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Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Reggie Standfell. I
Speaker 1: am Greg greg A Happy hump Day, Happy Manny Machado
Speaker 1: day with Big Manny meeting with the Yankees today, but
Speaker 1: no baseball talk not yet. Still in the midst of
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Football Championship Week. We're gonna go over some
Speaker 1: tough matchups, something we did last Wednesday. I thought it
Speaker 1: was kind of good to talk through some of these guys.
Speaker 1: People have questions about Philip Rivers facing the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: the Bucks wide receiver is going up against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: So we'll get into all that. We'll also, you know,
Speaker 1: start to look ahead a little bit to the twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen fantasy football season. Fun little debate discussion. We'll talk about, um,
Speaker 1: you know, which wide receivers should be the first one
Speaker 1: drafted off the board, because you know, I just brought
Speaker 1: it up to you guys downstairs, and it's like we
Speaker 1: got people throwing names out from left right all over
Speaker 1: the place. Uh, So that will be a fun discussion. Greggy,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Do well? I'm doing well. Um,
Speaker 1: I talk about Tuesday last night so I felt it
Speaker 1: was delicious Taco Tuesday. Still recovering. You're good? No, I
Speaker 1: feel good. Everything going well inside. So I'm outside so
Speaker 1: I'm great. Like you know, I went to the bathroom
Speaker 1: earlier this morning, all good to go over to the
Speaker 1: rock and Judy texted me. I was gonna say, how's
Speaker 1: Judy doing? So she texted me, Um as I was
Speaker 1: writing NBA, She's I'm so sorry, man, What like did
Speaker 1: I wake you last night? Like I I'm a really
Speaker 1: like sleep. I'm a really light sleeper, so I have
Speaker 1: no no I knew what are you talking? About should
Speaker 1: I I apute? Like multiple times, I'm like, what what?
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have a virus or something
Speaker 1: that should I go to work? I go? Why do
Speaker 1: you feel now? She goes, I kind of feel fine.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you probably would have worked then, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's insane. Or Judy, I'm like, terrible, diabolical tacos. They
Speaker 1: were delicious, Greg, What did you put in those tacos? Dude?
Speaker 1: Did you make she made him? She made him and
Speaker 1: she she ended up on all fours your bathroom and
Speaker 1: you're just sleeping through it. Yeah, it's it's wild. You
Speaker 1: know why I think it's so great? A few beers
Speaker 1: last night, it's feeling good. All right, great, you know great,
Speaker 1: you let lose a little bit. Got you got some
Speaker 1: flower power? I p a s in the system. No,
Speaker 1: I got new ideas um for my birthday homes that hell,
Speaker 1: I got him for me, so I drank them. Elizabeth
Speaker 1: Miranda asked, this our tacos on the East coast? Good? Yeah,
Speaker 1: now I think, well, Greg, this is all this is
Speaker 1: a perspective question, because it's all you know, she's probably
Speaker 1: lives on the West coast. It's just me assuming right
Speaker 1: now where maybe somewhere in the south where I mean
Speaker 1: California is known for great Mexican food. Greg, when I
Speaker 1: go visit my uncle, I mean, the first thing I
Speaker 1: do when I get there is I go get a
Speaker 1: huge breakfast burrito. So I don't really know, like in
Speaker 1: in you know, comparison to West Coast tacos, Like I
Speaker 1: think tacos around here are fine, right, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like whenever I go to a Mexican spot, I usually
Speaker 1: get like a case of dia or like a barrio
Speaker 1: bowl or just like a burrito. I don't usually get
Speaker 1: to tackoes. And if I do, like eat tacos, I
Speaker 1: usually just make them myself. My tacos are good. Apparently
Speaker 1: yours aren't great. Yeah, tacos are great. Was a great thing.
Speaker 1: I would go ahead and assume that, like California tacos
Speaker 1: are better than Yeah, they're I mean, they're awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna like dispute that. Before we before
Speaker 1: we kind of kicking in the high gear today, Frank
Speaker 1: gave you the list of what we're gonna do that
Speaker 1: first round wide receiver discussion. A little bit later on
Speaker 1: um piggybacking off our conversation yesterday, we gets another match
Speaker 1: us we don't like um for this weekend as well.
Speaker 1: I saw on Twitter after our show yesterday and then
Speaker 1: even more so today, all this love, um, all this
Speaker 1: love for Laura Michaels who works at our network and
Speaker 1: did a lot uh here and was their prayers. And I,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't really know Laura Michaels, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you, like we've had conversations through work with him, UM,
Speaker 1: but he seems like really really nice and genuine human
Speaker 1: being and people or you know, very every one of
Speaker 1: the fantasy community. We're all get better feel good. And I,
Speaker 1: you know, again, I don't I don't know the man,
Speaker 1: so I had no idea what's going on. And then
Speaker 1: just before our show started, UM, the R I P
Speaker 1: messages started coming out with Laura Michaels, I guess just
Speaker 1: passed away, which is very very savage community. He's a
Speaker 1: legend in this industry. UM. And if you you read
Speaker 1: his stuff where you watch this stuff, or you like
Speaker 1: listening to him, I'm so sorry I have to tell
Speaker 1: you that. And man crazy, yeah, commemoration here for Laura
Speaker 1: Michael's obviously, uh, you know, very pivotal in the fantasy
Speaker 1: baseball industry for everything that he's done, one of the
Speaker 1: founders of tout Wars. You know, we've hosted tout Wars
Speaker 1: here a few times. Greg, I had the chance to
Speaker 1: meet Laura Michaels. Really really awesome dude, very into music,
Speaker 1: had his own band, uh you know, sung in his band.
Speaker 1: I heard some of his music. It was awesome, a
Speaker 1: very lively individual. H Nando and myself we also in
Speaker 1: conjunction last year we did a lot of like spring
Speaker 1: training stuff where Laura Michaels did interviews um down there
Speaker 1: at spring training and he would send him over to
Speaker 1: us and we would produce that for the Fantasy Sports Network.
Speaker 1: So all the times that I met Laura, he was
Speaker 1: an awesome, awesome dude, really really a pioneer in in
Speaker 1: the industry, especially in fantasy baseball. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Laura Michaels and his family. Uh, definitely rest in peace.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, it's a it's a it's a very somber
Speaker 1: note start show with. But uh, you know, we would
Speaker 1: be remiss not to at least mentioned him because you
Speaker 1: know what he's done. You know, he works on our network.
Speaker 1: You know he's done shows with Chris Pavona. I know
Speaker 1: he's done the Sunday's Show with with Chris Pavona and
Speaker 1: Joe Galina. He does the tow Wars hour hour, so
Speaker 1: you know, he was still very much so in the
Speaker 1: now with the Fantasy Sports Network. So uh, I just
Speaker 1: had to give some thoughts and prayers slower Michael and
Speaker 1: his family trying to China and here's Chris head. Uh
Speaker 1: it did not really much to to say that. Then
Speaker 1: you guys pretty much said it all. Um. I got
Speaker 1: to work with with Laura when I was working here
Speaker 1: at nights on towt Wars, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: luckily got to like, you know, get to talk talking
Speaker 1: to him and basically everything you guys said like he
Speaker 1: was probably one of the nicest, you know, one of
Speaker 1: the nicest guys I ever got to work with. Just
Speaker 1: uh you know, love talking classic rock with him. I
Speaker 1: used to play this game with him on the show
Speaker 1: where like he had to guess what what band? What band?
Speaker 1: I was playing what you know what theme I had
Speaker 1: with with the classic rock And Um, I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: a little rattled, uh right now, you know, I'm kinda
Speaker 1: I mean I knew he had a I knew he
Speaker 1: always had health problems. He always he was never shy
Speaker 1: about that stuff. He always talked about it. Um, this sucks. Sorry,
Speaker 1: this sucks. Yeah, it definitely does. Crazy, absolutely crazy. So
Speaker 1: I thought some prayers to to Laura's family in the
Speaker 1: fantasy community. Here all those that are affected um by
Speaker 1: passing of lower Michael's um Frank's football now for this week,
Speaker 1: week number sixteen, and there's only two teams that are
Speaker 1: in it initch League, right, it's like one nurses due
Speaker 1: the battle for it all? It should it be like that?
Speaker 1: And that's a discussion that we ended the show with yesterday.
Speaker 1: Should it all come down to a matchup where listen,
Speaker 1: you're just hoping your players do well and it's just
Speaker 1: a little bit of luck everyone wants to take to
Speaker 1: look out of it, to add more positions, they add
Speaker 1: more UH players, roster spots, they get rid of all
Speaker 1: the roster spots to trying to make it as tough
Speaker 1: as humanly possible, and tough meaning there's more skill involved.
Speaker 1: But is there something to the matchups? Is there something
Speaker 1: to play playing another human being rather than playing against yourself?
Speaker 1: That was my take on it. I don't like your
Speaker 1: odd leagues. They're not fun for me. You're just trying
Speaker 1: to build a score and build your team, and I
Speaker 1: get there's more skill involved than that. I like the
Speaker 1: trash talking. I like on my head to head I like.
Speaker 1: I think there's skill involved in, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: win certain categories in certain in certain leagues. When you
Speaker 1: play your opponent, I think there's strategy in trying to
Speaker 1: block your opponent picking up players like. I enjoy that
Speaker 1: aspect of all fantasy sports. It's not just basketball or
Speaker 1: baseball or football. I mean it's everything that I do.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed the head to head matchup. I don't want
Speaker 1: just a points based system. So that's where on that, Frank,
Speaker 1: and you feel a little bit differently than me. You
Speaker 1: gotta understand where I'm coming from. Yeah, well, Greg, we
Speaker 1: live in you know ten where someone has to everyone
Speaker 1: complains about something nowadays, and you know it's all PC
Speaker 1: this and all right, well we can't do that, and
Speaker 1: you know, we have to take the luck factor out
Speaker 1: of this. We have to accommodate to every single person.
Speaker 1: Because everyone's crying because they lost in the fantasy football playoffs.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter like, this is how fantasy football has
Speaker 1: been played for decades now, and I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and say, well, oh, I'm a fantasy football purist.
Speaker 1: We have to play the game this way because we
Speaker 1: have evolved, Like I think the standards should be half
Speaker 1: point PPR and super flex. And people want to add
Speaker 1: more positions. They think it adds more skill, but it
Speaker 1: also adds more luck because you're gonna end up starting
Speaker 1: more players and you'ren get piste off when those players
Speaker 1: underperform in your lineup and vice versa, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: have guys on your bench. This is the nature of
Speaker 1: the game that is fantasy football. Everyone loves the trash
Speaker 1: talking aspect, and really like the discussion came down to
Speaker 1: it is on you know, onto Twitter yesterday. A lot
Speaker 1: of people are talking about this in your high stakes leagues,
Speaker 1: in more competitive leagues, in expert leagues, if you want
Speaker 1: to make those like a free for all where okay,
Speaker 1: the best team wins, that's fine. But for the casual player,
Speaker 1: for the player who's watching at home, for the people
Speaker 1: who are tuning here and calling in and asking these questions.
Speaker 1: And I know, you know there are people who put
Speaker 1: a lot of money into these leagues. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: like you're a casual player, but for people who are
Speaker 1: you know, indulging what we're doing, Greg, I just don't
Speaker 1: think that you know, a free for all or like
Speaker 1: a rotisserie style fantasy football is going to appeal to them.
Speaker 1: So look, we want to hear from you on the topic.
Speaker 1: A four four, A four, three, six, eight seven nine.
Speaker 1: I had a few people tweeted me yesterday with what
Speaker 1: they do in their league. Uh, we talked about g S.
Speaker 1: See how we do have a playoff format, but we
Speaker 1: also have an overall prize. I think it's that's kind
Speaker 1: of a cool element to like kind of put both
Speaker 1: of those things together. But when it comes down to
Speaker 1: the playoffs are huge, and I still think that that
Speaker 1: should be the cream at a crop when it comes
Speaker 1: to fantasy football. If you thing differently, please feel free
Speaker 1: to call in and debate me. Debate Greg suspen, tell
Speaker 1: us how dumb we are, tell us how your league runs,
Speaker 1: and why it's right we're interested to here. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: absolutely are. We want to know all about what your
Speaker 1: thoughts are, and you know, we'll probably I'll probably tell
Speaker 1: you you're wrong. In an idiot. But that's fine. I'd
Speaker 1: like to hear your thoughts. Yeah, or you could be
Speaker 1: so convincing that will be we'll say, all right, we're
Speaker 1: the idiots. Probably not gonna happen from Greg. I might
Speaker 1: do that because I'm a stand up individual. Greg, he's
Speaker 1: a little bit more stubborn now calling me a stand
Speaker 1: up individual, Yeah, just a little bit more stubborn than me.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's like, it's Greg's way, it's my way
Speaker 1: or the highway. A little limp biscuit here, Greg, let
Speaker 1: me mentally stubborn. Yeah, you've got a little limp biscuit
Speaker 1: and yeah, limp biscuit. Yeah, my way or the highway.
Speaker 1: It's a limp biscuit song. Greg, Yeah, I figured you would.
Speaker 1: It was a huge hit in the late nineties, you know,
Speaker 1: back when you were thirty. There was also one of
Speaker 1: those famous video packages. Ever was that ever? That was
Speaker 1: Stone Cold Verse the Rock? Yeah, all right, it was seventeen.
Speaker 1: It was amazing. Did you watch it during commercial? It's
Speaker 1: really good. I should I don't really remember us, you know,
Speaker 1: I was a little Yeah, I watched that seventeen what
Speaker 1: ye would that have been seventeen? So it was eighteen
Speaker 1: years ago, So there you go. It was she doesn't
Speaker 1: want it was she doesn't want Wrestlemnix ten years old
Speaker 1: probably don't remember that. Two do one check it out?
Speaker 1: Um so here wrestling, did you watch the I did
Speaker 1: not watch it yet It's already been ruined for me
Speaker 1: because you know, people in my group chat I didn't
Speaker 1: ruin it. No, you didn't ruin it. But I told
Speaker 1: these guys, was like, hey, Greg told me that the
Speaker 1: main event of TLC was really good. I'm gonna watch it. Yes,
Speaker 1: you guys want to watch it? Oh well I already
Speaker 1: found out that Oscar one, so I don't want to
Speaker 1: watch it now. I'm like, well, thanks, you just ruined
Speaker 1: it for me. So there you go. That's where I'm at.
Speaker 1: But I'm still I'm still probably gonna it. Doesn't like
Speaker 1: I don't think that that that matters so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that I'm a fan of one, like the
Speaker 1: actual wrestling means that I would it was awesome. It was,
Speaker 1: it was really awesome. Um cool. So uh when it
Speaker 1: comes to injuries for this week, I do want to
Speaker 1: note Virginia Zakas will join the program tomorrow to go
Speaker 1: over all the latest injury notes, especially when it comes
Speaker 1: to the Packers players, Aaron Rodgers, Aaron Jones. Weren't no
Speaker 1: more about Aaron Jonaless, but something about Aaron Rodgers, Cam
Speaker 1: Newton as well. A lot of the question marks that
Speaker 1: we will have we'll try to get answered tomorrow with Virginia.
Speaker 1: Before we do that, Frank I wanted to go over
Speaker 1: some matchups this weekend that we already know we don't
Speaker 1: want to mess with, or not we don't want to
Speaker 1: mess with. But if we have our they create tough decisions.
Speaker 1: That's what it comes down to, precisely, So where do
Speaker 1: you want football? So where did you want to start?
Speaker 1: What is the toughest matchup, toughest decision fantasy owners will
Speaker 1: have during their finals this weekend. It's a decision that
Speaker 1: I have myself, and I already threw this name out there,
Speaker 1: but I think Philip Rivers man, a lot of people
Speaker 1: are gonna be turned off by this matchup. Obviously, going
Speaker 1: up against the Baltimore Ravens, who are allowing the fourth
Speaker 1: fewest fantasy points to oppose quarterbacks this season, just a
Speaker 1: rundown of the past couple of weeks. Last Weekday faced
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston undred and fifty seven and zero touchdowns against
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. Mind you, this took a fourth down heath
Speaker 1: prayer in order to meet this value. But three seventy
Speaker 1: seven yards and two touchdowns for Patrick Mahomes the week
Speaker 1: before that, Matt Ryan one one and one Oakland Raiders
Speaker 1: in Week twelve and one Cincinnati in Week eleven, two eleven,
Speaker 1: and two. The Ravens are stout defensively, both on the
Speaker 1: ground against the run and against the past. I'm really
Speaker 1: interested to watch this game. I think it could be
Speaker 1: more of a more of a defensive battle, playoff preview
Speaker 1: kind of match up here between the Ravens and the Chargers.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people will have questions about Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1: Here's where it kind of becomes questionably, because in fantasy football,
Speaker 1: the best players are the best players because they can
Speaker 1: perform well in even the toughest matchups. That was proven
Speaker 1: last week when Marlon Mack decided to eviscerate the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys deep ense. Uh and that was mainly because the
Speaker 1: the Cult's offensive line was healthy once again. But Marlo
Speaker 1: mac has been one of the better fantasy players all
Speaker 1: season long, so that's normally what we say about the
Speaker 1: best players in fantasy football are the best players because
Speaker 1: they perform even in the toughest matchups. So I don't
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna completely right off Philip Rivers. I still
Speaker 1: think that there are there are chances that you can
Speaker 1: you can play Philip Rivers. It depends on who you
Speaker 1: have available on your waiver wire. I was working on
Speaker 1: the quarterback rankings last night, Greg, and two names that
Speaker 1: I have ahead of Philip Rivers right now are Josh
Speaker 1: Allen and Baker Mayfield. And in one match, in one
Speaker 1: league where I own Philip Rivers in the finals, Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield was available. I picked him up and have him
Speaker 1: in the starting line up right now. And you're the
Speaker 1: big Philip Rivers guy. That is, he has multiple touchdown
Speaker 1: passes in every game but one this season. You're the
Speaker 1: Chargers guy. You have been all season long, My Chargers.
Speaker 1: How about the Chargers quick quick, plainly another thing instead
Speaker 1: of that of the how about you or whatever? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what we do charge up. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Chargers fans. I mean, you killed
Speaker 1: me for cat scratch fever and you coming up here
Speaker 1: with charge up, Greg, I was thinking something like looking
Speaker 1: it in charge like grease lightning. But it's the chargers
Speaker 1: and it's the bolt. Why would't he or you could
Speaker 1: or you could just said of a vota plan, you
Speaker 1: could be charge. It's not bad either. I kind of
Speaker 1: like grease lightning just because I came up with it myself.
Speaker 1: Grease lightning. Let's go charges grease lightning. You don't like
Speaker 1: that one? Charge up? Everybody with Greg Sussman, These lightning
Speaker 1: is amazing. Grease lightning, I kinda so dumb. Come on,
Speaker 1: is it dumber than the hot boys? It's not dumber
Speaker 1: than the hot boys grease lighting the way you're saying
Speaker 1: it to like, it's fantastic. Baker Mayfield my seventh quarterback
Speaker 1: this week. Right now. I love Baker Maybel. Do you
Speaker 1: know that Philip Rivers and I've moved him up. I
Speaker 1: have him four spots higher than the consensus. I have
Speaker 1: him at thirteen. That means he can the consensus expert
Speaker 1: rankings on Fantasy Pros have Philip Rivers at seventeen. Greg.
Speaker 1: That means in sixteen team leagues, you're not starting Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers this week. That seems a little old to me, Greg,
Speaker 1: really really bold. Let's say your calls on the debate,
Speaker 1: more matchups and a breakdown of the first round wider Skiers.
Speaker 1: Because we had a debate, we'll take it on the air.
Speaker 1: We'll do all that come up in the next fourty minutes.
Speaker 1: Get those calls in for four eight, four, three, six
Speaker 1: and seven nine. We send you on right after this.
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Speaker 1: else you got also? Throw? Let see we got here
Speaker 1: Tom Brady going up against the Buffalo Bills. Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: the guy who I've said all season long, stripped the
Speaker 1: name off the back of the jersey here has clearly
Speaker 1: not performed like vintage Tom Brady this season, and going
Speaker 1: up against the Bills, who are the number one defense
Speaker 1: against opposed and quarterbacks this season in fantasy football, they
Speaker 1: allow the fewest fantasy points. Just looking at what they've
Speaker 1: done the past few weeks, they have not allowed a
Speaker 1: quarterback to throw for over two hundred and eight yards
Speaker 1: in six straight games, Greg, two hundred eight yards. Last
Speaker 1: time they did Tom Brady, they allowed him to throw
Speaker 1: for three hundred and twenty four yards. This is another
Speaker 1: one where I think we're kind of over analyzing it here,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna take a little stroll down narrative street here, Greg,
Speaker 1: because I do think that the Patriots, we're coming back
Speaker 1: home to Foxborough laying thirteen fourteen points right now. I
Speaker 1: do think that they're going to be up for this game.
Speaker 1: They just lost against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Everyone's talking about
Speaker 1: how the Patriots are done right now, how they're not
Speaker 1: gonna win the Super Bowl. This is a year where
Speaker 1: they get knocked off in the a f C. I
Speaker 1: think this is a bounce back spot for Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: so much like Philip Rivers, the consensus has Tom Brady
Speaker 1: at QB eighteen this week, Greg, QB eighteen teams very
Speaker 1: bold And I've been against Tom Brady for a while now,
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I'm ready to start guys
Speaker 1: like Sam Donald, Derek Carr, Nick Foles, whoever other, whatever
Speaker 1: the Joe Schmo you want to find out there. I
Speaker 1: don't know that I'm ready to go ahead and start
Speaker 1: that person over Tom Brady. I don't know that the
Speaker 1: numbers we are taking the name off the back of
Speaker 1: the jersey. Yes, And you know, look, if it was
Speaker 1: normal Tom Brady and I had to have him inside
Speaker 1: of my top five, wouldn't I? But I don't What
Speaker 1: are you looking at, Fantasy Executive? You can tell the
Speaker 1: Fantasy executive doesn't have much to talk about today on
Speaker 1: the Frenzy because he's here in the BFF chat right
Speaker 1: now trying to talk smack. He's here, He's strolling along
Speaker 1: on the outside. He's trying to you know, he's trying
Speaker 1: to ruin the flow of the Fantasy BF. You're talking
Speaker 1: about him. It's not true, not true. It seems like
Speaker 1: you needs something to talk about. You can tell us
Speaker 1: that time of year, are you worried about Tom Brady. Greg, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's very worried about Tom Brady. Again, he's
Speaker 1: been better than Aaron Rodgers, but I think this week
Speaker 1: fairy well. I haven't ranging about eighteenth and or whatever.
Speaker 1: You just saying, no, that's too low. But it's fair
Speaker 1: to be somewhat worrisome. No, yeah, be worrisome, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not gonna go as far as you know.
Speaker 1: We were talking about Derek Carr last week as a
Speaker 1: possible stream and I know, all right, possible last home
Speaker 1: game in Oakland here people are talking about that as
Speaker 1: a narrative as to why we should use Derek Carror.
Speaker 1: Get up for that game. I think Sam Donald has
Speaker 1: played well. It's a good match against the Packers. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go as far as startom over tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I just think this is a good bounce back spot
Speaker 1: at home after losing to Pittsburgh on the road. I
Speaker 1: think he bounces back at least two d fifty yards
Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. And quarterback play has been down the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. So if you get to fifty
Speaker 1: and two out of Tom Brady, I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be close. To you know, top twelve quarterback production this week.
Speaker 1: So I'm not just going out there and completely benching
Speaker 1: him just because he's facing the buffalo bills for anybody
Speaker 1: eight or four eight, four, three, six, eight seven nine.
Speaker 1: Now we fur this out there, asking about your strategy
Speaker 1: and how you think these things should go. Uh, and
Speaker 1: I'd love to know your responses and start out with
Speaker 1: Jason and was conscive? What accident? And hey, good morning?
Speaker 1: How long? What's up? Man's good lens by surprise? I apologize, say,
Speaker 1: oh I need a question. I need to first here
Speaker 1: he read, Uh, I heard something about a laxative there.
Speaker 1: I don't know it's oh shoot, oh you hurt. I
Speaker 1: was speaking to my wife actually that I was. I
Speaker 1: was holding with you guys, and I just trusted aile.
Speaker 1: I want to get a shout out Corey Parson the
Speaker 1: pollas your actions because I listened to his wont you
Speaker 1: left myself made? What will be less? Myself? Mess yourself?
Speaker 1: You know I didn't. I didn't. I didn't do it
Speaker 1: well and like my fallacy because I listened to the
Speaker 1: fallacy accutive Oh yeah, right over your head. I'm sorry guy.
Speaker 1: That's how Sally picked up on that immediately. But I
Speaker 1: love it. I love it. I appreciate it. Sorry, you
Speaker 1: want to win? You call it to the best friends forever?
Speaker 1: What's up? It's it's perfect. Yeah. So I'm staying talking
Speaker 1: about the leaves and formats and such, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: first get leave it. I don't know, how do you
Speaker 1: guys feel about you know, consolations and all that is
Speaker 1: supposed to be fun. But I'm gonna be in the
Speaker 1: room before your wife can continue to pick up off
Speaker 1: of the urger waiters. You know, I'm I'm I'm telling
Speaker 1: for third right now. I lost last week. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you the third and as the guys should seem to
Speaker 1: pick pulls up off the waiters to win five hours
Speaker 1: frave place, a right place, a tough place, and I
Speaker 1: didn't know that going early with the change our mind.
Speaker 1: I'm p that's your too, But I'm seeking out to
Speaker 1: whi these guys still active on the wager lawyers when
Speaker 1: you know, when the out of it they lost the
Speaker 1: don you know, yeah, you shouldn't be allowed to be.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a rule that you definitely have to
Speaker 1: implement in the off season. I mean, the people who
Speaker 1: are playing for the Championship should have first go at
Speaker 1: the waivers and then anything that's consolation, and anything that's
Speaker 1: consolation asked that if you want to have a second
Speaker 1: waiver run on Sundays or Fridays or over the weekend,
Speaker 1: whenever it might be, then you can have the consolation bracket.
Speaker 1: Uh able to put waiver wires in, but you need
Speaker 1: to lock everyone's team who is not playing for the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Championship in week sixteen. You let those two
Speaker 1: teams duke it out on the waiver wire first and foremost,
Speaker 1: and then after that over the weekend. If you want
Speaker 1: to have a second waiver wire run, you can have
Speaker 1: the consolation bracket go, but the first one. Nobody else
Speaker 1: should be in that whatsoever except for the people playing
Speaker 1: for the gold in week sixteen. Yeah, and there's no
Speaker 1: question about that. I agree with you. Everyone. The seam
Speaker 1: should be locked one thousand percent. It's unacceptable. If you
Speaker 1: want to if you want to hear a lot of
Speaker 1: spewing out of the mouth of the Fantasy executive, make
Speaker 1: sure you listen into the frenzy later on where uh
Speaker 1: you'll you'll you'll get the Fantasy laxatives and your team
Speaker 1: will go down to toilet with Corey Parsons A four
Speaker 1: four eight four three six eight seven nine four four
Speaker 1: A four three six eight seven nine. Let's continue on.
Speaker 1: We'll go back to phone line and get your thoughts
Speaker 1: on the debate. It's Fred in l A. What's friend? Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up, guys, I's been going good morning. What's up? Man? Uh?
Speaker 1: Just a cool quick questions quarterback one League. I got
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers and Matt Ryan to let you know what
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that. And then I have a second question. Alright,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers versus Mattie Ice, what are you think of ranking? Yes,
Speaker 1: so I mentioned Philip Rivers and how I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: want to bench him for just anybody. But Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: isn't just anybody the way that he's played this year
Speaker 1: and specifically the past two games. Even against the Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: where I thought it would be a tougher matchup, he
Speaker 1: still threw for three touchdowns. He's throwing for three touchdowns
Speaker 1: in back to back games the Carolina Panthers secondary while
Speaker 1: their defense was up for that game on Monday Night
Speaker 1: Football against the Saints. I still don't trust the Panthers
Speaker 1: secondary all that much. So I think Matt Ryan is
Speaker 1: in a good spot in terms of the matchup. I
Speaker 1: have these guys closely ranked. I have Matt Ryan a
Speaker 1: few spots higher. If it's my team, I'm starting Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan this week. Awesome, thank you. Then one more differently,
Speaker 1: I have Cam Newton, but I picked up both um
Speaker 1: admits to Risky and Josh Allen. And actually Baker's Mayfield
Speaker 1: was on the waiver wire. I heard you talk about
Speaker 1: him earlier. M Yeah, I think this one comes down
Speaker 1: to Baker versionsh Allen. And he's a really good question
Speaker 1: because I have both guys back to back in my
Speaker 1: rankings Greg number seven Baker Mayfield and number eight Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: Some of the names I have Josh Allen ahead of
Speaker 1: this week, Dak Prescott, Matt Ryan, Trabiskie, Lamar Jackson, Philip Rivers.
Speaker 1: So very high on Josh Allen. I don't know what
Speaker 1: more like the guy has to do. He's done it
Speaker 1: for a month now, he's finished. There was one game
Speaker 1: where he finishes QB fifteen. Every other game he's been
Speaker 1: a top five quarterback and three of his last four
Speaker 1: so especially going up against the Patriots, where he's gonna
Speaker 1: be trailing points. He doesn't have to make plays with
Speaker 1: his legs. He's throwing the ball down the field. To
Speaker 1: Robert Foster, I like Josh Allen this week, like Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield a little bit more. Yeah. So both of these
Speaker 1: guys are You're in must start territory at this point
Speaker 1: with these players, I feel like like they've been that
Speaker 1: good where you can trust them. Bakers are my guy
Speaker 1: all year. I got this question, like on to day
Speaker 1: do I start Josh Hollen or Baker Mayfield? And people
Speaker 1: want to know the answer to that. I told him
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, like quit him? But I get it, you know,
Speaker 1: I I get if you want to start Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: For me, it's Baker Mayfield. Last time Baker face the
Speaker 1: Bengals was on the road in Cincinnati. He threw for
Speaker 1: four touchdowns in this in that game. Now, coming back
Speaker 1: home in the Dog Pound against the Bengals defense which
Speaker 1: is just non existent, and I realized, you know, this
Speaker 1: game can get out of hand. They run the football,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna need to get up. How are they
Speaker 1: gonna do that? Baker Mayfield is gonna be able to
Speaker 1: throw the ball effectively in this one. So I'm starting
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield over Josh Hound. I like Baker lots eight
Speaker 1: four four, eight four, three six, eight seven nine. This
Speaker 1: opportunity to talk to our friend Bob and Vermont. What's up? Bobby, Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: good bye. As your question, when you said super flex,
Speaker 1: what does that mean? Super Flex is you have a
Speaker 1: flex position, which normally is occupied by a running back,
Speaker 1: wide receiver, or tight end. But super flex means that
Speaker 1: you can also start a quarterback. So essentially you would
Speaker 1: have to quarterbacks in your starting I never heard of that,
Speaker 1: That's why. And then you hear who died list yesterday?
Speaker 1: Who died yesterday? The girl Laverne? Yeah, yeah, so Penny
Speaker 1: Marshall died yesterday. She's seventy five years directed. No, that
Speaker 1: was like fifty years before us. Well, Greg, you were
Speaker 1: you were just growing up, Bob. How old you think? Yeah, Bob,
Speaker 1: how old do you think Greg is? Well, I'm fifty,
Speaker 1: so he has to be like thirty one. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, I was expecting so I'm m
Speaker 1: I'll be thirty one in two months. You know. La
Speaker 1: Vernon Shirley started in eighteen seventies six, Bob, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: df see the like the repeats of it. Yeah, I know. No,
Speaker 1: Bob's actually right because I drew up watching Nick at
Speaker 1: Night Greg, So I used to see like all these
Speaker 1: seventies and eighties sitcoms and yeah, I mean shows that
Speaker 1: you will not speak of. Right, what, Frank, do you
Speaker 1: remember what she drinks? No? I don't. I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the show that vividly have seen milk together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's disgusting. No it is not. I tried it, Like, well,
Speaker 1: how many things do you think Bob can try and
Speaker 1: say it is good that we will not agree as good? Greg? Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you answer, and you guys talk soon. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, Bob. I appreciate it people people like Bob.
Speaker 1: I was really hoping Bob was gonna say, like, well,
Speaker 1: if I'm fifty, you gotta be like that? Would that
Speaker 1: would be nice for you? Wouldn't have been you would
Speaker 1: have loved that, Greg. I feel like I gotta do
Speaker 1: it now. I've been debating whether I should do this
Speaker 1: all week long. It's not the elbow pads. I had
Speaker 1: my parents over for for dinner on Friday night, and
Speaker 1: we were talking about the show my Dad's actually been
Speaker 1: a frequent watcher and listener recently. I hope so it
Speaker 1: is a supporter. Yeah, he's a supporter. He's a b
Speaker 1: f R. When I told him that you were thirty,
Speaker 1: they were blown away. I thought I was younger, quite
Speaker 1: the opposite. How old did your parents look? I mean
Speaker 1: I didn't even ask, but they were like, we thought
Speaker 1: he was way older than thirty. That's how your parents sound.
Speaker 1: We thought he was way older than thirty. It's exactly
Speaker 1: how they said it. It was in like a negative way. No,
Speaker 1: they really did. I didn't ask them that. They were like,
Speaker 1: he was a lot older than thirty years old. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not a joke at this point, it's just like legitimate. Now.
Speaker 1: You just remember we had Al Milkier on the show
Speaker 1: Dear Speak of Lord Michaels and Tout Wars for Tout
Speaker 1: Wars Weekend. We had Al milk you or in studio
Speaker 1: he thought you were forty years old? Do you think
Speaker 1: it was so? Do you think your parents? I gotta
Speaker 1: ask this, did your parents think that Greg looks forty five?
Speaker 1: I look forty five seems like five. Do you think
Speaker 1: do you think they think that because of on the show,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure you tell your parents, but like off
Speaker 1: air stuff as well, like what though I don't know,
Speaker 1: like like, uh, I don't know executive stuff. Executive No,
Speaker 1: not really, No, I don't talk to them that much
Speaker 1: about stuff like that. I would have bore them with
Speaker 1: stuff like that. They want to hear the good stuff.
Speaker 1: They want to they want to hear the fantasy stuff. Greg.
Speaker 1: Now everyone in the chat saying how old I am?
Speaker 1: And none of them are. I thought Gregory was forty
Speaker 1: two four. What do you think I need to do?
Speaker 1: I'd say mid thirties, as you're going into like it's
Speaker 1: like botox or something, you know what it is. No,
Speaker 1: you should grow out of beard, like I've been telling
Speaker 1: you for years now. Greg. I mean, if everyone thinks
Speaker 1: you're old, you might as well just embrace it and
Speaker 1: grow out a beard. I don't want a beard, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you might as well embrace it at this point,
Speaker 1: like you have the baby face and people still think
Speaker 1: that you're forty five years old. Greg. It's kind of
Speaker 1: crazy there. It's kind of crazy when you might as
Speaker 1: well just grow out a beard. I want to do that.
Speaker 1: Uncle eight four four eight four three or six seven
Speaker 1: nine it's got to Ryan in Chicago. What's up? Ryan? Okay,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Frot with how you do it? Imti?
Speaker 1: Well that what's happening? Hey? Um, I'm in the I'm
Speaker 1: in the championship obviously, and I got to I got
Speaker 1: two quick questions. Um, my team is pretty said, I
Speaker 1: got Pat my homes at quarterback, Antonio Brown, and my
Speaker 1: wide receiver one and Christian mccaffremy and my RB one Zacher. Um,
Speaker 1: I need help on my r B two and my
Speaker 1: flats And so right now, I've got Matt Breeda sitting there. Um,
Speaker 1: I know he's going up against the Bears. Um, and
Speaker 1: I also have Jamal Williams. Who are you guys going
Speaker 1: with it? And that one? So Breeda Versuma Williams? Did
Speaker 1: you mention what format this is? Is this PPR half
Speaker 1: half point PPR half point PPR? All right? Well, look
Speaker 1: there's a lot that has to be determined still this week, Craig.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna find out, you know, how healthy
Speaker 1: Matt Breeda. It's not only matters because the guy just
Speaker 1: like plays through anything but a terrible matchup against Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams, I think it's part of it is dependent
Speaker 1: on if Aaron Rodgers plays, because obviously the offense you'd
Speaker 1: imagine would be better if Aaron Rodgers is on the field.
Speaker 1: Just in a vacuum right now, I'd lean with Jamal Williams.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm not that scared of the Jets defense.
Speaker 1: I think it's a solid matchup on paper. And even
Speaker 1: if the Shawan Kaiser is the quarterback, that might even
Speaker 1: lean on, you know, the Packers running the football more.
Speaker 1: With Jamal Williams. We saw him play with seven percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps this past week. That was fourth highest
Speaker 1: among all running backs in the league. So I know
Speaker 1: Matt Breeda had a huge workload in that game. Could
Speaker 1: see something like that once again, but he's also a
Speaker 1: risk for re injury and a bad match against the Bears.
Speaker 1: Give me Jamal Williams, greg Yeah, yeah, in my flex,
Speaker 1: I got Tyler Locke is sitting there. Um, but I
Speaker 1: also got Mike Williams, you know, with the with the Chargers,
Speaker 1: Um and uh, Spencer were and um, Mike Williams. Al right,
Speaker 1: so then you guys got to roll out Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: or so we're talking about Spencer where Mike Williams, Tyler Locket,
Speaker 1: there's so much injury dependent news. But the good thing
Speaker 1: about this is well know on Saturday whether Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: is going to play in that game or not, so
Speaker 1: I know it's a tough matchup against the Ravens. Pretty
Speaker 1: good matchup on paper here for tire Lockett going up
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, I will say, if Keenan Allen doesn't play,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna plug Mike Williams in here. If Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: does play, and then you still have to find out
Speaker 1: about Spencer Where whether he's gonna play. Like there's so
Speaker 1: many injuries once again this week, and so much is
Speaker 1: dependent on we'll find out about Spencer Where. But Damian
Speaker 1: Williams performed really really well as the lead dog last
Speaker 1: week for the Kansas City Chiefs, so I don't think
Speaker 1: he just completely goes away even if Spencer Where is active.
Speaker 1: If Keenan Allen plays, I think you're not using Mike Williams.
Speaker 1: I think targets share the snaps go down once again
Speaker 1: for him. And if that's the case, it's Tyle Lockett
Speaker 1: versus Spencer Ware and the half point PPR, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: use Tyler Locket against Kansas City Chiefs. Rather, I want
Speaker 1: to wait for Spencer. I want to Spencer. Mike Williams
Speaker 1: the guy, no question. They face each other, so you'll
Speaker 1: know going I think active I'm going to play him.
Speaker 1: Yea A. Damian Williams is not gonna go wait. I know,
Speaker 1: but Tyler Lockett. I have Russell Wilson as m QB
Speaker 1: two this week, so I think he's gonna be throwing
Speaker 1: a lot that's gonna vode well for We're talking about
Speaker 1: a lot receivers right now. We'll do more of that
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Speaker 1: the studio right now, inside of the Fantasy best Friends Forever?
Speaker 1: All right, something's going on on badly. It sounds like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we annouced to tell of the show. Yeah, we had.
Speaker 1: We asked that it's out the show. It's very it's terrible.
Speaker 1: So Corey is just in here letting us know, um,
Speaker 1: once again, the unfortunate passing of Lord Michaels. He's horrible,
Speaker 1: horrible news, and fantasy community all sends their thoughts and
Speaker 1: their prayers and sad. Man. I get the shows like
Speaker 1: I barely knew and I barely knew the guy, and
Speaker 1: I just I felt terrible when telling you this five
Speaker 1: minutes before the show started. Um, and like I literally
Speaker 1: have goose bumps everywhere, and now it's crazy. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: look the few times we did meet him again, we
Speaker 1: hosted some of the tow War stuff, We went to
Speaker 1: the oven, we went to the events at Follies. We
Speaker 1: all meet up and drink a little bit. Every time
Speaker 1: I met the guy, he was super warm towards me,
Speaker 1: everyone else that was around him. I mean, he had
Speaker 1: a vibrant personality. Uh he put that off around everyone
Speaker 1: that you know. He was near again just uh, just
Speaker 1: pivotal in the fantasy baseball industry. Really a legend one,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the founders of tow Wars, which is,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the more prestigious league around in
Speaker 1: terms of fantasy baseball. So very, very sad, to hear
Speaker 1: the passing. I know him and Scott Angle were very close,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure you know roadal experts. In the morning,
Speaker 1: stay tuned, you'll hear from Scott. I'm sure he'll have
Speaker 1: some some kind words for Lower Michaels and his family
Speaker 1: as well. But here on the Fantasy BFS and the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Sports Network, we do send our our condolences to
Speaker 1: the Lower Michael's family. All right, Um, so we're at
Speaker 1: a debate before the show began, and it wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: be but Frank was like, you know, this is what
Speaker 1: do you want to talk about? Like these are um,
Speaker 1: these are what what people have been asking me. And
Speaker 1: I'm in the debate like all right, what do you
Speaker 1: want to do? What are you thinking? He's like people
Speaker 1: are wondering about the first wide receiver off the board
Speaker 1: in tween, like who would you choose you for me?
Speaker 1: Like I would take DeAndre Hopkins. It's wide open. So
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I was that and obviously Venture
Speaker 1: immediately chimes in, bro, how are you not taking Julio?
Speaker 1: And it's his boy, right, don't so then you hi
Speaker 1: him and he's like, dude, I'm I'm taking Davante Adams.
Speaker 1: I'm what, really, this is a thing. So we wanted
Speaker 1: to bring on the air now and be like, which
Speaker 1: the wide receiver to take? Who is the first wide
Speaker 1: receiver off the board in twenty nineteen, And also, Frank,
Speaker 1: the next question up on that is like, when is
Speaker 1: the first wide receiver off the board taken in en.
Speaker 1: I think those two questions gotta go hand and in Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I've already saw some really early mocks. And look again,
Speaker 1: we're trending towards the running back position. I'm sure. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there will people that will kind of want to
Speaker 1: buck the trend. And I'll bring up a strategy that
Speaker 1: I think is interesting if you're at the end of
Speaker 1: the first round next year. Again, a million things are
Speaker 1: gonna change come next year, But right now, it's looking
Speaker 1: like the top four picks for sure, maybe you know, seven,
Speaker 1: eight or nine are going to be running backs. The
Speaker 1: top four seems like there's a consensus here, uh, and
Speaker 1: not in any order specifically, but Todd Gurley, take Jwan Barkley,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, and Christian McCaffrey. That seems to be kind
Speaker 1: of standard right now. We'll find out where Levian Bell
Speaker 1: ends up, whether it's with the Jets to Kansas City Chiefs, uh,
Speaker 1: the Houston, Texas, Dinneapolis Colts. If he ends up with
Speaker 1: one of those latter three teams, not being the New
Speaker 1: York Jets, I think he's kind of like right in
Speaker 1: that mix for like the top five, six, seven, I
Speaker 1: would still take those top four running you know, so
Speaker 1: it's girly, girly Barkley, Zeke McCaffrey not Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think those are. I think that's gonna be a consensus
Speaker 1: top four come this time next year. She measure leave
Speaker 1: on Bill. I have to imagine Alvin Camara is gonna
Speaker 1: be around there too. He'll be somewhere in there yet,
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon, those are it's just gonna be. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be running back deep. It's gonna be like Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: should be probably five six in that range again, Levy
Speaker 1: on Bell, wherever he ends up, Alvin Kamara is gonna
Speaker 1: be there. I wouldn't. I don't think the first wide
Speaker 1: receiver will go into like anywhere from eight, nine or ten.
Speaker 1: And I've already seen mock drafts where James Conner and
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb are also drafted before a wide receiver. And
Speaker 1: I understand now this is where it kind of makes
Speaker 1: sense to do that strategy, right because if you take
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, who's the running back that you're getting
Speaker 1: in the early second round, Whereas if you take chub
Speaker 1: or you take a James Conner in that late first
Speaker 1: round area. All these wide receivers that we're talking about,
Speaker 1: there's no consensus number one wide receiver. There's like eight
Speaker 1: guys that are all in the same tier. So you're
Speaker 1: guaranteed to get one of those guys in the early
Speaker 1: second round. So you take one of those running backs
Speaker 1: and then you end up with all Right, you might
Speaker 1: not get Hopkins, you might not get Davanta Adams or Julio,
Speaker 1: but in the early second round, you'll still end up
Speaker 1: with a guy like Adam Feeling or Jujuic Smith Schuster
Speaker 1: or Antonio Brown. So I kind of see the strategy
Speaker 1: behind that. But me personally, and you know that we
Speaker 1: have we have the poll up on Twitter right now,
Speaker 1: the Fantasy BFF Twitter. As of right now, your vote
Speaker 1: of DeAndre Hopkins is winning wholeheartedly. Like it's not close.
Speaker 1: It's fifty percent DeAndre Hopkins, Davanta Adams, which actually surprises
Speaker 1: me eleven percent, Julio Jones two percent right in, So
Speaker 1: really a lot of like just based on these votes
Speaker 1: right now, DeAndre Hopkins seems like kind of like the
Speaker 1: consensus watching one in half point pr I think it's
Speaker 1: between him and Davante. I think those three are like
Speaker 1: the top for me. Know this is year in half
Speaker 1: point PPRS. You know who the number one one sixer
Speaker 1: is as it is Davante Adams get the consistency at
Speaker 1: least eighty one or senior yards are touched on in
Speaker 1: every single game this year. Greg, He's really really stepped
Speaker 1: up his game this year, regardless of the matchup, because
Speaker 1: remind you, he faces the Vikings twice per year, he
Speaker 1: faces the Bears twice per year, and he's still pinned
Speaker 1: this consistent, completely match up proof one hundred receptions, hundred yards,
Speaker 1: twelve touchdowns on the air. He's number one, and every
Speaker 1: single every single facet DeAndre Hopkinson, the six less catches,
Speaker 1: one less touchdown, everything else is the same. I he's
Speaker 1: literally six more yards. So there are the two of them.
Speaker 1: Makes sense whether why we both value them so highly.
Speaker 1: The number two guy was not on your countdown as
Speaker 1: Julio Jones is number five overall and this players in
Speaker 1: the mixup and number two and half point p BR.
Speaker 1: You didn't number four, you didn't even mention. But number
Speaker 1: two is Tyreek Hill. He has seven yes, so he
Speaker 1: has twenty two less receptions than Davante Adams, so he's
Speaker 1: not at a hundred reception he only has seventy eight.
Speaker 1: He's right around the same amount of yards, and he's
Speaker 1: got eleven touchdowns. The difference a hundred plus yards rushing.
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is number two in the strategy that I
Speaker 1: was gonna bring up, which if you kind of want
Speaker 1: to start your draft contrarian, next year, everyone's gonna be
Speaker 1: all over running backs. You're gonna need you like people
Speaker 1: are gonna be reaching grasping at straws for running backs
Speaker 1: next year. Say you're on the swing, Greg, I think
Speaker 1: a perfect strategy Davantae Adams and Tyreek Kill because ideally
Speaker 1: you don't want Tyreek Kill. And this is just me
Speaker 1: being like a glutton, a fantasy football glutton. I don't
Speaker 1: want Tyreek Kill as my wide receiver one because we
Speaker 1: can go out there and win you any single week.
Speaker 1: He can go out there and lose you any single week.
Speaker 1: Just look at his game log, Greg. He's had massive
Speaker 1: games week one hundred sixty nine and two, weeks six
Speaker 1: hundred and forty two and three, Week ten a hundred
Speaker 1: and seventeen and two, and the very next week to
Speaker 1: fifteen and two. But he's also had games one reception
Speaker 1: for thirteen yard. He's had games four receptions for sixty one,
Speaker 1: two receptions for fifty one. Just last week against the Chargers,
Speaker 1: four receptions for forty six, and he should have had
Speaker 1: a long touchdown in that game. But that's the nature
Speaker 1: of the beast when it comes to Tyreek Hill. And
Speaker 1: I understand you want to wants much exposure to this
Speaker 1: Chief's offense as you can possibly get, But I want
Speaker 1: an consistency, man. I know. You know last year, we
Speaker 1: we spoke a lot about, you know, consistency versus upside,
Speaker 1: and I was kind of on the side of like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, I want a player that has that
Speaker 1: ability to have massive games. I want that upside player
Speaker 1: that that was part of the reason why I was
Speaker 1: talking up J J. I last year when he was
Speaker 1: on the Miami Dolphins. But I think if you can
Speaker 1: kind of pair a guy like Davanta Adams, who's gonna
Speaker 1: give you that consistent floor every single week and still
Speaker 1: does have pretty good upside with a Tyreek Hill. I
Speaker 1: think that's strategy that you're going to be able to
Speaker 1: do at the end of the first round next year, Greg,
Speaker 1: what do you think about that? You know, I think
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I hear what you're saying when it comes
Speaker 1: to Tyreek Hill that you don't want to measure wide
Speaker 1: receiver one for the reason that you just stated week
Speaker 1: and week out. It's not the same. But if you
Speaker 1: don't go wide receiver one, if you don't go wide
Speaker 1: receiver wide receiver in your draft, he is your wider
Speaker 1: either one. And I hear and I hear that. But
Speaker 1: then you're gonna running back, Like, who the hell are
Speaker 1: you taking the third round as you're running back, Philip Lindsay,
Speaker 1: carry on Johnson, right, Aaron Johnson's gonna be in that
Speaker 1: range three, so Shabi and Aaron Jones slips that far.
Speaker 1: So it's just like you're you're you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: bank on. But look at the running back position to Gregg,
Speaker 1: like I realized the workhorses are have been awesome this year,
Speaker 1: But look at where we're at the past couple of
Speaker 1: weeks just picking up running backs off the waiver wire
Speaker 1: and starting these guys. We're talking about starting Jamal Williams
Speaker 1: in the Fantasy Championship. The past couple of weeks, we're
Speaker 1: starting Elijah McGuire. Like, Greg, if you started your draft
Speaker 1: with guys like Deander Hopkins and Tyreek Killed this year,
Speaker 1: your team would have been an awesome as well. Listen
Speaker 1: to me, to be fair. Every year Week seven in
Speaker 1: Week sixteen, you're starting one of these guys every single year.
Speaker 1: So that doesn't mean but there are running but there
Speaker 1: are running backs that went in the middle rounds that
Speaker 1: are like you just gotta load up on a bunch
Speaker 1: of those middle round running backs and hold one of
Speaker 1: those guys. Say, I realized that. But if you play
Speaker 1: in full PPR and you have you start a team
Speaker 1: Davantae Adams, Tyreek Hill, that's gonna be a competitive team. Okay,
Speaker 1: who your running backs are, dude, I started a team
Speaker 1: with Odell Beckham Jr. Antonio Brown and Patrick Mahomes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you know say, well, all right, well we didn't
Speaker 1: see Odell Beckham happening, and things happen, you know, come
Speaker 1: next year, we could say I started my team Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown Odell Beckham the same exact way you're describing, and
Speaker 1: it sucked that to you. But I think there were
Speaker 1: more warning signs though, right with the Giants offense and
Speaker 1: Eli Manning and Odell Beckham. Like I've already seen mock
Speaker 1: tracks where Odell Beckham goes in the third round. Nex here, Greg,
Speaker 1: That's that's most I've ever heard? Is it the most
Speaker 1: absurd thing? The guys are playing the past couple of
Speaker 1: weeks for what reason for himself? Come on, Like, he
Speaker 1: shouldn't be he shouldn't be trusted as a first round
Speaker 1: pick anymore. He's a complete head case. He won't he
Speaker 1: won't be should he be a second round pick. And
Speaker 1: all the wide receivers we mentioned already today should be
Speaker 1: drafted before him. The fact agreed, of course. But Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham Jr. Has the ability to finsions number one overall
Speaker 1: wade receiver. He has that, and that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: guy that you look at every year we look in
Speaker 1: the third round and we say who's the guy that
Speaker 1: can return first round value? And it will probably be
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. But he doesn't deserve to go in the
Speaker 1: first round. And I'll go as far as to say
Speaker 1: he might not deserve to go in the second round,
Speaker 1: because you can't deny the talent. But if Eli Manning
Speaker 1: is the quarterback again come next year, Greg, And that's
Speaker 1: certainly the way that things are trending right now, based
Speaker 1: on the way Dave Geentleman is talking about and Pat
Speaker 1: Shermer is talking about Eli Manning has a few years
Speaker 1: left to play the quarterback position in the National Football League. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know who's watching these games that they think
Speaker 1: Eli Manning still has a few years left to play
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. I mean, you have to be blind.
Speaker 1: You'd have to be blind to really think that Eli
Speaker 1: Manning has a few years left to play the quarterback
Speaker 1: position in the National Football League. How can you trust
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham? And now the past couple of weeks when
Speaker 1: you need Odell Beckham most he's not playing because quote,
Speaker 1: something ain't right. What does something a right mean? What
Speaker 1: does that mean? I know, I I don't, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't buy it. I think he's not playing for himself,
Speaker 1: like selfish reasons, like he's got money whatever, he's dealing
Speaker 1: with a quad injury. It popped up on a Saturday
Speaker 1: two weeks ago out of nowhere. I don't buy it. Man,
Speaker 1: the guy is a head case. I don't want the
Speaker 1: Philly game. But it's fine. Happened the last player of
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia game coll of weeks back. Actually yeah, but
Speaker 1: he practiced that entire week. Greg. It came out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: like he wasn't even on the injury reporting and Saturday,
Speaker 1: out of nowhere he gets ruled out. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: I just can't like these diva wide receivers, Like, I
Speaker 1: can't do this anymore. One more wide receiver. I wanted
Speaker 1: one more wide receiver that I do. Have to mention
Speaker 1: it with two more wide receivers deserve mentioned in here.
Speaker 1: Adam Feeland's number four wide receiver overall. He has um,
Speaker 1: but he's kind of trailed off. Hundred and five catches
Speaker 1: over twelve hundred yards, nine touchdowns he has tailed off.
Speaker 1: I would take him after these guys probably. You talk
Speaker 1: about consistency with Davante Adams, I mean the first eight,
Speaker 1: nine ten games of this season, there was no wide
Speaker 1: receiver more consistent than Adam DeLand. He was the Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley of the wide receiver position. But now this is
Speaker 1: two years in a row where like he starts to
Speaker 1: get dinged up. He's been dealing with his back injury
Speaker 1: two years in a row, where like it's kind of lingering.
Speaker 1: He has another rooty, really talented, why bad receiver on
Speaker 1: his team and Stefon Digs, where like one week he
Speaker 1: could be Feeling, one week it could be digs. You
Speaker 1: want to talk about head cases with Odell Beckham. Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins seems like a guy who has a men's talent,
Speaker 1: but he gets inside his own head when it comes
Speaker 1: to these big games, like he doesn't show up. So
Speaker 1: I think kirk Cousins has talent. I think Adam Feeling
Speaker 1: has talent as well, but remembers to start off the
Speaker 1: year at a hundred yards receiving twenty two and sixty
Speaker 1: six back to back weeks hundred twenty five and weeks
Speaker 1: twelve Since then, seventy at night, what have you done
Speaker 1: for me lately? That's that's the fantasy football position. With that,
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Speaker 1: about Pittsburgh guys, Frank Antonio Brown and Jujuicemth Schuster. This
Speaker 1: is fun too, because I was talking to Alex Downstair
Speaker 1: is a resident Steelers fan. And if you just kind
Speaker 1: of line up the numbers between Antonio Brown and Juju
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster, I think Juju is gonna get over Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown next week, next year, which you know, some people
Speaker 1: might think it's crazy, but you look at what and
Speaker 1: I have the stats in front of him. Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: has been touchdown reliant this year. He has I don't
Speaker 1: want to say that he has eight more targets than
Speaker 1: who than Juju. He has five less catches. Only he's
Speaker 1: got here's a big difference. He's got a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty less yards. It doesn't like that different, but like
Speaker 1: it's not your fifty less yards touchdown wise, Tonio Brown
Speaker 1: isn't himself this year. It's either him or it's he's
Speaker 1: got seven more touchdowns than Jiuju. Yes, but I was
Speaker 1: talking with Alex about this downstairs and if touchdown regression
Speaker 1: hits both guys like positively for Juju, negatively for Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown because thirteen touchdowns, I mean Juju has seven more
Speaker 1: red zone targets this year and he has seven less touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That doesn't necessarily add up to me. And I know
Speaker 1: you look at the acts is here for Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: It's just I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that.
Speaker 1: Like Antonio Brown is following off like he's hit thirty
Speaker 1: years old, like he is getting double teamed every single week.
Speaker 1: Big Ben is also getting up there in age and
Speaker 1: he has missed Antonio Brown, which seems like a lot
Speaker 1: this season. But on the surface, for Antonio Brown, seventy
Speaker 1: nine point four receiving yards per game, that's the lowest
Speaker 1: mark since two thousand and twelve, when he had seven
Speaker 1: eighty seven yards and five touchdowns. A sixty point four
Speaker 1: percent catch rate we mentioned he's being double teamed, hasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily been on the same page as Big Ben. Sixty
Speaker 1: four percent catch rate this year his lowest since twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: I think we're starting to see a change of the
Speaker 1: guard here. And there's there's no arguing the talent of
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster, who plays in the slot, in the
Speaker 1: way that the NFL is trending right now with slot
Speaker 1: receivers getting more production, both just for a real life
Speaker 1: perspective and fantasy perspective, it's bold. If I were ranking
Speaker 1: like the wide receiver position right now for next year,
Speaker 1: I would rank Juju smith Schuster head of Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: one more wide receiver. I have to be crazy, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's crazy. I just thinking like Antonio Brown is
Speaker 1: getting a point when he started sound reliant like third,
Speaker 1: he has seven more touchdowns, he only has twenty more
Speaker 1: fantasy points, Greig, isn't it crazy? I'll I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you what in like the draft next year, I want
Speaker 1: to like that five or six bag and that's really
Speaker 1: a top five running back because you get one of
Speaker 1: those last word coorse running backs, awesome winters. You're gonna
Speaker 1: get one of these wide us because everyone I know,
Speaker 1: we haven't even mentioned Keenan Allen forgetting he's I don't
Speaker 1: even even know if he's next because mentioned Michael Thomas either.
Speaker 1: But Michael Thomas, I'm on the theory, Greg Drew Brees
Speaker 1: retiring theory, Drew Brees retiring theory. And then and then
Speaker 1: what do we do with Michael Thomas with Bridgewater as
Speaker 1: the quarterback? Taysom Hill, that's your starting quarterback next year.
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas phenomenal start, similar to Adam Pheland in the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks, hasn't necessarily been there. He's not
Speaker 1: winning people games. Break that's the debate. We'll have four
Speaker 1: the next year and we're excited to break it down
Speaker 1: next summer with you, Corey park In, Jim Day, Chris Vger,
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