Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, Hey everybody, It's Monday, December sixteenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show where we're starting
Speaker 1: to believe in curses again. It's me and your man,
Speaker 1: MG Marcus Grand joined by Michael L. Florio and Lakwan Jones.
Speaker 2: Fellas.
Speaker 1: It is Week fifteen, heading into Week sixteen, we still
Speaker 1: got a couple more games.
Speaker 2: We have two Monday night.
Speaker 1: Games here to end the week fifteen. How are you
Speaker 1: guys looking in the fantasy playoffs?
Speaker 3: Florio I said, last week, I only had three teams
Speaker 3: that made it. One has already clinched to move on
Speaker 3: to next week. Two are looking very good as long
Speaker 3: as things don't go awrye tonight. But Nicolette's team had
Speaker 3: a great week and just ran into a buzzsaw. So
Speaker 3: I was pretty upset with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes you can't. You can't do anything about that.
Speaker 2: Look on how you're faring right now.
Speaker 4: Well, my home league, and I really really care about
Speaker 4: what my homies back home in Jersey. Thank god I
Speaker 4: had a first round by because I put up eighty
Speaker 4: three points this week. Because some huge letdowns with some
Speaker 4: of my running backs and other options that I hadn't
Speaker 4: started line us, but thank you God for the first
Speaker 4: round bye, because my friends were in the group chat
Speaker 4: all clown to me saying that I'm next round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you, likex I have a league where
Speaker 1: I have a bye, And thankfully that was so because
Speaker 1: some guys disappointed, have a few guys that would be
Speaker 1: playing tonight. It doesn't really matter, but generally a disappointing
Speaker 1: week for sure. So anyway, we try to survive in
Speaker 1: advance and see how things go from there. We've got
Speaker 1: plenty to talk about on this show. Of course, we
Speaker 1: have our fantasy heroes. We will have our Waiver Wire
Speaker 1: look as well. But let's get started with the fantasy
Speaker 1: headlines because there are some big ones coming along. The
Speaker 1: biggest dropping earlier on Monday morning before we did this show,
Speaker 1: that is that David Montgomery suffered a torn mcl in
Speaker 1: Detroit's lost to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. He is
Speaker 1: out certainly for the remainder of the fantasy season, and
Speaker 1: it looks like he has done for the rest of
Speaker 1: detroit season, however much longer that lasts. So I guess
Speaker 1: the first thing to ask Floreo is next up on
Speaker 1: the depth chart, right, we know Jameior Gibbs is gonna
Speaker 1: get some work, but Greig Reynolds, SIONI, Vaki, either one
Speaker 1: of those guys worth rostering.
Speaker 3: Now I think I'm gonna go grab Craig Reynolds of
Speaker 3: the two, but this is just kind of speculation. If
Speaker 3: the coachings and Dan Campbell, what I love about him
Speaker 3: is he's pretty straightforward. So if he comes out and
Speaker 3: is like, hey, Baki's gonna be the guy that we
Speaker 3: like more, then I would change my attitude. But right
Speaker 3: now I'm looking at it like he is a handful
Speaker 3: of carries in his NFL career, whereas Craig Reynolds has
Speaker 3: been with this Lions team for years now. But I
Speaker 3: ideally I don't want to have to start either one
Speaker 3: of them, Like it's gonna be a lot of Jamiir
Speaker 3: Gibbs and yeah, hopefully you have another running back or
Speaker 3: something that you could plug into David Montgomery's place, because
Speaker 3: either one of these guys could give you single digit fantasy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like at this point, Reynolds or Vaki,
Speaker 1: whoever it is, it's pretty much just a handcuff. So
Speaker 1: Lakwan I guess this means Jamie Gibbs is gonna be
Speaker 1: on a lot of championship rosters this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah to the moon, man. I mean, honestly, just watch
Speaker 4: his game, man, it can still his bills. Like, I
Speaker 4: just want to highlight the one run he had outside
Speaker 4: the tackle tackles where you just see him hit that
Speaker 4: second gear, Like his get off speed is incredible. And
Speaker 4: now that he most likely will see more touches, more
Speaker 4: of the workload, Like I can only imagine what fantasy
Speaker 4: managers just kind of just looking at their playoff teams like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: we're going to the ship.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta believe it, right, because he's going
Speaker 1: to absorb so many of those opportunities. It's just it's
Speaker 1: hard to see him not being super productive the remainder
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 3: The next two they're outdoor games the next two, so
Speaker 3: we might get even more running then we outdoor.
Speaker 2: Derek Goof not so much. Not so much.
Speaker 1: Speaking of quarterbacks, though, Patrick Mahomes left Kansas City's game
Speaker 1: against Cleveland with an ankle injury.
Speaker 2: Now it's being called right now a mild high ankle spraining.
Speaker 1: He is considered weak to week. The good news for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs is that X rays were negative. Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: came in and finished that game on Sunday, Lakwan still
Speaker 1: with no word at this point about what Mahomes' status
Speaker 1: is going to be. And keep in mind, the Chiefs
Speaker 1: do play on Saturday, so it's one less day for
Speaker 1: Mahomes to try to get ready. If it is Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: does this change anything? Can you feel good or bad
Speaker 1: about the Kansas City pass catchers and who might you
Speaker 1: like them?
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, this man must have rods in
Speaker 4: his ankles because we all saw the replay.
Speaker 2: Because how is.
Speaker 3: This a mild high?
Speaker 4: Like my ankles were literally broke just watching it for him, Like,
Speaker 4: I don't see how you know how he goes out
Speaker 4: there and play the way that looked. But honestly, if
Speaker 4: it is Carson Wentz, I am a little bit more
Speaker 4: cautious with the emergence of Exavier Worthy obviously getting more
Speaker 4: involved in finding the end zone. I mean, DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 4: he seems like you would be the safest floor if
Speaker 4: you do look at all the pass cat for the
Speaker 4: wide receiver aspect. But Travis Kelcey and No Gray, you
Speaker 4: know they bring in security blanket tools for Carson Wentz.
Speaker 4: He's played a ton of football, you know, and like
Speaker 4: he even had a short stand with the Rams where
Speaker 4: he played our last final game. He didn't look terrible.
Speaker 4: He actually went out there and got to win. So
Speaker 4: I'm looking at this more so that, you know, if
Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes is going to get shut down, you know,
Speaker 4: for these next couple of games, because they've got a
Speaker 4: lot of games that are back to back in the
Speaker 4: next you know, ten days. It looks really really crazy
Speaker 4: for the short weeks. But other than that, you really
Speaker 4: have to just look at DeAndre Hopkins as a pass catcher,
Speaker 4: the wide receiver, as the safest guy in this offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean what's wild is that they play on Saturday,
Speaker 1: then they turn around they have to play on Wednesday
Speaker 1: the next week because they are part of the Christmas
Speaker 1: Day double header. So a lot of work in not
Speaker 1: a lot of time for the Kansas City Chiefs, and
Speaker 1: certainly that will probably have an impact on whether or
Speaker 1: not they want to get Patrick Mahomes back out on
Speaker 1: the field. You know, part of it might be Florio.
Speaker 1: The Bills are breathing down their neck for that one seed.
Speaker 1: So I think for the Chiefs. It really is a
Speaker 1: question of how badly do you want that one seed,
Speaker 1: because if they feel like they need that to beat Buffalo.
Speaker 2: Then maybe they see we see them rushing Mahomes back
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like their schedule the next couple of weeks is
Speaker 3: also kind of tough, like they get the Texans, the Steelers,
Speaker 3: and then the Broncos. Not like it's easy defenses or
Speaker 3: anything along those lines. But in his last three games,
Speaker 3: Mahomes has taken at least eleven QB hits in all
Speaker 3: of them. I think it was three times in his
Speaker 3: first one hundred and twenty five games he had taken
Speaker 3: eleven or more QB hits. So not only is that
Speaker 3: ankle an issue and the bills and all that bringing
Speaker 3: down his neck, but like they were struggling to not
Speaker 3: let Mahomes take a beating when he was healthy, and
Speaker 3: now he's going to be hobbled. So that is is
Speaker 3: definitely a big storyline for these final two weeks in Fantasy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all three in those teams that he plays are
Speaker 4: top seven in QB pressures, so he's going to have
Speaker 4: to be mobile in those games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which sounds like we might be seeing the wins
Speaker 1: Wagon rolling out there at least as at least one
Speaker 1: of those two upcoming games. For other quarterback news, Geno
Speaker 1: Smith left the game on Sunday Night against the Packers
Speaker 1: with a knee injury. Now, as of us doing this show,
Speaker 1: Smith is going to have tests done. There was no
Speaker 1: official outlook on whether or not he was gonna miss time.
Speaker 1: But Sam Howe came in finished did not look great.
Speaker 1: I mean, Florida, which which pass catchers can we can
Speaker 1: we trust if it is indeed Sam Howell for the
Speaker 1: foreseeable future.
Speaker 3: JSN, and I think that's it. Like DK, I think
Speaker 3: is very boom or bust one like we saw like
Speaker 3: Terry McLaurin last year really struggled to get going downfields
Speaker 3: with Sam Howe. But also I like the eyeball just
Speaker 3: quickly ran through play by play After Sam Howe came in,
Speaker 3: and I don't believe he targeted DK metcalf once. It
Speaker 3: felt like every one of his passes was going to
Speaker 3: either Zach Sharbonning or JSN. And to me, those are
Speaker 3: gonna be the two that I want to start, like
Speaker 3: the running back and JSN, and I get it some
Speaker 3: people might not be able to get away from DK
Speaker 3: such a big name. The upside he brings stuff like that,
Speaker 3: but ideally, like, this is a time of year where
Speaker 3: I think you need to wipe the names kind of
Speaker 3: away and look at like, if this guy isn't producing
Speaker 3: and now like he has a quarterback that they don't
Speaker 3: have chemistry with, can't really get the most out of him,
Speaker 3: I think it's okay to try to get away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's just it's not a great situation
Speaker 1: there with Sam Howe. I mean, we saw there was
Speaker 1: a stretch last year when he was fantasy relevant, and
Speaker 1: you know, we love Terry McLaurin with Sam Howe, but
Speaker 1: over the long term, it feels really dicey to try
Speaker 1: to trust him, especially this time of year with your
Speaker 1: fantasy playoffs on the line. So eve an eye out
Speaker 1: on Gino Smith's situation. Of course, obviously Patrick mahomes as well,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately looks like David Montgomery has done for the
Speaker 1: rest of the fantasy season.
Speaker 2: So that was all bad. Let's get to something that
Speaker 2: was all good.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at some of the week's top
Speaker 1: scorers for are still two games left to go, but
Speaker 1: Josh Allen did it again. Forty one point two fantasy
Speaker 1: points for him, a pair of passing touchdowns, a pair
Speaker 1: of rushing touchdowns in that game over against the Lions.
Speaker 1: James Connor having a big day against the Paid It's
Speaker 1: thirty point eight points for him with two rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the ground. Davonte Adams went nuclear nine jetches for
Speaker 1: a buck ninety eight two touchdowns, forty two point eight
Speaker 1: points for Devonte Adams. John news Smith, Oh, we'll dive
Speaker 1: into that later nine for forty eight touchdown nineteen point
Speaker 1: eight for him. Chase McLaughlin four made field goals for
Speaker 1: Pats that was sixteen points. And the Broncos defense taking
Speaker 1: advantage of Anthony Richardson and the Colts two sacks, five takeaways,
Speaker 1: a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Twenty two fantasy points for them. So those were some.
Speaker 1: Of the top level heroes. Lakwan, did you have an
Speaker 1: individual hero from this week?
Speaker 3: Dunt de da da Chase Brown? I want no.
Speaker 4: More start and sick questions about Chase Brown, like it's
Speaker 4: a lock, it's his backfield. He's seeing crazy amount of workload.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, the dude hasn't played under seventy five
Speaker 4: percent of the snap since Week nine and since week nine,
Speaker 4: he's actually second behind Saquon Barkley in scrimmin Chars. This
Speaker 4: dude is a candidate for a lead winner just based
Speaker 4: on the usage he's getting. This is like Joe Mick
Speaker 4: and vintage workload that we're seeing behind this Bengals old line.
Speaker 4: He's going out there tearing it up in between the
Speaker 4: tackles and consistent in the passing game as well. So
Speaker 4: he definitely saved a lot of fantasy managers, you know,
Speaker 4: first round playoffs if you're dealing with guys that let
Speaker 4: you down earlier this.
Speaker 2: Week Cooper Cuff.
Speaker 4: But overall, looking at Chase Brown Man, you just gotta
Speaker 4: love that he put the cape on this week, and
Speaker 4: I think he's going to put it on for the
Speaker 4: next two games as well.
Speaker 1: Chase brown not just a Bengals running back, but also
Speaker 1: a description of what the opposing defenses do over too.
Speaker 2: To you, Florium, who is your Fantasy hero for week fifteen?
Speaker 3: It's James Connor. And I know we're not on Fantasy Live,
Speaker 3: but I am going to take a humble brag here
Speaker 3: because outside of Josh Allen, who is the most obvious start,
Speaker 3: every one of those top scorers was in start sit
Speaker 3: as a start last week, so I'm definitely taking a
Speaker 3: little humble brag on that. But I think James Connor
Speaker 3: is just extremely underrated right now. He gave you thirty
Speaker 3: one Fantasy points. Was the RB one on the He
Speaker 3: is the RB ten on this season right now. And
Speaker 3: game script doesn't matter because when they fall behind, he
Speaker 3: gets used in the passing game. When they have a lead,
Speaker 3: he's the one that they used to grind out the
Speaker 3: clock and all. Like, he was my guy all summer,
Speaker 3: all year, and we kept saying, like, Okay, you know
Speaker 3: he's gonna miss like four or five games, but when
Speaker 3: he plays, he's gonna be an RB one. Guess what,
Speaker 3: He's an RB one And he hasn't missed a like
Speaker 3: a single game. I was gonna say, a snap, maybe
Speaker 3: he's came out for like a snapper team.
Speaker 2: You're there.
Speaker 3: But then he gets the Panthers next week and the
Speaker 3: Rams the week after that. James Connor is going to
Speaker 3: be on a lot of championship rosters this year.
Speaker 1: James Connor continues to just be underrated in drafts and
Speaker 1: then a year after year just proves how good he
Speaker 1: actually is gonna be Like a fourth round pick next year,
Speaker 1: and everybody'd be like, man, I should have drafted James Connor.
Speaker 2: We're gonna We're gonna do this again.
Speaker 3: Mine.
Speaker 1: It's almost a humble brag, not quiet, but lak Neighbors,
Speaker 1: because my bold prediction last week was that he would
Speaker 1: get you one hundred yards in a touchdown.
Speaker 2: He got you eighty two yards and a touchdown. First
Speaker 2: twenty point game he has had since Week three.
Speaker 1: Which coincidentally was the last time he scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: before Sunday.
Speaker 2: But it was nice to see him.
Speaker 1: Getting involved again, and it didn't really matter who the
Speaker 1: quarterback was. Obviously, we saw Tommy DeVito go out with
Speaker 1: an injury. Tim Boyle stepped in and was throwing passes
Speaker 1: to Molakue Neighbors, So it just was sort of a reinforcement.
Speaker 1: The target shair had been there the whole time. It's
Speaker 1: just that the production hadn't quite matched, especially because he
Speaker 1: wasn't scoring touchdowns next couple of weeks. Schedule's not bad.
Speaker 1: They're at Atlanta next week. They follow up with a
Speaker 1: home game against Indianapolis, so there are some other good
Speaker 1: matchups there and as long as the target share stays
Speaker 1: consistent from E league neighbors. I think he can finish
Speaker 1: the season strong and maybe we just remind us that, Look,
Speaker 1: he's a good player in a less than great situation,
Speaker 1: but still finding ways to be productive when and where
Speaker 1: he can.
Speaker 3: Top ten WAD receiver I mean very well could be
Speaker 3: on the year, and he's got two less games than
Speaker 3: every other wide receiver in the top ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I mean he's having it. I think he's
Speaker 2: having a good year.
Speaker 1: We just have really high expectations for him, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of what the problem has been many Meanwhile.
Speaker 2: Let's get to our big takeaways from week fifteen. What
Speaker 2: did you learn? LQ?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't trust Naji Harris no more, like he's
Speaker 4: not touching the starting lineups. I mean, honestly, like this
Speaker 4: is the time where we need to buckle down and
Speaker 4: be like, all right, can we trust this guy? I
Speaker 4: don't even think the Steelers can trust him. I mean, look,
Speaker 4: the deal was sealed after this fumble right here. Look,
Speaker 4: I even called him the b Roll. That's crazy, Like
Speaker 4: I just don't understand, like how you have a guy
Speaker 4: like Naji Harris, Like he is built and framed like
Speaker 4: a workhorse, but We're not getting that type of production.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't help with George Pickens out of the
Speaker 4: lineup deal with a hamstring injury. The offense just completely
Speaker 4: fell off the cliff. I mean, weeks one through thirteen
Speaker 4: they were averaging three hundred and forty four yards per game.
Speaker 4: The last two games two fifteen, the run game suffered
Speaker 4: as well, in these last two games, only eighty eight
Speaker 4: rushing yards per game. And then you add Jalen Warn
Speaker 4: to that mix. I cannot trust Naji in these next
Speaker 4: two games going against top three rushing defenses people. So no,
Speaker 4: he has to be completely faded and look for some
Speaker 4: of these other guys that you could plug and play. Look,
Speaker 4: I'm to the point now, my one league, I dropped him.
Speaker 4: I dropped him straight up. I was like, I'm not
Speaker 4: going to be dealing with distress, getting my hair a
Speaker 4: little bit more gray, or dealing with Najie Harris in
Speaker 4: the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Were soon enough, That's true.
Speaker 3: The worst start is that fumble.
Speaker 1: That fumble didn't even get credited to him. That frumbled
Speaker 1: went to It went to Russell because of the way
Speaker 1: the way scoring works. Because Russell was the last person
Speaker 1: to possess the ball, and so because Najee dropped an
Speaker 1: easy toss, sadly that goes to Russell Wilson and not
Speaker 1: Najie Harris.
Speaker 2: Uh Florida. What have you learned from Week fifteen.
Speaker 3: That the Chiefs, despite being thirteen and one and the
Speaker 3: number one team in the NFL right now, they might
Speaker 3: not have a player that you can trust in fantasy football.
Speaker 3: And like Mahomes, look, he's hurt. Now Mahomes has gone back.
Speaker 3: There was that stretch in the middle of the year
Speaker 3: where we were like, Okay, maybe Mahomes is figuring it,
Speaker 3: he's breaking out. Nope, he's just as touchdown dependent. He's
Speaker 3: just as much of a low floor play. Like a
Speaker 3: floor play. There's really no upside as of late with Mahomes.
Speaker 3: Then Isaiah Pacheco comes back, but now they are mixing
Speaker 3: in him and Kareem Hunt literally down the middle, and
Speaker 3: neither like Pacheco doesn't have that burst back yet, Hunt
Speaker 3: never had it at this point this season. So like
Speaker 3: they're both giving you single digits pretty much each week.
Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins needs a touchdown to get to like thirteen
Speaker 3: fantasy points. Travis Kelce look again another one, like Mahomes
Speaker 3: had a really good stretch in the middle of the season,
Speaker 3: but go look at his recent games, it's single digits
Speaker 3: like every week. I understand because of the name and
Speaker 3: then all of that that you probably got to play
Speaker 3: him at tight end, but like, realistically, if you covered
Speaker 3: up the name, not that great. Xavier Worthy brings a
Speaker 3: lot of upside, but the floor isn't all that high.
Speaker 3: So like, there is not a single Chiefs player that
Speaker 3: I'm like, I cannot wait to start this guy in fantasy.
Speaker 3: A lot of the time it's like, I gotta start
Speaker 3: this guy and hope he catches a.
Speaker 1: Touchdown, yeah, which is a wild thing to say one
Speaker 1: about the Chiefs, but also a by a team that's
Speaker 1: thirteen and one and looks like the one seed in
Speaker 1: the AFC, depending on how things shake out the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. For me, when a poor one out
Speaker 1: for Alvin Kamara, like I know, he scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: on Sunday and that sort of helped boost his numbers
Speaker 1: a little bit, but the overall production has been disappointing
Speaker 1: for the last few weeks. Now without Derek Carr in
Speaker 1: the lineup, it gets even worse because Jake Hayter was
Speaker 1: not throwing the ball his way. We saw Spencer Ratler
Speaker 1: take over late in that game, and he's still not
Speaker 1: getting a lot of targets. On top of it, with
Speaker 1: a new interim head coach, Darren Rizzy there at the helm,
Speaker 1: Andre Miller is starting to get more work, so you're
Speaker 1: seeing fewer opportunities for Alvin Kamara now. So I think
Speaker 1: you're at a place where you are touchdown dependent, which
Speaker 1: is never a thing we really had to worry about
Speaker 1: because not only was Kamara running effectively in the past,
Speaker 1: he was getting enough targets and making enough catches to
Speaker 1: sort of make up for it.
Speaker 2: So this is not.
Speaker 1: Where you hoped you would be with a guy though
Speaker 1: having a really good season, but there's so little left
Speaker 1: in this offense that now, if I'm an opposing defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: I am game planning to take Kamara away and force
Speaker 1: the other guys to try to beat you, which generally speaking,
Speaker 1: they probably won't be able to.
Speaker 2: So tough go. If you've got Alvin Kamara on your roster,
Speaker 2: We're gonna take a quick, weak come back.
Speaker 1: We'll dive into the waiver wire and some moments we
Speaker 1: love as well. That's coming up next on the NFL
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Show. Let's take a look at this week's
Speaker 1: waiver wire options.
Speaker 2: Florio let us know what's up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, you shouldn't be trying to just pick up
Speaker 3: any quarterback right now, but if you are streaming, Jamis
Speaker 3: Winston gets the Bengals next week, Cooper Rush gets the
Speaker 3: Bucks in both we know, especially Cooper Rush playing a
Speaker 3: little bit better as of late. Jerome Ford is a
Speaker 3: big pickup because Nick Chubb broke his foot. Kendre Miller
Speaker 3: for all of the reasons Marcus said earlier. With Alvin
Speaker 3: Kamara plus kamara groin tweak in this last one, you
Speaker 3: gotta wonder if, like, at some point, are they just
Speaker 3: like it's not worth it with him, Tajy Spears, Kenneth Gainwell,
Speaker 3: Ty Johnson, because again you want backup running backs right now,
Speaker 3: especially those guys all got a lot of opportunity in
Speaker 3: Week fifteen, and then some pass catchers. Jalen McMillan balld
Speaker 3: out this past week, so did Rashan Bateman. I mean
Speaker 3: the Giant secondary are still trying to tackle him twin.
Speaker 3: Johnston continues, Look either as the yips or he's gonna
Speaker 3: catch a touchdown. You figured out which one is to go,
Speaker 3: Jim Patrick getting more involved, and then some tight ends.
Speaker 3: Brent Strange had twelve targets yesterday, like do not overlook that,
Speaker 3: and then Stone Smart and Chigakonko who also had a
Speaker 3: I think he was ten targets for a conco Like
Speaker 3: that's volume that you shouldn't just completely ignore, especially with
Speaker 3: the change of quarterback in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so a lot of guys out there that
Speaker 1: are worthwhile these last couple of weeks. But Lakwan talk
Speaker 1: to me about Jayleen McMillan, who, you know, we thought
Speaker 1: maybe there was room for him. You know, obviously they
Speaker 1: had Chris Godwin at the start of the year, Mike Evans.
Speaker 1: So it's saying in a while, but it feels like
Speaker 1: he's starting to come into his own.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's plugging play right now in too, Chris Godwin's
Speaker 4: role in rp K Dodden. I mean, honestly, the functionality
Speaker 4: of the offense just looks a lot better. And you
Speaker 4: saw them put up big points against this Chargers defense,
Speaker 4: and a lot of that has to do with Jayalen
Speaker 4: McMillan and how he's been playing these last couple of games.
Speaker 4: And for Fantasy. In the last three games, he's been
Speaker 4: averaging fifteen Fantasy points per game, and oddly enough, he's
Speaker 4: still out there on the waiver wire. People go pick
Speaker 4: him up and have some depth there and have a
Speaker 4: guy that's seen by him and he's producing with his opportunities.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, I had him in a couple of leagus.
Speaker 1: I was a couple of leagus where I was just
Speaker 1: thin and I was forced to throw him into lineups.
Speaker 1: But the last two weeks it sort of worked out.
Speaker 1: So I'd like to tell people that I wasn't wrong
Speaker 1: about Jayalen McMillan.
Speaker 2: It was just early. That's sort of it. Just early.
Speaker 2: That's it, just early. That's all all right.
Speaker 1: Time forty weekly John new Smith update because it's become
Speaker 1: my favorite thing that he'll go like a long stretch
Speaker 1: of the game and not do anything, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the hammer comes out of nowhere. This week,
Speaker 1: not a ton of yards, just forty eight yards, but
Speaker 1: nine catches and a touchdown, nineteen point eight fantasy points.
Speaker 1: You saw on our board heading in the Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1: He is the top Titan score of the week. We're
Speaker 1: the season. He is tight in four one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy nine point nine fantasy points, and as you pointed out, Florio,
Speaker 1: he's a lot closer to tight end two than he
Speaker 1: is to tight end six. Have you just come to
Speaker 1: terms with have you? Have you made peace with this, Lakwan?
Speaker 1: Because it's happening.
Speaker 3: It's happening.
Speaker 4: It's one hundred percent happening. And I just love on Sundays.
Speaker 4: You know, in the first half it was quiet for him.
Speaker 4: I'm like, all right, this might be a human game,
Speaker 4: like not have to turn up game. But he loves
Speaker 4: to wait for the suspense because when my phone is
Speaker 4: going crazy, I'm like, John new Dis scored. I know
Speaker 4: if I have to watch the game, I'm making lunch out.
Speaker 4: Yeah yep, yep, yeah he scored. And I just know
Speaker 4: that everybody's going to let me know that my hair
Speaker 4: needs to be blonde. Like we have people in the
Speaker 4: NFO fantasy comments on Instagram like, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your hair is supposed to be blonde. It's not bling.
Speaker 4: Why I have in two week seventeen people relax, it
Speaker 4: will be blonde.
Speaker 1: Man, he's got He's got a touchdown and nineteen or
Speaker 1: more fantasy points in four of it.
Speaker 2: His last five games, and so I was just too early.
Speaker 2: What we say, I was just too early on Johnny
Speaker 2: that's all. Man.
Speaker 3: I can only imagine your phone because when he scored yesterday,
Speaker 3: I got numerous texts like, your friend is gonna have
Speaker 3: to die his hair blonde.
Speaker 2: Oh man, this is this.
Speaker 1: I love that this has taken on a life of
Speaker 1: its own, and this has become a whole thing. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, look just a comfortable Maybe we maybe we
Speaker 1: you know, out of a videotape you dye in your hair.
Speaker 2: We make this a social media clip. It's gonna be
Speaker 2: a whole thing.
Speaker 3: We got to get a hairstyle like someone in studio.
Speaker 3: I want to be there while it's getting died.
Speaker 1: Need we need to actually talk to the folks in
Speaker 1: the in the hair and makeup department and see if
Speaker 1: maybe one of them is willing to help us out
Speaker 1: with this. Yeah, I think that'd be great. Let's let's
Speaker 1: make this happen. That's gonna be a thing that we
Speaker 1: definitely loved. Now, let's talk about one of our favorite
Speaker 1: moments from the past week. Look, I know a big
Speaker 1: thing this season has been Tom Brady in the broadcast
Speaker 1: booth and everybody critiquing him on a week two week basis,
Speaker 1: but sometimes with the players he played against, just want
Speaker 1: to have a little fun on Tom's behalf, or maybe
Speaker 1: at Tom's expense. And so Brandon Graham got to do
Speaker 1: a little bit of that this past week. In case
Speaker 1: you were a little bit confused, that was Brandon Graham
Speaker 1: recreating the strip sack that he had against Tom Brady
Speaker 1: when the Eagles beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Certainly a classic moment in Philadelphia sports history, a classic
Speaker 1: moment in NFL history. And I'm gonna be honest, like
Speaker 1: some of us are Tom. You know, we're haters, We
Speaker 1: are jealous, and we drink hater aide. And so to watch,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody recreate a Tom Brady failure, you know
Speaker 1: we we.
Speaker 2: Sort of secretly enjoy that. I guess not so secretly, right,
Speaker 2: since we just doned up to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I I give Brady credit because, like I
Speaker 3: watched that video like five times and I had to
Speaker 3: ask you guys, like what is going on right away? Like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I truly didn't get it. But but then
Speaker 3: he always pretends like he's on the losing end of stuff,
Speaker 3: and it's like, no, Tom Brady, you are the You
Speaker 3: have more Super Bowls than any franchise. You beat everyone.
Speaker 3: Stop pretending like you did it.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, man, he's just what do you want.
Speaker 1: He's a He's a small town kid who was drafted
Speaker 1: in the sixth round and had to struggle to make
Speaker 1: it and you know, just was that was tough.
Speaker 2: It was tough being Tom Brady. And like strawberries.
Speaker 1: He says, he's never happened one. So you're one of
Speaker 1: You have that over Tom Brady. Now, Laquon, you have
Speaker 1: had a strawberry where he is?
Speaker 4: He claims to have not, But I can say I
Speaker 4: shared something. I shared something with the Goat.
Speaker 1: Despite despite living in a town that is very near
Speaker 1: another town that has a very famous strawberry festival. So whatever, Look,
Speaker 1: we still got a couple more games left in the week.
Speaker 1: Should be interesting. Was that we got the Bears and
Speaker 1: the Vikings. We also have the Falcons and the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Maybe we get the Desmond Ridder revenge game. Who knows,
Speaker 1: but into meantime, that is it. We are done. We
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