Speaker 1: Wow, Hey everybody, It's Thursday, December twenty sixth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show, where we have thoughts.
Speaker 2: On Charles, entertainment, cheese.
Speaker 1: It's me and your man, MG Marcus Grant, joined by
Speaker 1: Michael Florio and Lakwan Jones.
Speaker 2: Florio, How was your Christmas Day? Sir? It was great.
Speaker 2: I ate and I pretty much didn't do much else
Speaker 2: besides I.
Speaker 3: Watched football and I ate food, and I'm still trying
Speaker 3: to digest it all it was.
Speaker 2: It was tough getting out.
Speaker 3: Of bed the morning after Christmas as you eat all
Speaker 3: that food.
Speaker 2: But you guys have kids. How was your guy was?
Speaker 2: How was your Christmas? Lakwan? It was good.
Speaker 4: Kids opened the presents pretty early. I mean Mason lost
Speaker 4: his complete mind getting him his Imbop soccer jersey. I
Speaker 4: mean he was just completely ecstatic about it. So that
Speaker 4: made my Christmas day.
Speaker 1: Do you have him saying things like top of the
Speaker 1: table and coaches getting sacked.
Speaker 4: Parking the bus, losing the dressing room, Yeah, all that
Speaker 4: type of stuff.
Speaker 1: The dressing room, the dressing room. Yeah, setting your child
Speaker 1: up to be mocked when.
Speaker 3: He gets Yeah, he's gonna be like, oh, did you
Speaker 3: see the players in the dressing.
Speaker 4: Room, And they're gonna be like what, I'm getting him
Speaker 4: to say that the jerseys are kids. I'm getting him
Speaker 4: to say the field is the pitch. Like he's he's soccer.
Speaker 4: He's out there. He got the vocabulary, vocabulary down soccer jersey.
Speaker 2: What was the big gift in the Grant house? Uh,
Speaker 2: you know what it was?
Speaker 1: Honestly, he's got this little box now. It's called The
Speaker 1: Two Knees. It plays stories and sing songs and stuff.
Speaker 1: And like he took to him even more than I
Speaker 1: thought I thought he'd like it. He loved it even more.
Speaker 1: So that's a win. We're eating that w right now.
Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. Uh. Anyway, it is Week seventeen,
Speaker 1: which means championship week for a lot of you out there.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about you sickos and nerds who want
Speaker 1: to play Week eighteen.
Speaker 2: Don't do that.
Speaker 1: Friends don't want friends play Week eighteen. But for the
Speaker 1: rest of you's championship week. So we're gonna go through
Speaker 1: some of our superlatives for the week, but with one
Speaker 1: quick fantasy headline. So I think we talked about on
Speaker 1: NFL fantasy lives. So one of your thoughts about this,
Speaker 1: Lakwan Jalen Hurts still not practicing.
Speaker 2: He is still in the concussion protocol.
Speaker 1: Were just a few days away from Philadelphia's Week seventeen
Speaker 1: matchup against the Dallas Cowboys. Normally it would be Kenny
Speaker 1: Pickett would be the next guy in, but he's dealing
Speaker 1: with a rib injury. Tanner McKee is on the roster.
Speaker 1: The Eagles also went out and signed Ian Book. So
Speaker 1: assuming it's not Jalen Hurts, especially if they go deep
Speaker 1: down the depth chart, obviously we know you're starting Saquon,
Speaker 1: who else are you possibly starting beyond that?
Speaker 4: I think it's a hard start with AJ Brown because
Speaker 4: you really don't have any other pivot options. And honestly,
Speaker 4: when you get a backup quarterback, I think the objective
Speaker 4: is is to get it to your best wide receiver
Speaker 4: and that's AJ Brown. And we saw that with Kenny
Speaker 4: Pickett last game where he was able to get the ball.
Speaker 4: The Devonte Smith and AJ Brown, like the wide receivers
Speaker 4: were the clear tunnel vision focus and the game plan,
Speaker 4: and I don't see that being different against the Cowboys,
Speaker 4: where their defense they're kind of been up and down
Speaker 4: the past Rush has been an elite, but that secondary
Speaker 4: you've been able to get on top and put some
Speaker 4: good fantasy production for the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: I do love the Kenny Pickett knew the assignment he
Speaker 1: came on and he just started feeding aj Brown target.
Speaker 1: So you know, we appreciate that, mister Pickett. Hopefully Tanner
Speaker 1: McKee and or Ian Book get the same memo when
Speaker 1: they get on the field. So it's time to see
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Speaker 1: our superlatives or calls for Week seventeen. We will start
Speaker 1: with Club Dub the non quarterback. Who will be the
Speaker 1: top or quarterback whatever. I don't care anymore. It's Week seventeen.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a I say that because I looked
Speaker 1: at the I looked at who's on the list here,
Speaker 1: and I see your Week seventeen Club Dub option, and
Speaker 1: I honestly look on I will allow it.
Speaker 2: I think it's fine, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 4: I like breaking the rules sometimes, but I really want
Speaker 4: the game in.
Speaker 2: It's fun to do bad things.
Speaker 4: We got the Christians guests added away. I'm on the
Speaker 4: naughty list after for next year. But Anyway, Carolina Reaper,
Speaker 4: I'm loving this nickname for Bryce Young because he did
Speaker 4: your boy a huge service last week knocking those Desert
Speaker 4: Birds out of the playoffs. Like I was just completely
Speaker 4: a static, but more so, he put up twenty seven
Speaker 4: fantasy points and he's coming off one of his best
Speaker 4: fantasy games this season. And look, since we Kate, he's
Speaker 4: became the starter. He's had at least one passing touchdown
Speaker 4: in every start he's had, and that hasn't been done
Speaker 4: since Cam Newton since twenty eighteen. So therefore, against this
Speaker 4: Bucks defense, who are aligned the second most fantasy points
Speaker 4: for a game to quarterbacks, it looks like it's an
Speaker 4: easy layup for him because last time he played it
Speaker 4: almost threw up three hundred yards on them. So I
Speaker 4: expect him to go out there put up a huge
Speaker 4: club dub for your boy because we're rolling the club
Speaker 4: and all black with the Carolina Reefer dame.
Speaker 1: Another thing though, I like about the Bryce you in
Speaker 1: the last few weeks. I've pointed out three rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: in his last four games too, so that's been a
Speaker 1: big kind of sneaky key to it. We always talk
Speaker 1: about the the Konami codes with quarterbacks. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: get you a ton of rushing yards, right, You're not
Speaker 1: gonna look up and he's gonna have like eighty rushing yards.
Speaker 2: But if he finds the end zone that goes.
Speaker 4: A long way toward him, that's him scrambling for his life.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of it is. But look, they
Speaker 1: don't ask how, they ask how many. That's all. That's
Speaker 1: all they really care about. Speaking of guys who run
Speaker 1: a lot and score touchdowns. There there's your club dub guy, Florio.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor, who I feel like we haven't spoken about
Speaker 3: enough this year. Probably I think he's gone under the
Speaker 3: radar a bit went off last week, and I think
Speaker 3: that could just be the warm up because he gets
Speaker 3: to New York Giants. Like I mean, we've seen the
Speaker 3: Giants ran all over all year long, and not only that,
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson is legitimately up in the air for this week,
Speaker 3: which obviously you hope he plays, but if he doesn't,
Speaker 3: that probably means even more running the ball for Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 3: Probably means more dump offs for him. And I'm not
Speaker 3: even worried about him being the focus of the Giants defense. Okay, cool,
Speaker 3: like he's still gonna run all over you guys, no
Speaker 3: doubt about that. So yeah, Jonathan Taylor, I think is
Speaker 3: gonna eat and win people titles this week.
Speaker 2: It is wild.
Speaker 1: We have not talked a lot about Jonathan Taylor because
Speaker 1: most of our conversations about the Colts have been about
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson and what that means for the pass catchers.
Speaker 1: And so you're right, Jonathan Taylor has definitely flown under
Speaker 1: the run.
Speaker 4: He gets go back home to some good pizza man
Speaker 4: Big Jersey, so he's I know he's going to show about,
Speaker 4: show up out against he's got too full.
Speaker 2: Now we don't want Do you think he's a Taylor
Speaker 2: hamm or a pork roll guy. He's definitely a pork
Speaker 2: roll guy. Where is he from all them.
Speaker 4: New Jersey that's in the North area. But I'm pretty
Speaker 4: sure he's going to say pork role if we ever
Speaker 4: get a chance to ask him.
Speaker 1: All Right, that's one thing we'll have to put on
Speaker 1: the list if we ever get to talk to Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 1: Here for sure, mineus Jamiir Gibbs going against the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers. The Niner run defense has been pretty bad
Speaker 1: all year long. We know Gibbs is gonna get a
Speaker 1: ton of work now with no David Montgomery. I think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be kind of a back and forth game.
Speaker 1: I think the Lions win this one, probably by a
Speaker 1: couple of scores. But Jamier Gibbs I think has a
Speaker 1: huge day on the ground catching the football as well.
Speaker 1: I think he scores multiple touchdowns in this game. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't need to tell you to start Jamiir Gibbs,
Speaker 1: but if for whatever reason you're being weird about it,
Speaker 1: start Jamir Gibbs. I mean, there's there's just really nothing
Speaker 1: else to say about that one at this point. That
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Speaker 1: those are the guys that we are excited about now,
Speaker 1: the guys that make us a little bit nervous for
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 2: Lakwan, who's your red flag? Ooh?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: I hate talking bad about my guys, man, and I
Speaker 4: say my guys as a Rams fan. Man Cooper cup Man,
Speaker 4: he is the biggest red flag going into this championship.
Speaker 4: Big dance is it has not been great in the
Speaker 4: last month, man, he has not looked like that reliable
Speaker 4: wide receiver in the last four games, only one game
Speaker 4: above five fantasy points. It's like real nasty work. And
Speaker 4: you look at Pookin'ako getting a detention from Matthew Stafford
Speaker 4: and getting all the attention on defense. He's still going
Speaker 4: out there producing is double the yards, double the catches,
Speaker 4: double everything that Cooper Cup has had. And honestly, you
Speaker 4: look at some of the times, in some of the
Speaker 4: moments where it's crucial, you see Matthew Stafford look the
Speaker 4: two to two at well, I mean a huge third
Speaker 4: down conversion that he was able to get and get
Speaker 4: some big chunk yards where on a catch radio on
Speaker 4: a catch rate, it looks like, you know, Cooper Cup
Speaker 4: has not really been that reliable wide receiver that we've
Speaker 4: known in love and Matthew Stafford in the last two
Speaker 4: games has not been playing strong football either. I mean,
Speaker 4: under one hundred and sixty yards in back to back
Speaker 4: games is not the strong football that the Rams believe in.
Speaker 4: So I look at this this Cardinals defense, and they've
Speaker 4: been one of the best pass defense in the last
Speaker 4: couple of weeks. I do not see this changing for
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford and Cooper Cup. So he's a huge red
Speaker 4: flag and if you should be able to pivot, if
Speaker 4: you have other options in the championship game.
Speaker 1: I mean, here's the thing, Cooper Cup. You know I
Speaker 1: gave you the zero in week fifteen. He improved in
Speaker 1: week sixteen, but that improvement was what like three points,
Speaker 1: three point four points something like that. Yeah, not great,
Speaker 1: not great at all, Bob for sure. Who with so
Speaker 1: your red flag Florio other side of that same game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Kyler Murray, who I know last week had his
Speaker 3: best game and quite some time still I don't believe
Speaker 3: finished as a QB one five passing touchdowns in his
Speaker 3: last seven games, not running as much as we wanted
Speaker 3: him to. The wild stat less than ten points not
Speaker 3: like fantasy real life points allowed in back to back games.
Speaker 3: And then Kyler has one or fewer passing touchdowns in
Speaker 3: four of his last five games against them. And I
Speaker 3: know the one good one game earlier this year, but
Speaker 3: it was all burning Trey White for two long touchdowns
Speaker 3: to Marvin Harrison Junior and Trey White. If you watched
Speaker 3: on Netflix, he was there Thursday, because he is not
Speaker 3: on Wednesday because he's not a ram anymore. So, Yeah,
Speaker 3: this game is going to be very different than it
Speaker 3: was early in the year. And uh lakwan, you talked
Speaker 3: up a five to ten quarterback. I would play Bryce
Speaker 3: Young over Kyler Murray this week.
Speaker 2: That's cool. Yeah, I mean, I think this is where
Speaker 2: we are.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think when you talk about the list
Speaker 1: of disappointments, he might not be the biggest one, but
Speaker 1: he's going to be high up the list. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: a lot of folks were really big on him this
Speaker 1: year and it just has not happened. Meanwhile, Rico Daudo
Speaker 1: has been a really nice piece for a lot of
Speaker 1: fantasy managers, especially the last month or so of the season.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have decided that he should be their running back,
Speaker 1: one to which the rest of us are like, what
Speaker 1: took you so long? But this week makes me a
Speaker 1: little bit nervous against the Eagles because they really have
Speaker 1: locked down on running backs. I think what wins the
Speaker 1: day potentially is volume. He's gonna get a lot of
Speaker 1: it every now and then. The Cowboys will work in
Speaker 1: say an Ezekiel Elliott or somebody like that, But this
Speaker 1: really is the Rico Dowdell Show, and so I think
Speaker 1: that potentially can sort of save the day, but there
Speaker 1: are a lot of reasons to be nervous about him
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, who really have just locked down on
Speaker 1: running backs for much of the year. And look, I
Speaker 1: think if anything helps, maybe game script is sort of
Speaker 1: neutral in this one. If Jalen Hurts can't go, if
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts plays, then it's can turned into a really
Speaker 1: negative game script. And maybe you see Cooper Rush having
Speaker 1: to throw the football, so you might not be able
Speaker 1: to get away from Rico Dawdle because he's been carrying
Speaker 1: a lot of teams for the last few weeks or so,
Speaker 1: but not very excited about the situation for him this
Speaker 1: week against Philadelphia. It's time to drive your lineup, presented
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Speaker 1: I am I am shocked by this one.
Speaker 2: La.
Speaker 1: This is not a name that we have, This is
Speaker 1: not a name that we've talked about a lot, and
Speaker 1: when we have, it has not been in a positive light.
Speaker 2: So I'm very interested to hear this one.
Speaker 4: I shocked myself phone the pall on Travis Etn being
Speaker 4: a snore lax for me because I'm in a situation
Speaker 4: where I'm like, all right, if I have traves Etn
Speaker 4: in the last couple of weeks, he's looked a lot
Speaker 4: better than Tank Bitsby. I mean the last two games,
Speaker 4: Tank can't get out of his own way, two fumbles
Speaker 4: in those games, and you look at the yards per Carrie,
Speaker 4: you're looking at who's getting all the targets, who's getting
Speaker 4: the row opportunities. It's been Travis Etn. So I like
Speaker 4: this research of him, and with this matchup against the Titans,
Speaker 4: they are bottom the table when it comes to stopping
Speaker 4: the run, and there's no way that you're gonna tell
Speaker 4: me that the Titans are gonna lock him up. When
Speaker 4: traves Etn is running off of motivation, he's hungry, and
Speaker 4: he's gonna try to keep Tank Bigsby away. He's gonna
Speaker 4: try to stick form him on that depth chart because
Speaker 4: Tank Bisby just has not been consistent in his play.
Speaker 4: So Travis Etn is healthy now and he's been running
Speaker 4: way more efficient, So I think he's earned that role
Speaker 4: as the RB one to get more opportunities against a
Speaker 4: favorable matchup.
Speaker 2: Bottom of the table.
Speaker 1: Uh anyway, Yeah, look, I mean neice to see Travis
Speaker 1: etn finish out on a strong note. It would just
Speaker 1: be nice to see somebody in that backfield finish out
Speaker 1: on a strong note, just so we can sort of
Speaker 1: take something with us into the offseason and try to
Speaker 1: figure out what happens next year.
Speaker 2: Because the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: Remember a couple of years ago when it seems like
Speaker 1: the Jaguars were like on their way to like being
Speaker 1: competitive for a while, and then like the Texans showed
Speaker 1: up and grinding their feet on Jacksonville's couch.
Speaker 2: And then like it's aren't even good. That's the like
Speaker 2: that whole division is just bad, just bad.
Speaker 4: Mac Jones QB one.
Speaker 2: Mac Jones exactly. Anyway, who is your who's your sleeper
Speaker 2: for the week? Floor?
Speaker 3: You look a mir of doula because if it's not broke,
Speaker 3: don't fix it, and a mirbdula has just been coming
Speaker 3: through last week. I I even tweeted in the first
Speaker 3: half like I'm sorry everyone, a mer of Doulah was
Speaker 3: the wrong call because Alexander Madison had all the volume.
Speaker 3: He scored a touchdown and then a mirror Dull scored
Speaker 3: a touchdown of his own, finished with more fantasy points
Speaker 3: scored nineteen. The week prior to that, he was sitting
Speaker 3: around nineteen. And then in the game prior to that,
Speaker 3: where before since here McCormick took over, he was at seventeen.
Speaker 3: So in the the games where they have given him
Speaker 3: the opportunities, he has turned it into fantasy production. And
Speaker 3: the reason why I like him more than Madison. He's
Speaker 3: more explosive and he's the pass catcher, so that is
Speaker 3: free points right there, and then they're both going to
Speaker 3: be using near the goal line stuff like that. So
Speaker 3: in a good matchup where game script might not be
Speaker 3: an issue.
Speaker 2: I like a mi her of Dullah. I remember way
Speaker 2: back in the summer that we're like, oh yeah, the
Speaker 2: Veryers have a mere of Doula. That was kind.
Speaker 1: Now he's a league winner, league winner potentially, Like you know,
Speaker 1: time is weird like that, It is really, really weird.
Speaker 1: My favorite sleeper for this week is chig Aconquo, who's
Speaker 1: really been doing some nice things for the Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Titans over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: We're starting to see some sort of reserve and secondary
Speaker 1: tight ends come to prominence across the NFL. I've seen
Speaker 1: Stone Smart with the Chargers, Chicka Conko now with the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, And I said earlier this week, I think
Speaker 1: having Mason Rudolph sort of works in his favor. We
Speaker 1: know he's not gonna be a downfield threat, which is
Speaker 1: good because Mason Rudolph is not really a guy who
Speaker 1: is aggressive in throwing the football downfield. So Chicka Conko
Speaker 1: can run a lot of those underneath and intermediate routes
Speaker 1: and I think he sees a lot of targets in
Speaker 1: this one. The matchup is good against the Jaguars as well,
Speaker 1: So if you are looking to stream tight ends, I
Speaker 1: think Chicka Conko is a good option for you in
Speaker 1: Week seventeen. Plus, it gives you a great story to tell,
Speaker 1: and when you win your championship, you're like, I beat
Speaker 1: you with Chigakonko, Like he's gonna be He's gonna be
Speaker 1: one of those guys that, like on social media, if
Speaker 1: it exists in ten years, you'll be like, let's name
Speaker 1: some dudes in like, Chicka Conko's name is gonna pop up.
Speaker 3: He's one of the best starts you could have this
Speaker 3: week for that exact reason, because like, yeah, okay, you
Speaker 3: could start a regular tight end and then people are like,
Speaker 3: all right, yeah you beat me.
Speaker 2: But if you start Chicka.
Speaker 3: Konko and win, you're gonna be like, I am so
Speaker 3: much smarter than name, and that's why I won this league.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, hopefully this does help you out with some
Speaker 1: lineup decisions, helps you get set four. Championship Week should
Speaker 1: be a fun weekend. Of course, we got three games.
Speaker 1: By the way, I should be a company man here
Speaker 1: and tell you that we have a triple header on
Speaker 1: NFL Network. It all kicks off in the morning with
Speaker 1: Game Day Morning. It starts with Chargers at Patriots, follow
Speaker 1: that up with Broncos Bengals, and in the nightcap Cardinals
Speaker 1: Rams at Sofi Stadium. So three games for you on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and of course that rolls right into your regular Sunday
Speaker 1: slate as well in week seventeen. But for us that'll
Speaker 1: do it for this edition of the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast.
Speaker 1: A happy, safe and healthy, do good, and live well.
Speaker 1: Enjoy Thursday night football as well. We got the Seahawks
Speaker 1: and the Bears on that one, and we will talk
Speaker 1: to you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Don't Bob, don't no