Speaker 1: Hello everybody. Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: Ryan Wormley, joined on this Thursday morning ahead of Week
Speaker 1: fifteen by Andrew Rickson and Pat Fitz Morris Bella's it
Speaker 1: is the Fantasy playoffs for most teams. At least we
Speaker 1: are here. We have made it. We were talking a
Speaker 1: little bit on Tuesday ericson kind of the number of
Speaker 1: teams that we are even still alive for fits, how
Speaker 1: did you do this year in terms of making the playoffs?
Speaker 2: Pretty good in Redraft, much better than in Dynasty. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I've got a number of teams still alive. I don't
Speaker 2: know if I'm the prohibitive favorite in any of those,
Speaker 2: but I'm also not dead money in any of them either,
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be fun. And you know, I know
Speaker 2: in a couple of my home leagues, I am playing
Speaker 2: the same very good friend in two of them back
Speaker 2: to back. So I was just telling him that, you know,
Speaker 2: we might not be friends after this week, depending on
Speaker 2: how things shake out. But yeah, man, this is what
Speaker 2: we play for. We are here, and I'm excited about it.
Speaker 1: I think I am the same. We didn't talk about
Speaker 1: the distinction between Dynasty and redraft. I think I have
Speaker 1: performed better in redraft this year, all the teams that
Speaker 1: I have a bye, all the teams that like, the
Speaker 1: the higher percentage teams that I made the playoffs. It
Speaker 1: was it was a redraft, not dynasty. And I don't
Speaker 1: know what to attribute that to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why did it? Why do you think it was?
Speaker 2: What did you get right this year with your redraft teams?
Speaker 1: I didn't get right a lot of the top We
Speaker 1: were actually just talking a bit about how ericson Hejumar.
Speaker 1: Chase is number one player in the rankings this year,
Speaker 1: and so I kind of pulled up my rankings to
Speaker 1: remind myself where my draft rankings look like, and they
Speaker 1: looked really bad.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I was talking into Brest Hall number one, which hasn't
Speaker 1: worked out. I had chased down at seven, which I
Speaker 1: don't even remember putting them there. But I really obviously
Speaker 1: don't feel good about that one. I think we're at.
Speaker 1: What I did very well on this year in redraft
Speaker 1: is a lot of those mid round picks and the
Speaker 1: later round picks. I think early I didn't really distinguish myself,
Speaker 1: but I hate on a lot of these like I
Speaker 1: had Chase Brown a lot of places that has been
Speaker 1: super helpful. The one early pick I did very well
Speaker 1: on is I got Derrick Henry literally everywhere I was
Speaker 1: able to get him in the second round. He was
Speaker 1: just my pick of choice, which obviously was very helpful
Speaker 1: as well. Are there any you know players that stand
Speaker 1: out for you, fits that did a good job. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, looking back on it, it's funny because I
Speaker 2: went sort of with a hero RB approach, and in
Speaker 2: a couple instances, the hero RB was Isaiah Piccheco, which
Speaker 2: was the wrong hero to pick as injury luck would
Speaker 2: have it. And you know, I was pretty robust with
Speaker 2: wide receivers, and like it was a minefield as far
Speaker 2: as wide receiver injury. So like I had Chris Olavea
Speaker 2: and a lot of teams obviously that didn't work out
Speaker 2: with injuries. Mike Evans was a frequently drafted guy. He
Speaker 2: missed a lot of playing time. Maybe the reason why
Speaker 2: I'm still punching with a lot of teams. For the
Speaker 2: first time in like a decade, I got tight end right,
Speaker 2: Like I was drafting either George Kittle or Brock Bauers
Speaker 2: this year. Those were my two tight end targets. So
Speaker 2: other than like one Mark Andrews team. Those were my
Speaker 2: tight end on pretty much every redraft team, and you
Speaker 2: know that one wound up being the right code at
Speaker 2: tight end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really wanted to make sure I was getting
Speaker 1: one of those top seven tight ends on draft Day.
Speaker 1: And as long as I was doing that and that
Speaker 1: one of those seven wasn't Kyle Pitts or I guess
Speaker 1: Sam la Porta, who I never got, then then that
Speaker 1: was largely working. I like McBride was the one for
Speaker 1: me where I got a lot, and even if he's
Speaker 1: not getting touchdowns, obviously that's been a successful one. What
Speaker 1: about you, ericson who's kind of carried your teams this year?
Speaker 3: Well, the team that I care about the most they
Speaker 3: could talk about on one of these earlier shows is
Speaker 3: Pooka Nakua. It's funny because I remember reading the ECR
Speaker 3: article that said that Poopenkaku was going to be like
Speaker 3: the biggest bus this year, and after Week one you're.
Speaker 4: Like, sick, we were right, like he was horrible.
Speaker 3: But and it's funny because a lot of what we
Speaker 3: remember is all about the anchor biases from the beginning
Speaker 3: of the season, right it's the guys that were bad
Speaker 3: to start again.
Speaker 4: Mark Andrews.
Speaker 3: People still think he's a bust, but even though he's
Speaker 3: been all like a touchdown streak, he's actually kind of
Speaker 3: been back to where we kind of expected him to be.
Speaker 3: Even though when we think back at Andrew's like, oh,
Speaker 3: huge bus Mark Andrews this season, but when you look
Speaker 3: at the final stats, you're like, oh, actually, like well,
Speaker 3: because he finally started catching touchdowns, It's like, oh, he
Speaker 3: actually did have a recently good year for the Titan position.
Speaker 3: I think kind of the similar thing with pokin Akua.
Speaker 3: I mean, dude to points per game. I don't know
Speaker 3: where he is, but he's got to be in the
Speaker 3: top five, top three. I know that this week he's
Speaker 3: like inside the top three wide receivers because and that
Speaker 3: guy's healthy, Like he is just unstoppable. So something to
Speaker 3: kind of keep in mind as we when we kind
Speaker 3: of do the season review reflections after the postseason ends, Like, yes,
Speaker 3: it's important how you start and who you draft, but
Speaker 3: ultimately how you win is how you finish. So I
Speaker 3: think that's something really important to look on and I
Speaker 3: know that again, I feel like the show was very
Speaker 3: Chase Brown pro like from fits to myself, like I
Speaker 3: love to Chase Brown, and I think we got a
Speaker 3: lot of people have him because of us. So I
Speaker 3: think that was one of our definitely one of our
Speaker 3: biggest hits of this season. Definitely a player that I'm
Speaker 3: leaning on a lot in a couple of places.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to that point, Like I I think Rashie Rice
Speaker 1: in a lot of places that was a correct draft decision.
Speaker 1: And then just doesn't Chris right.
Speaker 3: Like I was like, oh, Chris Gonlin like gonna be
Speaker 3: a smash, and he was a smash until he got hurt.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I'm looking, I'm looking now at like what
Speaker 1: I had in the top twelve, and it's like, cause
Speaker 1: I said, I didn't really do well with the early
Speaker 1: round picks, I'm not sure how I could have. You know,
Speaker 1: Breese Hall obviously disappointing, Ceedee Lamb quarterback got her b.
Speaker 1: Jon Robinson good, you know, not the kind of next
Speaker 1: level I expected, but good. Christian McCaffery, we know what
Speaker 1: happened there. Justin Jefferson just had this six week stretch
Speaker 1: of slumping. Tyreek Hill obviously all the two of stuff
Speaker 1: has hurt him. Chase Good, I'm ros Saint Brown good,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor disappointing, Garrett Wilson disappointing. AJ Brown Apparently he
Speaker 1: and Jalen Hurts hate each other now. I mean like
Speaker 1: there were there were a lot of minefields to dodge
Speaker 1: in the first round of drafts this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we I mean, we obsessed so much over the
Speaker 2: first round of drafts, like in August and July. But
Speaker 2: really it's what you do after. I mean, like the
Speaker 2: one the one league this year where I drafted Saquon Barkley,
Speaker 2: I managed to miss the playoffs. I have a partner
Speaker 2: in that league. Like every everything else we did in
Speaker 2: our draft, like just blew up in our faces, rolling
Speaker 2: with Caleb Williams as our starting quarterback right out of
Speaker 2: the gate. So yeah, I mean, it's just it's funny
Speaker 2: how that happens, and we do obsess a lot over
Speaker 2: the first round, but really it's everything you do after
Speaker 2: that matters so much more.
Speaker 1: I was painfully low on both Chase and Saquon, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna really really come back to bite me, I expect.
Speaker 1: All Right, this is our Thursday start Sitch Show. I'll
Speaker 1: just a quick reminder for everybody as we get into
Speaker 1: the Fantasy playoffs. We are still doing rankings and everything
Speaker 1: all season long up till the end, so all of
Speaker 1: our weekly consensus rankings and tiers can be found at
Speaker 1: fantasypros dot com slash rankings. All right, guys, let's dive
Speaker 1: into the waiver wire ads. Guys that we picked up
Speaker 1: earlier in the week, are we starting or sitting them
Speaker 1: in Week fifteen? Fits? I'll start with you. Sincere McCormick,
Speaker 1: are we starting him in Week fifteen?
Speaker 2: Startable? I've got him just outside running back two range
Speaker 2: at running back twenty eight doesn't have the easiest matchup.
Speaker 2: The falc have a lot of the seventh fewest Fantasy
Speaker 2: points to running backs, but I do love McCormick's matchup
Speaker 2: if you get by week fifteen. In Week sixteen and seventeen,
Speaker 2: he gets the Jaguars and the Saints, so he could
Speaker 2: be a nice engine propelling you to fantasy championships if
Speaker 2: you get by this week. I don't know. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: intrigued by this late season audition he's getting with the Raiders,
Speaker 2: who have not really given us a lot of running
Speaker 2: back value this season, and I am vowing never again
Speaker 2: to be too low on a smaller, slower running back
Speaker 2: who didn't time well in the forty yard dash. And
Speaker 2: McCormick is another one of these guys. I faded Kyron Williams,
Speaker 2: I faded Bucky Irving. I'm not going to fade sincere McCormick,
Speaker 2: or at least try not to. So yeah, I can't
Speaker 2: wait to see what he's going to do, but I'm
Speaker 2: not all that excited about starting him this week.
Speaker 1: He's at an ECR for half GPR scoring RB twenty seven, Erickson,
Speaker 1: Is that too high, too lower? Just right for McCormick.
Speaker 4: I think that's just right right. I have him as
Speaker 4: RB twenty eight.
Speaker 3: I think you got to keep in mind though, with
Speaker 3: running backs week, I think you're only look at McCormick
Speaker 3: as like a flex play unless you're just like totally
Speaker 3: down bad at the running back, just because we have
Speaker 3: all sixteen team or all thirty two teams playing this week,
Speaker 3: and all the running backs are healthy, right, So I
Speaker 3: really think McCormick and a lot of these guys you're
Speaker 3: gonna mention here as waiver wire ads are all flex plays, right,
Speaker 3: So I think it's McCormick first, this fringy receiver do
Speaker 3: I like this receiver's upside a little bit more this week?
Speaker 4: Or do I like McCormick.
Speaker 3: Hey, I think we can lock in fifteen sixteen seventeen
Speaker 3: carries because he's getting the coach speak from Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 3: We saw this treatment last year with Zamir White, and
Speaker 3: I think the matchup against the Falcons is pretty decent
Speaker 3: and they all playing at home. So the one caveat
Speaker 3: is there's risk with McCormick. Where doesn't Riticul just tank
Speaker 3: this entire offense. It doesn't matter they're playing the Falcons, right,
Speaker 3: So that's the risk that you have to consider. I
Speaker 3: think that he's probably a floor pledge just because hey,
Speaker 3: I feel like he's gonna get a seed a moount touches.
Speaker 3: He's been efficient this year five point five yards per carry,
Speaker 3: and he's gotten done. Age's tougher defens the Falcons, like
Speaker 3: the Chiefs, like the Denver Broncos. He's been efficienting against
Speaker 3: those and obviously showed out against Tampa Bay last week.
Speaker 3: So I think he's a flex play at best, But
Speaker 3: don't jam him in over any guys that you're usually
Speaker 3: starting a week in a week out.
Speaker 1: Ericson, I'll stick with you. How about Tank Biggsby as
Speaker 1: one of these waiver wire pickups. He had eighteen carries
Speaker 1: fifty five yards and a touchdown in the win against
Speaker 1: the Titans. You know, he also had one catch for
Speaker 1: seven yards. Is Bigsby somebody that I mean? I know,
Speaker 1: the whole backfield has been a total headache this season
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. Is he somebody that you know a lot
Speaker 1: of people were picking them up this week? You're willing
Speaker 1: to start here in the first round of the Fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 3: Probably my confidence level with his backfield is not super high,
Speaker 3: right because, yes, last week it was Bigsby because it
Speaker 3: was a really close game. He was going back and forth,
Speaker 3: so they were able to kind of feed him. But
Speaker 3: what happens against the Jets. They're playing at home, they're underdogs.
Speaker 3: I kind of like the Jaguars to cover this game.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be closer than I think, So
Speaker 3: maybe I should be a little bit more optimistic about Bigsby.
Speaker 3: I think Bigsby has a pretty high ceiling because if
Speaker 3: he gets rolling, we've seen teams run over the New
Speaker 3: York Jets run defense at times to see We've also
Speaker 3: seen teams struggle against the New York Jets running game.
Speaker 3: Like the Miami Dolphins last week, they weren't able to
Speaker 3: really run the ball against the New York Jets. So yeah,
Speaker 3: it kind of goes back to he's probably flex play
Speaker 3: at best, and it's really him between some of these
Speaker 3: other receivers where you're kind of weighing the upside versus
Speaker 3: the downside case because there's a chance that he just
Speaker 3: gets out snap by Etn.
Speaker 4: You know, if Mac Jones in this offense just implodes.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of risk with some of these
Speaker 3: fringier running backs and I kind of just want to
Speaker 3: less rest on. Look, I'm gonna start running backs and
Speaker 3: starting all year long. I'm not going to risk my
Speaker 3: fantasy playoffs on Tank Bigsby when he may not even
Speaker 3: lead his team in touches when it's all sudden done
Speaker 3: playing for Jacksonville's offense. Like, I don't really think you
Speaker 3: need to play a Jaguars running back this week to
Speaker 3: win your fantasy football playoffs. So that's kind of how
Speaker 3: I'm viewing the situation. So I have him right behind
Speaker 3: McCormick RB thirty.
Speaker 1: Fits, he's RB twenty nine in ECR. What do you
Speaker 1: think about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've got him at RB thirty two,
Speaker 2: and I might be too low on him, Like I
Speaker 2: I think there's no denying that he is a better
Speaker 2: peer runner Travis Etn. And I think last I checked,
Speaker 2: Bigsby was either among the leaders or the leader in
Speaker 2: yards per contact yards after contact per carry. Like he's
Speaker 2: he's good. But Ericson framed it perfectly as far as
Speaker 2: how the game script could derail Bigsby potentially, like if
Speaker 2: the Jags fall into a hole, it is a Travis
Speaker 2: Etn game script. If the Jags are competitive against the Jets,
Speaker 2: and you know they should be, the Jets are not
Speaker 2: that great. The effort level has been pretty inconsistent if
Speaker 2: they're in a competitive game against the Jets, like Bigsby
Speaker 2: might have smash potential, but it is a wide range
Speaker 2: of outcomes for him and not like he's just not
Speaker 2: a comfortable start in Week fifteen.
Speaker 1: When we're running back Waiver wire at here Isaiah Davis
Speaker 1: for the Jets. This is, of course, if Breese Haall
Speaker 1: is out or are they playing tool on fantasypros dot
Speaker 1: Com has Breese hal At about a thirty eight percent
Speaker 1: chance to play as of right now. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: practice sports for Thursday or anything yet, so subjects to change,
Speaker 1: but you know, leaning towards not playing based on that tool. Obviously.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody was really excited about Braylon Allen with
Speaker 1: brisaw out, but he and Isaiah Davis essentially split this backfield.
Speaker 1: Allen had eleven carries for forty three yards. Davis had
Speaker 1: ten carries for forty yards and a touchdown. Davis had
Speaker 1: three catches for twenty seven yards. Braylon Allen four catches
Speaker 1: for thirty eight yards, very similar stat lines. Davis, of
Speaker 1: course got the touchdown, and he was the player that
Speaker 1: was available because Allen was largely already rostered. So fits
Speaker 1: Isaiah Davis, are you interested in starning him? If brisall
Speaker 1: is out of a yat.
Speaker 2: So this game with the running backs, it is the
Speaker 2: Spider Man meme, but they're four Spider Man. It's Braylan
Speaker 2: Allen pointing a tank big spy and Isaiah Davis pointing
Speaker 2: at Travis etn Like. It kind of depends on the
Speaker 2: game script. We've seen Davis show us pass catching chops
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks and like good matchup with
Speaker 2: the Jaguars. They have allowed the second most fantasy points
Speaker 2: to running backs, and I think they've allowed the second
Speaker 2: most receiving yards to running back, So potentially a good
Speaker 2: spot for Isaiah Davis if Breece Hall is out. So
Speaker 2: I've got him ranked running back thirty one on the
Speaker 2: assumption that Breesce doesn't play.
Speaker 1: Ericson what do you think about Isaiah Davis for really
Speaker 1: this backfield in general?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think, I mean I would probably
Speaker 3: rank the other two running backs we've talked about already
Speaker 3: ahead of a rail or excuse me, of Isaiah Davis,
Speaker 3: because I just feel better about those workloads in particular,
Speaker 3: and I feel like the Jaguars are kind of a
Speaker 3: live here in the spot.
Speaker 4: I think they will be a closer game.
Speaker 3: So I do prefer Bigsdi just because we've got a
Speaker 3: scene a bigger sample size with him versus some of
Speaker 3: these other Jets running backs, because it won't be a
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty committee if the Jaguars are establishing the
Speaker 3: run here against the Jets, and we've seen tank Bagsby
Speaker 3: obviously have big games when he's gotten a lot of carries,
Speaker 3: whereas look, if Davis doesn't score a touchdowns, then we're
Speaker 3: just starting railing now and then like nothing changed, right
Speaker 3: because he said you said the usage was basically fifty
Speaker 3: to fifty, Braylon Awen still started the game. So I
Speaker 3: usually you can start running backs even in time shares
Speaker 3: in positive matchups. But going back to the fact that
Speaker 3: you have every other running back that's healthy this week,
Speaker 3: you have all thirty two teams, So there's a reason
Speaker 3: why these guys are outside the top, are in that
Speaker 3: thirty range because we don't need to push them up
Speaker 3: the rankings this week because we have everyone access to everybody.
Speaker 3: The only running back that I'm looking at that's kind
Speaker 3: of been basically been a starter every single week that
Speaker 3: I might push out for one of these players we're
Speaker 3: talking about would be someone like Najie Harris because he's
Speaker 3: got a brutal matchup against the Eagles. I don't like that,
Speaker 3: and he also splits carries with Jalen Warren. So that's
Speaker 3: kind of where I'm looking at potential starters to sit
Speaker 3: for some of these waiver wire guys. But besides that,
Speaker 3: I really think it's your starting the same guys you've
Speaker 3: been starting week in and week out, who have been
Speaker 3: the starters in their prospective backfield, So that's kind of
Speaker 3: in the situation. Again, it's a flex play for me,
Speaker 3: but it's a fifty fifty committe. If he doesn't score,
Speaker 3: then Allen's probably going to do score and thread.
Speaker 1: This is a real stretch in the rankings of a headache.
Speaker 1: I mean, from RB twenty seven to RB thirty two
Speaker 1: is Sincere McCormick, Braylan, Allen, Tank Bigsby, Jalen Warren, Isaiah Davis, Travis,
Speaker 1: etn And so it's basically all the back as we
Speaker 1: talked about plus Jalen Warren in there. Just a very
Speaker 1: difficult stretch to make any kind of decision. I would say,
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Speaker 1: Slash promos fits who are you planting Your Flag? On
Speaker 1: this week as.
Speaker 2: An old man. Let me cap up for another old man,
Speaker 2: Adam Thelen, who has had twenty one targets over his
Speaker 2: last two games. He's caught seventeen of them for two
Speaker 2: hundred and one yards in a touchdown. Adam Thelen is
Speaker 2: just Bryce Young's favorite security blanket, and he was last
Speaker 2: year too when he had one hundred and three catches.
Speaker 2: Feeling is looking healthy and frisky. I think thelin is
Speaker 2: in for another good game against the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Erickson, what do you think about Feeling.
Speaker 3: I mean, he showed out last week in a really
Speaker 3: tough matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles, but he's clearly like
Speaker 3: the established alpha in the Carolina Panthers passing game. He
Speaker 3: has a better matchup this week going against Dallas, playing
Speaker 3: at home, and we're kind of just seeing what we
Speaker 3: saw at the beginning of last year when Adam Field
Speaker 3: was basically a fringe fantasy wide receiver one again, it
Speaker 3: was predictable that the wheels were going to fall off eventually,
Speaker 3: But because he missed so much time to start the year,
Speaker 3: he's fresh right, so I expect him to continue to
Speaker 3: be productive here. And it seems so bizarre to think, Hey,
Speaker 3: Fantasy football championships are here, and you're kind of comfortably
Speaker 3: starting Adam Feelin, especially because Bryce dugg is playing so
Speaker 3: much better in a full PPR setting. Yeah, and I
Speaker 3: think that Bryce Young two is also overdue for some
Speaker 3: touchdown regression. I've something I've noticed watching him over the
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks is they're throwing the ball a
Speaker 3: ton in the red zone, but it just hasn't really
Speaker 3: converted into touchdowns quite. He's top five in terms of
Speaker 3: red zone pass attempts I believe, only has three passing touchdowns.
Speaker 3: If you look at everyone else inside the top five
Speaker 3: in terms of red zone passing attempts for the last
Speaker 3: four weeks, all those other quarters around eight or more touchdowns.
Speaker 3: So some positive touchdown regression in a game where the
Speaker 3: Panthers are favored, as we talked about earlier this week,
Speaker 3: for the first time ever in the Bryce Young era,
Speaker 3: we're expecting good things from the Panthers for the first
Speaker 3: time ever. So yes, thelan is a very strong start
Speaker 3: this week.
Speaker 1: He's wide receiver thirty three in ECR for the record.
Speaker 1: Ericson who's your flag plant this week?
Speaker 3: H we don't know what's going on with AJB wide
Speaker 3: receiver one season, So I'm pivoting to betj wide receiver
Speaker 3: one season.
Speaker 4: Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 3: Look, this guy has been super productive even with Mac
Speaker 3: Jones as his quarterback. Last three games, twenty nine percent
Speaker 3: target share, forty four percent air yards share, averaging over
Speaker 3: eighty one receiving yards per game. I don't really care
Speaker 3: whether Sauce Gardner plays in this matchup against the Jets.
Speaker 3: He's been underwhelming this year. He's still a little bit
Speaker 3: banged up. And Brian Thomas Junior, you look at I
Speaker 3: think you can take advantage of the Jets. What have
Speaker 3: they been weakest against this year is deep passes fifth
Speaker 3: most deepazzes faced this season. Last week, Brian Thomas Junior
Speaker 3: was the only receiver on the Jaguars that saw more
Speaker 3: than fifteen air yards. Whenever Mac Jones decides to throw
Speaker 3: the ball a little bit downfield, it's going to Brian
Speaker 3: Thomas Junior. So Mac Jones is mostly a dump off quarterback.
Speaker 3: That's kind of what he's been with Jacksonville so far
Speaker 3: the season. But the time when he has time to throw,
Speaker 3: it's gonna be to Brian Thomas Junior. And he's made
Speaker 3: so many plays all year long, despite the up and
Speaker 3: down quarterback play. I think he can have a big
Speaker 3: game here against the New York Jets.
Speaker 4: Again.
Speaker 3: If the Jaguars come away with an upset, it's gonna
Speaker 3: because Tank Biggs be and Brian Thomas Junior, probably the
Speaker 3: two best offensive players that Jacksonville's had all season long,
Speaker 3: both step up and have big games. And I'm really
Speaker 3: calm that Brian Thomas Junior is going to continue that.
Speaker 1: It's where do you rank Thomas this year or this week?
Speaker 2: I think I have got him at wide receiver twenty five.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to check on that real quickly, but
Speaker 2: let's see, yes, wide receiver twenty five. And Ericson said
Speaker 2: it pretty well like mac Jones has been unable to
Speaker 2: kneecap the fantasy value of Brian Thomas Junior, which speaks
Speaker 2: to the talent level of Brian Thomas Junior and what
Speaker 2: a good player he is. So yeah, I feel pretty
Speaker 2: good about playing him this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Top, where do you think I'm just this is
Speaker 1: kind of looking ahead, obviously not for this week, but Ericson,
Speaker 1: where do you think you're gonna be ranking Thomas for
Speaker 1: next year's drafts.
Speaker 3: Probably ahead of Marvin Harrison Junior. I think I can
Speaker 3: probably feel pretty good about that. Probably, man, where would
Speaker 3: I let me see? Like doing get off the cuff
Speaker 3: is so hard because I'm going to.
Speaker 1: Throw, I'm putting you on the spot. But I think
Speaker 1: he's a really interesting player to think about this conversation
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 3: I think, I mean top twenty four is that is
Speaker 3: that too light? Not aggressive enough? Again, it's it's just
Speaker 3: like simply put rookie receiver breaks out year one, you
Speaker 3: gotta be draft that guy next year, right, Like that's
Speaker 3: the simple process that works. More often not the guy
Speaker 3: hits his rookie year as a rookie, especially at the
Speaker 3: wide receiver position, you want exposure to him the following season.
Speaker 3: So top twenty four I think should be a lock.
Speaker 3: I may not be high enough with that particular ranking
Speaker 3: because I haven't gone through all this all the players.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that I'm forgetting somebody to put into that
Speaker 3: top twenty forward, but definitely someone that I've been very
Speaker 3: pleased with and had the quarterback play had anything gone
Speaker 3: a little bit more right in Jacksonville, he's probably having
Speaker 3: an even better season. I mean, his yards perrout run
Speaker 3: is off the charts, and the fact that he's been
Speaker 3: able to do it with a dysfunctional offense overall. Trevor
Speaker 3: Lawrence banged up all season long. Christian Kirkskin not going
Speaker 3: to be part of this offense moving forward. I mean
Speaker 3: he's the alpha moving forward. So yeah, top twenty four
Speaker 3: and probably someone that I'm probably go into rank. I'm
Speaker 3: gona convince myself to probab rank higher when I actually
Speaker 3: do my twenty twenty five rankings.
Speaker 1: Not having sat down and written out players' names and
Speaker 1: seeing who actually needs to be ahead of him. Yet,
Speaker 1: my initial thought when I asked the question was kind
Speaker 1: of back end of the top twenty, so a little
Speaker 1: higher than top twenty four was my first thought. It'll
Speaker 1: depend on how things go of this offseason in Jacksonville
Speaker 1: course fits. What do you think about that question? Where's
Speaker 1: your kind of your gut reaction? Early thoughts on ranking
Speaker 1: Thomas next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, mid range wide receiver two in that sort of
Speaker 2: wide receiver sixteen to wide receiver twenty one range, and
Speaker 2: like I might have him ranked ahead of Malik Neighbors
Speaker 2: two next year. Like it hasn't really happened for Malik
Speaker 2: Neighbors since he had the concussion. And I know the
Speaker 2: quarterback situation has been gross, but is there a quarterback
Speaker 2: who's going to come in and dramatically upgrade the situation
Speaker 2: for the pass catchers on the Giants. I don't like
Speaker 2: this rookie quarterback class at all, Like none of these
Speaker 2: guys are saviors. And you know, maybe you bring in
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold and I feel better about Malik Neighbors, but
Speaker 2: otherwise I may very well. He Berni and Thomas rank
Speaker 2: the highest of the rookies from the class of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four.
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, just diving to the player debates here,
Speaker 1: starting off with a couple of names that most people
Speaker 1: are starting, but just in case you had to put
Speaker 1: them against each other, we go Dowdell or Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: ericson what do you think about that one?
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, both guys need to be in your lineup.
Speaker 3: I prefer Aaron Jones just because I prefer the infrastructure
Speaker 3: around the Minnesota Vikings playing at home against the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 3: Their run defense has been absolutely atrocious, so where dowd
Speaker 3: again has also a really great matchup. He's Aills playing
Speaker 3: on the road. And if I'm weighing, hey, which offense
Speaker 3: is just likely to potentially bottom out, it would be
Speaker 3: Dallas on a short week playing on the East Coast
Speaker 3: versus the Vikings playing at home. Aaron Jones has been healthy,
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm just gonna take Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: I just to kind of set the stage. I totally
Speaker 1: agree with you that these are an example of two
Speaker 1: names that you want to be starting. I do think
Speaker 1: when we've talked about how there really haven't been many,
Speaker 1: you know, knock on wood injuries to the running back
Speaker 1: position this year, and now there's no more buys. You've
Speaker 1: finally got through the ridiculous six weeks by six team
Speaker 1: buy and we fourteen. So there are now I think
Speaker 1: gonna be tough decisions with names that you want to
Speaker 1: be starting multiple guys at a position like running back,
Speaker 1: especially if you have somebody like Rico Dabell that you
Speaker 1: probably drafted, you know, several rounds later in your drafts,
Speaker 1: and he's now looking like a really startable guy. So
Speaker 1: that's all I wanted to include a name like this
Speaker 1: just for the record. I obviously recognize that these are
Speaker 1: both names that in a vacuum, you know, we're ranking
Speaker 1: highly and want to be starting. What do you think
Speaker 1: fits Jones are doubt all this week?
Speaker 2: I like Rico considerably more. Actually, he's had two straight
Speaker 2: hundred yard rushing games. He's had no fewer than eighteen
Speaker 2: carries in any of his last three games. He's also
Speaker 2: had seven receptions in his last three games. The Cowboys
Speaker 2: have just they are basing their offense on Rico now
Speaker 2: like they have fully committed to him. And you know,
Speaker 2: Rico gets this great matchup against the Panthers, who ranked
Speaker 2: dead last in DVOA against the run and have given
Speaker 2: up more fantasy points, rushing yards, and rushing touchdowns to
Speaker 2: running backs than any other team. It's a good matchup
Speaker 2: for Aaron Jones two. The Bears run defense ranks thirtieth
Speaker 2: and DVOA. But last week was the first time in
Speaker 2: a month that Aaron Jones hasn't fumbled in a game,
Speaker 2: and we saw him, like we saw the fumbling issues
Speaker 2: crop up with the Cardinals two weeks ago, where he
Speaker 2: fumbled twice and wound up with five carries in that game. Like,
Speaker 2: that's my concern that Aaron Jones coughs up another fumble
Speaker 2: and gets thrown into fumble jail and we don't see
Speaker 2: him get double digit carries like that, that's the risk
Speaker 2: with him. He could absolutely smash, but so could Rico.
Speaker 2: And I'm not worried about Rico getting benched for fumbling problems.
Speaker 1: Where do you actually have these guys' ranks.
Speaker 2: Fits eleventh for Rico, twentieth for Aaron Jones, But like
Speaker 2: that sounds like a big gap. But the like there's
Speaker 2: a big tier in RB two of guys who don't,
Speaker 2: I don't see much of a difference between.
Speaker 1: Where do you have them ranked? Erekson, But by the way,
Speaker 1: a cr Rico is RB sixteen, Aaron Jones RB eighteen.
Speaker 3: I have Aaron Jones at RB fourteen and I have
Speaker 3: Rico at RB seventeen. And I mean we also seen
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones play the Bears already this season on the road.
Speaker 3: He had twenty five touches for over one hundred and
Speaker 3: thirty yards in a touchdown. So like, I just I
Speaker 3: just don't want to overthink it with like Aaron Jones,
Speaker 3: Like he's playing such a bad Bears defense at home
Speaker 3: and the Vikings are going to score what they gotta
Speaker 3: score thirty points, and I just I think that he's
Speaker 3: just safer.
Speaker 1: So let's look at another pair of running backs here, fits,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you this one. Rimandre Stevenson or Naji Harris.
Speaker 1: Do you like better this week?
Speaker 2: So I can already tell I like Nase more than
Speaker 2: ericson Dawes, I would start Nause here. I've got them
Speaker 2: ranked back to back, but I've got Nase RB twenty
Speaker 2: four and Stevenson RB twenty five. Look I know it's
Speaker 2: not an easy matchup for naj against the Eagles, but
Speaker 2: the Steelers are going to run the ball. They're going
Speaker 2: to keep running the ball. That's just how they roll,
Speaker 2: and especially with George Pickens out, they really have no
Speaker 2: choice but to run the offense through the running backs.
Speaker 2: And that's probably going to mean a few receptions for
Speaker 2: him too. I know he shares work, but yet Nase
Speaker 2: still gets like at least sixteen carries a game week
Speaker 2: in and week out. So you know, with this collectively
Speaker 2: poor group of pass catchers for the Steelers without George Pickens,
Speaker 2: and as good as the Eagles pass defenses, I have
Speaker 2: no doubt about the volume here with Nause and I'm
Speaker 2: just going to follow the volume Stevenson over his last
Speaker 2: seven games, he's averaging three point one yards per carry.
Speaker 2: He's had fewer than twenty rushing yards in three of
Speaker 2: those seven games. The decent games he's had during that
Speaker 2: stretch where it was just like seventy three or seventy
Speaker 2: four yards all against really bad run defenses, the Bears
Speaker 2: in Week ten, the Rams in Week eleven, the Colts
Speaker 2: in Week fourteen, and Romondre's gone four straight games without
Speaker 2: a touchdown. So I'm just not feeling good about the
Speaker 2: trajectory Remandre is on, whereas I know at least is
Speaker 2: going to get a ton of work this week.
Speaker 1: What do you think Ericson? He did kind of allude
Speaker 1: to nausee maybe being a sit given the matchup this week?
Speaker 1: Is that how you feel in this particular head to.
Speaker 3: D Yeah, I mean I don't think it's crazy to
Speaker 3: think that the Patriots could score more points than the
Speaker 3: Steelers this week?
Speaker 4: Is that?
Speaker 3: I mean Vegas has it that way. Patriots have a
Speaker 3: higher implied team total than the Steelers do because the
Speaker 3: Steelers are playing in a tougher matchup against Pittsburgh Sears.
Speaker 3: We just saw the Cardinals get destroyed by Zach Sharbinett
Speaker 3: like and we've seen Remandre. Yes, he's one of the
Speaker 3: more boomery bust types of running backs. Have talked about how,
Speaker 3: especially in the forecast, how he's kind of like the
Speaker 3: Amari Cooper of running backs where he has games or
Speaker 3: he just totally does nothing like outside the top forty
Speaker 3: and tanks you. But he also has games where he
Speaker 3: finishes the top ten running back overall. Because when he
Speaker 3: does end up scoring those touchdowns which have eluded him
Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks. Well, he smashes I mean
Speaker 3: four of his or three of his last four games,
Speaker 3: he has eighteen or more carries, So I think that
Speaker 3: I just want to I just saw what Zach Sharbay
Speaker 3: did to this Cardinals defense. You'll the Patriots notice that
Speaker 3: too and think, hey, let's feed Ramandre. I think he
Speaker 3: has a higher ceiling than Naji Harris does in a
Speaker 3: game where do we I mean the higher total game
Speaker 3: is Cardinals Patriots, not Eagles and Steelers. So if we're
Speaker 3: chasing points here, who has more touchdown upside? Just from
Speaker 3: a game environment perspective, I think it is Remonded And
Speaker 3: I also do think it's close. Like I have these
Speaker 3: guys ranked back to back, but if I had to
Speaker 3: put one in, I'm going to take the guy that
Speaker 3: I think is always the best running back on his
Speaker 3: own team, which is Ramondre Stevenson, Whereas Jalen Warren is
Speaker 3: a lot better over the last couple weeks since he's
Speaker 3: been healthy. So if the Steelers are playing from behind,
Speaker 3: is it nausey as much in the game or is
Speaker 3: it more Jalen Warren? So that would be my concern
Speaker 3: and potential pushback on Nase's seeing this insane workload, whereas
Speaker 3: I still like to match up little bit more for
Speaker 3: Remandre and I still expect him to be featured more
Speaker 3: than Antonio.
Speaker 1: Gibson got a couple of wide receiver debates here. How
Speaker 1: about fits Courtland Sutton or Garrett Wilson, Which is not
Speaker 1: a debate I expected to ask in August if you
Speaker 1: told me I would be putting these two against each other.
Speaker 1: But their ranks pretty closely together, and it feels like
Speaker 1: a tough one. So Sutton or Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would not have guessed in August that I
Speaker 2: would be answering Courtland Sutton here over Garrett Wilson. But
Speaker 2: here we are, with Courtland Sutton the wide receiver five
Speaker 2: and a half point PPR Fantasy points per game since
Speaker 2: Week eight, sixteen and a half half point PPR fantasy
Speaker 2: points per game since then. Over that six game stretch,
Speaker 2: he's averaging seven catches ninety four point eight yards per game.
Speaker 2: Sutton's just been fantastic over the last month and a half,
Speaker 2: and he is the undisputed alpha receiver for the Broncos,
Speaker 2: whereas the Jets kind of have co alphas with Garrett
Speaker 2: Wilson and DeVante Adams. I'm not gonna bad mouth Garrett
Speaker 2: Wilson at all. I think he's terrific, but I just
Speaker 2: don't find the Jets offense especially trustworthy right now.
Speaker 1: What do you think about this?
Speaker 3: On ericson, Yeah, it's got to be Courtland Sutton just
Speaker 3: because he's the number one, right, It's him and then
Speaker 3: a bunch of Jabroni's for the Denver Broncos, Whereas the Jets,
Speaker 3: like Fits alluded to, they have co alphas. So if
Speaker 3: Wilson doesn't score the touchdown and it's Gavante Adams scores touchdown,
Speaker 3: then you're left holding the bag being made. Another six
Speaker 3: or sixty game for Garrett Wilson on twelve targets, great,
Speaker 3: feel don't feel great about that, whereas slattin, I mean
Speaker 3: if you just look at his I mean we usually
Speaker 3: don't recommend just like looking at the box score. But
Speaker 3: ever since that game against the Saints where he had
Speaker 3: the zero targets, dude has just been on an absolute
Speaker 3: tear and he's playing the Colts. The Colts give up
Speaker 3: four hundred yards offense to the Patriots, so I'm expecting
Speaker 3: that this Bronco's office is going to be very productive,
Speaker 3: and you know that's going to feature Courtland Sutton because
Speaker 3: that's the again besides bow Nicks, Like, who else are
Speaker 3: you trusting from Denver to do anything like individually? Because
Speaker 3: we have no idea what this backfield's going to look like,
Speaker 3: as we'll get into a little bit later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got a question on the backfield coming up.
Speaker 1: Where do you have these guys or is it close
Speaker 1: or do you have them actually a sizeable gap between
Speaker 1: Sutton and Wilson.
Speaker 3: I know ECR is a pretty sizable gap. I'm a
Speaker 3: little bit more closer with them. I've Sutten at fourteen,
Speaker 3: Garrett Wilson at fifteen. I mean he's playing it. I
Speaker 3: mean Wilson's playing the Jaguars right, I mean you could
Speaker 3: see him. This could be a ceiling game for him,
Speaker 3: just a matter of well do you think he catches
Speaker 3: the touchdown? When more oft than not, it's usually Devonte
Speaker 3: that catches the touchdown or you know, you have to
Speaker 3: remember that Jaguars really bad against tight end. So is
Speaker 3: it Tyler Conklin that randomly finds the end zone? So
Speaker 3: and it's also Ann Rodgers, right, anytime you feel safe
Speaker 3: about playing Anne Rogers, he somehow is very underwhelming, which
Speaker 3: I don't think is a hot take by any means.
Speaker 3: And whereas bo Nicks, he's been steady, he's been more consistent,
Speaker 3: and the same thing with portland Ston just been like
Speaker 3: the model of consistency.
Speaker 1: It looks like on your rankings fits that you have
Speaker 1: a wider get you have you have both Sutton higher
Speaker 1: than Ericson and Wilson lower than erics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wide receiver eleven for Sutton, wide receiver twenty one
Speaker 2: for Wilson.
Speaker 1: Let's go to another debate here amongst the wide receivers,
Speaker 1: DK metcalf or Zay Flowers Ericson, what do you think
Speaker 1: about that one?
Speaker 3: Say Flowers? For me, he's playing the Giants. They're one
Speaker 3: of the worst evinses overall. They lost exter Lawrence. They're
Speaker 3: really bad against the deep ball. So the thing with Mechva,
Speaker 3: I just don't know how healthy mecalf is. His production
Speaker 3: is basically dipped in four straight weeks since their bye week.
Speaker 3: I don't think that he's totally dust at this point,
Speaker 3: Like I think that his production is going to come eventually,
Speaker 3: but I'm not loving the matchup against green Bay Necessarily,
Speaker 3: the Seahawks are leaning more on their defense and running
Speaker 3: the ball more effectively, so I'm not so sure we're
Speaker 3: seeing as much of Okay, we're gonna just let Gino
Speaker 3: cookie and he's gonna throw the ball all over the
Speaker 3: green Bay Packers, Like, I don't think that's their formula
Speaker 3: for success anymore. Whereas I'll take my chances hoping that
Speaker 3: it is a Flowers that converts a big game against
Speaker 3: the matchup that he can exploit. And if I'm wrong
Speaker 3: and it just ends up being Dereck Henry with eight touchdowns,
Speaker 3: so be it. I don't think that I'm going to
Speaker 3: get upset about my process starting the number one wide
Speaker 3: receiver against the Giants who have been terrible against I mean,
Speaker 3: say Flowers could get it done on one play, like
Speaker 3: he got just one deep pass for ADRs for a
Speaker 3: touchdown and you're feeling great about it. Whereas Metcalf, he's
Speaker 3: been underwhelming the last month and I feel like I've
Speaker 3: been ranking him higher than ECR and been disappointed every
Speaker 3: single week. So I've kind of moved him down a
Speaker 3: little bit firmly behind Jsen because I don't believe that
Speaker 3: he is like one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 1: Zay hasn't been that involved in the last month. I
Speaker 1: mean four catches, two catches five just three catches. He
Speaker 1: has one touchdown in that span. He has one game
Speaker 1: in double digits, scoring in half PPR, and that game
Speaker 1: was his ten point nine points. He hasn't had like
Speaker 1: a big blow up in a while. And I am
Speaker 1: more worried than you Erickson. That not worried, but like,
Speaker 1: I think the Ravens are just gonna pound Henry in
Speaker 1: this game and not need to throw like more than
Speaker 1: eighteen times. It's kind of my expectation. So I'm pretty
Speaker 1: worried about the usage for Day. Not said that there's
Speaker 1: not a reason to be slightly concerned about what we've
Speaker 1: seen from Metcalf either. That's kind of why I wanted
Speaker 1: to pit these guys against each other. What do you think, fits,
Speaker 1: Do you also agree that you know it's just Flowers
Speaker 1: facing the Giants? Done over think it? Or do you
Speaker 1: prefer Metcalf?
Speaker 2: No, you expressed my concerns about Flowers pretty well worm
Speaker 2: and I still have him ranked as a low end
Speaker 2: wide receiver to wide receiver twenty three and it's nothing
Speaker 2: against Zay, but his target and reception volume has tapered
Speaker 2: off lately and he has not had double digit targets
Speaker 2: in a game or more than five catches in a
Speaker 2: game since October. It's been a wi So you just
Speaker 2: pointed that out Worman, Yes, against the Giants, doesn't this
Speaker 2: feel like a game where maybe we don't see Lamar
Speaker 2: Jackson get to twenty five pass attempts. So whereas I
Speaker 2: think Green Bay Seattle has sneaky shootout potential, I don't
Speaker 2: fear that matchup at all with no Jay r Alexander
Speaker 2: for the Packers. In fact, I kind of like it
Speaker 2: because I have a feeling that we're going to see
Speaker 2: Dk Metcalf run a good number of his routes against
Speaker 2: Eric Stokes, and that is a that is a plus matchup.
Speaker 2: And I know, like I'm already seeing a lot of
Speaker 2: discord questions about whether people should start Dk Metcalf this
Speaker 2: week because he has had four straight games without a touchdown,
Speaker 2: four straight games with seventy or fewer receiving yards, and
Speaker 2: I realized maybe the emergence of Jackson, Smith and Jigba
Speaker 2: is diminishing DK's output a little bit. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, like Tyler Lockett has just disappeared from this offense.
Speaker 2: So I'm just going to continue to bet on dk
Speaker 2: metc Half, the guy who, over his career, has averaged
Speaker 2: nine touchdowns this season and almost eleven hundred yards. Like
Speaker 2: I still think he's one of the best twenty receivers
Speaker 2: in the game.
Speaker 1: Ericson if you had to pick which of these two
Speaker 1: receivers is more likely to score a touchdown this week
Speaker 1: because they only has four this season, two of them
Speaker 1: came in that Broncos game, and dk Metcalf only has
Speaker 1: three this season and none since Week seven, so they
Speaker 1: haven't Neither of them have been hitting paydirt.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna just go with the I think
Speaker 3: what team's gonna score more touchdowns? So give me the Ravens,
Speaker 3: give me say Flowers.
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Speaker 1: The decisions here running back ericson Gus Edwards or Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb Gus.
Speaker 3: Ed Rich for may I like the Chargers offensive outlook
Speaker 3: more than I like the Cleveland Browns, So I think
Speaker 3: you're just hoping for a touchdown with one of these guys.
Speaker 3: I think that's really the best way to get any
Speaker 3: type of production. And I think LA has a better
Speaker 3: chance of getting more points than the Browns do against
Speaker 3: the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: What do you think fits Gus Edwards and Niche by
Speaker 1: the way back to back in ECR and they are
Speaker 1: the two names that come after that kind of group
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier of McCormick, Allen Bigsby, Warren Davis, etn.
Speaker 1: The two names after them are Edwards and Chubb.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Battle of the plotters here, it's a Godzilla versus Mathra.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna take Chubb because I think he's like ten
Speaker 2: times the player that Gus Edwards is, and I know
Speaker 2: the matchup is brutal. Chiefs have a lot of the
Speaker 2: fewest fantasy points to running backs. But like, this is
Speaker 2: a Todd Bowles defense that Gus Edwards is running against,
Speaker 2: and Todd Bowles defenses are always pretty good against the run.
Speaker 2: The Buccaneers have allowed the ninth fewest rushing yards to
Speaker 2: running backs this season, and they've only given up six
Speaker 2: rushing to Chounce to running back. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: go with the better player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a Gus Zilla versus Chubra. I guess Chubbras
Speaker 1: sounds like that might be dirty. I hope it's actually not.
Speaker 1: I've not a real word.
Speaker 4: Chubb Zilla is not.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's do a wide receiver one here, Calvin Ridley
Speaker 1: or Malik Neighbors. It's what do you think about that one?
Speaker 2: Ridley sturdy your floor at least five receptions in six
Speaker 2: of his last seven games. As for Neighbors, Like, look,
Speaker 2: I know the matchup against the Ravens has appeal to
Speaker 2: a lot of people, but like, can we count on
Speaker 2: Drew Lock to take advantage of a good matchup in
Speaker 2: the passing game? A banged up Drew Lock? No?
Speaker 1: Less, it's is didn't they say it's going to be
Speaker 1: Tommy DeVito? Or did it.
Speaker 4: They did it.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sorry I missed that.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, well Tommy DeVito against the Ravens. Can
Speaker 2: Tommy DeVito take advantage?
Speaker 1: So like?
Speaker 2: Since coming back from his can cushion in Week seven,
Speaker 2: Malik Neighbors is averaging sixty one point nine receiving yards
Speaker 2: a game, nine point six yards per catch, five point
Speaker 2: nine yards per target, and he has not scored a
Speaker 2: touchdown in any of those seven games. He has tied
Speaker 2: for wide receiver thirty eight in Fantasy points per game
Speaker 2: since Week seven. I love the guy, but Neighbors is
Speaker 2: just stuck in this unhealthy offensive ecosystem. I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: with Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 1: What do you think on this one? Ericson Ridley or Neighbors?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's it's Calvin Realley for me. I
Speaker 3: mean he's someone they could both see double digit targets,
Speaker 3: but just give me targets from seventy five percent. Well,
Speaker 3: I mean, seventy five percent of will Web is still
Speaker 3: better than Tommy Depat.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Like.
Speaker 3: The guys, the guy's barely an NFL starting quarterback and
Speaker 3: as someone that watched Neighbors last week, had the under
Speaker 3: on his receiving yards and I thought it was so
Speaker 3: locked in loaded.
Speaker 4: I thought he was going to be limited.
Speaker 3: It's like seventy five and a half receiving yards had
Speaker 3: the under he had I think forty yards getting into
Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, and then somehow he willed his way
Speaker 3: Drew Locke, and I was like, oh my god, how
Speaker 3: did this bet not cash?
Speaker 4: So I was upset about that, but I don't think.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a miracle that Drew Lock got
Speaker 3: to two hundred passing hours last week. I honestly do
Speaker 3: not know how he got it done. So, yes, Malik
Speaker 3: Neighbors is, yeah, you gotta go with Kelvin.
Speaker 1: I feel like I get it. I feel like I
Speaker 1: could easily see Neighbor like the way that this secondary has,
Speaker 1: you know, performed for the Ravens all year, just like
Speaker 1: just get the ball in his hand and see if
Speaker 1: he breaks one, and you know, similar to what Jamar
Speaker 1: Chase has done a bunch of times against this Ravens secondary.
Speaker 1: I'm not totally surprised, giving the quarterback stuff and the
Speaker 1: injury concerns with Neighbors that he's ranked He's wide receiver
Speaker 1: twenty three in ECR. I was surprised that Ridley was
Speaker 1: wide receiver twenty one. I guess, just given you know,
Speaker 1: kind of what we seen from him recently, just in
Speaker 1: terms of the targets and the fact that he's going
Speaker 1: up against the Bengals, I was expecting him to be
Speaker 1: not too much higher but inside the top twenty at least.
Speaker 1: But there are only two spots apart in ECR fits
Speaker 1: really at wide receiver twenty one neighbors at wide receiver
Speaker 1: twenty three. Does that small gap seem right to you?
Speaker 2: No, I've got Ridley inside the top twenty, I've got
Speaker 2: met wide receiver sixteen, and I've got neighbors ten spots
Speaker 2: lower wide receiver twenty six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's kind of more what I would
Speaker 1: have expected. Let's look at some flex plays here, Eric
Speaker 1: sid Tyrone Tracy again in that Giants Ravens game, or
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, who has obviously coming off this huge three
Speaker 1: touchdown performance.
Speaker 3: Jordan Adison, I'm just gonna stay in the Flames guys
Speaker 3: on a heater, and he destroyed the Bears last time.
Speaker 3: He played in eight catches, one hundred and sixty to
Speaker 3: two yards and a touchdown on fourteen targets. I don't
Speaker 3: imagine the Bears will just try to stop Justin Jefferson
Speaker 3: because they know that Addison could do this to them.
Speaker 3: But even so it only gets nine targets. I mean,
Speaker 3: he's shown that he can be extremely efficient. The Minnesota
Speaker 3: Vikings offenses just is rolling right now and the Bears
Speaker 3: are going in the complete opposite direction. So Tolon Tracy, yes,
Speaker 3: the workload is great, the targets are great. This austfense
Speaker 3: could just bought him out and he could have twenty
Speaker 3: touches for thirty yards, right, So that's like the main concern.
Speaker 3: So Addison has a I want ceiling with Jordan Addison,
Speaker 3: and even yo he finishes four for forty, that could
Speaker 3: not be that different from what Tyrone Tracy does. And
Speaker 3: just a brutal matchup on paper, just against a team
Speaker 3: that is well beyond where the Giants are right right now,
Speaker 3: where do you.
Speaker 1: Have Addison ranked amongst receivers this week?
Speaker 3: I mean, he's like a tough guy to rank because
Speaker 3: he's the number two on his team, but he also
Speaker 3: he's blowing up randomly, so he's on my side, my
Speaker 3: top thirty, But I could see I could I mean,
Speaker 3: if you want to argue he should be a top
Speaker 3: twenty receiver. He had three touchdowns last week. I can't
Speaker 3: argue against you. Was just he's one of these guys where, yes,
Speaker 3: the projections are going to say one thing with him
Speaker 3: because we can only protect him for an x amount
Speaker 3: of targets. But he's also been on fire. So can
Speaker 3: he be ranked ahead of guys like jmo or Darnell Mooney.
Speaker 3: It's like yes because those guys are in similar roles
Speaker 3: and he's obviously been the hotter guy. So yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean I have a twenty nine. But if I'm wrong
Speaker 3: about that, I would not be surprised.
Speaker 1: Fitz, what do you think about this one? Tracy or Addison?
Speaker 2: I'm going with Addison too. I mean, over the last
Speaker 2: six weeks he's the wide receiver six and half points
Speaker 2: PPR fan is he scoring? And like I know, there's
Speaker 2: a wide range of outcomes for Addison, Like he was
Speaker 2: not faring so well earlier in the season. He's had
Speaker 2: five he's played eleven games. In five of them he's
Speaker 2: got forty two or fewer receiving yards. But Tracy, it's
Speaker 2: just a brutal matchup for him against the Ravens run defense,
Speaker 2: and his offensive line is completely falling apart. Obviously, the
Speaker 2: Giants have been without stud left tackle Andrew Thomas for
Speaker 2: a while. They have also been playing without tackle Jermaine
Speaker 2: Luminor I can former, I always have a hard time
Speaker 2: pronouncing his last name. And they just lost guard John
Speaker 2: Runyon to an ankle injury. So like decimated offensive line
Speaker 2: against a really tough run defense. Like I could see
Speaker 2: Ericson's outcome here taking hold for sure, twenty touches, thirty yards.
Speaker 2: He's like Tracy's had fewer than fifty rushing yards in
Speaker 2: three straight and his last two games were against the
Speaker 2: cow Boys and Saints, which are not exactly impregnable run defenses.
Speaker 1: Let's look at another flex here, Fitz, I'll start with
Speaker 1: you on this one. DeAndre Swift or guy we already
Speaker 1: talked about. Brian Thomas junior.
Speaker 2: Oh, Brian Thomas junior for sure, I mean like yeah,
Speaker 2: like he is produced even with Mac Jones last week,
Speaker 2: twelve targets, eight catches, eighty six yards. Swift's been dealing
Speaker 2: with a groin injury. He said, fewer than forty rushing
Speaker 2: yards in three straight games, and he's going up against
Speaker 2: the Minnesota run defense that ranks third in DVA and
Speaker 2: has a lot of the third fewest fantasy points to
Speaker 2: running backs.
Speaker 1: Ericson what do you think about this one? Swift or Thomas?
Speaker 1: I know you're a Thomas guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be Thomas for me.
Speaker 3: But just like pointing out, I think Swift is starting
Speaker 3: to run out of gas at this point. Again, he's
Speaker 3: another running back that we always enter the season with
Speaker 3: some type of like injury concerns, like how is he
Speaker 3: going to hold up to his workload? So again, going
Speaker 3: back to yes log these running backs have stayed healthy,
Speaker 3: but how healthy are they from an effective standpoint? He
Speaker 3: is under forty rushing yards in three straight games, right,
Speaker 3: and it's not like he hasn't seen like decent amount
Speaker 3: of volume, but the game scripts haven't gone in the
Speaker 3: way the Chicago Bears basically are giving the opposing team
Speaker 3: twenty points in the first half, so then they can't
Speaker 3: even really establish any type.
Speaker 4: Of run game.
Speaker 3: So again, against Minnesota a couple weeks back, he had
Speaker 3: thirteen carries for thirty yards, three caps for thirty five yards.
Speaker 3: So I mean, does he have a six to seven
Speaker 3: point floor? Yes, I think you can do better with
Speaker 3: all thirty two teams available and grind Thomas Junior will
Speaker 3: definitely be a better bet in my opinion.
Speaker 1: How about Eric San'll go to you here, Rashad White
Speaker 1: or Jerry Judy this week.
Speaker 3: I think if if Bucky Irving doesn't play, I want
Speaker 3: to start with Shod White. And do you think he's again.
Speaker 3: He's had such a weird runout because he looked like
Speaker 3: a bus at the beginning of the year and then
Speaker 3: he just went on this unreal touchdown scoring spree where
Speaker 3: he's like continues to get it done every single week,
Speaker 3: kind of like the Chiefs winning all these games. So
Speaker 3: and he's looked a lot better again, not as good
Speaker 3: as Bucky Irving and maybe even Shawn Tucker to some extent,
Speaker 3: but he's definitely taken on this new running scheme that
Speaker 3: Liam Cohen has implemented and done pretty well for himself.
Speaker 3: So I do like Rashad White, especially for the Chargers
Speaker 3: who don't stack the box, have been really good against
Speaker 3: light fronts this season. So we were shot a White
Speaker 3: for me if Bucket doesn't play, but if Bucky he's
Speaker 3: in there, we have more of a committee. You got
Speaker 3: to stay in the flames. With Jerry Judy, I mean
Speaker 3: he's just been so good. He's been so efficient with
Speaker 3: Jamis Winston. And even though he's been the thing that's
Speaker 3: impressive the most for me is he's not even doing
Speaker 3: it on like this crazy amount of volume. Like in
Speaker 3: Djoku is seeing more targets than Jerry Judy is. Elijah
Speaker 3: Moore is seeing just as many targets as Jerry Judy's.
Speaker 3: But Jerry Judy is the one that's been the most consistent,
Speaker 3: scoring touchdowns, making big plays. And the Chief Stefens has
Speaker 3: been overrated since they lost Jalen Watson, they're one of
Speaker 3: their cornerbacks. Also lost josh Wa Williams last week as well,
Speaker 3: So I think that I think this Chiefs Browns game
Speaker 3: we gotta be sneaky fun because we've got some problems
Speaker 3: with both secondaries. So I would go with Judy if
Speaker 3: Bucky Irving is playing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there have been I think six games since Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston took over as quarterback in Cleveland, and in five
Speaker 1: of them, Judy either has eleven plus targets or six
Speaker 1: or fewer targets. There haven't been There's only have been
Speaker 1: one game that's kind of like right in that middle zone,
Speaker 1: so up and down from that perspective, but the production
Speaker 1: has been there every single week. Fits Judy this week or.
Speaker 2: White, So I agree that if for shod White that
Speaker 2: if Bucky Irving doesn't play, then you have to go
Speaker 2: with Forshad White, especially since we didn't see Sean Tucker
Speaker 2: very involved last week with Bucky Irving out. But if
Speaker 2: Bucky Irving does play, then I'm going with Judy and
Speaker 2: maybe not the easiest matchup in the world for Judy.
Speaker 2: Friend of the Show Jacob Gibbs of CBS pointed out
Speaker 2: that Judy is not fair to all that well against
Speaker 2: press coverage, and the Chiefs play press coverage at a
Speaker 2: pretty high rate. But you know, like Judy is still
Speaker 2: just a wash in targets from Jamis Winston, like he
Speaker 2: is pretty much getting the double digit targets every week,
Speaker 2: and like that that volume usually pays off more often
Speaker 2: than not. So I prefer Judy over White, if indeed
Speaker 2: White is in a committee with Bucky Irving.
Speaker 1: Fits last one here for the Flexes, Johnston or any
Speaker 1: Denver running back. Obviously, the Broncos backfield has been a
Speaker 1: huge headache all season. They're facing the Colts, who are
Speaker 1: not a good rush defense to put it to put
Speaker 1: it kindly, but they've just been so frustrating. So any
Speaker 1: of them you choose or Quentin Johnston.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is conditional. Again. If Lad McConkie has ruled out,
Speaker 2: I will take QJ against the Buccaneers. If Lad McConkie plays,
Speaker 2: I will roll with Julie McLoughlin over Quenton Johnston. And
Speaker 2: I know Sean Payton's running back usage is wildly unpredictable,
Speaker 2: hence your framing of this question giving us the any
Speaker 2: Denver running back selection. But in week thirteen before the
Speaker 2: broncos by was Julia McLoughlin leading the way with fourteen
Speaker 2: carries for eighty four yards against the Browns. He looked
Speaker 2: good in that game. And McLaughlin is like the quickest,
Speaker 2: most elusive of Denver's backs. He also has some pass
Speaker 2: catching upside, and as you say said, where I'm good
Speaker 2: match up against the Colts who allowed the second most
Speaker 2: rushing yards to running back. So if Lad McConkie is playing,
Speaker 2: I would go with Julia McLoughlin over Quentin Johnston.
Speaker 1: Fits you're falling into the trap. Oh, he looked good
Speaker 1: last week. Sean Payton's gonna go back to him, you
Speaker 1: can insert any name into there, because we said that
Speaker 1: about Gavata this year.
Speaker 2: He said that this year this will be the twenty
Speaker 2: five Carryodric Estimate game exactly.
Speaker 1: Eric said, any Denver running back or Quentin Johnston fits.
Speaker 3: I can't believe you didn't go back to your flag
Speaker 3: plant Quinn Johnson when he's prime.
Speaker 4: Against this terrible buck.
Speaker 3: I'm going Quentin Johnson because the way I look at it,
Speaker 3: Quin Johnson has fifty five percent catch right this season,
Speaker 3: and there's a thirty three percent chance I'll pick the
Speaker 3: right Denver Bronco's running back. So with those odds, give
Speaker 3: me the fifty five percent.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go with QJ.
Speaker 3: The Buccaneers are horrible, and I'll take my chances with
Speaker 3: he with him catching the touchdown where Hobbie wide open,
Speaker 3: versus trying to pick which Broncos running back will be
Speaker 3: the Sean Payton du jour this week. If anything, I'm
Speaker 3: looking at this from a live betting perspective where I
Speaker 3: honestly think Peyton goes in and he doesn't know who's
Speaker 3: gonna feature either, but he like watches the first drive,
Speaker 3: He's like, all right, that guy looks good like let's
Speaker 3: ride him. So I'm gonna test that out this week
Speaker 3: watching this Broncos game to see, all right, is this
Speaker 3: what Seohn Payn's really doing? He just watches the first drive.
Speaker 3: Whoever looks good gets fed that particular week because obviously
Speaker 3: anything he says or anything we see the week before
Speaker 3: means nothing because it has not helped us at all
Speaker 3: protecting these guys on a week to week basis.
Speaker 2: I thought you were about to accuse a cue Sean
Speaker 2: Payton of having like an underling on the bench live
Speaker 2: betting running back watching during the game.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't I wouldn't fit it passed him.
Speaker 4: Someone's gonna check this out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, quarterback decision here, Sam Darnald or Jared GoF fits?
Speaker 1: Do you like better? Oh?
Speaker 2: Donald Vikings have been really good at home twenty seven
Speaker 2: point nine points a game in home games. Donald has
Speaker 2: averaged two hundred and fifty one passing yards and two
Speaker 2: point four touchdown passes in home games. He gets the
Speaker 2: BA who just a couple of weeks ago he hit
Speaker 2: up for three hundred and thirty passing yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 2: So I might have goff rank too low. I've got
Speaker 2: him quarterback fifteen Like, On the one hand, you think
Speaker 2: the Bills have the fire power to turn this game
Speaker 2: against the Lions into a shootout, which might boost Goff's
Speaker 2: upside and keep the Lions from going run heavy. But
Speaker 2: then again, you'd think that would be the case for
Speaker 2: all of the Bill's opponents this season, and yet the
Speaker 2: Bills have allowed the fourth fewest fantasy points to quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: So I just I think Darnold's a better percentage.
Speaker 1: Play ericson here, do you prefer?
Speaker 3: I'm chasing the points with this Bills Lions game? Again, Golf, Like,
Speaker 3: it seems the thing that holds him back most of
Speaker 3: the time fantasy productions is that the Lions has decided
Speaker 3: to run the ball and they just don't give him
Speaker 3: an off enough opportunities to score touchdowns. But in this game,
Speaker 3: where you could see them like in a pass heavy
Speaker 3: game script with all the weapons they have offensively, this
Speaker 3: could be a This could be a Jared Goff five
Speaker 3: touchdown game like, this could be his best game of
Speaker 3: the year statistically, So I think it's worth chasing.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna go with Golf.
Speaker 1: While we're on the quarterbacks, I want to ask you guys,
Speaker 1: I am the lone Fantasy pros representative still alive in
Speaker 1: the Scott fish Bowl playoffs, and I have a quarterback
Speaker 1: decision to make it super flex, so I need to
Speaker 1: One of them is Sam Darnold, who I am starting.
Speaker 1: But the other two we don't typically talk about Thursday players,
Speaker 1: but just because I want you guys help me out,
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford or Anthony Richardson. I am very torn on
Speaker 1: those two ericson do you have a preference there for
Speaker 1: my second quarterback?
Speaker 3: Don't the scott fish Bowl settings kill quarterbacks that are
Speaker 3: inaccurate and like turn the ball over?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: They I don't remember what the again, my team was
Speaker 3: so bad, I.
Speaker 4: Kind of like, I kind of stop paying attention to
Speaker 4: just you gotta tell me.
Speaker 2: The settings really favor running quarterbacks because you get points
Speaker 2: for the first downs, and I think you only get
Speaker 2: a point for every what like fifty passing yards?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I forget the exact number.
Speaker 2: Forty rush Yeah, yeah, it definitely I think points toward
Speaker 2: Richard's for me.
Speaker 1: But it's just so hard to be like, I'm in
Speaker 1: the you know this big there's five hundred teams left,
Speaker 1: Like you can't get his dud from somebody and richards
Speaker 1: and his head duds this year.
Speaker 2: So the last few weeks of the scott Fishball playoffs
Speaker 2: cut the playoff field in half, right, like I was
Speaker 2: in the last round and unfortunately had a bunch of
Speaker 2: people on buy, so I'm no longer around. But it
Speaker 2: went from one thousand people to five hundred. Isn't it
Speaker 2: a deeper cut this week? Isn't it only like two
Speaker 2: hundred or one hundred make it out of this week?
Speaker 1: So I believe it's another half. I thought it is
Speaker 1: too fifty. I could be wrong on that.
Speaker 2: I think you should chase the upside here with Richardson.
Speaker 4: With richards agreed, agreed with the with the mobile boost.
Speaker 3: I mean even if you just look at raw projections
Speaker 3: from like a normal like the thing with Stafford, he
Speaker 3: has to throw like four touchdowns, right, Like it's so
Speaker 3: easy for Richard just gets rushing forty yards and a
Speaker 3: touchdown like you're already in the clear. So like his
Speaker 3: bar to pass, I get the matchup is horrible. But
Speaker 3: if they just run him in the end zone like.
Speaker 1: I have Richardson in now, but I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that I wasn't it's right call you know, underthinking it.
Speaker 1: You know Puka's looks so good.
Speaker 4: Everything imagine underthinking something in fantas But.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for that little sidetrack there. Tight
Speaker 1: end Tucker Craft or Pat Fryermuth, two guys who have
Speaker 1: I think been in this segment a lot this year,
Speaker 1: But I don't know that I've ever actually put the
Speaker 1: two of them against each other. So I will now
Speaker 1: Tucker crafts or Pat Fryarmuth fits. Who do you like?
Speaker 2: Tucker Craft? In the ten games since Jordan Love came
Speaker 2: back from his early season knee injury, Tucker Craft has
Speaker 2: had seven touchdown catches. Target distribution is always guesswork with
Speaker 2: these Green Bay pass catchers, but Craft has been Love's
Speaker 2: favorite red zone target, and he's also got a pretty
Speaker 2: good matchup against the Seahawks. We've given up the eighth
Speaker 2: most receptions and tenth most receiving yards to tight ends.
Speaker 2: I know, the target outlook theoretically gets better for Pat
Speaker 2: Fryarmouth with George Pickens out, but Pickens was out last
Speaker 2: week and Friarmuth had three targets. No Granedy did turn
Speaker 2: those three targets into three catchers for forty eight yards
Speaker 2: in a touchdown, but Friarmuth is averaging three point eight
Speaker 2: targets a game this year, and a tough matchup against
Speaker 2: the Eagles, I allowed the a fewest fantasy points to
Speaker 2: tight end. So I'll take Tucker.
Speaker 1: Craft ericson Craft or Friarmuth.
Speaker 3: Tucker Craft for me too, love the man, let's go.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie. This I thought was a good,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of head to head base on where
Speaker 1: they're ranked. I also have to make that decision in
Speaker 1: scott Fishball, so I was definitely using this outline to
Speaker 1: have you guys help.
Speaker 4: Me your own selfish we'll have.
Speaker 1: McBride in that league, but tight ends get so much
Speaker 1: that it's worth considering me.
Speaker 4: Know, we know what McBride's go this week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you're you're all over that not scoring a touchdown?
Speaker 2: Oh sorry, well.
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Speaker 1: Touchdown calls contest ericson do you want to start us
Speaker 1: off with your tight end?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be Tree McBride talking about the Prediction show.
Speaker 3: He may score one, two, or maybe three touchdowns. So
Speaker 3: sixteen red zone targets, Patriots are not gonna be able
Speaker 3: to stop Trey McBride. And it's actually funny, like the
Speaker 3: books have gotten notice about train McBride's like touchdown with streak.
Speaker 3: So there's a special on the This is DraftKings sports book.
Speaker 3: There's a special on Trey McBride to have nine catches
Speaker 3: but not to score a touchdown, and it's called Trey
Speaker 3: McBride's made.
Speaker 4: That's plus seven hundred.
Speaker 3: So if you think I'm wrong, you want to fade
Speaker 3: me plus seven hundred.
Speaker 4: He catches nine balls, doesn't score. There you go.
Speaker 1: I love that. Honestly, that's great for this.
Speaker 2: Tray McBride touchdown allergy. This is a real thing. Like
Speaker 2: this goes back to his last year at Colorado State
Speaker 2: when he had like three hundred catches and one touchdown. Like,
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, this dude just cannot get into the
Speaker 2: end zone.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's funny too, because it's not like he
Speaker 3: hasn't scored any touchdowns this year.
Speaker 4: He has two, but one of the rushing.
Speaker 3: Touchdown and one is a fumble that he recovered in
Speaker 3: the end zone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is wild all right to Trainick Bride
Speaker 1: is Eric's picket touchdown? Fits? Who's your running back?
Speaker 2: Isaiah Pichecko? Like he is due, He's he's going to
Speaker 2: get into the end zone for the first time since
Speaker 2: coming back from injury. And you know what, this part
Speaker 2: of this is totally wish casting because, as I mentioned,
Speaker 2: Isaiah Pachecko was my hero running back in a couple
Speaker 2: of leagues. Well one of those leagues, I still managed
Speaker 2: to somehow get into the fantasy playoffs, and I need
Speaker 2: Pacheco to come through for me this week.
Speaker 1: I had a lot of builds like that as well
Speaker 1: with Pachecko, so I'm I'm also hoping for a big
Speaker 1: week from him at wide receiver. I've got Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 1: We already talked about it, just been so consistent recently.
Speaker 1: Matchup's not scary in this one coming off the bye week,
Speaker 1: so we've got tight end Trey McBride, at running back
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco, and at wide receiver Courtland Sutton. We will
Speaker 1: wrap up there. Thank you everybody for tuning in. Best
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