WEBVTT - Winter Wonderland 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:04.480 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:10.880 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.920 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.360 whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:20.120 here's your host, Paul Chargian. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:25.560 It's a divisional round of matchup on Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:29.920 I'm Paul Charchie and my co host is Brian Johnson. Hey, buddy, 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:30.840 what up? 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.320 Charge? Have you been a minute on f FW? 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.760 Yeah, I'll be back. Yeah, we've you were here two 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.880 weeks ago, we had Scott last week, and you're back today. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.280 We're gonna break down the four divisional round matchups. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:46.599 And before we do that, you want to go there. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:48.879 Let's there, let's talk Sam Donald. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.880 All right? Now, you were the I'm all for it. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.840 Let's yeah, you were the original Sam Donald. I don't 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.800 want to say apologist, but you you were a believer. 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.800 In March when the Vikings signed Donald, and even before 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:02.840 they signed him, you were urging the team to sign him. 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:04.920 You wanted to see Sam Donald and purple. It worked 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:10.040 out that way. It looked great for sixteen games, and 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.720 then the last two the bottom fell out for sam 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:18.600 uh culminating in a nine sack effort. Unfortunately nine sacks. 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:23.000 I mean, geez, nine times, where's I don't have nine 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:26.199 times on? Oh wait nine times? Nine time? 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.160 Yeah, the sad trombone works for then. 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.440 Actually it really does well. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:36.240 I'm not looking to peacock Fantasy football wise grand slam 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.360 right from the Oh yeah, I said, Sam Donald, grab 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:44.400 him last pick in your in your drabsolute But uh, 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.080 I'm a little hurt as a I'm still Sam Donald's 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:50.880 number one fan. I will ride with him until I die. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.000 I became this. I wasn't born into this. I don't 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.200 for ever reason. I always thought he could ball, always 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.760 been in the wrong. He got put in a situation 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.160 in Minnesota, of course. Yeah, one of the reasons. I 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.280 bet him to win MVP at ridiculous odds. And he 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.560 was a great cheap draftic the cheapest he was free. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.800 He was free. Yeah, faltered in the last two games, 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:17.160 of course. Why is he getting all of the blame? 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.600 Charge all of it? And he's like a lightning like 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:25.760 his mistakes are magnified more than any other player almost 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.120 in NFL history. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:34.960 You're forgetting Kirk Cousins. No, Kirk's mistakes were magnified more 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.840 than Donald's. Donald's I believe, but. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.519 I think here, I mean, I am Donald. The over 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.000 under for the Vikings was six and a half wins. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.840 They won fourteen games. Yes, Kevin O'Connell deserves credit. Yes, 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.080 he gets all the credit for the good that Donald did, 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:59.119 all of it ridiculous, zero for the mistakes he fall. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.880 I've never seen the head coach gets sunned so bad 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:08.120 over the last two weeks, and he quit against the Rams, 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:13.240 flat out quit? Did Donald quit? Donald's got buried all 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:17.760 year by a brutal offensive line? I don't know. I'm good, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.360 obviously getting emotional. I've got energy drink coursing through my veins. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.960 He has nothing to do with JJ McCarthy people coming 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.480 at me like it's not about that. Kevin O'Connell needs 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.359 to take ownership for some of the faults of the 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.959 last two weeks. I've seen zero. I've seen him roll 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:35.839 his eyes at Donald. Of course, i've seen him blame 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.320 the offensive line. What about you, Kevin O'Connell, did you 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.640 make the necessary adjustments? If Kevin O'Connell looked like Brad Childress, 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.560 he'd probably be fired right now. But no, he's good. 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.280 Looking, because he's got because he's got hair, tall. 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:54.480 He's charming, he's charmed. Anyway, you can talk more about 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.480 this more. We got to have an episode with Door 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:58.800 and I. You should see our text messages, and it's 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.840 just he just he's bagging on Donald of course. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.040 And I know it's like for the draft. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:07.960 The last thing I was saying, like at the highest 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.000 of highs, like four or five weeks ago. And this 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.400 isn't just a Thor, it's the majority of the fan base, 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.360 but Thor is the driver there. There's JJ discourse. When 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.839 the vikings are rolling, it's like, can you live in 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:27.160 the moment right now? Like the vikings you've won, Jack 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.480 Squatt when it comes to title, like live in the moment. 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.039 That never happened all season long. I don't I feel 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:38.000 bad for Donald, Like the fans never were behind him, 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:39.840 even like when they kind of were, they never were. 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.480 They're always looking towards next year. So we'll see what happens. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.080 And there's nothing to do with JJ McCarthy again. I 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:51.960 hope Kevin O'Connell doesn't fault JJ McCarthy like you did say, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.200 im Donald. That's all I'm gonna say. And I am 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:59.480 praying now that the Vikings don't tag Obviously. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.680 Nobod nobody's tagging Sam Donald. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.039 You don't think the Vikings will, oh God, even for 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:05.919 like a tag in trade. I just wanted to be 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:10.400 let free. And here's my Ben Johnson, Sam Donald, brock 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:15.839 Bowers round one receiving weapon. That's what I want. We're 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.080 going to Vegas, baby. 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.919 I think he could go to Vegas. That's that's I 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.360 think that's one of the teams that makes sense. Pittsburgh 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.839 could be a destination for Sam Donald. Giants could be 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.000 a destination for Sam Donald. These are all teams that 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.960 don't have an in house quarterback solution and don't have 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.080 a spot to go to in the draft, in their 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.200 natural draft selection spot. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.120 It would be fitting for Donald to go to the Giants, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.880 right and make me a Giants fan again. Yeah, Giant's 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.880 got the draft slot to take a quarterback, though, I 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.000 don't know if he's gonna go there, But anyway, I 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:51.440 had to get that off my chest. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.440 Well done. I mean, it's a it's a passionate rant. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.839 I think you've you've earned the opportunity to spend five 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:01.040 minutes talking talking about Sam Donald. And that's okay to 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:04.520 open up a vein. That's it's healthy. We're here to 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:04.839 help you. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.240 Pro Bowler Sam Donald, I should say, by the way, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.440 I'm checking NFL dot com every day to buy my 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:14.160 Pro Bowl Sam Donald gear, because no matter what you 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.480 think about him, he bawled the f out this season. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:20.960 He looked great. Yeah, mostly he did, and till he 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.919 got all due to Kevin o'connelly. Some of them he 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.200 can play, and he can play, yes, so, and he 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:31.200 can make mistakes. But you know what, every quarterback in 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.839 the NFL makes mistakes. His are amplified more than others. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.840 But I'm done. Let's talk about the playoffs, right, best 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.720 weekend in football coming up right here? 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:44.400 It is. Uh. The the thing about this weekend that's 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.720 great and better than last weekend is just better. You 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.560 just get the same number of games, but better teams left. Well, 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.400 I guess we have one fewer game. We don't have 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.760 the Monday night game this time. We're the same. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.719 we have one fewer game. We have better teams left 0:06:59.240 --> 0:06:59.880 this too. 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.480 There was six games, my man. Yeah, you're right. 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.560 It was a three Saturdays before. Yeah, yeah, it was 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.600 two Saturday, three Sunday and one yes, you're right. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.240 So there was like one actual game it felt like 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.800 that was like the Commanders and Bucks, right, that was 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.760 like the one good game during the wildcard round. 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:22.200 Felt like, Yes, let's break down these games, beginning with 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:27.320 the Saturday afternoon game Houston at Kansas City. Now, let 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.160 me tell you my pre election on this going in, 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.920 which was this, I felt like Houston was a fraud 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.360 coming into into the playoffs, and I expected them to 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.960 lose at this time last week, and I was wrong. 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:45.400 And it was one sided. Although Will Disley and Justin 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:49.560 Herbert gave the game away. Disleey basically handed two interceptions 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:54.480 to the defense and Herbert just got annihilated. The interior 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:59.080 of that offensive line just crumbled. But give Houston some credit. 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.680 They've put together Brian this really good pass rush which 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.440 they had all season with Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter. 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.920 But then they've got these two great cornerbacks. Kamari Lassiter 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.679 is looking like he's going to be awesome. He should 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.520 be in the conversation for defensive Rookie of the Year. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:23.360 And then Derek Stingley has emerged as really really good 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.040 former first round pick, and he's become very very good 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.440 and that makes me think this game might be a 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.680 little bit closer. These teams met just a couple of 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.800 weeks ago, Week sixteen, and it was a pretty close 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.600 game until the end when Kansas City pulled away. The 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.920 final score was twenty seven to nineteen, but Houston led 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.080 for chunks of the game. And this game's got the 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.280 lowest total of the week and one of the lower 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.040 totals you're going to see in the playoffs, just forty 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.760 one and a half points. Brian, do you think do 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:52.079 you see it as as as low scoring as Vegas 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:52.640 betters do? 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.040 Likely because of the weather, It's going to be freezing, cold, windy, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.520 not a lot of snow in the forecast twenty five 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:06.400 weather of yeah, less points, But in general, going back 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.679 to Houston, I feel like Houston's got a shot. I mean, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.320 I'm taking the points all day long. Last I checked, 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.280 it was seven and a half. You go back in 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:20.520 history as a former Giants fan, I know wildcard teams. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.480 Will Houston won their division. They played in the wildcard team. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.320 Teams that play in the first round and get hot, 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.920 they can go on runs. And the Chiefs sat all 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.559 their starters in Week eighteen. They had to buy last week, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.000 they've been sitting on the couch. So don't sleep on 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.199 the Texans. And obviously you're gonna get into into the 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.520 nitty gritty. Yeah, but I like Houston's change. I think 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.520 it's gonna be a closer game. I'm the gamblers out there, 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.880 not financial advice, but I'm taking the points. If I'm 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:46.400 betting on this. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.360 Game, I would do because you know, if if the 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:52.040 game's only forty one and a half expected points, it's 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.680 pretty easy to have a margin of eight. I've seen 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:56.160 this as high as eight and a half. You mentioned 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.000 seven and a half. All right, let's go. Let's break 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.920 it down FFW style, And I don't want to start 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.400 with Nico. Collins's got my highest letter grade for Houston 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.080 because of the severe drop off in talent after Collins. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:08.680 I do expect him to get a lot of coverage 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.280 from the Chief's best cornerback, that's Trent McDuffie. McDuffie only 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.280 allowing a sixty percent catch rate, and he's a terrific 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:17.559 tackler who gives up very little yards after the catch. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.000 But McDuffie isn't the shutdown corner he used to be. 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:24.960 Like last year, he was almost a death sentence. Earlier 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.880 in the season, he was playing well. Since Week nine, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.680 he's allowed five touchdowns. You know, that's a lot for 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.800 a cornerback. Good cornerbacks don't give up five all year, 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.040 and he's given up five since Week nine. So I 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.280 still like Colins some here, and I've got a B 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.920 grade on him, But then it falls off from a 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.240 receiving option. It falls off so severely. The only other 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.199 guy I think you could start would be Dalton Schultz. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.480 On the full season, Kansas City allowed the most yards 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.400 to tight ends and the second most receptions. He put 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.520 up forty five yards at a touchdown in the Week 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.840 sixteen matchups, So I think Schultz is kind of a 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.400 sneaky play here. We're not going to like Zavi or 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.040 Hutchinson or Robert Woods or anything like that. Let me 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:09.400 tell you why I don't like Joe Mixon when for 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.720 the majority of especially the second half of the season, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:17.560 the Houston offensive line has been garbage. They played well 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.640 last week, but I don't think that I don't know 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:21.200 they can do it twice in a row against a 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.000 much better run defense. Let me give you some some 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.640 Kansas City run defense numbers. Rushing yards allowed. On the season, 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:33.320 they were eighth best, yards per carry, fourth best, yards 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.480 after contact, fourth best, misstackles fourth best. It is a good, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.280 but not dominating run defense, and I think that's all 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:43.880 it takes to slow down Joe Mixon, who nine different 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.360 times this year Kansas City has held their opposition's number 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.160 one runner, number one runner to under thirty six yards. 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.400 And I think Mixon's got some flop to him here. 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:57.760 I'm nervous about him. Earlier this year, Mixon was getting 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:02.480 workhorse level carries win or lose, But then the second 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.520 half of the season, when Houston's been losing, they hit 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.360 the carries have dried up for mixing, including the Week 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.480 sixteen loss to Kansas City where he had only fourteen 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.640 carries in that game. And that could be the case here. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.280 I've only got a C grade on Joe Mixon for 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:17.680 this one. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.040 Yes, I'm with you there. Yeah, I'm not liking his 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.000 prospects a whole lot. It's uh, the Houston defense might 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:27.160 be the strongest play if you're playing daily or anything 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.400 like that outside of Nico. Yeah, yeah, I like that. 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.240 I like that. On the Kansas City side, I want 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.160 to start with the receivers I've got a bunch of 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:37.160 C grades here. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.360 So sorry, cut you off. So CJ Stroud though, obviously, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.920 oh yeah right, sorry, be bench grade. 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.040 Yep, I've got a C grade on c J. Stroud 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:46.960 because I've only got the B on Nico Collins and 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:49.880 a C on Dalton Schultz. And you know Stroud put 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.480 up of modest numbers in the earlier meeting. I don't 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:53.520 have them in front of me. I think it was 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.600 around two twenty and one in the earlier meeting. Shoot. 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:57.839 I wish I had that in front of me, but 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:58.240 I don't. 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.200 And they had Tank del too. Then, who's coming on 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.559 strong before the injury such a it's a shame that 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.880 Tank Dell human be available next season. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:13.880 But that's it's it's very very serious injury for Tank Dell, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.320 which is a worry. Stroud two forty four and two 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:22.200 in the in the earlier meeting, Week sixteen, C grade 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.400 on on on Stroud. Oh yeah, here's my notes here. 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.839 Since Week seven, strouts full game average two hundred and 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.800 sixteen yards and zero point nine touchdowns. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.520 That's it, sophomore slump, the epitome of huh. 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:40.600 Yeah, a little bit, a little bit. It's it's not disaster. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.440 Yeah, that's a great question. Way too early. I mean, 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.760 he was like a top eight consensus quarterback going into 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:48.199 this season. 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.360 Yeah. I think we all thought, yeah, We're all like, hey, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.000 they added stuff on Diggs, Tank Dell's coming back. He's 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.680 gonna get better as a sophomore. I honestly thought he 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:01.200 had like thirty four thirty six touchdown upside him. Not 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.920 close and mostly inexplicable except their offensive line for Houston's 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.679 just garbage. I hope they put some serious draft equity 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.680 into that offensive line. And if they don't, like, burn 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:19.160 down the front office because you've got CJ. Stroud, you've 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.520 got to They got to invest in the offensive line 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.160 to give c J. Stroud every opportunity to be great. 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.800 And until they do that, I think you can't be 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.840 upset if he doesn't perform as well as you want. Agreed, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.560 All right, let's go to Kansas City Side. I mentioned 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.920 the receivers. I've got a bunch of C grades. I'm 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.000 gonna start with Xavier Worthy. So I tweeted this and 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:44.560 I thought that was very interesting. So Xavier Worthy, as 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.080 you as you know, Brian fastest guy in the NFL. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.080 He ran the four two forty, Like, you know, it's 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:54.520 all it should all be bombs away from Patrick Mahomes 0:14:55.960 --> 0:15:00.600 in Xavier Worthy's last seven games, that is long time 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:04.800 Brian in the NFL. Seven games is a gigantic sample size. 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:12.440 He has three completions longer than nine yards. Really, that's it. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:18.320 On fifty five targets, he has three completed passes longer 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:23.240 than nine yards. So what he's become is bubble screen guy. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.600 And then you hope his speed kicks in and he 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:30.520 can just outrun defenders. They don't trust him on any 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:31.680 kind of deep patterns. 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.640 Well, we joked about this in the past. If the 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.440 field was only like half an inch or half a 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.480 yard wider on each side, those numbers would be exponentially better. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.640 He's had so many, just like Xavier Worthy, that it 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.400 is just so many catches. He's just been out of bounds. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.720 He's lack of awareness just hasn't been there. So like 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.480 the air yards have been there, but he has not 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.440 been converting. But yeah, those numbers are staggering. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.400 Isn't that amazing? Yeah, Now in this particular matchup, he's 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:06.680 normally speed guy, and you can it could in theory 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.160 be long deep downfield stuff. They don't throw that. As 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.600 I just mentioned, I don't know that he can that 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.120 his speed is as much of an advantage against Dryl 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.720 Stingley because he's a four to three speed guy. He's 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.680 one of the fastest cornerbacks in the league. So I 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.320 don't like I don't like worthy to have a particularly 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:27.160 big game. Even though his usage has increased dramatically in 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:29.720 the second half of the season, I've still just got 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.280 the C grade on him because you don't always get 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.640 the deep stuff and Darryl Stingley could take away the speed. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.720 Hollywood Brown is pretty interesting. He played a lot in 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.000 the Week sixteen matchup with Houston that was his first 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.080 game back on the season. Targeted eight times, he caught 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:47.280 five balls. He's also fast, and in the Week sixteen 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:49.680 game he saw a lot of Darryl Stingley as well. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.240 I went back and looked, but he only caught one 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.160 pass with Stingley on him, And I still see Brown 0:16:55.360 --> 0:17:00.200 as kind of a high risk, high reward guy. And 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.560 then there's DeAndre Hopkins, also a C grade because Hopkins 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.520 Hopkins wins with physical play and contested catches. But what 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:09.200 we found over the course of the season is He's 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.840 totally touchdown dependent because he only brings in like three 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.240 and four balls a game, and he gets you like 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.800 thirty forty yards a game. He's got to get a 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.760 touchdown to be fantasy relevant. I don't know that there's 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.520 necessarily a touchdown to be had here. In most games 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.440 he doesn't score one. I've only got the C grade 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:30.800 on him. Kamari Lassiter is a super physical corner, and 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:32.480 Lassiter is going to be on him a lot, and 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.400 so I don't I don't love the matchup honestly. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.639 For Hopkins, you gotta love the revenge game angle, though 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.640 I don't remember the I think they kind of let 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.480 him free out of Houston, so it's not like he's 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:50.000 got you know, an a, but yeah, he always you 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.439 always like to show up against your former team, and 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.000 of course it all started in Houston for Nuke. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.760 You love the revenge angle, Oh, of course absolutely. Travis 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:06.680 kel Elsey three touchdowns this regular season. Brian, you're hoping 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.080 that playoff Kelsey shows up. He got held to thirty 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:15.320 scoreless yards in the Week sixteen meeting, so I can't 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.159 love him here. You're again, you're hoping playoff Kelsey shows up. 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:20.320 I've only got the C grade on him. Houston's been 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:25.080 a good regular season tight end team. And then that 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.320 brings us to Patrick Mahomes. I've got all C grades 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.480 on his receivers, so I've got because they all have 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.240 C grades I do have. I've got a B on Mahomes. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.240 He had a decent but not explosive game versus Houston 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.960 a week sixteen, did one touchdowne hundred and sixty yards. 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:44.040 He does get his left tackle, Joe Tooney. They've announced 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.000 it's going to stay. He was his left guard, but 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.840 out of desperation with DJ Humphries got hurt, they moved 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:51.800 him to left tackle and they think they found their 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.640 left tackle the future. He's been great, so maybe that's 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.639 good news there. We will be going replacement left guard, 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.440 but that's not as big of an issue. And then 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.760 with all the receiver issues that I talked about, I 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.200 just I see another like two sixty and one maybe 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.800 two touchdowns. I've got to be grade on him. And 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.320 then tell me we think of Isaiah Pachecko, Brian. My 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:15.160 theory is they're saving they've been saving him for the playoffs. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.240 I have no basis for this except Kareem Hunt sucks. 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:22.119 He's bad. I've talked about him many times on Fantasy 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.600 Football Weekly. Among thirty runners with one hundred and fifty carries, 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.240 he's dead last in yards per carry, he's dead last 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.560 and avoided tackle rate, and he's second to last in 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.120 yards after contact. Here's Pachecko with fresh legs the last 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.080 two weeks zero carries in week eighteen nine carries and 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:42.200 six carries. So Pachecko comes in fresh in theory, fully healthy. 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.840 You think it's gonna be a continued rotation between him 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:47.879 and Hunter or do you think Pachecko is in a 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:48.640 good spot here. 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.800 I'm with you in thinking that they should be ramping 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.040 up Pachecko in this game because if I were too well, 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.520 I wouldn't be able to tackle either guy. But if 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.320 I had to pick one that I had to try 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:05.600 to tackle in sub zero degrees, it's Kareem Hunt and 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.639 not Isaiah Pacheco. He's the for superior runner when healthy, 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:12.399 and as you said, he's ah. He should be ready 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.240 to go. He's been resting up and ramping up leading 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.920 up to this moment. He was a playoff hero last year. 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.200 Kareem Hunt, as you said, is his stats have been 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:26.199 good with the underlying numbers is Yeah, so I'm with you. 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.200 Hunt is a guy I'm not even really looking at 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:34.720 in daily formats. There are other one bee options out 0:20:34.720 --> 0:20:36.800 there that are better than Kareem Hunt. So it's it's 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:39.200 all Pacheco for me in the running game for Kansas City. 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:39.719 I agree. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.200 All right, let's work in. Uh, let's work in your 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:48.480 next matchup, which is the second game? Is the Philadelphia game? Correct? 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:49.119 No? 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.880 Saturday is uh Washington Detroit? Yeah, sorry, Washington Dright. Yeah, 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:53.760 all right, let's. 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.520 Say for for fantasy purposes, this is the game because 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:01.280 it's the only one indoors bad weather, three other. 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:02.440 Cold weather everywhere else. 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:07.120 Yeah, indoors over under fifty five and a half. Exciting 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:10.320 players on both sides, of course. So yeah, let's dive 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:13.800 in on the commander's side first, starting with the running backs. 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:17.080 I don't give Brian Robinson and Austin Eckler both see 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:22.760 Robinson had fifteen opportunities that saw carries and targets against 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:26.720 Tampa Bay. Eckler saw eleven, so nearly a split there. 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.240 But it was more shocking was Robinson saw one more 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.840 target than Ekler, where you'd think Eckler would have seen 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.480 all the passing work out of the backfield, but not 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.399 a great matchup for either. The Lions allowed the third 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.560 fewest combo yards to back in the regular season catching 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.400