Speaker 1: All right, and welcome into the Fansy Pros Fantasy Football Podcast.
Speaker 1: It is the week fifteen reaction episode. Some fantasy football
Speaker 1: teams are celebrating moving on to the next round of
Speaker 1: the playoffs, some are mourning their losses, and others still
Speaker 1: hang in the balance.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Seth Wilcock.
Speaker 1: And is always helping us break down the biggest injuries
Speaker 1: of the day. The best medical sports professional on the Internet,
Speaker 1: orthopedic surgeon the founder of sports med Analytics, doctor Deepak
Speaker 1: Chona Deepak, thank you so much for joining us tonight.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: How are your fantasy playoffs going?
Speaker 4: So far?
Speaker 3: So far, so good. Everything's a tight, tightly contested matchup,
Speaker 3: but you wouldn't have it any other way, so we'll
Speaker 3: keep going.
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I would take the blowouts where
Speaker 1: I can get them.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that right now. I'll tell you that
Speaker 2: right now. But it's a fun fun to sweat them out.
Speaker 1: So appreciate you joining us as always making time for
Speaker 1: us in your busy schedule. I'm also joined by our
Speaker 1: NFL and college football expert here at Fantasy Pro, Scott
Speaker 1: Bogman Boggs. It was the first weekend in about four
Speaker 1: months we'd have a full slate of college football on Saturday.
Speaker 1: But I'd say the NFL on Sunday really made up
Speaker 1: for the great slate of games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, lots of games, no bye week, so you know,
Speaker 5: lots to get through here today, and a lot of
Speaker 5: fun games as well. Hopefully you guys Starry Devonte Adams,
Speaker 5: boy did he look good today. Probably carried a lot
Speaker 5: of teams. Shash Allen with another great game as well.
Speaker 5: Lots of big time performers. Not our team, our team,
Speaker 5: let us down, seth. But I have nine teams alive,
Speaker 5: four with buyes. I have five playing this week. I
Speaker 5: think I'm gonna lose two, so okay, we'll have you know,
Speaker 5: however many that is going next seven going next week.
Speaker 1: So I'm there with you. I'm there with you. We've
Speaker 1: got a pack program for everyone tonight. As Bog said,
Speaker 1: a lot to get to in the next sixty ish minutes.
Speaker 1: We're gonna cover the injuries with Deepak and we'll go
Speaker 1: through game by game breaking down all the fantasy football
Speaker 1: goodness and sadness. That's a twelve games delivered today before
Speaker 1: we get going. I did want to thank the fantasy
Speaker 1: Pros community for tuning in tonight with us. Last Sunday,
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Speaker 1: losing with Josh Allen in your lineup. I did get
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Speaker 1: the injuries boys, because oh my goodness, was it a doozy?
Speaker 1: Starting with Patrick Mahomes suffers an ankle injury.
Speaker 2: DPOK.
Speaker 1: There's really no getting past this one. Patrick Mahomes pretty
Speaker 1: brutal looking injury for a second, but you know, this
Speaker 1: guy's a little bit of an iron man. Always seems
Speaker 1: to be able to get back on the field. There's
Speaker 1: only about five minutes left in this game there up
Speaker 1: by two scores, so we don't know the severity of it.
Speaker 1: What's your initial reporting on what happened to the three
Speaker 1: time Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're calling you a high ankle and it certainly
Speaker 3: is consistent with the video as well. The thing about
Speaker 3: these high ankles is that a lot of elite quarterbacks
Speaker 3: have started to kind of consistently play through these, and
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes actually won a Super Bowl playing through one
Speaker 3: of these as well. Now, the couple things that help
Speaker 3: him are that he has good straight line speeds, so
Speaker 3: he can still scramble a little bit. Typically, you do
Speaker 3: see a dip in player passing excuse me, and player
Speaker 3: rushing attempts for quarterbacks when they play through these. Passing
Speaker 3: is usually pretty well maintained, and his strong arm, plus
Speaker 3: his kind of different ability to vary his arm angles,
Speaker 3: gives him a little extra flexibility even if he can't
Speaker 3: fully push off of that ankle. So overall, I'm not
Speaker 3: terribly concerned there is some risk here, But for Patrick
Speaker 3: Mahomes specifically, I think he's on the more durable side
Speaker 3: with these types of injuries.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you had to put your money down
Speaker 1: right now over under, if he plays, would you put
Speaker 1: money that he plays next week?
Speaker 3: I would think so. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, even being a short week.
Speaker 1: Okay, given that it is a short week for Mahomes,
Speaker 1: if he's out there and he's not at one hundred
Speaker 1: percent per se? Are you still feeling good about these
Speaker 1: other options in the receiving game? Travis Kelsey kind of
Speaker 1: down game for him. Worthy ad a nice game. Hopkins
Speaker 1: has been serviceable as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there's not a lot trustable for the
Speaker 5: Chiefs anyway. We'll get a little more into that when
Speaker 5: we get to that game. But Worthy saw a little
Speaker 5: bit more. Hopkins had a tough game. They rotate those
Speaker 5: wide receivers a bunch. Marquise Brown is coming back soon
Speaker 5: as well, So I don't know that there's a lot
Speaker 5: trustable in Kansas City right now outside of Kelsey, and
Speaker 5: Kelsey had a bad game, So yeah, I think with Mahomes,
Speaker 5: even at less than one hundred percent, I don't think
Speaker 5: those guys change much. But the rotation obviously has this
Speaker 5: kind of eyebrow peeking Hunt split today with Pacheco as well,
Speaker 5: So a lot of questions in the Chiefs offense coming
Speaker 5: forward in the next two weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And things didn't get really better for fantasy managers
Speaker 1: throughout the day. From an injury perspective. We had the
Speaker 1: perhaps fancy football MVP Saquon Barkley, who picked up a
Speaker 1: hip injury. He did return in this game, but definitely
Speaker 1: did not see his full workload. What do we think
Speaker 1: happen here, Doc.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little unclear. There wasn't any drastic video
Speaker 3: to really point to the way he was stretching afterwards.
Speaker 3: Kind of suggests that he maybe tightened up in the
Speaker 3: hip area. With these types of things, usually do see
Speaker 3: players not see their full workload because they want to
Speaker 3: load manage at the risk of re injury. So with
Speaker 3: that in mind, I would expect this to be a
Speaker 3: short term absence, if any from practice and probably playing
Speaker 3: pretty close to full strength from here.
Speaker 2: Bugs.
Speaker 1: With that being said, probably not any time missed for
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley. Are you still picking up Kenneth Gainwell if
Speaker 1: you roster Barkley just in case maybe he reinjured something
Speaker 1: next week or anything happens to him downstretch, I.
Speaker 5: Think it's a good idea, especially with like you know,
Speaker 5: somewhat limited pickups here. We do have some injuries that
Speaker 5: will open up some job here at the end of
Speaker 5: the year, of course, but you know, I think if
Speaker 5: you're rostering Saquon, I think it's a pretty good idea.
Speaker 5: If he's carrying around an injury designation this week, Like
Speaker 5: if he's questionable, to just roster gain Well and make
Speaker 5: sure you're okay, unless you know you're flushed with running backs.
Speaker 5: You got four or five in there, and yeah, you
Speaker 5: know you have whoever is a better option than gain Well.
Speaker 5: I would understand that, but I think in most scenarios,
Speaker 5: if you're rostering Barkley, you're gonna want a roster gain
Speaker 5: Well with an injury designation.
Speaker 2: Here, Gainwell is a solid back.
Speaker 1: He's been a vet, He's been on this team for
Speaker 1: that that dynamic Super Bowl run a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: And the Steelers made him look really good today too.
Speaker 4: I mean he made a lot of guys miss today.
Speaker 4: He was good.
Speaker 1: So sticking with some more injuries here, we had Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins wide receiver Jalen Waddle exit with a knee injury.
Speaker 1: This was pretty brutal as well kind of got trapped
Speaker 1: underneath a defender. What do we know about the former
Speaker 1: Alabama Crimson Tide wide receiver here?
Speaker 3: Deepak, Yeah, the video makes me suspicious for an MCL
Speaker 3: spring that would in some ways be best case scenario
Speaker 3: because it's a sort of a short term type of
Speaker 3: injury Uh, the a CL and the miniscus are also
Speaker 3: at a little bit of risk with the way that
Speaker 3: his knee got rolled up on, so Emri will probably
Speaker 3: be tomorrow. I do expect him to at least be
Speaker 3: out a week. Average MCL takes two weeks, so you'd
Speaker 3: still it'd be a little bit dicey. But they're they're
Speaker 3: saying hopefully the last week of the season he may
Speaker 3: be able to return.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow that I mean it was tough today too if
Speaker 1: you had well, I had Watt in a couple of
Speaker 1: leagues and he gave me the zero and probably won't
Speaker 1: won't need him next week because I won't be playing
Speaker 1: next week. Still, But Boggs, how does this change your
Speaker 1: evaluation of Tyreek Hill, who pretty much dropped another stinker today,
Speaker 1: and then John new Smith, who legitimately looks like the
Speaker 1: best tight end in the league right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we saw two of stare down Johnny
Speaker 5: a little bit. I'm sure Deepak was enjoying that Bullock
Speaker 5: missed a pick and then got one on passes to
Speaker 5: Waddle and then Stanley picked off uh, you know, two
Speaker 5: passes towards Hill as well. So just not a great
Speaker 5: day for Tua in the offense. But yeah, I think
Speaker 5: Malik Washington steps up here. I think Tyreek Hill is
Speaker 5: going to be okay, I think it was Stingley this week.
Speaker 5: I know, Deepak, you had told us before with the
Speaker 5: risk injury that Tyreek Catt is just going to get
Speaker 5: worse until he eventually gets surgery. Are you seeing anything
Speaker 5: from him while he's playing that indicates that that risk
Speaker 5: is really bothering him or is it more about being
Speaker 5: blanketed by Singley today?
Speaker 3: You know, I think we're going to be seeing a
Speaker 3: decreaseed separation because when he's trying to get off the line,
Speaker 3: he's going to be engaging through that risk, exerting a
Speaker 3: lot of force. So I think it starts at the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage, and then the catching ability in traffic
Speaker 3: and that sort of thing is also going to be hampered.
Speaker 3: So I think it's probably the combination more than anything else.
Speaker 3: We haven't seen Tyreek Hill standard production, and to me,
Speaker 3: I think it very much lines up with the sequence
Speaker 3: of things getting worse over time.
Speaker 2: Okay. Interesting.
Speaker 1: Some more injuries of note here New Orleans Saints running
Speaker 1: back Alvin Kamara. He suffered a groin injury what's the lake?
Speaker 1: Just about the current RB three in Fantasy right now?
Speaker 3: Deepak, Yeah, Kamara did not return. The not totally clear
Speaker 3: how severe this really is, but most players miss at
Speaker 3: least one week, so we kind of tentatively be making
Speaker 3: plans without him, and if he plays, it's kind of
Speaker 3: a bonus in my eyes.
Speaker 2: Bogs.
Speaker 1: Where would Kendre Miller rank for you against Green Bay
Speaker 1: or Las Vegas if there is no Alvin Kamara in
Speaker 1: the lineup?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that whole offense is bad, so still
Speaker 5: not very high, probably low end RB two, you know,
Speaker 5: something like that. He would get a bunch of work.
Speaker 5: We would assume Jamal Williams is getting pretty much nothing
Speaker 5: right now. And Spencer Ratler, you know they Ben Channer,
Speaker 5: they went to Rattler. All of the wide receivers are hurt.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it would be pretty surprised, as
Speaker 5: I would be pretty surprised to see Kamara not only
Speaker 5: playing this game. But you know, what do you what
Speaker 5: are you running him out there for? Let's see, let's
Speaker 5: give Miller an extended look. I know you want these
Speaker 5: guys to play, but that is your franchise right there,
Speaker 5: so you don't want him to get hurt. I mean,
Speaker 5: we'll have a new coaching staff in their next year,
Speaker 5: anything to change things out. But let's get a look
Speaker 5: at Miller. I think at least this week, and yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean the whole offense is pretty broken.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough to really have any like heavy faith
Speaker 1: in Miller. I think if you need an ARB two start,
Speaker 1: spot start, he might be the guy. But this is
Speaker 1: someone coming out to TCU. I don't know about you, Bogs,
Speaker 1: what your evaluation was of him, but I didn't think
Speaker 1: he was a special player by any means, but definitely
Speaker 1: has been living in the doghouts for a few years now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not a jag, but you know that offense made
Speaker 5: him look pretty good.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: We also had Cleveland Brown's running back Nick Chubb break
Speaker 1: his foot that led the way to a big day
Speaker 1: from Jerome Ford depawk. What does the recovery timeline look
Speaker 1: like for Nick Chubb obviously out for the rest of
Speaker 1: the season, and what does this do to his dynasty
Speaker 1: value given two substantial knee injuries already dating back to
Speaker 1: his college days and now this broken foot as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this does kind of add up basically in terms
Speaker 3: of his overall outlook, I would expect him to be
Speaker 3: back by the start of next year. But with that
Speaker 3: being said, of course, this is depends on a little
Speaker 3: bit where the foot is fractured. Minimum usually at least
Speaker 3: six six to eight weeks, so this will probably not
Speaker 3: hamper him. My guess would be for next season though.
Speaker 1: Okay, Buggs, you kind of have to throw Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: up to almost like a lost season. Really at this point,
Speaker 1: especially if you're a dynasty manager, do you think they
Speaker 1: probably replace him in the draft. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: one of the best running back classes I think we've
Speaker 1: ever seen as far as depth goes.
Speaker 5: It is, but if the fans he's still the coach,
Speaker 5: he is obsessed with Nick Chubb, he still is too. Okay,
Speaker 5: I think if they were gonna do that, they probably
Speaker 5: would have done it this offseason. So I mean, we'll see,
Speaker 5: you know, what happens with Nick Chubb in the future.
Speaker 5: But he just didn't look right the whole year. And
Speaker 5: this is why we don't draft guys hurt going into
Speaker 5: the season for the most part.
Speaker 4: Right, Like, you know, if we.
Speaker 5: Hit up Deepak and Deepak tells us, hey, I know
Speaker 5: for sure this guy's gonna be back and at one
Speaker 5: hundred percent pretty quick in the season than fine. But
Speaker 5: if there's any murkiness, any question, I'm just avoiding those
Speaker 5: guys like the plague from now on, no thank you.
Speaker 5: And that's kind of what we had with Nick Chubb here.
Speaker 1: Well, Deepak, you've done a lot of research on running
Speaker 1: backs coming back from ACL tears. I know you were
Speaker 1: kind of off Saquan a couple of years ago when
Speaker 1: he came back from his first ACL tair Breece Hall
Speaker 1: last year a little bit of an outlier, I would
Speaker 1: say based on his performances, But just in general, do
Speaker 1: you try to avoid running backs coming off of a
Speaker 1: significant knee injury the year prior.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so if it's more than just an ACL like
Speaker 3: multiple ligaments, as Nick Chubb's previously were, the data on
Speaker 3: those the first year back is pretty rough, and we
Speaker 3: saw that with JK. Dobbins a couple of years back
Speaker 3: as well. When he first came back. He just was
Speaker 3: not himself. You saw it in spurts, but you also
Speaker 3: saw him get chased down at times. And the players
Speaker 3: who are coming off just a clean ACL, there's a
Speaker 3: certain mold of player that really fits a strong recovery
Speaker 3: in year one, and that's going to be your younger
Speaker 3: players under twenty five, those who were drafted in the
Speaker 3: first two rounds, and then we look at their sort
Speaker 3: of athletic scores, their combined percentiles, and their spark scores.
Speaker 3: So the explosive metrics there are also very much tied
Speaker 3: to a faster recovery. So if you fit all three
Speaker 3: of those, then you're looking at your Breast Hauls, your
Speaker 3: Saquon Barkley's. You're actually ironically Jonathan Brooks as well this year,
Speaker 3: So it doesn't it's not a one hundred percent hit rate,
Speaker 3: but certainly that's the mold of an outlier. So that's
Speaker 3: kind of the way I look at it. If they
Speaker 3: fit that mold, their timeline looks right, then I would
Speaker 3: still take those shots because you just get such value
Speaker 3: on like a TJ. Hawkinson, who was probably your last
Speaker 3: round pick, and then now he may be useful in
Speaker 3: the next two weeks in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Very very true, bog Speaking of useful Drome forward, he
Speaker 1: went for eighteen point nine Fantasy points, had a big
Speaker 1: game down the sideline. He has also scored over seven
Speaker 1: PPR points in three straight games now where will Ford
Speaker 1: be ranked next week against Cincinnati and then in week
Speaker 1: seventeen against Miami.
Speaker 5: Pretty high against Cincinnati, especially if they're going to DTR.
Speaker 5: They benched Jamis in this game, so DTR would signal,
Speaker 5: you know, they're gonna run the ball way more, which
Speaker 5: they probably should be doing because the defense has been
Speaker 5: pretty bad.
Speaker 4: So uh yeah, I mean, I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: We'll have to watch hard knocks and see what happens
Speaker 5: in the background with Jamis and DTR and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think Jerome Ford has a really good
Speaker 5: matchup here against Since the next week and.
Speaker 1: Depak before we let you go, we usually don't focus
Speaker 1: much on the defensive side of the ball, but there's
Speaker 1: no more impactful player on the defense than TJ Watt
Speaker 1: And just moments before going live, he went out with
Speaker 1: what looked like a non contact injury. What do you
Speaker 1: think happened here?
Speaker 4: Also, we need to know because we're steeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, yes, let's clarify that as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it looks like an ankle sprain and
Speaker 3: there wasn't anything drastic about it, but it, uh, it
Speaker 3: makes you wonder are they going to really push him
Speaker 3: back knowing that if they rest him a little bit longer,
Speaker 3: the re injury risk comes way down. So that's kind
Speaker 3: of the balance here. I would expect him to be back.
Speaker 3: I don't expect this to be a long term issue,
Speaker 3: and most players actually would even play in one to
Speaker 3: two weeks.
Speaker 1: That is a sigh releast because Boggs, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you thought the same thing I did at first.
Speaker 2: I was like, exactly what I thought.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, so every Steelers fan that we all thought
Speaker 5: about it, Yeah, well there there goes the year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So and to your point, you know, you can't really
Speaker 3: rule it out from this video. So the achilles, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: the achilles you can't really tell from from the video.
Speaker 3: To me, I would say, it's still for it.
Speaker 4: That was what concerned me.
Speaker 3: He grad right forward and he doesn't have a major
Speaker 3: twist or bend to the ankle, so you know, you
Speaker 3: could very well be looking at achilles. I would say,
Speaker 3: there's some reports floating around that it's low ankle, but
Speaker 3: you the video not not really that revealing here, Okay.
Speaker 5: Okay, so we still need to panic a little bit. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: until we get official word.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, inject anxiety for the next
Speaker 1: forty eight hours done. Not really fantasy relevant as well,
Speaker 1: but we did see a scary scene with Dolphins wide
Speaker 1: receiver Grant the Bows who went down in Miami. We
Speaker 1: saw him getting stretchered off without his jersey and pads on.
Speaker 1: What does that usually indicate? Deep hawk and what's your
Speaker 1: inkling on what happened to the wide receiver here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, my suspicion is that he was kind of not responsive.
Speaker 3: When that's the case, the sort of protocol or the
Speaker 3: recommendations is to take everything off, kind of control his
Speaker 3: airway and control his neck, and then immobilize him and
Speaker 3: get him basically straight to the hospital. So that's that's
Speaker 3: kind of the I think the issue of what they
Speaker 3: were doing. It doesn't sound like the worst case scenario
Speaker 3: type that it could have been, but I think as
Speaker 3: a precaution they do all these steps and these are
Speaker 3: kind of the standard of care, if you will.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, Tea's and peas to Grant and
Speaker 1: his family. Man's that's a scary scene. We never like
Speaker 1: to see that as football fans, But big thank you
Speaker 1: to the medical professionals.
Speaker 2: Down there in Miami.
Speaker 1: That seemed to be very quick on the response there
Speaker 1: for Dubos and Deepok. Also thank you tonight for breaking
Speaker 1: down all these injuries. I know we had a lot
Speaker 1: to get to, so thank you for that. Make sure
Speaker 1: you guys are checking out Deepak's work on Twitter at
Speaker 1: sports med Analytics and also the website sportsman Analytics dot com.
Speaker 2: I'm right right on that, Deepak.
Speaker 3: Yep, you got it sportsman Analytics dot com and sport
Speaker 3: md Analysis on Twitter and here every week.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for joining us as always, Deepak.
Speaker 1: We'll catch you next week and boggs Le's go ahead
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Speaker 1: NH Town where the Texans beat the Dolphins twenty to twelve.
Speaker 1: It looked like Miami was going to come back and
Speaker 1: get in this game for a moment in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Too many turnovers prevented that, though Tua had been cooking
Speaker 1: coming in and left you with just three point eight
Speaker 1: fantasy points after three interceptions. Tyreek also let Fancy Vanders down,
Speaker 1: catching two of seven targets for just thirty six yards. Boggs,
Speaker 1: Can we start either of these players moving forward next
Speaker 1: week against San Francisco and then in Cleveland in week seventeen?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I just don't think you want to
Speaker 5: start strout against Kansas City. In Kansas City, especially if
Speaker 5: Mahomes isn't playing, that defense gets gassed up. Oh I've
Speaker 5: met Tua, but oh well also Tua. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 5: this offense has been tough recently. I mean, this was
Speaker 5: a bad game. I think the Texans came out and
Speaker 5: really whooped that offensive line, and I think that was
Speaker 5: a big issue. You got two on his panic. You
Speaker 5: saw him dive a couple times. I feel like the
Speaker 5: whole country holds their breath every time Tua pulls the
Speaker 5: ball down and runs with it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean Tua is a tough start.
Speaker 2: Same with CJ. Stroud. You're thinking as well?
Speaker 1: Then eighteen for twenty six, one two touchdowns, but just
Speaker 1: doesn't look like the same player we saw a year ago.
Speaker 2: He doesn't.
Speaker 5: This was his fourth game under two hundred yards passing
Speaker 5: as well. He had the fumble. You know, Nico bailed
Speaker 5: everybody out with two scores, but nobody else h you know,
Speaker 5: provided in the passing game. Mixing didn't have a great
Speaker 5: game either, even with seventeen touches, only Mustard fifty six
Speaker 5: total yards.
Speaker 4: So tough game here.
Speaker 5: Hopefully it'll get better against San Francisco, but you know,
Speaker 5: I don't know if it will. San Francisco coming off
Speaker 5: extra rest really need wins.
Speaker 1: Tough one here, So obviously we're starting John new Smith
Speaker 1: rest a season tight end four currently on the season,
Speaker 1: that's better than Travis Kelce. But where are you going
Speaker 1: to have him in your dynasty rankings? You think he
Speaker 1: will be thirty next year. He is coming back to
Speaker 1: Miami for at least one more season. But you know,
Speaker 1: we got a pretty good class coming into Colston, Lovelin,
Speaker 1: Tyler Warren highlight those names.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's going to be, you know, probably
Speaker 5: a tight end two. I think there's just too many
Speaker 5: young guys in the league right now. There are good
Speaker 5: there's too many guys that have been dominant for too
Speaker 5: long that you're still gonna have over him as well.
Speaker 1: So it's crazy though, good look it is.
Speaker 5: It has been so great, and you know, with Wattle
Speaker 5: going down, he's gonna see an uptick in targets, and
Speaker 5: he led the team in targets today. So yeah, he
Speaker 5: has been a real treat to watch this year. We
Speaker 5: all kind of thought, ah, he's not gonna not gonna
Speaker 5: be anything without Art Smith there, but he has been excellent.
Speaker 5: Like I said, Tua threw a pick, staring him down
Speaker 5: almost through two picks, staring him down because that is
Speaker 5: one of his first reads on every play. It's been
Speaker 5: huge in the second half here.
Speaker 1: Who would you rather have rest of season for a
Speaker 1: flex start? Johnny Smith or Tyreek Hills Still Tyreek.
Speaker 5: I can't do that, Like, I understand, I understand, I
Speaker 5: get it.
Speaker 1: I think I'm there. I think I'm there, dude, Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think John.
Speaker 5: Completely understand it. Yeah, but I don't know. I just
Speaker 5: I would. It's one of those things. It's can you
Speaker 5: look at yourself in the mirror and say, I started
Speaker 5: John U over Tyreek and Tyreek hat one hundred and
Speaker 5: fifty and two scores, right, Like that's the thing. If
Speaker 5: you can do that, then great, I don't know if
Speaker 5: I can live.
Speaker 1: With Yeah, It's almost what Deepauk was talking about too, though.
Speaker 1: It's the rist ain't looking great like It's just it's
Speaker 1: tough down there. Like this offense really at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, yes, it is moving through Smith, but
Speaker 1: like eight chance of the motor there, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy is absolutely electric. Last thing I really want
Speaker 1: to touch on in this game was just the Texans
Speaker 1: wide receiver room rest of season? How do you feel
Speaker 1: about them? Nico saved by two short touchdowns. Tank Dell's
Speaker 1: been pretty anemic all year long, just two targets twenty
Speaker 1: six yards for him. Kansas City and Baltimore up next
Speaker 1: for the Texans.
Speaker 5: Had tough matchups here for sure. Uh, Nico is your start,
Speaker 5: you know, and Mixon is your start. I just nobody
Speaker 5: else on that team is really starable. You don't want Schultz,
Speaker 5: he's been two up and down tank Dell like you said,
Speaker 5: and Emik I think that's a good word to describe
Speaker 5: what has happened with him this season. So, uh yeah,
Speaker 5: I think it's Nico just because you know, like you said,
Speaker 5: he bailed me out with two touchdowns and he's clearly
Speaker 5: the leader here and Mixon.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 5: We know Mixon is gonna get guaranteed touches. We know
Speaker 5: Nico is gonna be the first look in the passing game.
Speaker 5: Everything else is noise.
Speaker 1: Okay, up along the shores of a lake ear Kansas
Speaker 1: City beats the Browns twenty one to seven. We already
Speaker 1: discussed what life would be like after Patrick Mahomes. Seems
Speaker 1: like we don't really have to worry about that though.
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy, though, I think we should be giving him
Speaker 1: a hard look for our lamps. I came out a
Speaker 1: couple weeks ago on my personal podcast and said, I
Speaker 1: think Worthy could be a rest of season league winner.
Speaker 2: I think he's getting better. He saw a career.
Speaker 1: High in targets eleven and tied a career high and
Speaker 1: carries with three today. That's fourteen total touches for the
Speaker 1: rook He's also had no less than nine Fantasy points
Speaker 1: in the past five weeks. Bogs, do you consider getting
Speaker 1: Worthy into your line if you haven't already?
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 5: I did start him over Pollard this week because Paul
Speaker 5: was going in that game a little bit gimpy and
Speaker 5: they have spears back like I just even again since
Speaker 5: he I wasn't real short not. Pollard scored, so he
Speaker 5: had a good game as well. But I think what
Speaker 5: we really saw that was nice from Worthy was the
Speaker 5: rush attempts too, Like they are making a concerted effort
Speaker 5: to get this guy on the field more. We're seeing
Speaker 5: more of him. He had sixty one snaps, when Watson
Speaker 5: had forty two. That was the next highest end snaps. Now,
Speaker 5: Marquis Brown, you know, open up his window to practice.
Speaker 5: We're trying to They're trying to get him ready for them.
Speaker 5: I'm not either, but they're gonna try to get him
Speaker 5: ready for the playoffs. Right, So it's just gonna be
Speaker 5: a bigger, uglier rotation than it already has been.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 5: Hopefully what we see is Worthy be the guy that
Speaker 5: gets the snaps and everybody else is rotated. That's what
Speaker 5: happened today. Hopefully we see more of that. I think
Speaker 5: that's a smart move. He's a young man, got a
Speaker 5: lot of energy, and especially with a gimpy Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 5: Let's run some more short passes, Let's run some reverses
Speaker 5: with him, some motion plays. I think yeah. I think
Speaker 5: Worthy is getting a nice little bump here at the
Speaker 5: end of the year.
Speaker 1: Okay, for the Browns, they really struggled on offense today,
Speaker 1: just two hundred and sixty six total yards. Kevin Stefanski
Speaker 1: also did not commit to James Winston moving forward, What
Speaker 1: would Dorian Thompson Robinson at quarterback due to the likes
Speaker 1: of Dave Nijoku who was inactive and Jerry Judy. Fourteen
Speaker 1: targets for Judy today, eleven receptions, one hundred and eight
Speaker 1: yards on the day, also over a thousand yards receiving
Speaker 1: in his career for the first time as well, he's
Speaker 1: been the wide receiver two this fast month.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's been excellent with Jamis now obviously there's a
Speaker 5: link there that's gone. But I do wonder if Judy
Speaker 5: has just taken the next step right, like has he
Speaker 5: moved forward and now him and dtr He's still going
Speaker 5: to be the lead in targets for sure, but is
Speaker 5: that connection going to go away? Like is he going
Speaker 5: to revert back to the Jerry jer Judy? We know,
Speaker 5: I don't think so. I think he's played pretty well
Speaker 5: down the stretch here and I think you know, we
Speaker 5: saw Thompson get him the ball a couple times after
Speaker 5: coming in, and you know the rest of this offense
Speaker 5: in Joku, it's going to be tough because is he
Speaker 5: going to be able to go is he going to
Speaker 5: be at less than fifty percent plus you have question
Speaker 5: marks at quarterback. If it is DTR, it may be
Speaker 5: Jameis Winston. Stefanski may be saying, let's see who has
Speaker 5: a better week of practice, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: So it's still a little bit up in the air.
Speaker 5: I assume it's going to be DTR because it's let's
Speaker 5: see what we have season, right, we know what we
Speaker 5: have in Winston trying to.
Speaker 2: Get a better draft pick too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he can lose you a game, and yeah, it
Speaker 5: doesn't matter if you lose, because you just put yourself
Speaker 5: in a better spot to potentially get a different quarterback.
Speaker 5: I don't think Watson is long for that team hopefully.
Speaker 5: I just don't think he is. I don't think they
Speaker 5: can cut him this year with all the money he makes,
Speaker 5: but the following year he has definitely gone.
Speaker 4: So they need a solution there for sure. The targets
Speaker 4: are there.
Speaker 5: I mean, if Tilman comes back and you know, uh,
Speaker 5: we have Judy and we haven't Djoku. Florda is good
Speaker 5: with the ball in his hands. I you know, there's
Speaker 5: stuff there for DTR to do. I just don't really
Speaker 5: trust him to do it well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And with that being said, if if Tilman came back,
Speaker 1: does that impact Judy at all? Because Tilman was eating
Speaker 1: and and But it is a I mean, it is
Speaker 1: the Granddaddy of all matchups. It's the Catalina Wine Mixer
Speaker 1: of matchups. Next week with Cincinnati uh going to the
Speaker 1: Bengals house in the jungle. So I think you probably
Speaker 1: still have to start Judy right even all.
Speaker 5: Our flags, Judy looks like a strong start, so right now,
Speaker 5: so I would say, most likely you're starting Judy. But
Speaker 5: if you have other options, if it's DTR, I think
Speaker 5: I'm I think I'm looking another way. I don't think
Speaker 5: Tilman enters into that too much. I think I think
Speaker 5: Tilman just automatically loses a little of DTR starts because
Speaker 5: they're going to run the ball way more if he starts.
Speaker 1: Okay, the Panthers were favored for the first time in
Speaker 1: two years today and the Cowboys proceed to win thirty
Speaker 1: to fourteen, probably the best game of Cooper Rush's season
Speaker 1: so far. Cowboys totaled four hundred and ten yards in
Speaker 1: this outing. He found Ceedee Lamb nine times for one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen yards and a touchdown on thirteen targets. Also,
Speaker 1: Rico Dawell continues to eat twenty five for one forty
Speaker 1: nine on the ground. Both are must starts rest of
Speaker 1: season and nobone else from the Cowboys, right. That's kind
Speaker 1: of how it's been for a while, and I think
Speaker 1: that trend continues.
Speaker 5: Yeah, even Jake Ferguson had fewer snaps with Schoomaker out there.
Speaker 5: So with those guys both, Carolina really bad against the
Speaker 5: tight end. So I moved Ferguson up a little bit.
Speaker 5: My rankings did not help too much. Schoonmaker here, but Rico,
Speaker 5: I mean, let's just put the ball in his hands,
Speaker 5: why not twenty five times? And Cooper Rush has found
Speaker 5: the secret formula of let's throw the ball to Ceedee
Speaker 5: Lamb as many times as humanly possible if he's still
Speaker 5: upright and walking, get the football in his hands. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I think that's all you can do. I mean, defense,
Speaker 5: look good, Michael Parsons had a great game, but you're
Speaker 5: not starting the Cowboys defense right now.
Speaker 1: So you know, I was almost like penciling in already
Speaker 1: that Ashton Genty was going to be a Dallas Cowboy.
Speaker 1: But they're winning so much that they might be out
Speaker 1: of range to get him, and like I mean, Rico
Speaker 1: is playing so solid as well that I think they
Speaker 1: might have bigger needs at this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they do.
Speaker 5: But I'll say this for Jerry Jones and the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: they take what they think is the most talented player
Speaker 5: in the first round a lot. They didn't need CD
Speaker 5: when they got him, so clearly the first you know,
Speaker 5: the best wide receiver in the draft, and the best
Speaker 5: player in the draft that they went this is the
Speaker 5: best player. We're taking the best player. So Genty is
Speaker 5: going to be the best player for a little bit,
Speaker 5: most likely when he's on the board. Yeah, so unless
Speaker 5: he goes super high, we'll see. There is a bijon this.
Speaker 5: There is, you know. And Gibbs went high as well,
Speaker 5: So it's not impossible Naji won the first round.
Speaker 4: We all know that was a mistake. Teams just don't
Speaker 4: like to do it though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and just when you started to trust the Panthers,
Speaker 1: they pulled the rugout from under you. Two hundred and
Speaker 1: nineteen toll yards. Bryce Young really turned back into a pumpkin.
Speaker 1: Nineteen for twenty eight, two hundred nineteen yards, one touchdown,
Speaker 1: two interceptions. Adam thelan didn't kill you five for fifty
Speaker 1: one on seven targets got to double digit PPR points.
Speaker 1: Cuba Hubbard held under ten PPR points for the second
Speaker 1: time in three games. Where does your confidence stand on
Speaker 1: Carolina and the rest of the way. They got Arizona
Speaker 1: next week and then in Tampa Bay to round out
Speaker 1: the fantasy football season in week number seventeen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm still okay with them.
Speaker 5: I know Cuba real bad today, but played fifty two
Speaker 5: to fifty five snaps, so he is just getting everything
Speaker 5: right now, so you're guaranteed touches with him. Thelan still
Speaker 5: led in targets. I still think Bryce Young is better.
Speaker 5: You know, two picks were not good. He took a
Speaker 5: decent of sacks as well, but I mean they weren't
Speaker 5: given many mississippis back there. So against the Cardinals, Cardinals
Speaker 5: underrated defense been playing better then we gave them credit
Speaker 5: for before the season started, and during the season they
Speaker 5: played better than we gave them credit for. But I
Speaker 5: still think Chuba is okay and it will be I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna like sink him or anything because of this
Speaker 5: performance because he is guaranteed a lot of touches.
Speaker 4: Still.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know Jonathan Brooks in that backfield, so it's
Speaker 1: Tuba time.
Speaker 2: He'll continue to get fed.
Speaker 5: Boker had a lot of snaps too, forty eight. Yeah
Speaker 5: he led them in snaps and then DeLand had two
Speaker 5: more routes than him, but yeah, he was good. They're splitting,
Speaker 5: they're splitting those tight ends like pretty down the middle
Speaker 5: between Tremble and Sanders. So I want Sanders to see
Speaker 5: the field. I think he can be a good Fantasy asset,
Speaker 5: but Tremble blocks too well.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy he's back on the field after a
Speaker 1: scary scene a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4: So yes, yes, hopefully that for Dubos too.
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Speaker 1: it was a huge spread in East Rutherford and the
Speaker 1: Ravens they covered, winning thirty five to fourteen against the Giants.
Speaker 1: Four hundred and forty five total yards for the Ravens,
Speaker 1: five total touchdowns for Lamar Jackson. Pretty quiet day for
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry in a nuts matchup, which pretty disappointing honestly.
Speaker 1: But yeah, anything to note here from the Ravens. I
Speaker 1: felt like they just didn't need Henry.
Speaker 2: They didn't really need.
Speaker 5: Ze Flowers because hey, it's the Giants, right, Yeah, That's
Speaker 5: kind of what it boiled down to, was they got
Speaker 5: out to a big lead, and you know you're gonna
Speaker 5: have some tough games coming up. You have Pittsburgh next week,
Speaker 5: so let's get Justice Hill the ball a little bit
Speaker 5: more in the second half, which is exactly exactly what
Speaker 5: happened here. I tell you what, though, ra Shat Bateman
Speaker 5: has been looking great. Yeah, five targets here. He's getting
Speaker 5: wide open a lot, and I was very critical of
Speaker 5: him the last couple of seasons and with our boy Worm,
Speaker 5: who's a big you know, Ravens fan, I said, I'm
Speaker 5: just not interested in Bateman.
Speaker 4: He seems to get bench all the time.
Speaker 5: They trade for Deonta, you know, and so it seems like,
Speaker 5: oh man, maybe Bateman is really out the door. But
Speaker 5: he used that to fuel him. He's looked great recently.
Speaker 5: So two scores here, Lamar obviously with a huge game,
Speaker 5: But I know everybody's disappointed by Derrick Henry, and I
Speaker 5: get it. It's a bad time for him to have
Speaker 5: a dead game, especially in a game with such a
Speaker 5: good matchup of Dexter Lawrence.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: I think I had Henry as my number two back
Speaker 5: this week, and you know, just didn't get into the
Speaker 5: end zone and didn't get the carries at the end
Speaker 5: because they up so big. So just an unfortunate circumstance.
Speaker 5: But you know, he he's playing Pittsburgh next week. Pittsburgh's
Speaker 5: a tough matchup, but he's gonna get all the carries
Speaker 5: he can handle.
Speaker 4: I would imagine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the thing I feel like with forshawd Bateman specifically,
Speaker 1: is like you can't trust him in a redraft because
Speaker 1: he has kind of touchdown or busted a little bit,
Speaker 1: like he just had a donut I think the week prior.
Speaker 1: But like from a Dynasty perspective, if he can get
Speaker 1: out of Baltimore and get to someone where where maybe
Speaker 1: the passing pie is a little bit bigger, he's an
Speaker 1: interesting guy. Wouldn't mind buying low on I think this offseason.
Speaker 1: I don't think like anyone's married to Rashad Bateman on
Speaker 1: their diasty team by any means.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but I mean you're at the end of
Speaker 5: the year. If you can still make pickups. You got somebody,
Speaker 5: some scrub at the end of your roster that doesn't matter,
Speaker 5: Dump him and pick up Bateman and just see where
Speaker 5: he ends up, or you know, see if it's just
Speaker 5: working better in Baltimore next year.
Speaker 1: Just two hundred and thirty six total yards for the Giants.
Speaker 1: We got the pleasure of watching Tim Boyle play quarterback
Speaker 1: after Tommy DeVito was injured. Tyrone Tracy fell flat for
Speaker 1: just three for thirty one on the ground one reception,
Speaker 1: but was vultured at the goal line by Devin Singletary
Speaker 1: and he concern with Singletary. He got eleven touches today.
Speaker 1: Tracy did really outsnap him though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he did, And I think I just
Speaker 5: don't like this vulturing and you just can't expect a
Speaker 5: lot from the Giants offense here.
Speaker 2: And you need all the scores you can get. Brother,
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at Atlanta.
Speaker 5: That's a decent matchup for Tracy next week. So I
Speaker 5: just I hate the fact that they bring Singletary in
Speaker 5: near the goal line. So it's definitely something that is
Speaker 5: going to be I'm going to be aware of if
Speaker 5: I'm starting Tracy versus somebody else. So Neighbors is the
Speaker 5: only super safe start right now. I mean, just another
Speaker 5: game with ten catches here from a leak. So yeah,
Speaker 5: the Giants right now, and de Vito had a concussion
Speaker 5: and Drew Locke has an ankle thing, and we're down
Speaker 5: to Tim Boyle. It's uh, they're ready to pack it in.
Speaker 5: They're ready for this season to be done.
Speaker 2: They're ready for Camore baby book it right.
Speaker 1: Maybe the most compelling game in the early window is
Speaker 1: actually Jets thirty two Jaguars twenty five over eight hundred
Speaker 1: yards of offense in this game. Bogs mac Jones pretty
Speaker 1: solid day.
Speaker 2: He was looking chipper. I don't know if you saw them, yeah, oh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was talking smacking in people's faces. He looked
Speaker 5: like old mac Jones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it, man.
Speaker 1: I let you know, cigar in the locker room after winning,
Speaker 1: Mac Jones letting the beer belly hang out and everything.
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas Junior likely helped Many advance to the next
Speaker 1: round the Fantasy playoffs. Fourteen targets, ten receptions, one hundred
Speaker 1: and five yards, two touchdowns. So I think we're starting
Speaker 1: him rest of the season. I think we've already kind
Speaker 1: of known that for a little bit. He's really redeemed
Speaker 1: himself down the stretch here. But I also wanted to
Speaker 1: discuss tight end Brenton Strange Eleven receptions, seventy three yards
Speaker 1: on twelve targets. Evan Ingram has been rolled out for
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. How much do you like
Speaker 1: the former nitty lyon against the likes of the Raiders
Speaker 1: and Titans next two weeks?
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I raised him. I put him in my rankings,
Speaker 5: raised him pretty high as well. With no Ingram down,
Speaker 5: They've had injuries to the wide receivers here. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: like Brenton Strange. I'll say this though. I mean time
Speaker 5: of possession was in Jacksonville's favor for sure, and they
Speaker 5: ran quick eighty four.
Speaker 4: Snaps of offense to the Jaguars this week.
Speaker 5: That is why Brenton Strange had eleven targets right her,
Speaker 5: twelve targets and eleven cats. Yeah, so you're not gonna
Speaker 5: get that every single week from Brenton Strange.
Speaker 4: But he's definitely a look.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't feel great starting guys that aren't
Speaker 5: Brian Thomas with the Mac Jones led offense, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: And I mean the running backs. Right, last week, it
Speaker 5: seemed like we were flipping to Bigsby being the main
Speaker 5: early down back and then Etn is clearly the passing
Speaker 5: back and went back to Etn as the featured back
Speaker 5: and Bigsby as the change of pace again, so just
Speaker 5: a very strange way.
Speaker 2: That's done with the backfield.
Speaker 5: Yeah, is sixty one snaps for eighteen one to twenty
Speaker 5: two for Bigsby. I mean, it just doesn't make sense
Speaker 5: what they're doing here, and not a lot that Doug
Speaker 5: Peterson does make sense either, But you know, hopefully we
Speaker 5: won't have to deal with this much longer.
Speaker 4: But Brian Thomas is a good start. Strange in a pinch.
Speaker 5: Strange, or Kyle Pitts rest the season, Strange, I'm dumb, Stranger,
Speaker 5: Pat Freiermuths rest of season, m Pat. I think Pat's
Speaker 5: more likely to score touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah, I think Strangers is
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Speaker 1: My Playbook app. All Right, and it took a while,
Speaker 1: but we finally got a vintage Aaron Rodgers Davante Adams game.
Speaker 1: Davante Adams nine for one ninety eight and two forty
Speaker 1: three point three fantasy points, Rogers sixteen for thirty two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty nine and three through the air, and
Speaker 1: he's also bootscooting booging a little bit too, six for
Speaker 1: forty five on the ground, thirty fantasy points for hold
Speaker 1: a Roge Bogs.
Speaker 2: What do you think changed today?
Speaker 1: That Maybe not just today because the duo has been
Speaker 1: getting better, but what do you think changed lately for
Speaker 1: the Jets and Rogers and DeVante Adams specifically because it
Speaker 1: feels like they're back on that same ayahuasca wavelength.
Speaker 5: Man, Yeah, they played Jacksonville today. I think it was
Speaker 5: a big part of it. But also, you know, time,
Speaker 5: you know, just get refamiliar with each other and all
Speaker 5: that stuff. I mean, it's true. You know, this is
Speaker 5: why people were critical of Rogers from missing a big
Speaker 5: chunk of camp to do whatever the hell he was doing.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean, it's just time. It's just familiarity.
Speaker 5: And you know, Davante carried me man. I'm in the
Speaker 5: Fantasy pros Content League against Wormley in the playoffs. He's
Speaker 5: in number one seed and I've got him right now.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: Look, I've been talking all the smack about Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 5: He can bounce me.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's right there.
Speaker 5: There's a chance. I still I mean, I think he
Speaker 5: has two guys. I have two guys tomorrow. I'm up
Speaker 5: by a little bit, so it's gonna be a good
Speaker 5: one with our boy worm next. I'll tweet it out
Speaker 5: for sure tomorrow night, so you guys can see what
Speaker 5: the matchup is. But yeah, I mean, Davante came through huge,
Speaker 5: and I just really think it's about I think they
Speaker 5: also needed him more in this game, right because Breece
Speaker 5: was banged up. We did see Isaiah Davis pretty clearly
Speaker 5: become the number two back here, twenty four snaps for him,
Speaker 5: only ten for Braylan Allen as well, So I think
Speaker 5: Braylan Allen can be cast asunder at the end of
Speaker 5: the season. Here we just don't really need him. So
Speaker 5: you know, right now, I think they just needed DeVante.
Speaker 4: A little bit more. They needed Garrett well.
Speaker 5: The need this passing game to work, and they were
Speaker 5: in a fortunate matchup against Jacksonville and it did.
Speaker 2: I did want to talk.
Speaker 1: About the running back position for the Jets that you
Speaker 1: brought that up, we have seen Isaiah Davis get a
Speaker 1: little bit more run as of late. And I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, but in a couple of leagues, I
Speaker 1: had to make the really tough decision to bench Priese
Speaker 1: Holiday and I'm very okay with that as well. Nine
Speaker 1: for thirty on the ground, two for twenty one through
Speaker 1: the air, bailed out by a late game touchdown one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. How much do you trust the former Iowa
Speaker 1: state cyclone next week against the Rams Bogs?
Speaker 5: I trust him a lot. There's he's gonna have to
Speaker 5: be on crutches for me to not want to start Breese.
Speaker 5: I understand, you know, not starting him this week. He
Speaker 5: didn't practice most of the week. We weren't really sure.
Speaker 5: We got late word that he was starting, So I
Speaker 5: agree with that decision. I still had him, you know,
Speaker 5: not in RB one. But if he's practicing this week,
Speaker 5: and okay, if he doesn't go through this whole like
Speaker 5: well he's not gonna practice, we'll see if he's a
Speaker 5: game time decision, Yeah, then okay. We're in that same
Speaker 5: situation we were this week where it's a make Rams
Speaker 5: are a good matchup, though they can be run on,
Speaker 5: so I think that I want to start him, but
Speaker 5: you know, I understand the trepidation. I understand not wanting to.
Speaker 5: They have good backs. They're not a good team, you know.
Speaker 5: Rams are a tough matchup a little bit just because
Speaker 5: they can match point for point and may turn into
Speaker 5: a little bit of a shootout. But didn't on Thursday,
Speaker 5: So we'll see what happens there. But yeah, I think
Speaker 5: Breece Hall is still gonna be fairly high in my rankings.
Speaker 5: I am a Breesehall apologist, even though I don't have
Speaker 5: any shares.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I'm with you as well. I got the
Speaker 1: jersey hanging in the closet. I've been I've been pounding
Speaker 1: the table for this guys since his days at Iowa State,
Speaker 1: So I'm with you there. In the big easy, Darren
Speaker 1: clogged the John Rizzy, he rolled the dice.
Speaker 2: He went for two.
Speaker 1: After the Saints scored as time expired, they didn't get it,
Speaker 1: giving the Commanders the twenty to nineteen victory. Terry McLaurin
Speaker 1: is insane seven for seventy three and two almost had
Speaker 1: a third touchdown twenty six point three fantasy points, but
Speaker 1: some of those TD grabs were some of the gnarliest
Speaker 1: I've seen all year, Bogs. I mean, I just I
Speaker 1: can't get enough Terry McLaurin right now.
Speaker 2: Dude.
Speaker 5: We've talked about Terry McLaurin all off season and one
Speaker 5: of the big point that I made about him was
Speaker 5: I just don't think he's had a good QB yet.
Speaker 5: Right Washington didn't have very good qbs. So now that
Speaker 5: he has a good QB, we're seeing him go and
Speaker 5: do exactly what we thought he was coming out of
Speaker 5: Ohio State. So yeah, he has been outstanding. Jayden Daniels
Speaker 5: with another nice game here, b Rob, you know, didn't
Speaker 5: get in the end zone, but had a lot.
Speaker 4: Of touches as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The one thing with Washington that's kind of, you know,
Speaker 5: depressing right now is Ertz got hurt. So yeah, but
Speaker 5: the good thing is we might see a little bit
Speaker 5: more of Ben Sennett. Ben Sinnett from Kansas State, who
Speaker 5: is a really good athlete, hasn't got the chance yet
Speaker 5: because Ertz is a vet familiar with Clip Kingsbury's system.
Speaker 5: But should Ertz be down in proto Ben Sannatt, Sennette however,
Speaker 5: we're saying it can. He could have a pretty good
Speaker 5: outlook in this game in a decent amount of targets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, staying with Washington Jane Daniels. He had a good game,
Speaker 1: twenty three point six fantasy points. Was running all over
Speaker 1: the place, was finding Terry McLaurin when he needed to.
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson Junior. I think he's about the most border
Speaker 1: line start on this team. Without Ertz in the lineup,
Speaker 1: b rob just hasn't looked the same as of late.
Speaker 1: I feel like I felt this way kind of late
Speaker 1: last season as well. The efficiency tailed off when he
Speaker 1: came back from injuries, just three point one yards.
Speaker 2: Per carry today.
Speaker 1: He will run head into Jalen Carter next week again,
Speaker 1: probably no Austin Eckler. He hasn't been activated from IR.
Speaker 2: I think he is eligible to return.
Speaker 1: I believe after this week, I think, But I don't
Speaker 1: think I really want to start b rob going head
Speaker 1: first into that Eagles defensive line that just shut down
Speaker 1: nausey Jalen Warren the Boys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's more than fair. You know.
Speaker 5: The nice thing about b Robin this game was that
Speaker 5: he got way more snaps anybody else. It was kind
Speaker 5: of teetering before, but fifty eight snaps for him out
Speaker 5: of seventy eight, twenty two for McNichols, three for Chris Runners. Well,
Speaker 5: so yeah, it is slanted way towards b Rob. But
Speaker 5: like you said, Eagles are really tough matchups, so he's
Speaker 5: gonna be pretty low in rankings, and if you have
Speaker 5: someone that's close to him, I'm most likely starting the
Speaker 5: other guy.
Speaker 2: Jake Hayner for the Saints.
Speaker 1: He was benched in Louis Spencer Radler and the former
Speaker 1: game Cocks Park to comeback here and going ten for
Speaker 1: twenty one, one hundred and thirty five yards and a score.
Speaker 1: He's definitely not the has never been, I think, even
Speaker 1: going back to his high school days that we saw
Speaker 1: on TV a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Never been a super likable guy, but still fun to watch.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 1: I think he's a little bit of a game route there,
Speaker 1: Voggs and anything else to report from fantasy perspective.
Speaker 2: We already kind of talked about Miller.
Speaker 1: And Kamara and like you're probably maybe rolling Miller out
Speaker 1: if Kamara is out, but that's about it.
Speaker 5: The Kamara love that I have is like this for
Speaker 5: brisall right, like, if these guys are in the game.
Speaker 4: You you know, you start them.
Speaker 5: But I just don't think he's gonna play next week.
Speaker 5: I don't think they have a lot of reason to
Speaker 5: play him. And if it's Kendra Miller, that's fine. Maybe
Speaker 5: he gets a bunch of touches. I just you know, Uh,
Speaker 5: New Orleans is playing green Bay. Green Bay has been
Speaker 5: a pretty good defense all year long, So I don't
Speaker 5: know if I would really want to do that. So yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean the Saints are just tough right now. Rattler
Speaker 5: did shake some of that you know, bad karma, bad
Speaker 5: persona whatever, selfish teammate kind of stuff during the draft process,
Speaker 5: so I think that we can put that to bet
Speaker 5: on him. Even though it was the Sooner. I don't
Speaker 5: want to give those guys too much too much credit. Yeah,
Speaker 5: former Sooner, of course, But I think he's put that
Speaker 5: to bed.
Speaker 4: He's fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I can never just get over those those videos
Speaker 1: of him just cussing out teammates in high school.
Speaker 4: I mean he was eighteen. Yeah yeah, but I mean
Speaker 4: they shoved the camera.
Speaker 2: In his face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I would have done the same thing, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I always find him amusing watching him back.
Speaker 1: We'll go in out the one PM slate though in
Speaker 1: Music City, where the Bengals win thirty seven to twenty
Speaker 1: seven against the Titans. A lot of points scored in
Speaker 1: this game and a lot of turnovers ten in total.
Speaker 1: The Bengals kept their season alive and continue to be
Speaker 1: a fantasy gold mine. T Higgins goes for nineteen point
Speaker 1: eight fantasy points, Jamar Chase has eighteen point four of
Speaker 1: his own, and Chase Browns has hold my beer and
Speaker 1: goes for twenty six point three fantasy points. For the Titans,
Speaker 1: ty J Spears two touchdowns, twenty seven point two fantasy points.
Speaker 1: Chiga quon Quote also saw ten targets. I don't think
Speaker 1: there's much to talk about on the Bengals side of
Speaker 1: things other than they're really good. You're starting all their
Speaker 1: players every single week and you're gonna love it. And
Speaker 1: for the Titans, though, I think the better question is
Speaker 1: where we do is Spears or chig rests season? Is
Speaker 1: there any value here? Is this kind of just you know,
Speaker 1: a one game type of situation.
Speaker 5: Well, let's see what's going on with Pollard, right, he
Speaker 5: was gimpy, played way less in this game, and we'll
Speaker 5: see if he's okay here. But yeah, I mean Spears.
Speaker 5: I think Spears got a lot here because Pollard came
Speaker 5: in GIMPI. He was very questionable to play in this game.
Speaker 5: We saw him on the first drive, look great. Didn't
Speaker 5: do too much outside of that, so you know, a
Speaker 5: lot of garbage time in this as well. Spears scored late,
Speaker 5: you know, to make this twenty seven to thirty seven
Speaker 5: was a seventeen point game late and this was just
Speaker 5: all will Levis turned the ball over and they had
Speaker 5: to go to Rudolph. You know, I think you're right
Speaker 5: about the Bengals were starting all those guys. I mean,
Speaker 5: Chase Brown looks like lev Bell too.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 5: The way he's getting open for Burrow in the receiving
Speaker 5: game is unbelievable. He's been so good at that.
Speaker 1: He's been one of my favorite players going back to Champagne.
Speaker 5: Dude.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy had Illinois like he I threw
Speaker 1: comparisons out, not of the talent level, but he took
Speaker 1: on like a Christian McCaffrey like workload in Illinois, and
Speaker 1: he's doing it now again here in Cincinnati. So congrats
Speaker 1: to everyone who's rostering him. I know you and Pat
Speaker 1: fitz Morris talked a lot about him on the Dynasty
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football podcast this offseason as well. So congrats to
Speaker 1: you guys and Pat. I know he's soaking it in
Speaker 1: and probably has a lot of best ball and Dynasty
Speaker 1: shares them. So yeah, it's been very fun for the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Let's keep the good times rolling and let's shift over
Speaker 1: to the four pm slate. Here Bogman the Cardinals. They
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots thirty to seventeen in Arizona. Drake may
Speaker 1: Man I always say this guy's got a fantasy floor,
Speaker 1: and he really does, because he had about three points
Speaker 1: in the fourth Quarterbogs eight minutes left and finishes with
Speaker 1: like seventeen fantasy points, gets a passing touchdown to Pop Douglas,
Speaker 1: gets a rushing touchdown. Still, I feel like outside of
Speaker 1: may if you're desperate in a couple of leagues, I
Speaker 1: don't really know what we're starting here. Outside Like, if
Speaker 1: you want to throw Pop Douglas out there, I think
Speaker 1: you can in a deep league three for eleven and
Speaker 1: a score here. He's been solid, but kind of done
Speaker 1: with Romandre that this season. Antonio Gibson's got a little
Speaker 1: bit of pop right now too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's not a lot to do with the Patriots.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, Hunter Henry had a nice little
Speaker 5: run there that seems to have gone away.
Speaker 2: Hooper's kid, Yeah, Hoopers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you know that that's tough. None of the
Speaker 5: wide receivers are very trustable. I mean, I'm sure I
Speaker 5: haven't seen the snap counts yet. They're kind of late
Speaker 5: to it today with everybody's uh, you know, all the
Speaker 5: games playing. But I'm sure that you know, it was
Speaker 5: still in Boute's favor, but he's just not getting targets.
Speaker 5: So uh, you know, Kendrick Bourne got a little bit more.
Speaker 5: So it's yeah, it's Drake May, It's maybe Ramander Stevenson
Speaker 5: in a deep league.
Speaker 4: And that's about it for the Pats.
Speaker 1: If there's one team that I want Travis Hunter to
Speaker 1: go to, I think it's New England because.
Speaker 2: They're so bad at wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I think they're they would be forced to play him, right,
Speaker 1: Like yeah, Like I think, like you figure out cornerback later,
Speaker 1: you're play him at wide receiver full time and then
Speaker 1: and then work in the defensive things. But I mean this,
Speaker 1: there's like every Mack is going to have them going
Speaker 1: wide receiver early, I think, and they have to whether
Speaker 1: it's whether it's Travis Hunter, whether it's Ted McMillan. They
Speaker 1: got to do some something out there.
Speaker 5: Man, Yeah, they got they need playmakers, a free agent something,
Speaker 5: so Higgins, Yeah, I mean, they drafted a couple guys too,
Speaker 5: let's use them late in the.
Speaker 1: Baker has not Javon Baker has not even seen Bayfield.
Speaker 5: Let's see Polk a little bit more. Right, Let's see
Speaker 5: these guys and see if we have anything here. So
Speaker 5: otherwise they just wasted draft picks and can take another
Speaker 5: one in the first round this year. So I don't know.
Speaker 5: Let's see him at the end of the year. Hopefully
Speaker 5: we do it, but I just don't. This is not
Speaker 5: the way it's been working. So they're incredibly frustrating. It's
Speaker 5: Drake May in a super flex and then nobody else.
Speaker 1: Well, did we see like a report that Kendrick Bourne
Speaker 1: was like trying to leave the team or like requested
Speaker 1: like being released or something like I swear I saw
Speaker 1: something that he was trying to get out of New England.
Speaker 1: And he ends up leading them in receiving today. So
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's the Patriots I don't.
Speaker 4: Think I saw that, but I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 5: In New England is tough, but I think you know
Speaker 5: there's there's plenty of the vandering oles.
Speaker 1: But okay, it was not Kendrick Bourne. It was kJ Osborne.
Speaker 1: Excuse me who requested his release?
Speaker 4: Who did get caught?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I mean that guy's so slow anyway.
Speaker 5: All thirty zero team though, yeah they Yeah, the Patriots
Speaker 5: are rough to start anybody right now?
Speaker 1: Looking at Arizona, Kyler Murray was banged up in this game,
Speaker 1: so I think we'll need to keep our head on
Speaker 1: his swivel to see what the status was with this.
Speaker 1: It was kind of towards the end of the game,
Speaker 1: so I'm not sure we should have asked epawk about
Speaker 1: the status of Murray. But James Connor with a really
Speaker 1: nice bounce back game for him one hundred and ten,
Speaker 1: two total touchdowns as well, got a little bit involved
Speaker 1: in the passing game again. Five targets, five receptions, twenty
Speaker 1: eight yards. Trey McBride continues to do his thing ten targets,
Speaker 1: nine receptions, eighty seven yards, no touchdowns, and then Marv
Speaker 1: two for thirty two, Like, come jeez, I don't know
Speaker 1: what to say anymore.
Speaker 2: Marv has been are you are you quitting him now?
Speaker 2: Because I feel like.
Speaker 5: My rankings have quit him. Okay, so I made him
Speaker 5: real low this week. I made him so low that
Speaker 5: Welsh actually brought it up on our show. Uh, he
Speaker 5: was like, man, you're really killing Marvel. I'm like, he
Speaker 5: hasn't been doing anything.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I don't think you wouldn't start the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Would you.
Speaker 5: I I it would be it would be a tough spot.
Speaker 5: It would be a tough spot to start him now.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know they play Carolina next week, so it's a
Speaker 5: good matchup.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Uh, and maybe he'll have a good game, but you know,
Speaker 5: you have not earned the trust to get started at
Speaker 5: this point. So it's McBride, it's Connor. Yeah there, Kyler
Speaker 5: even I'm not really and I'm I am a Kyler apologist.
Speaker 4: I you know, I love me as short guy. I'm
Speaker 4: a short guy.
Speaker 5: But uh, it just has not worked as well as
Speaker 5: I thought it was going to be as well as
Speaker 5: I thought it was gonna be working for Kyler this year.
Speaker 5: And you know, being gimpy doesn't offer that rushing upside.
Speaker 4: So we'll see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kyler is someone I had in a lot of leagues, starting,
Speaker 1: starting out, and then when he started to kind of
Speaker 1: get hot and cold, I ditched him.
Speaker 2: I had trade him when when I could. So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but but I totally understand it, and he's a talent,
Speaker 1: but we need Drew Petzig there.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I've never been a big pets in guy.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's using Marvin, Like, can we just
Speaker 1: get Marvin Harrison the Dan ball? Like throw him a
Speaker 1: screen bogs, Like just a screen, That's all I would like.
Speaker 4: He's not a screen guy though, you know he he's he's.
Speaker 1: A deep problems three step slant. Come on, he can
Speaker 1: be a pocession guy. He can get us calla begals,
Speaker 1: use chase anything, they got to do anything.
Speaker 5: You got to force the ball to him like you
Speaker 5: should be using him like Neighbors gets used.
Speaker 4: I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, anything else from this game for you because
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty straightforward.
Speaker 4: Yeah it is.
Speaker 1: It's straightforward, all right, Let's get to a game that
Speaker 1: was not straightforward at all.
Speaker 2: A lot of points scored.
Speaker 1: I know, Andrex and our buddy over here at fantasy pros,
Speaker 1: betting pros. He was on the over in this game,
Speaker 1: forty eight for the Bills, forty.
Speaker 2: Two for the lines.
Speaker 1: In Detroit, some people are calling it the course field
Speaker 1: of the NFL because points coming bunches here and Josh
Speaker 1: Allen continues to be marvelous. Not only does he go
Speaker 1: for two touchdowns three and or two yards through the air,
Speaker 1: but also runs for another two scores and sixty nine
Speaker 1: yards like Boggs. I think next year, like, if I
Speaker 1: don't get Josh Allen, I'm really cool on waiting like
Speaker 1: that quarter like he's he feels like.
Speaker 2: The only true, true, true difference maker at the position nowadays.
Speaker 4: Lamar threw five touches.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay, calm down.
Speaker 4: That's sad mine.
Speaker 2: I guess I got a.
Speaker 1: Little bit of a raven's hate in my heart still.
Speaker 5: Yeah, of course, of course I don't mind that. But
Speaker 5: uh yeah, man, look, Josh Allen is incredible. But I
Speaker 5: do think you know, this is a Detroit thing, and
Speaker 5: it's because they've had what they say, eighteen defensive players
Speaker 5: on injured reserve whatever go down today two Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean it is. The Detroit Lions are going to have
Speaker 5: to win by playing point for point. At this point,
Speaker 5: you know, it's just it's going to have to be
Speaker 5: high scoring games. We knew Buffalo is going to score anyway.
Speaker 5: It's not like, you know, Detroit came in with a
Speaker 5: plan and failed miserably. They're injured, and Buffalo is one
Speaker 5: of the best offenses in the league. So we knew
Speaker 5: that was gonna happen. Glad to see Jane Cook get
Speaker 5: back up on it. You know, last week was a
Speaker 5: huge disappointment. I know probably you know, bounced a couple
Speaker 5: of people out of some playoff spots there.
Speaker 1: He bounced me out this week playing against him.
Speaker 2: No, didny one hundred and five yards.
Speaker 1: Two touchdowns for Cooke also one for twenty eight And
Speaker 1: what about Ty Johnson? I was like, obviously you're not
Speaker 1: going out and starting Ty Johnson, but five or one
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen, I mean they just kept throwing the
Speaker 1: wheel route and they couldn't stop the wheel.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you had Ty Johnson on your Bengo card for
Speaker 5: one hundred yards receiving and you know Keyon Coleman to
Speaker 5: be the second leading receiver for the Bills, right, everybody
Speaker 5: had that right, right. No, that's just anybody, anybody can
Speaker 5: get the ball in Buffalo.
Speaker 4: That's kind of where we're going. You know.
Speaker 5: I thought it was gonna be Coleman. We thought it
Speaker 5: was gonna be Shakir. Then they traded for Cooper and
Speaker 5: then oh maybe it's kink taking a step up. It's
Speaker 5: all Josh Allen. It's all Josh Allen. He's running it,
Speaker 5: he's throwing it. Everybody can get a touchdown, but you
Speaker 5: just don't know who it's going to be week to
Speaker 5: week and make guys tough to start. I mean, I
Speaker 5: think Shakiir is pretty safe, right, Oh yes, Cook is
Speaker 5: usually safe. Lineup lock yeah, yeah, yeah and Kinkaid four
Speaker 5: for fifty three looking better, So yeah, you like that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean it's just well Mary, it's a
Speaker 5: massive start throw for who's gonna score the touchdown?
Speaker 2: No targets for a Mary Day.
Speaker 1: I don't even I don't know if he he like
Speaker 1: overslept it or something or got stuck in traffic. But
Speaker 1: like Mariti, Cooper and I had, I had a big
Speaker 1: debate on the IVT podcast with my co host Eric
Speaker 1: this week that he was trying to tell me that
Speaker 1: Amari really is the wide receiver one I'm like, I
Speaker 1: think it's Shakira man, Like, he's not out there for
Speaker 1: all the snaps, but he's the first read on so
Speaker 1: many looks that I think it's you're starting Khalil Shakir,
Speaker 1: You're starting James Cook, their lineup locks, Josh Allen obviously
Speaker 1: a lineup lock, and then if you need a tight end,
Speaker 1: dn't kinkad I think, And I think that's it.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I think I think just like we were
Speaker 5: talking about with Davante, right, Like, I think we need
Speaker 5: a little more time because Cooper got to Buffalo and
Speaker 5: was immediately hurt, right, so I think he and Allen
Speaker 5: are still kind of building the rapport. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 5: the pitch touchdown was great and everything, So I do
Speaker 5: think we need a little bit more of that. Obviously,
Speaker 5: haven't seen the snap counts yet, don't know where he
Speaker 5: was in terms of that, But Cooper is going to
Speaker 5: go nuclear before the end of the season, maybe in
Speaker 5: the actual NFL playoffs, But I do think Cooper is
Speaker 5: going to show his worth before the end of the year.
Speaker 4: But it's tough to trust him now. You definitely can't
Speaker 4: start him.
Speaker 1: And while you did say I think from a betting perspective,
Speaker 1: we are learning that, hey, let's just keep taking lions overs,
Speaker 1: especially when we are out here in Detroit at Ford Field.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like Jared Goff, starting to
Speaker 1: deliver a little bit more of a fantasy because he
Speaker 1: has to write like he can't win going away all
Speaker 1: the time anymore because the defense is letting up so
Speaker 1: many points. Four hundred and ninety four yards, thirty eight
Speaker 1: completions on fifty nine attempts for Jared Goff, five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Jamior Gibbs gone in the end zone twice. He was
Speaker 1: kind of a I don't want to say garbage time
Speaker 1: merchant because it wasn't garbage time be any means, but
Speaker 1: late game merchant out there.
Speaker 2: A Monro Saint Brown went.
Speaker 1: Nuclear fourteen for one to ninety three and one. You'd
Speaker 1: love to see that after kind of a quiet second
Speaker 1: half the season, at least as far as arsp goes
Speaker 1: and Sam Laporta comes back around to seven for one
Speaker 1: hundred and eleven.
Speaker 2: Great games by everyone.
Speaker 1: Jamo found the end zone, Monty was serviceable, Tim Patrick
Speaker 1: back in the end zone, Old.
Speaker 2: Dance Skipper as well.
Speaker 1: Dance Skipper had the touchdown, but of course, I think
Speaker 1: some of this, this nuclear reaction is there was a
Speaker 1: ton of snaps for the Lions here, right, I mean
Speaker 1: I mean through the ball fifty nine times. They were
Speaker 1: playing catch up from the word go right.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean I'll say this, though, they only
Speaker 5: held the ball for twenty seven minutes, right, So it
Speaker 5: wasn't an abundance in snaps. I think it was an
Speaker 5: abundance in desperation. Yes, more than anything for them. And
Speaker 5: that is you know, four hundred and seventy three passing
Speaker 5: yards forty eight rushing yards. That tells me that Detroit
Speaker 5: was down the entire game and they were, So you know,
Speaker 5: that's you had the two quick touchdowns from Buffalo and
Speaker 5: it's playing it's playing comeback after that point. So I
Speaker 5: just you know, I think moving forward, we're going to
Speaker 5: see a lot of this from Detroit. I think you're
Speaker 5: going to be playing overs. And for a fantasy perspective,
Speaker 5: they're at Chicago at San Francisco the next two weeks,
Speaker 5: so you know, it makes the guys in Chicago a
Speaker 5: little bit more startable. I feel like the guys in
Speaker 5: San Francisco a little bit more startable, and those scary
Speaker 5: defenses might not be as scary when Jared Goff is
Speaker 5: just going to go out there and sling it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely agreed with you. There.
Speaker 1: We got Deebro Wayne in the chat saying, what's up,
Speaker 1: Debro good to see tonight Man saying Detroit down early
Speaker 1: made them move away from running.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, what were they down?
Speaker 5: I was playing on Gibs in Montgomery my rankings this
Speaker 5: week too, because I thought, well, Detroit's plan should be
Speaker 5: run the ball, keep the ball, run the ball. But
Speaker 5: they got down so quick and then it was all past, past, past,
Speaker 5: past past.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean, you still got away with
Speaker 1: it for Gibbs, like you know, can't hurt that he
Speaker 1: found the end zone twice, and it's such such an
Speaker 1: elusive weapon when he gets the ball in his hands.
Speaker 1: So great to see that. Regardless anything else here from
Speaker 1: Buffalo Detroit, it was such a fun game. It lived
Speaker 1: up to the billing and the ticket price for sure.
Speaker 1: But I don't have anything else from fantasy football perspective, unless.
Speaker 5: You know, I think, I mean, it may hurt Montgomery
Speaker 5: a little bit needing to pass this much like Gibbs
Speaker 5: is much better in that scenario. Yeah, I still think,
Speaker 5: you know, but you get down to the goal line,
Speaker 5: you're most likely to hand it to Montgomery. Didn't happen
Speaker 5: in this game, But I think I'm okay with Montgomery
Speaker 5: moving for I know people are probably gonna be a
Speaker 5: little bit worried.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it hasn't been the stretch that I think
Speaker 1: we've wanted it for Montgomery by any means. But still
Speaker 1: a rock solid running back and you're not gonna get
Speaker 1: much better than him.
Speaker 2: In a lot of places before we keep it moving.
Speaker 1: I did want to remind everyone to please join our
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Speaker 1: fans and get access to exclusive amas that wind up
Speaker 1: on our podcast feed. Here's our schedule for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. We got Joe, the Welsh and Boggs
Speaker 1: going live on Mondays at to eastern in the Discord,
Speaker 1: and then The Welsh and Arison Erickson They're on Thursdays
Speaker 1: at too eastern and then Worm and Fits at five
Speaker 1: Eastern on the first Thursday or Tuesday, excuse me of
Speaker 1: each month, and Fits and Bogs back again on the
Speaker 1: third Tuesday of each month at five. You guys are
Speaker 1: gonna be talking dynasty. I know that's always this Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Oh right, okay, all right, what's what's on the agenda, Bogs,
Speaker 1: or just answers some questions that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, a lot a lot of you know, a
Speaker 5: lot of answering questions, and we'll get players specific and
Speaker 5: you know, fits will go down the rabbit hole at
Speaker 5: one point. I'll go down the rabbit hole at one point.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's it's all dynasty talk on that one.
Speaker 1: It's a fun time for it to be a dynasty
Speaker 1: manager because even if you're losing, you're starting to think, okay.
Speaker 2: Where like you're you're figuring out where your.
Speaker 1: Rookie picks are, right, You're saying, oh yeah, here are
Speaker 1: my rookie picks and starting to scout those out. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's gonna be a brilliant time. I know
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a ton of NFL Draft and rookie
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Speaker 1: it moving here, Bogs with a little bit of game
Speaker 1: recapping starting in Denver thirty one for the Broncos, thirteen
Speaker 1: for the Colts, This was a really close game for
Speaker 1: a minute, and then Jonathan Taylor drops the ball with
Speaker 1: the goal line, doesn't get get the touchdown. Gonna cost
Speaker 1: me a trip to my semi finals in my big
Speaker 1: money league.
Speaker 2: So thank you JT for that.
Speaker 1: But in addition to that, we had kind of a
Speaker 1: botch trick play where we actually had ad Mitchell throw
Speaker 1: a pass and it did not go well.
Speaker 2: I think it was ad Mitchell threw that pass.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it was you know, let's, you know, throw
Speaker 5: the backwards one to Mitchell and then he's gonna throw
Speaker 5: it back across the ar to Ar and then Ar
Speaker 5: is gonna launch it. But Benito sniffed it out and
Speaker 5: scored his suck, his second touchdown in three weeks. I mean,
Speaker 5: this guy has been unbelievable out there. So just a
Speaker 5: bad decision by Mitchell. I think it was a stupid
Speaker 5: play call too, for being honest. But yeah, yeah, bo
Speaker 5: Picks showed back up in this game as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wrapping a bow in the colts like you're starting
Speaker 1: JT unless you have something better.
Speaker 5: I think it's JT and nobody. You can't start a
Speaker 5: rich He was miserable. I know, it's uh Denver, but
Speaker 5: seventeen for thirty eight and I think at one point
Speaker 5: he was like ten for twenty four.
Speaker 4: Dude, like it.
Speaker 1: Got done on the ground though, seven forty six and one.
Speaker 1: I think you can do worse than a Rich, but
Speaker 1: like a richer. Uh but Drake may rest the season?
Speaker 4: Drake may Okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I did Drake make him pass? A Rich can't?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think I think there's.
Speaker 2: Can it exist?
Speaker 1: Like from a diacy perspective, do you think he can
Speaker 1: fix this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You think, yeah, he can absolutely fix this. And he
Speaker 5: has two good matchups here Tennessee and the Giants are
Speaker 5: good matchups and the season, but I just I he
Speaker 5: he doesn't have enough starts under his spel. This is
Speaker 5: the same stuff that happened to Trey Lance. But we
Speaker 5: didn't get a long look at Trey Lance because he
Speaker 5: got to hurt, right, and a Rich got hurt in
Speaker 5: his first season and you know, sat on the bench
Speaker 5: and even learned a little bit. But this is you
Speaker 5: need on field experience. So that's why he's not getting benched.
Speaker 5: He needs this experience. But you know he's gonna go
Speaker 5: out there and make some mistakes and they're gonna let
Speaker 5: him make mistakes now because it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and like I know, Michael Pittman had nine targets.
Speaker 1: It looks nice in the box score, six for fifty eight.
Speaker 1: But if you're still riding out the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: if you're still hanging out with us Live, you were
Speaker 1: probably in your fantasy playoffs and you're not starting Michael
Speaker 1: Pittman like you probably have better options, I hope at
Speaker 1: this point.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you are rostering Michael Pittman like I did
Speaker 5: in a bunch of leagues, you either bench him or
Speaker 5: dropped him a long time ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I traded him in a couple of
Speaker 1: leagues early in the season, and even though some of
Speaker 1: those trades weren't the best, looking back, I'm still very
Speaker 1: happy I got out of the Michael Pittman business when
Speaker 1: I did. And you allude to Bopix coming back into
Speaker 1: the picture here, three touchdowns for Nicks one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty yards.
Speaker 2: Just wasn't really sharp today.
Speaker 1: I would say Cortland Sutton still saved you with a
Speaker 1: touchdown that was really great to see, but three for
Speaker 1: thirty two, nine targets still, so things are still.
Speaker 2: Rolling out there. But it's bo Nicks.
Speaker 1: If you need to start at quarterback, it's Courtland Sun
Speaker 1: And I mean, if you want to throw a dart
Speaker 1: at the running back position, you can, But I'm not.
Speaker 2: I'm good on that.
Speaker 5: Bo Picks might have sank me in my guillotine. I'm
Speaker 5: in the final four. Oh no, I might be sunk.
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 5: I have Boers tomorrow, so if he goes off, I
Speaker 5: could still move on here. But yeah, this was just
Speaker 5: a bad game. As you said, you know, nothing going
Speaker 5: to happen here. But this run game for Denver still
Speaker 5: very ugly. Seven for twenty one for McLaughlin, he had
Speaker 5: three catches for ten. Javonte not involved here. It really
Speaker 5: wrecked Courtland's soide. I mean Sutton had nine targets still,
Speaker 5: so he was still evolved, but three catches for thirty two.
Speaker 5: He bailed you out with the score, as you alluded to.
Speaker 5: But yeah, hopefully you weren't counting on bo Nicks as
Speaker 5: I was. But the last week he played Sincy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm that hard.
Speaker 5: If I do survive in that guillotine league, I think
Speaker 5: I want to keep him just for that Cincinnati matchup
Speaker 5: in the championship.
Speaker 4: If I get there, so I like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I'm with you there.
Speaker 1: I think with this backfield, like you, if you haven't
Speaker 1: already cut Javonte Williams, I think he's a great land
Speaker 1: mine because I think someone out there will say, oh,
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams and you know, maybe maybe yellow frisky and
Speaker 1: fire him up. And but yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 2: On this backfield.
Speaker 1: And I don't think Javonte is too much time left
Speaker 1: on his rookie contract either. So maybe another place we
Speaker 1: could see a good running back in the draft land
Speaker 1: that they're be fun. If we could get something like
Speaker 1: a Travon Henderson or maybe a Nicolas Singleton out there
Speaker 1: and Denver, I think it'd.
Speaker 4: Be fun somebody.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we know that once you know, he
Speaker 5: finds his guy.
Speaker 4: Get all the touches like Kamara did so Sean Payton.
Speaker 1: Two more games to get to Tampa Bay and the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay went off, the Chargers defense starting to look
Speaker 1: a little bit leaky. They lose to the Buccaneers forty
Speaker 1: to seventeen. Bayaker Mayfield was baking in this one, two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty eight yards for him four touchdowns, also
Speaker 1: had a little bit of a dance on the ground
Speaker 1: two for twenty five, so really like what Baker Mayfield's doing.
Speaker 1: I didn't start Bucky Irving in a lot of leagues
Speaker 1: because I was pretty nervous. Oh banged up, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: fifteen for one seventeen, though he looked good.
Speaker 2: Rashaun White again looking a little bit better.
Speaker 1: Than he was earlier in the season fifteen for sixty four,
Speaker 1: and Mike Evans doing his dang thing as well, nine
Speaker 1: for one, fifty nine to two. Nick Millan found the
Speaker 1: ends like good all this to say, good times right
Speaker 1: now in Tampa Bay, my friend.
Speaker 5: I mean I this game. You know that Tampa Bay
Speaker 5: out gained the Chargers by three hundred yard Oh my goodness.
Speaker 5: It was five oh six to two oh six. Time
Speaker 5: of possession was thirty six forty eight to twenty three
Speaker 5: twelve in favor of the Bucks. And the only reason
Speaker 5: I looked was because I was like, man, I feel
Speaker 5: like the Bucks have the ball. Every time I look
Speaker 5: at the screen, right because obviously the Steelers were playing
Speaker 5: at the same time, so it wasn't paying as much
Speaker 5: attention to this as I would the morning games. But
Speaker 5: every time I looked up, man, Baker's got the ball
Speaker 5: again and he's thrown it and it's Mike Evans nine
Speaker 5: for one, fifty nine and two. He was huge trying
Speaker 5: to get to that thousand yards. Still, we'll see if
Speaker 5: he can make it here. But yeah, this was just
Speaker 5: a bad game offensively for the Chargers. They had nothing
Speaker 5: against the defense that hasn't been very good in Tampa.
Speaker 5: You know, Herbert didn't look right, he threw the pick,
Speaker 5: he got sacked three times. They had nothing in the
Speaker 5: run game, and they abandoned it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I know they didn't have the ball a lot, but
Speaker 5: they abandoned it. They had eleven rush attempts with thirty
Speaker 5: four pass attempts. So just an overall terrible game where
Speaker 5: the Chargers Lad McConkie bailed it out if he ended
Speaker 5: up starting him with the touchdown. QJ had a touchdown,
Speaker 5: So not too many people surviving the song starting Gus Edwards,
Speaker 5: you know. So it's not something that you likely have
Speaker 5: to worry about if you do. Yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: hopefully you don't. But if you do, they play Denver
Speaker 5: Neck week and that's just not another not good matchup.
Speaker 5: So we'll see what happens there. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 5: I think the Chargers. It was just a domino effect.
Speaker 5: Nothing worked, They couldn't stop anything. This was a bad
Speaker 5: game in all three phases.
Speaker 1: Debro in the chat saying Chargers run game is dead
Speaker 1: and absolutely that was the point I was gonna make
Speaker 1: because losing JK. Dobbins has really hurt this team because how.
Speaker 2: Do they want to play.
Speaker 1: They want to play by running the ball and winning
Speaker 1: with defense. And when you're getting eight for twenty three
Speaker 1: and three for nine out of your running backs, it's
Speaker 1: just not gonna gonna work thirty two total rushing yards.
Speaker 1: That's not what Jim Harbow football is.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: You know we're gonna see a.
Speaker 4: Lot of Donovan Edwards next year. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 4: or Kalo Bawlings. You know what was Michigan guys? For sure?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I could absolutely see it.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: It's but yeah, I mean, you're.
Speaker 1: Still thrown out, lad, You're still if you need a
Speaker 1: spot start, I guess you could throw out QJ.
Speaker 4: I'm warming up.
Speaker 5: I know you give him a crap about him this
Speaker 5: year too, because I just want warm up. But I mean, look,
Speaker 5: he's looked good the last couple of weeks, even in
Speaker 5: a bad I.
Speaker 1: Mean still has a terrible catch percentage even today, like
Speaker 1: ten targets, only catches five of them, but still finds
Speaker 1: the end zone and looking better.
Speaker 2: It's been a nice bright spot to see.
Speaker 1: You know. I know a lot of people were really
Speaker 1: down on him after spending a first round pick on
Speaker 1: him in many rookie drafts back in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: And one more.
Speaker 1: I know we'd get in a lot of shouts to night,
Speaker 1: but I gotta give one more shout to Andrew Rickson.
Speaker 1: He was all over Stone Smart this week on the
Speaker 1: prop betting Show. He called out any time touchdown for Smart.
Speaker 1: He didn't get it, but he was really closed. I
Speaker 1: think you went down right inside the ten or fifteen
Speaker 1: yard line. So good call out there, Stone Smart looking good,
Speaker 1: Stone smarter.
Speaker 2: Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 4: Still Kyle Pitts. I guess I know. I mean, not
Speaker 4: by a ton, not with confidence. I'll say that.
Speaker 2: I'm Stone Smart, bro. Give you Stone over here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's fine. You know. That's don't pick
Speaker 4: from that group, is what I'll say. Try not to
Speaker 4: pick from that.
Speaker 1: We got our guy Mike in the chat. What's up, Mike,
Speaker 1: Good to see man saying, imagine seeing the Bills scored
Speaker 1: forty eight points. That check in your lineup to see
Speaker 1: zero targets for Mark whoa man.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: Somebody went out, you know, Christmas shopping today and came
Speaker 5: back forty eight points.
Speaker 2: I bet win.
Speaker 4: No he did not.
Speaker 1: I would love to end the show now, but we
Speaker 1: are contractedly obligated.
Speaker 4: Is that it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Man, that's weird. That's it.
Speaker 1: In the Battle of the Keystone State, very very near
Speaker 1: to my heart. Our Steelers fall thirteen to twenty seven
Speaker 1: to of the Eagles. We talked about it last week,
Speaker 1: but the Steelers offense just really nerve. Without GP, George
Speaker 1: Pickens opens up this entire passing game. It helps give
Speaker 1: less stacked boxes against Naujie Harrison, Jalen Warren who just
Speaker 1: could not find anything going on the ground six for
Speaker 1: fourteen with nausey Jalen Warren four for twelve. I mean,
Speaker 1: justin fields and cord Ole Patterson almost had as many
Speaker 1: rushing yards these guys. But Calvin Austin showed up. That
Speaker 1: was awesome, you know, no fancy relevance for Calvin Austin.
Speaker 1: Pat Fryarmuth though, three for twenty two and one. We've
Speaker 1: We've talked a little bit about youth. He's coming live
Speaker 1: a little bit down the stretch here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, him and.
Speaker 5: Russ really work well on those busted plays where Russ
Speaker 5: leaks out, I mean one way or the other. Friarmuth
Speaker 5: has been really good at following him, kind of like
Speaker 5: we mentioned with Chase Brown and Joe Burrow, what they're
Speaker 5: doing together has been some magic, and Friarmuth and Wilson
Speaker 5: are finding that a little bit right now as well.
Speaker 1: Can you start Russ next week against Baltimore with or
Speaker 1: without Pickens? Baltimore another one of the nuts matchups that
Speaker 1: you always want to play a quarterback against. But if
Speaker 1: Pickens is not out there, I do have a hard
Speaker 1: time trusting him a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I don't really trust anything with the
Speaker 5: Steelers offense right now without Pickens. It's I mean, they
Speaker 5: held the ball for twenty minutes in this game. I
Speaker 5: know the Eagles are great, but thirty nine fifty two
Speaker 5: of possession and you know, the Steelers defense couldn't stop
Speaker 5: the Eagles on third down at all. They converted ten
Speaker 5: to seventeen. They converted a fourth down as well. They
Speaker 5: had twenty six first downs in this game to the
Speaker 5: Steelers ten. So yeah, Steelers offense is really bad without Pickens.
Speaker 5: The only trustable guy is probably Nausey, maybe Friarmouth to
Speaker 5: get in the end zone. But yeah, I mean Nase
Speaker 5: was miserable today and fumbled, and you know how vindictive
Speaker 5: Tomlin is when you fumble his football. We saw Jalen
Speaker 5: Warren out there for the next series and they didn't.
Speaker 5: They just didn't have the ball that much. So uh, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's exactly right.
Speaker 4: Mayer said.
Speaker 5: The Steelers punted the ball with more than ten minutes
Speaker 5: to go and never saw the ball again. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean it was just could not get off the field,
Speaker 5: especially late. And if wat is hurt, I mean, Herbig's
Speaker 5: a great villain, but TJ. Watt does everything. He's the
Speaker 5: engine that runs the whole defense. So yeah, not looking
Speaker 5: good for the matchup against Baltimore next week.
Speaker 4: We'll see.
Speaker 1: I told you when we were texting today that TJ.
Speaker 1: Watt I think he's the best non quarterback in the Lee,
Speaker 1: the most valuable player.
Speaker 2: I love what he's been doing.
Speaker 1: The Eagles fans gang enough honest in the chat here
Speaker 1: saying go Birds, great game.
Speaker 2: Today, congrats, congratulations.
Speaker 1: I do live in Pennsylvania, so I don't hate the Eagles,
Speaker 1: but it just wasn't what wasn't our day. Looking at
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia side at things though, DeVonta Smith great game
Speaker 1: for him.
Speaker 2: Eleven for one oh nine and one.
Speaker 1: AJ brown Squeaky Wheel gets the oil eight for one,
Speaker 1: ten and one Bogs. We did see ajb banged up
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 2: That was another one.
Speaker 1: We probably should have got some confirmation from deepawk on,
Speaker 1: but I think we're excited to start these guys rest
Speaker 1: of season if they are up here. We got Washington
Speaker 1: Dallas next two weeks for Philly divisional matchups.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, hopefully AJ Brown is okay.
Speaker 5: You know, I understand all the I I kind of
Speaker 5: figured what he was saying when he said it. When
Speaker 5: he said passing, It's like, well, yeah, it's passing because
Speaker 5: it's not Saquon obviously, and the old line are great.
Speaker 5: It is the passing game, whether it's him or Hurts
Speaker 5: or whoever, that is what was hurting. So it worked
Speaker 5: really well today. They tore the Steelers up, and you know,
Speaker 5: Barkley had a lot of rushes, so hard to run
Speaker 5: against Pittsburgh, and their idea was don't let Saquon beat you,
Speaker 5: and they didn't, but everybody else beat him, so AJ
Speaker 5: Brown and DeVante Smith and gain Well with a bunch
Speaker 5: of first downs as well. So yeah, they just got
Speaker 5: beat pretty soundly by one of the better teams in
Speaker 5: the NFL.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Hey, good on Eagles. We appreciate it sometimes
Speaker 1: when you get your butt kicked to to get back
Speaker 1: in the shop.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 5: I think it would be a different game if Pickens
Speaker 5: had played.
Speaker 4: But you know what we need.
Speaker 5: We need two Pickens, so down we have another one.
Speaker 5: So a pass catcher will be high on the list
Speaker 5: for the Steelers.
Speaker 2: Yes, sure absolutely.
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