Speaker 1: Hey everybody, It's Tuesday, December seventeenth, twenty twenty four. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the NFL Fantasy Football Show. We're just trying to
Speaker 1: survive in advance. It's me and your man, MG Marcus Grant,
Speaker 1: joined by Michael f. Florio and Lakwan Jones Fellas. We
Speaker 1: are into Week sixteen, which once upon a time would
Speaker 1: have been Championship week.
Speaker 2: I guess that those days are further and further in
Speaker 2: the rearview.
Speaker 1: Mirror though, right that this was championship week, that's just
Speaker 1: a semi finals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're probably closer to getting another game added.
Speaker 4: To the schedule than we ever are going back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're not going back now.
Speaker 1: But that's a whole that's a whole other conversation, Like
Speaker 1: what happens when they eventually go to like the eighteen
Speaker 1: game regular season, like and then fantasy just goes that
Speaker 1: much longer, Like I don't know, at some point there's
Speaker 1: critical mass you just wonder about.
Speaker 2: But I think this is the.
Speaker 5: Max players getting hurt every single week. Who are you
Speaker 5: going to have by week eighteen?
Speaker 3: Like, come on, they'd have to add a second by
Speaker 3: week I feel like the answer to all your questions
Speaker 3: is money.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's it. That's it, Like, that's that's the that
Speaker 1: the answer to all your questions is money. And then
Speaker 1: the official in the middle of the year.
Speaker 3: And every team gets off that week, and then that's
Speaker 3: like a natural breakpoint.
Speaker 1: We can also probably just generally do away with all
Speaker 1: star games across all sports. But again that's another conversation
Speaker 1: for another show. That's another show. I mean, yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: Or just you know what, a name of name an
Speaker 1: all Star team, give them a bonus, give them a
Speaker 1: trip to Hawaii or something.
Speaker 5: And athletes compete against other athletes, like let's get creative,
Speaker 5: like Tyreek Hill versus Christian Ronaldo in a forty time
Speaker 5: who who knows who wins?
Speaker 2: That interesting? Tyreek would smoke Christiano Ronaldo.
Speaker 1: Anyway, we got some big questions for week sixteen and beyond.
Speaker 1: We'll have our waiver Wire deep dives as well, But
Speaker 1: whyt to get started with the big questions because I
Speaker 1: usually say for a week, you know, sixteen and beyond.
Speaker 1: This time, I just decided to go beyond, right, I Mean,
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, the fantasy playoffs were over.
Speaker 2: Your fantasy season is over.
Speaker 1: If that's the case for you, by the way, thank
Speaker 1: you for still hanging out with us and listening to
Speaker 1: the show. But I think we can start kind of
Speaker 1: pivoting toward the long view, looking toward twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. So start with you, Floria
Speaker 1: on this one. Jamar Chase has obviously been phenomenal on
Speaker 1: all year. Now. I know there are still some contract
Speaker 1: issues that need to be worked out, but let's just
Speaker 1: assume everything works out. He stays in Cincinnati, he and
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow stay together. Is Jamar Chase the undisputed one
Speaker 1: dot one next season?
Speaker 3: I would say yes, but they'll they'll there's always gonna
Speaker 3: be contrarian people out there who want to argue. And
Speaker 3: I do get it because, like I get the thinking
Speaker 3: of you don't want to draft the guy who was
Speaker 3: last year's like video game cheat code player. You want
Speaker 3: to try to find the like cause last year that
Speaker 3: was Ceede, Lamb and Tyree killing. Now it's Jamar Chase.
Speaker 3: It's it's very rarely the same player in back to
Speaker 3: back years. But what Jamar Chase is doing right now
Speaker 3: is historic fifth player ever with one hundred catches, fourteen
Speaker 3: hundred yards fifteen or more receiving touchdowns. The other four
Speaker 3: are Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Marvin Harrison Senior, and Cooper
Speaker 3: Cup And Chase has three games left to play, so like, yeah,
Speaker 3: plus de Higgins might be gone next year. Their defense
Speaker 3: is still probably going to be poor, but Joe Burrow
Speaker 3: is still gonna be throwing it to him and just
Speaker 3: having eyes locked in on Chase. So yeah, I am
Speaker 3: probably going to take him one overall in any league that.
Speaker 2: I have first pick.
Speaker 1: I mean, Lakwan, is there anybody else at this point
Speaker 1: that you feel like is in the conversation for that
Speaker 1: number one pick?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not.
Speaker 5: The gap is wide right now as of today when
Speaker 5: you look at it. I mean, Jamar Chase has been
Speaker 5: doing historical things like Florio said, and honestly, I feel
Speaker 5: much safer with him to begin with going into this
Speaker 5: season as well, even with the T Higgins hole now,
Speaker 5: like I feel like Jamar Chase is on that tier.
Speaker 5: Like I know we'd like to compare him with Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 5: but no, he's really him, Like he's really outside of
Speaker 5: the Justin Jefferson conversation because honestly, this season and then
Speaker 5: the next season, this is probably the only time I'll
Speaker 5: go back to back in the first round with Jamar
Speaker 5: Chase because I love all my teams that I got
Speaker 5: him on this year.
Speaker 1: I mean, right now, you look at non quarterbacks, it's
Speaker 1: Chase that's number one. He is about twenty five points
Speaker 1: clear of Saquon Barkley, and those are the only two
Speaker 1: non quarterbacks in the top eight of Fantasy point scoring
Speaker 1: at this point. And he's just been so good. The
Speaker 1: ceiling is so high, and the floor is still pretty
Speaker 1: high too. Like you know, I think you to your point, Florio,
Speaker 1: I think you will have some contrarians.
Speaker 2: But I think that's.
Speaker 1: Also a function of us talking about this in the offseason,
Speaker 1: Like you know, we'll start having this conversation. I'm sure
Speaker 1: after the Super Bowl, and then by the time we
Speaker 1: get to August, everybody's gonna be tired of just saying
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase. So somebody's gonna pop up in there with
Speaker 1: an alternative idea, mostly because we get bored. We get
Speaker 1: bored and we need other things to talk about. But
Speaker 1: I think I think most people are gonna look at
Speaker 1: this and it's probably gonna be chased heavily at the top.
Speaker 4: Pooka could be.
Speaker 3: In I think Nico Collins will be another one. People
Speaker 3: start pushing up.
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 1: That's a whole, that's a different that's an interesting conversation too.
Speaker 1: I like Nico Collins, but man a number one overall
Speaker 1: for Nico Collins.
Speaker 4: That I wouldn't rich. But he's gonna be a fantasy darling.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, No, I think that part is true
Speaker 1: for sure. Lakwan is Josh Jacob's a first round pick
Speaker 1: next year.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, no, no, I trust him. I
Speaker 5: can't trust him personally. I mean he's burned fans, fantasy
Speaker 5: fans before in the past. We all remember that Instagram
Speaker 5: you know he said he was injured not playing, Like
Speaker 5: I could never trust him again. And on see, I'm done,
Speaker 5: like literally stamp this today. I'm done taking running backs
Speaker 5: in the first round. Like I've learned my lesson this
Speaker 5: year in many leagues that I took Bjeon, I took Bristol,
Speaker 5: I even took CMC one on one in one league
Speaker 5: and I completely just fell flate, flat on flat on
Speaker 5: my face. So like, I'm done with the running backs
Speaker 5: in the first round. So no, Josh Jacobs is not
Speaker 5: the first round.
Speaker 1: Even if you're sitting at like eight nine and Jamior
Speaker 1: Gibbs is sitting there, or or Derrick Henry is sitting there.
Speaker 2: You're not gonna do it?
Speaker 5: Huh No, No, because I have to stick to my guns. No, Nope,
Speaker 5: I got to stick to my guns. I have to
Speaker 5: go wide receiver. All my leagues that I've gone heavy
Speaker 5: wide receiver in those first couple of rounds are thriving,
Speaker 5: are thriving. In the running backs. I've just kind of
Speaker 5: mid It's just mid tier. I mean, Bijon I think
Speaker 5: was like one of my heaviest like pushes at the
Speaker 5: end of the summer where I'm like, know what, I
Speaker 5: could see him as the one on one and then
Speaker 5: he's just been okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that's fair. And it's it's
Speaker 1: weird because Bjon was the one that we had kind
Speaker 1: of questions. We're like, well, Tyler Algiers there, he's gonna
Speaker 1: get some opportunity. It was Breece Hall that were like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that Breecee's he's full speed of handling. Nobody's gonna take
Speaker 1: opportunities from him, and the Jets have been so awful.
Speaker 5: Was taking opportunities early.
Speaker 2: It was just like, what's happening. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's been it's been tough, but all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: hold you too.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember this and hold you to it,
Speaker 1: like in case you start getting crazy, because.
Speaker 3: My season has been the exact opposite of la Kwan's,
Speaker 3: Like I went zero RB in almost all of my teams,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I hate this.
Speaker 4: Year that I'm having right now.
Speaker 3: So it's it's very funny how he went very differently
Speaker 3: and we kind of had similar seasons. But yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I'm I'm also out on I would not take this
Speaker 3: is a me problem because if you look at his
Speaker 3: stats and his usage and everything, you could make the
Speaker 3: case for Josh Jacobs as the first round pick. But
Speaker 3: I would never like Lakwan, I would never take come
Speaker 3: in the first round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, here's the thing with your RB, like
Speaker 1: it is, you have to pick the right running backs,
Speaker 1: which is not necessarily a guarantee, right, Like you can
Speaker 1: have a bunch of targets, but if they don't perform,
Speaker 1: then the whole thing just completely falls apart.
Speaker 2: I guess that that applies to every strategy.
Speaker 3: I guess it's I tweeted that it hasn't been a
Speaker 3: great year for zero RB and someone was like, well
Speaker 3: it was if you have Chase Brown or Rico Dowell,
Speaker 3: where I'm like.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool two.
Speaker 3: There's been a couple others that have hit, but like,
Speaker 3: it's not like it normally is.
Speaker 1: Now and it has not exploded the way the way
Speaker 1: it really does in the past. Florida is Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: the QB six in drafts. I was gonna say, originally,
Speaker 1: when I put this question together, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: it's he a top five quarterback. And I mean it
Speaker 1: was like no, because I I rattled off like five
Speaker 1: guys in my head, right, you mean Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, uh,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, Jaden Daniels, probably Joe Burrow uh sly into
Speaker 1: the top five there. So it just I couldn't make
Speaker 1: a case for Baker Mayfield being top five, But can
Speaker 1: you make a chase for him being the QB six
Speaker 1: next year?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well he's in that group.
Speaker 3: To me, they're they're like, I agree with your top five.
Speaker 3: I think those are gonna be the set it and
Speaker 3: forget it top five. But after I could see Jared
Speaker 3: Goff because and Baker because it. Baker might lose his
Speaker 3: OC this year, like Liam Cohen is becoming a very
Speaker 3: popular name you're hear, but so could Jared Goff with
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson.
Speaker 4: Bo Nicks is one that I could see being in
Speaker 4: that tier.
Speaker 3: And then you got like Kyler Murray who runs and
Speaker 3: everyone loves and uh so he's in the discussion. I
Speaker 3: would say, I don't think he's like a set it
Speaker 3: and forget it QB six, but he will be in
Speaker 3: that tier after the top.
Speaker 1: Five, all right, I think that that's fair. I mean,
Speaker 1: have we underestimated Lakwan? We underestimated Baker because I think
Speaker 1: I heard yesterday that since the start of last year
Speaker 1: and I have to verify this, but I believe since
Speaker 1: it started last year, no one has more touchdown passes
Speaker 1: than Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 5: Well, I think we are because we constantly bring up
Speaker 5: Baker Mayfield and like I think we still have that
Speaker 5: taste of him as a Browns quarterback, Like that's far.
Speaker 5: It's like he has put that to bed and like
Speaker 5: what he has been doing these past two seasons, it's
Speaker 5: all credit to him, Like it's really him just going
Speaker 5: out there and performing at a high level. And my
Speaker 5: biggest question, honestly, is is Mike Evans going to be
Speaker 5: on the Bucks next year? Is he going to hang
Speaker 5: it up after he gets this one thousand? Like that's
Speaker 5: what needs to be put in the Kurts consideration. But
Speaker 5: if Mike Evans is there next year, I think he's
Speaker 5: a top seven lock. I mean honestly, like you could
Speaker 5: put him at seven in the argument because Jalen McMillan,
Speaker 5: he's starting to form into his own. You get Chris
Speaker 5: Godwin back like you add all these formula things, and
Speaker 5: you got Bucky Irvin and Rashad White handled in that backfield.
Speaker 5: Like this Bucks team is almost as dangerous today as
Speaker 5: the Rams on this playoff run, Like this team went
Speaker 5: out there and put up forty points on the Chargers,
Speaker 5: like this defense doesn't allow teams to do that, Like
Speaker 5: this was like the one team that was able to
Speaker 5: put up thirty plus points on them. So Baker Mayfield
Speaker 5: gets all the credit and his play and how he's
Speaker 5: going out there performing. So the question next year, I
Speaker 5: say he's a top seven lock.
Speaker 1: All right, one I caught you know, so you are
Speaker 1: you are you not saying guaranteeing, but you believe Mike
Speaker 1: Evans is gonna get to one thousand.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you're wrong, just you think he gets it.
Speaker 5: I think he gets it. I think he barely gets it.
Speaker 5: Eighty three yards per game, yeah, so like eighty three
Speaker 5: we're going to force it.
Speaker 2: I think I think they're definitely forced it.
Speaker 1: And to my earlier point, Baker Mayfield is actually tied
Speaker 1: with Jared Goff for the most touchdown passes since the
Speaker 1: start of last season, both of them.
Speaker 2: At at sixty right now.
Speaker 1: So, uh, just been been really really productive over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years in this office.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys, Panthers, Saints to finish it out, Mike Evans
Speaker 3: getting a.
Speaker 1: Thousand if healthy, Yeah, yeah, Mike Evans. Mike Evans is
Speaker 1: getting a thousand. By the way, Baker Mayfield also on
Speaker 1: top of the touchdowns, he is third in passing yards
Speaker 1: in to the start a last season, behind.
Speaker 2: Golf and Josh Allen. Those are the only two guys ahead.
Speaker 3: And I don't think he gets credit for he's running
Speaker 3: more too. He's running a lot adds value.
Speaker 5: Talk about it, talk about it like he's running, and
Speaker 5: like it's not like he's just running because he's on
Speaker 5: like he's running getting yards like he's a sneaky runner.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, he's been very, very effective running the football
Speaker 2: as well too.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're getting those those cheat code yards out
Speaker 1: of Baker Mayfield, which is not a thing that I
Speaker 1: would have thought we'd been saying about him coming into
Speaker 1: the season for sure. All Right, So those are our
Speaker 1: big questions as we start to look toward draft season
Speaker 1: next year. Obviously, as we wrap up the fantasy season
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, we'll start to you know, kind
Speaker 1: of pivot toward offseason content and next season content. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a long off season, so we got plenty
Speaker 1: of time to get to a lot of these questions here.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, I'd say one last look back at
Speaker 1: Week fifteen and our fantasy faux Paul, the guys who
Speaker 1: likely killed your playoff hopes. First, I mean, we got
Speaker 1: to address Cooper Cup obviously, zero point zero. That's one
Speaker 1: that obviously people were certainly disappointed, frustrated, name your adjective
Speaker 1: after Thursday night last week, and I certainly lingered into
Speaker 1: the weekend for a lot of people. But Lakwan, who
Speaker 1: else might have killed folks playoff hopes this week?
Speaker 5: Tony Pollard of just having that constant back and forth
Speaker 5: right before you know, game time of if he's gonna play,
Speaker 5: if he's not, how much usage, and like they started
Speaker 5: giving him the rock and then the ankle flared up,
Speaker 5: you know, mid game, and then Taj Spears took over.
Speaker 5: So honestly, like I've learned my lesson, Like I should
Speaker 5: have went my gut and just benched him, But then
Speaker 5: I think about who else was I gonna put over
Speaker 5: Tony Pollard? Like this is the situation you get in,
Speaker 5: you know, so he most likely heard a lot of
Speaker 5: fantasy managers in that first round and hopefully, you know,
Speaker 5: you have some Monday night miracles that helped you out.
Speaker 5: But Tony Pollard definitely killed a lot of my fantasy rosters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I you know, it definitely stunk that he got hurt,
Speaker 1: didn't play particularly well. But it also for me, who's
Speaker 1: been kind of a tai J Spears Stan kind of
Speaker 1: gave me something to point out and say.
Speaker 2: Say, look, can you give this guy a good workload?
Speaker 2: He can be kind of productive, Like.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, like I really thought the season was
Speaker 1: going to be more of a fifty to fifty split
Speaker 1: in that backfield and it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And look, to Pollard's credit, he's actually played really, really well.
Speaker 1: He has earned all the work that he has gotten
Speaker 1: in this offense. But I just wanted to see what
Speaker 1: Taj Spears could do.
Speaker 2: That's all Florida. Who was your big fantasy faux pas
Speaker 2: for the week?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Coopered?
Speaker 3: You got coopered right because you had Cooper Cup on
Speaker 3: Thursday giving you zero points.
Speaker 4: And then the handshake meme.
Speaker 3: Amari was like, I'm not going to leave you out there.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna join you as zero fantasy points for a
Speaker 3: Cooper and that one, I think was even more frustrating
Speaker 3: because at least when you watch the Cooper Cup game,
Speaker 3: you're like, yeah, the Niners did a great job just
Speaker 3: sticking on him. It was bad weather, It wasn't a
Speaker 3: lot of points scored the Bills. I mean they put
Speaker 3: up like a historic performance yesterday, and Amari Cooper, a
Speaker 3: week after having fourteen targets, had zero. He was fourth
Speaker 3: on the Bills and wide receivers and snaps played. And
Speaker 3: I think the big takeaway from this though, is this
Speaker 3: was the first game where both Dalton kin Kaid and
Speaker 3: key On Coleman return and Coleman played ahead of Amari Cooper.
Speaker 3: Mac Collins Barefoot himself played ahead of Amari Cooper. So
Speaker 3: to me, it is very I'm much more concerned about
Speaker 3: Amari than I am Cooper Cup. But you know, your
Speaker 3: boy is always here to brag. So I had a
Speaker 3: lineup where I had both of these zeros in it,
Speaker 3: and I still finish as the high scorer thanks to
Speaker 3: Jared James Connor and Aman Ra same route.
Speaker 2: That'll do it. That will for sure do it. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, it's been a weird year for veteran wide
Speaker 1: receivers getting traded mid season, right because Amari Cooper gets
Speaker 1: traded to Buffalo. He's been kind of Deontay Johnson suspended
Speaker 1: because he decided he didn't want to play a games. Uh.
Speaker 1: Mike Williams not really getting a whole lot of love
Speaker 1: since he got traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers. It's just
Speaker 1: been it's been tough for some of these veteran guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the house been, you know, he's had moments the only.
Speaker 4: He lives with Rogers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true, that's it. So that's I guess that's
Speaker 2: the trick.
Speaker 1: When you get traded, then you gotta, you know, be
Speaker 1: roomies with your new quarterback.
Speaker 2: Apparently we just.
Speaker 4: Eat breakfast little lived with them.
Speaker 5: Yes, Cooper got his breakout, you know, staying with Jared
Speaker 5: Golf for a little bit and they had breakfast and
Speaker 5: look how that blossomed out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that worked out pretty well. My big one
Speaker 1: this week was to a tongue of ioloa. And look,
Speaker 1: I get it, it wasn't necessarily a great matchup again
Speaker 1: against the Houston Texans this week, but you also didn't
Speaker 1: think Tua was gonna go out there and leave you
Speaker 1: with a big fat three point eight points either, right,
Speaker 1: Like I get if, you probably weren't starting him outside
Speaker 1: of say two quarterback leagues, which you certainly needed more
Speaker 1: than what you got out of him.
Speaker 2: It just was a really bad day at the end of.
Speaker 1: A stretch where he had been playing really well, and
Speaker 1: it just felt like we got to a point where
Speaker 1: we all recognized, hey, man, who was playing really well,
Speaker 1: he's doing good things. Maybe we can trust him against
Speaker 1: Houston regardless of what the matchup says on paper. I mean,
Speaker 1: four straight games with twenty three or more fantasy points,
Speaker 1: he hadn't thrown a touchdown or had to run an
Speaker 1: interception rather since Week ten, and it all came crashing
Speaker 1: down one hundred and ninety six yards, one touchdown, three picks,
Speaker 1: lost a fumble. As I mentioned the three point eight
Speaker 1: four fantasy points. For certainly, if you started him in
Speaker 1: two quarterback leagues, hopefully your other QB picked you up
Speaker 1: or somebody else on the roster picked you up. If
Speaker 1: you decided to make the choice to start him in
Speaker 1: one QB league's pretty a chance that you are sunk
Speaker 1: in your fantasy playoffs this year.
Speaker 5: Which she didn't have touchdown.
Speaker 2: Touchdown with John Smith three points, but you know you.
Speaker 5: Made sure you got that touchdown then, you know, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I wonder if Johnny has passed that on to
Speaker 1: Tua too, Like, hey, man, if I if I keeps
Speaker 1: wearing touchdowns this this guy.
Speaker 2: And Ally's gonna have to dye his hair blonde, Like
Speaker 2: I wonder.
Speaker 3: If they have a picture of Lakwan up in their
Speaker 3: locker room like blonde hair already.
Speaker 2: Because I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel seems petty enough to like just make this
Speaker 1: happen on your behalf, Like I just think Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: draw up plays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, what you just said is insane.
Speaker 3: Though Tua head less than four points a touchdown is
Speaker 3: four points like that is crazy.
Speaker 2: That's how bad the day was. That's how bad. He
Speaker 2: would have negative points if he didn't throw it wild.
Speaker 1: All right, I guess like a good break, we're gonna
Speaker 1: come back with some waiver wire deep dives and folks
Speaker 1: that we are saying goodbye to.
Speaker 2: That's coming up next on the NFL Fantasy Football Show.
Speaker 1: I know it is near the end of the year,
Speaker 1: fantasy playoffs are going, there are a lot fewer people
Speaker 1: that are still active across their leagues, but that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you don't need some help on the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of key injuries. We talked on Monday
Speaker 1: show about David Montgomery. Still waiting word on Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: you know, Smith seeing kind of what their situations are
Speaker 1: going to be for the foreseeable future. But you know,
Speaker 1: still some chance for folks to get in there on
Speaker 1: the waiver wire and maybe do some.
Speaker 2: Damage a little bit. So Lakwad, who should folks be
Speaker 2: targeting in deeper leagues.
Speaker 5: In deeper leagues, you got to look for the Boomer
Speaker 5: Buss and Tim Patrick Man he's scoring touchdowns, and it
Speaker 5: looks like Jared Golf is going to be looking for
Speaker 5: and when they getting scoring in distance. So I feel like,
Speaker 5: you know, when you're striking distance and Jared Golf is
Speaker 5: going to be looking at Sam Laporti is going to
Speaker 5: be looking at the mont Ross Saint Brown. But the
Speaker 5: sneaky guy has been Tim Patrick just producing week at
Speaker 5: their week. So if you're looking for some type of
Speaker 5: ceilings or some type of safe floors, because he's seeing
Speaker 5: volume in these games, seven targets isn't anything light for
Speaker 5: a wide receiver three in a high power offense. So
Speaker 5: I'm looking for just touchdowns if you're limping into the playoffs.
Speaker 2: All right, I mean, it's been good to see Tim
Speaker 2: Patrick pop up because you know.
Speaker 1: The guy that we liked obviously had that one year
Speaker 1: where he missed the whole year with an injury. For
Speaker 1: whatever reason, the Broncos felt like they didn't need him.
Speaker 2: But sure, there you go. Who's your deep diveway for
Speaker 2: wire guy?
Speaker 3: I Florio Kendre Miller just because he's looked pretty good
Speaker 3: under this new coaching staff. And then Alvin Kamara. I
Speaker 3: know they're saying he's day to day with the groin
Speaker 3: right now. But like, the Saints have nothing to play
Speaker 3: for right now, and they have an investment beyond this
Speaker 3: year in Camara, So part of me wonders if like
Speaker 3: they're gonna tell him just hey, don't push it or
Speaker 3: something like that, and next week think at the Packers,
Speaker 3: which isn't great, But like, let's say Kamara sits in
Speaker 3: championship week against the Raiders. That is a week you
Speaker 3: could one hundred percent plug in Kendre Miller in. So
Speaker 3: just someone like I want on my roster, and that
Speaker 3: championship game of Miller versus since Her McCormick would be
Speaker 3: hilarious because it would.
Speaker 4: Determine it would partially determine.
Speaker 3: Who wins fantasy leagues, And it's like, yeah, no one
Speaker 3: in a million years thought these would be the running.
Speaker 1: Backs Kendre Miller versus Sincere McCormick for a fantasy title.
Speaker 2: That that'd be a hell of a story to tell,
Speaker 2: for sure. I guess you could throw ty J. Spears
Speaker 2: sort of into that mix too.
Speaker 1: You know, know that Tony Pollard, dealing with an ankle injury,
Speaker 1: had to leave the game early on Sunday, and we
Speaker 1: ended up seeing Spears play about fifty five percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps ended up with a good day over ninety
Speaker 1: scrimmag Yards found his way into the end zone, gave
Speaker 1: you a solid fantasy day, and you sort of wonder
Speaker 1: whether or not this means the Titans. We'll start to
Speaker 1: look at Spears, see I then get a longer look
Speaker 1: at him, see if he deserves some more opportunity. Look,
Speaker 1: if it turns out that Pollard's ankle injury maybe is
Speaker 1: worse than we originally believed, and certainly that means Spears
Speaker 1: gets a big chance here, but it's worth adding him
Speaker 1: off the waiver wire just to kind of see how
Speaker 1: things go out change potentially coming at quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: on Monday, the Titans we're not ready to commit to
Speaker 1: Will Levis getting his starting job back after he was
Speaker 1: benched in that lost to the Cincinnati Bengals. So look,
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks, they're at Indianapolis, they're at Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: So the last couple of weeks of the fantasy playoffs
Speaker 1: are very good matchups for the Titans running backs.
Speaker 2: So it could be that if ty J.
Speaker 1: Spears can get a decent workload, he is worth throwing
Speaker 1: into some lineups and certainly maybe a DFS play if
Speaker 1: nothing else, if you're not going to start him in
Speaker 1: your your regular managed leagues for sure. So as always,
Speaker 1: if we are adding guys, we are dropping guys. And
Speaker 1: I think I sort of alluded to the guy that
Speaker 1: Lakwan you're talking about dropping right now.
Speaker 5: He's like a toxic X man, Like I've had him
Speaker 5: on the drop list before, so you know, he's had
Speaker 5: this little little spur where he showed some upside and
Speaker 5: then you pick him back up and then he goes
Speaker 5: out there and Brian Cannell at Callahan, he embarrassed him
Speaker 5: in front of his old team, like you like, what
Speaker 5: are you doing? So he had to hit the bench again.
Speaker 5: But like, I'm completely done with him, man. I think
Speaker 5: that the Titans are going to be done with him
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 2: Like that.
Speaker 5: It was just a god awful game, especially that last
Speaker 5: interception to Chiggs, like it was just like what were
Speaker 5: you looking at? And like, I think the Will Levis
Speaker 5: experience is over, especially for Fantasy going into next year.
Speaker 5: So this will be the final drop for me.
Speaker 2: All right, So Will Levis is done.
Speaker 1: I did get I saw someone tweet yesterday or Sunday
Speaker 1: rather that, you know, they can't wait for Will Levis
Speaker 1: to end up going to like Andy Reid or Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan finishing school and somehow having some resurgence late in
Speaker 1: his career, right, like, like the right coach will get
Speaker 1: their hands on Will Levis and figure out how to
Speaker 1: put him in a system. Look, man, Sam Darnold's for
Speaker 1: the year in San Francisco as the backup to brock Purty.
Speaker 1: You know. Then he gets over to Minnesota with Kevin
Speaker 1: O'Connell and like, is the new hotness again?
Speaker 2: Like why couldn't it happen for Will Levis? Maybe? Who knows? Florida?
Speaker 2: Who are we saying goodbye to? Wait? Wait? Oh wait?
Speaker 5: Because why E's Mayonnates was coffee and like he bites
Speaker 5: banana skills Like he's a weirdo man, we don't want
Speaker 5: him in la uh.
Speaker 4: I mean he'd be the youngest guy in that QB
Speaker 4: room by a.
Speaker 2: Decade, That's true, he would be.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Stetson Bennett is like on aarp
Speaker 1: at this.
Speaker 2: Point, right, nah? It is? Are you who are you dropping? Now?
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, what do Chris brooks Audric estimate Trey Sermon,
Speaker 3: Rashen Ali, Dario Gumbawalle and Kamani Vedel all have in common.
Speaker 2: Points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it's bad for Gus Edwards right now.
Speaker 3: Like you look at since he's taken over five point five,
Speaker 3: two point seven, seven point one, four point three, nine
Speaker 3: point six, two point three, like those are his last
Speaker 3: six games. At some point he took over for JK.
Speaker 3: Dobbins in that stretch, you wouldn't know it. If you
Speaker 3: looked at his game Loge, you'd still think he's backing
Speaker 3: him up because I mean he doesn't have he has
Speaker 3: one game in that stretch with over forty rushing yards.
Speaker 4: Like, it is over for Gus Edwards.
Speaker 3: You could pay me to play this guy in the
Speaker 3: fantasy playoffs. So yeah, it's it's done. There's no burst
Speaker 3: left for him. He doesn't catch passes. He is purely
Speaker 3: touchdown dependent, and in that stretch he has two games
Speaker 3: where he scored a touchdown, still couldn't get to double
Speaker 3: digit fantasy points. So yeah, I'm long done with Gus Edwards.
Speaker 3: It was a fun ride. There was a stretch where
Speaker 3: like you were extremely underrated as the Ravens running back.
Speaker 3: But we've come full circle and yeah, I like he
Speaker 3: might not be in the league next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had to look up who Rasheen Ali plays for
Speaker 1: when you were saying that. I was like, wait, Rasheen
Speaker 1: a lay and like where is he nowadays? All right,
Speaker 1: He's in Baltimore, all right, So there you go. I
Speaker 1: also saw somebody made the point that I guess since JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins went down with his injury, that Chargers running backs
Speaker 1: have scored a grand total of twenty five Fantasy points
Speaker 1: total since since JK. Dobbins got hurt.
Speaker 3: Let's give Videl the workload for a game and see
Speaker 3: what he.
Speaker 4: Could do with it.
Speaker 2: Just see, let's just check it out.
Speaker 5: You know who else has more Fantasy points? Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 5: That is disgusting, I mean, is foul.
Speaker 1: What's about a time that was expected like nowadays not
Speaker 1: so much?
Speaker 2: That's that is kind of gross.
Speaker 1: Mine has not been as bad as either of the
Speaker 1: guys that you, uh the Q two mentioned, but Travis etn.
Speaker 1: I think it's just it's just time because it's it's
Speaker 1: not it's not good enough that you feel great about
Speaker 1: having him in your lineup, right, And he had twelve
Speaker 1: and a half points on Sunday, which was really his
Speaker 1: best game since Week three.
Speaker 2: He hadn't hit that mark since Week three.
Speaker 1: But you just don't feel confident enough that he's going
Speaker 1: to be able to do this consistently. The Jaguars offense
Speaker 1: is bad. Tank Bigsby, who was also has not been great.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's not get it twisted. It's not like
Speaker 1: Tank Bigsby is going out there and just snatching up opportunities.
Speaker 2: But he's been better than Travis Etn.
Speaker 4: There's just no.
Speaker 2: Real upside there at this point.
Speaker 1: He's not getting enough touches, he's not doing enough with
Speaker 1: the touches he gets, he's not scoring touchdowns. It's hard
Speaker 1: to make a real strong case to have Travis et
Speaker 1: In certainly in your lineup. And I guess, look, unless
Speaker 1: you are really shorthanded and dealing with a lot of injuries,
Speaker 1: then maybe you can sort of make the argument for it.
Speaker 1: But otherwise, I mean, I think it's just you know,
Speaker 1: hey man, thank you for your service, and it's just
Speaker 1: time to kind of move on from Travis Etn.
Speaker 3: At this point, I have him on a team and
Speaker 3: I'm too afraid to drop him, but I'll never start him.
Speaker 4: The worst kind of player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's kind that's kind of where it
Speaker 2: is with him at this point.
Speaker 1: So probably time to say good bye to Travis etn Also,
Speaker 1: it's time to say bye bye to this edition of
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