Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
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Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Chargia.
Speaker 1: Welcome to our first off season, if you will, Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly.
Speaker 3: We've got playoff action.
Speaker 1: It's not really the off season, it's just the fantasy offseason.
Speaker 3: Back on the show.
Speaker 1: Now that we are no longer the three person, two
Speaker 1: hour in studio version, we get to have Brian Johnson back.
Speaker 4: What up charts? Yeah, I would ask how's it going.
Speaker 4: We talk outside of the show quite often, but for
Speaker 4: the purpose of the show, how's it going. It's been
Speaker 4: a long time.
Speaker 3: It has been a long time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's ten. I made my last appearance, which they've
Speaker 4: become guest appearances now, as you mentioned in Charlotte, I
Speaker 4: have to say, well, first off, congratulations on another full season.
Speaker 4: That was thirty one thirty.
Speaker 1: Well this is thirty so we're uh, we've completed thirty.
Speaker 4: I don't know if episode of the of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and we did the training camp and I popped back
Speaker 4: in a couple times, but I gotta say I did
Speaker 4: miss it, uh, for the first time in pretty much
Speaker 4: ten years, you know, I was. Yeah, they're almost every week,
Speaker 4: so I missed being there. But the show's in good hands,
Speaker 4: of course. But again, congrats on the thirtieth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 1: I know it makes me feel so old, but that's
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. It's it's been a it's been a
Speaker 1: great thirty years. We'll we'll turn our attention today to
Speaker 1: games on the schedule that have a discrepancy and motivation
Speaker 1: between the teams that you can use to your advantage
Speaker 1: in your fantasy league. So we're gonna I'm gonna try.
Speaker 1: I've challenged you, Brian and myself to find a player
Speaker 1: in every game that has a motivational advantage and somebody
Speaker 1: that's off the radar, right like Lamar Jackson's got a
Speaker 1: huge motivational advantage in the first Saturday game. But duh, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're not doing anybody any good with that. Everybody knows
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's likely sitting on a gigantic game, and so
Speaker 1: we're gonna find some dart throw players. And this is
Speaker 1: where I'm a little bit sad. That I don't have
Speaker 1: my full accompaniment of sound effects, so I don't have
Speaker 1: my dart throw sound effect.
Speaker 4: Here, Well is trubisky is he gonna get? Oh?
Speaker 1: Baby, you got trum Boski. I thought I would never
Speaker 1: be able to use my my trum my many trombone
Speaker 1: sound effects.
Speaker 3: But that's not the.
Speaker 4: Text message notification. You know. That's good, that's on your phone.
Speaker 4: That's any at all times.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some fun with uh. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: some fun with that when we get to the Bills game.
Speaker 3: We and so that's uh. So that's the now.
Speaker 1: You could use this for DFS purposes. You could use
Speaker 1: this for betting purposes. For those of you that are
Speaker 1: in legal adding states like you are, Brian, I am not.
Speaker 3: You can not maybe target.
Speaker 4: Somebody's crossed Minnesota. Come. I know I do want to
Speaker 4: move back someday, but I'm not now when given a
Speaker 4: place where you can bet it like, I wouldn't move back.
Speaker 4: I don't want to get into that right now. I
Speaker 4: need I need it back. But anyway, Yes, there will
Speaker 4: be some gambling angles on this show. I got I
Speaker 4: got a few.
Speaker 1: All right, I like it. All right, here we go,
Speaker 1: I've got a couple more games than you do. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go first. And it is that that Baltimore
Speaker 1: Ravens Saturday game. Uh, the Browns have no motivation and
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation is so dire that they've apparently found
Speaker 1: a quarterback that is I don't know, maybe worse than
Speaker 1: dtr Dorian Thompson Robinson, maybe better. But Bailey Zappi is
Speaker 1: now your new starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns and
Speaker 1: taking on the Ravens.
Speaker 4: So it is insane me. Like, you know that one
Speaker 4: guy that has the jersey of like all the all
Speaker 4: the Browns, he I think he probably thought he had
Speaker 4: that could retire that, but no, he's breaking that out
Speaker 4: and oh yah for sure had it that.
Speaker 1: Things like a at zafi is a trench code for Baltimore.
Speaker 1: The win on Saturday means, it means a lot. It's
Speaker 1: the difference between a home playoff game as the three
Speaker 1: seed and a road games the five seed.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, this is a playoff game for them.
Speaker 1: Essentially, it is effectively like an early playoff game, great
Speaker 1: way to put it. Meanwhile, Cleveland was mathematically eliminated when
Speaker 1: they decided to trade for Deshaun Watson two years ago.
Speaker 1: Uh so, let's get to our dart throw player in
Speaker 1: this one, and it is Rashad Bateman. Brown's secondary slipped
Speaker 1: a lot, Brian. Over the past five weeks, the Browns
Speaker 1: have allowed the tenth most wide receiver fantasy points and
Speaker 1: non number one receivers are having a lot of success
Speaker 1: against Cleveland week sixteen. T Higgins and Andrey Josebash scored
Speaker 1: Week fifteen, Juju Smith Schuster scored Week fourteen, Van Jefferson
Speaker 1: scored week thirteen, Marvin mm scored Week twelve.
Speaker 3: Calvin Austin scored.
Speaker 1: So and that's Bateman's whole bit, right, is he's low
Speaker 1: volume touchdown dependent receiver. Well, here's all these touchdowns for
Speaker 1: non number one receivers, depth receivers. I think for Shot
Speaker 1: Bateman can be in this mix.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like it. And uh, you know the Duke's
Speaker 4: Male Bowl is right in town Ram and Charlotte for
Speaker 4: Seod Bateman, former Golden Gopher and one of twelve wide
Speaker 4: receivers with at least eight touchdowns this year for Shot
Speaker 4: Bateman finally coming through for Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really hard from a fantasy standpoint to
Speaker 1: guess when those touchdown games were coming because if Bateman
Speaker 1: does not score, he kills you. He was the worst
Speaker 1: Guillotine eight touchdown guy you could have had on your roster.
Speaker 1: That's those are really really tricky weeks to figure out.
Speaker 4: Not not since week ten. And let me do a
Speaker 4: quick cross promo if you're playing any you know Guillotine
Speaker 4: Leagues playoff contest. Bateman's week ten touchdown, no touchdown, Week eleven,
Speaker 4: then one touchdown, two touchdowns, one touchdown, no touchdown last week.
Speaker 4: But he's been he's been hot since week ten. So
Speaker 4: a guy, I'm I think you might be a little
Speaker 4: chalky in playoff in the championship. We'll talk more about
Speaker 4: that in other episodes, but yeah, Bateman heating up at
Speaker 4: the right time for sure.
Speaker 1: Two different Guillotine League playoff games coming your way starting
Speaker 1: next week, so you'll want to go to guillotin leagues
Speaker 1: dot com check those out. Standard small standard Guillotine League
Speaker 1: style geet playoff Guillotinis with five team leagues and then
Speaker 1: the bigger chompionship games. Let's go to the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: They've got no motivation here of note, but they're taking
Speaker 1: on the Falcons that have to win to have a
Speaker 1: chance to get in Brian.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do. And you know Carolina, They're gonna put
Speaker 4: their their motivated. They're desperately trying to turn their culture around.
Speaker 4: So I think they're gonna they're gonna try to win
Speaker 4: this game against the Panthers, who, as you said, they
Speaker 4: need to win this game, they also need the Bucks
Speaker 4: to lose they play at the same time. So the
Speaker 4: the Falcons are going to play this game effectively like
Speaker 4: their their life is on the line, which as it is,
Speaker 4: so all the motivation really on the Falcon side. From
Speaker 4: a fantasy gambling perspective, I'm not gonna mess with the
Speaker 4: Panthers side too much, even though I think they're gonna
Speaker 4: roll out their starters, like even Adam Field's gonna get
Speaker 4: full run in this game. But I'm gonna focus on
Speaker 4: the on the the Falcons running game against the Panthers,
Speaker 4: who have surrendered nearly eleven hundred combo yards to opposing
Speaker 4: running backs over the last five games. That's wow, more
Speaker 4: than two hundred per game. If I can do that
Speaker 4: math in my head that easily, that's that's bad news.
Speaker 4: The Panthers run and again the Panthers, I didn't dive
Speaker 4: too much. A win can only hurt their draft. They're
Speaker 4: not in the mix for the number one pick. Shockingly,
Speaker 4: they got a little too a little too good for that.
Speaker 4: But uh but anyway, back to the Falcons run game.
Speaker 4: Who in Week five they tore up Carolina are week
Speaker 4: six the Falcons did against the Panthers. Bijeon is gonna
Speaker 4: be the Chalky option here. I'm gonna look at Tyler
Speaker 4: Algier who in that game in Week six, Randon was
Speaker 4: a long time ago. The Panthers run defense was better
Speaker 4: than eighteen carries, one hundred and five yards and a
Speaker 4: touchdown Tyler Algier in that game. And Bijon had two
Speaker 4: touchdowns himself in that game, ninety five yards. It just
Speaker 4: the Falcons should roll the Panthers in this game. And
Speaker 4: you know, Algier, if I'm the coach, I'm like, let's
Speaker 4: let Tyler Algier have a little more fun in this game.
Speaker 4: We're gonna win. Bijeon is the prize guy right in
Speaker 4: the back. I don't know, so Algier is my angle.
Speaker 4: Everyone's focused on Bijon. If you're playing DFS, you can
Speaker 4: play both Falcons running back.
Speaker 3: You really could. You could play both, but absolutely.
Speaker 4: But if I'm gonna pick one, I'll go contrarian with Lgier.
Speaker 1: Okay, Bills take on the Patriots. Now, the Bills have
Speaker 1: no motivation. The Patriots, though, have naggad of motivation. They
Speaker 1: need to lose so they can keep the number one
Speaker 1: seed in the draft, the first pick of the draft.
Speaker 1: They don't want to give that up because if the Patriots,
Speaker 1: because they don't need a quarterback, they will get a
Speaker 1: king's ransom for that first overall pick in all probability
Speaker 1: if they want our and are willing to trade down Brian.
Speaker 4: The Giants paid the Patriots back for ruining their perfect
Speaker 4: season that year, beating them in the Super Bowl oh
Speaker 4: seven and then beating him again, ruining basically the only
Speaker 4: time Brady's lost the Super Bowl. Well, maybe lost one more,
Speaker 4: but they paid. The Giants had the number one pick
Speaker 4: locked up and they they've given it to the Patriots,
Speaker 4: so they paid him back for ruining that the perfect season.
Speaker 4: Can't believe it.
Speaker 1: So Buffalo won't play any starters in this meaningless game.
Speaker 1: They're locked into the two seeds. So then I'm asking myself,
Speaker 1: all right, I need to find a Bill who's going
Speaker 1: to be on the field against a Patriots team trying
Speaker 1: to lose. So although Jared Mayo's trying to keep his job,
Speaker 1: so there is that. I mean, you know, he might
Speaker 1: be trying, but it might not even matter if they
Speaker 1: we are in fact trying to win or lose. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, which running back can take advantage of
Speaker 1: this really bad Patriots run defense. It's obviously not James Cook.
Speaker 1: So then it came down to Ty Johnson or Ray
Speaker 1: Davis and I'm like, okay, which one's worse? And so
Speaker 1: we'll get on the field more in a meaningless game.
Speaker 1: And I've landed on Ray Davis. And here's why. Ty
Speaker 1: Johnson has sixty eight snaps with the clock under two minutes.
Speaker 1: Got this from the utilization report, which is great. Ray
Speaker 1: Davis has ten snaps with the clock under two minutes.
Speaker 1: In theory, when the clock's under two minutes, you've got
Speaker 1: your favorite players on the field. So I'm assuming Ray
Speaker 1: Davis is the least favored of the three running backs
Speaker 1: and he will be on the field the most. Patriots
Speaker 1: are an awful run defense. They've allowed the most yards
Speaker 1: to opposing runners and the third most fantasy points, and
Speaker 1: they've allowed touchdowns to opposing number one backs in five
Speaker 1: straight games. And I think Ray Davis is going to
Speaker 1: be the number one back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're right. Ty Johnson, like James Cook
Speaker 4: and Davis are almost interchangeable. Ty Johnson has a very
Speaker 4: unique role with that off So yeah, they need to
Speaker 4: protect Ty Johnson at all costs. And yeah, and Cook's
Speaker 4: the starter. So I'm with you, with you, my.
Speaker 3: Ank Davis one.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Houston taking on I said,
Speaker 1: Houston Tennessee. Yeah, I think Houston Tennessee is next. Houston
Speaker 1: has no motivation. They're locked into the four seed. And
Speaker 1: the Titans, well they're not good. They're gonna split their quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: You never see this. The plan is to play Will
Speaker 1: Levis in the first half and Mason Rudolph in the
Speaker 1: second half.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you can't trust the passing game. Calvin Ridley
Speaker 4: needs fifty nine yards to get to a thousand. They'll
Speaker 4: probably get that. But that's not too exciting either way,
Speaker 4: not enough motivate, Like, you know, fifty nine yards. If
Speaker 4: it was sixty nine, then it starts to get exciting there. Hey,
Speaker 4: O awful joke, I know, But the where the incentives
Speaker 4: get exciting. Is in the running game for the Titans. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we're Tony Pollard will be the starter. Pollard's like been
Speaker 4: hurt every week, but he's good to go. Spears is out,
Speaker 4: Ty J. Spears is out right now. So Tony Pollard
Speaker 4: needs eighty three rushing yards to earn a two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty thousand dollars bonus and two rushing touchdowns for
Speaker 4: another two hundred and fifty Oh, I guess the Texans
Speaker 4: number twenty two ranked run defense, who you said have
Speaker 4: zero motivation at all? They are locked into the number
Speaker 4: four yea, and they know they suck too. I'm sorry, Houston.
Speaker 4: I win a massive parlay of the Texans win the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl. That goes back to the math. But they're
Speaker 4: not gonna use that so Tobacco Ryans said. Houston's head
Speaker 4: coach said, they're gonna play there. No, they're not. They're not.
Speaker 4: So Tony Pollard like any prop like he's the most
Speaker 4: But that that begs the question though at the highest level,
Speaker 4: charge like it like these incentives like the does the
Speaker 4: the gms don't really want the players to hit these
Speaker 4: from a financial standpoint, do they not? Well? Trickle down
Speaker 4: coach like bike, sure Pollard.
Speaker 3: Doesn't get it. No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: The coaches want the players to get the money, and
Speaker 1: Pollard's under contract for two more years after this, so
Speaker 1: they don't want to burn any bridges of Pollard. What
Speaker 1: do you think of Julius Chestnut, Well, Julius Chestnut getting
Speaker 1: the spears roll. Pollard's been laboring with this injury. You know,
Speaker 1: if he gets knocked out or maybe he hits some
Speaker 1: of these incentives early, what do you think a little
Speaker 1: Julius Chestnut mop up time?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Why not? This could be another just double running
Speaker 4: back scenario two in DFS where he with Chestnut cheap.
Speaker 4: Pollard will be somewhat expensive, but yeah, I mean they
Speaker 4: should just lean on the run game in this one.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I like that angle. Yeah, but the two
Speaker 4: touchdowns a long shot for Pollard either way. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I can see him getting that eighty three rushing yards
Speaker 4: and like, okay, you got two hundred and fifty. K
Speaker 4: I think you're happy with that. It's Chestnut time. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I like that deep dart throw.
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears faced the Packers. The Packers have some motivation here.
Speaker 1: They're locked into the six or the seven. Seed, but
Speaker 1: if they win, they avoid the seventh seed, which has
Speaker 1: to go to Philly. I don't think anybody wants to
Speaker 1: go to Philadelphia for a playoff game. I think they'd
Speaker 1: much rather face the Rams of the Bucks in their games.
Speaker 1: So I think the Packers try to win here and
Speaker 1: I need a dart throat now. Green Bay needs to
Speaker 1: keep Josh Jacobs healthy for their playoff run, and Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur's proven that he'll rest Jacob's in games, especially games
Speaker 1: when they get ahead, so that brings in Emmanuel Wilson.
Speaker 1: He's had forty two snaps over the last two games,
Speaker 1: and he's totally separated himself from Chris Brooks and he's
Speaker 1: got an ankle injury. I don't think Brooks is going
Speaker 1: to be a factor here. And in the last two games,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Wilson four carries from inside the five yard line.
Speaker 1: Goal line back maybe for Emmanuel Wilson. The Bears run
Speaker 1: defense has been bad all year and it's gotten worse
Speaker 1: over time, and depth runners like Emmanuel Wilson are posting
Speaker 1: good games against Chicago.
Speaker 3: Listen to this.
Speaker 1: Last week, Kenny McIntosh turned just seven carries into forty
Speaker 1: six yards before that cam Akers scored a touchdown before that,
Speaker 1: Patrick Taylor and Isaac Garrendo shared three scores before that.
Speaker 1: David Montgomery and Jimior Gibbs, who are basically like both starters,
Speaker 1: but still they both topped one hundred yards against Chicago.
Speaker 1: So I love Emmanuel Wilson in us getting some kind
Speaker 1: of productivity here in some fashion, because I don't think
Speaker 1: I think the Bucks are going to continue to use
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs sparingly and Emmanuel Wilson running well, and there's
Speaker 1: a bad defense.
Speaker 4: I like it. I'm taking notes over here, literally, I'm
Speaker 4: locking that in all right, mind, go.
Speaker 1: To the Saints taking on the Bucks. The Saints have
Speaker 1: no motivation and or probably without a lot of star players.
Speaker 1: I don't think Alvian Khmer is going to go. I
Speaker 1: don't think Derek Carr is gonna go, and yes is
Speaker 1: a question mark. It's all bad for that offense. And
Speaker 1: here come the Bus highly motivated, winning in situation. The Bucks,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing they're like fourteen point favorites. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but they should be like fourteen point favorites. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this one? And who is a dart
Speaker 1: throw player that we could that we could look.
Speaker 4: At yeah, winning in for the Bucks, they win the
Speaker 4: South if they're in, but even more Moti like, that's
Speaker 4: enough motivation to win, but it's even better for them.
Speaker 4: They get the three seed if the if the Rams
Speaker 4: lose Seattle and the Rams that they plan to sit
Speaker 4: there right back. Yeah, yeah, I mean the Bucks should
Speaker 4: very much win this game. I know I was assigned
Speaker 4: a dart throw, but I'm gonna I know, I can't
Speaker 4: say this is financial advice, but there's a prop out
Speaker 4: there for Mike Evans, a prop bet where you can
Speaker 4: get it at minus two hundred, which means you have
Speaker 4: to bet two hundred dollars to win one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Essentially, Yeah, it's just to him to get the eighty
Speaker 1: five yards, he needs to get to one of five yards.
Speaker 4: And five catches, okay, and met him a bonus of
Speaker 4: three million dollars.
Speaker 3: Yes, they're gonna make that happen.
Speaker 4: So I'm not calling it a lock. I don't work
Speaker 4: for the I'm not going to name the network. I
Speaker 4: never say anything like that, but that is just insane
Speaker 4: to me that that is out there, and maybe maybe
Speaker 4: the odds have shifted, but I'll so Kate Otten, but
Speaker 4: no going a deep dark throat Pain Durham was when
Speaker 4: it tight ended last week for the Bucks with Kate
Speaker 4: Otten and out, who is limited? Pain Durham is limited
Speaker 4: Now I don't even know who the third.
Speaker 3: Tight end is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that guy got some action too, And I'm
Speaker 1: trying to remember his name.
Speaker 3: It help. It's like Culp or something.
Speaker 4: Help the Golden Gopher, is it?
Speaker 3: So I got to pull it up right now.
Speaker 1: It's Coke Keifed, yes, and there is a Devin cult
Speaker 1: and there's a Devin Culp as well.
Speaker 4: So I'm just monitoring, man, those guys so much. Uh.
Speaker 4: And I'm playing a Bucks tight end Baker, not a
Speaker 4: darth Row, but snubs for the Pro Bowl. Take that,
Speaker 4: that's how you want it. That's money out of his pocket.
Speaker 4: That's why the players get upset about this. Should have
Speaker 4: been in the Pro Bowl, I think over not Sam Darnald,
Speaker 4: of course. Well I don't want to get the Proscion now,
Speaker 4: Jayden Daniels should have gotten it, or GoF you should
Speaker 4: have got for golf.
Speaker 1: I think the time the time has come to formally
Speaker 1: congratulate you on your Sam Darnald, take you were the
Speaker 1: original Sam Darnald believer, going back to five minutes after
Speaker 1: the Vikings signed him. And you, unlike everybody else on
Speaker 1: my twitter feed, have the receipts because you started betting
Speaker 1: props for Donald to win MVP back in the spring.
Speaker 1: You were the original believer on this podcast. You've got money.
Speaker 1: You've got money that proves you believed it.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that. I actually there's a tweet out there
Speaker 4: and I shouldn't be saying this, but someone will find it.
Speaker 4: I know it's been Bookedmark, but I said I would.
Speaker 4: I said the Viking should sign Sam Donald and if
Speaker 4: they did, they would win the Super Bowl. And if
Speaker 4: that happened, I would do something. But I have some
Speaker 4: ouch planned and I'm not even a Vikings fan, you know.
Speaker 4: It's like I'm like, I'm a Sam Donald. But so anyway,
Speaker 4: that's out there, so we'll see what happens. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I appreciate that, and I would. Yeah, Sam Donald, he
Speaker 4: had the skill set. I was just bad spot. So okay,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna win the MVP bet, I don't think, unfortunately,
Speaker 4: but I will go down with the process. Was right,
Speaker 4: I did bet. We're rooting for Van Ginkle though.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, we want and he's plus two thousand right now,
Speaker 1: it's Patrick Sartan's job to lose. But the but the
Speaker 1: Broncos are getting passed through right now, so it's a
Speaker 1: little bit unclear as to who that defensive MVP will be.
Speaker 4: We need Andrew Vanka one more pick six for Gink
Speaker 4: and it's I think it's a lot. But anyway, appreciate
Speaker 4: that I'm calling Donald and a most roy where I
Speaker 4: get emotional, I I'm sad I'm not out in Minnesota too,
Speaker 4: by the way, for all us, I'm sure it's PANDEMONI.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it must be. I mean, where do you
Speaker 4: rank this right now? With well, the last time was
Speaker 4: you know farv was the last time in the excitement
Speaker 4: was this high? I'm sure nine?
Speaker 1: Right, yeah, probably oh nine more than twenty seventeen. I
Speaker 1: mean the Minneapolis miracle though, so this is for regular season.
Speaker 1: I was there for I lived there at that jacked
Speaker 1: as anything I've seen.
Speaker 4: It can't be. The excitement wasn't the same that season
Speaker 4: as it is right now after the miracle for sure.
Speaker 3: After the miracle it was, yeah, it was going in.
Speaker 4: It was a good team, but it wasn't like anyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're heading the enemy champ.
Speaker 4: Of course I'm routing. I'm rooting for the the Vikings
Speaker 4: and then the quarterback controversy, controversy that will ensue. We
Speaker 4: gotta have an episode with thora.
Speaker 1: And I yeah, that'll be That'll be a knockdown drag out.
Speaker 3: We'll love that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about let's the Vikings in twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen lost to the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Championship Game,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles have no motivation for this game against
Speaker 1: the Giants. The Eagles normally a death sentence for opposing quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: but the Eagles locked into the number two seed, they're
Speaker 1: gonna rest their starters. So let's try to find an
Speaker 1: Eagle that we could go with. Now, everybody knows to
Speaker 1: start my leak, neighbors, that's obvious. Last week, Drew Lock
Speaker 1: put up the sixth highest scoring all time Fantasy day
Speaker 1: for a quarterback. Four passing touchdowns, a rushing touchdown, three
Speaker 1: hundred passing yards. It was an insane day for Drew Lock.
Speaker 1: And you could go to him this week if he
Speaker 1: wanted to, But I can't do that because he just
Speaker 1: posted the sixth highest one, and it sounds like all
Speaker 1: I'm doing.
Speaker 3: Is repeating last week's box score.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the sneakier play of wan Dale
Speaker 1: Robinson in Drew lock starts, Robinson averaging eight targets and
Speaker 1: five catches, and in the last two games, Robinson has
Speaker 1: posted sixty two yards seventy one yards. The seventy one
Speaker 1: yard is tied for the most in any game this season.
Speaker 1: For Robinson, sixty two yards is the third most. So
Speaker 1: they've got a nice connection there and the Eagles secondary,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be filled with guys you've never heard of,
Speaker 1: like Eli Rix and Tristan McCullum and kee Lee Ringo.
Speaker 1: So we'll try Whendelle Robinson as our dart throw.
Speaker 4: What if Philly just signs Boston Scott for fun, just
Speaker 4: to bring God, wouldn't that be funny? And I was
Speaker 4: techn the series of the League. I don't think he
Speaker 4: was it Istpedia Boston Scott, Well says is an American
Speaker 4: football running back. Oh no, who is a free agent,
Speaker 4: so he's not on a team of course, and a
Speaker 4: professional Rocket League sports player.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that.
Speaker 4: Wow used to play Rocket League back at the League
Speaker 4: back in the offices. Yeah, I remember that with the
Speaker 4: good old days. But wow, let's go to our next game, which,
Speaker 4: oh I've got this one too, I think, Are you
Speaker 4: up next? No, I'm up next.
Speaker 1: It's the Kansas City Chiefs with no motivation against the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos highly motivated Chiefs locked into the number one seed,
Speaker 1: Broncos are going to do or die situation in which
Speaker 1: they have to win and get help to get into
Speaker 1: the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Is a seven seed.
Speaker 1: For almost all of the season, the Broncos receiver room
Speaker 1: has been Courtland Sutton and then just a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys now Troy Flanklin and Von Veley and little Jordan Humphrey.
Speaker 1: But that's changed a bit down the stretch here for
Speaker 1: our dart throw player Marvin Mims, who has emerged from
Speaker 1: the pack and looks poised to be a sleeper next year.
Speaker 1: I bet we're talking about him in the offseason as
Speaker 1: a sleeper. He's coming off career highs in pretty much
Speaker 1: everything targets, receptions, touchdowns. Mims has had at least four
Speaker 1: targets in five straight games, which none of the other
Speaker 1: guys can say that. He's seen a target rate of
Speaker 1: over twenty seven percent. That is a big number in
Speaker 1: four the last five and the Chiefs aren't going to
Speaker 1: play any other starters on offense or defense. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go, Marvin Mims, somebody you could take a
Speaker 1: dart throw on in this game.
Speaker 3: Brian, I like it.
Speaker 4: Mims. People were highing him as a rookie last year,
Speaker 4: didn't come through. Then people were highing him going into
Speaker 4: this season. Didn't really come through until basically now. But
Speaker 4: the age old adage right, third year wide receiver breakout.
Speaker 4: So I like the plant your flag now and Marvin Mims,
Speaker 4: I like that call yep for next year and this
Speaker 4: week of course.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers are highly motivated to win and the
Speaker 1: Raiders have been mathematically eliminated.
Speaker 3: Since I don't know, Halloween, Brian, who can we look
Speaker 3: at here?
Speaker 4: So Chargers, yes, motivated, but there is a stipulation. Yes
Speaker 4: they can move up to number five, but if the
Speaker 4: Steelers win on Saturday, then then then the Chargers are
Speaker 4: locked in. Harbaugh Jim Harbaugh seems like a guy where
Speaker 4: he says he would play his starters regardless. I'm not
Speaker 4: I'm not buying that too much. So I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm not really trusting any Chargers in this one. I
Speaker 4: feel like this, who do the the the Steelers play
Speaker 4: on Saturday? Sorry, they are the Steelers on the Steelers
Speaker 4: on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I've got the Bengals in a game the Bengals. That's
Speaker 1: both teams are highly motivated for that one, which is
Speaker 1: why we're not covering that game here. There isn't a
Speaker 1: motivation differential there.
Speaker 4: All Rightyeah, So I'm just I'm still looking at the
Speaker 4: Raiders side of things is I think they're they're gonna
Speaker 4: play to win. Antonio Peers likely on his way out,
Speaker 4: so he doesn't care about draft position. I think they
Speaker 4: they play to win, and he's not off the radar.
Speaker 4: It's not a reach, but I think Jacobe Myers is
Speaker 4: a guy you can lock into cash games. Those are
Speaker 4: popular in Week eighteen, you know, head to heads fifty
Speaker 4: to fifties and also GPPs. He needs ninety six yards
Speaker 4: to get to a thousand, so you know that's the
Speaker 4: great benchmark you want, Like, we're gonna get our guy
Speaker 4: one hundred yards in this game. Aiden O'Connell looks like
Speaker 4: he'll be the quarterback, so it's not gonna be Desmond
Speaker 4: ridd Early so Aidan O'Connell capable enough and Meyer's huge
Speaker 4: ceiling in a game that is likely, or the Chargers
Speaker 4: aren't too motivated. It's just a mash spot for Jacoby Myers.
Speaker 4: So I'm I'm all in, all in on him in
Speaker 4: DFS and anytime touchdown and I'll take his over and yardage.
Speaker 4: Jacoby Myers in for a big game. I'm not not
Speaker 4: financial advice, but as close to it as you can get.
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins are highly motivated as they take on the Jets.
Speaker 1: Dolphins have everything to play for it. They need to
Speaker 1: get a win and some help to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: The Jets mathematically eliminated in Week four. This game's dart
Speaker 1: throw player. Now let's see star cornerback Sauce Gardner's got
Speaker 1: a hamstring injury, may not play in this one. Jets
Speaker 1: secondary falling apart. Could Tyler Huntley actually be a fantasy helper?
Speaker 4: Maybe so.
Speaker 1: The Jets secondary was elite, but in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season. Since Week ten, New York allowing two
Speaker 1: hundred almost two hundred and fifty passing yards per game,
Speaker 1: one point six passing touchdowns per game. They've allowed seven
Speaker 1: passing They've allowed pass touchdowns in seven straight games. But
Speaker 1: here's the real kicker here, Brian. They've allowed five quarterback
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns since Week ten. That's almost one per game.
Speaker 1: And Tyler Huntley, I mean, he's not a great passer,
Speaker 1: but dude can run. He's averages six rushes for thirty
Speaker 1: yards per game. He's started four games. He's running touchdowns
Speaker 1: twice in those four games. So yeah, I'm maybe there's
Speaker 1: a little something here with Tyler Huntley as a running
Speaker 1: contributor and maybe gets a touchdown or two. Maybe Sauce
Speaker 1: Gardner doesn't play, you can try Tyler Huntley as a
Speaker 1: dart throw I like it.
Speaker 4: I mean, like you said, outside chance Miami makes the playoffs.
Speaker 4: But in his head, I mean, Tyler Humtley is always
Speaker 4: playing for a job, right always. This is a great
Speaker 4: spot against the team that is a I don't know
Speaker 4: if you drafted teams that are checked out that the
Speaker 4: Jets are debatable as the first overall pick in that draft. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the New York Jets. Boy, oh boy, there's gonna be
Speaker 4: a Hulu show. You know, Hulu like retreads all these
Speaker 4: like sports stories like the one about the Clipper. There's
Speaker 4: gonna be a show about this season with Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: on Hulu within five years, or can I bet on that?
Speaker 4: I guarantee that's gonna happen. It's gonna be a very
Speaker 4: poorly cast Aaron Rodgers. I cannot wait to watch it.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a great television. All right.
Speaker 1: I've got one more game for you between Sorry, I
Speaker 1: thought we were wrapping up game between two teams that
Speaker 1: have a motivation differential. Seattle no motivation beyond a pure
Speaker 1: normal motivation, Rams though, no motivation at all. They've said
Speaker 1: they're resting their starters, so McVeigh doesn't plan to use
Speaker 1: his guys. Let's see if we can find a sleeper
Speaker 1: in No never mind. Keath Walker's on ir, Zach Sharbona's
Speaker 1: too easy, also too easy, Jackson Smith and Jigba, who's
Speaker 1: been electric for two months, he's out. We're trying to
Speaker 1: find unique angles here.
Speaker 4: So I know it. I know it.
Speaker 3: What about back up running back Kenny.
Speaker 4: McIntosh, Yes, my wasted best ball pick from last year
Speaker 4: Kenny McIntosh zero points. Yeah, I don't know why.
Speaker 3: It was just like.
Speaker 4: For some reason I was Kenny, it was pre before
Speaker 4: the draft, like those are the most dangerous best ball
Speaker 4: drafts before the NFL draft.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well those are the most volatile, but those could
Speaker 1: be the best, right because they are if you guess right,
Speaker 1: you're way ahead of the curve.
Speaker 4: Yeah. For some reason, McIntosh bug got planted in my
Speaker 4: brain last pick for those. But anyway, I like him
Speaker 4: this week tell me more.
Speaker 3: All right, So Kenny McIntosh.
Speaker 1: Rams aren't playing to win Seattle Stakes an early lead.
Speaker 1: They're already down Kenneth Walker, so they protect Zach Sharbony
Speaker 1: by dialing back his usage and enter Kenny McIntosh, who's
Speaker 1: getting work anyway. He's averaging five yards per carry. Last
Speaker 1: week he posted season highs with seven carries forty six
Speaker 1: yards six point six yards per carry. And I just
Speaker 1: on a small sample size, Kenny McIntosh has looked pretty good.
Speaker 1: And normally i'd probably you away from runners against the Rams,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna have all their backups in and we're
Speaker 1: looking for some unique angles. Kenny McIntosh in a Week
Speaker 1: eighteen game could get some run and the Seahawks get
Speaker 1: to see what they got in that kid.
Speaker 4: I like it. I'm I am going to use Kenny
Speaker 4: McIntosh in DFS without a doubt. This is coming full
Speaker 4: circle for me.
Speaker 1: That's right, He's gonna pay off big one year later
Speaker 1: in week eighteen, Kenny McIntosh, you never know, where.
Speaker 3: Do you go to school?
Speaker 1: Do you remember?
Speaker 4: It was kind of a big school and it was
Speaker 4: just a I knew he wasn't like a bell cow back,
Speaker 4: but uh, let's Kenny Macintosh.
Speaker 3: Georgia, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Okay, Georgia, thank you.
Speaker 3: Actually we should have known that.
Speaker 4: George draft round seven. I remember it was more like
Speaker 4: a day three or round three or four, hope, and
Speaker 4: it was just like we got drafted, get drafted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank heavens all don't Maybe it would have worked
Speaker 1: out better for him if he hadn't gotten drafted and
Speaker 1: could have gone to the team of his choosing.
Speaker 3: Who knows, Maybe we've gotten more.
Speaker 4: Kenny McIntosh would have been time yards per carries starting
Speaker 4: freshman year, it was seven five point three, five point seven,
Speaker 4: five point five. I catch the ball, hit great college player.
Speaker 1: I owned a Macintosh computer back in the days. My
Speaker 1: college computer was a black and the black and the
Speaker 1: original Macintosh with the black and white nine inch black
Speaker 1: and white screen, smaller than most iPads today was the
Speaker 1: screen on the Macintosh then, and it was just black
Speaker 1: and white.
Speaker 4: But it had a mouse, and it had the It had.
Speaker 1: An operating system that was graphical instead of MS dots
Speaker 1: where you were typing in you know, everything you wanted
Speaker 1: to do. You could use your mouth and you could
Speaker 1: point and click and stuff.
Speaker 4: And I love my Mac.
Speaker 3: It had no hard drive.
Speaker 1: It was a single floppy.
Speaker 3: Macintosh.
Speaker 1: So the what you'd have to do is you'd have
Speaker 1: to load the operating system disc and turn on your
Speaker 1: computer and it would it would read the disc and
Speaker 1: that would take like two minutes or so to boot up,
Speaker 1: and it would read the disc and it's grinding away
Speaker 1: on the floppy disk. And then if you wanted to
Speaker 1: like execute a program, you had to eject the operating
Speaker 1: system disc and then put in your program disc. And eventually,
Speaker 1: now I wanted to get a hard drive.
Speaker 3: They had a hard drive for the Mac.
Speaker 1: It was twenty megabytes and it cost one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: for twenty megabytes. We download megabytes now in you know,
Speaker 1: like less than one second. That was the whole hard
Speaker 1: drive because it could hold like twenty floppy discs worth
Speaker 1: of information. And yeah, so eventually I got the It
Speaker 1: couldn't afford I could not afford one thousand dollars as
Speaker 1: as a starving student. But eventually I saved up enough
Speaker 1: money to get the second floppy drive so I could
Speaker 1: I didn't have to keep ejecting the operating system disc
Speaker 1: and I could have the operating system in and a
Speaker 1: program in separate disc drives.
Speaker 4: You know, it's wild. I guarantee you've taught some people. Listen,
Speaker 4: younger people listening to this podcast that MAC stands for Macintosh.
Speaker 4: I bet they had no idea that like macin Oh
Speaker 4: everybody knows that. Oh I don't think so, I don't
Speaker 4: know my quick my first memory, so I remember the
Speaker 4: Apple two gs. Remember that that was like I was
Speaker 4: in like grades. That was like the first computer. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I was in like third grade. Yeah, the late eighties
Speaker 4: and Apple two gs and you could con There was
Speaker 4: the Turtle and you'd program and you would like draw stuff,
Speaker 4: you know, like I'm using my hands only you can
Speaker 4: see me, but's like a star. And there was some
Speaker 4: like hack where you put some code in and you
Speaker 4: just go insane. It's a turtle whole screen. Yeah, like
Speaker 4: just go excribbly and like that was like the fun
Speaker 4: thing to do, is uh. That was our getting wild
Speaker 4: on the It wasn't even the Internet, of course in
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty eight, no time.
Speaker 3: Oh no.
Speaker 1: The Apple two GS was a big improvement over the
Speaker 1: Apple too, but it was ultimately a failure for Apple.
Speaker 4: There was.
Speaker 3: They ultimately did not sell.
Speaker 1: A lot of the two gs. And I think the
Speaker 1: g stood for graphics in the S. I don't know,
Speaker 1: super like graphics Comma super it was, but the graphics
Speaker 1: are way better on the Apple two GS. And as
Speaker 1: a gamer, I was very excited about those Apple two
Speaker 1: GS graphics.
Speaker 4: Those things are worth big money now, especially if you
Speaker 4: got the box. I love shows like that.
Speaker 3: That always amazes me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you got you got a Star Wars figuring,
Speaker 1: that's where ten bucks.
Speaker 3: You've got the box.
Speaker 1: That's worth a thousand dollars because nobody got to be
Speaker 1: in the box.
Speaker 3: Nobody.
Speaker 4: We didn't need the box, didn't need to go to school,
Speaker 4: just needed to buy some toys and keep him in
Speaker 4: the packaging and then set. Now I just you know,
Speaker 4: work pump gas until you're eighteen, and I'd be at
Speaker 4: a billionaire right now. It's all I needed to do.
Speaker 1: Isn't that funny how that works?
Speaker 4: And by if you shares an Apple, right, Well, that
Speaker 4: would have.
Speaker 3: Been the thing. Yes, by it.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, funny you bring it up, it was
Speaker 1: forty years ago yesterday, that Apple was incorporated as a company. Wow,
Speaker 1: if I believe, I believe it was forty years ago. Well, no,
Speaker 1: it wasn't because it was nineteen seventy seven, so that
Speaker 1: would have been I don't know, maybe it's like thirty
Speaker 1: eight years ago today something like that. Apple would have yeah,
Speaker 1: just incorporated as a company. That would have been some
Speaker 1: good stock to get into back then.
Speaker 3: That done?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 3: Was it all right?
Speaker 1: Although Jobs was an absolute ass. You know, everybody thinks
Speaker 1: of Jobs is like this visionary founder. Everybody hated. Everybody
Speaker 1: hated Steve Jobs.
Speaker 4: I will I think he's he owns the clippers now.
Speaker 4: I think he's one of the owners that have loughd
Speaker 4: the prices on.
Speaker 3: Oh yea, yeah, that's my Microsoft. You're close. That's that's
Speaker 3: the Microsoft.
Speaker 4: B This POD's gone on too long.
Speaker 1: Probably and nobody's listening at this point except.
Speaker 3: We're just chatting.
Speaker 4: Well, we got to throw a hashtag out there now,
Speaker 4: and really do we have to? Yeah? Okay, this is
Speaker 4: a this is a this is an epic babble. Here,
Speaker 4: we're going deep.
Speaker 3: What's the hashtag you on? Apple?
Speaker 1: Two gs Mac Macintosh, Mac attack, big mac.
Speaker 4: Attack, Big mac attack, basically anything mac mac.
Speaker 1: Well, let's just go Macintosh and also answer whether or
Speaker 1: not you knew that Max stood for Macintosh. I think
Speaker 1: everybody knows that Mac came from Macintosh.
Speaker 3: But we'll find out.
Speaker 4: I don't know, like it's like, twenty three year old
Speaker 4: is gonna be like, oh, this is I got a
Speaker 4: new Macintosh book. They just know Max.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe you might be right, they might just know I
Speaker 1: got my iMac or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, God, bless the youth ignorance.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks my man, it was fun catching up
Speaker 1: with you again. We'll be back next week. We'll break
Speaker 1: down the wild card gain similar stuff, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: be looking for unique angles from the wild card action
Speaker 1: next week. Hopefully the Vikings will not be a team
Speaker 1: that will be discussing next week.
Speaker 4: No, hopefully not.
Speaker 3: Hopefully not.
Speaker 4: Sam MVP Push ain't over.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not over quite yet. I'll tell you it.
Speaker 1: If Sam comes up gigantic in this game, he still
Speaker 1: got a chance to win it, because you're gonna be
Speaker 1: looking at a at a fifteen win Viking team led
Speaker 1: by Sam Darnold, and he's coming off a five touchdown
Speaker 1: performance against the Lions.
Speaker 4: Who knows, maybe it's pretty. And you know, what should
Speaker 4: be the primary factor or one of the primary criteria
Speaker 4: whatever should be salary And we're not getting into like, yeah,
Speaker 4: Sam Donald is getting paid a pittance compared to what
Speaker 4: Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson make. So how valuable is.
Speaker 1: That they're bringing value? Sam is bringing cap releaf to
Speaker 1: his team that Lamar Jackson is not back.
Speaker 4: To that vote please, my last last push, all right,
Speaker 4: process was.
Speaker 3: Right, Process was right. Thank you for listening, everybody. We'll
Speaker 3: talk to you next week.
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