Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Monday, December thirty, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show where we need
Speaker 1: a miracle to win a title.
Speaker 2: It's me and your man, MG Marcus Grant, joined by
Speaker 2: Michael F. Florio and Lakwan Jones.
Speaker 1: Fellas, how are we feeling after Week seventeen? I mean,
Speaker 1: first off, are you guys I don't even know? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, Florio, you got bounced to a couple of
Speaker 1: LaQuan Are you still fighting for a championship somewhere?
Speaker 3: No, we've been put to bed. But going to bed
Speaker 3: and waking up as a NFC West champion feels a
Speaker 3: lot better than any fantasy honestly, because the Rams are
Speaker 3: dangerous again and I've been screaming this for so long,
Speaker 3: and we're going back.
Speaker 4: To the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Guys. You know what, here's the thing in the NFC.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't really argue it because there's no
Speaker 1: clearcut favorite in the conference right now. At first, I
Speaker 1: was like, well, the Rams are gonna win the division
Speaker 1: because everybody else is falling apart. But the Rams are
Speaker 1: legitimately playing good football, especially defensively over the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's pretty good. Meanwhile, your Bills haven't had
Speaker 1: anything to play for in a few weeks.
Speaker 4: Really, Floria, well, yesterday they clinched the two seed, and look,
Speaker 4: I'll argue that clinching the two seed before another certain
Speaker 4: specific player in their team even clinched their division. That's
Speaker 4: what MVPs do. So that's what I'm going out on.
Speaker 2: And then the forty nine ers. So anyway, we got
Speaker 2: to a whole stuff to talk about on the show today.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have the biggest takeaways from week seventeen. Plus
Speaker 1: we'll give our waiver Wire pickups of the Year, a
Speaker 1: guy that probably helped a lot of you to where
Speaker 1: you are at this point in the season, especially if
Speaker 1: you are still competing for a championship. There's one more
Speaker 1: game left to be played before a fantasy champion has crowned.
Speaker 2: In a lot of leagues.
Speaker 1: We've got a Monday night game between the Lions and
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers, So still a lot of drama,
Speaker 1: a lot of fantasy relevant guys going tonight help a
Speaker 1: lot of teams one way or another.
Speaker 2: But let's get.
Speaker 1: Started, as we always do about this time, with some
Speaker 1: fantasy headlines. And headlines today a little bit different because
Speaker 1: obviously the season pretty much over, so while there are
Speaker 1: certainly some notable injuries, maybe not as much of an
Speaker 1: impact for our purposes. So instead kind of looking ahead,
Speaker 1: looking back, and looking ahead all at the same time,
Speaker 1: let's start in Las Vegas with Brock Bauers, who broke
Speaker 1: a number of records over the weekend. Most notably broke
Speaker 1: Mike Ditka's record for rookie tight end receiving yards, a
Speaker 1: record that had stood for sixty three entire years. On
Speaker 1: top of it, he also broke Puka Nakua's record for
Speaker 1: receptions by a rookie, which stood for one entire year.
Speaker 1: But if Florida look, we are in a spot where
Speaker 1: it looks like for the second consecutive year, a rookie
Speaker 1: is going to be the tight end one overall. Last
Speaker 1: year was Sam Laporta. He was drafted as the top
Speaker 1: tight end this year. That didn't work out. Are we
Speaker 1: willing to take the same leap next year with Brock Bowers?
Speaker 1: Is he your tight end one and how early are
Speaker 1: you drafted him?
Speaker 4: Yes? He is my tight end one, and I think
Speaker 4: there's a big difference between him and Sam Laporta. And
Speaker 4: the difference is last year, as awesome as Sam Laporta was,
Speaker 4: it was largely promped up by touchdowns. Like I don't
Speaker 4: believe he even had nine hundred yards. Kyle Pitts had
Speaker 4: more yards as a rookie tight end, which is why
Speaker 4: in the offseason I was like, I think Kyle Pitts's
Speaker 4: rookie season was probably more impressive than Sam Laporta's because
Speaker 4: touchdowns is Marcus, as you say all the time, are
Speaker 4: fickle beasts and Rock Bowers with better quarterback play is
Speaker 4: going to get a chance a more touchdowns. But the
Speaker 4: yard numbers that catch numbers, to me, those are more
Speaker 4: reliable year over year. And just watching him play like
Speaker 4: he is the best rookie tight end I have ever
Speaker 4: watched in my life. So yeah, And for where I
Speaker 4: would draft him, I want to say the second round.
Speaker 4: I think that's realistically where you would have to want
Speaker 4: to take him. But I wouldn't be surprised if people
Speaker 4: pull him up to be a late first because tight
Speaker 4: end premium and shortage of position and all that.
Speaker 1: All right, So if we're going with you premise that
Speaker 1: he's the tight end one the quad who's tight end too,
Speaker 1: Trey McBride, George Kittle, Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 2: Who's tight end two for you?
Speaker 3: Then, honestly, it probably have to be Trey McBride. His
Speaker 3: frustrations this season was well displayed out there, and honestly
Speaker 3: I had him up there as the tight end one
Speaker 3: for this season following for you. I mean, we were
Speaker 3: all on the McBride train, but the touchdowns they just weren't there.
Speaker 3: And honestly, next season they have to get this problem
Speaker 3: fixed in the red zone with him and find a
Speaker 3: way for him to find the end zone. Of course
Speaker 3: he scores on us, I mean, whatever the.
Speaker 2: Case may be.
Speaker 3: But you're looking at like, I love what Trey McBride
Speaker 3: was able to do this season just overall as a receiver.
Speaker 3: I know we were waiting for Zach Ertz to move
Speaker 3: out it away, but this is the season that we
Speaker 3: kind of had on display for Trey McBride.
Speaker 2: He just did not find the end zone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think a larger conversation needs to be
Speaker 1: had Kyler Murray off the car his offense because you know,
Speaker 1: trade McBride didn't have touchdowns. Marvin Harrison Junior was generally
Speaker 1: a disappointment for a lot of us. So I think
Speaker 1: that's a conversation that we need to actually dive into
Speaker 1: at some point in the offseason.
Speaker 4: And Greg Dorge, how do we forget about George?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 1: I heard his name over the weekend. I was like, sorry,
Speaker 1: I forgot about that dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley is now over two thousand rushing yards for
Speaker 1: the season and very much within reach of Eric Dickerson's
Speaker 1: single season rushing record. LaQuan, is it a foregone conclusion
Speaker 1: that he's the one dot one next year?
Speaker 3: Ooh, that's a good question, man. And honestly, me personally
Speaker 3: or even some of the CMC you know fans out there,
Speaker 3: I probably won't be taking a running back.
Speaker 2: One oh one.
Speaker 3: I mean, this dude is on the verge of breaking
Speaker 3: Eric Dickerson's record, and honestly, I hope he doesn't. I mean,
Speaker 3: can that stay with a ram like kind of like
Speaker 3: come on, guys, like, but more so looking at next
Speaker 3: year one oh one, I think a lot of CMC
Speaker 3: fans will understand, like the workload, you know, where CMS
Speaker 3: was last season and where he's at now, Like I
Speaker 3: don't want to guy, that's going to be overused chasing
Speaker 3: records and stuff like that. I'm honestly good on a
Speaker 3: running back in the first round. I'd rather take my
Speaker 3: shots with the wide receivers or even tight end like
Speaker 3: how Floria was saying, we're rock Bay or sitting at
Speaker 3: that back end of the first round early second round
Speaker 3: where he could be going. So I'm pivoting another options.
Speaker 3: I love what he's doing this season, a great talent,
Speaker 3: a great fantasy ascent, but one oh one, I'm shining
Speaker 3: away from that, probably for good from the running back position.
Speaker 1: All right, So LaQuan says he's off of running backs
Speaker 1: in the first round. Let's say you're sitting there though,
Speaker 1: at like number four, Florio and Justin Jefferson's gone, Jamar
Speaker 1: Chase is gone, you know, I don't know, Like and
Speaker 1: you're looking at say, you know, sa Kuon Barkley, or
Speaker 1: you're looking at say like I'm on Ross Saint Brown,
Speaker 1: like where are you going right now?
Speaker 4: I'd probably go be Jean Robinson if I'm taking a
Speaker 4: running back. Look awesome. He's got way more wear and
Speaker 4: tear than than Bijon does. He's got he's older, a
Speaker 4: longer history of injuries, and even more than that, Like
Speaker 4: I don't believe we like I believe this is going
Speaker 4: to be Saquon Barkley's career year. I don't believe we
Speaker 4: have seen the best out of Bijon Robinson yet. And
Speaker 4: that is something that I'm trying to change in my
Speaker 4: process is in the past, I've been quick to be like,
Speaker 4: this guy was amazing last year, like he might not
Speaker 4: live up to that, but he's going to be amazing again.
Speaker 4: But the truth of the matter is is like these
Speaker 4: special seasons like what Saquon is having or Jamar Chase
Speaker 4: is having, they win leagues, and I I could see,
Speaker 4: I don't think Saquon is going to do this again
Speaker 4: next year, Like I think he'll be great. I think
Speaker 4: it'll be a top five fantasy running back. I don't
Speaker 4: think he's gonna run for over two thousand yards. So
Speaker 4: that to me kind of leans like maybe, But look
Speaker 4: on everyone's process is different. So if you want to
Speaker 4: go Saquon at the one oh one, I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: to fight you over.
Speaker 1: I mean, it feels a lot like you know, our
Speaker 1: our friend Bob Harris who always says, don't draft last
Speaker 1: year's best team, and it sort of feels that way,
Speaker 1: but also I could easily see myself getting sucked into
Speaker 1: all right, So even if he has fourteen hundred yards
Speaker 1: next year, that's still good, right, Like, I think both
Speaker 1: both arguments are going to be in play, and I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a big thing we're going to
Speaker 1: debate all off season long, for sure. All Right, let's
Speaker 1: take a look at some of the week's top scorers.
Speaker 2: It's still one more game left to be played.
Speaker 1: But Joe Burrow that huge game on Saturday night, having
Speaker 1: overtime certainly helped. Four hundred and twelve passing yards, three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: also a rushing touchdown as well, nearly thirty seven points
Speaker 1: for him. Jonathan Taylor a big day, which you know, look,
Speaker 1: I know some of you might have been eliminated when
Speaker 1: he dropped the football couple weeks ago, but you know,
Speaker 1: for those of you who survived one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five rushing yards, two touchdowns on the ground, twenty seven
Speaker 1: point six points there. Tee Higgins who eight over the weekend,
Speaker 1: eleven catches, one hundred and thirty one receiving yards and
Speaker 1: three one two three touchdowns. Trey McBride twelve catches for
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty three yards and a touchdown.
Speaker 2: We may dive into that a little bit later in
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 1: Thirty point three points for mcbrad kymeron Dicker Dicker the kicker,
Speaker 1: four field goals, four pat sixteen points there and the
Speaker 1: Eagles defense taking advantage of Cooper Rush and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: a sack, four takeaways, a touchdown, seven points allowed. That's
Speaker 1: good for nineteen fantasy points. So those are the overall
Speaker 1: fantasy heroes.
Speaker 2: Who is your personal fantasy hero this Weekkwan.
Speaker 3: Dunta Da Da another superhero of alpha stature, and like,
Speaker 3: I tried to do this comparison with T Higgins and
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase because they have two wide receiver ones on
Speaker 3: the Bengals offense, and I came down to the conclusion
Speaker 3: that Iron Man and Captain America. You figure out who's
Speaker 3: whoever but a forty burger and the second time in
Speaker 3: his career, and honestly, him and Jamar Chase man they
Speaker 3: need to stick together. Like if T Higgins goes anywhere
Speaker 3: else next season, I'm going to be completely off. Like
Speaker 3: it's clear and still that the Bengals are dangerous with
Speaker 3: two wide receiver ones. This is a formula that not
Speaker 3: all teams have, so honestly, him bringing home the championship
Speaker 3: for a lot of fantasy managers, putting up forty points people,
Speaker 3: this is the second time in his career he's done that,
Speaker 3: and honestly, just looking at the frame and body work
Speaker 3: that he has had, you do not want to lose
Speaker 3: this type of talent. And he's rung it home for
Speaker 3: a lot of fantasy managers. Or he ended some stories
Speaker 3: of the championship for a lot of fantasy managers this weekend.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, so a couple of things about that.
Speaker 1: One, the Bengals do have some really tough decisions to
Speaker 1: make about who to pay and whether or not they
Speaker 1: can afford all three of those pieces. The other part
Speaker 1: is you have to figure out who andre Yoshivas hangs
Speaker 1: out with, because then he would be the Bucky Barnes
Speaker 1: to that person's Captain America. I think you can figure
Speaker 1: out which one is which, So you know, once we
Speaker 1: figure out who Yoshivas is eating lunch with, then we
Speaker 1: know who Captain America is versus who is iron Man
Speaker 1: who gets paid?
Speaker 4: That's what it's gonna be. Team Ironman all the way.
Speaker 1: By the way, who's gonna get paid for sure, Florida moves.
Speaker 2: Who is your particular Marvel hero for the weekend?
Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield, who I don't know which Marvel hero he is,
Speaker 4: but I do know that if he knew one of
Speaker 4: his boys parents were murdered, he wouldn't cover it up.
Speaker 4: In America was wrong all the way. It's Baker Mayfield, though,
Speaker 4: who joined Jared Goff, is the only quarterback this year
Speaker 4: with a game with at least three hundred and fifty yards,
Speaker 4: five touchdowns and no interceptions. Only the Goat Tom Brady
Speaker 4: has had more multiple passing touchdowns in the season and
Speaker 4: Bucks history than Baker has right now. I know Joe
Speaker 4: Burrow went out and put up monstrous numbers and everyone
Speaker 4: who played him probably thought their day was over. But
Speaker 4: if you had Baker Mayfield, he pretty much went step
Speaker 4: first step with that and finished like a point or
Speaker 4: two behind him. So I think Baker and Mike Evans
Speaker 4: won a lot. And then he throwing Jayleen McMillan there
Speaker 4: as well, like I think the whole Bucks scene, Bucky Irving,
Speaker 4: all of them won a lot of people championships this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big Hawkeye vibes from Baker Mayfield right, like he's
Speaker 1: nobody really gets excited about him, but he comes through
Speaker 1: when you need him too, and he's not afraid to
Speaker 1: let it fly, sort of like Clint Barton is.
Speaker 3: He's literally the best NFC quarterback right now in passing yards, touchdowns,
Speaker 3: completion percenters. Like, he is the best NFC quarterback right now.
Speaker 3: So shout out to Hawkeye.
Speaker 2: The Browns could use a guy like that. Just putting
Speaker 2: that out there, So.
Speaker 1: I guess if we're going with the theme, I guess
Speaker 1: that makes Malik Neighbors spider Man right, because he was
Speaker 1: my guy for this weekend, the young kid from New
Speaker 1: York going out there making plays sometimes when it seems
Speaker 1: like all is lost that I know there were questions about,
Speaker 1: you know, would he play, how much would he play?
Speaker 2: But he went out had.
Speaker 1: One hundred and seventy one receiving yards and a pair
Speaker 1: of touchdowns in a game that I think Giants fans
Speaker 1: would have maybe preferred that they didn't win. But hey man,
Speaker 1: shout out to Melak Neighbors for going out and really
Speaker 1: putting together what was a fantastic season despite some hideous
Speaker 1: quarterback play for long stretches there in New York. You know,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say it feels like Odell Beckham vibes,
Speaker 1: but at least Odell had Eli Manning, right. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had a guy that you know, you could argue
Speaker 1: whether he belongs in the Hall of Fame. But the
Speaker 1: fact is Eli's at least in the argument. You can't
Speaker 1: say this same for Daniel Jones or Drew Locke, or
Speaker 1: Tommy DeVito or any of the guys that were throwing
Speaker 1: footballs in New York this season. Nonetheless, Leak Neighbors, sitting
Speaker 1: on overall eleven hundred yards, one hundred and four catches
Speaker 1: and the six touchdowns this year, continues to be a
Speaker 1: stud Florida. I know you were on the Elik Neighbors
Speaker 1: train from before the season even started, and while there
Speaker 1: were some parts of the season that were a little
Speaker 1: bit of a slog, overall, turns out to be a
Speaker 1: very good year for him, and he's going to be
Speaker 1: very much in the conversation. I would say probably a
Speaker 1: second round pick that fair for Leak Neighbors next year.
Speaker 2: Second round, I think so.
Speaker 4: I think if they Giants depend, like if they brought
Speaker 4: in a proven quarterback, I can make an argument for
Speaker 4: him as first umpick. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh, the question is can they get that quarterback, especially
Speaker 2: if they screwed up their draft position for this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Im say, in the last five years, there's been three
Speaker 4: receivers that have one hundred rookies one hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: more yards two or more touchdowns in the game. It's Jefferson,
Speaker 4: Chase and neighbors. Which one elite to waters go to LSU.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently that's apparently the story there, all right, So
Speaker 1: those are our individual fantasy heroes. Now are big takeaways
Speaker 1: from Week seventeen, LQ. What did you learn?
Speaker 2: Yo?
Speaker 4: Amir dula is good at football?
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, he has earned his role in that
Speaker 3: Raiders backfield next year. Like have we not been seeing him?
Speaker 3: Not fit the bill as a league winner? The criteria
Speaker 3: is literally him the last three weeks nineteen fantasy points
Speaker 3: per game. If you just watch the tape of him
Speaker 3: in that Saints game, how hard he is running like
Speaker 3: you had Zamir White, Alexander Madison, Cecia McCormick, who I
Speaker 3: didn't even know was a real person at the time
Speaker 3: that I heard his name. But like, Amir Doula is
Speaker 3: on a one year contract and he's playing his heart out,
Speaker 3: he's given the best, his best of best in that
Speaker 3: backfield of trying to find a way to get in
Speaker 3: between the tackles and being a guy that can get
Speaker 3: involved in the passing game. Like how many receiving touchdowns
Speaker 3: this guy is going to catch next year? Like, hopefully
Speaker 3: he's in that backfield next year and he's going to
Speaker 3: make his way to my fantasy rosters. And he should
Speaker 3: definitely be on the radar because I think a lot
Speaker 3: of people in this offseason they're gonna forget he this
Speaker 3: and then he's going to do the same thing again.
Speaker 3: If he's putting in the right position.
Speaker 1: That all sounds absolutely wonderful. I have no confidence that
Speaker 1: the Raiders will do that this often.
Speaker 2: No thanks, No, I mean, I just really don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about it as great as the
Speaker 1: miradula was for them down the stretch. We're talking about
Speaker 1: a running back that's going to be thirty two next season,
Speaker 1: going on his tenth season in the NFL. He's going
Speaker 1: to be an unrestricted free agent. Like, I just don't
Speaker 1: see the Raiders spending.
Speaker 2: The money to bring him back and put him especially.
Speaker 4: It might be a new coaching staff might be.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's pretty more likely than him being the RB
Speaker 2: one in Vegas. All right, look at what I like
Speaker 2: where your head's at.
Speaker 4: Ain't gonna beat RB one.
Speaker 3: He can eat seat again. I mean, I'm just saying
Speaker 3: it's going to be.
Speaker 4: On my roster next year. I will die my hair. No,
Speaker 4: I'm lying. I'm lying again.
Speaker 2: I'll do that. Don't do that.
Speaker 4: He'll die. He'll some silver to go with the black
Speaker 4: bel No Raiders.
Speaker 2: There it is. What is your takeaway from the week.
Speaker 4: This rookie class is an all time great rookie class. Like, Look,
Speaker 4: we've already talked about brock Bauers, arguably the best rookie
Speaker 4: tight end ever. We just talked up Molik Neighbors. There's
Speaker 4: also Brian Thomas Junior. They're both top six wide receivers
Speaker 4: in fantasy this season. There's Jaye and Daniels, who is
Speaker 4: a lock to win Rookie of the Year putting on
Speaker 4: a show last night on Sunday Night. Football is the
Speaker 4: QB four right now, behind only the top three MVP
Speaker 4: candidates in Lamar, Allen and Burrow. Like, there's Bucky Irving
Speaker 4: getting the job done at running back, and then there's
Speaker 4: deeper players like Marvin Harrison, Junior, Lad mcconkeye, Xavier Worthy,
Speaker 4: young Coleman Like, this is an all time great rookie class.
Speaker 4: And I think it's two things. One, don't expect next
Speaker 4: year's rookie class to be like this, But two, I
Speaker 4: think it drives point forward a point that we've discussed
Speaker 4: on the show in the past a lot, but like,
Speaker 4: rookies are ready to come in and make an immediate
Speaker 4: impact now, So don't shy, like, don't push them up
Speaker 4: your board next year just because of what this class did,
Speaker 4: but also don't shy away from taking them just because
Speaker 4: they're rookies, because they come in now more NFL ready
Speaker 4: than ever before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I mean the way the college game works and the
Speaker 1: way that NFL offenses are sort of hatering to the
Speaker 1: young players, it makes a lot more sense that these.
Speaker 2: Guys are ready to go right now.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, tight end maybe not quite so ready to go
Speaker 1: right now. I think this was the year, not that
Speaker 1: we said the titand was deep, but it felt like
Speaker 1: it was deeper than it had been in past years
Speaker 1: and turned out not really. We had maybe five and
Speaker 1: a half guys that we could really count on on
Speaker 1: a weekly basis. I mean, you had your guys at
Speaker 1: the top with Bowers and McBride. Kittle has been great.
Speaker 1: John new Smith, who was a completely different story because nobody,
Speaker 1: no one except one person that we know who will
Speaker 1: remain unnamed.
Speaker 2: Actually believed in John new Smith this year.
Speaker 1: Beyond that, I mean, when you looked on a weekly basis,
Speaker 1: it went from startable to streaming in a real big hurry.
Speaker 1: And I think that's something to keep in mind when
Speaker 1: you are drafting next year. It might be the reason
Speaker 1: that we see guys like Brock Bauers and Trey McBride
Speaker 1: pushed up maybe above where they should be going in drafts,
Speaker 1: because once you get to a certain point, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard to find guys you can count on a
Speaker 1: consistent basis. The Tucker Crafts, the Pat Fryer mooth to
Speaker 1: the Hunter Henry's of the world not very exciting. So
Speaker 1: it may be a little bit of a race to
Speaker 1: get to the guys in the elite levels just to
Speaker 1: know you have that position locked up on a week
Speaker 1: tweek basis in fantasy, but.
Speaker 2: We should still keep it.
Speaker 1: Do not take this as an argument saying we need
Speaker 1: to get rid of tight ends because I know that's
Speaker 1: floating around there in the fantasy sphere.
Speaker 2: We're not doing that.
Speaker 4: I hate it.
Speaker 1: Just because you can't predict them doesn't mean we shouldn't
Speaker 1: have them.
Speaker 4: Just like people get hurt in Week seventeen. And let's
Speaker 4: cut the season shortly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, stop stop, stop doing this, stop it. We're gonna
Speaker 2: take a quick break come back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna dive and do our waiver wire pickup of
Speaker 1: the Year and moments we love.
Speaker 2: That's coming up next on the NFL Fantasy Football Show.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at this week's waiver wire options.
Speaker 1: Obviously, not as many guys as you're gonna be chasing,
Speaker 1: so instead we decided to do the pickup of the
Speaker 1: Year candidates.
Speaker 2: Who are they florio right quarterback?
Speaker 4: We got Sam Darnold, who I think should get some
Speaker 4: MVP love this year. We got Bo Nicks, who probably
Speaker 4: is going to finish top three and Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 4: And then Justin Herbert who has led the Chargers to
Speaker 4: the playoffs, all three of which have come through in
Speaker 4: different times in fantasy this season. At running back, I
Speaker 4: love Bucky Irving and what he's done, but there's also JK. Dobbins.
Speaker 4: We all thought it would be videal or Gus Edwards,
Speaker 4: Rico Dawdle, Tyrone Tracy and Amir of Doulah all hit
Speaker 4: at different times this year. Pass catchers Juwan Jennings, like
Speaker 4: what he did in the middle of the season was awesome.
Speaker 4: Darnell Mooney really has been a viable wide receiver three
Speaker 4: at times even better than that. Jerry Judy for a
Speaker 4: stretch of the season with Jameis Winston was a top
Speaker 4: two wide receiver in fantasy, and then Adam Thielen and
Speaker 4: Jalen McMillan's late season bloomers. But players who have helped
Speaker 4: win people championships. John new Smith is obviously the waiver
Speaker 4: wire tight end of the year, but I wanted to
Speaker 4: give love to Taysom Hill who had a really hot
Speaker 4: stretch before he got hurt, and Tucker Crafted Hunter Henry.
Speaker 4: Not the biggest league winners or anything like that, but
Speaker 4: usable viable tight ends at a week with him.
Speaker 2: All Right, A good list there Sola quad for you.
Speaker 2: Who is your waiver wire pickup of the year.
Speaker 3: It has to be Bo Nicks because think about the
Speaker 3: questions that we had going into this offseason. How is
Speaker 3: Sean Payton in him, in this relationship going to work?
Speaker 3: And then even those first couple of weeks, we're kind
Speaker 3: of like, is both Nick's a fantasy I said, I
Speaker 3: don't know yet, But once he had his argument with
Speaker 3: Sean Bayn, like, Dad, get off my back. I got this.
Speaker 3: He went out there and put up huge QB one
Speaker 3: numbers like his highs or in the thirties, Like this
Speaker 3: is what you want out of a quarterback you're picking
Speaker 3: off the waiver wire, especially if you were bullish on
Speaker 3: Anthony richardson C. J. Strau or whatever reason you went
Speaker 3: out there for Trevor Lawrence. I mean the Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 3: t train, will Legion Genten hey, hey hey, but he
Speaker 3: definitely gets the bow Knicks, gets waiver wire.
Speaker 4: The year man.
Speaker 2: All right, Florida, who who's your guy?
Speaker 4: I really wanted the quant to go with Johnny Smith.
Speaker 4: I'm going with Bucky Irving here, who is a top
Speaker 4: fifteen fantasy running back on this season. And I know
Speaker 4: some of you might be like, well, he was drafted
Speaker 4: in my league, but he didn't start early on, so
Speaker 4: he was probably thrown back on the waiver wire even
Speaker 4: if he was drafted. And this I've talked about it
Speaker 4: a lot. Wasn't the best year for zero RB's. Like
Speaker 4: there was pockets where Rico Dado was really useful, or
Speaker 4: a Mere Duelo was really useful, or Tyrone Tracy, but
Speaker 4: there wasn't like a I got this guy and he
Speaker 4: was like a league winner type pick up at the
Speaker 4: running back position. Outside of Bucky Irving, I would argue,
Speaker 4: who just continued to be uber consistent down the stretch,
Speaker 4: put up some big nate games in the fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 4: So to me, the champion of the zero RB strategy
Speaker 4: this year was Bucky Irving, and I think he won
Speaker 4: a lot of people championships.
Speaker 1: So Miyane is gonna be Sam Donald. And for some
Speaker 1: of the reasons that Lakwan talked about, Because if you
Speaker 1: went away with a different quarterback and you were trying
Speaker 1: to sort of make things work, you were probably frustrated, right,
Speaker 1: I Mean we all kind of had our Anthony Richardson frustrations. Look,
Speaker 1: we stayed away from certain vikings because we didn't think
Speaker 1: Sam Donald could get it done right.
Speaker 2: We knocked down.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson and our fantasy draft rankings because we were
Speaker 1: worried about Sam Donald. Instead, he's the QB seven going
Speaker 1: into Monday night. Right, He's got three hundred Fantasy points,
Speaker 1: had a huge game on Sunday in a big spot
Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Vikings there against the Packers. Almost four
Speaker 1: hundred passing yards, three touchdowns. He's been great pretty much
Speaker 1: all year long. And you know who could use a
Speaker 1: guy like him, The Jets. They could use a quarterback
Speaker 1: like Sam Donald. I'm just putting that out there, but
Speaker 1: he's been fantastic to the point that now the Vikings
Speaker 1: really do have a decision whether they keep him around
Speaker 1: what they do with JJ McCarthy. He might have delayed
Speaker 1: McCarthy's development at least one more year with the way
Speaker 1: he has.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Those are our waiver wire pickups
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 4: Pay Sam there.
Speaker 1: It is, man there it is real quick. Got a
Speaker 1: John Newsmith update. It was not the greatest game for
Speaker 1: John Newsmith, but it was good enough. Another late touchdown
Speaker 1: for John who ends up with eleven point six fantasy points,
Speaker 1: three catches, twenty six yards in a touchdown, Not even
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley to prevent him from scoring double digit fantasy
Speaker 1: points and right now. Overall he is the tight end
Speaker 1: for He's about thirty points clear of tight end six.
Speaker 1: So it feels like this is a rap barring something
Speaker 1: miraculous happening in week eighteen. So we're to set up
Speaker 1: the time for the dying, the dyeing of the hair.
Speaker 1: We will set that up so that is gonna be
Speaker 1: a moment that we really do love. Now, let's talk
Speaker 1: about one of our favorite moments from the past week.
Speaker 1: We've touched a little bit on Trey McBride on this show,
Speaker 1: but a moment that we all love across Fantasy. Even
Speaker 1: though it happened at the expense of Lakwan's Rams, you
Speaker 1: guys won the game, it doesn't matter. He scored his
Speaker 1: first receiving touchdown of the season, one of the twelve
Speaker 1: catches he had in that game at Sofi Stadium on
Speaker 1: Saturday night. But guys, we've been waiting for this all
Speaker 1: year long. We have to be throw The only other
Speaker 1: touchdown was a fumble recovery in the end zone. So
Speaker 1: finally our precious Frey McBride finds the end zone. We
Speaker 1: can all get behind that, right, even Rams fans can
Speaker 1: get behind that.
Speaker 4: For Fantasy, absolutely none man this.
Speaker 2: Worn like literally almost had me rip my hair out,
Speaker 2: Like I didn't want that to happen. Who voted for
Speaker 2: this hater? Hater?
Speaker 4: Kemid Bride was my guy coming at tight end coming
Speaker 4: into the year, and if he had a couple of
Speaker 4: more touchdowns, he finishes as a tight end one. So
Speaker 4: I'm still salty that they couldn't get him the ball.
Speaker 4: But I let out an audible cheer when he did
Speaker 4: finally score this past week. I was so happy to
Speaker 4: see it happen because he's good. He did one hundred
Speaker 4: and four catches one touchdown, Like that's more on Kyler
Speaker 4: than on him.
Speaker 2: I would say.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely more on Kyler than it is on Trey
Speaker 1: McBride for sure, because he's done everything else for this team,
Speaker 1: uh this season you could imagine.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Meanwhile, for us, that is it.
Speaker 2: We are done.
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