Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome into Fantasy pros. This is the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Podcast Week fifteen running Back Ranks. I am
Speaker 1: Chris Welsh joining me as always. Of course, it's Top
Speaker 1: Fit's morries. We've got Scott Pianowski in the house. It's
Speaker 1: just Scott Pianowski. This is the final rank show of
Speaker 1: the season with you. You have been along with us
Speaker 1: more than anybody in any singular guest, one of our
Speaker 1: favorites across the land, just I guess at the top
Speaker 1: one to thank you for joining us all season long,
Speaker 1: and what a great and important time you're going to
Speaker 1: be finishing off the season with us for the first
Speaker 1: week of the Fantasy Football playoffs.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having me. This has been one
Speaker 2: of my favorite media hits to do. We were saying
Speaker 2: before the show started. Yeah, look, anytime I could talk
Speaker 2: to smart guys who I enjoy, have some fun and
Speaker 2: bounce idea. This is a sounding board show for me. Right,
Speaker 2: I'm going to make my ranks better. I'm going to
Speaker 2: compare notes with two guys I like and respect. I mean,
Speaker 2: it just makes everybody better. It elevates all the boats.
Speaker 2: So it's been great to be in this chair. Periodically
Speaker 2: during the season, and I supposeally than so much for
Speaker 2: having me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's and I want to echo what
Speaker 1: you're saying, because though I'm not gonna shine in the
Speaker 1: Ranks Contest, FITZI, this will be the best I'm ever
Speaker 1: going to be in the Ranks Contest and it is
Speaker 1: no doubtedly because of this show and being on with
Speaker 1: you every single week, our great guests like Scott and
Speaker 1: kind of running through it and challenging each other, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of what we do with it. So FITZI
Speaker 1: thank you so much as you have been killing the
Speaker 1: Ranks Contest and leveling us all up.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that. I'm hitting a lot of singles.
Speaker 3: I think I've crept into the top twenty overall. But
Speaker 3: Scott was mentioning that the smart people he's doing the
Speaker 3: show with him, I'm kind of looking around, like, who's
Speaker 3: he talking about. No, So, yeah, it's been great, Scott.
Speaker 3: We really do appreciate you coming on with us every
Speaker 3: week in the odd weeks, and you know, having these discussions.
Speaker 3: It's always fun to talk to you, and I am
Speaker 3: a faithful listener to you and Michael Sophino on the
Speaker 3: Breakfast Table podcast, as you well know, and you know,
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm by having you on this show
Speaker 3: like shoehorning my way into those conversations.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Yeah. Thanks, Back back with the Rectorst
Speaker 2: Table this year after a year hiatus, so I hope
Speaker 2: people check that out. And of course we're having a
Speaker 2: lot of fun over Yahoo doing the Yahoo newsletter this
Speaker 2: year with with Andy Barrons. I'm on a couple times
Speaker 2: a week on that, so a lot to go with.
Speaker 2: But hey, people, they you know, they could listen to
Speaker 2: us talk about our mutual admiration all day, but these
Speaker 2: people they want ranks. They got playoff games. We're in
Speaker 2: a bunch of playoffs. We're in leagues together where you know,
Speaker 2: when you were shamelessly trying to get advice, trying to
Speaker 2: figure out the kind of Murray matrix. But will save
Speaker 2: that for a different episode of this pod. But let's
Speaker 2: give the people what they want, you know, the kinks
Speaker 2: and some championship ranks.
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, we are. We actually all do this
Speaker 1: industry league called the Pentathlon. One of us on this
Speaker 1: panel is in first place right now. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say who or anything like that. But just know
Speaker 1: that someone is in the first place. But you are right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't want to hear about our leagues. They want
Speaker 1: to hear about the stuff. Speaking of the ranks, real quick,
Speaker 1: let's give a shout out on the ranks contest. Every
Speaker 1: sing week here and Fantasy Pros, we have weekly ranked
Speaker 1: contests across the industry, one hundred and sixty one hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy to two hundred people ranking every single week
Speaker 1: from all across the land, and each week we get
Speaker 1: a top ten. You know, we got everybody ranked out here.
Speaker 1: Coming in at number one this week is shout out
Speaker 1: to Kevin English from Draft Sharks with the number one
Speaker 1: most accurate rank across the board, number two, Jeff Ratcliffe
Speaker 1: and Joe Beldner from the Footballers coming in two and three.
Speaker 1: So that's your top three Kevin English, Jeff Ratcliffe, and
Speaker 1: Joe Beldner as your big old top three crazy good rankers.
Speaker 1: With a shout out to our bro Debro Derek Brown,
Speaker 1: who I've been texting with. I've been maddenly texting with
Speaker 1: this week because he was just so upset with Joe
Speaker 1: Piece of PF for making the worst bet of all
Speaker 1: time with me going against me, ericson going against me
Speaker 1: with Kyle Pitts and me and Debro have just been
Speaker 1: back and forth together Ladder betting, and he finished fourteenth
Speaker 1: in the rank this past week. So one of the
Speaker 1: hardest work in men in fantasy football. Debro with the
Speaker 1: primary every single week, fourteenth on this on this rank contest.
Speaker 1: And FITZI just real quick, are you number one here
Speaker 1: at Fantasy pros as far as rank goes?
Speaker 2: Or is it Debro?
Speaker 3: No, it's Mike mahyor Mike Maryor He's number eleven overall,
Speaker 3: just outside the top ten.
Speaker 2: Please fix that.
Speaker 1: Don't let we cannot let Mayor beat all of us.
Speaker 1: If Scott, if you knew Mayor, you would you would agree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even know him, and I agree. But well,
Speaker 2: you mentioned Kyle Pitts talk about the easiest player to
Speaker 2: project in fantasy football. He is he gonna have one
Speaker 2: catch this week? Or two catches? I joked on Twitter
Speaker 2: on Sunday, I said, you know, the public like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, nobody likes betting unders And I said, well,
Speaker 2: have you ever met Kyle Pits.
Speaker 1: His reception under two and a half was plus one
Speaker 1: seventy this past week. I don't know why I didn't
Speaker 1: bet it because I had a bet with ericson it
Speaker 1: was Juwan Johnson on my side versus his Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 1: and I was like, come on, come on, buddy, we're going.
Speaker 2: Great cash homie. And not to mention Kirk Cousins, I mean,
Speaker 2: zero touchdowns, eight interceptions the last four weeks. What would
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins have to do to get benched? I know
Speaker 2: there's no right answer because they're gonna eat a bunch
Speaker 2: of money if they cut them. And you know, they
Speaker 2: signed him to this contract, but they also took Michael
Speaker 2: Pennix with what number eight pick in the draft. This
Speaker 2: is why no other team spends their quarterback resources the
Speaker 2: way the Falcons did. Cousins his fastball right now could
Speaker 2: not get stopped for speeding in the school zone. I mean,
Speaker 2: he just looks so terrible. And for some reason, Darnell
Speaker 2: Mooney has still been productive. I think London's been a
Speaker 2: little bit of a disappointment. But man, I am ready.
Speaker 2: I always say you like the Jets early in the season, like,
Speaker 2: how do I unsubscribe to the Jets? Right now, I'm
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how do I unsubscribe for Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 2: and I can't unsubscribe this week. They're on a Monday
Speaker 2: night football game that and I'm thankfully it's another Monday
Speaker 2: night game. So I guess I can always look to
Speaker 2: the left rather than look to the right on Monday
Speaker 2: night with my two screens. But Kirk Cousins looks done cooked.
Speaker 2: Call him a cab. He doesn't look like a capable
Speaker 2: NFL starter anymore.
Speaker 1: Well, if they lose this week, then maybe it'll be
Speaker 1: the Pennix time. But Kyle pits unders are Creamy. Cash
Speaker 1: rules everything around me. Cream get the money.
Speaker 2: You don't give up scratch tickets. Your scratch tickets lose
Speaker 2: most of the time. Give o Kyle pits under props.
Speaker 2: Those things hit most of the time. Nobody will regift
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Speaker 1: Two things are forever Kyle Pitts, disappointment and Wu tang.
Speaker 1: So there you go, all right.
Speaker 2: So now the pit's eight, the pits eight for one
Speaker 2: seventy seven and two has been locked in. So yeah,
Speaker 2: you need Kyle Pitts and he goes Sananas. You can
Speaker 2: thank all of us especially.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, if that is going to disappoint. We
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Speaker 1: Jackson Smith in Jigba helmet. Let's talk about the running
Speaker 1: backs here and let's get into the big board. We're
Speaker 1: going to see where you guys have got some of
Speaker 1: these guys and what the big questions for week fifteen
Speaker 1: on a very important Fantasy playoff run as it starts
Speaker 1: up here the big board for our running backs coming
Speaker 1: in at number one, say Kwon Barkley. Of course he
Speaker 1: does have a tougher matchup against Pittsburgh. Two is Derreck,
Speaker 1: Henry Bijon, Joe Mixon and Devon a Chan. That's your
Speaker 1: top five. Josh Jacobs, Jamier Gibbs, Chase Brown, Kiroen Williams,
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, James Connor, and Tony Pollard.
Speaker 2: That is your top twelve.
Speaker 1: That's the chalk little questions. Not a whole lot of
Speaker 1: do I sit any of these guys. You're playing your guys,
Speaker 1: except there is a little bit of a discrepancy that
Speaker 1: you two find gentlemen have with an RB with a
Speaker 1: top RB guy here, Alvin Kamara. I thought Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: last week was going to go ballistic. I thought it
Speaker 1: was going to be somewhere in the vicinity of thirty
Speaker 1: five and eighty six touches, and it would just be
Speaker 1: he would be throwing the ball to himself. I thought
Speaker 1: all that was going to happen. It didn't happen. He
Speaker 1: comes in at RB ten. Pinowski, you got him at eleven.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with you, Fitz, because you've got him
Speaker 1: at fifteen. And I wonder does this have to do
Speaker 1: with the matchup or does this have to do with
Speaker 1: Kendre Miller, who I think is going to even be
Speaker 1: more involved. He only had eighteen snaps last week, but
Speaker 1: ten touches, so over fifty percent when he's in there,
Speaker 1: he's touching the ball ten touches on those eighteen snaps.
Speaker 1: Is this matchup or is this Kendre Miller taking some
Speaker 1: of that shine off of Alvin Kamer?
Speaker 3: Less about matchup, more about Kendra Miller and Jay Hayner.
Speaker 3: When Derek carmissed three games earlier this season, from Week
Speaker 3: six to Week eight, Alvin Kamara averaged thirty nine rushing
Speaker 3: yards a game over those three weeks and thirty one
Speaker 3: receiving yards, So he got to seventy scrimmage yards a game,
Speaker 3: not bad, only one touchdown over those three games.
Speaker 4: And I think without Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: His touchdown outlook is greatly diminished here, and I don't
Speaker 3: think the Saints really have any incentive to load up
Speaker 3: on work for this recently re signed twenty nine year
Speaker 3: old running back in a lost season, and so I
Speaker 3: do think they're going to give a healthy dose of
Speaker 3: work to Kendra Miller, who's finally getting his long awaited
Speaker 3: audition after being out of Dennis Allen's doghouse. Dennis Allen
Speaker 3: no longer around, of course, So yeah, I mean like
Speaker 3: the Saints want to find out just how good Kendra
Speaker 3: Miller is. We saw him get double digit carries last week.
Speaker 3: I think there's a pretty good chance he cuts into
Speaker 3: Kamara's workload again this week.
Speaker 1: Even at fifteen, it's probably not someone you're taking out
Speaker 1: of the lineups, but ranking him at fifteen you are
Speaker 1: probably enabling where like someone could have three legitimate backs,
Speaker 1: like a guy like Charbona, who are going to talk
Speaker 1: about who ranks up this week? Or you know, there
Speaker 1: might be some decision making, but most likely he doesn't
Speaker 1: leave your roster. You're just a little bit more down
Speaker 1: on Kamara fit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we know people who play in eight and ten
Speaker 3: team leagues and might have a really stacked lineup, in
Speaker 3: which case maybe this becomes a decision. But for most people,
Speaker 3: I think you're riding with Alvin Kamara.
Speaker 4: Scott.
Speaker 1: When you look at this at Kamara, you've got him essentially,
Speaker 1: He's got him eleven. He is ten there. Do you
Speaker 1: think some of that like I should have phrased it
Speaker 1: too when we started up. It wasn't just about Kendre Miller.
Speaker 1: The quarterback play has people really worried. The only caveat
Speaker 1: to that is and it balances if they can't throw
Speaker 1: the ball deep, it's going to be checked down city
Speaker 1: and Alvin Kamara should get ten catches. But the problem
Speaker 1: is is if they're not defending deep, they're gonna play
Speaker 1: short stuff and Kamara is going to just catch a
Speaker 1: bunch of two yard passes and it's going to be
Speaker 1: all for not. So you know, obviously the quarterback play
Speaker 1: plays a big role in that. How do you see
Speaker 1: this playing out with Alvin Kamara?
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. You worry about the boyancy of the offense.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a guy who hasn't scored a
Speaker 2: touchdown seven games, who hasn't been inside the running back
Speaker 2: one cut line in eight of his last nine games.
Speaker 2: So it was a really hot start for Kamara. He
Speaker 2: hasn't played well in the second half of the year.
Speaker 2: It's been pieces around him, and I realized Taysom Hill
Speaker 2: was taking a lot of his touchdowns. That can't happen
Speaker 2: anymore because Hill's out for the season. But just an
Speaker 2: offense I want to avoid. I have him outside my
Speaker 2: top ten, but it's conceivable with the right flow of
Speaker 2: injury news and maybe just some re examining some things
Speaker 2: that he may be in that thirteen to sixteen range
Speaker 2: where it sounds like fits. He hasn't right now, so
Speaker 2: you're probably playing Kamara. This is Here's the thing that
Speaker 2: always drives me crazy, okay, is somebody will pound the
Speaker 2: table this time of year and say, you know, always
Speaker 2: start your studs, always start your studs. And I say, fine,
Speaker 2: but how flexible are we with the definition of a stud? Right?
Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara was studded for the first month of the
Speaker 2: season right running back, six, running back, one running back,
Speaker 2: fifteen running back six the first four weeks of the
Speaker 2: year and half point PPR scoring He is not. He
Speaker 2: has been a useful player, mostly propped up by volume,
Speaker 2: no touchdowns type of guy for two months now, he's
Speaker 2: not a stud anymore. If you have if maybe Sharboney
Speaker 2: has a clear runway this week, maybe you feel really
Speaker 2: good about Cuba Hubbard now that Brooks is out of
Speaker 2: the way. Again, I don't mean that in a glib way,
Speaker 2: but just you know, examining what's going on in Carolina.
Speaker 2: I do have Hubbard ranked in my current rankings higher
Speaker 2: than Kamara. It's conceivable you could have a roster. He
Speaker 2: doesn't have to play. So I think people say always
Speaker 2: start their studs because they don't want to make decisions.
Speaker 2: And again, you know, yeah, who needs help starting Barkley
Speaker 2: or Henry or you know, Devin ah Chan or something
Speaker 2: like that. But I think Alvin Kamar is just a
Speaker 2: guy you could start. Maybe you might have to start.
Speaker 2: I don't feel great about it right now. And if
Speaker 2: I ended up benching him for a guy like Sharboney
Speaker 2: who had no value you until like fifteen minutes ago,
Speaker 2: our guy like Cuba Hubbard, who was had little expectations
Speaker 2: on him than Kamara. But I have a prop on
Speaker 2: Hubbard winning the rushing title in that division. They're really
Speaker 2: close together. So I hope the Saints pulled back on
Speaker 2: Kamara and I hope maybe Dave Canalis wants to get
Speaker 2: that accolade for Chuba Hubbard. I don't know if coaches
Speaker 2: even think about, oh, you're going to be the leading
Speaker 2: rusher in the NFC South, but so be it. Obviously,
Speaker 2: b John Robinson will have say in that as well.
Speaker 2: I don't think you have to start Kamara. I think
Speaker 2: there'd be a lot of teams with league setups, roster
Speaker 2: setups where he doesn't play for them this week.
Speaker 1: Interesting and I with you and hope Tuba goes off
Speaker 1: this week. I am a very team Chuba Hubbard did
Speaker 1: that in the Prediction Show. It's a good matchup for him.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to the next set of running backs here.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the RB thirteen through twenty fours RB
Speaker 1: twos here sharbon Ay zach Scharbonay actually starts us off
Speaker 1: here with RB thirteen. Shout out to Fitz last week
Speaker 1: on the very aggressive sharbon A ranking Cuba as we
Speaker 1: just mentioned as well. Fourteen Dave Montgomery, Brian Robinson, Rico Dowdell,
Speaker 1: James Cook, Jonathan Taylor, and Jones. That your top twenty
Speaker 1: Rashad White, Naji Harris, Ramandre Stevenson and Tyrone Tracy. What
Speaker 1: I want to kick with quick Fits is you don't
Speaker 1: have to go crazy into this. But Charbonay this week
Speaker 1: without ken Walker is what for you? He's thirteen for
Speaker 1: the expert consensus ranks, but for Pat fitz Morris.
Speaker 4: Is what running back twelve.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty much right in line with ECR and I
Speaker 3: think I had him running back ten last week. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's just the difference of not having six teams on
Speaker 3: buy this week. You know, the matchup at home against
Speaker 3: green Bay, the Packers run defense has been better, Like
Speaker 3: we know it has been a sieve for like the
Speaker 3: last ten years, but it's actually played pretty well. We
Speaker 3: saw that against Detroit last week. They didn't get wrecked
Speaker 3: by the junior Gibbs David Montgomery super tandem. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, like, I think he is a very attractive
Speaker 3: play again, just because of the amount of work, Like
Speaker 3: he has that backfield to himself basically, and he catches passes.
Speaker 3: So it's sort of usage we want to see in
Speaker 3: a running back.
Speaker 1: So sharbon Ay, is is a scenario where you would
Speaker 1: start him over Alvin Kamara. I'm speaking forfeits, so that
Speaker 1: would work Scott's same thing. Sharbon Ay without ken Walker
Speaker 1: in week fifteen is ranked what for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right now? I have him at fourteen. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if that's high enough. He's had double digit carries
Speaker 2: in three different games this year, basically when ken Walker
Speaker 2: hasn't been available for a partial or full game running
Speaker 2: back twelve, running back six, and of course running back
Speaker 2: one last week where he basically blew up the slate
Speaker 2: along with Josh Allen, Jamar Chase and some other people.
Speaker 2: And Walker has not looked explosive since September. So even
Speaker 2: when Walker gets back on the field, Seattle the surging
Speaker 2: team since their by week, looks like they're going to
Speaker 2: win what was at one point a very jumbled NFC West.
Speaker 2: You gonna play your best players, right, I mean they've
Speaker 2: leaned into you mentioned the JSN helmet that you can win.
Speaker 2: I mean he's become their primary receiver. I know him
Speaker 2: in Metcalf run different routes, but JSN is the featured guy,
Speaker 2: much like Juwan Jennings the feature KAIND San Francisco. Go
Speaker 2: figure that one out. But you have to play your
Speaker 2: best players. In SHARBONEAUE, I think Zach Scharbona is the
Speaker 2: better running back. I don't know if it's because Walker's
Speaker 2: not healthy or if he's lost his confidence. He's not
Speaker 2: hitting the hole quickly enough, but he's looked like a
Speaker 2: diminished player Walker has for several weeks. So even if
Speaker 2: Walker were to play this week, if miracle see the
Speaker 2: news changed, or he gets back on the field, I
Speaker 2: think this could be the Zach Charbonay show either way.
Speaker 2: And I have a few shares. The Charviony teams I
Speaker 2: have aren't my best teams pretty much. This week, I'm
Speaker 2: afraid I'm gonna be up against Zach Sharbonay, so I'm
Speaker 2: hoping that my opponents don't have him. And this is
Speaker 2: one of these things. I don't really sweat my opponents
Speaker 2: in September and October. I'm just trying to score points
Speaker 2: and build my beast and all that. Now it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: you have to win this week. Year eliminated, you know.
Speaker 2: Now I start to sweat opponents and maybe second guess
Speaker 2: myself with decisions a little bit more than usual, which
Speaker 2: is par for the course. I like you, guys. I
Speaker 2: get text messages from people who don't talk to me
Speaker 2: all year and then September say, hey, how you doing
Speaker 2: small talk? Small talk, small tech? Okay, I need to
Speaker 2: running backs in a flex.
Speaker 1: But Zach Sharpe, what's the lineup question?
Speaker 2: Xactly? How much? Get to it? Yeah? I've had plenty
Speaker 2: of agnog My dog is great. Yeah, what do you
Speaker 2: need to know? Well, what do you need to know
Speaker 2: is Zach Charbone is in your lineup this week?
Speaker 1: One more off handed, one real quick? Charboney or Cuba
Speaker 1: for you, Scott.
Speaker 2: I'd like to play both of them. Just Cuba has
Speaker 2: more of a resume that makes him and Dallas is
Speaker 2: a good draw for him. Carolina favorite for once. And
Speaker 2: they can they just finish a game. They had the
Speaker 2: Chiefs all but beat They should have beaten the Eagles
Speaker 2: if can make that catch. And as a Lions fan,
Speaker 2: I'm hoping somebody can beat Philadelphia. Maybe Philadelphia can beat
Speaker 2: themselves because they're not getting along right now despite a
Speaker 2: nine game winning streak. But I get a lean Hubbard there.
Speaker 2: But I think they're both excellent plays.
Speaker 1: FITZI Cuba or Charboney.
Speaker 4: I've got Tuba inside the top ten RB nine.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was the big thing I wanted to get
Speaker 1: to because ecr Charboney over Tuba this week, and I
Speaker 1: also will be tubeover, so the three of us are
Speaker 1: tube overs.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Well, and this would be just another reminder for everybody
Speaker 1: always check out the updated rings is the week goes
Speaker 1: on more, as you know, we get closer to the
Speaker 1: game starting, more people submit their ranks, so you're going
Speaker 1: to see adjustment things we're talking about here. The board
Speaker 1: might change a little bit. Don't be shocked when Cuba
Speaker 1: moves above. It's a really good matchup. On the inverse
Speaker 1: of that matchup, let's talk about Rico Dowdell, who comes
Speaker 1: in at RB seventeen. It's also a good spot running
Speaker 1: against Carolina. Don't be shocked if you know Cuba and
Speaker 1: Rico combined for over two hundred rushing yards. But we
Speaker 1: have a rank discrepancy. Again, You've got Pianowski, you've got
Speaker 1: him at nineteen, FITZI you've got him at eleven. So
Speaker 1: you guys are really really on the opposite sides. So Scott,
Speaker 1: let's just start with you real quick. On the negative
Speaker 1: semi negative, you're not that much lower, but he has
Speaker 1: a couple spots higher. This is an incredible matchup. Rico
Speaker 1: volume is maybe sometimes the question, but you know, where
Speaker 1: are you and why are you so down? Quote unquote
Speaker 1: on Rico Dowdele.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's maybe just the market is up
Speaker 2: on Daddle and I get it. I mean they finally
Speaker 2: leaned into him as their featured He's got double digit
Speaker 2: carries in six straight weeks and he's been pushing twenty
Speaker 2: carries in three straight games. Just not as much touchdown
Speaker 2: equity as the buoyancy of the offense. I know Carolina
Speaker 2: is a defense we want to attack, but I just don't.
Speaker 2: This is more of a Cooper Rush reluctance. I have
Speaker 2: moved Donndal above Jonathan Taylor and James Cook in my
Speaker 2: recent ranking, So he's running back seventeen For me, it
Speaker 2: doesn't match the optimism that fits has. But Rico Dodd
Speaker 2: I think is a very legitimate running back to this week.
Speaker 2: I just have to be a little bit careful. How
Speaker 2: many touchdowns is Dallas going to score? How many points
Speaker 2: are they going to score? Even with a plus matchup.
Speaker 2: I have to feel like that's a modest total, and
Speaker 2: they will throw him the ball in the passing game.
Speaker 2: He's not doing a lot with it. He's not a
Speaker 2: dynamic pass catcher by any means. But and I don't
Speaker 2: really trust the play calling in Dallas. It just seems
Speaker 2: like everything goes wrong with what they try to scheme up. Sometimes.
Speaker 2: I like Rico Donald. I guess the market maybe likes
Speaker 2: him a little bit more than I do. I think
Speaker 2: he's a lower floor but solid running back to this week.
Speaker 1: FITZI, based on your ranks that you've told us, you
Speaker 1: have Rico Daddle over Sharbone here. You've got him at eleven.
Speaker 1: You're the high guy. Talk to us about Rico Dwell.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I do understand Scott's hesitation because of the
Speaker 3: quarterback situation. Although Dallas I think has been a little
Speaker 3: more functional with their offense after losing a starter quarterback than,
Speaker 3: for instance, the Giants, whose offense is just kind of
Speaker 3: doa right now or what I expect the Saints to
Speaker 3: be this week. But Rico has had two straight one
Speaker 3: hundred yard rushing games. He's had no fewer than eighteen
Speaker 3: carries in any of his last three games. He's also
Speaker 3: had seven catches over those three games. And he's going
Speaker 3: up against this Carolina defense that ranks dead last in
Speaker 3: DVOA has given up the most fantasy points to running backs,
Speaker 3: also the most rushing yards and rushing touchdowns to running backs.
Speaker 3: It's just such a good spot that Cooper Rush can't
Speaker 3: really diminish my enthusiasm that much.
Speaker 1: You almost did the like, can Cooper Rush really mess
Speaker 1: this up? And you're like they did? But yeah, maybe,
Speaker 1: but it is the Panthers and it's in play one
Speaker 1: more in this range. Romandre Stevenson, He's RB twenty three
Speaker 1: going up against the Arizona Cardinals. We've got a little
Speaker 1: bit of a rank difference here that Scott is right
Speaker 1: on ECR at twenty three.
Speaker 2: But FITZI, you've got.
Speaker 1: Remindre outside of the top two rbs, so top twenty
Speaker 1: four for the week at RB twenty six. So why
Speaker 1: don't you kick it off just real quick, Romandre Stevenson.
Speaker 1: Is there actual negativity towards him based on your rank?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And I like the player, I mean, I like the
Speaker 3: big guys with the quick feat and Remondre is certainly that.
Speaker 3: But I can't ignore the sort of downward trajectory he's
Speaker 3: been on. Over his last seven games, He's averaged three
Speaker 3: point one yards per carry. He's had fewer than twenty
Speaker 3: rushing yards in three of his last seven games, and
Speaker 3: the decent games he's had over that stretch all against
Speaker 3: bad run defenses. Seventy four rushing yards against the Bears
Speaker 3: in Week ten, seventy three rushing yards against the Rams
Speaker 3: in Week eleven, seventy three rushing yards against the Colts
Speaker 3: in Week fourteen. He's gone four straight games without a touchdown.
Speaker 3: And the Erdinals run defense really isn't that terrible. They're
Speaker 3: thirteenth in DVOA against the run, so not a smash matchup,
Speaker 3: and just a guy who hasn't really shown us much
Speaker 3: over the last couple of months.
Speaker 1: You know, Scott, when I look at these running backs,
Speaker 1: I see like a line. That line sits right about
Speaker 1: at Remandre where I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: Because you know, we've seen Antonio Gibson kind of takes
Speaker 1: some of the quality carries away at times. We've seen
Speaker 1: the volume move away from Ramondre Stevenson. There just seems
Speaker 1: to be a very dramatic line when I look at
Speaker 1: those RB twos, and then you get to Remonder and
Speaker 1: you're like, he is not like the guy above him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a line of demarcation here. Well, so
Speaker 2: I think you make a great point with that, and
Speaker 2: it's funny as a Patriots fan over the moon for
Speaker 2: Drake may You can't stand the receiver room. I like Stevenson.
Speaker 2: Offensive line has been one of the five worst in
Speaker 2: the league. The coaching staff is a group I don't believe,
Speaker 2: and I have no idea why they promised Jonathan Mayo
Speaker 2: before Basically it was time to do so, and then
Speaker 2: Mike Vrabel was available. How do you not interview him?
Speaker 2: I think the Patriots have their next ten year quarterback.
Speaker 2: I don't know that they have their next ten year
Speaker 2: coaching staff. And I'm afraid that may could end up
Speaker 2: in a Caleb Williams situation where it's like, Okay, we
Speaker 2: like the player, but who are the guys around him?
Speaker 2: Is the coaching staff He's going to have like a
Speaker 2: third or fourth offensive coordinator next year and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So Stevenson, it's just you know, Arizona. I realized Sharbonney
Speaker 2: tore them up last week. As pat mentioned, Arizona was
Speaker 2: doing a fine job against the run before last week.
Speaker 2: I think that's probably more of a blip than anything else.
Speaker 2: And whenever you look at a running back where there
Speaker 2: Patriots are six point underdog, so you worry about the
Speaker 2: game script getting out of hand. Gibson does cut in.
Speaker 2: There isn't a ton of touchdown equity here. Stevenson, to me,
Speaker 2: is more reactive than proactive. Pick in Week fifteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a type of guy where not saying you do it.
Speaker 1: And I'm dangerous about saying this because we got the
Speaker 1: Thursday night game and it would be better if not.
Speaker 1: But like you could have justified if Patrick Taylor we're
Speaker 1: given the go that he's going to be the main back,
Speaker 1: you could be like, I think I might start him
Speaker 1: over Romandre giving an example. It's a little dicey because
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Speaker 1: Also, hard knocks. We don't need hard knocks like division.
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Speaker 1: around And I would watch that reality show all right,
Speaker 1: RB's twenty five through thirty six, kind of the flex
Speaker 1: play RBS. You would start to talk about them as
Speaker 1: coming in at twenty five is Isaiah Pacheco going up
Speaker 1: against Cleveland, who we just talked about, DeAndre Swift at
Speaker 1: twenty six, Braylan Allen, Sincere McCormick, Travis etn Jalen Warren.
Speaker 1: That's your top thirty Tank bigsby Gus Edwards, Nick Chubb,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Davis, Davonte Williams, and Justice Hill at thirty six.
Speaker 1: Remember that line I talked about, boy, those lines in
Speaker 1: the sand get deeper and deeper at running back when
Speaker 1: you keep going through here. Let's talk about my Utsa boy,
Speaker 1: Sincere McCormick.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I've been mentioning him just because I've bet on him
Speaker 1: so much playing at Utsa Like He's one of those
Speaker 1: college guys that's imprinted in my brain. And I know
Speaker 1: if it's a year the Dynasty guy here, So you
Speaker 1: got to just have some love for since And he
Speaker 1: is getting volume. Believes that Mere White was just put
Speaker 1: on the ir. They're never going to play Madison again.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter about Abdullah because Sincere gets the volume,
Speaker 1: and I think people are following through now twenty eight.
Speaker 1: This week a decent spot Atlanta, A decent matchup ECR
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Both of you guys, at twenty nine, you're
Speaker 1: kind of in lockstep fitsy, why don't you kick it
Speaker 1: off with sincere McCormick in your trust of putting him
Speaker 1: in a flex spot this week?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I have trust to put him in
Speaker 3: a flex spot, and I'll probably move him up a
Speaker 3: couple of spots if Alexander Madison is officially ruled out.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen whether he has ben Yetta. I think there's.
Speaker 3: Still maybe a possibility that he comes back by I.
Speaker 4: Kind of doubt it. It's not the easiest matchup.
Speaker 3: The Falcons have allowed the seventh fewest fantasy points to
Speaker 3: running backs, But I love McCormick's Week sixteen and seventeen
Speaker 3: matchups against the Jaguars and Saints.
Speaker 4: He could be a.
Speaker 3: Sneaky title closer there for people. I hate the term
Speaker 3: league winner, but he could be a nice hammer for
Speaker 3: people those last two weeks. I am never again going
Speaker 3: to be skeptical of small, somewhat slow running backs without
Speaker 3: substantial draft capital, because I got burned on Kyron Williams
Speaker 3: and Bucky Irvin and like fading those guys when they
Speaker 3: ran bad forty times, and you know those guys were
Speaker 3: drafted late McCormick wasn't drafted at all. But he's a
Speaker 3: smaller guy who ran a four to six and he
Speaker 3: looks good though. I mean, like that's what matters. He
Speaker 3: is looks like he could be a quality runner for
Speaker 3: a team that really hadn't given us any running back
Speaker 3: value all year, and all of a sudden, we're starting
Speaker 3: to get a little bit of running back value from
Speaker 3: Sincere McCormick. You know, like, I don't want to go
Speaker 3: all in on him, but is he flexworthy in week fifteen?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna start having decisions like I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna throw this out to you. Here's the problems like
Speaker 1: you get into like those late wide receiver threes. Wide
Speaker 1: Receiver thirty six this week is DeAndre Hopkins. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that in the Wide Receiver Show versus RB twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Not quite built the same, But if you're starting three
Speaker 1: wide receivers, two running backs and a flex, then you
Speaker 1: might be making tougher decisions of wide receivers that are
Speaker 1: much further down that Sincere McCormick can get in. Scott
Speaker 1: your take on Sincere McCormick, because the one thing it
Speaker 1: seems that we have when he is out there is
Speaker 1: we do have volume. We just maybe don't know the
Speaker 1: quality of what that volume is going to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure we have volume. Really impressed by that
Speaker 2: sixty two point five percent success rate running the ball
Speaker 2: per Pro Football Reference. I know there's different ways to
Speaker 2: measure that, but I feel like he gets what's blocked right.
Speaker 2: I mean, he hits the hole, he makes a positive run.
Speaker 2: And I've always been more of don't take this as
Speaker 2: a direct comp but I've always been more of like
Speaker 2: the Terrell Davis Emmitt Smith three five, seven eleven, maybe
Speaker 2: break a long run as opposed to like the boom
Speaker 2: or bust type of runner that Barry Sanders was. I
Speaker 2: think Sae Kwon Barkley is that type of runner. In fact,
Speaker 2: Barkley's success rate is very similar this year to what
Speaker 2: it was last year with the Giants. It's been so
Speaker 2: many home runs and we love those. But maybe snap
Speaker 2: the snap, It isn't quite as good as you may
Speaker 2: be led to believe. I know he's challenging some NFL
Speaker 2: records and he's trying to get in the MVP conversation,
Speaker 2: but Antonio Pierce is going to play the guys that
Speaker 2: he believes in and they're trying to scout out what's
Speaker 2: worth keeping for twenty twenty five. Alexander Madison was on
Speaker 2: a one year deal anyway, so I don't think he's
Speaker 2: coming back. We may be done with Madison for the season.
Speaker 2: Nobody will miss Alexander Madison, and the Raiders are a
Speaker 2: little bit more of a competitive lot now that they
Speaker 2: have a healthy Max Crossby on the other side of
Speaker 2: the football. I think this game will stay close. I
Speaker 2: know McCormick isn't anything special as a receiver, but I
Speaker 2: feel like he already has fifteen carries in his back pocket,
Speaker 2: and if history tells us anything, you know about two
Speaker 2: thirds of those will be successful runs.
Speaker 1: Another running back that has theoretical volume, but maybe that's
Speaker 1: going to be in question this week is Gus Edwards.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards doesn't really do anything special at any time.
Speaker 1: You can almost lock him for ten carries and thirty
Speaker 1: two yards every single week and it's going to be
Speaker 1: like three to three point two yards per carry. But
Speaker 1: it's the touchdown equity that makes him kind of a
Speaker 1: force at least if they get there. Of course, he
Speaker 1: comes in at RB thirty two. Both of you guys
Speaker 1: have him quite a bit lower. You've got him outside
Speaker 1: the top thirty six running backs. And I think there's
Speaker 1: also a school of thought that Kamani Vidal could get
Speaker 1: more involved. He's a much better pass game option, and
Speaker 1: you know, just frankly, you're starting to give him more
Speaker 1: touches in that JK. Dobbins role, so Gus Edwards doesn't
Speaker 1: have to have, you know, twelve more carries for two
Speaker 1: point eight yards per Pinowski. Let's start with you on
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards. He's not as exciting, but he's still being
Speaker 1: ranked as a top thirty six here, but not for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're welcome to start Gus Edwards against me. He
Speaker 2: needs a touchdown, I'd say, to pay off, but he's
Speaker 2: somebody could score a touchdown and even miss his projection.
Speaker 2: He's only caught three passes all season. He hasn't made
Speaker 2: it to sixty rushing yards in any game this season,
Speaker 2: and that's with Dobbin's missing time. I think back to
Speaker 2: that great Kenny Maine bit where he did a segment
Speaker 2: once about Jerome Bettis at the end of his career,
Speaker 2: where Bettis would get on the bus and drive the
Speaker 2: bus forward about two feet and then get out. And
Speaker 2: that was what Jerome Bettess was doing at the end
Speaker 2: of his screer, just scoring the one yard touchdowns. Right,
Speaker 2: you're doing what jitlam Hurts does in Philadelphia, what Saquon
Speaker 2: Barkley never does. That's what you need. I mean. Edwards
Speaker 2: is almost like a tight end at this point, right,
Speaker 2: he's touchdown or bust. He needs that deodorant, And even
Speaker 2: with the touchdown deodorant, I think the smell is still
Speaker 2: a little bit foul. I don't think there's any ceiling here.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any floor here. And if you
Speaker 2: don't get that touchdown, you're getting like three point two points.
Speaker 2: You mentioned ten for thirty two. That sounds like a
Speaker 2: good place to start your projection. I welcome everybody to
Speaker 2: play Gus Edwards against me, and Tampa Bay will be
Speaker 2: They're not a pushover by any means, especially against the run.
Speaker 2: They have some decent beef in their front seven. So
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a frustrating game for Edwards
Speaker 2: and only a touchdown will save him.
Speaker 1: Fitzi Erickson on the Prediction Show had a prediction on Vidal.
Speaker 1: So if you guys want to go and watch that,
Speaker 1: make sure you do that. On the YouTube the Week
Speaker 1: fifteen Prediction Show saying that that videl would be a
Speaker 1: better start than Gus Edwards this week. Do you think
Speaker 1: that's the case or everything is a huge fade for
Speaker 1: the Chargers.
Speaker 3: No, I agree, Kamani Videll had more snaps. He played
Speaker 3: more snaps than Gus Edwards last week, six more snaps.
Speaker 3: He's got considerably more juice. Scott framed it well, like
Speaker 3: you need him to get into the end zone or
Speaker 3: you're going to get a very disappointing result from Gus
Speaker 3: Edwards because he's averaging three point five yards per carry,
Speaker 3: he doesn't catch passes, and his longest run this year
Speaker 3: has gone for twelve yards. So there's just not a
Speaker 3: lot of upsides. Got mentioned it like you're running into
Speaker 3: a Todd Bowles defense. Like Todd Bowles teams are always
Speaker 3: pretty good against the run. The Buccaneers have allowed the
Speaker 3: ninth fewest rushing yards to running backs this season, and
Speaker 3: they've only allowed six.
Speaker 4: Rushing touchdowns to running back.
Speaker 3: So it's just it's not a good spot for Gus Edwards,
Speaker 3: and it's really never a good spot for Gus Edwards.
Speaker 2: And if he's going to score a touchdown, it has
Speaker 2: to be basically from the one yard line, the two
Speaker 2: yard line, maybe the three yard line. Gus Edwards does
Speaker 2: not have a touchdown over seven yards since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's no juice at all. There's no second
Speaker 2: level explosion here. He needs pass interference on, you know,
Speaker 2: on a charger receiver at the goal line. It's first
Speaker 2: and goal with the one, and he might need a
Speaker 2: couple of cracks at it after that.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards, Well, here is a running back. Maybe you
Speaker 1: didn't expect that we were going to talk about. Maybe
Speaker 1: you wouldn't expect that this running back is also going
Speaker 1: to be a start over Gus Edwards. For both of
Speaker 1: these fine gentlemen, we're doing a price check outside of
Speaker 1: the RB thirty six's Jalil McLoughlin with the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1: My advice always don't start a Bronco running back ever,
Speaker 1: just don't even be cute about it, especially when there's
Speaker 1: not buy. So that's like where I'm going to sit
Speaker 1: with it. But you both have McLoughlin as a top
Speaker 1: thirty six RB this weekend over Gus Edwards. Fits you
Speaker 1: specifically have him at thirty two. Scott, You've got him
Speaker 1: at thirty six. Fits thirty two. I mean it's kind
Speaker 1: of aggressive for I don't know, just any Denver Bronco
Speaker 1: running back. But he does get involved in the passing game,
Speaker 1: which that's what makes it exciting. Bo Nick's high completion percentage.
Speaker 1: So McLoughlin, how did he? How did we get here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good question.
Speaker 3: Sean Payton's running back, you, which has been wildly unpredictable
Speaker 3: this season. I'm not so sure he doesn't just spin
Speaker 3: a wheel in the locker room before the game to
Speaker 3: decide who his lead running back is going to be.
Speaker 3: But last we saw the Broncos before their Week fourteen
Speaker 3: by it was Julia McLoughlin as their lead running back.
Speaker 3: Fourteen carries for eighty four yards against the Browns, and
Speaker 3: he looked really good in that game. Like, I don't
Speaker 3: think there's much question that McLoughlin is the quickest, shiftiest
Speaker 3: running back the Broncos have on the roster, more so
Speaker 3: than Javonte Williams or Audrick Estime. And he's good as
Speaker 3: a pass catcher. And I like the matchup against the Colts,
Speaker 3: who have allowed these second most rushing yards to running backs.
Speaker 1: Scott's same thing. You're a little bit lower on him,
Speaker 1: but you still got him as a top thirty six
Speaker 1: RB this week. Do you kind of share the same
Speaker 1: thoughts as fits, just maybe with slightly less enthusiasm.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if you have to play one of
Speaker 2: the Denver guys, he's the only one I could. Williams
Speaker 2: is such a plotter. At least McLoughlin has some burst.
Speaker 2: He's a slider back of builds, so you never really
Speaker 2: give him a heavy workload, and Sean Payton doesn't want
Speaker 2: to do that anyway. Peyton has been open about this.
Speaker 2: It's a hot hand situation. Everybody's going to play. I
Speaker 2: just feel more confident that mcgloughlin can bust off a
Speaker 2: second level run and maybe nobody shoves anybody out of
Speaker 2: the way in that backfield, but maybe he can nudge
Speaker 2: the other guys out of the way. I also don't
Speaker 2: think they completely believe in Estimate yet, so I'd be
Speaker 2: kind of flabbergasset if Estimate pushed into double digit carries.
Speaker 2: Maybe Williams could do that. But it's a case where
Speaker 2: if I had to play one of these guys, it's mcgloughlin,
Speaker 2: and if I had a really bad injury runout, maybe
Speaker 2: he's somebody I could use in a pinch. It's a
Speaker 2: reactive play all the way. It's not proactive because Peyton
Speaker 2: won't allow us to do that. Also, take a little
Speaker 2: bit of heart in the fact that bo Nix's running
Speaker 2: game has pretty much evaporated over the last month or so,
Speaker 2: so at least there may be the three Denver running backs.
Speaker 2: The pie they're fighting over might be a little bit
Speaker 2: bigger right now.
Speaker 3: Well, although we might have to throw Marvin Mimms into
Speaker 3: the mix because Sean Payton has been talking about regretting
Speaker 3: not using Marvin Mimms more out of the backfield early
Speaker 3: in the season.
Speaker 1: Well, and the key here too with this entire thing
Speaker 1: coming off of a buye, so anything is possible. Anything
Speaker 1: gonna Odrick Estimate could get twenty carries, it could go
Speaker 1: back to Javonte, Marvin Mims could start. We just don't
Speaker 1: quite know if they're gonna make some big altered offensive
Speaker 1: change in the backfield. This would be the theoretical week.
Speaker 1: So that's my only other slight hesitation is just we
Speaker 1: kind of don't know what we're in for. Coming off
Speaker 1: of the buy where a change would happen. But as
Speaker 1: you guys mentioned, if you are reacting to a situation,
Speaker 1: you've got some type of injury. McLaughlin is the type
Speaker 1: of guy that you would end up leaning on.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Marvin mims By the way, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: get some backfield carries fits. So Marvin mims is number nineteen.
Speaker 2: Maybe they want him to emulate the player that Deebo
Speaker 2: Samuel used to be. And I'm convinced if Deebo Samuel
Speaker 2: would just go back to wearing nineteen, he'd be more productive.
Speaker 2: I don't know why he switched to one. He doesn't
Speaker 2: look right. I got used to him as a nineteen.
Speaker 2: I'm not really a big fan of the receivers wearing
Speaker 2: one anyway. I know, obviously it looks really good on
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase these days. There's some other guys, but I
Speaker 2: have no problem with the mission receivers wearing one. But yeah,
Speaker 2: Deebo Samuel, go back to nineteen. We need you, We
Speaker 2: miss you. Please.
Speaker 1: Yeah, represent your yards per carry on your jersey, not one,
Speaker 1: but nineteen. Do whatever you can please?
Speaker 2: Hey nineteen.
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