Speaker 1: Wow, it's Friday, which makes it side For another edition
Speaker 1: of the Stardom Sidham Show. I am Marcus Grant, joined
Speaker 1: by Michael F. Florio, who writes the Start sid column.
Speaker 1: You can see it every week at NFL dot com
Speaker 1: slash Start Sit. I gotta Is it harder or easier
Speaker 1: to write this column.
Speaker 2: In the fantasy playoffs depends how you look at it. One,
Speaker 2: there's more pressure to be right because look, if I
Speaker 2: get something wrong in week six, I always want to
Speaker 2: be right and help your fantasy teams. But if you
Speaker 2: get to something wrong in week six, it's like, all right,
Speaker 2: you live to see another day. You get something wrong
Speaker 2: in the fantasy playoffs, you're casting someone their season.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: But also I kinda I don't try to get as
Speaker 2: spicy with the sis because of that, So it makes
Speaker 2: it a little bit easier.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's easier to take those big swings in
Speaker 1: the middle of the season as opposed to now, where
Speaker 1: like as you mentioned, everything's a little bit more.
Speaker 4: The stakes are higher, for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, make sure they always are, always have been.
Speaker 4: Make sure you throw your dms.
Speaker 1: Also joy by Lakwan Jones, who does not right to
Speaker 1: start column, but he drinks a lot of Cranberry jews,
Speaker 1: and we feel like that's worthy enough to get him
Speaker 1: on the show here. So let's uh, let's start Floria
Speaker 1: with your quarterbacks. Who are your starts and sits for
Speaker 1: the first week of the fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 2: I have Jayden Daniels, who has been red hot as
Speaker 2: of late. It's funny, he's ribs healed and he's back
Speaker 2: to looking like an elite fantasy quarterback.
Speaker 3: He's a start against the Saints.
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray has been very up or down, but the
Speaker 2: Patriots have struggled against the pass as of late and
Speaker 2: have allowed some big fantasy days. Anthony Richardson ran all
Speaker 2: over them, so I have him as a start. I
Speaker 2: disagree with Lakwan who yesterday said he has Jared Goff
Speaker 2: as a sit. I have him as a start because
Speaker 2: I expect a lot of points in this and I
Speaker 2: think the Bills are gonna sell out to try to
Speaker 2: stop the run, which will open things up for the
Speaker 2: receivers a bit. And then I have Justin Herbert as
Speaker 2: a start this week because the Bucks have outside of
Speaker 2: Tommy and AOC, every quarterback has torched them and in
Speaker 2: my CITs CJ. Stroud like, we don't have a must
Speaker 2: sit graphic on Fantasy Live, but I wrote in the
Speaker 2: whole way that this guy is a must sit option
Speaker 2: because I don't see any way you could start him.
Speaker 2: I have Russell Wilson as a sit who it looks
Speaker 2: like he'll be without George Pickens in a tough matchup
Speaker 2: against the Eagles.
Speaker 3: Gino Smith.
Speaker 2: He leads the league in a whole bunch of passing categories,
Speaker 2: it's not leading the fantasy success. Here's just three games
Speaker 2: this year with over eighteen fantasy points and then Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: You couldn't pay me to start Kirk Cousins in the
Speaker 2: fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 1: I mean I couldn't because I don't really have that
Speaker 1: much money. But I'm sure somebody out there could find
Speaker 1: enough money to pay you. All right, Steve Cohen would
Speaker 1: give me enough money to start him.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 1: But would you get your own suite at City Field?
Speaker 1: That's the guy I would request it, all right, there
Speaker 1: you go? Alright, as we look at these quarterbacks here,
Speaker 1: you know, Kenner Murray has been just sort of meh
Speaker 1: this season. I know Floria likes him as a start.
Speaker 1: Do we believe is this week he turns it up
Speaker 1: when you need it the most.
Speaker 5: Uh Yeah, I think this is a good week for
Speaker 5: Michael Wilson, you know. And I think this is maybe
Speaker 5: a good week for James Connor to get involved out
Speaker 5: of that backfield that in the passion game, I'm a
Speaker 5: little worried about Marvin Harrison. I think that's where a
Speaker 5: lot of people, you know, put their weight on Kyler Murray.
Speaker 5: But I think Kyler Murray's still threatened with his legs
Speaker 5: and the matchup against the Patriots is an upward matchup
Speaker 5: for him to have like a solid floor fantasy point,
Speaker 5: so I feel confident about starting them. I'm starting him
Speaker 5: in my home league, you know, in my in my
Speaker 5: first round in the playoffs, So I like, I like
Speaker 5: him as a start this week.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: So we're in on Kyler Murray this week against the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. That's uh, you know again, I know
Speaker 1: he's he has not provided the production that I think
Speaker 1: a lot of us hoped for. All that being said,
Speaker 1: he's still a top ten fantasy quarterback this year. It
Speaker 1: just it just hasn't quite happened the way we wanted to.
Speaker 1: Moving on to the running backs, though, Who's up, Who's down?
Speaker 4: This week?
Speaker 2: Florio a lot of Cardinals this week. I think James
Speaker 2: Connor is a mustard option. He is so much guaranteed
Speaker 2: volume each week, and he has a good matchup against
Speaker 2: the Patriots.
Speaker 3: I think Truba Hubbard remain.
Speaker 2: Look, it's awful what happened to Jonathan Brooks, and it
Speaker 2: pains all of us, I would say, but the benefit
Speaker 2: for fantasy, the winner is Truba Hubbard here and it's
Speaker 2: a great matchup against the Cowboys. Aaron Jones went off
Speaker 2: against the Bears last time and since we ten, the
Speaker 2: Bears have allowed the most rushing yards. They allow a
Speaker 2: lot of explosive runs. All of that to running backs. Look,
Speaker 2: we've spent a lot of time this week talking Rico
Speaker 2: Daddle on like every show we do, so Rico, we're really.
Speaker 3: Gonna need you to have a good game.
Speaker 2: And then yeah, the sis DeAndre Swift because the Vikings
Speaker 2: are really tough against the run. DeAndre Swift has really
Speaker 2: struggled as of late, and he got held in check
Speaker 2: by them a couple of weeks ago. The Steelers running backs.
Speaker 2: I spoke about this on yesterday's pod. But the Eagles
Speaker 2: are really tough run defense. They could score points, so
Speaker 2: it could be a game where the Steelers have to throw.
Speaker 3: More h and then I don't see any way.
Speaker 2: They're just names right now to me, Travis Etn and
Speaker 2: Nick Chubb, Like, I don't see any way you could
Speaker 2: start either one of them. With the fantasy season online.
Speaker 2: Travis Etn has fully lost his job to Tank Bigsby.
Speaker 1: For by the way, I mean, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: I mean, LaQuan, what wtf happened with Travis Etn? Right, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: look he was he was running back three last year.
Speaker 1: I think we can all be like, all right, I
Speaker 1: think that that probably was gonna happen again, but just
Speaker 1: to fall completely off a cliff. I don't think any
Speaker 1: of us saw that one coming either.
Speaker 5: I'm wondering if he's healthy or not. Like it looks
Speaker 5: like he just completely lost confidence in that backfield. Then
Speaker 5: Tank Bigsby, you know.
Speaker 3: How the roles switched.
Speaker 5: It's crazy because last year, you know, Tank Bisby lost
Speaker 5: his confidence, you know, but this year is the bounce
Speaker 5: back of the talent that they saw in him. And
Speaker 5: it's like Travis Etn has not been in starting lineups
Speaker 5: for a very long time for your boy, Like I
Speaker 5: forgot he even played football, that's how bad it's been.
Speaker 5: So it's like Tank Bitsby has fully taken over, and
Speaker 5: like even heading into next year, it's kind of insane
Speaker 5: that we took Travis Etn in the first three rounds
Speaker 5: in some drafts and it's like Tank Bisby might be
Speaker 5: taking that spot.
Speaker 1: I just I'm imagining Lakwan watching football on Sundays and
Speaker 1: being like Travis eat in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5: What it's kind of like you realize that Mike Williams
Speaker 5: plays for the Steelers, like randomly just thinking like, oh,
Speaker 5: yeah he does.
Speaker 4: But that that's what I see.
Speaker 1: The other one that I've really enjoyed the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks is just like watching scrolling on social media
Speaker 1: and like having the random person every few plays being like, wait,
Speaker 1: Kadarius Tony's with the Browns. Like that's been a thing
Speaker 1: for cause not anymore, not anymore, but like I did it.
Speaker 4: I did it.
Speaker 1: I've seen several other people like wait, bit Cadarius Tony's
Speaker 1: a Brown Well yeah he fumbled, he was. But that's
Speaker 1: how we all found out is because he fumbled, right,
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, Cadarius Tony's with the Browns
Speaker 1: like that's if it was like we all collectively had
Speaker 1: the same realization at the same time.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, me and Patrick Claybond were like, wait, Tim Boyles
Speaker 2: the Giants backup quarterback. Now, like he started for Miami
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: Ago, he started well.
Speaker 1: He also started that Black Friday game last year right
Speaker 1: with the uh wow, the pick six, the Hail Mary pick.
Speaker 2: Six and then the Robert Salo toothbrust commercial is ingrained
Speaker 2: in my brain.
Speaker 1: That was a great moment in football history. Hopefully for
Speaker 1: some better moments in football history. This week, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about some start sit wide receivers.
Speaker 4: Who do you like.
Speaker 3: I have Jerry Judys reach must start status.
Speaker 2: To me, I keep joking like he's the second coming
Speaker 2: of Jerry Rice, but with Jamis Winston, he is a
Speaker 2: wide receiver one. I have Garrett Wilson and DeVante Adams
Speaker 2: catching passes from a quarterback who doesn't think I'm real,
Speaker 2: but I still put them in the starts, just like
Speaker 2: ric o'dowdo. We've all spoken up Khalil Shakir this week,
Speaker 2: So Khleil, we're really gonna need you to come through
Speaker 2: and then Calvin Ridley, another person I've spent a lot
Speaker 2: of time talking up this week, volume, upside, great matchup.
Speaker 3: All of that is there for him. And then my sits.
Speaker 2: I said, I don't get spicy, but Brian Thomas Junior
Speaker 2: is a top ten wide receiver on the year, and
Speaker 2: I still think you sit him though the production with
Speaker 2: Mac Jones has been down.
Speaker 3: The Jets are a really tough.
Speaker 2: Secondary and he plays mostly out wide, so he's gonna
Speaker 2: see a lot of Sauce Gardner and a lot of
Speaker 2: DJ Reid Michael Pittman Jr. I have is a sit
Speaker 2: he could see a lot of Patrick's Ertan and then
Speaker 2: Tank Dell like he's another one. He's like Travis Etn
Speaker 2: and CJ. Stroud Like he's just named right now.
Speaker 3: I don't see how you trust him with your fantasy
Speaker 3: season on the line.
Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers sounds fake.
Speaker 1: So here's the I I need you to break the
Speaker 1: tie on this one, Lakwan, because Flourio's got Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: as a sit, I've got him kind of I guess
Speaker 1: sleeper ish or at least a guy to pay attention to.
Speaker 1: Just because it feels like the Jags are sort of
Speaker 1: trying to force the issue. Over All, the matchup not great.
Speaker 1: Over though, the last couple of weeks the Jets a
Speaker 1: little bit more vulnerable. Where where do you fall on
Speaker 1: the Brian Thomas Junior start sit debate this week?
Speaker 5: I feel like, if you can get away from him,
Speaker 5: you would, but if you can't, like you just got
Speaker 5: to feel, you know, somewhat confident that he makes a
Speaker 5: big play, because that's honestly what's gonna take. And mac
Speaker 5: Jones has kind of just been Mac Jones of what
Speaker 5: we've known in the past, so there's not much of
Speaker 5: a safe floor there and matchup is got awful, so
Speaker 5: I really wouldn't want to swing for the fences in
Speaker 5: the playoffs. But it's one of those situations like you
Speaker 5: drafted him, you probably got him, you know, as your
Speaker 5: wide receiver four or five, so hopefully you're one, two
Speaker 5: and three could fill in that spy or fill in
Speaker 5: that hole.
Speaker 1: All right, So it's a you know, we're not we're
Speaker 1: not really enthusiastic about Brian Tom. I think it's sort
Speaker 1: of the the overall feel as well. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, I I can make a case for it.
Speaker 1: I can certainly understand if folks want to get away
Speaker 1: from him this week.
Speaker 4: So there it is. Uh, let's finish up with tight ends.
Speaker 1: Of course we're starting in this place, right Florio, this
Speaker 1: is this is the only name we have to start
Speaker 1: with at this point.
Speaker 3: Tom Smith Smith.
Speaker 2: Who knows about the bet and is going to do
Speaker 2: everything he can to turn the Kwan's hair strawberry blonde.
Speaker 3: But this is where we reached.
Speaker 2: With John Smith the Texans for much of the years,
Speaker 2: when the toughest matchup for tight ends, I don't even
Speaker 2: think you think twice, like, he's been so good you
Speaker 2: have to start him. The upside is too high, Henry.
Speaker 2: There's seven tight ends who have averaged more Fantasy points
Speaker 2: per game than Henry has with Drake May, one of
Speaker 2: which is Taysom Hill who's done for the year.
Speaker 3: So there's really six.
Speaker 2: Like the volume in the production has been too good
Speaker 2: and I don't think he's getting enough credit for that.
Speaker 3: And then Pat Fryarmuth more.
Speaker 2: Yards as of late, a couple of touchdowns as of late,
Speaker 2: and no George Pickens in a game where the Steelers
Speaker 2: could be trailing that that means more volume for Pat Fryarmuth.
Speaker 4: I believe.
Speaker 2: And then my sits, Evan Ingram in the last four
Speaker 2: games is high is eleven and that game in the
Speaker 2: game where Trevor Lawrence started and then got knocked out.
Speaker 2: He just hasn't been the same player with Mac Jones,
Speaker 2: hasn't top fifty yards, hasn't caught a touchdown Kyle Pitts. Look,
Speaker 2: you could throw one of us three out there and
Speaker 2: we might have the same day as Kyle Pitts because
Speaker 2: we would get one catch for like twelve yards and
Speaker 2: never get back on the field.
Speaker 3: But that's about an average Kyle Pitts game right now.
Speaker 2: And then I have Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox as sits,
Speaker 2: and lastly Cole Comet and the Vikings, because Comet will
Speaker 2: have a big game every so often and then he'll
Speaker 2: go like three where he combines for like three targets
Speaker 2: for thirty yards and then like I'm not playing that
Speaker 2: game in the Fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, that's a rough way to live, for sure.
Speaker 4: I don't even know where to go with Titans.
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta ask you about about John new Lukwan,
Speaker 1: but I think we've already we sort of have.
Speaker 5: He's the he's the tight end.
Speaker 4: God.
Speaker 5: I mean, like it's insane. With the yards that he's doing,
Speaker 5: the catches and him knowing about the bet, it just
Speaker 5: kind of just makes it like, oh, yeah, you start,
Speaker 5: John new He's trying to get my hair blonde.
Speaker 4: He hates me, He absolutely hates me.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2: I love that we've turned the kwan from the biggest
Speaker 2: John new Smith's stand there was now.
Speaker 1: Actively rooting against him. Now you're like you're one of
Speaker 1: his ops. Now like this is the best. You become
Speaker 1: one of his ops.
Speaker 5: It's crazy he's called in Ruckus and the Jones family
Speaker 5: because obviously my wife does not want my hair blond.
Speaker 4: I don't want my hair blond.
Speaker 1: But here we are the season though, like this is yes,
Speaker 1: this is great, man, And shout out to cam Wolf
Speaker 1: who made sure that Johnny knew about.
Speaker 4: The whole thing too.
Speaker 1: And I heard him laugh and yeah, apparently he had
Speaker 1: a good, good laugh about that.
Speaker 4: So shout out to cam Wolf for helping us out
Speaker 4: with that. For sure.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it's a rough I would say this, it's
Speaker 1: a rough week for tight ends. When I was writing
Speaker 1: The Sleepers, Connel, I was trying to figure one out
Speaker 1: like I put I put Noah Gray in as a sleeper,
Speaker 1: and I really started, I started honestly with like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with you, it's not a great week
Speaker 1: for sleeper tight ends. It's just not We're gonna try
Speaker 1: to We're gonna try to do some mental gymnastics and
Speaker 1: make it work with Noah Gray here as a sleeper.
Speaker 1: But that's sort of where we are with this one
Speaker 1: at this point. So, uh, anyway, there you go. Those
Speaker 1: are those are the starts, and said you can go
Speaker 1: to NFL dot com slash starts it if you want
Speaker 1: some more in depth analysis on the guys that the
Speaker 1: Michael Floria was talking about here on this show.
Speaker 4: But in the meantime, don'll do it for this edition
Speaker 4: of the.
Speaker 1: Startum Centum Show. We appreciate you as always hanging out
Speaker 1: with us. Enjoy the weekend, Enjoy Week fifteen. Good luck
Speaker 1: to you in the fantasy playoffs. Hopefully it is a
Speaker 1: successful one. The meantime, we will talk to you all
Speaker 1: again real soon. M