WEBVTT - Playoff Drafting! 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.160 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.640 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from my Heart Radio, 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:14.280 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.279 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:23.240 Now here's your host. Welcome to a playoff edition of 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.000 Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchy and my coast 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.960 today is Brian Johnson. Charge Hey, great to be here. 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.879 I I love fantasy football in the playoffs because you 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.320 get to draft again. We haven't. We haven't drafted since August, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.000 so that part's fun. You don't have to do for 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:46.000 the way most people play, not all, but most, you 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.960 don't have to do any transactions. I love draft in 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:52.600 hold and it just you know, it just goes. Although 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.920 there's so many ways to play and to do this, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.120 when you're drafting quarterbacks, it should be team quarterback and 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.520 kickers team kicker because because there's no transactions, and if 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.000 your quarterback goes down, you should get the backup automatically. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.399 And right now you don't know who's gonna start for 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:07.760 the Rams. We'll talk about them later at quarterback. So yeah, 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.480 team quarterback, team kicker is vital. So this episode is 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.880 dedicated to those playing fantasy football in the playoffs, and 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:14.959 particularly those who are in leagues that are running through 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:16.560 the entire playoffs. I know there are a lot of 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.839 leagues where you're just sort of like playing this week only, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.679 and that's not our goal for this one. That's going 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:24.440 to be our goal for the future ones. We'll just 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.120 be breaking down the upcoming games, um deep dive in 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.080 the upcoming games. This one, this podcast for Fantasy Football 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.880 Weekly is for those leagues that are playing through the 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.679 entire playoffs and drafting for the entire playoffs. Let me 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:43.680 recommend this opportunity to test new rules, new scoring systems 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.240 that you're considering for regular season fantasy play next year. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.120 Here's where you do the dry run on new rules 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.600 and scoring systems. Yeah, and a great site to try 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.000 as our friends over at my Fantasy League dot com. 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.520 If you run your league during the regular season, they 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.480 charge your fee as they should. It's very customizable, very cool. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.400 But for the playoffs it's free, So you can go 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.480 to MFL my Fantasy League dot com and create a 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.799 league and yeah, PPR points for first downs. You can 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.360 experiment with everything under underneath the sun. So it's a 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.440 great site. It is we we like and the people 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:17.760 behind my fantasy league elite human beings, we love them. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.919 Um okay, let's talk about some of the strategies to 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:26.640 winning your playoff fantasy football league. By the way, I 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.160 play with seven this year. I'm playing with exactly seven 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.240 teams because there's four teen teams in the playoffs, Brian. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.000 That means Brian gets two quarterbacks, two kickers to team defense, 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.960 I get to everybody gets two of the core you 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.720 know those core positions. Everyone gets uh used up and yeah, 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.760 we're in the league together. And the the first thing 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:46.520 you have to think about in draft is do I 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.000 am I gonna go after the guys on by because 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.840 that's they're only gonna they can only play three games max. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.080 Everyone else technically could play four, correct, Yeah, the game's played. 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.040 Nothing more important than games played, right you? You you 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.480 want to find guys that gonna play three or four 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:05.639 games ideally because there's so much more valuable. So let 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.079 me ask you this, Brian, would you rather have an 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.440 elite player who might only get one game or a 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.840 mediocre player who might get three games? As an example, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.720 Allen Robinson or Terry mclaurain guys that look like they're 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.799 gonna only play one game but they're really good. Or 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:24.320 would you rather have Sammy Watkins not that great a player, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.120 doesn't generally perform that well, but he could play three games. Yeah, 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.400 it's a tough call. The elite supposed one and done 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.720 guys like you said, Allan Robins and Terry McLaurin, even 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.240 if they only play one game, they still have potential 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.560 to go plus even thirty plus Fantasy points in a 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.720 losing effort. But I still most times I'd much rather 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:45.720 have the mediocre guy who's gonna play at least be 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.760 guaranteed to play two games. No one's guaranteed to play 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.920 two games in the playoffs, but yeah, two, three, four, 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.560 I'd rather have games played more time on the field 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.720 than just one guy, you know, one and done scenario. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.880 Most likely, I think I would too. You know, I'd 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.360 rather have that, don't I'd like to have three shots 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.680 with Sammy Atkins. You know, are four shots of Emmanuel 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.800 Sanders as a possibility. And speaking of that, you know, 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.640 the the teams that are really fascinating, because this year 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.000 is different with the with the one my only one 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.479 team getting to buy So this week's two seeds are 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.440 guy teams that were normally off right, so Buffalo and 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:23.080 New Orleans, these are really good teams. These were two 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.400 seeds and they're playing so for me, man Bills and 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.520 Saints are really intriguing. Yeah, you'll I don't I don't 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.600 know what league you'll play in, or you'll see non 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.520 Bills going to the first few picks. Josh Allen Stefon 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.320 digs there that they seem like they have the best 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.279 shot to play floor games, and then on on the 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.760 it's way more open on the NFC side, I think. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.120 But yeah, you have to think the Saints had a 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.840 good chance, and then the the old Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.320 Bucks have got a chance to play for right, so 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.880 they almost I think they almost certainly end up winning 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.960 against Washington. I respect Washingtons defense a lot, but they're 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.960 just not going to score enough points. With Alex Smith, 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:02.280 I don't think to to get much done. So you 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.039 feel like the Bucks are almost automatically getting two games, 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.160 and then they're they're good enough to beat almost anybody. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.080 They destroyed Green Bay earlier in the year, so you 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.560 feel like the Bucks could make the Super Bowl and 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.760 get those get that fourth game, which would be great 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.599 and not. And you also want to take into account 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.240 not like how many games these players are likely to play. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.159 You have to look at what teams are playing for 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.039 and where they line up in the bracket in the 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.640 first round, in the second round, and third round. You 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.039 don't want to be loaded up on one side of 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.280 the bracket where you're gonna be playing all your players 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.839 against each other. It's just like filling out at n 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.960 C double a bracket. You're not gonna pick teams well, 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.839 not feeling out of bracket. If you're picking winners in 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:41.880 the games in the n C Double, You don't want 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:43.720 to play each other early one. You gotta you want 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.440 to wait as long as possible to have your teams 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:52.120 playing each other. Kickers, defenses, and quarterbacks way more important 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.799 if you're in a system that doesn't let you change 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.080 those out. The reason that kickers and defenses don't mean 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.760 very much in regular fantasy football is I'll score about 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.480 the same they'll score eight points, ten points, twelve points. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.599 But if your kicker gets knocked out in round one 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.719 and you're not getting at all the eight, ten and 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.279 twelve points and your opponents are, you're a huge disadvantage, 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.800 huge disadvantage. Yeah, you'll see kickers for the more favorite 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.200 teams like that, the Chief the Bills, the Saints. They'll 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:23.080 be going before players like all of the stud receivers 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.000 that are supposedly gonna be one and don alan rounds 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.840 since Terry mccarnin's they're all way more valuable and safer. Definitely, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.040 which you hate to say, but do not slough kicker 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.400 defense to the end of your draft. It's hard to 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.800 break the habit. Don't do it here. Yeah, you you almost, 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.960 you almost have to ensure you have at least like one. 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.640 You can't have to two kickers and two defenses that 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.600 are likely to go in the first round or you're 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.400 not going to do well. But you really have to 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.720 invest heavily in at least one of those positions and 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:55.880 quote unquote elite option mid rounds. Do not be embarrassed 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:57.880 to be the first person to take a kicker in defense. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:03.560 Should you brian stack players from one or two teams 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.839 that you think are gonna do well. It all depends 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:08.800 on the size of the contest, how many people you're 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.679 playing against. If it's our our our seven man league, 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.440 it's it's okay. To diversify more and spread your players around. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.320 But if you're going for one of these bigger, bigger 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:22.720 contests online where it's thousands, hundreds, tens of thousands of people, 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.000 you really have to put most of your eggs in 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.239 one or two baskets. Make sure they're on opposite sides 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.480 of the bracket in the in the different conferences, and 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.880 uh and and go for the more contrarian teams because 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.120 people aren't going to be looking at the Steelers or 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.560 the Rams if its very contrarian. If I had to 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.320 pick a plausible contrarian play, I think I would take 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.280 the Steelers because you get you get a defense that's 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.760 good enough to win most games and a terrible running game, 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.280 but I get a passing offense that can still generate points. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.040 I think if I had to pick, if I'm in 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.280 a league with hundreds of thousands, I think that's might 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:02.440 be my contrarian play would be Pittsburgh. And I would 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.160 do everything in my power to never have my players 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.880 facing each other. Yeah in the big pool. Yeah. Now 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.760 when you get to a smaller pool like our seven 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.360 team league, I think it's the opposite. You really want diversity. 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.920 I don't need lightning to strike and have you know 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.760 Juju Smith Schuster score you know four times in the 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.840 playoffs or whatever. I know from my quarterback. I don't 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:25.560 need my quarterback during my wide. I need to have 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.840 I just don't have diversity. So I still guys left 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.320 at every stage of this thing, and even the one 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:32.320 and done big name guys can certainly help me out 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:34.160 more in the smaller pools and in the big ones. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.719 But I would totally fade that the Allan robbins Is 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.439 and Terry mclaurin's and bigger pools unless I was stacking 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.880 those teams than the focal point your gutsye if you're 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.840 stacking Washington. Yeah, I wouldn't stack Washington. That's a little 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.320 too far down the line to me that I don't 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:48.960 care what size I'm in. I don't know that I could. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.839 I could stack Washington given that offense. Defense is good 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:54.560 enough to help win games. But the thing, even if 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.440 the even they do go two or three games in, 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.480 how much how much do you get out of that offense. 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.200 Let's talk about some of the injured and or COVID 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.960 players that you need to be aware of before you draft. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.040 Start with Jared Goff. He's got that hand injury. He 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:12.040 had surgery. He looks unlikely to play, but could be active. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.880 And again we'll reinforce this is why you have team quarterback. 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.839 Otherwise you essentially couldn't even draft a Ramps quarterback. You 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.240 don't know. You gotta have team quarterback. We want to 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.040 see Wolford play. We'll talk about him a little more, 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.280 but yeah, GoF, I doubt he he plays this week. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.160 And I don't think say that like an injured Jared 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:30.880 Goff isn't good when he's healthy. You don't want to 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.440 Goff of the bum thumb out there in a way. 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.400 Pittsburgh titen Eric Abron activated off the COVID list. He'll 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.400 be available, great matchup against Cleveland. It is a very 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.640 promising matchup against Cleveland. He's a sneaky play. UH New 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.200 Orleans running back Alvin Kamara has got the expected to 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.319 come off the COVID list on Sunday. He needs to. 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.080 He needs to produce nothing but negative tests from here 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.559 to Sunday. And he tweeted see you on Sunday, and 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.440 I believe him. This isn't a BS tweet like uh 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.920 or Keenan Allen didn't tweet. It's not like Keenan Allen 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.280 saying don't sit me or Josh Jacob saying I'm not playing. 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:07.440 Kamara loves his fantasy managers, so I'm banking on Kamara. 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.240 Plant Like Kansas City running back Clyde Edwards. Alaire will 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.160 not play this week because obviously the Chiefs are off, 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.440 but he could play after this week's by. He's trying 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.800 to come back from the ankle and hip injuries that 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.719 he's got. Um, you know, we don't have any non 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:22.959 public insight as to whether or not he's gonna go, 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.920 but the timetable is about right for him to come 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.520 back here. And you know, fantasy managers tend to just 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.679 only remember the last thing they saw, which was his 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.480 gruesome injury. The last thing I saw he was done 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.280 for the year. So yeah, so the reports are encouraging. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.720 It could just be a little bit of coach speak, 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.600 smoke screen, whatever you want to call it. But I'm 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:44.920 a little worried about Laire because, uh, Edwards Ali because 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.640 the injury it looks so bad. But uh, I'm keeping 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.760 my eyes not so much on Levy on Bell, but 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.120 Darryl Williams bumping up my draft forwards a little bit, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.000 and why don't I go both? So I take Clyde 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.960 Edwards Laire who's falling to the mid rounds of fantasy drafts, 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.600 and then last pick of the draft, Darrel will And 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:05.320 you know, now I'm covered. Ignore Bill, I don't you Bill? Maybe? So? 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:09.680 Um you know Bell Bell did nothing noteworthy anyway, dude 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.160 looks cooked for a career. In twome eyes, Tampa Bay 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.600 wide receiver Mike Evans speaking of the last guy we saw, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.280 you know, going down to the horrible looking injury. They're 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.480 saying he's a game time decision. My hunches that Mike 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.760 Evans will not go in this game. They don't need 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.840 him to beat Washington, and I think they just they 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.520 got to get him healthy so he can help them 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.480 make a super Bowl. Yeah, even if he suits up 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.160 and I wanted to, I feel bad for him because 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:33.720 he hasn't played in the playoffs. That he's had a 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:38.079 great long career, but he'll likely see Ronald Darby bad matchup, 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:39.920 and I think if he's out there, he's more of 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:44.240 a decoy. Yeah, And um, you know they're deeper receiver. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.360 They got Scottie Miller and Tyler Johnson you know, they 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.680 got they got options, So okay. Cole Beasley knee injury, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.800 he seems to be unlikely to play. We don't expect 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.480 to see him. Cooper Cup activated off the COVID list, 0:11:56.600 --> 0:12:00.440 as is Titans kicker Stephen gust Cowse and Mike Thomas 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.760 as well. Oh yeah, thank you, Michael Thomas. Yeah, we 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.400 should mention him practice. You know, he had he was 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.640 on the COVID list. He had the Highchael sprain. It 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:10.360 appears that he's going to enter this game potentially close 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.880 to which would be great. What are your what's your 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:20.679 expectations for Michael Thomas. They're dumbed a little bit, but uh, 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:22.240 you know, the knock on him is all he does 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.800 is run slant routes, but he makes him work, so 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.640 that's like riding a bike. He hasn't forgotten how to 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.120 do that. But I think he'll be in shape. It's 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.440 not like he's been injured, you know. I'm sure he's 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:36.000 been keeping his legs moving, so I'm expecting. I don't 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.400 know how much you can do with the high Chel sprain, 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.600 but yes, you're right, I don't know. I'm still expecting 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:45.040 at least Michael Thomas out there, But I'm not. I'm 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.320 not necessarily targeting him in my fantasy drafts, that's for sure. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.559 It's so tempting because Saints have a great opportunity to 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.760 play four games. Michael Thomas is a great receiver, he 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.520 will be, he'll be great. Well, we don't know the 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.720 quarterbacks even gonna be next year. It's gonna say great 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.439 next I can't tell you the quarterback is, but um, 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:07.080 it's not Drew Brees. That's what I know. Um. This 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.079 to me, this is as as high risk, high reward 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.560 pick as there is in your draft. If Michael Thomas 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.400 stays healthy and plays four games, he could easily end 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.880 up being the pick that powers you to a fantasy 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:25.560 playoff victory. But nothing we saw from him all year, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.000 even when he was on the field, suggests that he's 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.600 ready to do that. Yeah, I'm with you, and I 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.120 don't want to steal your thunder or anything. And you're 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:35.720 gonna talk about how you kind of like the Rams 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:40.160 this week. If that's the case Thomas and the Saints win, 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.040 then Thomas gets Jalen Ramsey next week, and that's a 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:47.200 no go. All right, So let's talk about some of 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.200 our favorite sneaky players and or teams for the playoffs. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.360 I'll let you go first. Who do you got? The 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:56.040 Ravens aren't necessarily sneaky, but everyone pretty much expects the 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.000 Chiefs to go to the super Bowl, so it's like 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:02.200 a two game at best scenario for the Ravens. Most 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.719 people are thinking. But I think the Ravens could could 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.520 run the table, go all the way to the super Bowl. 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:09.920 And Lamar Jackson, Mark Andrews. They're not going at great discount, 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.800 But I like guys like Marky's Brown, who's been on 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.400 fire by the way the last he's probably been like 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.760 a top five wide receiver, very quietly doing so. But uh, 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.520 Marky's Brown, Miles Boykin, Gus Edwards, Um, even Willie Snead. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.640 It's just a great matchup against Tennessee, who hasn't had 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.680 a buy since Week four. The Titans over the last 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.560 five weeks have allowed the second most passing touchdowns, the 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.400 third most running back touchdowns, and the most wide receiver touchdowns. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.000 I think the Ravens can put up a lot of 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.760 points in this game. They can put up a lot 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.320 of points against Kansas City, likely to be a shootout. 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:42.080 Who's gonna be very rusty, by the way, benching all 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.400 their starters in Week seventeen, they're on the buy and 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.800 Ravens arena come in hot. So I think Baltimore could 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.480 run the table. So if you load it up on 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:52.920 them doing pretty well, if I'll expand on one raven 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:57.240 that you only touched on, Gus Edwards, is he's available, 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.640 It's like the last pick in your draft. Tennessee gave 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.280 up think the fifth most rushing touchdowns on the year, 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.360 and that's Gus Edwards. Game is these rushing touchdowns. Sure, 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.600 I'd rather have Jake Jake j K Dobbins, but j 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.000 K Dobbins going off the board and you know, much 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.400 much much earlier in the draft as a last pick. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.400 I like Gus Edwards. He gets he gets enough carries 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.600 to put up some points every week. And you and 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:22.600 I both think Baltimore is gonna win this game. In advance, 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.720 you're gonna get at least two games and and maybe more. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:26.520 Who wants to play the Ravens right now? What are 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.960 the winners of I think sixth straight. Tennessee is not 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:33.160 too happy that they drew Baltimore and Dobbins looks great, 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.560 of course, but you'd think the Ravens might lean a 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.680 little more on the veteran edwards in the playoffs, especially 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.120 pass protection scenario stuff like that. Let me give you 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.960 the other sneaky way under the radar guy that I like, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:48.040 Rams quarterback John Wolf. The most of you don't know 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:49.960 anything about him, and I don't blame you, and you 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.840 probably didn't were breaking down his tape from last week's game, 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:54.960 and I don't blame you for that either. He is 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:59.120 an a a F quarterback who is highly mobile, and 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.600 we love our moble quarterbacks. He's, by the way, he's 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:07.120 the cheapest quarterbacks, cheapest starting quarterback on DraftKings. Taysom Hill's 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.960 more expensive than John Wolford is. In DraftKings. You get 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.800 a guy who just ran for sixty yards last week. 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:16.560 He's going to run more. I believe he'll run more 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.240 in this game. And I know, Brian, you've got some 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.840 Seattle numbers for rushing mobile quarterbacks. Mobile mobile quarterbacks have 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.800 done to Seattle this year. Wolford, we won't call him, 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.280 Cam Newton and Kyler Murray just yet, but still those 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.360 guys had great games on the ground against the Seahawks. 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.480 Newton forty seven yards to rushing touchdowns. Murray had sixty 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.280 seven yards and a touchdown in one game. Uh, Josh 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.080 Allen's quarter rushing touchdown Carson Wentz went over forty yards. 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.320 So yeah, that they're they're giving up numbers to mobile quarterbacks. 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:45.600 And Wolford can run. Like you said, he can run, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.560 and I think they'll run him sum in this game 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.240 they get. Uh, Andrew Whitworth comes back. You know, when 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:53.360 he suffered his injury, we all thought it was season over. 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:55.240 He's on the car thumbs up. I mean it's like 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.440 that's it, where he's done for the year. But he's 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.120 back off his torn mc l um, which it is 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.440 great news. And Uh, Jamal Adams all World All Pro 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.800 strong safety for Seattle, who was hurt for the first 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:10.119 half of the season when Seattle was just giving up 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:14.400 ridiculous numbers to wide receivers. He came back, they shut 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.240 it all down. But he's injured again. He's a pretty 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.280 much true game time decision. If he doesn't go, that 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.760 would help to that spikes Wolford big time. So you know, 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.720 I think Walford could get at least the sixty rushing 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.320 yards he had last week and then really at that point, 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.479 you almost have a running And by the way, any 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.760 quarterback who runs for sixty yards is like a coin 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.800 flips chance of getting a touchdown in those sixty yards 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.080 and then anything he throws for him just seeing him 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.400 viewing it as a bonus. So I really like Wolford 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.119 and um and that's my probably my favorite convinced me 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.120 I might be a little heavy on him this weekend 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.080 the Daily. I wouldn't blame you. Give me a non 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:55.480 obvious team that you are avoiding players from. Now, you 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.360 know you don't have to tell people to avoid Bears 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.879 and Washington football team that's obvious. Me a non obvious 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.439 team you're avoiding. Um, it's I'm going back to that 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.280 Baltimore Tennessee game and I'm just, uh, I'm you're gonna 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.000 be tempted to take a J Brown, Ryan Tannehill, Derrick Henry, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.240 the big name guys and the and they're following a 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:15.600 little bit because again they're gonna they would play the 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.520 Chiefs in the second round, and everyone's assuming the Chiefs 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.400 are going to the super Bowl. But yeah, those those 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.480 names are still going pretty high. And I think there's 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.159 very real cause for concern that they lose to the 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.600 Ravens in this one. I like the Ravens more so. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.960 Even though they're the big names like A. J. Brown 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:32.679 and Derrick Henry a little suppressed when it comes to 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:34.920 a DP, it's still very high for a playoff league, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.959 so I'm just avoiding them entirely. I might take some 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.800 Titans way late if I need to fill some spots, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.760 like at Anthony Berks or Adam Humphrey's the type guy. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:48.080 But uh, as far as a big Nameth, yeah, he's 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:49.560 been slipping too, and I think he had a good 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.760 game in the raven These teams did play earlier in 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.639 the year and the Tennessee did win, but I'm not 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:56.159 looking into that too much. Baltimore looks a whole lot 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.520 better right now. That was the last loss of Baltimore 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.240 hadn't Week eleven against the Scene. They've won every game 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.119 since then. So for me, and I've already alluded to it, 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.159 I think Seattle is going to lose. Listen to the 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:10.520 quarterback Seattle has faced since Week twelve, when it feels 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.639 like their defense, you know, their their past defense was 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.400 on this historically bad run to open the season, and 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.320 at one point they were averaging like three almost four 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:23.920 hund passing yards of game is crazy numbers. Since Week twelve, 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:29.240 they have faced Carson Wentz, benched, Colt McCoy backup Sam 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.560 Donald going to be benched next year when the Jets 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:33.720 have the second overall pick and pick a new quarterback 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:38.400 Dwayne Haskins benched and then later released. Jared Goff won't 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.840