Speaker 1: Wow, everybody, It's Tuesdata Simpertam twenty twenty four. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Football Showhere, we don't make waiver claims
Speaker 1: once we're eliminated. It's me your man, MG Marcus Grant,
Speaker 1: joined by Michael f Florio and La Kwan Jones. We
Speaker 1: are all agreed on that, right, like when you're out,
Speaker 1: like the waiver wires off the list.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 3: No, yes, I'm gonna tweet it up tomorrow and there
Speaker 3: will be.
Speaker 1: Pushback Captain Captain Chaos LaQuan Here's like, yeah, of course, no,
Speaker 1: no not.
Speaker 2: I literally did a dirty move last week.
Speaker 4: I said it on the pod, like I didn't even
Speaker 4: start Russell Wilson. I took him. They didn't even start him.
Speaker 4: My buddy needed them. He lost.
Speaker 2: Oh well, but like, were you or were you?
Speaker 4: Like yeah, oh yeah, I was eliminated. I was just
Speaker 4: being toxic in my league. I mean that's that's what
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 1: But you guess feel that way. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I changed. I don't know why it changed.
Speaker 2: I just changed.
Speaker 3: My thing is like your league feet covers you for
Speaker 3: fourteen weeks, you fifteen on is earned.
Speaker 4: But if I could shake things up amongst my friends.
Speaker 2: Why not.
Speaker 4: I mean, like I got the group chat, like they're
Speaker 4: sending me hate mail. It's fine. I mean, look, I
Speaker 4: don't care. I'm out of the playoffs. He's like, I
Speaker 4: just send it all to spam. It's fine, don't worry
Speaker 4: about it. Yeah, all right. Anyway, this this could be debated,
Speaker 4: certainly on a future show. These are things we can
Speaker 4: debate in the off season. We have more time to
Speaker 4: stretch out a little bit. But I meantime, we do.
Speaker 1: Have a look at some of the guys that maybe
Speaker 1: bounced you from your league, some of the guys that
Speaker 1: might be the reason you are currently eliminated in your
Speaker 1: fantasy league, plus some waiver wire deep dives, and some
Speaker 1: guys we are putting on the waiver wire going forward.
Speaker 1: Let's start with some big questions for Week fifteen and beyond.
Speaker 1: First one, Florio, A lot of us were big on
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. Thought he was, you know, gonna be everything,
Speaker 1: the guy that you wanted. Yeah, it hadn't really worked
Speaker 1: out that way. I mean, at this point, what is
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray when it comes to fantasy I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess he's a QB one, but he's not a strong
Speaker 1: QB one is he.
Speaker 3: No, he is the QB ten on this season. And
Speaker 3: when you go through his game logs, there's a few
Speaker 3: twenty plus performances and a couple of like twenty eight,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of less than fifteen games as well.
Speaker 3: And I had someone yesterday texting me, like do I
Speaker 3: play Kyler Murray or Will Levis? And I said Kyler Murray,
Speaker 3: but like they were like, I think I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: with Will Levis. And that's the point that we have
Speaker 3: reached when it comes to Kyler. That being said, his
Speaker 3: next couple of games are really nice. He gets the
Speaker 3: Patriots next week, who we have seen allow a lot
Speaker 3: of really big performances, like Anthony Richardson had won against
Speaker 3: them last time in their last game. Then he gets
Speaker 3: the Panthers, who we know are not a good defense
Speaker 3: and can be had, and then the Rams, who are
Speaker 3: a good defense. Lakwan, but like that could be a
Speaker 3: very high scoring game, especially if they're chasing points or
Speaker 3: something like that, so like he could still make up
Speaker 3: for his struggles this year. But yeah, like Kyler Murray,
Speaker 3: like if I have him, I'm starting him the rest
Speaker 3: of the year, And just kind of knowing that he
Speaker 3: could give me twenty eight in a game or he
Speaker 3: could give me like thirteen, and there's really no rhyme
Speaker 3: or reason.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's the hard part, is that there's
Speaker 1: no there's no telling when it's going to happen, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know he gave you almost twenty nine
Speaker 1: against the Jets, which isn't a great matchup on paper. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, against the Vikings, which seem like a better matchup,
Speaker 1: you only get fifteen. Like there's just no you know,
Speaker 1: there's no telling when what's going to happen. It's just
Speaker 1: so much confusion.
Speaker 4: You get the playoff though in the championship with him
Speaker 4: against the Rams, Like that's a one hundred percent you
Speaker 4: could just check off, Like I'm starting Kyler Murray that week?
Speaker 2: Is this just is this?
Speaker 1: Are you talking as an analyst or is a Rams
Speaker 1: fan who's just tired of watching Kyler like, you know,
Speaker 1: run through your team?
Speaker 3: Uh? A little bit of both.
Speaker 4: Just based on Colum bet colm Be, you know, it's
Speaker 4: a little bit of both. I just think that we
Speaker 4: struggle against mobile quarterbacks and you have Josh and go
Speaker 4: inside the sideline, you know, extending into plays this is
Speaker 4: similar to what Murray does. So he'll find success.
Speaker 3: We'll still win.
Speaker 2: We'll win. Now there you go.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you about two a tongue of by
Speaker 1: Lola Kuan because he is tormenting you through the presence
Speaker 1: of John new Smith.
Speaker 2: But he's also been really hot lately for Fantasy.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look over the last four weeks, he
Speaker 1: right now is the QB two behind Lamar Jackson. You know,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's still very much in the mix obviously with that,
Speaker 1: but four straight games with at least twenty three Fantasy
Speaker 1: points is two of the championship quarterback we're looking for.
Speaker 4: I think so, and I think a lot of people
Speaker 4: are sleeping on what's happening. Like you don't have many
Speaker 4: quarterbacks that are being this consistent week to week. And
Speaker 4: it's regardless of the defense that he's facing. And when
Speaker 4: you look at this offense, like we need to really
Speaker 4: remember what they have out there. They have a speedster,
Speaker 4: tight end speedster on the perimeters, Will Waddle and Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: Then you still have Deman h And still going out
Speaker 4: there making huge plays and Jalen Ray getting sprinkled in
Speaker 4: as well. This is a high power offense. And I
Speaker 4: know we looked at to h last season. You know,
Speaker 4: he was just kind of like a mid tier quarterback
Speaker 4: for fantasy. But he's really stepping up and he's going
Speaker 4: out there lighting it up. And I really think for
Speaker 4: the rest of this playoff run, like you can check
Speaker 4: the box off of that. You know you're gone to
Speaker 4: start two of regardless if it's the Browns, Texans, et cetera,
Speaker 4: et cetera. There's just too much upside and too much
Speaker 4: firepower on this offense that you want just to have
Speaker 4: a piece of.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking at the schedule for the fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 1: He's at Houston this week, so it's indoors, no worry
Speaker 1: about weather. Then in week sixteen, he's at home against
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. Again, you'll be in South Florida,
Speaker 1: no real concerns about weather. They're week seventeen though he's
Speaker 1: on the road at Cleveland. It's going to be December.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be right around Christmas, just after Christmas too.
Speaker 1: That's a night game. It's gonna be cold, it may
Speaker 1: be snowing. The narrative of two in the cold. Weather's
Speaker 1: gonna come back right when you need him in championship weeks.
Speaker 1: That's one I would definitely for sure keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: But to keep the quarterback theme going, I'm gonna ask
Speaker 1: both of you this, I'll start with you, Florio, rest
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 2: Would you rather start Patrick Mahomes or bow Knicks.
Speaker 3: Bo Knicks? Because since Week five, before the Monday night
Speaker 3: game of last week. From so from week five through
Speaker 3: week twelve, he was averaging it was like twenty two
Speaker 3: fantasy points per game, and that's top five quarterback numbers.
Speaker 3: And I know Mahomes has gotten better at least in
Speaker 3: the middle of the season and we were like, all right,
Speaker 3: this is the guy that you drafted and stuff. He's
Speaker 3: starting to come back around. Then the last two games
Speaker 3: it's right back to being Patrick Mahomes. That is not
Speaker 3: great for fantasy. And I know they were low scoring
Speaker 3: divisional games, but less than seventeen fantasy points now and
Speaker 3: four of his last five games. He has just two
Speaker 3: games this year with over twenty fantasy points. So he's
Speaker 3: all flour And that's fine in the regular season, but
Speaker 3: when you get to this time of the year, only
Speaker 3: the good teams are left. So I need more than
Speaker 3: just a floor of fifteen fantasy points with the ceiling
Speaker 3: being something like eighteen. So bow Knicks brings that because
Speaker 3: not only is he getting better passing results, but he
Speaker 3: runs more as well. So yeah, I'll take bow Knicks there,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 2: I mean ask you look on the same thing. Mahomes
Speaker 2: are nixt rest of the season.
Speaker 4: Ah Man, this is actually tight for me, honestly because
Speaker 4: both of them are playing really well these last couple
Speaker 4: of games. But bo Knicks does give you a little
Speaker 4: bit more upside with his legs and he's absolutely incredible
Speaker 4: out of the pocket. Mahomes, you're looking at a structured
Speaker 4: offense where you have DeAndre Hopkins making the big plays,
Speaker 4: Juju Smith Schuster showing up last week, and Travis Kelce,
Speaker 4: Like you have all these big names and you have
Speaker 4: all these you know, superstars on the Chiefs offense. But
Speaker 4: Bo Nicks, man, it's just so fun to watch, and
Speaker 4: it feels a little bit more better being that you
Speaker 4: have him in starting lineups and you're watching them do
Speaker 4: all these amazing things as a rookie, Like he's definitely
Speaker 4: in that Rookie of the Year conversation. It's like, more so
Speaker 4: I'm happy I got them on rosters because it's absolutely
Speaker 4: just fun to watch Broncos games.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's certainly in the offensive Rookie of
Speaker 1: Year conversation without a doubt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at ahead Week seventeen. He gets the Bengals,
Speaker 3: Mahomes gets the Steelers on a Wednesday. I'd much ready
Speaker 3: to go against the Bengals.
Speaker 2: I think I'd much rather have the Bengals.
Speaker 1: I think the other part of this too, and I
Speaker 1: think you guys were both sort of hinting at this,
Speaker 1: is for the Broncos to win, they need bon Knicks
Speaker 1: to go out and have big games.
Speaker 2: Like the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: I really do think the Chiefs are just they sit
Speaker 1: around and they just pull, you know, ideas out of
Speaker 1: a hat, like how are we gonna win a game
Speaker 1: this week? Like, hey, maybe maybe we'll doink one off
Speaker 1: the upright as time expires, Uh, to win to win
Speaker 1: the division? Like yeah, it's just it's it's crazy, But
Speaker 1: it doesn't always involve Mahomes going out and throwing for
Speaker 1: you know too, eighty three hundred yards and three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Whereas for the Broncos to win, they generally need a
Speaker 1: lot of performance out of bow Knicks. So I think
Speaker 1: that's the reason that I would lean Nix over Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Where do you think Mahomes gets drafted next year? Like
Speaker 3: the top five?
Speaker 1: Probably not, No, No, ten. I think he's still top ten,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I mean I still needs top tics.
Speaker 1: People a gonna be like it's it's Patrick Mahomes, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, he'll figure it out. I mean, right now,
Speaker 1: he's what he's QB eleven, I think at the moment.
Speaker 1: So I think that's still you know, I think he's
Speaker 1: still get drafted in the top ten.
Speaker 4: Quarter Betta.
Speaker 1: It's certainly not gonna be a third round pick in
Speaker 1: fantasy the way it has been the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: Have you been in league lately.
Speaker 1: That's that's a good point because I think, you know,
Speaker 1: home leagues a lot of more casual leagues. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be it's gonna take longer for that to catch up.
Speaker 1: Then it will win the super Bowl. That's going to
Speaker 1: carry over into the next draft. Like I just want
Speaker 1: in the world.
Speaker 3: Josh Lamar, Hurts, Jaden, Joe Burrow, they're all going over him.
Speaker 1: I think, yes, that's five for sure. Wow, so he
Speaker 1: could be six. He couldn't have been the quarterback six,
Speaker 1: just just on name value. I mean, it's really possible
Speaker 1: that could actually happen. All right, So those are guys
Speaker 1: maybe you could win your leagues for you. These are
Speaker 1: guys that might have bounced you from your respective leagues.
Speaker 1: Another round of the fantasy faux paws, the guys that
Speaker 1: likely killed your fantasy playoff hopes for the season.
Speaker 2: Lakwan Yours goes all the way back to Thursday night
Speaker 2: with the guy who's still looking for his first catch
Speaker 2: of the week. Oh God, I.
Speaker 4: Want to start off saying matt aka young link on
Speaker 4: ex Twitter, I apologize because I told him that Kayden
Speaker 4: Reid was going to go to the freaking moon with
Speaker 4: this matchup, and he did not.
Speaker 2: He did not.
Speaker 4: He put up a donut. And I don't understand why
Speaker 4: he was running less routs than usual, why he only
Speaker 4: had one target?
Speaker 2: What is going on?
Speaker 4: You have the matchup, the lines allowed the most completions
Speaker 4: and your yards two slot wide receivers, and that's exactly
Speaker 4: what he is, purely on the Packers offense. And he
Speaker 4: did not show up. So he probably bounced a lot
Speaker 4: of people. A lot of fantasy managers put him in
Speaker 4: the flex or even their wide receiver one or two
Speaker 4: and he just completely did not show up. So I
Speaker 4: apologize young Link aka Matthew.
Speaker 1: I mean it made sense, right, but you look back,
Speaker 1: it's been boom or bust with Jaden Reid. He's had one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 1: seven games with fewer than thirty receiving yards, including four
Speaker 1: in a row with less than thirty receiving yards. So
Speaker 1: if you've been leaning on him, he has let you down.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you missed the playoffs, he could
Speaker 1: have a lot to do with the reason that you
Speaker 1: are done with your fantasy season Flourya. You similarly have
Speaker 1: another receiver that we've been able to lean on who
Speaker 1: disappeared in a big spot.
Speaker 3: And look, none of this was his fault. But aj
Speaker 3: Brown goes out against the Panthers puts up forty three
Speaker 3: yards and eight point three fantasy points, and I tweeted
Speaker 3: out yes because at one point I believe it was
Speaker 3: at halftime he still doesn't have a target, and or
Speaker 3: late he didn't get his first one till like late
Speaker 3: in the first half something like that, and Garafalo then
Speaker 3: was like, no, he was wide open for a long
Speaker 3: touchdown and Jalen Hurtsmith them so I went back and
Speaker 3: watched that play and got very frustrated. Then you see
Speaker 3: the play where DeVonta Smith catches a touchdown. AJ Brown
Speaker 3: is in the middle of the field wide open and
Speaker 3: hurts his eyes around him, and then he decides, now,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw it to the to DeVonta Smith who
Speaker 3: made the catch, but who has a defender draped all
Speaker 3: over him. And like I was very frustrated, I know
Speaker 3: fantasy managers were very frustrated. No one was more frustrated
Speaker 3: than aj Brown himself because after the game they asked him,
Speaker 3: what is one thing this team needs to improve on,
Speaker 3: and he simply said passing Like he's he doesn't care
Speaker 3: that s Pegmon Barkley is an MVP candidate. He's like,
Speaker 3: me and DeVonta Smith are awesome, and we are getting
Speaker 3: held back right now because our quarterback can't seem to
Speaker 3: get us the ball. And for the beginning of the year,
Speaker 3: AJ Brown looked like he was going to be like
Speaker 3: a runaway wide receiver, one league winner. And now in
Speaker 3: the last six weeks or so, my teams that have
Speaker 3: had that have AJ Brown, which are a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of them, are slowly just free falling, and I'm sure
Speaker 3: I'm not the only one, and it is insanely frustrating
Speaker 3: because he's doing his job and getting open and they
Speaker 3: just can't get him the ball.
Speaker 2: That's wild.
Speaker 1: You know that on a team where you know things
Speaker 1: are going well, you're leading the division, you're still very
Speaker 1: much in contention for the top seed in the NFC,
Speaker 1: it was a little bit of saltiness going on. So
Speaker 1: the Syrian he sort of handles that down the stretch
Speaker 1: for sure. Meanwhile, for you in fantasy, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe that's the end. I don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2: It's over for me.
Speaker 1: Brock Bowers and he was not quite as disappointing as
Speaker 1: the other two guys that you mentioned, but still you
Speaker 1: had expectations, I think for brock Bowers. I mean we
Speaker 1: had been saying for weeks that he was kind of
Speaker 1: the only thing that you could count on in the
Speaker 1: Raiders offense. But then when you needed a big performance
Speaker 1: out of him in a matchup that looked great against
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, you get eight points, that's it. Three catches
Speaker 1: for forty nine yards. You also get three rushing yards
Speaker 1: yep beee. But other than that, it just was not
Speaker 1: a good day for brock Bauers. It was just sort
Speaker 1: of meh. Now that they've got quarterback issues there in
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, with Aiden O'Connell done for the year and
Speaker 1: looking like Desmond Ridard is gonna ridor gonna be the
Speaker 1: starter for the remainder of the season, you know, brock
Speaker 1: Bowers had been our one true tight end king, and look,
Speaker 1: barring something amazing, he's likely gonna finish as the tight
Speaker 1: end one. Right now, has like a twenty one point lead,
Speaker 1: almost a twenty two point lead over George Kittle for
Speaker 1: that number two spot, So it seems like he's on
Speaker 1: track to be the tight end one.
Speaker 2: But this was a week that you probably needed him,
Speaker 2: especially if you were.
Speaker 1: In a tight battle somewhere in your league and did
Speaker 1: not work out with brock Bowers.
Speaker 2: As you're starting fantasy tight end, I'm gonna take a
Speaker 2: quick break. Come back.
Speaker 1: We're gonna dive into some waiver wire guys to be adding,
Speaker 1: guys to be saying goodbye to.
Speaker 2: That's coming up the NFL Fantasy Football Show all right time.
Speaker 1: Now I want to dive into the deep waiver wire.
Speaker 1: Had a lot of waiver wire picks for you. On
Speaker 1: Monday's show. You can go back and check that out
Speaker 1: in case you want the more intense list. But in
Speaker 1: terms of some deep dive options Laquad, who should folks
Speaker 1: look at?
Speaker 4: Hey, if you're in entight spot, I think Tim Patrick's
Speaker 4: a great pickup. I mean, honestly, you're just looking for
Speaker 4: the touchdown upside. He's always been a red zone demon.
Speaker 4: I mean you go back to twenty nineteen through twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two with the Denver Broncos. He actually led them
Speaker 4: in touchdowns with eleven. So it's one of those things
Speaker 4: that if you're looking for a guy that has the
Speaker 4: upside with some type of buying. With his recent increase
Speaker 4: in usage, I honestly I'm going to be looking for
Speaker 4: guys that are going to be seeing the end zone.
Speaker 4: So Tim Patrick, he's definitely one of those guys that's
Speaker 4: probably out there with living and breathing on the wire
Speaker 4: that you could pick up, put it on the bench,
Speaker 4: and hopefully you won't have to put him in, but
Speaker 4: if you do, he's a good pickup.
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, And look, you know we're not wishing for
Speaker 1: anything to happen, but if something happens to another receiver
Speaker 1: there in that's right, and that means potentially more opportunities
Speaker 1: for Tim Patrick going forward.
Speaker 2: Floyd, We've been.
Speaker 1: Telling people about this guy for the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: but now I guess it's things have become real for
Speaker 1: him in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Sincere McCormick and I have him on a whole
Speaker 3: bunch of teams. I started him on a lot of
Speaker 3: them this week and it wasn't the biggest fantasy day,
Speaker 3: just ten point nine fantasy points. But don't overlook what
Speaker 3: he did. He played nearly sixty percent of the snaps,
Speaker 3: fifteen carries, turned that into seventy eight yards, had three targets,
Speaker 3: and if you watch the game, though he looked the part.
Speaker 3: He had a lot of long runs. He had or
Speaker 3: a couple of long runs. He had a couple where
Speaker 3: he was able to break defenders and run through contact
Speaker 3: and just look the part. And that to me is
Speaker 3: always what I'm looking for the most, first and foremost.
Speaker 3: And look, they keep talking him up. I believe he
Speaker 3: is there running back the rest of the way. And
Speaker 3: the Raiders have a really good schedule, including getting the
Speaker 3: Jags and Saints in the final two weeks. So if
Speaker 3: you're in the fantasy playoffs and you have some Seer McCormick,
Speaker 3: he could be an option that you use as your
Speaker 3: RB two or flex option because of the schedule.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I look, just truth be told, watching him,
Speaker 1: he looks like he's been the most explosive, most productive
Speaker 1: running back the Raiders have trotted out all season long.
Speaker 2: And so again, I think this is the time of the.
Speaker 1: Year where teams that are out of it start looking
Speaker 1: at some of their younger players, seeing what they've got
Speaker 1: and giving those guys more opportunities. We talked on Monday
Speaker 1: about Tyrone Tracy and how that seems to be the
Speaker 1: case with him and the Giants. Could be the same
Speaker 1: thing with since Seer McCormick and the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 1: So the Niners have the next man up, after the
Speaker 1: next man up, after the next man up, and its
Speaker 1: Patrick Taylor. We've gone through Christian McCaffrey, We've gone through
Speaker 1: Jordan Mason. Isaac Garrindo left the game on Sunday with
Speaker 1: an injury. We're not sure of his status, especially with
Speaker 1: the Niners having a short week and playing on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Patrick Taylor was the guy that took the opportunities after
Speaker 1: Garrinda went down, and he would be the starter if
Speaker 1: Grinda's not able to go this week. So that's something
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on. Patrick Taylor should be a
Speaker 1: really popular name. We love those running backs in the
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan offense, understanding that with each successive running back
Speaker 1: that comes in, the ceiling probably goes down a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can expect the same from
Speaker 1: Taylor that we did from Grinda or Mason, or maybe
Speaker 1: a fully healthy McCaffrey, but the volume potentially should be there.
Speaker 1: I would also throw in, as a little bit of
Speaker 1: a sweetener, Israel Abana Kanda is now there in San
Speaker 1: Francisco as well, and he's gonna be the next man
Speaker 1: behind Patrick Taylor. Which I'm gonna make a reference that
Speaker 1: is old and neither of you probably get, but forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers running backs are turning into spinal tap drummers
Speaker 1: where each of them just kind of falls by the
Speaker 1: wayside and under the ice steps up. Just google it, guys,
Speaker 1: It's fine either way. The point is the Niners can't
Speaker 1: seem to keep a healthy running back. Patrick Taylor's the
Speaker 1: next guy up. But if you maybe want to play
Speaker 1: three D chess Israel Aabana Konda is another name to
Speaker 1: keep in your back pocket that maybe you want to
Speaker 1: add just in case things continue to go the way
Speaker 1: they have been going. So if you are adding folks
Speaker 1: as always, you were probably dropping folks. So La Kwan
Speaker 1: who shouldn't be saying goodbye.
Speaker 4: To So the fantasy playoffs are here, and Caleb Williams
Speaker 4: has been playing you know, good football for the most part.
Speaker 4: He's not turning the ball over. He has a couple
Speaker 4: back to back games with twenty plus fantasy points. But
Speaker 4: these next two games, man, you got the Vikings and Lions.
Speaker 4: These are going to be tough battles, especially with the Vikings.
Speaker 4: They're up there in the top three. When it comes
Speaker 4: to QB pressures, Kate Williams is the most sacked quarterback
Speaker 4: in an NFL right now. So with this Bears offense
Speaker 4: just not looking good, just overall just bad. I don't
Speaker 4: see much upside for him to be trusted in the
Speaker 4: fantasy playoffs. I love the things that he's putting on
Speaker 4: tape out there. He looks good out of the pocket
Speaker 4: when he makes his pocket magic happen, but sometimes it
Speaker 4: doesn't translate to fantasy points, and you're looking at the
Speaker 4: next two matchups Vikings and Lions. They're bottom of the
Speaker 4: table when it comes to fantasy points per game allowed
Speaker 4: the quarterbacks. So I'd rather go to trusted options. I'd
Speaker 4: rather go to other veteran options out there for the
Speaker 4: fantasy playoffs. But I cannot put my trust into a rookie.
Speaker 4: He has to go bye bye. All of that makes sense.
Speaker 4: I'm still telling you that he's gonna be in the
Speaker 4: sleeper's column this week. But everything you said, everything you
Speaker 4: said absolutely makes sense, especially this time of year. The
Speaker 4: matchup this week, though against the Vikings is good.
Speaker 1: When they played in Week twelve, it was one of
Speaker 1: the better performances than Caleb has had this year. But
Speaker 1: I certainly understand if in the playoffs you're just not
Speaker 1: going to trust your fantasy life to Caleb Williams and
Speaker 1: inconsistent at best Bears offense Floria.
Speaker 2: Who are we letting go of?
Speaker 3: This one hurts my heart so much, but I can
Speaker 3: guarantee you this player will not be in your sleepers
Speaker 3: article this week. Kyle Pitts, I mean, look, is it
Speaker 3: his fault? I don't know. It might be Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 3: but like, like we said last week, at some point
Speaker 3: the excuses are just old, Like Okay, he's had now
Speaker 3: numerous play callers, numerous quarterbacks, and it just has not
Speaker 3: come to fruition. I don't know if he is not
Speaker 3: the same guy since his knee injury. I don't know
Speaker 3: if he doesn't have that dog in him. I don't
Speaker 3: know why Ray Ray McCloud is getting targets over him.
Speaker 3: But in his last three games, Kyle Pitts combined in
Speaker 3: his last three games two catches for twenty three yards.
Speaker 3: In four of his last five games, he has one
Speaker 3: catcher fewer for less than fifteen yards. And that is it.
Speaker 3: Like there's simply no floor, no ceiling. Right now, I
Speaker 3: don't see any way you can trust Look, if you
Speaker 3: draft the Kyle Pitts, your season's probably over by now.
Speaker 3: But if you survived this regular season, I don't see
Speaker 3: any way you could trust him in the fantasy playoffs
Speaker 3: because he's such a threat right now to give you
Speaker 3: less than three points. And we haven't outside of a
Speaker 3: couple of games earlier in the year, we haven't really
Speaker 3: seen much upside in two months now with this new
Speaker 3: version of Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: I mean, what if I told you that he was
Speaker 1: he was in the initial list of sleepers but did
Speaker 1: not make the cut because of all the things that
Speaker 1: you just said.
Speaker 3: I would feel really bad if he wasnt the sleeper list.
Speaker 1: Uh. I mean he was like I said, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I go through and I just start putting names that
Speaker 1: are potential candidates for it, and then you know, you
Speaker 1: start to do the research and you dive in and
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, no, that's not gonna work, or you know,
Speaker 1: maybe I can put this guy instead, like and like,
Speaker 1: so he was like he was on the long list,
Speaker 1: he did not make the short list.
Speaker 3: If I was just like, there's no way he's on there, and.
Speaker 2: Then you were like, like he's there. He's actually there.
Speaker 4: I know first on the list.
Speaker 2: He's number one this week.
Speaker 1: No, but I will tell you that the the list
Speaker 1: for tight end sleeper options in week fifteen is not great.
Speaker 1: So so believe it at that for sure. Well, if
Speaker 1: we're talking about Atlanta, falcons will stay in Atlanta and
Speaker 1: we can move on from Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: It has not been great for a while for Cousins.
Speaker 1: We were talking on Monday before Monday Show and how
Speaker 1: we were so surprised at the reaction of Vikings fans.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were just straight up hostile to Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins in what was the I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you call it a revenge game, but the homecoming game,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. Either way, they did
Speaker 1: not welcome him back, which surprised me because I just
Speaker 1: thought Minnesota's were nice anyway. But also it wasn't that
Speaker 1: Cousins was a disaster for your team. He actually helped
Speaker 1: you have some success, So we were all a little
Speaker 1: bit surprised by the venom that he that he had.
Speaker 2: But also he has not played well for a while now.
Speaker 1: Ten fewer than ten point three fantasy points in his
Speaker 1: last four games for or three straight rather with single
Speaker 1: digit fantasy points. Three inch and forty four yards against
Speaker 1: the Vikings, which is good, but no touchdowns, two interceptions,
Speaker 1: which is not good. Nine point seven points there, and
Speaker 1: there are some semi good matchups. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: the Raiders have been kind of tough, but it's a
Speaker 1: decent matchup on paper. He finishes at Washington, who I
Speaker 1: know have been better, but still I can give up
Speaker 1: some yards. The Giants kind of a so so matchup,
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't trust Cousins against any of those at
Speaker 1: this point. Surprised he's still rostered in thirty five percent
Speaker 1: of NFL dot Com leagues.
Speaker 2: That even seems a little bit high.
Speaker 1: I would imagine that number is gonna start to go
Speaker 1: down in the next couple of days. There's just you know,
Speaker 1: if you're streaming quarterbacks, there are a lot better options
Speaker 1: out there than Kirk Cousins. We can finally let go
Speaker 1: of him and move on and say goodbye for sure.
Speaker 1: So there it is, let it go. Time to say
Speaker 1: bye bye to those players, Time to say bye bye
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