Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, Hey everybody, It's Wednesday, December eighteenth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Show where we see
Speaker 1: a light at the end of the tunnel. It's been
Speaker 1: your man, MG Marcus Grant, joined by Michael le f Florio.
Speaker 1: I know the Kwan Jones today. Hopefully he's back with
Speaker 1: us next week. But we still got plenty to talk about.
Speaker 1: It's week sixteen. How many leagues have you survived and
Speaker 1: advanced in?
Speaker 2: So last week I was on here, like, I only
Speaker 2: made it in three of my double digit playoffs, which
Speaker 2: wasn't great, but all three advanced, so I'm happy with that.
Speaker 3: All three that were big underdogs this week.
Speaker 1: Okay, so yeah, I was in in a couple. One
Speaker 1: I'm done, the other one I had a buy. So
Speaker 1: I made it through, which is great because the guys
Speaker 1: that I would have started did not do well.
Speaker 4: So is that the one that we're playing each other
Speaker 4: in a dynasty?
Speaker 3: We are?
Speaker 1: That's the same one? Yes? Are we playing at each
Speaker 1: other now? Okay? So yeah, this is for the semi Yeah,
Speaker 1: if I had played last week, I would have lost
Speaker 1: because my team did not do well. Gino, I had
Speaker 1: sequon I had a lot of guys who did not
Speaker 1: have big you know.
Speaker 2: What, that's what happens to your team like these big
Speaker 2: Cooper Cup Saquon all of those teams that had to
Speaker 2: buy and survived it.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna win the championship because you just you
Speaker 1: get the bad one out of the way and then
Speaker 1: you just roll on through. So we will dive into
Speaker 1: the Week sixteen slate also give you some fantasy hot takes.
Speaker 1: But let's get started as we normally do about this
Speaker 1: time with some fantasy headlines. And got a couple of
Speaker 1: quarterback related headlines today. A first one in Cleveland, Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston now being sent to the bench. It'll be Dorian
Speaker 1: Thompson Robinson getting the start for the Cleveland Browns, so
Speaker 1: no more Jamis instead of his DTR. We had really
Speaker 1: come to get comfortable with having David and Joku and
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy in our lineups. Does this mean that time
Speaker 1: is over now?
Speaker 3: So full disclosure.
Speaker 2: I had Jerry Judy as a start in stardhum sit him,
Speaker 2: and then this news came out and I was like.
Speaker 4: Delete, because I can in good faith.
Speaker 2: Be like start him. No questions asked to me. It's
Speaker 2: a lot more matchup dependent when it comes to Jerry Judy, Like,
Speaker 2: who are your other options? If you don't have anyone
Speaker 2: that you feel great about, I think it's worth taking
Speaker 2: the shot on him. David and Joku though just I
Speaker 2: would take the shot on him because one, it is
Speaker 2: the best matchup a tight end could have right now. Two,
Speaker 2: I still think he's gonna get plenty of volume. But three, like,
Speaker 2: who are you gonna play over him? Tight end is
Speaker 2: so bad right now that I think you still start him.
Speaker 2: But this is awful for fantasy purposes because yeah, we
Speaker 2: had starters in like Judy and stuff. And the thing is,
Speaker 2: I know he doesn't turn the like Jamis was turning
Speaker 2: the ball over a bunch. Dtrs interception rate small sample size,
Speaker 2: but this year it's twice as high as Winston's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's just there's nothing about dtr that's going to
Speaker 1: make you want to start him right because he's not
Speaker 1: going to distribute the football. He'll run a little bit,
Speaker 1: but not enough that you feel great. It's not a
Speaker 1: you know, it's not a justin Field sort of situation
Speaker 1: with with Dorian Thompson road, but obviously we don't really
Speaker 1: feel great enough about a lot of the pass catchers
Speaker 1: that you can absolutely for sure start them. I know
Speaker 1: Jamis was a turnover machine, but he was also throwing
Speaker 1: the ball forty times a game. He was putting up
Speaker 1: big yards and was throwing touchdowns. But that looks like
Speaker 1: it is over now for the Brown.
Speaker 4: He's a UCLA Bruin, so I know you don't like it.
Speaker 1: Also that part so like it's just gonna be hard
Speaker 1: to trust him anyway, because bruin. Anyway, speaking of former
Speaker 1: Pac twelve vers, Michael PENNOCKX Junior is now the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Kirk Cousins sent to the
Speaker 1: bench after yet another terrible game for Atlanta. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess a similar situation right, this quarterback changed. What
Speaker 1: does it mean for Drake London, Darnell Mooney, the rest
Speaker 1: of the pass catchers down there in Atlanta? Uh?
Speaker 2: I think with Draken like it can't get any worse, right,
Speaker 2: Like you've watched Kirk Cousins play. There was a four
Speaker 2: game shirts where he didn't throw a touchdown and he
Speaker 2: had eight interceptions. And like I keep joking that Drake
Speaker 2: London was playing power forward because he had a box
Speaker 2: everything out because they were all coming in like I
Speaker 2: was throwing the ball or something like that. So I
Speaker 2: think this is a good thing for Drake London. I
Speaker 2: think you could take a wait and see approach with
Speaker 2: Darnell Mooney because he's a little bit less in the
Speaker 2: target pecking order everything. But like in that Dynasty league
Speaker 2: where we're facing each other, Marcus, I have to start
Speaker 2: Kyle Pitts because like there's no one out there on
Speaker 2: waivers in a dynasty.
Speaker 1: League, And I'm like, Okay, maybe I have.
Speaker 2: Some hope here because I don't know, he could put
Speaker 2: velocity on his throws and get the ball out pretty quick.
Speaker 2: One thing I was thinking this morning though, was like
Speaker 2: we were all so high on this Washington Huskies offense
Speaker 2: coming into the NFL. Roma Dunza hasn't hit, Jalen Polk
Speaker 2: hasn't hit, McMillan's been okay, Ryan Grubbs offense, and Seattle
Speaker 2: hasn't hit. Maybe it was all thanks to Michael Pennix.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he is the skeleton key that unlocks everything.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna find out. By the way, as you
Speaker 1: mentioned for Drake London playing power forward, he actually was
Speaker 1: a guard at USC. He played three games. A total
Speaker 1: of six minutes played during these three games, oh for
Speaker 1: one shooting for one from the free throw line. But
Speaker 1: I do believe he had uh oh see he two turnovers,
Speaker 1: two fouls and three totals.
Speaker 4: Like I'm getting on his box sheets so one.
Speaker 1: Way, three total rebounds. So he was a stat sheet stuffer,
Speaker 1: but not necessarily any great way. Obviously, sticking with football
Speaker 1: was the right choice for Drake London for sure. But
Speaker 1: to your point, though, I'm sort of with you. I
Speaker 1: think you can always believe in the Atlanta Falcons pass
Speaker 1: catchers a little bit more. You're gonna have a quarterback
Speaker 1: that can get the football out to them. That's something
Speaker 1: that we didn't really have the last few weeks with
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. He was regressing. I don't know if it was,
Speaker 1: you know, age injury, whatever it was, but Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: was looking really awful, and I think it was sort
Speaker 1: of bringing everybody down with him. Also, they're playing the
Speaker 1: Giants also, that which I think is which I think
Speaker 1: is a big reason why they made the change. Now,
Speaker 1: since right.
Speaker 2: You've dominated in college, go dominate a college defense.
Speaker 3: That's what they're asking him to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, so, yeah, it definitely made sense for them
Speaker 1: to give him the start here and a game where
Speaker 1: I get it, you're still very much in the playoff
Speaker 1: race trying to win a division, but also put your
Speaker 1: rookie in against a defense. It's not quite as intimidating
Speaker 1: as something almost lost for the Raiders with Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1: It can't get any worse. They get any worse, for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get into some of the week sixteen
Speaker 1: game previews. We'll get a handful of them here. You
Speaker 1: can get the rest of them on NFL Plus Fantasy
Speaker 1: Extra to keep an eye out for that. We'll start
Speaker 1: with Thursday Night Football, the Broncos at the Chargers right
Speaker 1: next door at SOFI Stadium. You can see that game
Speaker 1: eight fifteen pm Eastern on Prime Video. Choose your fighter.
Speaker 1: Would you start bow Knicks or would you start Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert's bo Nix?
Speaker 2: And it's not even close for me, Like, I know
Speaker 2: both they're coming off of a couple of down games,
Speaker 2: but I kept trying to be like, all right, this
Speaker 2: is the week Justin Herbert bounces back because he's had
Speaker 2: good matchup after good matchup, and it just hasn't really
Speaker 2: happened last week, struggled against the Bucks, who allow every
Speaker 2: quarterback they face to finish as a QB one seemingly.
Speaker 2: But the Chargers have really struggled against the pass as
Speaker 2: of late in the last month. Nicks had a good
Speaker 2: game against them week six. That's before he broke out,
Speaker 2: and that's before the Chargers defense really started struggling. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm excited for bow Knicks this week, not at all
Speaker 2: for Justin Herbert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty much out on Herbert on Fantasy Live.
Speaker 1: I named him as one of the risky starts of
Speaker 1: the week. Just you mentioned that game in Week six.
Speaker 1: He gave you about thirteen point six Fantasy points in
Speaker 1: that one, and you talk about Nicks. I think that
Speaker 1: was when we started to realize that, oh, maybe there's
Speaker 1: something there with bow Knicks. And I feel like, because
Speaker 1: he's gonna run a little bit more, I think he
Speaker 1: gets out of the pocket, I think that gives him
Speaker 1: a little bit of a higher floor for the Chargers
Speaker 1: passing game wise, lately, it's really kind of been Lad
Speaker 1: mcconky and that's it. They can't run the football. There's
Speaker 1: just more going on right now in the Denver offense,
Speaker 1: So I would go with Nicks over Herbert in this
Speaker 1: one if you're setting a DFS lineup, for instance, in
Speaker 1: that situation. We have two Saturday games coming up this
Speaker 1: week as well, the first one the Texans at the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. How many players are you comfortable starting
Speaker 1: in this game on either side? Really?
Speaker 2: Man, if you ask me this in anyone this in
Speaker 2: like week before the season, we'd be like, everyone, get
Speaker 2: them all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wrote.
Speaker 4: Start sit this week. I have mahomes as a sit.
Speaker 2: But Checko as they sit, de Hop as they sit,
Speaker 2: Travis Kelcey as they sit like I.
Speaker 4: I because Patrick Mahomes is.
Speaker 2: We were joking about this before the show, like he's
Speaker 2: gonna try to play this week.
Speaker 4: This is what he does.
Speaker 3: He has a lot of lebron in him.
Speaker 4: He likes to late in the years, sell some injuries
Speaker 4: and then play through them.
Speaker 2: But I do believe this ankle injury is going to
Speaker 2: be a factor here because not only is he hobbled
Speaker 2: up eleven or more QB hits in three straight games
Speaker 2: like that was happened three times in his first one
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five career starts, so that a line
Speaker 2: issue is a big deal, and the Texans generate pressure
Speaker 2: at the third highest rate. On the Texan side, Nico
Speaker 2: Collins is the only must star. I think you you
Speaker 2: talked about Joe Mixon on Fantasy Live. I feel like,
Speaker 2: if you have mix in, you probably gotta start him. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but it depends on your options. But yeah, like the
Speaker 2: Chiefs have been elite at stopping the run this season.
Speaker 3: They have.
Speaker 1: I mean, Joe Mixon's schedule down the stretch is not
Speaker 1: great because they got the Chiefs this week, the Ravens
Speaker 1: and the Titans for you weirdos who are playing like
Speaker 1: DFS or something in Week eighteen. Either way, it's just
Speaker 1: a bad setup for Joe Mixon. But because he's been
Speaker 1: so good, it's just hard to get away from him
Speaker 1: at this point. But it is not a good situation.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Nico Collins is the only guy that
Speaker 1: I feel any real level of confidence in.
Speaker 4: And even he had like seventeen yards last.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like, yeah, It's it's been rough for the Texans
Speaker 1: offense and the matchup is bad on both sides of
Speaker 1: the football. This week a big one in the AFC
Speaker 1: North between the Steelers and the Ravens. Derrick Henry not
Speaker 1: great last week. The Steelers run defense has been good.
Speaker 1: We know that when these two teams played, generally there's
Speaker 1: not a whole lot of offense. Can you envision a
Speaker 1: Derek Henry bounce back, Yes, easily, Like he's Dereck Henry,
Speaker 1: I mean against any he is the capability of going off.
Speaker 4: But like the first time these two teams played, Derek
Speaker 4: Henry fumbled and it was like his first fumble in
Speaker 4: like three years or.
Speaker 3: Something crazy like that.
Speaker 2: So this game being in Baltimore, and I think Derek
Speaker 2: Henry was brought in four games like this being like,
Speaker 2: look it as awesome as Lamar is. He has historically
Speaker 2: struggled against the Steelers defense. You want to take as
Speaker 2: much pressure away from him and take responsibilities off of
Speaker 2: his plate. And a great way of doing that is
Speaker 2: just feeding Derek Henry, who hasn't had a Derek Henry
Speaker 2: game in a little bit.
Speaker 3: That that could change this week.
Speaker 1: You're right to the point about him being brought in
Speaker 1: for these games, right, We've seen so much in his career. November, December,
Speaker 1: January is when he gets stronger. I mean, look, part
Speaker 1: of it is you're talking about trying to tackle literally
Speaker 1: a tank in cold weather. You get a lot of
Speaker 1: defensive backs making business decisions here. But also to take
Speaker 1: some of that pressure off of Lamar Jackson, so he's
Speaker 1: not having a shoulder so much of a burden running
Speaker 1: the football, throwing the football. He's been great with his
Speaker 1: arm this year. Now he's got the guy behind him
Speaker 1: to take some of the pressure off. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a huge Derrick Henry game, but I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be better than what we've seen kind
Speaker 1: of the last couple of weeks where it's been kind
Speaker 1: of mess so I think you get somewhere in between.
Speaker 1: Look if you get say ten to twelve points out
Speaker 1: of Derrick Henry, I think that's pretty good against the
Speaker 1: Steelers defense. I don't think you're gonna get one of those,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty twenty five point Derek Henry games like
Speaker 1: we were seeing earlier in the season, and he's going
Speaker 1: with three straight games I believe it is without a touchdown.
Speaker 3: I need him to.
Speaker 2: We have a Fantasy Live playoff the draft going on,
Speaker 2: which will have fun with later in the year.
Speaker 3: I need Dereck Henry.
Speaker 2: He didn't come through for me last week, which was
Speaker 2: a game I thought it'd be the Dereck Henry games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so we'll see what happens. But it should be
Speaker 1: an interesting one though against the Steelers. Always entertaining when
Speaker 1: these two teams play, and now you can see that.
Speaker 1: Of course. On Saturday, there on Fox Time to talk
Speaker 1: about some sleepers for the week. Who is your player
Speaker 1: for this this segment of the show.
Speaker 2: I went with a mirror Abdullah, who I'm more excited
Speaker 2: about than I probably should be. Last week, after Sinceinna
Speaker 2: McCormick got hurt, he played more snaps than Alexander Madison.
Speaker 2: He had seven targets and that led to him scoring
Speaker 2: nineteen Fantasy points and in the game prior to Sincere
Speaker 2: McCormick's breakout, he had seventeen Fantasy points there as well.
Speaker 2: The Jags top three and fantasy points per game allowed,
Speaker 2: but also in the top five and catches, receiving yards
Speaker 2: and receiving touchdowns allowed to running backs, and he is
Speaker 2: their past catching back.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I look, we have been trying to make it happen
Speaker 1: with a Raiders running back all season long, whether it
Speaker 1: was Samir Whites, Alexander Madison, Abdullah. At one point Sincera McCormick.
Speaker 1: Now want to be going to be Sincere McCormick. Well,
Speaker 1: now we're back to a mirror of Doula here and
Speaker 1: the matchup, the matchup the rest of the way for
Speaker 1: Raiders running backs is really really good. So we'll see
Speaker 1: if Abdullah can take advantage of that. For me, gonna
Speaker 1: be Briton Strange, and I know a lot of you
Speaker 1: out there are what exactly is a Breton Strange. He's
Speaker 1: designed in the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now that Evan Ingram is
Speaker 1: done for the season, Strange steps in and gets a
Speaker 1: whole lot more opportunity. We saw it last week with
Speaker 1: twelve targets for Briton Strange. He finished the week as
Speaker 1: the tight end two. You'll be forgiven if you were
Speaker 1: not aware of that, because I mean, who was checking
Speaker 1: for Brenton Strange. On the one hand, it might feel
Speaker 1: like chasing points a little bit, but he's getting a
Speaker 1: whole lot more opportunity. Mac Jones is going to be
Speaker 1: the quarterback for the rest of the season, not necessarily
Speaker 1: pushing the ball downfield. There's not a lot of options here.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's Brian Thomas Junior and then it looks
Speaker 1: like Britain Strange accruiting to be in the second option
Speaker 1: in the passing game here. It's a really good matchup
Speaker 1: against the Raiders, who struggled against the tight end position
Speaker 1: all season long. So while on the one hand, yes,
Speaker 1: maybe it does feel like chasing the points a little bit,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, you can make a really strong
Speaker 1: case that there's just really a lot of opportunity here
Speaker 1: in this passing game because there aren't a lot of
Speaker 1: places for Mac Jones to go with the football. So
Speaker 1: Briton Strange a very deep sleeper at tight end. But
Speaker 1: if you need to stream the position this week, or
Speaker 1: you just kind of want to contrariy and play written,
Speaker 1: Strange could be your guy for the Jacksonville Jaguars. I
Speaker 1: gonna step away for a quick break. We come back.
Speaker 1: We got some hot starts for the week, and I
Speaker 1: look at some more out of the week sixteen game slate.
Speaker 1: That's all coming up next here on the NFL Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Show, It's time to see who will deliver? Presented
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Speaker 4: I'm excited for lad McConkie.
Speaker 3: How did you say it?
Speaker 1: On Fantasy Luis led mcconkin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited because in his last four games seventeen
Speaker 2: point five fantasy points per game.
Speaker 3: He runs two thirds of his routes from the slot.
Speaker 2: So I don't think we're gonna get Patrick's ten shadowing
Speaker 2: him or anything like that.
Speaker 3: Sir Ten operates out wide.
Speaker 2: And then, to get even more excited, the Broncos use
Speaker 2: man coverage at the fifth highest rate in the NFL.
Speaker 2: The only wide receivers with more yards against man coverage
Speaker 2: this year AJ Brown and C.
Speaker 3: D Lamb.
Speaker 2: It is just a the lead company for Ladi McConkie,
Speaker 2: who has quickly become the go to guy for Justin Herbert.
Speaker 2: So I don't love the quarterback there, but I love
Speaker 2: Ladi mcconk.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of this is that the quarterback doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily have to have a great day for the wide
Speaker 1: receiver to have a great day. And McConkie has consistently
Speaker 1: been the wide receiver one, which is something I sort
Speaker 1: of assum's going to happen there. Just there was just
Speaker 1: a big void there in Los Angeles, and McConkie has
Speaker 1: filled it very well, stepping in, you know, Mike Williams gone,
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen gone, Gerald Ever gone. Lad McConkie has filled
Speaker 1: the void very well. Speaking of young receivers stepping up,
Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba and you and I talked about
Speaker 1: this on Fantasy Live. Look, he looks like the new
Speaker 1: wide receiver one in Seattle. I thought coming into the
Speaker 1: year that he was going to pass Tyler Lockett to
Speaker 1: be the wide receiver too. That has certainly happened. Lockett
Speaker 1: has not been very effective this year, but Jayson might
Speaker 1: have surpassed DK Metcalf as the go to guy in
Speaker 1: this Seattle past game. It's nice they've been working some things.
Speaker 3: Out Ryan Grubb.
Speaker 1: You're talking about Ryan Grubb's offense maybe not hitting the
Speaker 1: way we thought it would. He has certainly unlocked JSN
Speaker 1: though that was something that Shane Waldron was not able
Speaker 1: to do last year in Seattle, throwing the fact that
Speaker 1: he's working primarily out of the slot, going against a
Speaker 1: Vikings defense that has given up a lot of yards,
Speaker 1: not necessarily a lot of touchdowns through the air, but
Speaker 1: a lot of yards and especially a lot of yards
Speaker 1: to slot receivers. We saw last week Keenan Allen go out,
Speaker 1: have a really nice fantasy game against this Vikings defense.
Speaker 1: I think regardless of whether it is Gino Smith or
Speaker 1: Sam Howell, I think you can expect good things out
Speaker 1: of JSN. The Gino I like it a little bit better,
Speaker 1: but I still think Sam Howell finds a way to
Speaker 1: get Smith in Jigba of the football. And I mean
Speaker 1: you weren't not starting him at this point. I mean
Speaker 1: he's been too good. But now I think you can
Speaker 1: expect a pretty good game coming out of him. This week.
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Speaker 1: the NFL Order Now Eagles at the Commanders. Last time
Speaker 1: these teams played, Jayden Daniels did not have a great game.
Speaker 1: The Eagles have been tough on quarterbacks all year long.
Speaker 1: Would you trust starting Jaden Daniels against Philly this week?
Speaker 3: You know who you're asking?
Speaker 1: I just look, I'm just trying to help the people here.
Speaker 2: Okay, And look, I've gotten a lot of questions this
Speaker 2: week about about it, and I do yes. I know
Speaker 2: he struggled the first time they played, but context like
Speaker 2: they came out after the game and we're like, his
Speaker 2: ribs weren't an issue, But if you watch that game
Speaker 2: on Thursday Night Football a few weeks ago, the ribs
Speaker 2: were clearly an issue for Jayde and Daniels. Since he
Speaker 2: had that mini by to recover and then the real buy,
Speaker 2: He's averaged twenty seven Fantasy points per game in games
Speaker 2: since that Eagles game.
Speaker 3: He is running more. Him and Terry McLaurin feel.
Speaker 2: Safe for like a touchdown or two each and every week,
Speaker 2: and even more than that. Look at the state of
Speaker 2: the quarterback position right now. We have so many teams
Speaker 2: playing backups, and then we have guys like Brock Perdy
Speaker 2: and Tua who were like more fringe options, are in
Speaker 2: tough matchup, Like what are you gonna play Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 2: over him? Like I am riding with Jayde and Daniels
Speaker 2: until the wheels fall off.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I just think there's a way for
Speaker 1: him to succeed, and it doesn't necessarily have to be
Speaker 1: with his arm. It's nice if you throw the football,
Speaker 1: you get Terry McLaurin involved.
Speaker 3: Or what have you.
Speaker 1: But we know he can break out of the pocket
Speaker 1: and run and that always gives him some value. So
Speaker 1: I'm sort of with you there, right regardless of what
Speaker 1: Philly's done, regardless of what happened the last time around,
Speaker 1: I can't get away from Jayden Daniels at this point.
Speaker 2: Plus it's in Washington this go around, and he saw
Speaker 2: them a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Reason for optimism.
Speaker 1: Is he a top five quarterback pick next year?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like we were talking about it on Monday, but
Speaker 2: I think the top five is pretty secure.
Speaker 4: In Alan Lamar, I think those are the top two.
Speaker 2: No questions asked, Jalen Hurts, Joe burrow Man, Joe Burrow
Speaker 2: and Jayde and Daniels.
Speaker 1: I think those are the top five. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think that's probably where we are right now with
Speaker 1: Jayde and Daniels. Sunday Night Football, Buccaneers at the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans on his quest for one thousand yards see
Speaker 1: right now is two hundred and fifty one yards away.
Speaker 1: Let's put it at seventy two and a half receiving
Speaker 1: yards more or less for Mike Evan way more. All right,
Speaker 1: we're going to the moon.
Speaker 2: I think he goes off because there's incentive to be
Speaker 2: had here. One the Cowboys have allowed the most passing
Speaker 2: yards since Week eleven. To Baker Mayfield is playing really
Speaker 2: good football, and look, I'm not saying he deserves to
Speaker 2: win it, but I think maybe we should have a
Speaker 2: conversation like should Baker be in the conversation for MVP,
Speaker 2: like as like the fourth or fifth candidate something like that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, like there's incentive here they want. The Bucks
Speaker 2: are just as like they want to get Mike Evans
Speaker 2: one thousand yards, just as bad as Mike Evans wants
Speaker 2: to get a thousand yards. So I think they're going
Speaker 2: to force feed in the ball.
Speaker 3: Every week going forward.
Speaker 1: He's got an average about eighty three yards per game,
Speaker 1: little more than eighty three yards per game to get
Speaker 1: there over the final three games. That seems very doable,
Speaker 1: in part because, as you mentioned, I do think the
Speaker 1: Bucks want to keep this street going. We know Mike
Speaker 1: Evans wants to keep this streak going, but also look,
Speaker 1: they still trying to lock up the division, and to
Speaker 1: do that, you gotta get your best player of the football,
Speaker 1: and Mike Evans is their best offensive player.
Speaker 2: What I love about the Bucks is they're kind of
Speaker 2: like the Ravens and the Lions. Like, no matter what
Speaker 2: the score is, they're gonna keep throwing. Yes, Like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's just what they do. This is just what we do.
Speaker 2: They're gonna keep throwing the football.
Speaker 3: So I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think Mike Evans goes over that number. I know.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the week, Patrick Claybound suggested that he's gonna
Speaker 1: get pretty close, pretty far along the path to one
Speaker 1: thousand yards this week against the Cowboys coming up. We'll
Speaker 1: see how that goes. Hey, we're for one fifty nine
Speaker 1: last week against the Chargers. So not a crazy idea
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 3: Monday Night football.
Speaker 1: It is the Saints at the Packers. I know, to
Speaker 1: choose your fighter here, Jayden Reid, Christian Watson or Romeo Dobbs.
Speaker 3: I I hate that this has.
Speaker 2: Become a thing because, like, I want Jayden Reid to
Speaker 2: be the guy so bad, and that's the one I'll
Speaker 2: pick here because the matchup against the Saints, Like, I
Speaker 2: think that you could just generate a lot of short,
Speaker 2: quick touches for Jayden.
Speaker 3: Reid and let him run wild.
Speaker 2: He could get used as a ball carrier as well.
Speaker 2: The other two kind of eat off of each other's place.
Speaker 2: Like Reid has a role as a the lead slot
Speaker 2: guy here and the guy that they manufactured touches for
Speaker 2: the other two. It's kind of a guessing game week
Speaker 2: to week, so I don't really love.
Speaker 1: Going that route. Yeah, you know, we noticed last week
Speaker 1: they did get a lot more rushing attempts for Jaden Reed,
Speaker 1: which is a thing they had kind of gotten away
Speaker 1: from over the previous few weeks, but they kind of
Speaker 1: started getting him back going again. And it's Reed and
Speaker 1: not Deebo Samuel that leads all wide receivers and rushing
Speaker 1: yards this year. So dry Landebo legitimately is a thing
Speaker 1: this season. I still think he's the guy if I'm
Speaker 1: picking between the three, if I'm putting together a daily
Speaker 1: fantasy lineup, I'm picking Reed. He's probably the guy that
Speaker 1: is gonna cost you the most, but he's also the
Speaker 1: guy that seems the most guaranteed. They got a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities over the course of the game. So there
Speaker 1: is any Saints, is it? You know? He states any
Speaker 1: states that we really like. I mean, we don't know
Speaker 1: what Alvin Kamara's situation is just yet.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say maybe Kendre Miller, and that's it.
Speaker 1: It's bad. It's bleak, especially with word that Derek Carr
Speaker 1: probably done for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Like, I think Alvin Kamara just wants to not he
Speaker 2: wants to hang out with his friends, and none of
Speaker 2: his friends are on the field right now, so he's like,
Speaker 2: what am I gonna do?
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Speaker 2: The player who cannot catch a touchdown at all? Trey
Speaker 2: McBride scores not one, but two touchdowns this week because
Speaker 2: I think the look the Cardinals, just like you, know
Speaker 2: that he doesn't have a touchdown, and he's quickly approaching
Speaker 2: all the records or most catches and yards and everything
Speaker 2: in a season without a touchdown. The Cardinals are aware
Speaker 2: of this, and they tried getting him a touchdown on
Speaker 2: a manufacturer touch on the goal line last week. It
Speaker 2: didn't work. I think we get something like that early
Speaker 2: on in the game, and then I think mcbrid just
Speaker 2: catches a routine touchdown because no team has allowed more
Speaker 2: to the tight end position than the Carolina Panthers. And
Speaker 2: despite not having a touchdown, he's still giving you twenty
Speaker 2: fantasy points weer game in the last month. So imagine
Speaker 2: what he could do if he catches a touchdown or two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he just said once he breaks the seal,
Speaker 1: then I think touchdowns are just gonna come. But you know,
Speaker 1: they gotta fight away four in the final two days.
Speaker 1: Gonna fight away to get that first one, and then
Speaker 1: we're off and running from there. Along those lines, Isaay
Speaker 1: Cooper cup catches two touchdown passes because why not. The
Speaker 1: overcorrection is coming right. He had just three targets no
Speaker 1: catches last week against the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford's not gonna let his boy go out like
Speaker 1: that two games in a row. They're gonna figure out
Speaker 1: a way to get it done. Throw in the fact
Speaker 1: that the Jets secondary has not been great for the
Speaker 1: last few weeks. We saw last week I was Brian
Speaker 1: Thomas Junior doing some work from the slot had a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdown catches against the Jets. So look, I
Speaker 1: think Pooka the Cooystal eats. If you're worried that one
Speaker 1: guy's going to eat in the other one, well, I
Speaker 1: think both Pooka and Cooper Cup can have good games.
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