WEBVTT - Motivation Mismatches! 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:04.600 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:10.959 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:15.000 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.439 whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.200 here's your host, Paul Chargia. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:25.240 Welcome to our first off season, if you will, Fantasy 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:26.079 Football Weekly. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:27.319 We've got playoff action. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.040 It's not really the off season, it's just the fantasy offseason. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:31.600 Back on the show. 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.240 Now that we are no longer the three person, two 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:38.040 hour in studio version, we get to have Brian Johnson back. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.440 What up charts? Yeah, I would ask how's it going. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.280 We talk outside of the show quite often, but for 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.919 the purpose of the show, how's it going. It's been 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:49.560 a long time. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:50.800 It has been a long time. 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:55.600 Yeah, that's ten. I made my last appearance, which they've 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.440 become guest appearances now, as you mentioned in Charlotte, I 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.400 have to say, well, first off, congratulations on another full season. 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:04.440 That was thirty one thirty. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:09.000 Well this is thirty so we're uh, we've completed thirty. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:13.000 I don't know if episode of the of the season. Yeah, 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.119 and we did the training camp and I popped back 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:18.440 in a couple times, but I gotta say I did 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.319 miss it, uh, for the first time in pretty much 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.600 ten years, you know, I was. Yeah, they're almost every week, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.520 so I missed being there. But the show's in good hands, 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.880 of course. But again, congrats on the thirtieth. 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:32.080 Yeah, thank you. 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:32.560 That's it. 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:34.400 I know it makes me feel so old, but that's 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:36.280 I appreciate that. It's it's been a it's been a 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.760 great thirty years. We'll we'll turn our attention today to 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:45.440 games on the schedule that have a discrepancy and motivation 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.000 between the teams that you can use to your advantage 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.000 in your fantasy league. So we're gonna I'm gonna try. 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.880 I've challenged you, Brian and myself to find a player 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:01.280 in every game that has a motivational advantage and somebody 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.720 that's off the radar, right like Lamar Jackson's got a 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:08.360 huge motivational advantage in the first Saturday game. But duh, yeah, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.880 we're not doing anybody any good with that. Everybody knows 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:15.240 Lamar Jackson's likely sitting on a gigantic game, and so 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.600 we're gonna find some dart throw players. And this is 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.080 where I'm a little bit sad. That I don't have 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:22.800 my full accompaniment of sound effects, so I don't have 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.279 my dart throw sound effect. 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:29.880 Here, Well is trubisky is he gonna get? Oh? 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:35.639 Baby, you got trum Boski. I thought I would never 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.680 be able to use my my trum my many trombone 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:40.280 sound effects. 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:41.079 But that's not the. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.840 Text message notification. You know. That's good, that's on your phone. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.079 That's any at all times. 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:49.480 We're gonna have some fun with uh. We're gonna have 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.160 some fun with that when we get to the Bills game. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.280 We and so that's uh. So that's the now. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.200 You could use this for DFS purposes. You could use 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.280 this for betting purposes. For those of you that are 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.760 in legal adding states like you are, Brian, I am not. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:04.560 You can not maybe target. 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.240 Somebody's crossed Minnesota. Come. I know I do want to 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:12.480 move back someday, but I'm not now when given a 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:17.119 place where you can bet it like, I wouldn't move back. 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:18.880 I don't want to get into that right now. I 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.000 need I need it back. But anyway, Yes, there will 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.160 be some gambling angles on this show. I got I 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:24.480 got a few. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.600 All right, I like it. All right, here we go, 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.200 I've got a couple more games than you do. So 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.519 I'm gonna go first. And it is that that Baltimore 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:35.720 Ravens Saturday game. Uh, the Browns have no motivation and 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:41.280 the quarterback situation is so dire that they've apparently found 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.960 a quarterback that is I don't know, maybe worse than 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.040 dtr Dorian Thompson Robinson, maybe better. But Bailey Zappi is 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.480 now your new starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns and 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:53.760 taking on the Ravens. 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.680 So it is insane me. Like, you know that one 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.280 guy that has the jersey of like all the all 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.360 the Browns, he I think he probably thought he had 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.320 that could retire that, but no, he's breaking that out 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.560 and oh yah for sure had it that. 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:13.080 Things like a at zafi is a trench code for Baltimore. 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.680 The win on Saturday means, it means a lot. It's 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.279 the difference between a home playoff game as the three 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.719 seed and a road games the five seed. 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:23.080 Yeah. Absolutely. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.000 Meanwhile, this is a playoff game for them. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.600 Essentially, it is effectively like an early playoff game, great 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:32.279 way to put it. Meanwhile, Cleveland was mathematically eliminated when 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:36.160 they decided to trade for Deshaun Watson two years ago. 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.400 Uh so, let's get to our dart throw player in 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.680 this one, and it is Rashad Bateman. Brown's secondary slipped 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.960 a lot, Brian. Over the past five weeks, the Browns 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.200 have allowed the tenth most wide receiver fantasy points and 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.359 non number one receivers are having a lot of success 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:56.200 against Cleveland week sixteen. T Higgins and Andrey Josebash scored 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.920 Week fifteen, Juju Smith Schuster scored Week fourteen, Van Jefferson 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.720 scored week thirteen, Marvin mm scored Week twelve. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:03.600 Calvin Austin scored. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.279 So and that's Bateman's whole bit, right, is he's low 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.920 volume touchdown dependent receiver. Well, here's all these touchdowns for 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.800 non number one receivers, depth receivers. I think for Shot 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.120 Bateman can be in this mix. 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.560 Yeah, I like it. And uh, you know the Duke's 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.760 Male Bowl is right in town Ram and Charlotte for 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:28.680 Seod Bateman, former Golden Gopher and one of twelve wide 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.200 receivers with at least eight touchdowns this year for Shot 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.039 Bateman finally coming through for Baltimore. 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.479 Yeah, it was really hard from a fantasy standpoint to 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.480 guess when those touchdown games were coming because if Bateman 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.480 does not score, he kills you. He was the worst 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.320 Guillotine eight touchdown guy you could have had on your roster. 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.400 That's those are really really tricky weeks to figure out. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.640 Not not since week ten. And let me do a 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.560 quick cross promo if you're playing any you know Guillotine 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:03.839 Leagues playoff contest. Bateman's week ten touchdown, no touchdown, Week eleven, 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.840 then one touchdown, two touchdowns, one touchdown, no touchdown last week. 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.919 But he's been he's been hot since week ten. So 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:11.920 a guy, I'm I think you might be a little 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:16.240 chalky in playoff in the championship. We'll talk more about 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.000 that in other episodes, but yeah, Bateman heating up at 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:19.960 the right time for sure. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.679 Two different Guillotine League playoff games coming your way starting 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.960 next week, so you'll want to go to guillotin leagues 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:29.880 dot com check those out. Standard small standard Guillotine League 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.360 style geet playoff Guillotinis with five team leagues and then 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:37.080 the bigger chompionship games. Let's go to the Carolina Panthers. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.840 They've got no motivation here of note, but they're taking 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.680 on the Falcons that have to win to have a 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.000 chance to get in Brian. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.680 Yeah, they do. And you know Carolina, They're gonna put 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:53.200 their their motivated. They're desperately trying to turn their culture around. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:54.840 So I think they're gonna they're gonna try to win 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.520 this game against the Panthers, who, as you said, they 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.000 need to win this game, they also need the Bucks 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.800 to lose they play at the same time. So the 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:04.919 the Falcons are going to play this game effectively like 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.200 their their life is on the line, which as it is, 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.280 so all the motivation really on the Falcon side. From 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.160 a fantasy gambling perspective, I'm not gonna mess with the 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:18.040 Panthers side too much, even though I think they're gonna 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.160 roll out their starters, like even Adam Field's gonna get 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.840 full run in this game. But I'm gonna focus on 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.360 the on the the Falcons running game against the Panthers, 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:31.720 who have surrendered nearly eleven hundred combo yards to opposing 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.760 running backs over the last five games. That's wow, more 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.120 than two hundred per game. If I can do that 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.239 math in my head that easily, that's that's bad news. 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:45.040 The Panthers run and again the Panthers, I didn't dive 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:49.160 too much. A win can only hurt their draft. They're 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.400 not in the mix for the number one pick. Shockingly, 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.920 they got a little too a little too good for that. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:58.080 But uh but anyway, back to the Falcons run game. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:02.320 Who in Week five they tore up Carolina are week 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:07.080 six the Falcons did against the Panthers. Bijeon is gonna 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:09.440 be the Chalky option here. I'm gonna look at Tyler 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.040 Algier who in that game in Week six, Randon was 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.240 a long time ago. The Panthers run defense was better 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.360 than eighteen carries, one hundred and five yards and a 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.440 touchdown Tyler Algier in that game. And Bijon had two 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.640 touchdowns himself in that game, ninety five yards. It just 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.200 the Falcons should roll the Panthers in this game. And 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:32.000 you know, Algier, if I'm the coach, I'm like, let's 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.000 let Tyler Algier have a little more fun in this game. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.000 We're gonna win. Bijeon is the prize guy right in 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.400 the back. I don't know, so Algier is my angle. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.160 Everyone's focused on Bijon. If you're playing DFS, you can 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.719 play both Falcons running back. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.640 You really could. You could play both, but absolutely. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.280 But if I'm gonna pick one, I'll go contrarian with Lgier. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.320 Okay, Bills take on the Patriots. Now, the Bills have 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:01.880 no motivation. The Patriots, though, have naggad of motivation. They 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.640 need to lose so they can keep the number one 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.720 seed in the draft, the first pick of the draft. 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.959 They don't want to give that up because if the Patriots, 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.840 because they don't need a quarterback, they will get a 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.800 king's ransom for that first overall pick in all probability 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.320 if they want our and are willing to trade down Brian. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.640 The Giants paid the Patriots back for ruining their perfect 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.439 season that year, beating them in the Super Bowl oh 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.240 seven and then beating him again, ruining basically the only 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.560 time Brady's lost the Super Bowl. Well, maybe lost one more, 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.600 but they paid. The Giants had the number one pick 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.040 locked up and they they've given it to the Patriots, 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.439 so they paid him back for ruining that the perfect season. 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:41.120 Can't believe it. 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.480 So Buffalo won't play any starters in this meaningless game. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.080 They're locked into the two seeds. So then I'm asking myself, 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.240 all right, I need to find a Bill who's going 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.920 to be on the field against a Patriots team trying 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:56.360 to lose. So although Jared Mayo's trying to keep his job, 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:58.319 so there is that. I mean, you know, he might 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.080 be trying, but it might not even matter if they 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.720 we are in fact trying to win or lose. So 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.480 I'm like, okay, which running back can take advantage of 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.920 this really bad Patriots run defense. It's obviously not James Cook. 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.079 So then it came down to Ty Johnson or Ray 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.560 Davis and I'm like, okay, which one's worse? And so 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.160 we'll get on the field more in a meaningless game. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.600 And I've landed on Ray Davis. And here's why. Ty 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:26.680 Johnson has sixty eight snaps with the clock under two minutes. 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.920 Got this from the utilization report, which is great. Ray 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.800 Davis has ten snaps with the clock under two minutes. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.080 In theory, when the clock's under two minutes, you've got 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.800 your favorite players on the field. So I'm assuming Ray 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.200 Davis is the least favored of the three running backs 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.280 and he will be on the field the most. Patriots 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.400 are an awful run defense. They've allowed the most yards 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.520 to opposing runners and the third most fantasy points, and 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:55.280 they've allowed touchdowns to opposing number one backs in five 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.000 straight games. And I think Ray Davis is going to 0:10:58.040 --> 0:10:59.080 be the number one back. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.840 Yeah, I think you're right. Ty Johnson, like James Cook 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.679 and Davis are almost interchangeable. Ty Johnson has a very 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:08.960 unique role with that off So yeah, they need to 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.120 protect Ty Johnson at all costs. And yeah, and Cook's 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:13.720 the starter. So I'm with you, with you, my. 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:15.120 Ank Davis one. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.199 All right, let's go to Houston taking on I said, 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.079 Houston Tennessee. Yeah, I think Houston Tennessee is next. Houston 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.240 has no motivation. They're locked into the four seed. And 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:29.120 the Titans, well they're not good. They're gonna split their quarterbacks. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.120 You never see this. The plan is to play Will 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.280 Levis in the first half and Mason Rudolph in the 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:33.880 second half. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.000 Yeah, so you can't trust the passing game. Calvin Ridley 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.439 needs fifty nine yards to get to a thousand. They'll 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.680 probably get that. But that's not too exciting either way, 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.080 not enough motivate, Like, you know, fifty nine yards. If 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.240 it was sixty nine, then it starts to get exciting there. Hey, 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.439 O awful joke, I know, But the where the incentives 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.880 get exciting. Is in the running game for the Titans. Yeah, 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:00.480 we're Tony Pollard will be the starter. Pollard's like been 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.880 hurt every week, but he's good to go. Spears is out, 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:06.720 Ty J. Spears is out right now. So Tony Pollard 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.360 needs eighty three rushing yards to earn a two hundred 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:15.000 and fifty thousand dollars bonus and two rushing touchdowns for 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:19.000 another two hundred and fifty Oh, I guess the Texans 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.360 number twenty two ranked run defense, who you said have 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:23.920 zero motivation at all? They are locked into the number 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.040 four yea, and they know they suck too. I'm sorry, Houston. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.439 I win a massive parlay of the Texans win the 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.840 Super Bowl. That goes back to the math. But they're 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:36.040 not gonna use that so Tobacco Ryans said. Houston's head 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.400 coach said, they're gonna play there. No, they're not. They're not. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:43.600 So Tony Pollard like any prop like he's the most 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:47.040 But that that begs the question though at the highest level, 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:52.000 charge like it like these incentives like the does the 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:55.000 the gms don't really want the players to hit these 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.360 from a financial standpoint, do they not? Well? Trickle down 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.400 coach like bike, sure Pollard. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:01.520 Doesn't get it. No, no, no, no. 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.760 The coaches want the players to get the money, and 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:08.360 Pollard's under contract for two more years after this, so 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.640 they don't want to burn any bridges of Pollard. What 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:16.319 do you think of Julius Chestnut, Well, Julius Chestnut getting 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.600 the spears roll. Pollard's been laboring with this injury. You know, 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.280 if he gets knocked out or maybe he hits some 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.760 of these incentives early, what do you think a little 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:26.760 Julius Chestnut mop up time? 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.480 Yeah? Why not? This could be another just double running 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:36.240 back scenario two in DFS where he with Chestnut cheap. 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.880 Pollard will be somewhat expensive, but yeah, I mean they 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.080 should just lean on the run game in this one. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.200 So yeah, I like that angle. Yeah, but the two 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.719 touchdowns a long shot for Pollard either way. But yeah, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:49.760 I can see him getting that eighty three rushing yards 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.640 and like, okay, you got two hundred and fifty. K 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.800 I think you're happy with that. It's Chestnut time. So yeah, 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.880 I like that deep dart throw. 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:02.360 Chicago Bears faced the Packers. The Packers have some motivation here. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.440 They're locked into the six or the seven. Seed, but 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.319 if they win, they avoid the seventh seed, which has 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.880 to go to Philly. I don't think anybody wants to 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.800 go to Philadelphia for a playoff game. I think they'd 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:17.360 much rather face the Rams of the Bucks in their games. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.040 So I think the Packers try to win here and 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.280 I need a dart throat now. Green Bay needs to 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.960 keep Josh Jacobs healthy for their playoff run, and Matt 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.960 Lafleur's proven that he'll rest Jacob's in games, especially games 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:33.120 when they get ahead, so that brings in Emmanuel Wilson. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.800 He's had forty two snaps over the last two games, 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.880 and he's totally separated himself from Chris Brooks and he's 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.960 got an ankle injury. I don't think Brooks is going 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.800 to be a factor here. And in the last two games, 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:50.840 Emmanuel Wilson four carries from inside the five yard line. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.640 Goal line back maybe for Emmanuel Wilson. The Bears run 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.160 defense has been bad all year and it's gotten worse 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:03.400 over time, and depth runners like Emmanuel Wilson are posting 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:04.560 good games against Chicago. 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:05.040 Listen to this. 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:09.160 Last week, Kenny McIntosh turned just seven carries into forty 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:13.640 six yards before that cam Akers scored a touchdown before that, 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:19.200 Patrick Taylor and Isaac Garrendo shared three scores before that. 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.720 David Montgomery and Jimior Gibbs, who are basically like both starters, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.560 but still they both topped one hundred yards against Chicago. 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.880 So I love Emmanuel Wilson in us getting some kind 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.400 of productivity here in some fashion, because I don't think 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.320 I think the Bucks are going to continue to use 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.000 Josh Jacobs sparingly and Emmanuel Wilson running well, and there's 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:39.760 a bad defense. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:45.600 I like it. I'm taking notes over here, literally, I'm 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:47.600 locking that in all right, mind, go. 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.040 To the Saints taking on the Bucks. The Saints have 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.560 no motivation and or probably without a lot of star players. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:55.040 I don't think Alvian Khmer is going to go. I 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.000 don't think Derek Carr is gonna go, and yes is 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.320 a question mark. It's all bad for that offense. And 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:04.640 here come the Bus highly motivated, winning in situation. The Bucks, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.240 I'm guessing they're like fourteen point favorites. I don't know, 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.280 but they should be like fourteen point favorites. What are 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.440 your thoughts on this one? And who is a dart 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.560 throw player that we could that we could look. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.920 At yeah, winning in for the Bucks, they win the 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.680 South if they're in, but even more Moti like, that's 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.040 enough motivation to win, but it's even better for them. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.720 They get the three seed if the if the Rams 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.440 lose Seattle and the Rams that they plan to sit 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:34.360 there right back. Yeah, yeah, I mean the Bucks should 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.840 very much win this game. I know I was assigned 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.800 a dart throw, but I'm gonna I know, I can't 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.400 say this is financial advice, but there's a prop out 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:47.920 there for Mike Evans, a prop bet where you can 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.760 get it at minus two hundred, which means you have 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.280 to bet two hundred dollars to win one hundred dollars. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.400 Essentially, Yeah, it's just to him to get the eighty 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.760 five yards, he needs to get to one of five yards. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.520 And five catches, okay, and met him a bonus of 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.080 three million dollars. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:05.919 Yes, they're gonna make that happen. 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.359 So I'm not calling it a lock. I don't work 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.359 for the I'm not going to name the network. I 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:15.200 never say anything like that, but that is just insane 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.920 to me that that is out there, and maybe maybe 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.639 the odds have shifted, but I'll so Kate Otten, but 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:24.640 no going a deep dark throat Pain Durham was when 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.600 it tight ended last week for the Bucks with Kate 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:30.640 Otten and out, who is limited? Pain Durham is limited 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.600 Now I don't even know who the third. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:33.239 Tight end is. 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.000 Yeah, and that guy got some action too, And I'm 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:37.480 trying to remember his name. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.720 It help. It's like Culp or something. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:42.919 Help the Golden Gopher, is it? 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.000 So I got to pull it up right now. 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.240 It's Coke Keifed, yes, and there is a Devin cult 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.639 and there's a Devin Culp as well. 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:57.040 So I'm just monitoring, man, those guys so much. Uh. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:01.280 And I'm playing a Bucks tight end Baker, not a 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.760 darth Row, but snubs for the Pro Bowl. Take that, 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:06.679 that's how you want it. That's money out of his pocket. 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.040 That's why the players get upset about this. Should have 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.639 been in the Pro Bowl, I think over not Sam Darnald, 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.240 of course. Well I don't want to get the Proscion now, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.040 Jayden Daniels should have gotten it, or GoF you should 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:18.800 have got for golf. 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.280 I think the time the time has come to formally 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.040 congratulate you on your Sam Darnald, take you were the 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.880 original Sam Darnald believer, going back to five minutes after 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.359 the Vikings signed him. And you, unlike everybody else on 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:37.520 my twitter feed, have the receipts because you started betting 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:42.359 props for Donald to win MVP back in the spring. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:47.359 You were the original believer on this podcast. You've got money. 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.720 You've got money that proves you believed it. 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.320 I appreciate that. I actually there's a tweet out there 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.240 and I shouldn't be saying this, but someone will find it. 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.160 I know it's been Bookedmark, but I said I would. 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.239 I said the Viking should sign Sam Donald and if 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.399 they did, they would win the Super Bowl. And if 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:09.440 that happened, I would do something. But I have some 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.920 ouch planned and I'm not even a Vikings fan, you know. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.359 It's like I'm like, I'm a Sam Donald. But so anyway, 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.360 that's out there, so we'll see what happens. But yeah, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:21.399 I appreciate that, and I would. Yeah, Sam Donald, he 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.920 had the skill set. I was just bad spot. So okay, 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.720 I'm not gonna win the MVP bet, I don't think, unfortunately, 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.320 but I will go down with the process. Was right, 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.359 I did bet. We're rooting for Van Ginkle though. 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.439 Right, yeah, we want and he's plus two thousand right now, 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.359 it's Patrick Sartan's job to lose. But the but the 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:45.359 Broncos are getting passed through right now, so it's a 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.920 little bit unclear as to who that defensive MVP will be. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:53.160 We need Andrew Vanka one more pick six for Gink 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:55.960 and it's I think it's a lot. But anyway, appreciate 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.520 that I'm calling Donald and a most roy where I 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.879 get emotional, I I'm sad I'm not out in Minnesota too, 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.160 by the way, for all us, I'm sure it's PANDEMONI. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:06.359 Oh yeah, it must be. I mean, where do you 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.399 rank this right now? With well, the last time was 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:11.960 you know farv was the last time in the excitement 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:13.320 was this high? I'm sure nine? 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:15.879 Right, yeah, probably oh nine more than twenty seventeen. I 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:19.959 mean the Minneapolis miracle though, so this is for regular season. 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:22.879 I was there for I lived there at that jacked 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:23.960 as anything I've seen. 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.040 It can't be. The excitement wasn't the same that season 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:30.160 as it is right now after the miracle for sure. 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:33.080 After the miracle it was, yeah, it was going in. 0:20:33.320 --> 0:20:35.159 It was a good team, but it wasn't like anyone. 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:36.360