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.200 the hunch player. You got a chalk player and a 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.720 hunch player. And that's how we'll that's how we'll structure 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.360 this show. Very excited and if we have time at 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:19.560 the end, I want to talk to you about the 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.040 Music Fantasy League that I've just found out about it. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.919 I'm very excited about that. Okay, so let's start with 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:31.079 this first is Um, I've done two brackets. I did 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.560 a chalk bracket, like you know, if this thing plays 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.440 out mostly to form, here's I'll probably go. And I 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.799 played did one that was a hunch bracket. So let's 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:39.880 start with Kansas City. How many games do you have 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.560 Kansas City playing? I think they will play to two. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.480 I have two or three. Yeah, they're gonna win their 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.360 first round game and then they are going to win 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:54.640 their first round probably. Yes. Um, I've got them playing 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.600 Jacksonville in the first round of as I've got Jacksonville winning. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:00.560 So we think two and three. That puts a lot 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.959 of chiefs into play. But two is not Two is 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.240 not the magic number here. We really want to find 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.880 threes and four threason four is is the magic number. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.399 And and that's why for me, when building playoff rosters, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.880 if you don't have to take a player from every 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.480 team in the first round, like if you're able to 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.760 switch and stuff. I don't want to take that many 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:23.080 guys on the Eagles and the Chiefs right now, those 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.440 are teams that can play at most three games, you know, 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.720 So there's there. They don't have the upside of some 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:29.720 of the four teams that we'll talk about in a minute. 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.600 So who's your chalk player from Kansas City? I think 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.360 it would have to be Jalen Hurts right now, Kansas City? Sorry, oh, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.880 kans Oh sorry, okay. I went to the other one seed, 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:45.320 Patrick Mahomes. Of course, Travis Kelsey. I thought I can 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.920 find other good quarterback. Yeah, I think you're You're right. 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:50.440 It's it's definitely Kelsey. I mean he's the tight end 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:53.120 difference maker. If you look at the pool of tight ends, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.480 there's George Kittle, There's t J. Hockenson, there's Dallas Goddard, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.240 and then it drops off significantly. So Travis Kelsey's going 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.800 to be very chalky, all right. And then the hunch player. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.560 Do you want to stick with your awesome December call? 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:08.960 Jrrick McKinnon is your hunch player? Do you want to 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.320 go somewhere else? No? I think I will. He's he's 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:14.040 just been awesome. He's been involved so many touches in 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.280 the passing game and the running game, and they've been 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:20.159 really quality. They're splitting him with Pacheco pretty evenly. But 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.800 I like the way this goes. And I personally have 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.520 the Chargers beating the Jaguars this this week, which would 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.200 put the Chargers there. And Chargers are terrible to get 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.840 the run, and so I would be looking at those 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.000 Kansas City running backs. All right, I think the super 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.479 hunch player would be Patcheco because McKinnon and McKinnon can't 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.800 physically keep this up with the receiving touchdowns. It's never 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.600 happened before. We're in, you know, like never before territory. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.159 All right, let's go to the Let's go to the 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:49.880 number two seed in the FC. I'm just doing the 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.120 FCS first. The number two seed, Buffalo. How many games 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.719 you got here? I think they're going to the super Bowl. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.440 I do too. I've got him as a four game team, 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.320 so that means you and I have are loading up 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:04.720 rosters on Buffalo Bills players. I believe. So, I think 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.040 Buffalo and San Francisco are the two teams most likely 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:08.920 to play four games. I think you can probably agree 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.240 with me, correct all right, So who's your chalk player 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.200 for San Francisco, sorry for Buffalo. Josh Allen is the choc. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.880 The entire offense just runs right through him. Give me 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.880 your hunch player. Uh, the hunch player. You gotta go. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.120 Gabe Davis, I think because of just what he did 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.080 against Kansas City in that playoff game last year, big 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.120 moment came stepped up big that the NFL just did 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.279 announce that that neutral site game, if it's Kansas City Buffalo, 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.080 will be held in Atlanta. I hadn't heard that, but 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.400 that was my early That was my early pick was Atlanta. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.359 That so, uh, the fact that Buffalo won't have to 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:46.120 go on the road for a true road environment game, 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:50.040 I think that that plays well into into their uh, 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.799 their ability to make the Super Bowl as well. Uh. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:58.680 Gabe Davis has a wonderful matchup this week. Oh man, everybody, 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.479 everybody's got a wonderful matchup. By the way, Miami's outside 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.040 cornerbacks are awful. So Buffalo is a thirteen and a 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:09.560 half point favorite right now with Skylar Thompson and I 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:13.400 kind of like Skylie Thompson um in the last eleven 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.880 games where a playoff team was double digit favored. The 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.800 They have covered ten of the last eleven times, so 0:06:22.120 --> 0:06:24.520 that's that would bode well for Gabe Davis as well. 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:28.479 Let's go to the three seeds Cincinnati. How many games 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:30.520 do you have Cincinnati playing well? They have won eight 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:36.320 straight not not not too shabby at all. I'm unfortunately 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.760 I got them planned too, because if they win, they 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.640 go to Buffalo, and I think that that's that's the 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.719 stopper right there for them. That will be a very 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.360 emotional game, obviously the one that was canceled just a 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.320 couple of weeks ago. Damar Hamlin will be in the house. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.640 It'll it'll be a raucous crowd in Buffalo, and I 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.080 think that the momentum is going Buffalo's way and that one. Yeah, 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:58.760 I have a two and a three in my two. 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.840 I have a chalk is too, just three games for Cincinnati. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.240 It's a good team. Your chalk player for Cincinnati, I 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.279 think you'd have to go Jamar Chase. Yeah, yep. My 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.720 hunch player was Tee Higgins. I just think people forget 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.560 T Higgins and in any game he can put up 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.720 more and better numbers than Jamar Chase. Yeah. I mean, 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.960 and the the other one that I think this guy's 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.320 way off radar. But if you've got to go cheap 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.960 at tight end, if you're in a salary cap related league, 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.400 Hayden Hurst kind of an interesting guy. He'll be way 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.800 off the radar. And if if you're not going to 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.120 go Travis Kelsey, go with a guy who's got a 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.760 little bit of a track record, can play and and 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.760 tight ends tend to get focused on a little bit 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.960 in these playoff series when it's really tight, down and 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:41.960 down into the game. I'm not taking Joe Mixon. No, 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.600 I'm not either. It's been so up and down more down. 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.840 It's just the eye test. That guy looks cooked. Your 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.760 four seat in the AFC's Jacksonville. How many games you 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.200 have Jacksonville playing I alluded to a little bit earlier. 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.800 I think they only play one. Even though they've won 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.000 five straight, including wins over Detroit in Tennessee, which are 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.240 quality wins, knocked them out of the playoffs, and they 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.840 beat Dallas and that shootout win in like week fifteen. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.280 Problem is that they're the youngest playoff team left and 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.160 they don't have a lot of playoff experience on that roster. 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:17.680 So I just think that they've been winning, playing good 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.720 d against some teams that don't necessarily have good offenses, 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.480 and I think that's Detroit. Well, they those are teams 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.360 that can score points. Those were early the last three 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.560 games where they've given up like three points. Three points. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.920 It's been like Tennessee and a couple of other junk teams. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.720 So I I just think that Los Angeles is just 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:41.440 more talented team. Um, well, not without Mike Williams. That 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.000 was what a dumb maass move. And I hate to 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:45.480 you know, I know this has already been played out 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.920 from the previous weekend. Brandon Staley, what the hell are 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:51.920 you doing? Meaningless game? Playing all your starters? People get hurt? 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:57.240 Dumb right, what a dumb game. Yeah, so I've got 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:01.680 Jacksonville winning Chargers two banged up, um a variety of places, 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.080 not just the offensive weapons. By the way, on that 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.600 if the Chargers lose this game, is Brandon Staley out 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.600 in l A. There are people that think he might 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.640 be I don't, but I there people think he might 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.880 be here if he's one and done, um, and he 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.880 will have brought it on himself to no small degree. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.920 So who's your chalk player? I think Chock is a 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:23.640 Travis E. T N with the great matchup against the 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.240 Los Angeles run defense. He's horrible. Um, he should score. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.160 I think he's like a minus one thirty to score 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.960 touchdown in the game. And so if he's a favorite 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.040 to score touchdown as opposed to not score, you gotta 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.440 like those I picked him in your league. Yeah. Um, 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.720 Christian kirk is my hunch player. He has been a 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.240 really constants are going all the way back to week one. 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.880 In fact, one of our three tough questions on this 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:52.000 show in like week three was is Christian Kirkin finishes 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.760 the top ten? Remember that? And I said yes, he 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:57.480 said yes. It ended up playing itself out here right 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.760 around the tenth highest scoring wide receiver this year. Let's 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.200 go to the number five seed, the l A Chargers. 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.480 We just mentioned them. Yeah, I think we've both. You've 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.559 got him as a two winning two games. I've got 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.559 I'm playing two games waiting. Sorry, thank you for clarifying. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.320 They'd have to go to Kansas City, and I don't 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.560 think that they're gonna beat Kansas City. Uh. The the 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.839 pundits would say, oh, it's the dreaded West Coast team 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.880 going all the way to the East Coast. The Chargers 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:24.760 are three and oh and games in the Eastern time 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.240 zone this year, so they got that going for I've 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.800 never really bought that. Yeah, I think they're just a 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.040 more talented team, and I just think it matches up 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.080 really well with with all the weapons they have on offense. Yeah. 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.480 I've only got one game for the Chargers. Your chalk 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.600 players obviously Austin Neckler, Austin Ekeler, but I would consider 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.360 Keenan Allen here too. Um. I think that the Jaguars 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.599 have some some tendencies to get beat by receivers, and 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:51.959 I think Keenan Allen is a guy who can especially 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.959 with Mike Williams trending the wrong way, I think Keenan 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.000 Allen could see a lot of focus his way. The 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.360 number six seed in the a f C is Baltimore. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.320 I've at them going one game. Uh. Tyler Huntley has 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.559 not been what I had hoped he would be able to. 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.679 I was hoping he'd be a poor man's Lamar Jackson. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.920 It turns out he's just a poor man. I think 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:14.040 that that team is just discombobulated right now, with Lamar 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.520 Jackson being hurt and the fact that he's been so 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.320 good and wins so many games for that team. I 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.679 think they have like a two eight win percentage, and 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.320 James he's not playing something. It's something like that. And 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.959 the fact that they gave a big contract a ro 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.120 Quan Smith didn't give one to Lamar Jackson. They're not 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.040 mutually exclusive, they're not, but I technically it's a little bit. 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:39.199 I think that that creates a little bit of inter 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:43.240 locker room strife too. And I I it feels like 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.360 that this team is an easy one and done. I 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.640 don't think Cincinnati will have an issue with them at all. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:51.320 All Right, your chalk player for Baltimore, I think it's 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.720 got to be J. K. Dobbins because I think of 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:59.480 the offense rolls through him. Um, what do you Mark 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:03.480 Andrews is my hunch player, but now we qualified. Yes, 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.679 it scored sins week six, but it's a hunch, Like 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.560 I'm hunching my shoulders, like, I don't know, it's ridiculous. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.040 Let's go to the seventh seed in the final seed 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:15.319 in the a f C Miami. I assume you've got 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:19.960 them playing one game Skylie Thompson. Uh, the chalk player 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.679 would be who I think the chuck player would have 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.440 to be Tyreek Hill, just because he can break a 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.920 a short pass for a touchdown on any play with 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.920 the speed that he's got. I like as my hunch player. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:36.080 Jeff Wilson most probably moster is gonna miss this game, 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.400 probably exactly who I got. Wilson's gonna get a bunch 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.040 of carries. They don't want Scotli Thompson throwing fifty times. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.839 I think Jeff Wilson's looking at a twenty carey game. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.320 I do too, And I'm thinking about can I switch 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.040 my roster when your thing? Or is it once you 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.120 submit it, you're done. I mean it's a Google sheet, 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.600 so as long as I haven't uploaded it yet, I 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.560 might switch Jeff Wilson for is he a one dollar 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.520 player or two dollar player? He might be a two 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:00.599 dollar and then I can't afford it. Let's go to 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:04.480 the NFC side. Philadelphia is your one seed. You've got 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.640 them playing two games? Two games, all right, So you've 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.200 got San Francisco advancing. I assume I do, okay, so 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.640 talk to me about that. I've got Philadelphia going three. 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.000 Who is your chalk player for Philadelphia? Like I said before, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.080 Jalen Hurts, but you can talk me into a J. 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.480 Brown as well. Uh, both guys have been awesome frankly, 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:26.600 the big three there, Brown, Sanders and Hurts. All of 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.160 those guys very quality. And I think that, however, the 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:34.120 bracket breaks, whether it's the Giants upsetting the Vikings and 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:37.640 going to Philly, or if it's the four or five 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:42.520 game either Dallas or Tampa. None of those teams particularly 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.679 scare me in that first round matchup. But I think 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.400 the forty Niners are built to just destroy the Eagles. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:50.800 I think so too. Yeah, well, no, I don't I 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.040 like the Eagles to win that game at Francisco eventually. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.959 All Right, the guy I'm not taking DeVante Smith why 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.720 he was tempted to put him as a hunch player. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:02.400 But Jalen Hurts has proven in his starts. Yeah, he's 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.480 gonna feed a J. Brown and Dallas Goddard when Dallas 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:09.560 Goddard is helped, which he is now. Gardner Minshew loved 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.520 Smith and used him a lot and really a shoot 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.040 his tight end. But now that Jalen Hurts his back, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.680 he showed his tight end. I like him. Yeah. The 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.360 number two seed in the NFC is San Francisco. You 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.920 think they're gonna play four games, Yeah, they would be 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.200 winning fourteen straight if they win the Super Bowl. They 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:32.040 won ten straight right now, it's amazing. You imagine brock 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:38.120 Purty hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. No, but honestly, even even 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.960 if Garoppolo is available, if Purtty gets them to the 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.239 Super Bowl, you gotta not definitely not putting Jimmy Garoppolo 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.120 in and can't at that point, No way not. They'll 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.960 take chances on brock Purty. Um my hunch brackets. I 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.360 do have San Francisco playing four games and getting the 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.200 Super Bowl. I do think it's gonna come down to 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.400 the one versus the two Philadelphia San Francisco. I just 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.680 can't seem aybody rolling into Philadelphia in February and winning 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.160 that game late January winning that game. But maybe it'll 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.520 have see. I think with San Francisco's really awesome defense 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.400 and and the fact that they can do so many 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.240 different things with how they spread the ball around, Deebo 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.640 getting healthy at the right time, I think that San 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.560 Francisco is just kind of built to beat this Eagles team. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:21.520 It's like it could definitely happen and like I said, 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.520 my hunch sheets got him going for the chalk players, 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.680 Christian McCaffrey without a doubt, resolutely. And who's your who 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.080 is your hunch player? I mean if you just have 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.360 to pick somebody else, I mean, if you want to 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.880 go off radar Debo, Right, he's coming back, nobody's thinking 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.000 about what thinking about him? Um? And and the and 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:43.160 the fact that Debo has been when Deebo went down, 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:47.200 that's when we saw the ascendant Georgia. Right. So I 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.200 think you have to be careful about pick and kettle. Yeah, 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:53.040 I think you do too. Um. The the sneaky, sneaky 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.200 play Brock Purdy. Ah, he's on my roster and your 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.560 three bucks. Yeah, I like Brock Purdy. Here. Uh, the 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.160 number three seed in the NFC is the Minnesota Vikings. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.600 How many games you have them playing? I think they'll 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:10.320 get to two. Um, you you probably have more inside information, 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.160 you know. I've been working with the Vikings radio network 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.360 here and I don't have any like you know, I 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.440 don't have inside inside information on this. I've got them 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.720 either winning one or two games. We know it's going 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.600 to be close. And all probability teams like the Giants, 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.120 don't blow out the Vikings. It's they aren't built the 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.320 way that the teams that have blown out the Vikings have. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.760 And if it's a one score game, the Vikings are 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.000 one score games this year. And you know, you know 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.320 what I hate about the Vikings narrative that everybody's just 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:41.240 glommed onto for the last ump team weeks. Now, Oh, 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.640 the negative point differential. The only one that matters is 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.040 the wins. They won thirteen, they lost four. I mean 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.800 that's a plus nine point differential. In my mind. That's Look, 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.400 I lose by one or you lose by thirty, it 0:16:54.400 --> 0:17:00.440 doesn't matter. It kind of does. I don't know. Justin 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.720 Jefferson is the chalk player for the Vikings, right, yes, 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:09.840 And give me your hunch player. There's there's a lot 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.800 of hunches. T J. Hockenson would be the easy hunch player. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.720 I think he is the easy hot I couldn't find 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:18.119 any it's the other. It's it's the other uh dot 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.719 dot name kJ Osborne, who has come up huge lately. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.000 And if you want a guy who's you know, just 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.919 nationally if you're playing in a big contest, that's like 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.040 nationally based. kJ Osbourne is not going to be on 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.960 a lot of rosters. They know about him in Minnesota 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:35.920 and maybe if you've watched a couple of Viking games, 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.359 he's he's been really good over the last month, and 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.240 I just think that he's got the opportunity to just, 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.119 you know, be a difference maker in these games. He 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:48.920 probably k J Osborne probably has outscored Adam Feeling over 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.720 the last month or so. I believe that's correct. The 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:56.440 number four seed in the NFC is Tampa Bay. I've 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.040 got this is the worst team in the playoffs. Uh, 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.800 they have no business being in the playoffs. Carolina would 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.200 have taken care of business, they wouldn't be in the playoffs. Um, 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:07.439 and it would have helped Brian a lot. And so 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.000 I've got him on one game. Do you have Tampa 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.359 with more than one win to I think they're gonna 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:15.520 beat Dallas. Dallas, Well, we can kind of lump these 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.359 two together because they're playing each other and we're gonna 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.159 go to Dallas next. But all time Cowboys oh and 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:24.760 seven against Tom Brady, don't care. Um. This year Cowboys 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:29.800 two and three in games on natural grass fields. And 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.280 even Jason Garrett, their former coach, was like, I don't 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.800 like the Cowboys going to Tampa to play on a 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:40.000 grass field, So I think I think there's something to that. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.280 Dak has thrown eleven picks in his last seven games. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.240 Security has been awful. Well, al right, he's had bad picks, 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.640 for sure. Yeah, he's also he's also rolling in fantasy 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:53.320 points and he's putting up big numbers. It's not like 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:58.120 he's played badly. He's just making like one dumb ass 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.960 throw every game. Sure, but those dumbass throws against the 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.600 team like Tampa, who's got a lot of veterans that 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:07.639 won the Super Bowl two years ago, and they're healthier 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.120 than they've been all year at this point right now, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:15.119 and you got the goat factor, you can go. So 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.760 is Tom Brady your chalk player for Tampa? You know, 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:22.440 I think it's Chris Godwin. Okay, can get excited about 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.520 god With Mike Evans being hurt right now and and 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.440 a little iffy for this game, I think Godwin is 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:30.480 going to see a pass funnel in his direction in 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:32.879 this one. All right, I'm going I'm going to Brady 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.520 as my chok guy, and I'm going to Evans is 0:19:34.600 --> 0:19:37.640 my hunch player. If he's gonna do what he did 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.280 two weeks ago. Suddenly, you know, if he can be 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:43.560 that guy, I don't know. In playoff. Lenny just doesn't 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.240 do it for me. You know, I was gonna, I 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:49.240 was gonna mention that Dallas defense has not been as 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.200 good over the last month or so, and particularly against 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.360 the run. Yeah, so I think that Leonard four Nett 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.639 very interesting in this case. Uh for the chalk player 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:02.760 for Dallas, Ceedee Lamb to me is the chalk player 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.840 because the running back split it right, gets all the 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.679 touchdowns he scored him whatever, like seven or last eight games. 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.040 Pology is the better runner, but that gets all split up. 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.520 So I thought Ceedee Lamb to me was the chalk player. 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.840 What do you think? I agree with you on Ceedee Lamb, 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:20.280 and I think the chalk guy. I want to say Pollard, 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.560 but I'm gonna go Zeke because of the Pollard kind 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.960 of getting dinged up down the stretch and missed the 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.640 game or two. I think Zeke is the healthier back 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:32.280 right now, and I think that that coaching staff trusts him, 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.320 and and frankly the front office and the owner trusts 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.720 Zeke to no end. Probably, so it would not surprise 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:41.760 me at all to c Z get to a twenty 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:45.080 touch game in this game against Tampa. So he's kind 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:56.320